Fud, met F in kapitalen
Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001. But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.
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Socialist candidate Segolene Royal on Friday compared her conservative opponent in Sunday’s presidential election to President Bush and described him as a “dangerous choice.” (…) “The choice of Nicolas Sarkozy is a dangerous choice, I do not want France to be oriented toward a system of brutality,” Royal said on RTL radio.
Een Amerikaanse wethouder Hekking en een Franse verhüpschte “olifant” aan beide kanten van het politieke spectrum bedienen zich van dezelfde marketingtechnieken: fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). Of, in de beste Lyndon Johnson-traditie, jaag de kiezer de stuipen op het lijf.
