With another big-spending weekend ahead for the American consumer, President Obama is set to explain to an increasingly worried nation that despite the apparent very real threat of terrorism (and all the spending, surveillance, and loss of liberty that is required to maintain your freedom), they should go about their borrowing-and-spending consumption duties... or else the terrorists win. Having managed somehow to both increase gun sales and push a majority to oppose an assault weapon ban, Obama will today re-reassure his fellow Americans that he knows what's best for them.
Live Feed... (President Obama is due to speak at 1215ET...)
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The fallout from his last reassurance...
This happened...
Then this happened...
The fear-mongers won...