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April 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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Hey, good to be with you.
Rush will be back tomorrow, but uh for today, America's anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man flying without any supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Uh don't forget uh rush in, though, to take care of things for the rest of the week.
The uh the president continues his apology tour.
He's been apologizing to uh he's been apologizing to groups of nations I wasn't aware were even out there.
He's uh he he uh he began with a little like uh apology uh the G twenty for wrecking the global economy, then he moved on to uh apologize at the European Union uh summit, uh essentially to uh legitimize anti-Americanism in a way that no US president has ever done before.
He apologized for American primacy.
He's now gone on to Turkey and he's barely been on the ground two minutes, uh and he's already apologized to the Muslim world.
You know, Bill Clinton took uh took the full two terms to uh to issue his various apologies to the world.
Uh Barack Obama is just uh getting them all out the way in the first couple of months.
Uh as he said, quote, I would like to think that with my election, we're starting to see some restoration of America's standing in the world, unquote.
It's always about him.
Uh the th the interesting thing about this, though, is that for all the apologies, he doesn't actually seem to get anything out of it.
I mean, if you look at all these stories about Europe melts for Michelle, the line of all these various European prime ministers is uh yeah, your wife is totally hot, but uh extra troops for Afghanistan, are you out of your mind?
He's not getting anything.
He's not getting anything uh for uh from the world in return for his obsequiousness uh uh before them.
Uh interestingly, I like the way uh the uh foreign newspapers got bored with him so quickly.
It's very different from here, you know.
Here the uh the mainstream media are uh are invested in him.
Uh the drive-by-cause a reader a reader wrote to me uh on Friday and and said that after all these stories about the way the Obamas were being received in uh London, they said uh this reader said uh Russia ought to stop calling them the Dro drive by media and should start calling them the drool by media.
And that's true, the drool buys are what they've been doing uh in in uh in London.
But the but the press aren't falling for it.
The foreign press isn't falling from it.
This is a headline from the telegraph.
Barack Obama really does go on a bit.
First line of the story.
Isn't it time for him to go home yet?
It's good in theory that the new president of the United States is taking so much time to tour Europe.
But his long stay means that we are hearing rather a lot from him.
Way too much, in fact.
Am I alone in finding him increasingly to be something of a bore?
Well, that's the as the telegraph.
They're like a sort of right of center paper, so you wouldn't necessarily expect them to be all warmed up for him.
Uh this is the left of center, very extreme uh, you know, really extreme left wing paper, The Guardian.
Uh Barack Obama, the world's greatest orator, uh, parentheses, registered trademark all news organizations, close parentheses, didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis.
Obama ummed odd and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes.
That's the guardian, the left wing paper.
Here's the Daily Mail mocking Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister's grovelling to Obama.
Quote, Mr. Obama uttered a sentence, Mr. Brown nodded.
Mr. Obama paused.
Mr. Brown froze, frowning.
Mr. Obama made a very slight joke.
Mr. Brown gassed himself, laughing for a good thirty seconds, eyelids fluttering like the wings of a soft flapping cabbage white butterfly.
Quote, yes we can, and yes we would.
He's so lithe and handsome and funny and smart, and he bestrides the free world like a colossus and will buy us each a puppy.
Uh the London Times.
Uh quote, this is how the second cubbing will be if the Lord chooses to make his appearance in a VH 3D helicopter fitted with anti-missile flares, unquote.
You know, the British press here by the way, there wasn't just one helicopter.
When he landed at Heathrow, uh he flew down town in like uh thirty different helicopters.
They were like in order to decoy because apparently, you know, the world loves uh Obama so much that uh the streets are full of people who want to sh shoot down his helicopter.
Uh so they uh so they arranged for thirty presidential helicopters to all fly from the airport to Buckingham Palace or whatever.
So if you looked up if you looked up on whatever it was last Wednesday, the sky was full of Obamas.
It was it was much better than the second.
The second coming isn't going to be like that.
The twelfth imam isn't going to be like that.
There's only, you know, he's the twelfth imam, but there's like thirty Obamas in the sky.
It was like amazing.
Uh but anyway, the uh the British press are already enjoying mocking mocking him.
None of that, of course, in the uh US media.
Uh left wing, right wing, they uh the uh the the mainstream newspapers here basically still uh writing filing all these droolby stories on how Michelle is just melting hearts in uh in uh all over Europe.
That may not be unconnected, by the way, with this story.
Uh the New York Times Company has threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless the Union agrees to twenty million dollars worth of concessions, according to the Boston Globe.
This reminds me of that scene where the uh what's what's that scene in Blazing Saddles where uh the sheriff uh draws the gun on himself, threatens to fire it himself.
Uh this is basically the New York Times thing here.
They're threatening to b they're threatening to close down the Boston Globe.
The downside of that would be uh the the American newspapers uh are out of step here.
The foreign press figured out after three days exposure to Barack Obama that the guy is boring, his speeches are too long, uh he's forgotten the first rule of show business, in fact he inverts it and he always leaves them wanting less.
Uh and that's uh it's it's interesting to me that uh while a lot of uh newspapers around the world have problems, uh the the uh the the British and the Continental newspapers have produced far more uh coverage, uh readable coverage of this trip uh than anything in the US papers.
The the the question to ask yourself here too is what is Obama getting out of these apologies?
He's apologized to everyone.
Apologized uh for the Bush years, apologized for American arrogance, apologize for American primacy.
Uh what is he getting in return?
Uh he let them set the uh agendas for the G twenty and the uh NATO summits, uh and he didn't get anything of what he wanted.
He didn't get anything what America wanted.
Uh the fact is the world is beginning to figure out uh pretty easily that this guy is a pushover.
If you let him have his big speech in a public square with the crowds cheering him and Michelle Obama, uh you can pretty much do what you like.
You don't have to give him the troops, you don't have to uh you just have to treat him like a rock star uh and give him nothing in return, and that's perfect and that's perfectly fine with him.
I would like to say something else, too, about Obama's uh visit uh overseas.
The bow.
The bow to the Saudi King.
Uh it's it's strange to me.
Uh Americans don't get a lot of practice in bowing, unless you're in show business, and evidently uh in that sense, Barack Obama thinks a little differently from most American politicians, but unless you're actually playing Broadway and you're you're taking your curtain calls every night, there are not many occasions in American life when an American has to bow.
Uh so that that uh picture of him with uh uh the presidential butt up in the air and he's prostrate before King Abdullah uh is unusual to me, unusual to me, and I don't quite know what was going it through his mind that would make him want to do that.
Uh it's it's bizarre.
There's been no there's no record in the previous two and a third centuries of this republic of any American head of state uh doing that to a foreign monarch.
The New York Times, by the way, which has studiously ignored the story of the Saudi bow fifteen years ago, uh the New York Times got mad with uh Bill Clinton when he appeared to give a nod of his head to the Japanese emperor.
Uh they made a huge fuss about that, that it there's something un American uh about an elected American citizen president prostrating himself uh or even giving the suggestion of a wish to prostrate himself uh before a foreign monarch.
Uh there's a simple reason for this.
Heads of state don't bow and curtsy to each other anyway.
They don't.
When the uh when when uh uh Queen Elizabeth meets the King of Sweden, they don't bow and curtsy to each other.
They're all part of the big league, uh, you know, they're in the King and Queen Club and they just uh greet each other perfectly normally.
They don't there is something unusual uh and weird about an American bowing at the waist to a Saudi King.
I don't pretend to know what's going on uh in his mind.
I might say, by the way, uh a couple of years ago I got invited to uh a private dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Uh and I was uh so I flew over on the plane from New Hampshire.
Now, like I I was uh born a subject of her Britannic Majesty.
I got no problem with uh the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and all the rest of it.
Uh but I'd been in New Hampshire a few years, so I wasn't quite up to speed on the whole bowing routine.
And I I uh read it on the plane on the way over the protocol, you know, that you say your majesty, your Royal Highness at first greeting, and then you say ma'am and sir, you call the ma'am and sir after that, and you do a uh a bow.
If you want to bow, you do a bow from the neck.
So on the plane on the way over, I was uh practicing bowing with my neck, and the you know, the the the lady next to me thought I was uh kind of weird and had had some involuntary tick and asked the stewardess if she could be moved.
Uh but I was like practising because it doesn't come natural.
I mean, even me, I've been in uh New Hampshire enough that bowing doesn't come naturally to me.
Uh I get to Buckingham Palace, I'm running a bit late.
I've changed into my tucks, I'm running a bit late, getting to Buckingham Palace, uh the footman shows me into the room, uh, and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen's husband, stands up and he goes, Oh, Mr. Steid, I'm on the other side of the room, having been practicing my bows and my Your Majesty, your Royal Highness thing on all on the flight on the way over, and instead I completely forget myself and I just bowl across the room, stick out my arm and go, hoy.
And the yeah the uh his Royal Highness, uh in fairness to him, uh took it in his stride and just said, Uh, hi, Mr. Stein.
Uh and the moment passed and i uh it went off smoothly.
So I cannot imagine, I cannot imagine what is going through the mind uh of a uh a uh an uh an American uh never mind an American president who uh who bows to the waist before a Saudi king.
This is one of the oddest uh public uh uh public displays I've ever seen.
Uh and yet the New York Times uh and the Washington Post and all the rest of them have decided, oh, it never happened.
It never happened.
When Bill Clinton inclined his neck slightly towards the Japanese Emperor, uh the New York Times did a big story on it.
But uh but but Barack Obama bang at the waist.
Whoop, not a thing about it.
Uh we're talking about the uh the Obama's apology tour as it progresses from London to Prague and now today on uh to Ankara in Turkey, and we'll have more uh and lots more of your calls straight ahead with Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network.
Uh the Obama's world pilgrimage uh continues from uh uh they started with the G twenty, then on to NATO, uh the European Union summit.
I uh I think then it was the what was it, the Bratislava Association of Community Organizers.
Uh it's been an impressive performance.
He's been apologizing for America every uh step of the way.
He's apologized for America more in the last week uh than the previous uh 43 presidents uh have done in the previous two and a third centuries.
So he's made a terrific start uh on uh on on on on clearing America's slate with the rest of the world.
Very impressive to see.
Let's go to Jim in Wilmington, Delaware.
Jim has been following the uh the NATO and uh EU and G twenty summits.
Uh Jim, welcome to the Rush Limbo Show.
Thank you.
Um yeah, I was reading in the paper here in Delaware, of course, the home of Joe Biden, pro Vice President Joe Biden, that it is time for us to pull out of NATO, that they are now old enough to defend their own borders, and that uh our role is over.
Well, uh I think that's a very good point.
I don't quite see what uh NATO is for.
In fact, the the guy who actually asked me that question uh uh a few years ago, I found myself sitting at lunch next to a former Secretary General of NATO, and he turned to me at one point over the hors d'oeuvres, and he goes uh he goes, What is NATO for?
Uh and I said, Well, you know, why look at me?
You're the former Secretary General.
You went to the office every morning at nine in the morning.
If you don't know what it's for, why why on earth why on earth should I?
Uh the the the problem, Jim, is that NATO was a Cold War alliance that made sense in the late nineteen forties.
We're now uh sixty years on in an entirely different century.
What do you what do you think the answer is with NATO?
Well, I think it is time for uh Europe to be able to stand up for itself.
I it doesn't mean we can't be allies.
Um not at all.
But but but uh I believe that if people are are dissatisfied with us overseas, they might remember World War Two, or if it wasn't for the United States, I don't know what would have happened.
It certainly might have been a different outcome.
In nineteen forty-five, I mean, this is the short version that we took.
I was born in forty-two, sir, a little bit short on that, but go ahead.
Yeah, I mean, what what we decided to do after the Second World War was basically to ensure that Europe would never be a threat to the world again.
And we accomplished that very effectively.
I mean, Germany has gone from one of the most militarist cultures on the planet, uh like Japan, uh, to now uh a uh a a uh uh an utterly pacifist nation.
I mean, it's not just that they hate American troops, they hate their own troops.
They're uh they're completely in this sort of decadent uh poser pacifism, uh and have no wish uh or urge uh to defend themselves.
So that so that so the thing the thing now is to say to these guys, look, you're gonna have you're gonna have to get serious.
Uh and and that is a tough message to deliver, but i but it's not as tough as wasting all this diplomatic effort like Obama is doing, where you go there, you schmoose them, you tell them everything you want to hear, you parade your wife around town in fancy gowns, and at the end of the day they say, hmm, an extra five hundred troops, hmm, an extra dozen helicopters?
No, sorry, we can't help you in Afghanistan.
Well well the i i i for me too, I I must admit I I listened to uh to Rush and uh Teshan and they talked about the CBO, which I immediately looked up, and when I saw it, I called them and they said, Are you suggesting that the gross national product could go below the fixed cost of United States of America income?
And they said under some conditions of the Obama uh projection for for his budget, yes.
Right.
I don't have to tell you, I don't have to tell anybody in basic economics what that means.
You can't make enough money to survive if you are below your fixed income.
No, and and that's a terrifying thought.
Yep, and i incidentally that that that's the issue at the G twenty, too.
These guys cannot spend their way out uh of the recession.
I mean, I don't believe in spending your way out of a recession uh anyway.
That but even if you be even if you believe in that theory, uh the uh the Europeans cannot do it because they haven't got any kids or grandkids to stick it to.
We can stick it to the kids and grandkids and burden them with crippling debt that will ensure they will uh live far poorer lives than we do.
But the Europeans haven't even got that option because they've been so pampered and cosseted uh over the over recent do decades that they've that they've uh basically stopped breeding.
Uh thirty percent of German women have no children.
So when you talk about a country defending itself, uh if you if thirty percent of of German women have no children, where are the young men who are gonna uh uh make up your armed forces?
It's the same in Russia, although Russia is slightly better reasons for it, in that, you know, under communism there wasn't much point to bringing children into this world.
But uh in Russia, uh the only uh segment of the population that's breeding are the Muslim parts of Russia, which is why on some projections uh the Musli the Russian army is gonna be majority Muslim in a couple of years.
Uh the the these guys are basically uh same with France.
Uh i in if you look at French cities, uh the the proportion of young men, uh uh the proportion of young people in those cities is already about forty-five percent Muslim.
Uh so essentially a lot of these countries don't even have any young people around to be their armies.
If you watch the Belgian army on parade, they're like these little stooped wizened old uh old uh grandfather figures.
Because like the Belgian army, I think is unionized and so and so it uh it's in their interest uh to kind of stay serving in the armed forces uh uh until they're like seventy eight or whatever because they get a much better much better uh benefits package or whatever.
It's very s difficult to see what we can do to save Europe from itself.
Uh more straight ahead with Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Rush will be back with you tomorrow and take you through the rest of the week.
More straight ahead.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush will be back uh tomorrow Mark Stein sitting in the typo dong of Rush Limbaugh guest hosts I I shoot up like a rocket and then self-destruct uh barely clearing the uh perimeter of uh perimeter fence.
Uh great great to be with you.
We've been talking about uh the Obama pilgrimage to Europe.
It's amazing how tired a lot of his lines get so quickly.
Uh he did that thing today uh you know what he was in when he was saying he didn't look like the other presidents on the dollar bills uh and uh and Mount Rushmore they used to that line he used to use when he was campaigning which I always like by the way uh because I thought it would I think it'd be great if he was to come out in a powdered wig and uh wooden teeth or whatever if he wants to if he wants to do that.
Right now we could use a little bit of visual variety in some of his speeches.
But anyway he was doing that uh today in uh in Europe he said just because he's not non uh George W. Bush and just because he's named quote Barack Hussein Obama unquote.
These are the rules by the way in which it's uh racist to mention the President's middle name, but he's allowed to mention it in speeches more than any other middle name of any American president ever.
I don't I don't even know Chester Arthur's middle name.
Do you know Chester uh Rutherford what does the B in Rutherford B. Hayes stand for he's he mentions his middle name more than any other middle name of any president uh ever.
But if you mention his middle name, oh well that's racist.
Uh anyway, uh it as interesting way he has because he brought us all together.
I love this the Pew Research poll.
You know this Pew Research guys they're like uh m Mr big time moderate uh nonpartisan they're always the fellas quoted on PBS and NPR and all the rest of it.
Uh they're going the partisan gap in Obama job approval is the widest in the modern era.
Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades, with a sixty one point partisan gap in opinions about Obama's job uh performance.
Uh you know uh the the point here is that George W. Bush, he took office after the Florida recount.
That's like tough.
Uh half the country didn't think he should have been president.
You'd expect a guy like that to have high negatives.
And it's similarly if Al Gore the courted rule for Al Gore you would expect him to have uh low uh uh the uh the approval rating the gap and approval rating to be wide but uh this guy came to office with an enormous amount of goodwill on January the twentieth.
You know on January the twentieth all us right wing crazy types were just like quiet and the Hopi Changey crowd had the whole scene to themselves.
And what's happened in two months and really very little to do with uh us on our side of the fence in two months uh he had all that good will to draw on and he's got the worst uh the biggest most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades.
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Let's go to Mike in San Diego.
Mike great to have you with us.
Hi Mark it's nice to hear you again.
I always find your opinion uh refreshing.
Uh th that's not a polite way of saying uh I'm talking gibberish, but it's refreshing gibberish is it?
Well certainly uh certain th some things we don't uh get exposed to like the European press as much.
Well it's uh you you should try to go through life without being exposed to Europeans.
That's that's always good advice.
Uh Mike uh you you've uh you've been following the Obama's uh uh relations overseas yes uh actually I was kinda uh fast forwarding ahead to next week and I was wondering if you might have an opinion uh forty heads of state are gathering from North and uh South America are gathering in uh Trinidad and Tobago for the summit of the Americas at the end of next week.
Uh there's a lot of anticipation about whether Obama will be removing uh U.S. restrictions on uh Cuba.
And I was wondering if you had any opinion on that as far as what we might get in return for this giveaway.
Well, I would imagine that what we will get if he does go that route.
And I w uh uh and and it would obviously uh follow a fulsome apology to the Castro brothers for the terrible for the terrible things, the terrible things that America has done to Cuba this last half century.
Uh if it hadn't been for America, they would never have been able to develop the world's best health care system.
Nope, hang on a minute.
That's not that's not quite right.
Well, they'll work it out when they get to the the the uh the the details of the speech.
Uh but yeah, I would I would uh imagine that there will be uh some rethinking of the of the Cuban relationship.
But that um uh i there will not be anything in in return for it.
Right now, at the moment, uh th in their Twilight, the Castro brothers have a have a uh good friend in uh Hugo Chavez.
Uh Chavez, this Chavismo thing uh in Latin America, which was a big problem a couple of years ago, I think is kind of uh tapped out now.
I think everyone knows uh it isn't uh it isn't the answer to the the problems there.
Uh Lula, this crazy guy in Brazil who said that the economic problems of the world w had been caused by white Anglo Saxon people with blue eye with blue eyes.
That c that includes that counts me out, by the way.
I've g I've got brown eyes.
There's nothing to do with me.
Uh Lulu Lula came to the White House, what was it, two weeks ago?
They misspelled his name wrong.
They uh not the Lula bit, he's got other names.
Lula is his uh nickname.
Yeah, yeah, it's uh uh uh yeah, de Sil de Silva de Silvio.
But the Lula bit is uh uh the Lula bit is just a nickname.
Like um like Lulu, who had a big hit with uh Toussau with Love in uh 1968.
He didn't sp misspell Lula as Lulu and uh give a give uh give the guy a DVD of uh Tissot with Love or anything.
Don't worry about that.
It wasn't quite that disastrous.
But he did misspell the name of the uh Brazilian president.
What I find interesting about the whole organization of the American States thing is that if you go back to the two thousand and one, this was supposed to be the focus of the Bush presidency.
I went to the two thousand and one summit of the Americas.
Uh it wasn't terribly exciting.
Bush was excited to be there.
He kept talking about my good friend Juan and my good friend Jose, and he had all these Latin American presidents and prime ministers from the Caribbean, and uh you everywhere you went, uh the uh the the people organizing the summit would be saying, Well, uh do you want an exclusive interview with the uh deputy trade minister of Costa Rica?
And I'd be kind of trying to back out the door slowly without catching their eye.
Uh the whole the whole point of the summit uh was that for Bush this was where the future was.
And what he learned on September the eleventh that it is, unfortunately, unfortunately, for whatever reason it is uh what is it, the uh the w the those economy wrecking uh white Anglo-Saxon guys with blue eyes?
It's the economy-wrecking white Anglo-Saxon guys with blue eyes who who were there with him after September the eleventh.
It was uh the Australians, was John Howard uh who said this is no time to be an eighty percent ally.
It was uh Tony Blows, a big uh uh kind of uh uh British socialist, but under st recognized with Bush the challenge after September the eleventh.
So he's back with the pasty uh uh uh white uh Anglo-Saxon blokes with blue eyes, uh that Lula and the rest of the Latinos, the cool Latin American types that uh Bush had been happy to dance the Lombarda with at the 2001 summit of the Americas.
Uh he was he was back, he was thrown back on the same boring pasty white faced bloke allies.
Uh and it will be and and uh and Bush learned the hard way that his own personal ties to Latin America did not uh were not reciprocated.
That in the end uh the Mexicans looked at what look at what's happening uh with uh in Iraq and Afghanistan and saw nothing there for them.
So did most of the rest of uh South America.
And it and it was uh it it it it was a teaching moment in a way for George W. Bush.
He he he spent a lot of his time on the Mexican border.
He has close ties with many families and many friends down there, but in the end they were not there on the morning of September the twelfth, two thousand one, they were not there for him.
And it will be interesting to see uh what, if anything, comes out of this uh summit.
By the way, just as a general principle, the Australian Prime Minister has a good view on this.
He wasn't the remember there was a big photo op before the uh uh the Iraq war, and he wasn't there.
And he said, uh I don't want to be in the photos.
I don't want to have to fly off and have a big dinner, you know, have a big black tie dinner.
I know when I need to speak to President Bush, I can get him on the phone any time I want, and that's more important than going to these uh big black tie dinners all the time.
Uh the a lot of these summits are a waste of time.
Uh the i if this is the worst economic crisis since the nineteen thirties, then traipsing around Europe giving apologies and then coming back and giving a whole bunch of apologies to a whole bunch of different countries in Trinidad is a complete waste of time.
We should have fewer summits.
I would like to have a summit of the world's leaders at which they issue a communique pledging to hold fewer summits.
That's what we need right now.
Uh Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network, more straight ahead.
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You know, the economic stimulus uh is beginning is beginning to uh to work.
Uh the uh J. Crew sweater that Michelle wore in Europe, is that right, Catherine?
The J Cr J. Cruise sweater that Yeah, uh J one of the the J. Crew and now J. Crew's sales have shot through the roof.
Is that it?
That's amazing.
They're the they're the only things going up in uh in America.
Uh J. Crew sales, gun sales, sales of Atlas drugs, yeah, unemployment, and uh AIG bonuses.
Uh but uh is that what happened?
Did she wear an AIG bonus to the White House Christmas party or something and suddenly they shot up too?
I don't say she should maybe they got like some uh they got some like uh they've they if they if they re if they re-issue, redesigned the Chevy Trailblazer as a sweater, uh then maybe uh maybe sales of uh GM models would go up too.
I mean, this is uh th it's good to know that there's some hope out there.
Uh hope and change are in the air.
Let's go to Shahab uh from Saratoga, California.
Shahab, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thank you.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Um I was just I just wanted to comment on uh prison Obama's trip to Europe and say that as a former campaign volunteer, one of the youngest in California, as well as as a uh as an American, I am very proud of of uh President Obama for his extraordinary achievements on this trip.
Now, do you like him going and apologizing to uh all all these Europeans?
No, he's not y I think we need some apologies for the mis pretty tremendous mistakes that the Bush administration made.
Well, okay, okay.
What did he get in return for the apologies?
Um I think that that's a key issue, and as I'm and I as I make clear to some republic to every Republican I meet, I'm not an Obama cheerleader.
I do oppose him on certain issues, but in general, I believe this trip and mo and m and the majority of his policies are for the good of America, even though that may not seem like it right now.
Okay, even though it doesn't seem like it right now, it's for the good uh it's for it's for the good of America.
What do you oppose what do you oppose him on, Shahab?
You said you opposed him on a couple of issues.
Um well, I posed him on s I I put him on certain economic issues such as, you know, uh the tax issue the tax system and such.
Yeah, you said you were one of the youngest volunteers.
Uh uh if it's not uh indiscreet of me, how how how old are you?
Just give it thirteen.
Yes.
Here's the problem for you, uh uh Shahab, and you should be aware of this.
When you look at the way your parents and your grandparents and uh just like uh anyone over thirty lives, the problem is that uh we're voting ourselves uh courtesy of the Obama administration, all these multi-trillion dollar budgets that you and your fellow thirteen-year-olds are gonna be paying for.
Yes, uh that's uh that's what I've been told.
But I'm just uh as I said, I I agree with the Vasabrodie's policies, and I think even it's gonna be clear in a few years how how grateful we should be.
But right now, you know, he can't Obama's not a magician, he can't just snap his finger and make change.
What?
He's not a magician.
He can't just snap his fingers and make change.
When did that come out?
Uh thank you thank you for your call, uh Shahab.
And you know, I'd like you to call us uh you're thirteen.
This is not the greatest generation.
These are not the boomers.
These are not Gen X or Gen Y. This is the brokest generation.
Uh the the thirteen-year-old, we are doing a terrible thing to people of Shah Hab's age.
Uh we are we are loading them up with an unsustainable level of debt That uh that Shahab's generation, people who are in the great schools and high schools of America right now, will be furious with us for in uh twenty or thirty years' time.
And uh when I'm uh and I won't be able to retire.
I won't be able to retire.
So in uh in fifty years' time, uh when I'm on uh WZZ AM's top-rated midnight matinee show between three and four in the morning in dead buzzard gulch.
Uh I want Shahub to call me back and tell me how the whole Hopi Change deal uh worked out for her.
Uh there's not there is something quite disgraceful, by the way.
This president uh has increased the national debt, uh is is proposing to increase the national debt within the next five years, more than the combined uh debt run up by the first 43 presidents.
You take every president from George Washington to George W. Bush, you add up all the debt, he's proposing to double what the first four the the debt accumulated by the first forty-three presidents.
This is a terrible thing uh to do to Shahab's generation.
And I know, you know, right now when you're thirteen, it seems nice to be standing there waving this is the age of the Hopi change in the crowd scenes.
But at some point, the young the the the thirteen-year-olds of America have to start getting mad.
You know, back in the sixties, back in the sixties, uh the uh what was it, the hippies used to say, never trust anyone over thirty.
If I was Shahab, I would say never trust anyone over thirteen.
Because they uh the rest of us are stealing from you.
Uh basically, we're engaging in the biggest generational transgenerational theft in the history of mankind.
You look at the way your parents and your grandparents uh live.
Uh you will be have you will be driving uh living in a smaller home and driving a smaller car.
You'll be driving in this two thousand dollar Tata car that the Indians are making.
It's the size of a cup holder in uh in your average American SUV.
Uh go down to the lot, look at one of these unsold Chevy Tahoes, uh look at the si look at the cup holder.
That's the size of these Tata cars, the two thousand dollar Tata cars from India.
You're gonna be driving smaller cars living in smaller homes, uh uh unable, the first generation denied the opportunity to live the American dream because of the debt uh that the uh greatest generation, the boomers, the Gen X's, the Gen Wires, and the whatever they are next uh the Gen Z are loading up on you.
Uh so I'd like to hear back from Shahbat uh in uh in uh in a couple of decades uh time and see whether it all worked, the Hope he change thing all worked out for her.
Uh more straight ahead uh with Mark Stein In for Rush on the EIB network.
Hey, let's take a quick call on the EIB network from uh Chris in Kansas City.
Chris, welcome to the EIB network.
Very quickly, what's what's your point?
You know, I I think it's just absurd that that Barack Obama stands in Prague and talks about getting rid of of nuclear weapons at the same time the North Koreans are lobbying this missile across Japan.
And the the Bush administration spent a lot of time and and Poland and and the Czech Republic gave up a lot of political capital to get this missile shield in place.
And uh it's precisely for this reason of North Korea and Iran and and these these countries that are that are uh uh uh developing nuclear weapons, and he just throws it away with with no thought.
And it it's very upsetting, very very upsetting.
It's it's grossly irresponsible.
Uh, you know, as I said in the in the first hour, uh whatever you feel about the five nuclear original nuclear powers, America, Britain, France, Russia, China, they were serious real nations uh who understood uh it was it was a high threshold to enter the nuclear club.
Now any nickel and dime thug, any nickel and dime dictator can enter the club.
Uh and they have uh and the and the whole basic theory of mutually assured destruction of mutual deterrence has far less uh appealed to them.
Uh Obama, with his irresponsible remarks, uh this idea that somehow you can play community organizer in chief to the entire planet, uh, has made life a lot more dangerous for a lot of America's allies uh around the world already.
And they're gonna figure that out soon, and they're gonna be very annoyed with his uh irresponsible uh observations on missile defense.
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