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June 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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Welcome back to your music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
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All right, it's a big day today if you have an Apple iPhone.
It's also a big day today if you're unemployed.
If you're unemployed, President Barack Obama says today that the fastest way to get you a job is to nationalize health care, single-payer health care.
Now let me ask those of you who are unemployed.
Let me amend that.
Those of you who are unemployed who don't want to be, those of you who are unemployed who want a job, and you turn on the television and the radio when you hear President Obama says he's thinking about you.
But the recession is a bit worse than what he knew because he inherited such a mess.
But there's a fast fix for this.
And that is health care.
We got to get health care spending in line that will enable you to find a job.
Is that going to make you confident?
How soon do you think national health care is going to happen?
Even if they succeed in passing it, how soon will it be implemented?
You want to wait a year for a job?
And by the way, the dirty little secret, if they succeed with national health care as Obama and the Democrats want it, you face the prospect of being joined on the unemployment line by even more people, because the incentive for businesses who will be mandated with providing it will be to fire people.
In order to stay in business, in order to stay in business, they're going to have to lay off more people.
Now anybody with a brain knows this.
It's time to start asking.
What does Obama really want with all of these programs of his?
What is he really trying to accomplish?
Is he really trying to put you back to work?
Is he really trying to create jobs in a thriving, growing private sector economy?
Because if he is, he's the biggest idiot on the face of the earth.
Because this is not how you do it.
If he is trying to do it and he's not a big idiot, he's doing it on purpose.
And if he's doing it on purpose, we need to then ask why.
For what purpose would President Obama want to destroy the private sector economy?
For what purpose would Barack Obama want to destroy free market economics?
Well, there's always the old saw that he wants to return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
Some have speculated he wants an ever-expanding welfare state with more and more average middle class people on the government dole, because that's government dominance.
That's control.
That's statism.
I, for one, don't think he's stupid.
I think he's been poorly educated.
I think he's angry and cold.
But IQ-wise, he's not stupid.
He's been told.
He has been told things as he's grown up and been educated that make the difference between him and Mikhail Gorbachev scant.
They both believe in command-control economies because capitalism is unfair.
It's unjust.
It's immoral.
And he's going to straighten that out.
So I just it's it folks, this is this is dire.
What is happening here?
We are down to the wire on stopping this.
Not saying it can't be rolled back at some point down the road, but if they get national health care, that's going to be tough to undo.
And national health care is the single biggest intervention in liberty this government could conceive.
Because every aspect of your life can be regulated on the theory that it will control costs of health care.
Here are some sound bites of President Obama in Washington this afternoon before meeting with his cabinet.
On Friday, we learned that we had lost an additional 345,000 jobs in the month of May.
That was far less than was expected.
But it's still too many.
We're still in the middle of a very deep recession that was years in the making, and that's going to take a considerable amount of time.
Stop the tape.
And there we have once again the unseemly embarrassing, childish in his fault.
Don't blame me in his fault.
The middle of a very deep recession, years in the making.
I had nothing to do with it.
I had nothing to do with these things.
Don't blame me.
You had everything to do with it, sir.
This recession is yours.
You have taken what was going wrong and you have amplified it and multiplied it.
It is time, ladies and gentlemen, it is crucial to link Obama's plans and actions to his failures.
Because now they are becoming apparent.
His failures are even admitted by him.
They're not called failures, but this cabinet meeting today to ratchet up and speed up stimulus spending is an admission.
The first stimulus spending didn't work, that TARP didn't work, that the bailouts haven't worked.
If we have to speed it up, it hasn't worked.
That's the conclusion of logic.
He concedes that it's a recession he inherited that now, worse than he even knew.
Moving on to the next soundbite.
When we arrived here, we were confronting the most significant recession since the Great Depression.
Stop the take.
Second time he said it in a period of two minutes.
When we arrived here, we were confronting the most significant recession since the Great Depression.
Wrong O. When he arrived there, the recession of 80, 81, 82 was that depression worse than anything since the Depression.
Obama's policies have now led us to a point where we are in the same dire straits we were 25 years ago.
Not 45 years ago.
Or 60 years ago, whatever the Great Depression.
The man cannot tell the truth.
He has to dump on predecessors, all the while his own policies are to blame and are solely responsible for the deteriorating economic circumstances that Americans face today.
It was getting worse.
Had we done nothing, I think it's fair to say that most economists believe we could have really gone into a tailspincy.
Stop the tape.
There's the old famous straw man argument.
Nobody ever said let's do nothing.
Nobody said let's do nothing.
What he has done has put us into the tailspin.
This is the point that must reverberate coast to coast, town to town, city to city, border to border.
What Barack Obama has done, what his administration has done has put us in the tailspin.
We decided to move swiftly and boldly.
And I signed a recovery act into law just over 100 days ago, And we've done more than ever, faster than ever, more responsibly than ever to get the gears of the economy moving again.
That's just a that's a flat-out, out and out lie, and there is no other way to characterize it.
A recovery act, we've done more than ever, faster than ever.
Yes, to destroy the U.S. economy.
If you want to add that, then it's a true statement.
Barack Obama has done more than ever, faster than ever, to single-handedly put this economy into a tailspin.
And anybody with a brain knows this.
You don't need a PhD in economics to understand this.
All you need is a pair of eyes.
And if you're blind, be able to hear and listen.
You can see the tailspin this economy is in precisely because of his moving faster, better, whatever than ever before.
Here's the rest of the bite.
Created and saved, as you said, Joe, at least 150,000 jobs.
We have unemployment at 9.4 percent.
We have lost 600, 600, 600, 600, and 345,000 jobs month to month to month.
And they have the audacity to make up a totally contrived figure that cannot be documented of 150,000 jobs saved or created in the midst of two million jobs lost.
Two million jobs have been lost since January.
He has a meeting today to talk about how great his policies are that created or saved 150,000 jobs.
You can go to any Obama website you want, ask gov.org, ask this.
You will not find any documentation or any reference to these 150,000 jobs.
The Obama people predicted unemployment would top out at 8%.
It's now at 9.4% on its way to a minimum of 10%.
Here now the PS better resistance of the three sound bites.
Now we're in a position to really accelerate.
So the goal here is that we're going to be able to do that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
What is now we're in a position to really accelerate accelerate what?
Economic decline?
How can you accelerate it beyond what it is?
Of course he doesn't mean that, but that's been the practical result of his programs, plans, and policies.
What is it?
Let's say, let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
Let's, okay, now we can really really accelerate now to turn this thing around.
Why now?
Well what what about now makes it a good position to really accelerate?
What is it that we bottomed out that it can't get any worse?
Oh, wait and see how much worse it's going to get if he gets what he wants.
Now we're in a position to really accelerate.
Well, I remember back in October, November.
If we didn't act in 24 hours, the country was history.
The TARP and financial sector bailout, AIG, blah, blah, blah.
And the Republicans opposed it the first time.
Two weeks went by, the country was fine and danded.
Nobody lived a different life.
There was nothing substantively any different.
We were told we had 24 hours.
Then we move forward to January.
We've got to get the stimulus bill done, man.
That's stimulus.
We got to get this done.
We don't have time to waste.
We have to act now.
We are near a catastrophe.
And so now here we are six months later, five months later, we are in an economic tailspin brought about precisely because of Obama's policies.
And now we're going to really accelerate?
Create or save 600,000 jobs over the next hundred days.
Wasn't that the promise of the first hundred days?
It's impossible to calculate a saved job.
Anyway, here's the rest of the bite.
Now we're in a position to really accelerate.
So the goal here is that we're going to create or save 600,000 jobs over the next 100 days, keeping teachers in the classroom, cops on the streets, providing summer jobs for youth that are particularly hard hit in this job market, breaking ground on hundreds of new projects all across the country in clean energy and transportation and so on.
And we're going to do it continuing to uh operate in a transparent fashion so that taxpayers know this money is not being wasted on a bunch of boondoggles.
And I think that, you know, sometimes good news comes in what you don't hear about.
And you haven't heard a bunch of scandals, knock on wood.
Wait, just a second.
So far.
Just a second.
Wasn't it just last week that Vice President Biden warned us of all the scams in the stimulus bill?
Just last week, Vice President Biden warned us of all the scams that you can't really stop them.
It's inherent in this kind of spending with this kind of money.
So now we have a new benchmark for success, and that is no reported scandals.
Knock on wood.
Well, they're get they're there.
I guarantee there will not be any reported scandals with a state-run government-controlled media reporting on all of this, treating the President of the United States as a god.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
I can just remind you, in the last soundbite that we played, Barack Obama said that uh good things are sometimes the things you don't hear about.
Like no scandals, knock on wood.
The good things that are happening, sometimes you don't even hear about them.
Uh It seems to me that back during the Bush administration, when it was pointed out that we had not had a terrorist attack on this soil since 9-11, that that was ridiculed, impugned, laughed at.
We didn't hear about a new terrorist.
That was good news.
The Bush administration was no, no, no, no, that wasn't allowed.
But now the things we're not hearing about, we don't I don't care what we're not hearing about, the things we are hearing about are disastrous.
The personal human lives that have been discarded by the U.S. economy with no hope of a job anytime soon.
From the party and the president that cares more than anybody about the little guy.
How about the election returns the European Union?
Here's a story from the Financial Times.
Socialists across the continent left licking their wounds.
European socialists were left in disarray Sunday night after failing to capitalize on an historic economic and financial crisis to harvest disaffected voters in parliamentary elections.
Sarkozy did gangbusters, Merkel did gangbusters.
Let me ask you, where is the state-run media with stories today about what essentially is the Obama agenda being rejected by European socialist countries?
Right wingers won election all across the European Union.
Here is a quote from this story.
Some socialists have even spoken of possibly changing their name to Democrats.
The name socialist, the word socialist, they thought harmed their re-election chances.
The thinking is that a different title, Democrat instead of socialist, might help the group, particularly in Eastern Europe.
Which then, of course, begs the question why don't the Democrats in this country change their name to socialists?
Let's go to the phones.
We'll start Fort Myers, Florida.
This is David.
Thank you for calling, sir.
You're up on the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Uh first time caller and uh listener since the TV days.
Thank you, sir.
I just want to uh to bring up the unemployment rate uh like a many of uh other colleagues in South West Florida was involved in the real estate market, and those of us in real estate, mortgage group, and so on, uh, were uh independent contractors, therefore the thousands of us across this country were never eligible for unemployment.
Those figures are never counted.
I just wondered uh just how artificially low that unemployment rate is.
And the second point is that the unemployment rate being a lagging indicator at the end if the economy was this bad months ago and it's getting worse, just where are we going with the unemployment rate?
Well, the real unemployment rate is about 14 or 16 percent, 15.9 percent.
I saw this last week.
Uh the numbers that are not tabulated are the people who've given up trying to find jobs.
The real unemployment rate skyrocketing high.
You got to hear these next two sound bites from Obama, by the way.
Uh let's go back, let grab number 30 first.
This is uh March 3rd of this year.
Barack Obama with Prime Minister Gordon Brown from Britain, they're speaking to the press is a little bit of what Obama said.
What I'm looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market, but the long-term uh ability for the United States and the entire world economy uh to regain its foot.
Uh and you know, the stock market is sort of like a tracking hole in politics.
You know, it bobs up and down day to day.
Uh and if you spend all your time worrying about that, then you're probably going to get the long-term strategy wrong.
Bottom line, Obama pays no attention to stock market, it's a tracking poll, you pay attention to that, your long-term strategy is going to be skewed.
I don't care about stock market.
He said that when it was plummeting.
This afternoon in Washington, he said this about the stock market.
Although we've seen some stabilizing in the financial markets and credit spreads have gone down, and uh you know, w we're seeing a reduction in the fear that gripped uh the market just a few months ago.
Stock markets up a little bit.
So back in uh March, you didn't care about stock market when it was plummeting.
Ah, you can't look at that until it's up and down tracking poll.
I mean, you I've been in politics.
You watch tracking polls, it can get uh taken off your game, you lose sight of the big picture.
Now, with nothing of any substance that is optimistic or good to be able to hang his hat on regarding the U.S. economy.
He goes to the stock market.
Hey, you know what?
Stock market uh up a little bit.
Stock market looking pretty good out there.
What is the stock market?
Let me click in here and see what um I may not get this to read out for me before the break happens.
Uh we are down a hundred and four point w.
Stock market down one oh four as of a couple minutes ago, and he just said this it's up a bit.
Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack Obama's which have led us to this point are precisely why I fearlessly said and still say, I hope he fails.
Barack Obama failing to implement all this equals America surviving.
That's why I want him to fail.
I want my country to survive, thrive, and succeed, as well as as many people in this country surviving, thriving and succeeding as possible.
So today, Barack Obama, it's really bad out there.
Unemployment is really bad.
We've got to speed up the stimulus.
Well, we gotta we gotta speed it up.
I mean, it called for now, but May 27th, uh basically a little over a week ago in Los Angeles.
When you look at the economy right now, I think it's safe to say that we have stepped back from the brink.
That there is some calm that didn't exist before.
It doesn't matter what this man says.
What this man says is irrelevant.
How he says it is all that matters.
Today, we have to ratchet up, speed up stimulus spending.
We got to go out there and create or save hardy harhar.
Six hundred thousand new jobs, lickety split right now.
It's really worse.
I inherited a bigger mess than I thought I'd inherited.
Blah, blah, blah.
May 27th, why we're coming back from the brink now.
Step back for the brink.
There's some calm in the economy that didn't exist before.
What was that statement on May 27th worth?
As much as the paper I have crumpled up and now toss in the trash can.
That's what it was worth.
Might have been worth to the dunces in Hollywood to whom he was speaking.
But in terms of its value to the American people and the economy, worthless words, by the way, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has broken her ankle.
She fractured her ankle in an airport.
She stumbled in the airport on their way to Senate meetings.
Now the question is, would a white male judge have fractured his ankle in the same circumstances at the same airport on the way to Senate meetings.
To the phones, we go to John in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rosh.
Uh I called because uh I I'm in the computer uh IT industry, and I've worked on a lot of systems at uh financial institutions.
And what Obama's proposing to do with the health care system is basically replace everything in one fell swoop, which no responsible corporation would ever do with one of their major systems.
Uh typically they would pilot test it first in an isolated area, then they would gradually uh replace you know different parts of the company at different times, so that if something bad happened, there would be a fallback.
Uh the Republicans, I think, or anybody who just wants to make sure that they preserve the good things that we've got in our health care system right now, should demand that we set up pilot programs, and any of the states that have tried to do this already have all failed miserably.
So I think if we if if I if I may interrupt, sure.
Two things.
And plea this is not criticism.
Please don't take this personally.
I'm just listening to what you're saying, and I know from the corporate standpoint you're dead on accurate.
You don't roll something out without testing it to know it's gonna work.
Too much is invested in it.
You've got to have a fallback if it doesn't work.
But right now, telling the American people that no corporation would do this is not the way to sell opposition to it.
I'm I'm sorry, it just isn't.
If if you tell the American people that no corporation would do this, they're gonna think it's the way to go.
Because he's he's made people hate corporate America.
The second thing is, and this I do disagree with you on it, uh respectfully so, because I know you're a smart guy, but the Republicans need to oppose this philosophically.
They don't need to oppose it on the edges and say, look, why don't you try this in a couple states or it's been tried in a couple states and it hasn't worked.
Uh they need to oppose this from start to finish the way it is being structured.
They don't want any part of this.
They don't want one vote for this plan.
The Democrats are going to run around trying to get as many Republican votes as they can, just like he did for the stimulus, just like he did for anything else, so that he doesn't have to take the blame alone, so the Democrats don't take the blame alone.
This is an utter disaster.
It doesn't need to be tested.
We don't need to test it to know it isn't gonna work.
It has not worked in Great Britain, it hasn't worked in Canada.
It did not work in the Soviet Union, and it doesn't work in Cuba.
I don't care what the hell anybody wants to tell me about it.
I don't see anybody in this country sending any of their family to Cuba for serious medical care.
If it was the best in the world, they'd be trying to find ways to get in there secretly and violate our laws, you can't travel there.
All of this is bogus.
There's not one aspect of this that recommends itself.
Not one.
Madeline in Melbert of Florida.
Uh, great to have you here.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor.
Thank you.
I got two quick things.
I just want to say uh what a great feeling gives me to know that Michelle and the kids are having such a nice shopping spree over there and the romantic dinners, and he's out playing golf.
Well, I've been out on another wasted day, practically in tears, trying to find a pissy waitress job.
My re restaurant closed down three months ago.
You know, does he give a raps you know what about the little people like that?
Aren't you?
Aren't you happy that your uh your president uh is able to go play golf during these trying times?
He needs the break, he needs to recharge and rejuvenate himself from the uh the these horrible circumstances he alone has to deal with.
And of course, who can blame the first lady and the kids for going sightseeing?
Isn't that a wonderful thing for first ladies?
Aren't we as Americans proud to see that?
It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, I tell you.
Number two, thank God my husband has a good job, but you were mentioning about the health care thing.
Um we have benefits through his company.
What happens when everybody gets free health care?
Do we still have to pay through his company, do you think?
Or are we going to be able to get off of this?
Is it good free like everybody else?
Are we gonna be paying double the price or I have no clue it's gonna be?
Everybody is going to be paying more.
The uh there will be taxes on the company provided benefits.
Either the company will pay the taxes or the employee will pay the taxes as imputed income.
Uh there are also other tax increases planned.
Obama is is planning on limiting, if not eliminating, all tax deductions for the top tax brackets.
Doesn't mean of raising more revenue.
It's another tax increase, which is going to provide many disincentives for people who engage in like charitable activities or whatever to get the tax deduction for it.
It's it's a disaster in the making.
It is an out and right utter disaster that he has planned.
What's going to happen?
The answer to your question is people are gonna get laid off.
As everybody is gonna be required to have health insurance and health coverage, businesses are not gonna be able to afford it, the recipients aren't gonna be able to f they're just gonna have fewer jobs, they'll have to let they'll have to fire people, they have to lay people off.
Well, that makes me feel so much better.
It should make you feel better.
It should it should make you feel a lump in your throat.
We are on the cusp of an unmitigated national disaster and catastrophe.
There is no possible way to overstate this.
Folks, you you know me.
I am not an alarmist.
I'm an optimist.
I try to find the good things about every day.
I want to enjoy life, and I want to help as many other people enjoy life.
But I'm telling you what I see coming down the pike.
As it gets worse and worse and worse, the architects of this saying, let's do more of what's making it worse.
It's time to put the foot down.
This is an unmitigated disaster.
It is an Obama-caused tailspin, and it has to be stopped.
It must be Stopped for the sake of everybody's kids and grandkids and great grandkids and the country as well.
Madeline, thanks much for the call.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll do it.
We'll come back and continue after this.
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor fracturing her ankle in an airport on the way to Senate meetings.
Given Sotomayor's preference for Latinas in every walk of life, I hope she can find a wise Latina doctor to set that ankle as opposed to an average white doctor, because the wise Latina doctor of much richer experience with broken ankles probably do a much better job of setting that ankle than an average white doctor who has not lived the rich experiences of a Latina med student.
And um resident.
Now Snerdley thinks I'm going to be accused of talking down the economy.
I hope so.
I really hope so.
Let them accuse me of talking down the economy.
Because what I'm doing is simply chronicling reality.
This economy is tanking, brought about precisely and directly, because of the policies of Obama and his administration.
It is crucial to link Obama's policies and his plans to his failures.
Because those failures are now becoming apparent.
He has gotten away with no consequences to any of his plans, any of his promises for too long.
The consequences are coming in.
Attaching Obama to his failures is the only way we're going to stop national health care.
Another audio soundbite.
This yesterday on Slay the Nation, Bob Schaefer talking to Mr. Newt.
And uh it was actually Harry Smith filling in for Bob Schiefer.
Harry Smith said to Mr. Newt, is there room for moderates in the Republican Party?
Yes, I am a I'm a Reagan Republican.
Reagan believed in a very broad base.
He always talked about my fellow Republicans and those independents and Democrats who want a better future.
A third of his vote were Democrats.
Well, and you also have a voice of ideological purity out there that unless people cowtow to.
So your advice to other Republicans is shrug off Rush Lemon.
My advice is that Colin Powell is a great American.
I'm proud that he's a Republican, and you know, Dick Cheney's a great American, I'm proud he's Republican.
I'm glad both of them are Republican.
Okay, for the record, Newt and all the rest of you in the drive-by media...
Speaking for myself and all the other conservatives I know.
I'm not a purist.
We're conservatives.
Plain and simple.
Newt.
Now we conservatives don't always agree with each other.
Yeah, Ronald Reagan got a lot of independents and Democrats, but how did he do it?
He didn't pretend he was one of them.
He didn't pretend to be a Democrat.
He didn't pretend to be an independent.
Reagan persuaded them.
Reagan made them want to join him.
Reagan did not change who he was to attract those independents and Democrats.
Colin Powell voted for Obama.
Colin Powell found McCain unacceptable.
If that's the kind of Republican we want to be proud of, somebody is going to have to explain it to me.
We want to proclaim how proud we are of somebody who not only endorsed Obama strategically at a time to do the most damage to the Republican nominee, he voted against the Republican nominee after that Republican nominee was the precise candidate that Colin Powell supposedly thinks the party should advance.
Shrug off purists.
Nope, we're not purists.
We're conservatives.
We don't always agree with each other.
I don't care if Powell stays a Republican or becomes a Democrat.
It doesn't matter to me what he does, but don't tell me he's the model for the party.
If Colin Powell is the model for the Republican Party, there's no reason to ever vote Republican again.
And I'll just ask again.
I asked Hannity this last week on the two-part interview.
Somebody tell me what Republican policies Colin Powell champions.
What conservative policies does he champion?
Where is he out there trying to help rebuild the Republican Party other than tearing me down?
Where is he opposing what Obama's doing?
So it goes on.
But never fear, folks.
I have never said the era of Reagan is over.
I have never said that I want to be a part of a party that in order to get Democrats and independence goes out and acts like them and enacts policies that they would like.
I am not going to do that.
Have I done what about Pelosi on global warming?
No, I have not sat down with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.
You mean the couch and a TV yet?
No.
And by the way, I was asked.
I've never talked I was asked to do one of those commercials.
I forget who with.
But I was asked to sit down and do one of those commercials on global warming with uh with uh it was Michael Moore.
They asked me to sit down with Michael Moore.
For the good of the country, for the good of the issue.
I refuse to do it.
I also have not joined Mrs. Clinton for a conference promoting her health care.
Oh boy.
Never mind, folks.
The uh or never worry.
I'm the bulwark.
Not wavering, last man standing if necessary.
Jim in Orlando, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Ditto's rush.
Uh an honor and a pleasure, I assure you.
Um longtime listener.
Um this is kind of off the subject to what you've been talking to recently, but I watched the D-Day ceremony on Saturday with a lot of pride and a little embarrassment.
Uh I watched a brilliant speech by a foreigner, French President Sarkosi, and later on I watched an embarrassing speech by President Obama.
And the juxtaposition of those two speeches was quite startling to me.
Sarkozy spent the majority of his speech as a tribute to all who died, and he gave eternal thanks for the gr for the sacrifices that those soldiers made in the cause of freedom and liberty.
Um rambled on just recounting a bunch of isolated stats and sprinkled coats from notables that weren't even there.
Rambling nothingness, it seemed to me, uh, and meaningless and a little bit of hypocrisy.
It was a feeble attempt to compare our he also talked about how we all have to work together that uh, you know, D-Day showed we all come together, we can I know it was it was an embarrassment.
I'm I must admit to you, uh I took the occasion Saturday to sleep in.
I knew what I was gonna hear if I got up to listen to this.
You missed a great speech by Sarkozy.
Well, but I've heard a great speech by Sarkozy when he came and did a joint speech and uh uh an address to a joint session of Congress.
This guy sounded more like a conservative than any of the Republicans in that hall that day.
Well, I know what Sarkozy was going to say.
I like I like Sarkozy.
Well, in light of your earlier comments today, uh you also missed Obama promoting uh for the position of God.
He made a comment in there that stuck out uh very starkly to me in trying to give honor to those men, he said men of all faith, and then he added the phrase, and men of no faith.
And I just was unbelievable.
That's you know, he's trying to get the atheist vote.
What the hell?
I mean, everything with him is uh is a political event, that's uh campaign event, and the atheist votes a growing vote.
I mean, you know, if if I don't blame some Americans uh uh, in fact, throwing away faith in God, looking at what's happened to their country.
You know, some people can say, what where is God saying my country?
I'm being halfway facetious here, folks, but I mean he's the the atheist vote the agnostic vote, he's aiming for it.
That's what that comment was all about.
Uh yeah, yeah, thanks everybody for working together.
I'll I'll tell you, I did see highlights of it.
I should not say this.
I should not say this.
I saw highlights about I I I I watched, I don't think he had the slightest clue what he was talking about.
Whoever wrote the speech for him, I don't think he has one iota of understanding what D Day was all about.
It was just an event to go campaign with the right words of teleprompter and say them.
How can I talk down the economy?
The economy's already on its back.
How can I talk it down?
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