A recent Hillary Clinton ad drew on images of Pearl Harbor, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and Osama Bin Laden (among others) to (effectively) illicit fear among Pennsylvania voters:

Is it fear mongering? Yes. But also, it is official word that Hillary’s place is in the kitchen. Where she belongs.

More seriously, even Bill is staunchly against any fear tactics, saying on October 25, 2004:

One of Clinton’s laws of politics is, if one candidate is trying to scare you, and the other one is trying to make you think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears, and the other one’s appealing to your hopes. You better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.

Of course, the hopeful candidate could just be “Happy Man Lemming leading you to the cliff, but you will be smiling along the way.”

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