SCARE THE HELL out of the populace with dire predictions that only you can address:

"We have chosen hope over fear." -- Pres. Obama, January 20, 2009

"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe"..."Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse. " -- Pres Obama, February 5, 2009


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020403174.html?nav=hcmoduletmv

OMG! An IRREVERSIBLE financial crisis. End of life as we know it. Please, Mr President, save us! No percentage of our GDP is too great, no amount of government meddling in our economy and our lives is too great a price to pay. Tell those irresponsible Republicans in Congress to stop asking irritating question about how you will, specifically, be spending a mere $900B.

Obama - Not Politics As Usual - Politics As Usual on STEROIDS

He played on our fears! - Al Gore (re: George Bush)

Charles Krauthammer : Crisis, Catastrophe: Are These Words of Hope? - Townhall.com
Our nation's most articulate columnist observes that it only took two and a half weeks for the One We Have Been Waiting For to get down to Politics as Usual.