After the cartoon induced hysteria in Boston on January 31, 2007, I think a reading of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 Inaugural Address is in order.

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory.

We, unfortunately have George W. Bush as President.
posted by Idle Crank at 1/31/2007 10:23:00 PM