guest_writer 0 2006-05-16T00:00:00Z In the dark days of the Depression, Franklin Roosevelt counseled Americans to avoid fear. George W. Bush is his polar opposite. The public's fear is this president's most potent political asset. Perhaps his only asset. Mr. Bush wants ordinary Americans to remain in a perpetual state of fear - so terrified, in fact, that they will not object to the steady erosion of their rights and libe... Bob 35059 false false false false 2006-05-16T00:00:00Z Herbert 10269 3865 0 1 America the Fearful america-the-fearful-by-bob-herbert America the Fearful 2009-09-25T00:50:23Z 11554