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Dec. 14, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 14, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
A really big, big, big, big day here at the EIB network, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh behind this.
The Golden EIB microphone broadcast excellence, all yours for the next three hours from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Now, what's going on?
Well, Fox News is here.
Because I'm doing after the program today, I'm sitting down for an extended and as they say in television, wide-ranging interview with Greta Van Sestrin, which will air tonight.
And these TV people have been here for three hours, maybe four hours setting up.
While I have been doing a show prep, they've been in the studio setting up.
So we'll do the interview.
Also on the program, a giant C I told you.
Folks, the Sullivan group.
I don't know how I am not going to go up to 99.7 documented to be almost always.
I mean, this is a huge C I told you so, and it goes back all the way to July 2nd of 2009.
Uh Obama's February, March, April, six months in office.
Six months in office, I predicted it.
And yesterday Obama Obama said what I predicted.
We also have the hugest sweepstakes in the history of 2FxT announced today.
We also have the two winners, first place winners of our YouTube contest for the 30-second commercial for 2FxT.
And we are announcing the two new flavors of two of my tea today.
So it is a huge, huge day.
And it's going to be the fastest three hours in media times two.
Start out, I don't know if you heard about this or not.
You know, my adopted hometown, Sacramento, California.
I moved there in 1984, October of 1984, and was there barely three and a half years, and then moved to New York to start the EIB network.
And those three and a half years in Sacramento were as deep and meaningful as any three-year span in my career.
Those three and a half years, I mean, I felt like I'd lived there 10, 15.
It was the first time.
Broadcasting is a vagabond business.
You move someplace, you get promoted by higher getting hired a bigger city.
And you move a Sacramento was the first place in my broadcast career.
Even though I'd lived in Pittsburgh for four years and Kansas City for 10, uh, Sacramento was the first place I actually became a practicing member of the community.
Actually had roots there.
And there's there's a poll that just came.
I feared this when I when I left when I moved.
And I'm shocked it's taken 23 years for this to become realized.
It depresses me a little bit.
Even though it's Christmas, my favorite time of year, but I just heard that some poll found that Sacramento, my adopted hometown, is the least attractive men in America.
Live there.
The least attractive men in America live in Sacramento.
Well, Rio Linda's part of Sacramento.
It's a whole thing.
I mean, this is one of the problems that's happening in Sacramento.
Real Linda's bringing them down.
I mean, you Realinda has its own city limits.
They have their own sign.
They don't put the population number on it.
What's the question, Mr. Snerdley?
Well, I did.
Well, no, the Uglo business uh actually was birthed in Kansas City, but the the uh the the solidarity with the uglo American actually did take place, like so much of my life had a roots in uh in Sacramento.
And I knew when I left that this likely they were trending ugly when I was there.
Yeah, well, no, the ugly hall of fame is the ugly hall of fame.
Um I'm surprised you knew that there is one.
A broadcast engineer is talking about the ugly hall of fame.
Anyway, this this um scientific study was conducted by a website called Living Social.
And they say they polled the locals in the top 20 media markets in the country.
And only 23% of Sacramento residents consider men in the city to be handsome.
And in addition to that, Sacramento residents report less plastic surgery than other major cities.
So see, that's the bottom line.
When you get right down to it, nobody really cares what men look like.
George Sorrell says a wife.
Girlfriends.
I could give you any number of uh of NIFs.
It really, we've all known this, so it really isn't that big a deal.
It's just the Sullivan group is in Sacramento, too.
Now that's that's, and I I don't want this affecting the auditors of my opinions at the Sullivan Group.
Barbara Boxer, this is from the Hill.com, Senator Barbara Boxer yesterday accused Republicans of pushing legislation that would poison more than 8,000 people to death as a Christmas gift to Americans.
She said they have attached a poison pill literally, colleagues, because it'll kill eighty, one hundred more people, more than would have otherwise been killed from pollution.
She's serious.
This gets reported seriously.
So if you listen to Barbara Boxer and the Democrat Party, Republicans want people to die.
Free market corporations want their customers to die.
Free market corporations kill their customers if you listen to people like Barbara Boxer.
Republicans want dirty air.
Republicans want dirty water.
Republicans want disease spread.
Now I bring this up because most people would look at this and I do too.
You know, I'd laugh at it.
And I would throw, hey, hey, Ms. Boxer, how many people have you killed with your abortion legislation?
How many people have you killed with your stand on abortion since 1973?
How many people, how many deaths, Barbara Boxer, are you personally responsible for?
And then to sit around here and talk about pollution killing 8100 people that Republicans want to kill people.
Now the reason this is important is not for the obvious reason.
These are the kind of people we're told that independent voters will skedaddle to and support.
If our Republican candidates dare get too critical of Barack Obama, and our own GOP political consultants, folks, tell us.
Don't be too critical of Obama.
Don't go after Obama personally.
People feel sorry for Obama.
If you do that, and Mitt Romney said it yesterday, every election, every presidential election is fought over the 20% undecided, the great moderates, the uh the independents, which is all fine and dandy, but if you don't first shore up your base, getting 100% of the 20% isn't gonna help you.
And the Republican Party right now is skating on thin ice because what they're attempting to do is secure a nominee from a Republican presidential run who will not have consolidated the base.
The Republican Party, it looks to me as though they are actually trying to find a nominee or run a candidacy that is solely totally built upon independents and moderates, of which there are 20% of the electorate, we're told.
But this is a I think I think it's always been an error.
I think it's always been a mistake, and I think it's always been a trick.
And it's a trick that has been designed to get us and other Republicans to shut up and to not be critical of Democrats.
And they're already warning us out, you better not go after Reverend Wright.
Don't Reverend Wright, that's irrelevant now.
You don't want to go to big mistake.
Voters don't want to hear about Reverend Wright.
Voters don't want to hear about President Obama's religion.
They want to hear about Newt's and they want to hear about Romney's.
They want to hear about every Republican's religion.
They don't want to hear about Obama's.
This is what we're told.
If you get too strident, if you get too critical of Obama, why these independents, they don't like confrontation.
They don't like bickering.
They want everybody to get along and they want this reach across the aisle stuff.
And if you get too mean to Obama, they're going to send people.
And where are they going to go?
They're going to run to people like Barbara Boxer.
They're going to run to the Democrat Party, which is the most mean-spirited, extreme, lying bunch of people in a political organization of my lifetime.
You know, Barbara Boxer used to be a stockbroker.
She's a former Wall Streeter.
How many people did she kill selling stocks?
She used to be target of the Occupy Wall Street.
Well, she got out of the business before they got in the business.
Barbara Boxer's husband is a slip and fall lawyer who represents injured workers in workers' compensation case, an ambulance chaser.
He's the kind of guy who needs movement.
So he doesn't like rising gas price.
He needs car accidents and so forth.
So maybe she's angling for a whopping class action lawsuit against these murdering polluters, but this is what we're told.
These are the kind of people that the independents are going to run to.
Republican House bill will kill people.
In Wisconsin.
You know, there's a recall effort of the governor, Scott Walker.
And this is from the ABC affiliate in Wisconsin.
The signatures of Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler will be counted on recall petitions targeting Governor Scott Walker as long as they're properly dated and include a Wisconsin address.
The board charged with reviewing the petitions was told Tuesday.
Now I wonder what the political makeup of this board might be.
In a recall effort, a petition signed by Adolf Hitler will be valid.
A signature of Mickey Mouse will be valid.
And this is being allowed.
The name of this board is the government accountability board.
And all they're doing here is passing the book.
These signatures will be accepted unless they are challenged, which is very handy, of course, since it means all the unions and other Democrats have to do is flood the system with so many phony signatures that there's neither the time nor manpower to challenge them all.
They can't get legitimate signatures, so they're going to be allowed to submit signatures of people who are dead or are cartoon characters as legitimate signatories to a recall petition.
And look at this article ends with an ironic line.
The government accountability board has encouraged anyone who witnesses fraud or other problems related to circulating petitions to contact the board, which is working together with the State Department of Justice to refer cases to district attorneys for possible prosecution.
Well, why bother with any of that?
If you're going to allow Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler to sign the petitions, why do you care where there is fraud elsewhere?
And don't forget, they're far too busy protesting all the voter suppression brought about by requiring photo IDs.
Oh, yeah.
There's Eric Holder down in Texas giving a speech trying to hold on to and maintain voter fraud by denying photo ID.
But do you know who requires photo ID in their elections?
Unions.
I have it in this dankist stuff.
The unions require photo ID in their internal elections.
So the Democrats are basically telegraphing it.
They can't win unless there is vote fraud.
They can't win unless there's signature fraud.
Adolf Hitler.
There is no Adolf Hitler in America.
But Adolf Hitler will be a valid signature on a recall petition to Governor Walker in Wisconsin.
Okay, folks, we've set the table.
A lot happening On the program today.
You sit tight, we'll come back, get started with all of it right after this.
My stack of stuff floweth over today.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Do you remember uh ladies and gentlemen, uh the caller from the other day that said she understood the point of why we're doing two if by tea.
Great, great caller.
She called to thank me and and us for doing the uh contest that allowed people, asked people to produce their own 30-second commercial, TV commercial for two if by T. And there were some requirements, not many, but they had some requirements they had to accede to.
And we held out the possibility that if we ever do have a TV advertising campaign, why would we?
Would we have me as spokesman?
But if we ever do, we might use one of these spots.
And so we were flooded with entries.
And we posted some of the entries, not the winners at first.
We posted some of the entries uh at Rush Limbaugh.com and our Facebook page.
And this woman called last week and really nailed it.
She was completely right.
She said that there is uh unbelievable talent in this country, that there is unbelievable talent and ability and ambition, that Americans are creative, determined, clever, witty, if given the chance.
And, you know, a small representation of this show uh is uh is showcased in these 30-second YouTube commercial submissions that we got from Americans uh nationwide.
And this woman called to say, look at what these people produced.
You didn't have any regulations on them, you didn't have no restrictions, just a couple of rules, and they were allowed to use all their freedom, all their ingenuity, all their creativity in producing these videos.
And she was calling to thank us for doing this and demonstrating what the potential of this country still is when you get people who are entrepreneurial or creative, ambitious, and turn them loose.
That's how you revive a stagnant and maribund American economy.
So these submissions float in here, and uh after countless hours of watching the videos, we've selected the first place winners.
And I and then and I say winners plural because we had such a hard time picking one that we chose two first place winners.
Both of these winners are going to receive a flat screen 55-inch Sony LED TV, eight cases of two if by tea.
The commercials are now posted at Rush Limbaugh.com on our Facebook page.
So you can now go there and see the two winners.
And uh that I I can't remember the name of the woman who called uh having a mental block, but boy, she was just right on the money.
It was it was uh she got it.
I mean, she understood exactly why we're doing this, and we're finding out you know what it is to start a small business during uh the period of time of Obamaville and what happens, what we're up against, uh the hoops that we have to jump through.
But these people that submitted these videos, uh she was right.
There's all kinds of creativity in this country just waiting to be turned loose.
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm on I'm gonna get to the big C I told you so in the next segment.
I got a little news, some news stuff that I want to tie up here.
Um the by the way, the vote on on the Boeing contract that just got passed, that required a photo ID.
Yeah, it was Elizabeth in in Western New York.
Elizabeth was her name.
That's that that's exactly who it was.
USA Today has a uh no, take it back.
This is medical news today.
The proportion of American adults who are married today is the lowest ever, according to a new report published by Pew Research.
Not only is marriage becoming progressively avoided, the authors added, also people are waiting longer to get married.
The average age for getting married, now 26 and a half for females, 28.7 years for males.
The researchers who Gathered data from the U.S. Census explained that if trends continue along their recent pattern, it'll be very few years before the percentage of marriage adults is lower than single ones.
The institution of marriage is gradually giving way to cohabitation, single-person households, one parent family, single parenthood, and young adults continuing to stay with their parents for longer periods of time because of the economy.
Now, um this is really not so much about marriage.
It's the result of marriage that this is about.
This is about families.
What this means is look at these numbers.
51% of adults are married today.
52 years ago, the number was 72%.
72% of adults were married 50 years ago.
Today's just 51%.
So we have 21% fewer people married.
What does that mean?
We have 21% less intact mother-father, two-parent families than we had 50 years ago.
And families are kind of like our former government.
Neither's perfect, but they are the best proven method.
I wonder if anybody besides me, L. Rushball will make the connection to the increase in gangs, dropout rates, unemployment, increased dependency on government, to the dramatic decrease in families.
The government is taking over for one of the parents.
Happily so, the Democrat-led government's taking over.
The Democrat-led government is becoming the family.
Three meals at school all year, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
So when summertime comes, well, where are they gonna eat?
You gotta keep the skill the schools open to feed them, creating more dependency on government.
50 years of socialism, feminizism, the American families breaking up.
This explains a lot, folks.
Talent.
Oh, so much talent.
On loan from God.
No, no.
I talked about Obama talking about the end of the war yesterday.
What what what more is left to be said?
Doesn't matter.
No, I didn't see it.
I'm just but I I and I don't need to see it.
All I know was that Obama, when I took credit for it yesterday, when he was all he was doing was following the Bush timeline.
Uh and he's the guy that called the war dumb.
He's the guy that said it was a stupid proposition to go try to establish uh an outpost of democracy in the Middle East.
Here he is taking credit for it.
Did all that yesterday?
I can't, you know, I understand the need sometimes to repeat things because of audience shift, but I covered that one thoroughly.
Folks, how many you remember what happened here yesterday?
Well, a lot of things happened here.
One of the things I did yesterday, I said, if you don't buy any two of by tea.
Yesterday.
Because I said we got a big promotion starting, a big sweepstak starting today.
And who else does that for you?
How many times, in fact, it used to happen with the limbaughter?
Uh, we would uh say in in in September, October of any given year, we would announce uh a new couple of gifts that we were giving away with new subscriptions, and we caught hell from people who had subscribed the previous month, the previous week, the previous day.
And it was a legitimate complaint.
And by the same, I got to think, you know, we we are uh totally devoted to customer service here.
This program is done for the audience, two of my tea is about the audience.
And I knew that this giant kick butt biggest ever sweepstakes was coming today.
And I thought it was only right, only fair, only good business to tell you if you're planning on buying some tea, wait a day.
And you should have seen the facial expressions.
Nobody does this.
Nobody could believe I was doing it.
And we actually had you know some people call our number, our eight six to cancel their orders.
We created a logistic.
Well, I created a logistics problem for some of my own T 2 of by T staff.
But that's that's that's fine.
That's what happens.
What a whole lot.
So you'll find out here in the next hour why.
You'll find out on the next hour why.
What the this is huge, folks.
This is this is huge.
Now, uh, what did you say?
No, no, no.
Nope.
It's all coming in the next hour.
I gotta do this, see, I told you so.
I have got I mean, this has been my stacks of stuff floweth over.
Folks, I can't tell you this has been the most extraordinary month, the most extraordinary week for my accuracy rating.
It is just all coming together.
I I it it's intense, it's undiluted, and this may be one of the biggest ever to go along with global warming.
I w fast and furious, I want to take you back.
This is what I said on July 2nd, 2009.
Obama had been in office barely six months, and at that time I'm still the only guy who has the guts and a gonance to criticize Obama and his policies.
Everybody else in the Republican Party.
Well, uh so there were some other people in the conservative media that were, but it was timid.
I mean, I on January 16th, before he was immaculated, I was the one who said, I hope he fails.
You remember all the hell that that caused.
And in into the first six months of the regime, the stimulus, and everybody was cowed.
Everybody was afraid to be critical, historical first black president, give him the benefit of the doubt.
David Brooks didn't like the crease in his pants.
He'd had dinner with the uh assemblage of conservative columnists led by George Will and Crowdhammer and uh and Larry Cudlow.
He had told John Boehner and the Republican leadership not to listen to me anymore.
That's not how things get done in Washington.
So I was out there leading the charge.
And this is what I said July 2nd, 2009, right here on this program in this very studio.
They're doing everything they can to blame this on Bush to come out and say, you know, it's worse than we thought it was.
Which by the way, I predicted.
They would say that's worse than we thought it was.
And so now Obama's gonna head out there and he's gonna do a speech.
He's gonna talk about the unemployment numbers at two o'clock this afternoon.
What do you think he's gonna say?
He's gonna say it's bad, but I warned you it'd be bad.
I didn't know how bad because we didn't we didn't get the truth about how bad it was for what we inherited.
But just think of how bad it would be if we hadn't acted.
That's what he'll say.
You want to take any bets on this?
He didn't on that occasion quite go that far.
But I just wanted on record that on July 2nd of 2009, my prediction was that at some point in the first term, Obama in explaining why his policies didn't work, would say, well, uh it's worse than we thought it was.
We uh we we we didn't know how bad it was when we were sworn into office.
There were just things that weren't passed on to us.
And and now that our policies are starting to take effect.
See, they can cite this unemployment number, which is bogus, but now that our policies starting to take effect, now we can see the policies are working.
We don't want to change horses in the middle of the stream.
We don't want to vote against me or vote me out, blah, blah.
Here's Obama last night in Seattle.
He's on a television station, a co-anchor is interviewing him.
Her name is Angela Russell.
She said, What do you know now that wish you had uh had known when you first started your presidency?
I wish uh I knew and I wish everybody knew just how deep the crisis was when I was first sworn into office.
I think we understood that it was bad.
We didn't know how bad it was.
I think I could have prepared the American people uh for how bad this was gonna be had we had a sense of that.
That is what he said last night.
I said July 2009, that's what he's going to say.
He has said it.
This is a lie, however.
Barack Obama knows how bad it was.
He has characterized this economy as almost as bad as the Great Depression, has he not?
He knows how bad it's been.
This is news outlets did too.
I mean, It's been portrayed as a horrible rotten economy.
But here he is doing you might be saying, Well, how do you know this stuff three years in advance, Rush?
Because I know liberals.
And they've done this before.
Previously, Clinton did it.
1993.
I didn't know how bad it was.
That's why I can't give you a middle class tax.
I have worked harder.
I never worked harder on anything in my life.
But I got in here and I opened the books and I started looking around.
I said, they did not old man Bush did not convey to me how bad this really was.
I we just we can't do it, folks.
There's no way I can give they do it.
This is what they do.
And I knew that Obama would do it.
They're socialists, they're liberals, they're Marxists, whatever.
They're predictable.
I don't know how I don't go up to 99.7.
It's not possible.
Unless the Sullivan group's been corrupt.
I've been in 99.6 the whole year.
I haven't budged this whole year.
We put together a montage, ladies and gentlemen.
This is and this none one thing is repeated here.
A montage, a review of some of the many times I said that this is what Obama would say.
After the one accepts the oath of office that we will start hearing it's worse than we knew.
We didn't know how bad it really was.
We didn't know how bad it was.
If there's a bumper sticker that could sum up the campaign, it's taking a lot longer than we thought.
We didn't know how bad it was.
Oh, this is much worse than we had told.
Bush didn't tell us how bad it was.
We had no idea it was going to be this bad.
We didn't know how bad it was.
Frankly, it took longer than we thought for our policies to start to have any impact.
Because it was so much worse than we even knew.
We didn't know how bad it was.
You've got to understand how the media is going to portray this.
It was much worse than we knew because of Bush.
We didn't know how bad it was.
What their campaign is going to be, and I told you this when they got into Washington, they discovered it was far worse than they even knew.
We didn't know how bad it was.
We've got this recession that frankly was worse than we thought that was given to us.
We didn't know how bad it was.
I'm going to tell you what it's going to be.
See, it was worse than we knew when Obama was inaugurated.
We didn't know how bad it was.
It's exactly what I told you they were going to do.
You can't change horses midstream.
It was much worse than I thought.
We didn't know how bad it was.
I'll give you an encore.
I wouldn't know I'm going to give you an encore, but I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give you the dates now of each of those statements I made.
The first one was January 16th of 2009.
This is the same date where I said, I hope he fails.
On that date, I also said after the one accepts the oath of office, we'll start hearing it's worse than we knew.
We didn't know how bad it really was.
January 16th.
Before he took office, I predicted this.
The next one was from May 11th of this year.
Then January 29th of 2010, May 12th of this year, January 9th of 2009, June 14th of 2011, June 8th of 2009, October 28th of this year, and December 1st of this year.
So here is the montage again, which covers January 16, 2009 through December 1st of this year.
After the one accepts the oath of office that we'll start hearing it's worse than we knew.
We didn't know how bad it really was.
We didn't know how bad it was.
If there's a bumper sticker that could sum up the campaign, it's taking a lot longer than we thought.
We didn't know how bad it was.
Oh, this is much worse than we had told.
Bush didn't tell us how bad it was.
We had no idea it was going to be this bad.
We didn't know how bad it was.
Frankly, it took longer than we thought for our policies to start to have any impact.
Because it was so much worse than we even knew.
We didn't know how bad it was.
You've got to understand how the media is going to portray this.
It was much worse than we knew because of Bush.
We didn't know how bad it was.
What their campaign is going to be, and I told you this, when they got into Washington, they discovered it was far worse than they even knew.
We didn't know how bad it was.
We've got this recession that frankly was worse than we thought that was given to us.
We didn't know how bad it was.
I'm going to tell you what it's going to be.
See, it was worse than we knew when Obama was inaugurated.
We didn't know how bad it was.
It's exactly what I told you they were going to do.
You can't change horses midstream.
It was much worse than I thought.
We didn't know how bad it was.
That's what it is, folks.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked mummy.
And again, they knew how bad it was.
They've been characterized, they they characterized it as close to the Great Depression as they could because they wanted to celebrate their great recovery.
They tried to make you think this was as bad as it's ever been in your lifetime because their recovery was then going to be celebrated as something magical and miraculous.
How much more could Obama have prepared us?
He tried to scare us to death during his whole campaign.
The media has been trying to scare the American people since 2006.
That we were in a recession.
Now it was February 1993, three weeks after his inauguration.
Bill Clinton addressed the nation about his much promised middle class tax cut.
He said, I've worked harder on this than anything I have ever done in my life.
And why while I said that I'd like to lower your taxes, I just can't.
And he then introduced a tax increase on the middle class, which was described by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan as the largest tax increase in history of public finance in the United States or anywhere else in the world.
And Clinton said, I really wanted to give you that middle class tax cut.
And I know I promised it.
But when I got in here and I rolled up my sleeves, I found out it was so much worse than it had led me to believe.
Incoming presidents always meet with the outgoing president.
They put it on TV when they arrive and talk it.
It's at these meetings that the current president gives the incoming president a lay of the land.
And that meeting is what Obama and Clinton, without referring to it specifically, want you to remember.
Yeah, I walked in there with Bush and uh he gave me the lay of land, told me what's up because security problems around the world and uh uh status of the economy, what's been done, things that maybe I didn't know just because I didn't have clearance, but now I do, and uh but they didn't tell me everything.
They lied.
They didn't tell me how bad the economy was.
That's what Obama said.
One more time, Barack Obama last night in Seattle.
I wish uh I knew and I wish everybody knew just how deep the crisis was when I was first sworn in office.
I think we understood that it was bad.
We didn't know how bad it was.
I think I could have prepared the American people uh for how bad this was gonna be had we had a sense of that.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
You know, folks, there's another parallel uh for Obama's I didn't know how bad it was, and that's a Democrat Party's 180 on the Iraq invasion.
I don't people have forgotten this, but in 2002, the polling data was all for the uh Iraq war.
Post-9-11, and the Democrats had voted no on an authorization of the use of force.
They demanded a revote.
They demanded to be able to vote again.
They wanted to be on record as being for an invasion into Iraq.
And we have sound bites, of course, from Clinton in the 90s talking about the necessity of doing this.
And so now they're out there saying Bush lied to them about that.
Bush lied about the weapons of mass destruction, lied about how bad it was, lied about how important it was.
There's Obama saying Bush didn't tell him the truth about how bad the economy was.
This is how they do it.
They rely on the fact that nobody's gonna remember anything except that I do.
Okay, this afternoon, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Obama addressed the troops.
Listen to this.
Nine years ago, American troops were preparing to deploy to the Persian Gulf and the possibility that they would be sent to war.
Many of you were in grade school.
I was a state senator.
Many of the leaders now governing Iraq, including the prime minister.
We're living in exile.
I was a state senator.
Here we go.
Meaning I didn't have anything to do with it.
Now he's praising the troops.
This is October 2nd, 2002.
Listen to this.
I don't oppose war in all circumstances.
And when I look out over this crowd today, I know there is no shortage of patriots or patriotism.
What I do oppose is a dumb war.
He opposes topic the Iraq War.
Dumb war.
He opposed it.
And uh here he is this afternoon again.
We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people.
We're building a new partnership between our nations.
And we are ending a war, not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home.
This is an extraordinary achievement.
Nearly nine years in the making.
Now he's praising the accomplishment.
I thought you said it was a dumb war, Barry.
I thought I thought it was a dumb war.
I thought it was an immoral war.
I thought it was an unjust war, Barry.
If I may call you that.
And all of a sudden he's taking credit for it.
I don't have time to play it now, but there's a final soundbite in his speech from Fort Bragg today where he talks about why America is so special.
Because of what we did bringing democracy to the Middle East.
Something he routinely criticized, sabotaged, tried to undermine, and constantly opposed, and called it a dumb war.
Now, taking credit for it.
Back in a second.
Of course, ladies and gentlemen, Obama knew how bad the economy was, and we knew how bad he was, and we knew how bad he is.
And now it's time to elect somebody who knows what he's doing.
Obama's experiment with socialism has failed.
It's time for a change.
Be back before you know it.
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