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Dec. 10, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 10, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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All right, we're gonna start off here with some polling news, ladies and gentlemen.
It's not looking good for President Obama.
I tell you, another Democrat, another blue dog Democrat has announced he's not seeking re-election.
There is a there is a genuine uh panic.
You you wouldn't know about it if all you did is pay attention to the uh state control media, but there is a genuine panic out there uh in the Democrat Party.
They know exactly what they're doing to themselves.
It's assisted suicide.
They are practicing assisted suicide, and we are going to help them.
Pull it off for the second straight week, according to Rasmussen reports.
Just 30 percent of U.S. voters say the country is headed in the right direction.
Just 30 percent.
The generic ballot, Republican versus Democrat, plus twelve, maybe plus ten.
It is incredible.
The uh liberal versus independent versus conservative ballot or or ideological alignment, 40 percent conservative, 36 percent independent, 20 percent liberal.
The independents are leaving the Democrat Party and Obama in droves.
The majority of voters, sixty-five percent continue to believe the nation is heading down the wrong track.
And uh the finding uh this finding has remained fairly consistent for months.
Now, this is from uh Jim Garrity at uh the campaign spot blog at National Review Online.
Rasmussen puts Pat Toomey ahead in Pennsylvania by four.
Whether his opponent is Arlan Spector or Joe Seastack, the uh polster puts Spectre ahead by 13 in the Democrat primary.
Spectre 44 favorable, 50 unfavorable.
Pat Toomey, 51 favorable, unfavorable is 29, and Joe C stack uh 36 to 38.
Now, this next is big, and you probably haven't heard about it, which is why you listen to this program because I will tell you about it.
Republican state legislators are 33 for 50 since November 2008 in special elections.
The shift to the right goes well beyond the federal level of government.
There was a special election Tuesday of this week in Kentucky for a state Senate seat.
A state Senate seat.
Republican state representative Jimmy Higdon won.
Uh in in in a in the in a three-to-one Democrat district.
A three and and the Democrat uh I'm told spent two million dollars on the campaign to buy a state Senate seat, get elected to a state senate seat in a special election.
Now, Jimmy Higdon's special election victory is the 33rd win for Republicans in state legislative special elections across the country since November 2008, out of about 50.
So it was a it uh three to one Democrat advantage in this particular district.
And a Republican won it.
I tell you, there's a uh Wall Street Journal has uh has a story on this uh today, detailing it a little bit more than I have for you here, but it's it's this is this is happening uh all over the country.
I mean, there's a there there's a gen genuine disgust and disapproval for the Democrat Party right now from uh from Obama on down.
Now the Democrats still love Obama.
Don't no misunderstand.
I mean, he's still a huge hero to the Democrats.
But when it comes to independence, and even some of the Republicans have voted for him, he's lost him and continues to lose them in droves and from public policy polling.
For the second month in a row now, we find Barack Obama's national approval rating at 49%, 47% disapprove.
So you got three polls now of Obama below 50% approval.
You got Marist, Quinniphy Act, oh, for Gallup, and now public policy polling.
Support for Obama on health care has hit another new law.
Just 39% of voters now expressing approval of Obama's health care plans.
52% oppose.
And public policy polling, and I'm sure they won't mind me mentioning this because we deal with the truth here, they're a bunch of liberals.
The bunch of liberal Democrats.
This is the group I've told you about them before.
This is the group that said that uh many Democrats across the country are begging them don't don't don't show the results of the polling you got going on in our state.
States that doesn't look good.
Don't publish them.
Ninety percent of respondents who said they were opposed to Obama's plan said it was because it involved the government too much in health care.
Just six percent said their opposition was because it didn't create enough government involvement.
I'm going to spend some time on this health care business again today because there are two aspects of the health care bill that need to be hammered.
They are the core of the health care bill.
$500 billion in Medicare cuts, even now while they're talking about expanding Medicare down to age 55.
Uh and I've got a great piece here that is going to sum up where we are on this and what is wrong with this.
This is the best one of the best pieces I've read in terms of taking the complex and making it understandable, synthesizing uh a bunch of gobbledygook, making it understandable for anybody who reads this.
That's that's coming up.
The second core element is the 400 billion dollars in tax increases.
Those are the two things.
Those are the two things that are will not come out of the bill.
Uh the amendment process the Republicans are are going through right now is designed to expose elements of the health care bill and and show and and and also it's designed to uh uh identify the Democrats who are most likely to not vote for this thing.
That is the strategy behind the continually offering amendments.
And uh it's interesting, Lieberman is not one of the people it is looked upon we can count on because yesterday Reed, as you know, announced this great new plan where they had got rid of the public option.
That's the only thing Lieberman objected to.
Lieberman did not want the public option.
There, but we're gonna end up having a public option.
But what Reed did was give Lieberman a fig leaf to hide behind.
Because the the spin is there's no public option.
And all throughout the news media today, stories, oh no, the Democrats have had to give up the one thing that really mattered.
They had to give up the public option, and they haven't given it up.
They're just calling it something else.
They are just going to rearrange how we all get to the public option.
It's all based on destroying the private sector insurance industry and leaving no choice, no alternative but the government to then step in.
But with the uh the template being, the template being that the public options gone, Lieberman can now get back in gear on the side of the uh of the Democrats.
The uh the two Democrats that are that are that are uh uh showing themselves to have problems here that with that they may not vote for the final billard are uh Jim Webb in Virginia and Ben Nelson.
So it's uh and and Reed is not close to his 60 votes, no matter what the spin that you read or hear or see is, he's not close to the 60 votes and is in fact asked McConnell if he would agree to the Senate shutting down this weekend.
Once a weekend off.
Now, remember Harry Reid said just yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, 14,000 people lose their health care every day.
We don't have time to waste.
And remember Senator Turban talked about when Obama came up to see him Sunday.
He praised him.
They're working hard on weekends.
That's very, very, very challenging job.
They care so much about us that they work on the weekends.
So Reed, after all that, asks for this weekend off to attend a fundraiser in Louisiana.
Uh where, by the way, Mary Landrew just happens to be the senator from one of the two.
So, and it's uh a little over a thousand dollars a plate at this fundraiser.
That's why Dingy Harry wants the weekend off.
Now, back to public policy polling.
Perhaps, get this.
Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama's declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as president to George W. Bush.
Forty-four percent say they'd rather have his predecessor in another year.
Most Americans will wish they had George W. Bush back.
Particularly after more and more people hear Obama's speech today, which we have in fact we've put together a montage.
He mentioned the word I more than 30 times in this speech, and we've got a sample of what that sounded like.
Fifty percent of voters now say they prefer having Obama over over uh George W. Bush.
Just 50 percent.
We're not even a year into this disaster.
Uh this is uh this is, as they say here at public policy polling, the greatest measure of Obama's declining support.
Given the horrendous approval ratings that Bush showed during his final term, that's somewhat of a surprise and uh an indication that voters are increasingly placing the blame on Obama for the country's difficulties instead of giving him space because of the tough situation he inherited.
I'll tell you something else is not helping him.
Every time he goes out there and whines and moans about what his predecessor did, and how flawed it was, how hard it was, it was how bad it was, it was worse than we ever knew when we got here.
That doesn't sit well with people.
The uh closeness in the Obama Bush numbers also has implications for the 2010 elections.
Using the Bush card may not be particularly effective for Democrats anymore, which is good news generally for Republicans, and especially ones like Rob Portman running for office and have close ties to the former president Portman in uh in Ohio.
Uh finally 20% of voters, 20% of voters, 20%, including 35% of Republicans, support impeaching Obama for his actions so far.
One-fifth of voters after just a year.
And this public policy polling validates the Gallup poll on uh uh on presidential approval.
And then there's this.
Before we go to the break here, this is this is getting hilariously tiresome.
From the perpetually blind sighted Associated Press, new jobless claims rise more than expected to 474,000.
The tally of newly laid off workers seeking jobless benefits rose more than expected after falling for five straight weeks.
The labor department says initial claims for unemployment insurance rose by 17,000 to a seasonally adjusted 474,000.
That was above analysts' expectations of 460.
Do you realize that every time one of these reports come out, the AP experts are always shocked?
It doesn't matter what what happened.
More or less than expected, they're always shocked.
The AP is perpetually blindsided by this data.
The labor department analyst says claims were partly inflated by a surge following the Thanksgiving holiday week when many state unemployment offices were closed.
Why Why should this have been unexpected?
The article itself says right here.
Labor Department says claims were partly inflated by a surge following the Thanksgiving.
Well, we that's why last week the numbers were down.
There weren't as many days to go file claims.
Thanksgiving week.
Two days out of the five days they were closed.
This week they were open.
So it's a sir.
Why would anybody who can think with any logical progression at all be shocked at this?
Even though the Thanksgiving holiday closings weren't noted when the AP gave its glowing jobs report last week, some of us noted it would cause the next week's numbers to go up.
We are never surprised here at the EIB network.
But anyway, you know, when you boil it all down, who cares?
Unemployment numbers are like Obama's gallop numbers written with a crayon by a six-year-old, as Robert Gibbs said, and they're just as meaningless.
Because the recession's over.
Happy days are here again.
That's in the universe of lies.
That's the uh that's the spin.
Anyway, quick timeout here.
I'm hearing many people say that this was an just a disaster.
That it was a travesty for the uh Nobel Committee to choose President Obama as the recipient for their peace prize.
Actually, you have to know how to look at these things.
The Nobel Committee picked the perfect person for their award.
We should acknowledge and celebrate the Nobel Committee's choice.
I'll explain why when we come back.
Yes, I am totally serious.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, Rushlin bought back, serving humanity simply by showing up.
We should congratulate the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and Barack Obama.
They deserve each other.
The award embodies everything that's wrong with liberalism.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a tribute to false promise.
Liberalism is a black hole in the universe of lies.
And here we have a shooting star in this universe.
Like Barack Obama, he is an ideal recipient, as was Al Gore.
Scam artists receive a sham award.
It's perfect.
Anybody who says that Obama did not deserve, including he tries to act like he didn't deserve it, uh, which I don't believe for a moment.
I think he thinks he's entitled to this every year that he's president.
But regarding anybody who says that he didn't deserve the award is mistaken.
No one deserves this symbol of hoax and chains more than Barack Obama.
To receive this award, just when the fraud known as Climate Gate is on parade in nearby Oslo is poetic justice.
In fact, I think the Nobel Committee, I think one of the reasons they gave the award to Obama is to force him to go to Copenhagen.
Because I think at this stage, he wouldn't really want to show up over there.
Nothing of any significance is going to happen.
They've already announced that.
But he has to go to Oslo to pick up the uh the peace prize, and so he's already there.
So that's I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there was some chicanery at the Nobel crowd just to make sure he goes to Copenhagen.
To lend it whatever credibility he, as a hoaxer, can lend to another hoax.
And I said yesterday, hoax and change.
It's hoax and chains, C-H-A-I-N-S.
That's where we're headed.
But I think it's I think it's poetic justice.
That in the middle of the one of the worst blizzards and snowstorms, free winter, I mean snowstorm Al Gore.
Global warming snowstorm Al Gore is continuing to wreak havoc during the week that Copenhagen forms to discuss global warming.
And here comes Obama to receive the peace prize.
Uh at the same time as this hoax and fraud named Climate Gate is going on, it's poetic justice.
A fraud shows up to accept a fraud award to attend a fraud meeting.
The bitterly frigid temperatures here at home makes it all feel better.
The stars are in perfect alignment in the universe of lies.
Don't fight it, folks.
Enjoy the view.
At least it's all out in the open for those who are not blind to the obvious.
Here's Obama, Sunbite number 11, a montage of how many times he said the word I. I received this honor and yet I because I am, I cannot deny it.
I am, I'm a responsible.
And so I come.
I do not bring what I do know, I make I am living, I know there's nothing weak.
I cannot.
I face the world.
I raised this point.
I believe, I like any I am convinced, I believe, I understand, but I also note, I believe, that is why I I ordered why I have reaffirmed, I've spoken, I believe, I am committed, and I'm working.
I believe, I know that, but I also know I do not.
I refuse, I refuse to accept the idea that I reject these choices.
Uh for a guy who's trying to say he doesn't deserve the honor.
He sure sounds impressed with himself.
And you notice they had the uh the messianic echo there for his uh speech.
Manheim steamroller in the Christmas bump rotation on the EIB network.
If you love Christmas music, this is a nice twist on it's all instrumental.
Silent night will bring tears to your eyes.
Readings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
William Shachner was a host of the TV show Raw Nerve.
I was the uh debut guest last Sunday night.
I finally watched it.
It was good.
You know, I don't like watching myself on television.
I never have liked seeing myself on TV.
It just it's a quirk.
But it was um it was actually good.
We taped for over an hour, and it was a lot of fun.
Anyway, he was on Jimmy Kimmel's show last night.
And uh Kimmel said, You have uh you have great guests on the show.
Who do you have on this season?
Rush Limbaugh was the first guest.
He was.
And how was he?
He was fantastic.
He was.
And we shoot for about an hour, there's no audience.
You don't have to come in with the story.
I've got nothing.
I don't even have notes.
I just begin the conversation.
So you've got to try things that may or may not work, and if they start to work a little adjust, and nobody knows, and that was the question for Russia.
How do you know?
Well, it was the question.
How do you know?
You so sure?
How do you know?
And uh, did you hear my answer, Don?
Did you see the episode?
It's my job to know.
It's what I do.
I have studied these people inside out, forwards, reverse, it doesn't matter.
I it's it's my job to know.
It is my mission to know, and then to pronounce what I know so as to persuade others to agree with what I know.
I don't fall in the PC trap that every opinion has validity.
It doesn't.
Opinions which are wrong are worthless.
And just because you might be wrong with your opinion and you are a human and you have feelings and shouldn't be insulted.
If you're wrong, you're wrong.
And I'm not afraid to tell anybody they're wrong.
I'm not afraid to tell myself I'm wrong.
Doesn't happen much.
That's why, but uh you you you're never gonna be properly educated unless you can eventually tell yourself you're wrong.
My opinion can't no, it doesn't if it's wrong.
Yes, it does, Myth and Lumbaugh.
My opinion is because I'm valid because I I've I've my I can I think I have a brain in my opinion.
If you're wrong, you're wrong.
Well, how do you know you're so right?
I just do, don't doubt me.
It's my business.
President Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners with humble words, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious prize to reach out for the world that ought to be.
And he said one of his lines in the speech was no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy.
No matter how justified.
To the guy I was just talking to.
My opinion counts, Mr. Lumba, because No, it doesn't if you're wrong.
That kind of guy, the new Castrabi.
Uh, this sounds brilliant, no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy.
But you know, just wars, morally correct just wars end human tragedy.
For reference, check American history.
Not fighting just wars promises human tragedy, folks.
And I would think an African American would appreciate that more than anyone.
This was the first country in the history of the world to go to war with itself to end slavery.
That was a just war.
It did not promise human tragedy.
It sought to end human tragedy as a just war.
And this is what he doesn't won't understand.
The Brits, you know, they they had their own guy, William Wilberforce, who was uh uh committed to ending the slave trade in in uh in Great Britain.
We are trashed forever uh throughout the world as uh because of our our our slavery uh past, a racist past.
We're the only country in the world that's gone to war with itself to end slavery.
And that was a just war which ended human tragedy or sought to end it.
I you would think that Obama is an African American would appreciate that more than anyone.
That has to be one of the lessons of the civil war.
I mean, several other wars make the point, but why get bogged down on the details?
No matter how justified war promises human tragedy.
Just wars ended.
Just wars end human tragedy, and for a country like the United States, that's why wars are fought.
To liberate people.
So let's listen to a little bit more of uh of Obama.
Here he is leading off the speech by pretending he thinks he doesn't deserve it.
I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy that's a good idea.
Listen to that echo decision has generated.
In part this is because I am at the beginning and not the end of my labors on the world stage.
Compared to some of the giants of history who have received this prize, Schweitzer and King, Marshall, and Mandela, Woods.
My accomplishments are slight.
I cannot argue with those who find these men and women, some known, some obscure to all but those they helped, to be far more deserving of this honor than I. Uh, yada yada yada.
Mike, I'm asking the broadcast engineer a question, or maybe Brian, can we do it down here?
Can we add reverb to me like that?
How could we could we add reverb to me?
Do we have the necessary equipment to add reverb at the st at the drop of a hat when I want to, and then take it off when I don't want to?
Not right now.
Well, how about five minutes from now?
Would we have the not five minutes from now?
Well, we're talking days to set this.
I thought every modern broadcast studio had reverb processing.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, I'm saying the word.
Get it done.
And I could sit in here and try to sound like an echo, you know, impersonate one, but I'd rather get reverb.
And he's gonna do it for crying out loud, I'm gonna do it.
Um, now here's this is interesting story.
This from the UK Guardian, Nobel Peace Prize Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs.
Obama's trip to Oslo to pick up his peace prize is in danger of being overshadowed by a row over the cancellation of a series of events normally attended by the prize winner.
Norwegians are incensed over what they view as Obama's shabby response to the prize by cutting short his visit.
The White House has canceled many of the events.
Uh Peace Prize laureates traditionally submit to, including at dinner with the Norwegian uh Norwegian Nobel Committee, a press conference, a TV interview, uh appearances at a children's event promoting peace, a music concert.
Hell, I wouldn't want to go to this crap either, but uh if you win it, I guess you have to, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honor at the Nobel Peace Center.
He also, this is the biggie.
He also turned down a lunch invitation from the King of Norway.
Instead, they settled for a photo up.
Now, I have no doubt why.
Obama let's just look at this again from the uh the philosophical worldview of the Reverend Jeremia Wright in Chicago.
White Europeans are once again trying to take over the world.
So Obama goes over there, and you know, there aren't a whole lot of African Americans, the Nobel Peace Committee.
Aren't a whole lot of African Americans in Denmark, Norway over there.
A lot of blondes, Tiger Woods would know about it.
And the uh, why do I want to hang around here?
You know, I I I get the award that I really do deserve, even though I'm gonna make people think I don't deserve it, I'm gonna escape, and I'm gonna go over to Oslo, put a little appearance, try to get out of there before the disaster hits and get back home.
And the White House is saying, hey, look, you know, at least I came.
At least President Obama came.
Teddy Roosevelt didn't come when he got the peace prize.
There was one other president that got the peace prize that didn't show up.
But they didn't have Boeing 747s.
Uh Teddy Roosevelt likely would have had to ride a horse part of the way to get over there, steamship and so forth.
Uh and I for the other president too was was before they had 747s.
I I don't know if it was Woodrow Will.
Doesn't matter who it was.
The other president did not have uh access to a jet that could get him over there in six hours or eight or whatever the flight time is from wherever Obama went.
Let's see, we have one more uh.
Yeah, two more.
This is this is Obama uh creating a rationale.
The whole speech was to create a rationale for why he deserved the peace prize, even though his country is at war.
You see, for people like Obama, this needs explanation.
He's over there receiving the peace prize, but he feels a little guilty because he just ramped up a war.
30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the commander-in-chief of a military of a nation in the midst of two wars.
One of these wars is winding down.
The other is a conflict that America did not seek.
We are at war.
And I'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land.
Some will kill.
And some will be killed.
And so I come here with an acute sense of the costs of armed conflict, filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace and our effort to replace one with the other.
Yeah.
Fine.
I can't get past the reverb.
I don't know what else he's saying.
I just can't get past the re reverb, other than he's making excuses.
The other president was Woodrow Wilson, 1919.
A Carter got the uh Nobel Peace Prize post-presidency, but the two U.S. presidents that got it in office were Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in 1919, and uh again, the White House will say, hey, at least we showed up.
Maybe we didn't go to all of your events, or at least we showed up.
The other two guys uh didn't.
Those two white guys that were president, they didn't show up.
Yeah, well, they didn't have uh two Boeing 747s to take them and their sycophant press corps along with them.
We'll be back.
All right, we'll lead off in the uh monologue section of the next hour uh the status of where we are on health care, what the GOP strategy is and what the bill actually is boiled down to its essence in uh in an understandable way.
I want to play one more soundbite from Obama accepting a Nobel Peace Prize because this is a first.
This as far as as far as my memory is concerned, it's a first.
Obama grudgingly admits that America has done a little good now and then, despite our mistakes.
Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this the United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.
We have borne this burden not because we seek to impose our will.
We have done so out of enlightened self-interest.
Because we seek a better future for our children and grandchildren, and we believe that their lives will be better if others, children and grandchildren, can live in freedom and prosperity.
Well, that's not that's not the reason we do what we do, but that's that's a liberal's version of it.
But whoever, you know, I wonder whoever put that on the teleprompter is gonna survive the week.
Because he's he does never talk that way.
And that that little passage, why Newt Gingrich is out there praising the speech today.
That little passage right there.
And that's exactly what it's for.
It's designed to get the inside the Bellway Republicans who want to be seen as cooperative, uh bipartisan loving.
It's called crushing the island about crushing the aisle.
Okay, however you want it, Senator.
That's what that speech did.
I know he doesn't believe it.
I know he doesn't.
In fact, he he's he did later in the speech, he said, we've we've done good for many decades.
Decades.
Let's let's flip go ahead and play one more.
I wasn't gonna play one more, but I'm gonna play one more.
This is the uh this is the the war uh uh segment which he puts the Iraq war in the unjust category.
The world rallied around America after the 9-11 attacks and continues to support our efforts in Afghanistan because of the horror of those senseless attacks and the recognized principle of self-defense.
Likewise, the world recognized the need to confront Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait.
A consensus that sent a clear message to all about the cost of aggression.
Furthermore, America, in fact, no nation can insist that others follow the rules of the road if we refuse to follow them ourselves.
For when we don't, our actions appear arbitrary and undercut the legitimacy of future interventions, no matter how justified.
No, they don't.
See, this is this is this is uh you know, apologizing of the world for Iraq and uh heaping blame on Bush.
Let's let's I'll play two more.
Let's just keep going here.
This is this is all this Obama apologizing for what was not torture at uh at Guantanamo Bay.
I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war.
Right.
That is what makes us different from those whom we fight.
Right.
That is a source of our strength.
Uh-huh.
That is why I prohibited torture.
Oh, this is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed.
It's still open.
And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva Conventions.
Terrorists aren't part of it.
We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.
And we honor.
We honor those ideals by upholding them, not when it's easy, but when it is hard.
You know how this is such a crock.
All that means is that we are going to put a straitjacket on ourselves because we're the big, powerful, mean.
It's unfair how big we are, United States.
And so we are going to allow ourselves to be, we're going to put ourselves at a disadvantage just to show, just to show how a good a people we are.
And of course, these numbskulls over there in the audience, yeah, that's the one applause line I've heard.
Is when he basically says, yeah, we gotta hold to our deals.
And uh even even when the bad guys are worse than we are, when the bad guys are really bad, we still can't do whatever the bad guys do because that's that we'll lose who we are.
That's a crock.
The aggressor always sets the rules.
In a world governed by the aggressive use of force, not awards, peace prizes, conferences, global warming, seminars, doctors, nurses, clean water, whatever the hell else.
Tom Brokaw, after hearing this on uh MSNBC today, said uh, okay, this this is the Obama doctrine.
I think this is as close as we've had to an Obama doctrine, probably.
Uh how he sees the world and how he now promises that his administration will fulfill what he believes are the moral and political obligations of a leader in the world.
He talked at some length about human rights.
And when they are denied, there cannot be peace.
That raised in my own mind, obviously the questions of what will be the United States' role in the Congo, where we have genocide underway now and uh horror that it goes beyond imagination in terms of millions of people who've already been killed.
Does it mean that the United States intervenes if another Rwanda arises on the political horizon?
I thought it was a very skillful and very eloquent speech characteristically by this president.
Uh, but did you hear a doctrine in there?
What the hell doctrine's he talking about?
And I thought it was DARFA.
Or DAR4.
I thought it was Dar four that we had to worry about where genocide was going on.
Now all of a sudden Tom Brokaw says it's the Congo.
And are we gonna intercede in the Congo like we didn't intercede in Rwanda?
Or we just gonna let it all happen and apologize later.
The Congo?
What happened to Darfur?
And I still didn't hear an Obama doctrine.
Don't know about you.
Hey, look at it this way.
Government-run health care that mandates Americans pay for abortions.
Combining two wedge issues for an unprecedented assault on liberty.
This is a wedge issue wrapped in a wedge issue.
Combining the failed lessons of collectivism and Roe versus Wade.
That's that is a double whammy here, as I say, a wedge issue wrapped in a wedge issue.
Nothing could be more divisive and destructive to the U.S. than simultaneously imposing government run health care and mandating we pay for all abortions.
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