<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7fd3be38-fda2-45b2-b2ac-75105202d009/1A714A01-1985-4E8B-A8D0-F7FF075AB9BF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/wheres-the-fear.html" href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/wheres-the-fear.html" style="font-size: 11px;">andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/wheres-the-fear.html"><P>Ben Smith <A href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Lowering_the_terror_volume.html?showall">notices something new</A> regarding the <A href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1624103.html">arrest</A> of terrorist suspects in North Carolina yesterday:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/wheres-the-fear.html"><P>The Bush White House trumpeted every arrest and disrupted plot -- in some cases, ones that were nowhere close to fruition -- as a major win in the War on Terror and a reminder of the need to be vigilant. The Obama administration, by contrast, keeps them relatively quiet. There hasn't been a statement from the White House, or any comment save a <A href="http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/July/09-nsd-725.html">Justice Department press release</A>, on the arrest of seven men on charges that they helped raise money and provide training for attacks in Israel, and trained to participate in attacks in Israel and Kosovo.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/wheres-the-fear.html"><P>The decision not to talk about terrorism is just that -- a choice, with the goal of ending the "politics of fear" that Obama denounced during the campaign.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/wheres-the-fear.html"><P>This is a great thing. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A714A01-1985-4E8B-A8D0-F7FF075AB9BF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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