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Jan. 25, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 25, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, here I go again.
I really hate to say it, folks.
I've been debating for the last 90 seconds, because that's about all the free time I've had here, whether to say it or not.
And it's just, it's unfortunate, but this State of the Union stuff tonight is going to be a real test of the Republicans' resolve and competence.
You know, it just is.
And they're already, and I do not want to be critical.
You people know that.
I really don't want to be critical, but I'm looking.
Here's Obama setting up one of his themes tonight is civility and moving to the center.
And we've all got along.
And his guys are already out trashing Paul Ryan, who hadn't said anything yet.
He's going to be delivering the Republican response.
I think it's quite telling.
Michelle Bachman's doing the Tea Party response.
We've got two responses going on to this State of the Union show tonight.
But I mean, Eric Cantor has invited Pelosi to sit next to him at this thing tonight.
Somebody told me, well, yeah, just about a half hour ago I heard this.
What?
Yeah, really.
And in the meantime, here we go.
Salon.com, the Republicans' war against the poor and the sick.
The new Republican plan to cut the deficit, hit poverty-stricken Americans where it will hurt the most.
This is the new civility.
So here's Obama getting all this credit for saying that we need to get along and get rid of all this horrible talk and so forth.
And he cows the Republicans.
They're just reacting to what he and the media are saying.
Where'd this idea sitting together come from?
Whose idea was it?
No, I don't know if it was, was it Coburn's?
Whoever it was, it's all a reaction to Tucson, is it not?
Whoever's idea, I don't really care if it was a Republican or Democrat idea.
It might have been Coburn's.
It might have been Coburn who was the first Republican to agree to sit next to these Democrats.
Whatever it is, it's a trick.
And it's all reactionary.
All right, that's right.
It was Mark Udall, who's a Democrat.
And so now everybody's reacting to sitting next to the Democrats, reacting to Tucson, reacting to Obama, reacting to the Democrats.
And in the meantime, the GOP's war against the poor and the sick.
This is a story by Andrew Leonard, salot.com, salon.com.
Republicans want the poor to die on the street like they used to.
Listen to this last paragraph.
I am sure.
Well, of course it's absurd and it's insane, but it's quite telling here.
I mean, you can laugh at it all you want.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
But in the new era of civility, you know, they're trying to destroy.
I got a note from my brother last night.
What did Palin do?
I said, what do you mean, what did Palin do?
Well, from there saying she's forever shot herself in the foot now.
I don't know what she did.
I'm not aware of anything.
As far as I'm concerned, I mean, the real concern here is people committing from a side.
Fromicide is the conservative movement killing itself.
So I dig into this and I found out that the left's latest charge at Sarah Palin, that video, after Tucson, she had the flag on the wrong side.
It should have been on her right side, not her left side.
So it shows that she's A, an idiot, B, unpatriotic.
C, puts herself ahead of the Constitution in the country.
So we got all of these calls for civility, which we've nailed here as just intimidation tactics to get Republicans to shut up is working.
Now, listen to this last paragraph from this Leonard guy at salon.com.
I'm sure there are plenty of conservatives who want to get rid of Medicaid altogether.
If poor people can't pay for nursing home care, then let them die in the street like they used to.
Who is it that's proposed death panels?
Obama, whose health care plan is going to let people die, is going to tell people, by the way, we're not going to let you live.
We're not going to treat you.
But forget all that.
This is happening in the new era of civility.
So we've got this guy, Steve Cohen, and the media acts somewhat amused.
And you have Sheriff Dipstick, and they act amused, and then they're laudatory.
Sheriff Dipstick and Steve Cohen, they're not backing down.
They're not backing.
When's the last time I was ever applauded for my courage and sticking to my guns?
It doesn't happen.
In this new era, so Obama gets to occupy this lofty new perch of Mr. Civil while his minions are out there doing what he is essentially instructing them to do.
If poor people can't pay for nursing home care, let them die on the street like they used to.
The Tea Party version of government apparently just doesn't believe in helping people who can't help themselves.
For the modern Republican Party, it's far, far more important to ensure that those who will never need Medicaid get their big fat tax cuts, adding up to $700 billion over the next.
I don't even know who Andrew Leonard is, and I don't care.
Probably some new hot-to-trot graduate from journalism school somewhere.
But the GOP's war against the poor and the sick.
And what are the Republicans doing?
Once again, trying to prove that that's not who they are.
I don't know, folks.
Hi, how are you?
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No, no, no, no.
Sternly, I'm not trying to be negative.
I'm, what, can't say stick to my guns?
Yeah, I guess not.
Yeah, guess I should do a John King of CNN and apologize for that.
We're trying here.
You know, I did mention moments ago that when's the last time I got any credit for sticking to my guns?
Yep.
That's a no-no.
At any rate, here's the deal.
Many, many Republicans were pushed and dragged to the conservative agenda by the Tea Party and other conservatives via that landslide election in November.
But let's not fool ourselves here, folks.
Two years ago, right after the regime was emaculated, two years ago, right after Obama was inaugurated, they were willing to sell out.
The year of Reagan was over.
Gosh, Obama had won.
He's the first African-American president.
We can't be critical.
We've got to sit here and we've got to eat our lunch.
I mean, it was handed to us.
We got to eat it.
We're going to be in the wilderness for a few years.
That was the attitude.
And they ended up being saved by a movement not of their making, the Tea Party.
Average American citizens who were looking at what the regime was doing refused to put up with it.
They saw their future, their kids' future, their grandchildren's future being spent away.
Nothing to inherit.
And it was not something they were going to put up with.
So here we got the State of the Union show tonight and seeing signs of some of the old habits.
And I hope this is all head fake stuff that is indeed faking me out.
But I see this desire to appear to want to get along with Obama, to want to get along with the Democrats.
And this is Tucson.
All of this is Tucson.
And all of the rhetoric from Sheriff Dipstick and the rest of the media.
And I guarantee you that there are some people, Republicans in Washington, who are just do anything that they could not be tied to anything that might have had anything to do with that incident.
Which, of course, that agenda, that whole narrative is being written by the Democrats and the president.
And we got this folly going on here that Obama's in the midst of remaking himself.
Yeah, yeah, that's right, becoming a centrist, moving to the center, and nothing could be further from the truth.
Reporters echo White House talking points about Obama moving to the center.
Look, folks, this is not, it's just not a good sign.
It isn't fatal.
Don't misunderstand here, but it just is an illustration of what one is.
People, who are going to be the nominee until you hell?
I don't know.
Things can happen overnight in politics to totally upset and change the game, i.e., Tucson.
A totally, by the way, non-political event that has been converted into a political event that somehow the Republicans need to go out of their way to say, hey, hey, hey, well, it wasn't us and approve it.
We'll sit next to you guys, the State of the Union, and yeah, we'll go along with this Obama moving to the center stuff.
But what's the symbolism of sitting together?
Oh, this is a trick been dreamed up by the Democrats to make sure that the vast Republican majority is not seen, you know, during the relative standing ovations or lack thereof.
So the optics will not show this massive Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
So what is it symbolic of?
Well, it's symbolic of the GOP playing along.
The symbolic of the Republicans not wanting to show distinctions, not wanting to draw on the differences.
I mean, look, Republicans don't need to be constant here at dagger points and all that, but they certainly don't have to become part of a Broadway play, in effect, written and directed by Obama and supporters, all for some show.
We haven't even gotten to what is said to be the substance of this speech tonight.
But I'll get to the subject based on what's been leaked.
Obama's going to call for a budget freeze tonight?
Well, a budget freeze.
The guy who has spent us in the never-never land calling for a budget freeze, isn't that nice?
The Republicans have been calling for reducing spending back to 2008 levels.
He wants to freeze everything in place now after he's got it and get credit for discipline, for fiscal discipline.
And he's going to get it because the media is wired that way.
Oh, look at Obama.
He's really willing to now grab this deficit thing by the throat and shake it in it.
This guy is calling for draconian measures, freezing the budget at current levels.
Well, whoopee-doo.
Sorry, folks, that's not the agenda.
The agenda is cutting it.
The agenda is reducing it.
We've called for the spending to be reduced to 2008 levels.
I'm told he's going to call for a ban on earmarks.
Well, I'm sorry, that's hijacking what the Republicans have already done.
Has he ever had an original idea?
By that, I mean something not found in the Communist Manifesto.
Has he?
Has he said that an idea not found in Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals?
One thing I know for sure, all this so-called move to the center, Obama moderating and all of that stuff, he's not going to give any ground on illegal immigration.
He's not going to give any ground on cap and trade.
He's not going to give any ground on Obamacare.
How can a guy who says he wants to freeze spending not also by very definition here have to freeze Obamacare?
Meanwhile, as I said, while all this is going on, the Democrat Party, which Obama leads, is trashing Paul Ryan in advance of his reply to Obama's speech.
And this is what the leftists do.
Obama goes out there, he takes the high road, he pretends to be something he isn't, and the hacks and the thugs smear and attack.
We have a montage.
This is Mediscare 1995 all over again.
They're trying to make Newt Gingrich or Paul Ryan into Newt Gingrich.
This is a montage of what I was just talking about.
We ought to be focusing on Paul Ryan.
The budget that would privatize Social Security.
Paul Ryan, who wants to get rid of Social Security and Medicare.
Paul Ryan is going to exacerbate the problem of money just gushing to the wealthiest of Americans, turning Medicare into a voucher program, cutting Social Security.
Paul Ryan, who advocates increasing the Social Security retirement age and virtually dismantling the program, he's radical.
They're going to go to people who live on fixed incomes.
They want to take health care away.
We need a real national debate on what Congressman Ryan has been saying.
The vast majority of the people will say it is insane.
What's insane here is that Paul Ryan is simply delivering a response.
They haven't even heard it yet.
And Paul McGullus, we need to be focusing on Paul Ryan.
No, we don't.
We need to be focusing on you guys and Obama and how you are being your usual dishonest selves.
This is a page from a 30-year-old playbook.
Paul Ryan wants to get rid of Social Security and Medicare.
Wants to get rid of Social Security and Medicare.
Tell me, has anybody proposed this?
You look at Paul Ryan, you see this kind of radical.
In the meantime, Chuck Yu Schumer on television this morning, do you expect Chuck Yu that will hear anything from the president on gun control or any of that?
I don't know about gun control.
I can tell you this.
He is going to have a speech that in certain ways is like Ronald Reagan.
It's going to talk about optimism and growth and our future, not this dour, sour, we can't do anything right and America is all messed up completely, which I'm hearing from some of my Republican friends.
Folks, it's Alice in Wonderland time here.
Stood a looking glass.
It's Grace slicking the giant money on MTV.
I can tell you this, he's going to have a speech in certain ways is like Reagan, optimism and growth.
Now, excuse me, Senator Schumer.
Have you ever, ever characterized Ronald Reagan that way before?
Has any Democrat ever characterized Reagan properly that way before?
Obama, they have to, in order now to claim greatness for Obama, they have to say he's going to sound like Reagan.
As I said yesterday, go read Obama's books on Reagan.
He hated Reagan's ideas.
He despised Reagan's ideas.
There is not an ounce of honesty in the Democrat Party or in the leftist movement in this country, not an ounce of it.
Yeah, we need to be folks with Paul Ryan out here.
Paul Ryan got to take away everybody's Medicare Social Security.
Where's my gumbo?
And the Republicans, folks, in line of all this, are going to sit next to these people.
Why?
Just to try to show the world that, no, no, we're not as bad as what they're saying.
Hammer back at Zill Rushball, this is the cutting edge of societal evolution.
And if you're not on it, you are taking up too much space.
Do you know I have a simple way that the Republicans can proceed on such matters in the future?
It's very simple.
What would our voters do?
You know, the old what would Jesus do question that people used to ask?
The WWOVD, what would our voters do?
Would anybody who elected a Republican last November sit next to Pelosi?
Would anybody sit next to Chuck Yu Schumer?
I mean, you know the answer.
Now listen to this.
Just to show you, I mean, this has been in the works for the longest time to try to suck the Republicans into this sitting next to each other thing.
Well, I know what some of you are saying.
Rush, this is not bad.
This is not bad.
This is going to get the independence.
But they got the independence in November.
And you know how they got the independence?
They didn't do anything.
They just shut up.
The independents moved to Republicans because they despised how they were misled by Obama.
The independents moved to the Republican Party because they finally saw the fraud that is Obama.
That is this regime.
That's the Democrat Party.
Now listen to this montage of all kinds of media people and elected officials talking about the State of the Union show tonight.
This is turning out to be like the prom.
Everybody's racing for a date.
It's also being called date night or prom night.
Who are you going to be sitting next to?
Sit with me at the State of the Union.
I'm wearing light blue.
Maybe he'll have a matching tie.
It's prom night on the hill.
It looks like it's prom night.
I don't have a date.
Have you picked a date?
I just asked Kay.
I was waiting too long before the prom to ask for a date.
It does have a prom night feel to it.
Some may think of this as prom night.
Mark Kirk and I are going to sit together.
He's bringing a Coke with two straws.
Not unlike a high school prom.
All of Capitol Hill is aflutter.
Senator Gillibrand and Senator Dunn sitting together.
The prom king and queen.
The couple would be Thun and Gillibrand.
They have one thing in common.
Good hair.
Somebody out there in the Twitterati just tweeted this State of the Union bipartisan seating things, the political equivalent of a combo, looks odd and fools nobody.
Wonder if Eric Cantor will buy Nancy Pelosi a corsage.
What's so bad about this Mithril Lumball?
Are you against the village?
Are you against people getting?
No, no.
I just, you Democrats don't mean any of this.
This is just a show.
It's just, geez.
No, folks, all I'm saying here is that it just appears to me that the Republicans don't know how to handle all this.
I remember one of my observations, if you will, back in 1994 when the Republicans assumed power in the House for the first time in 40 years was they didn't know what it was like to act in the majority.
They didn't know what it was like to have power because they hadn't had it for 40 years.
And I related it to the perpetual dieter.
The overweight guy loses weight, looks in the mirror, but really doesn't believe he's lost the weight.
Every chance he gets to look in the mirror, he looks at it because he doesn't trust it.
Has no experience being thin, just doesn't really believe it.
And he never has been.
So the weight loss, yeah.
You're never confident.
You're always looking for confirmation that what happened happened.
And when you're looking for confirmation, then you say, well, okay, who are you looking to for that confirmation?
In our case, the media, the Democrats?
No, I'm not trying to be negative, but it just, we're reacting to Obama now.
We're reacting to the media.
We're reacting to the political attacks after Tucson.
It's not that I have anything intrinsically against people sitting next to each other, although in this case, I know what it is.
It is a trick, as we all know, to get the Republicans to go along with hiding their majority.
Which Democrat's going to sit next to the new monster, Paul Ryan?
I mean, here's a guy that wants to cut.
I mean, he wants to wipe out Social Security and Medicare.
What Democrats are going to sit next to this monster?
Lest we forget, Nancy Pelosi wouldn't even meet with Eric Cantor back in June.
This is in 2009 from the Hill.
Representative Eric Cantor, I know what some of your pressure.
We're bigger people than they are.
Folks, I get that.
But there's a time to turn the other cheek here.
This isn't it.
Turn the other cheek from a position of strength, not reaction.
This is pure defense.
Defense, the correct pronunciation of the word.
But the Hill had the story back in June of 2009.
Eric Cantor says he's requested to meet privately with Nancy Pelosi this year, but has been repeatedly rebuffed.
In an interview, he said, I've been told that Speaker Pelosi doesn't like to meet with Republicans.
I would say that that's the case in my instance.
I've put in requests to meet with her, have yet to be responded to.
I talked to Michelle Bachman, interview for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
I asked her, have you ever met Pelosi?
Do you ever talk to her?
No, she doesn't talk with Republicans.
Republicans are not even allowed in half the committee meetings the Democrats held when she ran the place.
So, I just want to know which Democrat draws the task of sitting next to the guy who wants to kill Social Security and Medicare?
Who is going to sit next to Paul Ryan, who they say wants to kill old people by cutting Social Security and Medicare?
I mean, here they, they are having, what will we call this?
You have the speech, then you have a rebuttal.
The Democrats used to have the pre-buttle to Bush's State of the Union.
The Republicans are already experiencing a pre-buttle to their rebuttal, which is Ryan.
Now, the other side of this coin is that all of this rhetoric from the Democrats is indicative of the predicament they are in, using the same rhetoric that they used back in 1995.
When the Republicans won the House, if the Democrats got shelect, what's funny is they're using it before the Republicans have even said or done much of anything here, particularly as it relates to the State of the Union.
What did they use back in 1995?
Why did they use it back in 1995?
Because they had their assets, I'm sorry, handed to them just as they did in 2010.
So they're reacting the same way, pulling out the same page and the same playbook.
I mean, this Republicans want to kill Social Security and Medicare.
That goes back, what, 70s?
Even back further than that.
Now, let's go to the forehead.
Paul Magala, this is interesting, too.
Bagala was on Anderson Cooper 9 last night.
And Anderson Cooper said, what do you want to hear from the president, forehead?
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
I want a drinking game where every time he says the word jobs, I get to have a beer.
But every time he says the word competitiveness, I'm going to want to throw up.
I've never seen the country more focused on one need, and that is jobs.
And if he's dancing around either with euphemisms like American competitiveness or in fact ignoring jobs, which I can't imagine, I think that's where he needs to be.
I'm going to talk about the future, and I'm going to talk about jobs.
What is this?
I mean, the forehead's off the reservation here.
The forehead is telling us what he doesn't want to hear from his own president.
And the forehead's allegiances are to the Clintons.
And the forehead here is being a little critical.
I don't want to hear about competitiveness.
I wonder if the forehead wants to hear about investments and civility, because he's going to get a lot of that.
I mean, that's well known by now.
Everybody knows that we're going to be hearing about investments to the point that it will get us sick.
There's a new Gallup poll out today.
When President Obama delivers his State of the Union speech tonight, he will be addressing a nation less satisfied with a variety of aspects of U.S. life than it was in 2008.
American satisfaction with six of seven different economic, moral, or governmental aspects is down significantly compared with Gallup's prior measurement three years ago.
The economy was slowing down, but before the financial crisis hit.
Now, we've been told by the news media, the rest of the Democrat political machinery, that the Great Recession started in the last quarter of 2007.
Now we're told it was just slowing down in 2008.
So they're already being contradictory, although I don't think anybody's going to remember that the media told us the recession started in 2007.
Now, here's the Gallup poll.
And overall quality of life, down five points since 2008.
Influence of organized religion, plus two.
The opportunity for a person to get ahead by working hard, down 13 since Obama was inaugurated, down 13 points.
Our system of government, how well it works, down 11.
The size and power of the federal government, down 10.
The moral and ethical climate, down 9.
The size and influence of major corporations, down 6.
Satisfaction with government, morality, economy, down significantly in two years.
Well, three, if you want to count.
2011 is the third year.
So there's no satisfaction whatsoever.
There's no growing satisfaction with anything whatsoever.
It's all plummeting.
And we're focused here on, I don't believe it, wanting to get along.
Have they cut, has anybody come up with a ribbon?
That's what they need tonight.
It's a ribbon.
You know, the AIDS ribbon is red.
The breast cancer ribbon is pink.
I used to know all these.
They need a ribbon tonight.
Yeah, we've got to come up with the right color and the right cause for dare anybody come up with a ribbon for Tucson.
The deficit awareness ribbon.
Yeah, the dollar bill.
We had our own ribbon, the deficit awareness ribbon, folded into one of those shapes.
Meanwhile, CNN has its own poll on U.S. satisfaction, and theirs are totally different from Gallup.
Hours before Obama delivers a State of the Union show before Congress in a national poll indicates a surge in optimism about the state of the nation.
According to a CNN poll released Friday, number of Americans who think the economy is in good shape is at its highest in over two years.
Well, I don't know how it happened, but I bet you people selling houses would love to find one.
I'll bet you people selling houses would love to find just one person who thinks that the economy is at its highest in over two years.
Look, what's happening to home price?
We're facing perhaps a double dip in home values in the housing market.
A double dip.
And CNN has the audacity to run this.
Why, their polling director says, why, we haven't seen numbers this good since April of 2007.
One likely reason for the change is the public's growing optimism about the economy.
Not in Gallup.
Does it exist?
How do you get such two completely different views of the country?
Simple.
Very, very simple.
Each polling unit gets what it wants to report on a particular day.
All right, a brief timeout, and the program will continue.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, sit tight.
No, I did not know this.
A lot of people are going to think I'm making that up, but I did not know this.
It does happen to me a lot.
It's distressing how often this happens to me.
Moments ago on this program, I said, what about a ribbon for tonight?
Anybody got a ribbon?
I'm totally joking.
What color is it going to be?
Let's come up with a ribbon.
They've got one, folks.
During the commercial break, I received this.
Somebody sent me sending a note here.
It's a Fox News story.
Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, Florida, and Republican Michael McCall, Texas, have asked lawmakers attending the show tonight to wear black and white ribbons in honor of the Arizona shooting.
The letter to their colleagues reads in part, in tribute to the victims of the Arizona tragedy.
We encourage members and everyone attending a State of the Union address Tuesday night to wear a black-white lapel ribbon.
The white ribbon represents hope for a peaceful, nonviolent society.
The black ribbon is in remembrance of all who have died and been wounded as a result of violence.
Wasserman Schultz and McCall said as a Tucson community works to heal and comes together in solidarity.
They believe it would be fitting that members, administration officials, and others wear these ribbons on Tuesday as a symbol of solidarity with the community and the nation.
Is the what far behind?
Sing-along.
I don't think there's going to be a sing-along.
I don't know.
Imagine.
No, not ebony and ivory.
Imagine we are the world, who knows.
Civility ribbon.
This is the civility ribbon, the rhino ribbon.
The rhino ribbon.
Why not blue and red ribbons?
You're going to talk about America.
In other news, Brett Favre says the Packers are going to win it all.
That's bad news for the Packers.
Carol Browner.
I don't know if you've heard this or not, ladies and gentlemen.
The energy czar, not cabinet-level figure, Carol Browner is leaving.
She's out as Obama's climate czar.
It's an AP story, and they're very distressed about this.
President Obama's top advisor on energy.
How is the planet, folks, going to survive this?
Did Browner not take this into account?
Can she be so selfish as to leave with the planet threatened as never before?
The planet in as great a peril as ever.
And she just walks away.
President Obama's top advisor on energy and climate matters stepping down.
The departure of Carol Browner underscores that there will be no major White House push on climate change, given that such efforts have little chance of succeeding in Capitol Hill.
Well, what she was doing had nothing to do with Capitol Hill.
She was a czar.
Czars don't have to deal with the Constitution.
Czars don't have to do anything.
I mean, czars never have to get confirmed.
We don't know what they make.
You know why she was appointed energy czar rather than to the cabinet?
I'll tell you exactly why.
So she would have to avoid having to testify in any confirmation hearings.
She couldn't have gotten confirmed.
She's that radical.
And now she's running for the exit to keep from having to testify before any Republican-controlled House oversight committees.
She's running away from Daryl Issa here.
So what does she have to hide?
She cares more about herself than the planet.
She is running out to protect herself while the planet is in peril as it never has been before.
And this is the regime that promised to be completely transparent, which maybe this qualifies.
This is pretty transparent what she's doing.
Anybody on the phones?
Where do we want to go with the phones?
I want to grab a phone call here in the first hour.
Looks like, oh, Dallas.
John, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here, sir.
All right, make a dead old rush.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, man, I got to say, I've been listening to your show for two years, and it depresses me, man.
I mean, is there anything good that you're not seeing that this Obama administration is doing?
I mean, if you ask me, he's doing an excellent job.
I listen to the left.
I listen to the right.
And my question is, who's telling the truth?
Well, that's up to the individual to listen to both of these networks to determine that.
But I think he just got it all mixed up, man.
We're trying to bring this country together.
Let it be.
And we can at least get there.
Who is this we trying to bring the country together?
We, as in people.
We would like for this country to go forth and not be divided between rich and poor.
I mean, it's ridiculous out here, man.
Well, okay, but who's the we?
For how many people are you speaking?
Millions, man.
You are?
Millions of Americans want us to all get along and have no division between rich and poor.
Yes, man.
I mean, it's hard to see when you're rich.
I mean, but when you're poor, you can see the other side.
Would you name for me the last time that you can recall an America where there were no rich and there were no poor and the last time we all got along?
I'm sorry, you woke up to that again.
Name for me.
How old are you?
50, 45, 30?
I'm 49 years old.
49.
All right, so you've lived enough.
Name for me a time in your life where the country has been unified.
Everybody got along, and there really was no division between rich and poor.
Well, that's a good question.
I haven't followed politics my whole life like a lot of other people.
Since Obama has come into office, people are following politics now.
Since Obama.
Yeah, I wonder why that is.
Why, what is?
Why, since Obama has come into office, are people all of a sudden following politics?
I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why.
It's because a bunch of people who here to now were apolitical have watched the values of their homes plummet, their jobs vanish, their children and grandchildren's future become precarious.
They have seen this president destroy much of what they thought was going to be their future.
That's why they care.
And if anybody wants to come together on anything, it's getting rid of all this and replacing with somebody and something that's going to return this country to one of growth and prosperity and freedom and economic opportunity, all of which are on the wane.
Thank you, and we'll be back.
I don't know about you, folks.
It's really tiresome to be constantly accused of spreading negativity about Obama.
Has anybody forgotten the previous eight years of the Bush regime?
You want to talk about negativity and anti-Americanism?
It was a solid eight years of it from the Democrat Party and about a year and a half of it of Obama himself while he was campaigning.
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