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June 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, it's just amazing to watch this.
Obama's on television again, and he's from the East Room of the White House, and he's taking over the financial industry here, the credit industry, whatever it is he's taking over, and he's recycling every lie, every one, every lie that was told during the mortgage crisis.
That the lenders lended to people or lent to people it shouldn't have been lent to, and it was the lenders that were predatory, and it the regulators were out to lunch.
You know something?
Greetings and welcome back, by the way.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies often talk about Ronaldus Magnus.
Now, Jeremy, hang on.
We're coming right to you here.
I often talk about Ronald Reagan often and how he did not have a conservative media supporting him, and he did not have a Republican majority in the House or Senate.
And yet he was able to get done everything he wanted to do.
For the most part, especially in the first term, he had the ability with his communication skills and the power of his personality and issues to go over the heads of the media and communicate and connect directly with the American people.
But also, he had three things.
Reagan was a three-legged stool.
Three things he said needed to be done coming out of the disaster of the Carter years.
We need to defeat communism.
We need to rebuild our military, and we're going to cut people's taxes to restore economic growth.
Now, all three of those things are very understandable.
Every day, Obama's out there with his professorial stuff that people take notes at Harvard and so forth and try to understand for final exams, and then people can't keep up with.
Every day, it's something new, and not only new, it is huge.
Cap and trade one day.
Then the next day, we're back to health care, nationalized company.
The next day, we're going to run the car company.
Then the next day, we're going to run Wall Street.
The next day, we're going to cap the pay of everybody that gets paid in this country at the executive bench.
The next day, it's back to health care.
Then the next day, now today, it's taking over the banks again.
Every day, it just, it never stops.
And at some point, this is going to have people, if it hasn't happened already, people's heads are going to start swimming.
And by the way, have the sea levels started coming down yet?
Remember, Obama said he was going to do that.
So it's just, it's breathtaking to watch this.
It's also maddeningly frustrating because I know at the same time, there's some people out there that are laughing it all up.
All right, let's return to Jeremy here in Bloomville, Ohio.
We talked to him.
He was the last caller in the previous hour.
Jeremy, thanks for holding on.
I appreciate that.
Yes, sir.
All right, I want to set up again for people where you started off.
Jeremy's upset.
He voted for Obama.
His family convinced him to.
He's 33 years old, lives in Ohio.
He's upset because he sees, and Jeremy's a gold mine of a phone call, folks, so stick with me on this.
He looks out.
He sees what Obama's doing, and he sees Obama propping up big business.
He sees Obama helping them out.
He sees Obama throwing them all kinds of money.
And he's upset.
He voted for Obama.
He doesn't see Obama doing anything for the little guy.
He doesn't see Obama doing one thing.
And where we left it with Jeremy was health care benefits.
He just found out that his health care benefits might be taxed as income, and he's very upset about that.
And his health care costs from his company, he has to pay $200 a month for it.
And he thinks that's too much.
So where we last left you, Jeremy, you said you had gone out and, because I asked you, what do you think it would cost you if you didn't get it through your company?
And you said you'd priced it.
And that's where we had to end the conversation.
So what did it cost you?
It would cost me right around, well, first, before they cut the insurance, they actually cut it is what they'd done.
We had a lower plan and a higher plan.
The lower plan cost me $50, $100 a month.
Now they cut that one out.
So now I'm up to $200 a month.
So I did do some pricing.
It's a little lower.
What I pay now is a little lower than what I found out there.
Granted, I can't search the whole – well, I can now because we have the Internet.
I can search the whole country if I want to.
But I don't think it's right.
You don't think what is right.
I don't think the way they're going to tax health care because right now it's hard enough to live with, you know, it's hard enough to make ends meet with what people are getting.
You know, you can't just, well, they can, but you can't tax everything to try and make it work.
They do.
They're going to try and make everything better.
Jeremy, they already are taxing everything.
What we're talking about is increasing it.
You might think you're not paying taxes on your health care benefits, but you already are in the sense that you're being paid.
Your total compensation package is what you think you're being paid in salary, plus all the other benefits, plus Social Security your employee is paying that you never see.
So the figure I used, I picked a round number.
If you're earning $50,000 these days, it's probably costing your employer $65,000 to hire you.
So you're actually, if that's what it costs him to hire you, that's what you're earning.
But you're only seeing $50,000 of it in salary.
Now, so your employer is doing you a huge favor here.
Why do you think health care ought to be free?
Why do you think you shouldn't have to pay for it?
No, no.
I'm not, I didn't mean to give you that impression.
I don't think it should be free, but like you said, they're already taxing it.
So why tax it even more?
Well, they're not directly taxing it.
The impact, the effect on you here is a tax increase because the more businesses have to pay to hire labor, to hire employees, the fewer employees they can hire, the higher the price they have to charge for whatever product or service they offer.
And you believe that Obama is not doing anything to help the little guy, and he's propping up the big guy left and right.
And this is not what you thought he was going to do.
And truthfully, Obama is destroying the private sector.
He's taking, I know it looks to you, this is what's fascinating about your call to me.
You see him bailing out Wall Street, and you think, if those banks could have failed, let them fail.
I mean, in the old days, if they ran out of business, they'd go out of business.
If the car companies would have gone out of business, they should have gone out of business.
Now, theoretically, I agree with you.
This whole bailout business got started last fall.
It was a trick.
It was a ruse.
We were all told that the whole United States financial system would collapse in 24 to 36 hours if we didn't do the TARP bailout, for example.
But Obama has taken the opportunity of these events to now run these industries and to dictate to them, which he's doing right now in a speech from the East Room about credit.
So you look at it as he's helping big business.
Go talk to some automobile dealers at Chrysler and General Motors who have just been summarily told they're out of business.
Their dealerships have been closed.
Go talk to people on Wall Street who Obama has urged his Acorn people to go protest at their homes because they got bonuses that were entitled to them contractually.
You know, these people are going to have their compensation capped.
What Obama's actually doing is wresting control.
He's depleting.
Let me put it to you this way.
You've got two sectors.
You have the private sector where you work and your company and the stores you operate or go to, the gasoline station, all these things.
You've got the government sector, which is called public sector.
The private sector is where we've always had economic growth.
What Obama's doing is depleting resources in the private sector by taking them over.
He is restricting opportunity for people like you because he's taking over more of these businesses and running them into the ground at the same time.
Okay.
But I'm still fascinated.
You think he's helping prop up the big guys?
What did you expect by this time?
We're six months in, basically, close to it.
What did you expect changes in your life to be because Obama was elected president?
I didn't, I didn't really expect there to be too many changes, but maybe a few more than what there were.
Like what?
Like what?
I heard over off the top of my head.
To me, everybody's done more bickering about him getting into office.
And in my eyes, I don't think he's hardly done anything.
You know, to me, he's wasting American tax dollars.
You know, GM and Chrysler said, oh, we're going to go into bankruptcy if we don't get help.
Well, they give them help and they give them all the billions of dollars.
And what happened?
They still went into bankruptcy.
Exactly right.
Gold star, you are exactly right.
So, what does this tell you?
What's the lesson learned?
Vote the way I want to vote.
Well, yeah, of course, he got coerced by his family.
No, but to vote.
But the lesson here is, okay, we have General Motors and Chrysler in trouble.
The government says we're going to bail them out.
We're going to send them billions and billions and billions of dollars.
Didn't work, did it, Jeremy?
As you just pointed out, it didn't work.
The lesson is government, presidents, congressmen, senators cannot save a business.
They cannot.
In some occasions, they can.
Reagan successfully bailed out Harley Davidson.
But it generally doesn't happen.
And so all that money is down the drain.
And what they should have done in the first place, file Chapter 11 has been done, except in this case, the bankruptcy filings were dictated and handled by President Obama so that he now owns the companies.
He and the unions own these companies now, Jeremy.
And the dealers, the private sector guys, the young entrepreneurs that went into business, in some cases, family dealerships for 90 years.
And they were successful even last year have just had their business taken away from them by Obama.
He is killing everybody.
He's harming everybody.
I mean, politically and economically.
He's not just not helping guys like you.
He is destroying opportunity for everybody in the private sector, including guys like you.
And when they start taxing your health care benefits, you're going to have less take-home pay.
And they're figuring that you want health care so much that it's so important to you that you will go along with this.
How often do you get sick?
Have you had a catastrophic illness in your life?
No.
When do you use your health insurance?
Very rarely.
Very rarely.
You're 33 years old.
You very rarely use it.
That's not to say I won't ever use it.
What if you could just buy, what if you could just buy a policy, a health insurance policy that would handle expenses in case you had a catastrophic emergency or accident?
But you don't need health care insurance for prescriptions, health care insurance for a standard checkup.
Let me give you this analogy.
I read this the other day.
It's a good point.
Health care insurance for prescriptions, health care insurance for doctors, healthcare insurance for just a standard checkup, healthcare insurance for a sore throat is like requiring automobile insurance for an oil change or automobile insurance to rotate your tires.
Nobody would even think of asking for insurance for that.
Auto insurance is for accidents.
When you have high costs, whether you're at fault or not, that you can't pay on your own.
That's what the insurance for, that's what it ought to be in healthcare.
And if it were, it would be a lot cheaper if you had the opportunity.
But that opportunity doesn't exist because the government has been involved in healthcare for so long that they now run it via the Medicare program.
They're in charge of costs.
They're in charge of price.
They've got everybody scared to death that one little sickness is going to wipe them out for life.
And it's not true.
So they've manufactured a crisis that doesn't exist.
You very rarely use it.
Yet, look how worried you are about it.
Yeah.
You know, I want it to be there when I need it.
But, you know, and like you said, he's going to be, he taxed it, and then it's going to cost my employer more money to cover us, you know, and then that's less jobs that can be created because he's not going to be able to hire any more people, you know, when he needs them.
Exactly right.
And this, then, there's a there's a vicious cycle here, Jeremy.
When that happens, then we have more unemployment, and we have the need for more unemployment compensation.
We have the need for more food stamps, and the government becomes in charge of more and more people's daily existence, which is a crying shame.
But Obama loves this, Jeremy.
Obama and Rahm Emanuel and Axel Rod, these people running this show in the White House, love this kind of chaos.
The more unemployment, the more anger, the more angst, the more fear, the greater opportunity they have to go before the cameras every day and say, We got a new crisis, only government can fix it, and people will willingly give up control of their lives because people will trade their liberty for security.
Now, you are capable.
I don't know what you earn, I don't know where you work.
All I know is this, because it's true for everybody, 99 out of 100 people.
You are capable of being far more than you are right now.
We all are.
We all have more in us than we know.
We're all better at something than we know.
But everybody gets so tied up here in all these crises that are created every day.
We all hear our economy is going to hell, and more and more people are unemployed, and more and more people are this, and the notions are going to rise, and the earth is going to end, and we've got to do cap and trade, and we've got to start driving little cars, and people are in a constant panic.
And instead of focusing on positives, they're running around in fear, fear of what's going to happen next.
And Obama is using that, Jeremy, to get you and people like you to give up more of your liberty in exchange for him ostensibly fixing what it is that's causing your fear.
In the process, your fear just grows exponentially because nothing gets solved, because you're turning it over to people who aren't solving it, as you've already observed five months in.
Nothing's getting solved, Jeremy.
Nothing's getting fixed.
It's all getting worse.
And the guy at the top responsible for it is none other than President Obama.
So he has this ability to make people think he's on top of things, he's fixing it, everything's going right.
Now we're at 9.4% unemployment after this massive stimulus bill that was supposed to help people like you, and it isn't working.
I like the fact that you're upset with Obama and it's not what you thought you were going to get, but don't think that he's propping up big business people at your expense.
Your attitude about that ought to be two things: he is harming everybody.
He is employing or wants to employ policies that will cause economic hardship and damage to everybody.
The second thing is, the more you focus on what you're going to get from somebody else, the more miserable you're going to be.
Even in these economic times, you have the ability to earn more than you're making now.
You have the ability to be independent and not worry about these health insurance costs from your company.
It's there.
There's a number out there with your name on it.
Whatever you think is big money, it's there.
This is the United States of America.
You can go get it right now.
What we all fear is that Barack Obama's destroying that.
He's destroying people's incentive.
He's destroying people's desire and motivation.
He's creating more and more people who expect him to do something for them.
And in five months, everybody realizes everything he's tried to do for you, as you've noticed, isn't happening.
So wake up, look inward, tell yourself you're better than you thought you were, and get busy.
This is the United States of America.
You still have, for a while, plenty of liberty and freedom to pursue happiness as you define it.
You don't have to be dominated by fear.
You don't have to be dominated by negativity.
It's there for you.
But Obama is not the route by which you will get it.
Jeremy, I know you're still out there and all the rest of you.
The way to look at this, Barack Obama is not helping the big guy.
Barack Obama is not helping the little guy.
Barack Obama is expanding government at everybody's expense.
Nobody is benefiting here.
No, except his buddies, the labor unions.
Not even the gay community, which is big donors to him are happy.
But his labor union buddies, you'll find them somewhere in the foundation of everything he wants to do.
Save the auto companies, healthcare, healthcare.
You've got a huge union component in this.
Cap and trade, again, unions and trial lawyers.
This credit business, unions, unions are everywhere in everything this guy wants to do.
That's the only group of people that benefit.
And in that case, it's only the union leaders.
He's not helping the big guy.
He's not helping the little guy.
He is growing government, and that's hurting the big guy, little by because he is depleting the capital in the private sector whereby every little guy and big guy become even bigger.
Tell Bob and Houston to hang on.
I don't have enough time to get him now.
But there's a story in the Dallas Morning News today.
Dealers facing tight supply of SUVs and trucks.
If you got your eye on a new SUV, don't blink.
It might be gone.
Big vehicles like the Ford Expedition of Chevy Tahoe in tight supply because of drastic production cuts.
The Automakers imposed last year as sales began to plummet.
And the gas price went down.
Which tells me, you know, I bought a new suburban last week.
In fact, I've bought two SUVs in the past two weeks.
I guess a lot of people are doing what I did.
A lot of people are figuring go get it while they can.
That's the mentality that's been created.
Get it before Barack Obama makes it unavailable.
Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB network, a little mix-minus problem there.
That's why I paused.
As soon as I turned on my microphone, I stopped hearing the bump music.
And it took a while for the compressor to suck it back up there.
I am not hearing the five-second ear splitting tone either.
Bob in Houston, nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Thank you for waving.
Thank you very much, Rush.
It's a pleasure to get to talk to you.
Your previous session just capsulized everything I wanted to say to you.
And I know that you don't like to take too much enamored words from people, but you are truly a national treasure.
And what you did with that guy was amazing.
You opened it up and just clarified everything.
I always thought of myself as kind of a smart thinking type of person and went through banking in New York City and came back down here to Texas and worked here as a consultant.
And I always thought I was the best.
Then I got fired and I saw your billboard and said Russia's right.
And I started listening to you in 2005.
And it's a pleasure just to be able to talk to you.
Wow, thank you.
You've only been with us for four years then, essentially.
Yeah, basically.
I mean, I got out of work, and it was right before my 65th birthday, so I didn't get my pension.
But I already had investment, so I'm okay.
But I felt angry or whatever, but you brought me out of all of this and got me going.
And even though I'm still not employed, I've written a book and I've gotten into all these things, and I'm really a different person now than I was before.
Well, that's fabulous.
Great to hear that.
And thank you for your comments on my conversation with Jeremy.
That's why his call was a goldmine.
I mean, regardless of what he thinks Obama's doing, helping or hurting somebody, he's not helping anybody.
The big guy, little guy, are all getting hurt here.
It's the government that's being helped.
Government's growing.
But people still have time to make their mark in life.
We don't have to depend on government for everything we get.
That's a crying shame of people that do that.
Everything's a crisis.
Everything has to be done yesterday.
And I just don't understand why it has to be done yesterday.
We need to critically think about these things.
Well, I'll tell you, look, this stuff would not succeed as well as it does were it not for, and look, I know this is a common complaint, but in this case, and this is not even a discussion of bias, in this question, the crisis mentality that exists in this country daily would not exist were it not for the media.
I just cited the story on carrots.
Every day, it's something.
Every day, there's something going to kill us.
Even something as extreme as a couple billion years from now, we have a story last week, Earth might collide with Mercury.
We've got global warming.
The planet's being destroyed.
We have polar bears being killed.
Little kids are scared deadly.
You can blame Al Gore for that.
But if the media were not lapdog, if the media were not, and the media benefits from crisis, the media benefits from ongoing angst just as much as Obama does because it keeps people tuned in.
Therefore, any source for the media that gives them facts or any kind of report that says things are going to hell in a handbasket is getting worse.
This guy that might kill you, that did kill somebody, it just keeps people worked up into a constant frenzy.
And it's bigger than they can deal with.
And they get so caught up in it.
I mean, how many people do you know that actually think the car they drive might kill a polar bear?
There are a lot of them.
And they're bombarded with this every day.
And of course, you take an individual who thinks that the car they drive is going to irredeemably, irreversibly damage the environment.
We're all going to die.
An individual in that situation, and nothing he can do but buy the right kind of car.
But even that, he knows is not going to do it.
So here comes a slake snake oil salesman like Obama who says he can fix everything.
And for 50 years, people have been told to believe that government is the automatic fixer of everything, and they invest in that.
Despite everyday evidence of government failure after failure after failure after failure, there's not enough critical thinking education going on in schools today at all levels.
There is indoctrination.
The founding documents are not taught.
People are not being inspired to rise above themselves.
People are being told they're not that good.
They're not that smart.
That everything out there is going to cheat them anyway.
They're either going to be discriminated by a racist, bigoted society, or big business is going to treat them unfairly, or some storm is going to come along and wipe out their house.
It's something, or a multiple number of things each and every day.
And so people have not been, you have to ask yourself, why are some people able to expose themselves to that and resist it and ignore it and go on and live their lives, pursue happiness, using the liberty that we were all created with, and other people exposed to that stuff buy every syllable of it they hear.
And it's those people who are exploited by politicians who claim to have their best interests at heart.
But these people being exploited are in the process of having their lives destroyed.
And if not destroyed, their life potential is being cut in half.
The people they could be, they will never be because nobody's ever told them they could be.
And instead, they're bombarded each and every day with evidence about why they'll never be any better than they are.
And when people are depressed about their lot in life, everybody who thinks that way finds it much easier to blame somebody else for it than themselves.
So all it takes is a Barack Obama to come along and say, this bank did that to you, that dealership did that to you, this auto company did that to you, big oil did that to you, and then you say, fine, there's no way I can succeed.
It's not fair anymore.
Government's against me.
Big business is against me and government's for me.
The government never does anything for you.
I'll tell you how bad it's gotten.
We laugh about this.
Do you people realize how absolutely breathtakingly depressing it is when an American citizen goes to a McDonald's, orders chicken McNuggets, and told that they're out, and calls 911 thinking they're calling the government?
Do you realize how pitiful that is?
Do you realize how pathetic it is?
Do you realize what that represents?
It does not necessarily represent stupidity or ignorance on the part of the poor citizen.
It represents what that citizen's been exposed to, how that citizen's been raised, what that citizen has been taught.
And that's what we're doing.
And the people doing that, the people that are in the process of destroying human potential every day in this country, I'm sad to say, the Democrat Party, the American left, and the liberals, and President Obama and his administration.
While everybody thinks that President Obama is about salvation and redemption and about change and hope, you've got to start asking yourself today, folks, how's that change and hope working for you?
Jeremy finally figured out the hope and change isn't, there isn't any hope and there isn't any change.
Except in his mind, the change is worse.
He feels he got hornswoggled into voting for Obama by his family.
And he's right.
As an American citizen and as someone who has just had more success than I ever dreamed of and live a life my parents would not comprehend.
My parents would not believe it.
My experiences in context are such that it's a crying shame for me to look at all the wasted human potential in this country.
It's understandable that we would have wasted human potential in totalitarian regimes like Zimbabwe or Cuba or the old Soviet Union or in China, but not here.
Not here.
human potential and people rising above themselves, people pursuing excellence without a whole lot of obstacles in their way and shackles attached to them.
It's what built this country.
And anybody with a brain knows it.
Even the people who are trying to build this country in a different way.
The truth is, the Obamaites are not trying to build the country.
They're trying to take it over.
And to do that, they're trying to build and grow government.
Not because they think it's going to improve your life.
They're not interested in that.
They're interested in controlling your life for the sake of it.
You can start talking about why all you want, but one big reason why is they've got contempt for you.
After 50 years of telling you you're worthless, you are.
You don't get as much done as you could.
They look out at you and they see cities where you live falling apart.
They say this or that.
They don't blame themselves for the policies that led to that.
They blame you.
And they say, see, these people need us.
And they see an opportunity to go to these people and say, we can fix your problem.
Well, let me ask you something.
Go talk to any of the 93%, 92% of the black population that votes for Obama and ask them what the Democrat Party has done for him.
Substantively, it's zero.
They're still complaining about the same things they've been complaining about since before the Civil Rights Act.
They're complaining about discrimination, complaining about racism.
They have evolved businesses like Reverend Jackson or Reverend Sharpton for leaders to make millions of dollars trading off imagined racism and keeping people at war with each other over race and now gender and now over sexual orientation.
Yet they vote Democrat every ticket.
Why?
Because they have been told that all the obstacles in their way are because of Republicans, because the Republicans are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, conservatives.
Yet it's the people they're voting for on the promise these people are going to fix what's wrong.
They never get it fixed.
Yet you go talk to them why they keep hanging.
They keep waiting for the big fix.
They keep waiting for everything to change.
They keep waiting for these promises to be fulfilled.
That's how the Democrat Party's destroyed spirit.
The American left, the Democrat Party, liberalism in general, has destroyed way too much can-do spirit in this country.
We're not the great country we used to be.
We're still the greatest, but we're not the greatest we used to be because too many of our citizens have checked out.
They're sitting around waiting.
For whatever reason, they feel entitled to this or that, free health care, free of this, free that, because they've been told they can't get it on their own.
The deck is stacked against them.
Yet they look out and they drive around their neighborhoods in their towns and they see other people not in their economic circumstances.
They see people doing quite well.
And rather than look at that and say, hey, I could do it too, how did that guy get what he?
That's not fair.
And so he's susceptible to policies that come along to punish the guy that's got more than they do.
And so that's how liberalism promises happiness, making everybody miserable.
It breaks my heart.
It just breaks my heart, the opportunity human beings born as Americans have, as opposed to being born anywhere else in this world.
When I hear people talk about how rotten they have it, how destitute they are, how unfair and unfortunate, I just want to smack them to the moon and say, go with me to Afghanistan.
Go with me to Zimbabwe.
Go with me to practically anywhere in Africa.
Go with me to the Middle East.
Go with me to Cuba.
But see, nobody in their lives talks to them this way.
Everybody excuses failure.
Everybody excuses half-assed behavior.
Not everybody, but enough people do to make people comfortable with it.
This just leads to more and more resentment.
And the more of this kind of resentment and angst and chaos, you got guys like Obama and whoever.
Clinton was the same way.
Hillary, they run in the same way, just use it, take advantage of it to amass even greater power for themselves.
Not for the improvement of anything or anybody.
That's what they say they want to do, but it never happens.
It's never worked.
Authoritarian control, central planning never worked, improving the lives of citizens, only the leaders.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
I was right again.
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Livonia, Michigan.
Ken, hello, sir.
You're next to the EIB network.
Yeah, Rush.
I was just calling the comment about how Obama is kind of dropping the ball when it comes to what's going on in Iran right now.
I used to work with a gentleman.
He was born and raised in Iran.
And he, to this day, has family and friends over there.
And he's always been telling me about how the overwhelming majority of the people over there, they reject the Muslim religion.
They reject their government.
They would welcome freedom.
And they would endorse a revolution, but they would need America's help in order to succeed.
And for Obama not to do anything to encourage these people is a shame.
It's worse than a shame.
It is not in the tradition of American presidents.
Your friend in Iran has what your story pretty much confirms everything that I have read by one of those prominent Iranian scholars, Michael Ladin.
I think he's at AEI now, American Enterprise Institute, but he might have moved, but we'll find out where he is and let you know.
This has been something for four years, maybe even longer.
Ladin's been writing about urging the United States to, in turn, urge the people in Iran, the population who do want to overthrow this Islamic regime.
And he's not talking about doing it militarily and so forth.
But this whole Iranian situation with President Obama, just compare the way he's dealing with Iran with the way he dealt and is dealing with Israel, our ally, or the way he's dealing with Hamas, our enemy, and the enemy of one of our allies, Israel.
And he said yesterday, it's not productive given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling.
We have to know what this means, given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations.
What history?
Is he talking about the coup when we put the shah in there in 1953 that he apologized for?
Is that what he means?
Is he so handcuffed to defend liberty and those who seek it because of what happened 65 years ago?
What about our hostage crisis?
You know, Iran's not blameless here.
Is Obama handcuffed because of the hostage crisis in 1979?
What's holding Obama back from standing up for freedom?
Standing up for freedom is meddling?
Does this mean we're not going to meddle in their nuclear program as well?
This statement that Obama gave, it's not productive given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling.
That was written.
That was carefully considered.
It has to be understood.
What was he talking about?
What is this history?
What is it?
If Iran is so screwed up that Obama can't speak to them like a balanced adult, then why the hell does he insist that they have nuclear technology and that no one should disturb their nuke program?
If they're that crazy, if they're that big a powder keg, they're this unstable that you can't meddle or you can't even speak, then why is Obama going to go meet with them?
Why is Obama going to meet with Hamas?
Why does Obama want Israel to give a green light to a country run by Hamas, Iran's puppet?
The question does not contain itself just to Obama and the way he's dealing with Iran.
How is he dealing with our friends?
How's he dealing with the Brits?
How's he dealing with our allies?
But you're right.
He is violating that wrong word.
He is failing to continue the tradition of every president in this country's history, standing up for liberty and freedom around the world.
We can't meddle.
Yes.
We'll be back.
Iran's accusing us of meddling anyway, folks.
So what the hell?
And no, I do not have the new iPhone 3GS.
You got one?
How'd you get it?
In fact, mine's being delivered and it hadn't even been shipped yet.
Mine's not even going to get here on time.
Damn it.
I don't have mine.
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