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April 16, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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No, I just feel like hearing the music a little longer than normal.
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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?
Uh what is it?
We found the roots of this.
Uh I don't even remember what the roots are, but uh that 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.
So you have two interpretations of this.
The Barack Obama interpretation of we're the ones we've been waiting for, is just the an extension of the elitism that populates the Democrat Party.
Uh, 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 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 through.
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?
Uh hey, it could be the candidate.
Shut up, Carl.
Just wait on the line and continue to hope 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 is the new way to pitch a movie.
Uh 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, uh, as a Hollywood term, uh, is used for fiction.
It is not used for documentaries or reality.
Uh, and of course, high concepts rarely work, but it is still a term that is used in Hollywood.
How many stories stop 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 us.
This is opposed the supposed high concepts here.
Uh 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 uh 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 sound bites 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 uh an enormously successful rally.
They appeared separately, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama back to back.
Uh 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 uh 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 there's this a great illustration that Hillary Clinton, a substitute teacher, uh coming out to um uh uh make sure we finished our homework and Barack Obama great.
So now 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.
Yeah.
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 list 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.
My bell 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.
Um $300,000 working in a hospital after her husband gets a gig in the Senate.
Uh I you know, this this 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?
She did I think she sounded a little angry.
These Democrats are on the they're either fully enraged or they're just on the precipice uh 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?
Um 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 My Bell Obama saying, look at me and see what an investment in public education can do.
I'm just middle class.
Well, 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.
Uh, and that story, and we did our morning update on this yesterday, or for well, actually for today.
We had a video that went out yesterday on the uh the inciting of thinness in France.
I had this in the stack yesterday.
I have a chance to get to it.
Uh, but uh the French have decided that thinness is very bad for you because it can kill you, and they're gonna 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.
Um who's left but the ugly?
At some point they're gonna go after the ugly.
The government's gonna go after the ugly, and we'll have to make that voluntary at first because the ugly know who they are when to look in the mirror.
So this friend sends me a note 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.
Uh and it's just a partial list.
Prayer.
Lead paint.
Low flow toilets.
Freeon in air conditioning, had to 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 gonna 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 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.
Seat belts 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.
Gotta cook your meat beyond rare.
Firecrackers, of course, bad news.
Gotta 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 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.
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.
Uh and citizen involvement in elections has been reduced thanks to McCain Feingold.
And this is just a partial list, and I just I spend time on this because of the um uh 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.
Uh and people sit around and just casually let all of these freedoms go while not realizing what's happening because they're all done, uh, either demanding that we use certain things uh or not allowing us to use certain all of this is done uh to uh 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 scrules.
The uh 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 uh in various sundry stages, but add this to the list of things that the left has guilt us into giving up, guilt 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 uh with the generic partner.
This is the result of pressure from the the gay lobby.
And of course, this happens just like everything else in the in the society does when events like this happen, there's guilt involved, uh, and it might lead to violence, and it might lead to um uh people being stigmatized and of hurt feelings and so forth, because you know not everybody has a mommy.
Not everybody has a father.
Not everybody has a boyfriend, and 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, uh, or don't have boyfriend or girlfriend.
But everybody uh can be said in one way or another to have a partner.
Uh 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 uh the former worst president of the United States in our lifetimes, and maybe ever Jimmy Carter, uh, has generated some some press for his efforts to befriend Hamas.
Uh for those of you in Rio Linda Hamas is an Islamic terrorist group.
Uh Israel said, please don't do this.
The United States said, Mr. Mr. Carter, please don't do this.
Jimmy Carter is playing the role of communicator, as he calls it, uh, 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.
Uh 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 who was 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, 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.
This gentleman...
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 we still hammering nails and 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, little white house where Nixon was born and grew up, was in the background of every shot of the podium at 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 Biazzlebub.
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 the open 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 gotta make something of yourself.
You gotta 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 Carter.
I mean, I don't 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 just know that Rosalind loaded, because she was as 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 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 what Jimmy, 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 thirty-two years ago we elected this guy, and we are still paying the price.
He was asked about going to see Hamas.
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 um 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 I 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 uh when I wouldn't campaign for him uh 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 uh Pocatella, Idaho.
Great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Welcome, Ros.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a great honor to talk to you.
And Megadeth's from a small town in Idaho.
Thank you, sir.
What what I wanted to talk to you about was Bill Maher's uh insulting remarks he made about my church and my and my Pope, uh comparing them to uh the pedophile compound of what's going on in Texas, and you know,
and and being bitter, you know, and going to church what what uh 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, uh an attitude of gratitude and what what we can do to help other people.
And uh, you know, it it just it outrages me the way the left treats the religion, uh the Christian religion in the country.
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 it makes them aware of their own shortcomings.
Uh I I didn't hear what Bill Mars said because it'll watch a show, but I've I've gotten a lot of emails from people uh who who were upset about it.
If I were you, I I I I I wouldn't I wouldn't waste much energy on it.
You 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 have God in their lives, they're the ones that are happy.
It's it's what I tell my kids and my daughters that says, look at the idols that uh the liberals put up.
Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears, all these people that are absolutely miserable.
You know, and I tell my kids if you got God and values and in this country you can do anything.
You know, and uh it's just you know, uh my my church teaches me to pray for these people.
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 that, and 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 uh a little 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 to.
That's what he thinks of you.
And that's what a lot of liberal Democrats think of people 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 uh on this program.
Among the uh 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 uh it's it they could they could consider people that uh ascribe to these beliefs and teachings as closed-minded and bigots and just not very bright.
And uh, 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 gotta go quick timeout.
E.I.B. obscene profit center break is next.
How about the last caller?
The last caller from Pocatella, Idaho.
Basically said that uh he and his family go to church to be uplifted.
Which is the case for most people.
I mean, some people just putting in uh time and making an appearance, and most people go to be uplifted.
Uh it's like I'm gonna I'm at the uh uh beginning of the next hour.
I'm gonna replay the battle hymn of the republic sung by the U.S. Army chorus today at the uh White House welcoming ceremony for Pope Benedict the 16th.
I guarantee you're gonna be uplifted when you hear this.
Uh people go to church, people seek God to be uplifted.
Uh 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.
Maybe Obama was speaking from personal experience when talking up with these small town people, because after all, what kind of uplifting do you think happens at 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 and and uh yeah, you 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.
Uh what Obama did was just project uh this, you know, his own experience.
You go to you go to Obama's church, I guarantee you're gonna walk out of there being ticked off like you haven't been ticked off before.
You're gonna go to hear a Jeremiah Wright sermon, and you're gonna 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.
They walk out of there mad as hell, and maybe Obama does too.
So maybe Obama just projecting that when old people go to church and 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 you know, when you're raised by a single mom, when you're 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 or help you 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 what when somebody I've learned this over the course of my uh 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.
Uh in the old days, they they'd call somebody call a white guy a racist.
Hey, I'm not a racist, though, some of my best friends are black.
You know, that that old I'm I'm not elite.
I grew up on food stamps.
I'm uh I'm uh I'm I'm not elite.
I'm not elite.
Why my dad got a raise, we're able to go out and buy five spoons.
Uh they're trying too hard here.
This this little 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 uh 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.
Uh, and it's 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.
It 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 um this this is very hideous here, folks.
Very devious.
You have to learn how to read the stitches on 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 is going to make your life better.
Then they go to Washington and they forget about you, and in 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 gonna 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 uh a new poll that says the mood of the American people has improved as they adjust to a rotten economy.
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