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Yesterday on this program, we spent quite a while in the third hour of the program discussing Obama's phrase, we are the ones we've been waiting for.
And how these hicks in the small towns of America don't understand it after they've come home from their second job of banging the cash register.
They turn on the TV for little news and they see Obama saying, we are the ones we've been waiting for.
And they go, huh?
What is this?
We found the roots of this.
I don't even remember what the roots are, but you can interpret it in one of two ways.
We are the ones who've been waiting for.
The official interpretation of the so-called author of the phrase is, we're smarter than everybody else, and we see things other people don't.
It's time for us to take action.
The conservative view, we're the ones who've been waiting for, would be, you know what?
It's time to stop waiting for everybody else to get something done.
We have to do it.
We have to do it ourselves.
You have two interpretations of this.
The Barack Obama interpretation of we're the ones we've been waiting for is just an extension of the elitism that populates the Democrat Party.
We thought we would call Barack Obama headquarters and see how the phrase is used there.
Hello, I am Barack Obama, and you reach the headquarters of Obama for president.
Thank you for your support.
And remember, we are the ones we've been waiting for.
And now you are the one who's been waiting for me because of the audaciousness of now that has brought us to this point where we can no longer wait for justice, where we can no longer wait for change.
To hear a message about change you can believe in, press one.
To hear an apology of your choice, press two.
To find out why our campaign is such a success, press three.
Now, why is our campaign such a success?
Because we are the ones we've been waiting for.
That's it.
That's all I got.
To hear it again, press seven.
Or just wait on the line and continue to hope.
Sure, you can press all the buttons on your phone at once, but the message will still be the same.
We are still the ones we've been waiting for.
Oh, heck.
It just doesn't make any sense.
He says it over and over and over.
How in the world can he be beating us?
Hey, it could be the candidate.
Shut up, Carva.
Just wait on the line and continue to hope.
Do you know what the term high concept means?
You ever heard the term high concept?
I have, ladies and gentlemen, because I'm very worldly.
I've been around.
High concept is a Hollywood term.
And high concept is the new way to pitch a movie.
One or two sentence storyline showing why it's new, why it's different, why it will attract a large audience.
And so it is fitting, ladies and gentlemen, that this Democrat primary is inspired not by reality, but by Hollywood and the high concept.
Now, the high concept, as a Hollywood term, is used for fiction.
It is not used for documentaries or reality.
And of course, high concepts rarely work, but it is still a term that is used in Hollywood.
How many stories, stop a thing, how many stories have you heard about the Democrats' two great candidates?
It's not the candidates, it's the concepts.
I mean, check the box office.
The turnout in the Democrat primaries is not the candidates, it's the concepts, the high concepts.
These candidates are not the ones that are generating this.
This is the supposed high concepts here.
High concept number one: A former first lady gets a shot to be the first female president.
She's smart, she's experienced, she's ready to serve from day one.
That's high concept number one that is being pitched to not just Democrat primary voters, but to all Americans.
Now, remember, this is not about reality.
It is about fiction.
High concept, as a business term in Hollywood, refers to fiction movies.
It's a storyline.
High concept number two, an African American gets a shot to be the first black president.
He's well-spoken.
He's smart.
He's able to unite us all.
He's able to fulfill all of our needs.
He's able to bring us together and restore our prestige around the world.
Remember, this is not about reality.
We're talking a Hollywood movie here.
We're talking high concept, which is about fiction.
It's a storyline.
So where does this lead?
Well, tonight, we have another debate.
Yes, we do.
Not between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The debate tonight is between high concept number one, former first lady getting a shot to be the first female president, smart, experienced, ready to serve from day one, versus high concept number two.
And that is an African American gets a shot to be the first black president, well-spoken, smart, able to unite us all, fulfill our needs, bring us together, restore our prestige in the world.
Which fiction will win?
Because both of these candidates' concepts are utter fiction, which is my point.
Neither of the storylines of these two candidates are factually accurate at all.
Which faction tonight, which fiction will win out?
And can the fiction play out against reality for six months?
With the Democrat Party, there will always be a rewrite because the Democrat Party lives in fiction.
They cannot live in reality because to live in reality would be to expose who they are.
And this is one of the great things about Operation Chaos.
It is bringing forth precisely who they are.
Let's go back to the audio soundbites to illustrate.
This is this morning on Morning Joe on MSNBC.
Columnist Mike Barnacle says this about an Obama rally.
Congressman Bob Brady from Philadelphia put on an enormously successful rally.
They appeared separately, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, back to back.
Hillary Clinton came out and she sounded like the substitute teacher who comes in and makes sure you finished your homework.
And Barack Obama literally, you know, lit the crowd on fire.
He's an incredible speaker.
I don't think that all the recent flap about people being bitter or whatever, it seemed to have no impact, at least in the areas of Philadelphia where we went on Monday and Tuesday.
Of course not.
This is not going to have any impact until the general election.
Nobody expects it to have any impact here in the primaries.
But this is a great illustration.
Hillary Clinton, a substitute teacher, coming out to make sure we finished our homework and Barack Obama, a great speech.
So Barnacle has changed the storylines, the high concept storylines.
Here's Michelle Obama yesterday at a rally in Pennsylvania talking about elitism.
There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.
But let me tell you who me and Barack are so that you are not confused.
Yeah, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with.
I am the product of a working class upbringing.
I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community.
I want people to know when they look at me to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.
Oh, come on, give me a break, Michelle Mybel, for crying out loud.
You're out there encouraging people not to do what you did.
She's out there.
She's talking to poor women in Ohio and in Pennsylvania, telling them, like Reverend Wright tells them, to avoid middle classness.
And now she's out there trying to portray herself as a middle class.
She's not elite.
No, she's public education.
Harvard, Princeton, wherever she went.
$300,000 working in a hospital after her husband gets a gig in the Senate.
You know, these people are so phony.
They're pure elitists.
I want you to look at me.
Did she sound a little angry there, by the way?
I think she sounded a little angry.
These Democrats are, they're either fully enraged or they're just on the precipice of it.
But I want people to know when they look at me to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.
Is Princeton public education?
It's not.
She had student loans, of course, because they've been complaining about how long it took to pay them off.
Anyway, this, again, a confusing message from a nearly angry Michelle Mybel Obama saying, look at me and see what an investment in public education can do.
I'm just middle class.
While she's telling everybody else not to do what she has done.
And we are back.
El Rushbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I got a note from a friend this morning and says, you know, I was thinking last night after your discussion of the ozone hole yesterday and that story.
We did our morning update on this yesterday.
Well, actually for today, we had a video that went out yesterday on the inciting of thinness in France.
I had this in the stack yesterday.
I have a chance to get to it.
But the French have decided that thinness is very bad for you because it can kill you.
And they're going to go after any magazine or television show that incites thinness.
And if anybody dies from thinness, you can get what?
Find the equivalent of $70,000 and face some jail time for this.
If it can be established that somebody died because they looked at your magazine or your TV show and went bulimic or anorexic in order to get thin.
So the French are taken out after the thin.
Everybody's going out after the fat.
I mean, everybody's going after the fat forever.
Coconut oil, trans fats, all this sort of stuff.
Now the thin are being pursued in France.
Who's left but the ugly?
At some point, they're going to go after the ugly.
The government's going to go after the ugly.
And we'll have to make that voluntary at first because the ugly know who they are when they look in the mirror.
So this friend sends me a note and says, you know, I got to thinking about all of the things that liberals have guilted us into giving up, guilted us into using or banning.
So Rush, I started making a list.
Most of these things have proven to be not the threat they made us think, or they've proven to be worse than what we originally were doing.
Unintended consequences.
However, the one consequence that I know Rush was intended was the left taking freedom and liberty so that they can control us.
Now here's just a partial list of some of the things that the left has guilted us into either giving up, guilted us into using, or banning.
And it's just a partial list.
Prayer.
Lead paint.
Low-flow toilets.
Freon in air conditioning.
How do you get rid of that?
Aerosol cans.
Had to say goodbye to those.
Paper bags.
We had to go to biodegradable plastic bags, and now we find out those are destructive to the environment.
We're going to go back to paper.
How about oat bran?
We had to get rid of that.
We had to stop drinking coffee.
Then we found out, nope, no problem.
We had to get rid of aerosol hairspray.
We had to, we were forcing ethanol on us.
We have to get rid of incandescent light bulbs and replace them by 2012 with compact fluorescence.
Balloons.
You may have forgotten this, but there was an effort to ban balloons in certain parts of the country because they ended up in lakes.
They ended up in oceans.
Ended up killing fish.
Outdoor lighting at the beach during turtle season.
Turn them off.
Cutting trees on your own property.
You can't do it.
Nuclear power plants?
No.
Coal mining, targeted.
Trans fats in New York and other places, stop eating them.
You can't.
Restaurants that serve them will be fined.
Had to get rid of coconut oil for popcorn because Center in the Science or Public Interest said that it added to clogged arteries.
Later found that it doesn't, but you still can't get popcorn popped in coconut oil.
Smoking, of course, we had to get rid of DDT, which has led to untold cases of deadly disease in Africa.
Rachel Carson, big heroine here, actually, her ban ended up killing millions.
Helmets for bikers and skaters and motorcycles.
You have to wear them.
We got rid of monkey bars on playgrounds.
We got rid of high slides on playgrounds, too dangerous for the little kiddies.
We had to get rid of toy guns because it teached, taught and trained little kids to use real guns.
Seatbelts, have to use them.
If you get caught without using them, you get fined.
Car seats for the kids, got to have them.
Garbage disposals.
They tried to ban garbage disposals in North Carolina just a month ago.
Can't eat your hamburgers, rare.
Too many carcinogens.
Got to cook your meat beyond rare.
Firecrackers, of course, bad news.
Got to get rid of diving boards at public swimming pools, too dangerous.
Can't play tag in the public schools because it's embarrassing either way you go.
Whoever is it is it.
And that's bad.
But nobody, or very few get to be it, and that's bad too.
So it's discriminatory.
Dodgeball.
Can't play dodgeball.
He's too dangerous.
The kids might get hurt.
Can't play touch football either.
It's too rough.
Can't eat foie gras because of the way they produce it.
And of course, guns are under constant attack.
And citizen involvement in elections has been reduced thanks to McCain Feingold.
And this is just a partial list.
And I spend time on this because of the theme started yesterday on this program that the real threat we face in this country is liberalism and the slow but certain encroachment on life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
And people sit around and just casually let all of these freedoms go while not realizing what's happening because they're all done, either demanding that we use certain things or not allowing us to use certain things.
All of this is done within the framework of guilt.
And we are said to be improving ourselves and our country and our world if we do or don't do these various things.
And these examples happen frequently.
This is a story from the UK Daily Telegraph.
Teachers in the UK are being urged to stop using terms such as husband and wife when addressing students or families under a major anti-homophobia push in the schools.
The terms boyfriend, girlfriend, and spouse are also on the banned list to be replaced by the generic partner in changes sought by the gay lobby aimed at reducing discrimination in classrooms.
Schools are coming under pressure to provide lessons for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students, stacked their libraries with books and videos covering their issues.
Among the demands are the outlawing of homophobic comments by teachers or students in the playground and a requirement for teachers to receive diversity training.
Now, we've been through that here in various sundry stages, but add this to the list of things that the left has guilted us into giving up, guilted us into using, or have banned for us.
Now we are banning the term mother and father, boyfriend and girlfriend and spouse.
And we are replacing it.
We're not.
They are in the UK.
And they're replacing all of this with the generic partner.
This is the result of pressure from the gay lobby.
And of course, this happens just like everything else in the society does when events like this happen.
There's guilt involved.
And it might lead to violence.
And it might lead to people being stigmatized and hurt feelings and so forth because, you know, not everybody has a mommy.
Not everybody has a father.
Not everybody has a boyfriend.
Not everybody has a girlfriend.
And so when we talk about mommies and daddies and boyfriends and girlfriends, we are traumatizing those young students who don't have mommy or daddy or both or don't have boyfriend or girlfriend.
But everybody can be said in one way or another to have a partner.
And that doesn't offend anybody.
And it's all done, ladies and gentlemen, under the concept that we can be perfected.
And one of the definitions the left uses for perfection is that nothing that happens in life will ever offend a liberal.
And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Happy to have you along today.
While in the Middle East this week, the former worst president of the United States in our lifetimes and maybe ever, Jimmy Carter, has generated some press for his efforts to befriend Hamas.
For those of you in Rio Linda, Hamas is an Islamic terrorist group.
Israel said, please don't do this.
The United States said, Mr. Carter, please don't do this.
Jimmy Carter is playing the role of communicator, as he calls it, gathering information from Hamas and Syrian leaders to then relay to the leaders of the United States.
In essence, he has appointed himself a one-man State Department that nobody asked for, that nobody wants, and that nobody's going to listen to besides these terrorist leaders.
The whole world knows what Hamas wants.
They've said so.
They want the destruction of Israel.
Hamas has not changed that view, which is why they're outcasts in the civilized world.
Now, adding insult to stupidity, Carter did something that no American head of state has ever done.
He was in Ramallah.
He paid a visit to the grave of Yasser Arafat, and he laid a wreath of red roses at the grave of Yasser Arafat.
Now, Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most inept president of the 20th century.
A man whose failures in the Middle East led to his political downfall.
It haunts us to this day.
His tribute to Arafat, whose name will be forever associated with terrorism, is a fitting reminder of Jimmy Carter's misguided, irresponsible liberal leadership.
And it's also timely as two equally inept liberals, Hillary and Obama, fight it out, step into his shoes.
Jimmy Carter also said, you know, elections matter.
They really do, folks.
We say this a lot.
We elected Jimmy Carter 32 years ago.
Stop and think.
32 years ago, and he's still causing trouble.
He's still causing havoc.
He'd have been better off if he was still hammering nails at Habitat for Humanity.
But you know why he's not?
I'll tell you why he's not.
It was the Richard Nixon funeral.
I'll never forget the Richard Nixon funeral, the little white house where Nixon was born and grew up was in the background of every shot of the podium of the funeral during the eulogies.
Bill Clinton flew in.
Henry Kissinger was there.
Ronald Reagan was there, didn't speak.
Gerald Ford, prominent U.S. government officials, ex-presidents.
They all stood up.
Carter did not speak, by the way.
They all stood up.
And you, at the end of that funeral, would have thought that Richard Nixon was George Washington and Abraham Lincoln combined.
And they had camera shots of Jimmy Carter and the lovely and gracious Rosalind Carter sitting next to him with the looks of utter shock on their face as they're listening to all this.
Because to them and most Democrats, Richard Nixon was the devil.
He was Satan.
He was Bezelbub.
He was the devil.
And he was the worst thing that ever happened.
Here he is being lionized as one of the greatest presidents ever because he opened China.
He did so many great things.
And you could just see Rosalind sitting there fuming because she's sitting next to this schlub who's pounding nails and he's doing nothing else.
He's an ex-president and she's elbowing.
See, this is what happens when you're pounding nails.
You got to get out there and you got to make something of yourself.
You got to go around the world, hammer nails around the world, hate this country, do whatever, and they'll love you.
But I can't believe they're saying these things about, you know, Carter.
I mean, that didn't happen at the funeral, but I know when they left.
And when they got back to their hotel room or something, you know that Rosalind unloaded because she's as active as Carter is.
She just doesn't do it publicly.
She is no shrinking violet.
She was no housewife.
I mean, she was right in there with the cattle prod behind Carter.
Nobody could see it.
But I'm telling you, so she's sitting there, she's jabbing him.
Look at, Jimmy, do you believe what that, what we just saw?
Richard Nixon, the scum of the earth, had been lionized as one of the greatest presidents in history.
Well, how do you think they're looking at you?
Pounding nails, habitat for you.
So that started Carter down the path that he's now on.
And 32 years ago, we elected this guy, and we are still paying the price.
He was asked about going to see Hamas and any of these other little dictatorships that he visits.
He actually said, when I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person, and that's the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.
Can you imagine somebody thinking a dictator speaks for all the people?
President Carter, in a dictatorship, the people don't have a voice other than screaming for their lives, other than yelps of pain when they're beaten by thug police.
The dictator speaks for all the people.
So Carter thinks it's much more efficient to go talk to dictators.
He said, but in a democracy like Israel, there's a wide range of opinions, and that counterbalances the disappointment that I have in not meeting with the people shaping Israel power now in the government.
He says, I can't say that Hamas will be amenable to any suggestions, but at least after I meet with them, I can go back and relay what they say, just as a communicator, to the leaders of the United States.
Jimmy, nobody sent you, and nobody's going to listen when you come back because we already know what Hamas believes.
In fact, if anything, they're going to lie to Jimmy Carter, and he's going to believe the lie.
He's going to come back and say, hey, I got great news.
These guys want to make peace.
Another version of Neville Chamberlain except this guy's a renegade and off the reservation.
Ed Koch today in a syndicated column.
I came to know Jimmy Carter well.
When he ran for re-election, he asked me to campaign for him in 1980.
I was by then mayor of New York City, and I said that I would vote for him, but not campaign for him, because he was then engaging in hostile acts toward Israel.
I was popular with the Jewish community, and when I wouldn't campaign for him unless he changed his position, he called me to his hotel in New York when attending a fundraiser and said, you have done me more damage than any man in America by refusing to campaign with me.
I felt proud then, writes Koch.
And even more so today, since we now know what a miserable president he was then and the miserable human being he is now as he prepares to meet with Hamas.
Ed Koch yesterday.
Rick in Pocatella, Idaho.
Great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Welcome, Rush.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a great honor to talk to you.
And Mega Dido's from a small town in Idaho.
Thank you, sir.
What I wanted to talk to you about was Bill Maher's insulting remarks he made about my church and my pope, comparing them to the pedophile compound of what's going on in Texas and, you know, and being bitter, you know, and going to church, what Obama said.
You know, I take my family to church to be uplifted, to get centered, to find God, to have God in my life, you know, and teach my kids values, you know, an attitude of gratitude and what we can do to help other people.
And, you know, it just outrages me the way the left treats the religion, the Christian religion.
They are afraid of you.
You know, they are afraid of the Pope.
They are afraid of anything coming from organized religion that has a belief in God for a whole host of reasons.
It makes them feel guilty.
It makes them aware of their own shortcomings.
I didn't hear what Bill Maher said because I don't watch a show, but I've gotten a lot of emails from people who were upset about it.
If I were you, I wouldn't waste much energy on it.
You're talking about another miserable human being.
The guy is, he's obviously got to be one of the most miserable people walking the planet.
This man cannot be happy.
That's what I was going to tell you, Rush.
You know, we're not the bitter, angry people.
The people who have Christianity and have God in their lives, they're the ones that are happy.
It's what I tell my kids and my daughters.
Look at the idols that the liberals put up, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, all these people that are absolutely miserable.
You know, and I tell my kids, if you've got God and values in this country, you can do anything.
You know, and it just, you know, my church.
You are exactly the kind of guy that Obama was talking about talking to the elitist gazillionaires in San Francisco.
And he looks upon you with disdain.
He thinks, and a lot of liberals do, think that you have this belief system you have because there's nothing else in your life.
You know, your IQ may be a little short of normal and average.
And so you cling to these things that give you comfort during times of distress because you're too stupid to know anything else.
This is exactly, you're the kind of guy that Obama was talking about.
That's what he thinks of you.
And that's what a lot of the liberal Democrats think of people who live in small towns who are religious.
And it's because religion scares them.
Religion instills fear in them for a host of reasons.
We've discussed it countless times on this program.
Among the reasons is that there is judgmentalism.
There is a definite morality, right and wrong.
There are not gray areas.
There's not a lot of nuance.
And they consider people that ascribe to these beliefs and teachings as closed-minded and bigots and just not very bright.
And while they'll be happy to get your vote in an election, they don't want to see you the rest of the four years after that until it's time to do it all over again.
I'm glad you called, Rick.
I got to go quick timeout.
EIB obscene prophetset or break is next.
How about the last caller?
The last caller from Pocatella, Idaho basically said that he and his family go to church to be uplifted, which is the case for most people.
I mean, some people just putting in time and making an appearance, and most people go to be uplifted.
It's like, at the beginning of the next hour, I'm going to replay the Battle Hymn of the Republic sung by the U.S. Army Chorus today at the White House welcoming ceremony for Pope Benedict XVI.
I guarantee you're going to be uplifted when you hear this.
People go to church.
People seek God to be uplifted.
Barack Obama, however, thinks these people go to church because they're clinging and their lives are in such rotten shape and they're so horrible.
And maybe Obama was speaking from personal experience when talking about these small town people because after all, what kind of uplifting do you think happens in Obama's church?
You know, Obama's friends and Obama's family are already bitter.
They're already anger.
And they go to church and they listen to Reverend Wright and they walk out of there feeling even worse.
I mean, and yeah, talk about people who don't look like them.
They're going into these churches and Reverend Wright speaks and they walk out of there and they're depressed as they can be, or they're mad and they're loaded for bear.
And what Obama did was just project this, you know, his own experience.
You go to Obama's church, I guarantee you're going to walk out of there being ticked off like you haven't been ticked off before.
You're going to go to hear a Jeremiah Wright sermon and you're going to walk out of there.
Damn it, I knew it.
I thought we're making progress, but I just found out we're getting screwed again.
We're getting screwed in ways we don't even know it.
We're getting screwed when we can't even feel it.
We're getting screwed every which way.
We're moving backwards.
This is horrible.
Blah, blah, blah.
They walk out of there mad as hell, and maybe Obama does too.
So maybe Obama was just projecting that when all people go to church, they come out of there all ticked off.
Obama is trying to battle this notion that he's an elitist, and so is his lovely and gracious wife, Michelle My Bell.
Obama in Washington, Pennsylvania, yesterday at a town hall meeting with veterans.
I am amused about this notion of elitists, given that when you're raised by a single mom, when you were on food stamps for a while, when you were growing up, you went to school on scholarship.
That's when you know we're in political silly season.
Hopefully, it will come to an end fairly soon.
Okay, so Obama has thrown his grandmother under the bus, calling her a typical white person.
And now he tells the world that his mother was on food stamps and that he was on food.
See, there's honor in this.
There is prestige and there is virtue in having been on food stamps.
Look what you can do if you become on food stamps.
You stay on food stamps with your mom long enough and you'll end up going to Harvard and Harvard law and you'll come out and you meet some sleazy retailer real estate guy to help you buy your house that you can't afford.
Then you'll be elected to the United States Senate and run for president with absolutely zero qualifications.
I owe all this to food stamps.
He's trying to say that he's not an elitist.
You know, when somebody, I've learned this over the course of my stellar career, when people generally accuse you of something that sticks, you run out there and you start trying to offer evidence that you're not that.
This is like trying to say, here's an equivalent.
In the old days, they'd call somebody call a white guy a racist.
Hey, I'm not a racist.
Some of my best friends are black.
You know, that old, I'm not elite.
I grew up on food stamps.
I'm not elite.
His wife, Michelle Mybella, I'm not elite.
Why my dad got a raise?
We're able to go out and buy five spoons.
They're trying too hard here.
This little charge has obviously hit.
Now, this morning on MSNBC Live, Joe Scarborough talking with Obama Communication Director Robert Gibbs of Scarborough said, hey, let's talk about Pennsylvania right now.
Do you think the San Francisco speech has damaged Obama in Pennsylvania and in other states?
If you look at the recent polling, the race has stayed mostly the same over the past week, despite a lot of coverage about those comments.
There's certainly some anger and some bitterness about the fact that politicians come through every four years or every two years and make promises about how they're going to get their lives made better by their politics.
And the politicians go to Washington and forget about the people.
And I think we've seen that.
That's why gas prices are so high.
That's why oil is so high.
That's why fewer and fewer people have health insurance.
It's none of that is true.
Literally none of that is true.
It is not because politicians have forgotten about people that gas prices are so high.
Frankly, I wish they would all forget about us and leave us alone.
That's not the problem, Mr. Gibbs.
The problem is they won't leave us alone.
The problem is you people on your side of the aisle treat us like we're four-year-olds and we do not know what's best for us and you've got to make sure we do that or don't do that or can't do that.
And it's infuriating.
The fact of the matter is politicians have forgotten anybody.
It is the way they think of people that has gotten us into trouble.
Liberal politicians look at average Americans with contempt and an arrogance and a condescension that makes them see no ability to overcome the obstacles of life and they don't.
These politicians don't want you to be able to overcome those obstacles.
They want you to be mad.
And then to, this is very hideous here, folks.
Very devious.
You have to learn how to read the stitches in a fastball.
You have to learn how to read between the lines when this clown says they come in and air in a campaign and they tell you how politics are going to make your life better.
Then they go to Washington and they forget about you and your life goes to hell.
You see the connection?
Your life doesn't amount to anything unless Washington and some politician or a couple of them are deeply involved in your life.
If Washington is not involved in your life, your life isn't going to matter.
And there are way too many people who've bought into this.
It's sad.
It's unfortunate, and because it is dispiriting and it's destructive to the very people they claim to be championing and helping.
In a way, these are the good times.
Operation Chaos is definitely one of the good times.
And by the way, the Zogby polling group is out with a new poll that says the mood of the American people has improved as they adjust to a rotten economy.