February 19, 2009 7:05PM 

# Unintentionally Funny Quote of the Week 

By [Gene Healy](https://www.cato.org/people/gene-healy) 

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…[last week, that is](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/us/politics/12assess.html?_r=2&hp):

> “The president hasn’t done as good a job of preparing the nation for the tradeoffs necessary to reconcile the hope agenda with the fear agenda.”
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> –William Galston, Brookings Institution

For more on Obama as “a bundle of contradictions,” see [here](http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/39688352.html).

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