BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAM
It's one thing when fear of terror causes people to lose their nerve, quite another when they start losing their minds.
The Obama administration appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
It's not clear if it's terrorists, real and imagined, who have got the Democratic establishment all jittery or if it's just the usual Republican Party suspects, know-nothings in all important respects except for their uncanny ability to unnerve their Democratic rivals.
President Obama, like many a Democratic pol from the days of LBJ onward, seems spellbound by calls from the right that he be tough on terror, bullish on "free markets" and aggressive in military affairs.
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