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Sept. 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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How are you?
Great to have you, folks.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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What can you say about a party that boos God and cheers Bill Clinton?
What can you say about a party that cheers Bill Clinton and embraces Bill Clinton and anchors?
Well, never mind.
Start fantasizing about Clinton doing it with Martians and booze God.
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So why?
Why all of a sudden our media lowering expectation?
Well, I thought last night you listened to some in the media, this election's over because of Clinton's speech last night.
And yet the politico just told you the story.
Hadn't given a good speech, Obama hasn't in four years.
And in his life, he's given two.
That's what they say.
Two good speeches.
And New York Times, he's bloodless on the campaign trail.
There's a simple reason why this is happening.
And I it's been months ago that I first advanced the theorem.
And it's quite simply this.
If they think in mass, collectively on the left, the Democratic Party, if they think Obama's gonna lose, then it's time to throw him overboard and not liberalism.
Obama will be the reason they lose, not liberalism, not policy, not ideology.
Media is getting bored.
There is no excitement commensurate with what happened in 2008 in Denver.
Moving this convention indoors, this a huge deal, folks.
This is a huge deal.
All of these lofty, gigantic, great expectations brought down to a shattering reality.
The guy can't fill the stadium anymore.
And so we can't blame liberalism for that, and we can't blame his policies.
We can't let that stand, so it's gotta be his fault.
And that's what they'll do.
If this continues, if they if if they start becoming seriously concerned that he's in big big trouble, then you're gonna see more of this.
Obama bloodless.
Not a great communicator anymore, doesn't give good speeches.
Now one week ago in Tampa, before Mitt Romney got out there, made his speech.
We had all of these testimonials from people who he had helped.
That nobody knew about.
All the charitable acts, just the the good neighbor acts that Mitt Romney had done for people.
We had the parents of the 14-year-old with cancer.
Any number of examples.
And I'm just wondering, are we gonna have any of that tonight with Obama?
We're gonna see people come out and tell us about all the good deeds Obama has done for them.
I don't think so.
In fact, James Rosen, Fox News.
The story right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers headline, Obama campaign tonight is not about magic.
They're already lowering expectations on Obama's speech.
James Rosen writes, President Obama will trade the magic of his 2008 campaign rhetoric.
For a pragmatic pitch for how he plans to restore economic security to America in his nomination speech tonight.
Tonight is not about magic.
It's about being pragmatic.
It's about the future, and Obama official told Fox News hours before the president was to speak.
That's what they're telling everybody in the media.
That's not about magic.
It's not about the magic.
It's about pragmatism.
Another Broken Promise.
Daily K Daily Mail, UK Daily Mail headline, Heartbreak after teenaged Obama volunteers rewarded with golden ticket to his speech are now uninvited due to space.
This is an aspect of this that you're not going to see covered by local or national American media.
They had a lot of people that were rewarded for doing good works for Obama.
Now there's not room.
Do you know there are 15,000 media?
There are 5,000 delegates.
You got an arena with a capacity of 24,000.
There isn't room for all of these invited guests.
And I doubt very seriously where the American media will find all these people who were promised seats to watch Obama's speech, who are now being told they can't go.
That would ruin things.
Can you imagine U.S. media interviewing people sad, disappointed, or angry that they can't get in after they were invited, waving their golden ticket, and then told they can't go.
So once again, all of these lofty bigger than life expectations.
shrunken down to a hard, cold reality.
They don't have the people to put in the stadium.
Karl Rolfe has a little bit of information at his website.
Polling news and notes.
It's a list of favorability polling numbers.
at the time of their nomination for president.
Rinaldi's Magnus was at 60% at his convention in 1984.
Bush 41 was at 57% for his convention in 1992.
William Jefferson Blythe Clinton was at 56% approval when he was renominated in 1996.
George W. Bush in 2004 was at 54%.
Approval at the time of his nomination.
And Barack Hussein Obama, 49%.
Obama has the lowest popularity slash approval of any recent incumbent at the time of their nomination.
it.
And it all fits.
They can't fill the stadium.
Obama has written checks.
His mouth, his words have written checks that his butt can't cash.
so Except for Chris Matthews.
Who would take a bad check from this guy any day and run with it?
And this row of info, actually, it's from an ABC Washington Post poll.
Those are not Rove numbers.
Those are numbers from the ABC Washington Post.
Which is a devastating poll.
We talked about it yesterday.
It's a the ABC Washington Post poll women Obama is losing ground with women.
Huge.
Back to the audio sound bites here.
Ladies and gentlemen, Howard Dean this morning, CBS this morning.
He was on with Charlie Rose.
Who said this is a close election.
So what is it that worries you the most, Howard?
I'm not that worried.
You think it's over?
Well, no, I don't think it's over.
You always should worry.
Otherwise, you're not any good at your job if you're a political.
So what is it?
You worry about some unexpected thing.
Hey, Howard, you don't need to wait for something unexpected.
There's a lot of stuff staring in the face that ought to make you worried.
Gloria Borger, last night CNN's coverage, a Democrat National Convention.
Here's the thing about Bill Clinton and what he does so well, which hardly anybody does anymore, is he tells a story.
He turned the last four years into a compelling story.
To put it all in the context of the big story.
He said about President Obama, he said he had it worse than I did.
When I came in, we had economic troubles, but he had it worse.
And you can't expect him to turn this around as quickly as I did.
You've got to have some patience.
See, that is exactly what I was talking about.
She doesn't get it.
Bill Clinton said I had it worse.
When I came in, we had economic trouble, but Obama's had it worse.
You can't expect him to turn it around like I did.
Everybody knows Clinton turned it around.
Everybody knows Obama hasn't.
So Clinton says, hey, he had a little worse than I did.
But I turned it around, and this guy hasn't.
It'd be unfair for you to think that.
It'd be unfair for you to think that'd be unfair to say it.
I know you're thinking it.
I wish you weren't thinking it.
Uh, we all know it's true.
Uh I don't care how bad he's had it, I had it bad too.
He may have had a little bit worse than I did, but I turned it around.
And he didn't.
You all wish I was president, not him, right?
That's the message.
I know this guy, folks.
Don't dispute me, don't doubt me on this.
That's what he was.
He knows that's what those people are thinking.
Here's Koki Roberts on ABC's coverage of the Democrat National Convention.
This was after Sandra Flux speech.
I have never seen a Democratic convention like this.
These people, I am looking at them all.
They are just sitting in their chairs, listening to the speakers.
They are wrapped.
They are clapping for people who's absolutely never heard of and getting very excited right now.
Sandra fuck the young woman who uh got in trouble with talking about contraception of Georgetown Law School.
She's now talking and listen to them.
They are just incredibly fired up.
When the president, the former president comes out, they it is going to be a moment like no homage you're saying.
Let me tell you what really happened.
When that speech was finished, that's when they went up to the round table at Fox, and that's when Joe Trippie really wished he wasn't there to have to comment.
Joe Trippy says, Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
It's a little flat tonight compared to last night.
But you know, you can't win every night.
Brett, uh granted it's a little flat.
Coke people were sitting there wrapped, they were bored.
And a lot of them are saying, how the hell does this happen at 10 o'clock?
I thought this was supposed to happen at 9 o'clock.
What happened here?
This wasn't supposed to be on primetime TV.
That's what a lot of the Democrats were saying.
Don't doubt me.
Okay.
A brief time out.
No, I've not forgotten the Michael Lewis stuff.
It's another Woodward's book is out.
Michael Lewis has a story in Vanity Fair coming up in October.
The Woodward book is not good for Obama.
It's nobody knows who's making decisions in the White House.
That's the theme.
Nobody knows where to go to get a decision made.
Obama asks everybody in the room what they think at the moment of uh of truth when it comes time for decisions.
He can't pull a trigger on anything.
He votes present, folks.
And he gave himself the incomplete, and Woodward pretty much documents it's deserved.
Woodward.
Hoover, Alabama.
Hello, Bob.
I'm glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Thanks, Rosh.
I appreciate it.
Um listen, this thing you mentioned earlier about Clinton uh saved everything.
I think there's a byproduct here.
People aren't thinking about the Democrats have this disdain for the American people.
The mistrust for the American people, the lack of confidence in the American people.
That's true.
It wasn't Bill Clinton that saved the economy.
Of course, it was Republican Congress and the American people.
We went to work.
We create the jobs.
We're the ones that do it.
But the Democrats on national television, luckily nobody was watching, just prove again that they think they're the they're the big dog.
And the American people just tag along like little puppies.
They want people sitting around waiting for government to do for They don't want people being self-reliant.
Absolutely.
But it but the byproduct here is it proves a disdain for all of us out here.
That they don't think we have the capability.
And let us build his country, we could do it.
But the Democrats don't think that way.
Well, they don't want they don't want you doing that.
There's no need for them if you're able to do that.
And I'll tell you something else, Bob.
If you're able to demonstrate to a moron that he has more control over his destiny than the government does, then the moron's no longer a moron and thus no longer needs government.
That's what they can't afford.
They they can't afford self-reliant people.
It's bye-bye Democrat liberalism if more and more people become self-reliant.
Well, that that's the problem.
And I think I think the American people listening to you and then other conservatives and listening to Ryan.
You know, it's easy.
I mean, all the that Romy and Ryan have to say is what I just said.
Not that I that I'm uh that smart, but I I agree with you about something else, Rush.
Uh I'm so tired of thinking that these politicians are not as smart as me, and I'm not that smart.
They aren't.
They aren't.
They live in a cloistered and closed world.
Uh and they they they hobnob with each other and they they begin to believe all the pap that circulates within their bubble, but they think they're uh indispensable.
I think you can't get along without them.
And they want you thinking that way.
You know, I we we sit here and and and we say that that presidents don't create jobs, the private sector, and I'm we mean that, folks, in a really strict and literal way.
There's not one president that that creates a job.
But on the other hand, a case could be made that Bill Clinton caused this recession, or was at the beginning of the cause of it.
Who was it that insisted the banks make these loans to people that couldn't ever pay them back?
That was Bill Clinton and Janet Reno.
Oh, and Andrew Cuomo, who's now the governor of New York, he was the HUD secretary.
They were all in on this, and it was all oriented on this notion that it's unfair that some Americans don't have houses.
Well, and their people do.
It's an example of an unfair country.
And so, to make the country fair, they went to the people they thought were responsible, the banks.
The banks were not lending to these poor people.
The banks were not lending to people of color because the banks are racist, sexist pigs.
And so Clinton and the Democrats and the feel-good liberals went to the banks.
You gonna start lending money to him.
You're gonna give them mortgages.
Or we're gonna investigate you.
We got this law called the Community Reinvestment Act, and you have to make loans available to them.
The bank said, well, they can't pay them back.
That's not our problem.
So I've been through this now.
The banks loan the money and then figure out creative ways to not take the loss, but rather pass it along to some other sucker.
And they kept cultivating new groups of suckers to buy these worthless mortgages until there weren't any more suckers left.
And then it blew up.
And that's how we had the subprime mortgage crisis.
You could say that Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, who actually was the forefront of this.
Bill Clinton got this thing started with the best of intentions.
Oh, yes.
Poor people in homes.
And I might add that George W. Bush thought it was a good idea, too.
It's a good idea to say so.
Let's put it that way.
Yeah, it'd be great if more Americans had the American dream and owned their own home.
So hello, subprime mortgage crisis.
Presidents and Obama's proving it.
They can prolong economic melee.
Jimmy Carter proved it.
They can prolong it.
They can punish achievement with taxes, regulations.
Democrats do that.
But as far as creating jobs, Obama wouldn't know how.
Roads, bridges, shovel ready.
doesn't have the slightest idea how a business is created, invested in, grown.
Okay, let me get into the time runs out here.
I want to get into the Bob Woodruff and Michael Lewis stuff that I that I mentioned in the uh uh first hour of the busy broadcast.
Bob Woodward has a uh a new book out with detailed access to Obama.
And what's been reported so far has been the uh the near breathtaking success that might have happened was the verge of happening on a debt deal last summer, but that Boehner finally backed out because after they had a deal, Obama came back for more tax increases.
Boehner said, I've had it to hell with it, and walked away, wouldn't even answer Obama's phone calls.
So that's what's been reported.
But there's more.
Here's a quote from Woodward.
With the president taking charge, though, Obama found that he had little history with members of Congress to draw on.
His administration's early decision to forego bipartisanship for the sake of speed around the stimulus bill was encapsulated by his then chief of staff, Ram Emanuel.
Quote, we have the votes, F them.
He's quoted in the book.
We got the votes on the stimulus.
Screw these guys.
They didn't even have, fact, after the 2010 midterms, they were so shocked.
And they're still reeling from this, by the way.
After the 2010 midterms, they were so shocked.
They didn't even have Boehner's number.
They didn't know how to get hold of him.
That's how out of the picture the first two years the Republicans were.
It was screw them.
They weren't consulted.
The Democrats, and they Republicans couldn't stop the Democrats on anything.
Healthcare, you name it, stimulus.
They didn't have the votes to stop anything.
And that's why all this talk about the mess that we're in being caused by Republicans for the first two years of the three and a half we've had Obama, he had total political control of Washington.
The Republicans could not stop him.
None of this, therefore, can be blamed on the Republicans.
They weren't even factors.
Obama didn't even have their phone numbers for crying out loud.
Obama's relationship from Woodward's book.
Obama's relationship with Democrats wasn't always much better, though.
Woodward recounts an episode early in the Obama presidency when then Speaker Pelosi and Dingy Harry were hammering out the final details of the stimulus bill.
Obama didn't even do that.
He made them write that.
He told them what he wanted, did owe health care.
Obama phoned in to Pelosi and Reed when they were having a meeting to deliver a high-minded message, Woodward writes.
This is not a compliment.
What he means is that Obama called him and started big timing them.
He went on so long that Pelosi reached over and pressed the mute button on her phone so that she and Dingy Harry could keep working without Obama hearing that they weren't paying attention to him.
This is in Bob Woodward's book.
Here's another.
Boehner told Woodward they never had their act together over there.
The president, I think, was ill-served by his team.
Nobody in charge.
No process.
I just don't know how the place works to this day.
I can't tell you how the place works.
There's no process for making a decision in this White House.
There's nobody in charge over there.
That's Boehner.
In the uh in the book.
Now let's move on to Michael Lewis.
And don't forget, again, 2010 midterms.
They were so outcome.
They and they were so detached in Republicans, they didn't even know how to get hold of Boehner.
Didn't even have his number.
Vanity Fair profile of President Obama.
For months we've known that Michael Lewis was working on one, then it was going to be something special.
The access he was being granted was unprecedented.
Finally, this is from Business Insiders, by the way.
Finally today we obtained a copy of Vanity Fair's October issue to read Lewis's moving piece called Obama's Way.
Lewis describes a man whose brain is wired to subvert the establishment And to think outside normal parameters.
This deeply affects the way he makes decisions.
Take his decision to invade Libya, for example.
Lewis had the privilege of watching the president decide to send troops into battle.
Michael Lewis describes a scene in which the normal cast of characters had been assembled either physically or virtually in the situation room in March of last year.
He had Susan Rice, the UN ambassador, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, joint chiefs were in there.
They had set out to decide if the U.S. would intervene in Libya.
Then dictator Moamar Qaddafi was racing across the desert in jeeps and tanks, heading for the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, a city of 1.2 million.
He had threatened to cleanse the country house by house, naturally.
As Obama's advisors described in the meeting, that meant a massacre before the president goes into a meeting.
He is told who will be there and what they will contribute.
He's told who's going to be in the meeting.
His meeting.
It's a roadmap.
In this particular meeting, after each attendee shared something about Libya, Obama would decide if he would do nothing or, as European leaders had proposed, create a no-fly zone over the country.
Yeah.
According to Michael Lewis, who wrote the piece, and as is Obama's practice when decisions are truly difficult.
He went off the roadmap and asked, would a no fly zone do anything to stop the scenario we just heard?
After it became clear that it would not Obama said, I want to hear from some other folks in the room.
And so Obama changed the question.
It became should we act in Libya?
The details would come later.
The president heard from his speech writer who would have to explain the decision.
Now stop and think, folks.
Here we're in a meeting at the highest levels to decide what to do about Libya, and we go to the speechwriter who is going to have to explain Obama's decision.
Yet we've got quotes in the Woodward book.
Obama say he's smarter than his speech.
No, wait, wait, wait, not the Woodward book.
I just read it early this week, maybe today.
Last night.
Anyway, it's Obama, he's smarter than his speech writers.
He's smarter than his political director.
He's smarter.
He's quoted as saying these things.
My point is you bring the speech writer in after you've decided what you're going to do, and you tell the speechwriter what you're going to say.
You don't have the speechwriter in there giving an opinion on invading Libya because he's going to have to explain it.
Speechwriter is not president.
So he heard from his speechwriter, an advisor to Joe Biden, who had been in attendance at the meeting and served under Clinton, and both said they felt the intervention was necessary.
So the speechwriter and an advisor to Biden tell Obama, yeah, I think we gotta go.
Lewis writes, his desire to hear from junior people is a warm personality trait as much as a cool tactic of a piece with his desire to play golf with White House cooks rather than with CEOs, and basketball with people who treat him as just another player on the court.
To stay home and read a book rather than go to a White House cocktail.
What kind of BS is this?
Anyway, I think that I don't know what Lewis thinks he's done here, but the people who quote from this piece obviously think that they have uncovered this great bit of news about Obama.
He's such a wonderful guy, talks to the underlings and would rather play golf with the White House cooks than CEOs.
A road map for decision?
He doesn't know he's told who's gonna be in the meeting and what they will contribute.
He doesn't determine who's gonna be in the meeting.
A no fly zone?
A no fly zone?
That's only half a loaf.
Well, at this point, this guy can't make a decision.
It's the same thing Bahner says in the Woodward book.
a speechwriter giving an opinion on whether or not we go to war.
Okay.
Uh Let's like take your car to the car wash and ask that guy if you need a lube job.
What will European leaders now think of the guy who was going to call their bluffs?
European leaders and I leave.
They're going to read this piece, and they're going to think, my God, all we got to do is get to the speechwriter.
Or some lackey for Biden.
It was Jody Cantor.
That devastating piece Sunday in the New York Times called the Obama's, where Obama said he could do everything better than anyone else.
The name of Woodward's book is The Price Politics.
That New York Times piece, Sunday we talked about this, where talked about how people were not impressed with Obama at all.
And how they were embarrassed, how cocky he was.
Remember we discussed this yesterday or the day before.
And now wait, wait a wait till uh Dmitry Medvedev and Putin get hold of this.
Remember Obama at some G, whatever it was, G Wiz meeting said to Medvedev, just get to give me some uh some uh latitude here, flexibility here.
After the election, I'm gonna have a lot more flexibility.
Which meant look, just tell Vlad to cool it.
I'll be able to get rid of all the nukes after I'm re-elected or something.
Little help with Israel, too.
I bet yeah.
So now here's Putin.
Nobody ever leaves the KGB.
If Putin and these people are gonna read this, the Iranians are gonna read this.
Mahmood Ahmedinizad is gonna say the speech right there.
This beats right to me, whether or not or not, they come after other looks.
We um we are in deep doo-doo here, folks.
is not good.
*music*
Hey, here's another passage from the Bob Woodward book, The Price of Politics.
Woodward portrays a president who remained a supreme believer in his own powers of persuasion, even as he faltered in efforts to uh coax congressional leaders in both parties toward a compromise.
John Boehner told Woodward that at one point when Boehner voiced concern about passing the deal they were working on.
The president reached out, touched his forearm, said, John, I've got great confidence in my ability to sway the American people.
Boehner quotes the president as having said that to him.
John, I got great confidence in my ability to sway the American people.
This guy obviously suffers from high self-esteem.
It's a gift, Harry.
I've got a gift.
I just have a gift.
I really speak well in front of large crowds and open air stadiums.
Oh, by the way, speaking of that, uh uh, where was uh what uh well?
What do I do with it?
Ah, Carolina Journal, change of venue casts Paul on final DNC celebration.
There is a little reporting on how upset people are to get shut out tonight.
It's not just the UK Daily Mail.
Take Candace Brown.
Brown traveled to Charlotte from her Woodbridge, Virginia home in hopes of seeing Obama's speech.
I'm bummed, it's just disappointing.
Said she volunteered a lot of time, not just for Obama, but for other Democrats.
She's bummed and she's ticked off.
By the way, I've got a say this tomorrow.
This is from the Washington Post.
Generation Obama grows up and moves on.
This is about four young people who drank the Kool-Aid in in uh 2008 who have no interest in Obama anymore.
Washington Post.
Four young people who drank the Kool-Aid, who now they've moved on.
Life has intervened, is uh one of the quotes.
Yeah, they grew up.
Life interviewed.
They had to go earn a living, they had to try anyway.
Obama, who's he?
He's got an email from guy says he's tired of my sniffing and slurping.
Am I slurping?
I mean, I sniffing now and then, but I try to hit the off button.
Anyway, pragmatic speech tonight, folks.
No magic.
That's what they say.
See you tomorrow.
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