I missed Rush's show on Wednesday, indeed I missed all of Wednesday with yet another migraine, so here's just a quick post on Rush's comments on Obama's speech.
RUSH: Instead of going to El Paso and pushing for amnesty, shouldn't Obama be going to Mississippi and all these other flooded states? I mean, he's got the ability to lower the sea levels. Why does he not put it to use? The Mississippi River is flooding in historic ways, and Obama goes down to El Paso, Texas. He's talked about lowering the sea levels. I guess that means he can also lower a river's level, but he seems not to care much. Isn't the flooding going on along all along the Mississippi far worse than the flooding that occurred in New Orleans after Katrina? Certainly the Mississippi River flooding is far more widespread. Where's FEMA?
Where's the media's outrage at Obama's lack of concern and lack of action? Where's the looting? Where are all those stories that we saw during Katrina all along the Mississippi River? Where are those stories out of Memphis? We don't see 'em. We don't even have a president who gives a hoot, it doesn't appear. In fact, I'm surprised Obama was able even to get such an agreeable audience for his amnesty speech (you know, Texas is such a sensible state even the Hispanics vote Republican down there), but he did. And we'll get to all of that in due course with the sliming attack, the petulant, thin-skinned...
As I say, they talk about Sarah Palin having a thin skin. The things Obama said about the Republicans yesterday were just childish. Oh, by the way, speaking of which: Ladies and gentlemen, in the program this afternoon, when I decide it's time for it, we will have another installment of the Official Obama Criticizer. Mr. Bo Snerdley is standing by and is on tap. Now, I'd like to know: Hijacking is a crime, is it not? Well, with that in mind, let me share with you some other observations. If parade hijacking were a crime, if any kind of hijacking is a crime, Obama would be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Follow me on this. Barack Obama went from singing the praises of the president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, to demanding that Mubarak leave as per the mob's demands -- and he made this switch in a matter of hours.
Obama has gone from being the leader of the party of "Betray Us" and the party that believes the American military consists of terrorists and baby-killers to now claiming the mantle of America's toughest, most patriotic cowboy. Obama's hijacked John Wayne from us! Obama's hijacked Bush! He hijacked the mob in Egypt! He's gone from being best friends with flag-stomping domestic terrorist Bill Ayers to now being best friends and the leader of SEAL Team Six! He's gone from not introducing an amnesty bill when the Democrats controlled Congress and the White House to now proclaiming himself the leader of illegal immigrants and their quest for amnesty.
So he's hijacking that movement. This is simultaneously nauseating and hilarious to watch. It depends on the mood. He leads from the rear while the parade forms. After the parade forms and a consensus has developed, Obama gets on the white horse and races to the front of the parade, takes credit for whatever the cause is, and hijacks it -- and that's where he is now. It's not just "leading from behind." It's leading the ignorant. Anybody who sees Obama as a leader of anything -- except he is a leader in the assault on prosperity and liberty, but if they see him as a leader in anything else -- they're not paying attention, for whatever reason.
Now, it's interesting. You know, Cookie sends me the sound bite roster. I get the sound bite roster anywhere from a quarter 'til noon to 12 noon each day, and I have no idea what's gonna be on it. That's how much I trust the Cookster. Back in the old days when we were first starting, I would be watching television at night, see something, and I'd send her a note: "Cookie, give me this bite for tomorrow." I no longer have to do that. We've been working together so long that Cookie just knows what I would use. So I don't know what I'm gonna get. I used to be in total control what I was gonna get.
Now, I don't know what I'm gonna get until usually five or ten minutes before the program starts, and sometimes I don't have time to read the entire sound bite roster until a half hour into the program. But just to show you how sometimes we are on this inexorable same page, I had prepared a whole thought process on the arrogance -- the classless arrogance -- of Barack Obama yesterday. Here her first page of sound bites is Cookie explaining, in her words, "the arrogant Obama" saying this and "the arrogant Obama" saying that. She saw it as arrogant, too. She saw Obama, what he was saying, the same way I did: Classless arrogance.
What I've decided about this is he feels good about himself. When he feels good about himself, he doesn't act like a cowboy; he acts like a drunken cowboy. When he is really feeling good of himself, he can't help it. You know, it all started back in the first joint congressional meeting in the White House after he was immaculated, that meeting where he told Boehner and the Republicans, "Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, that's not how things get done here." And one of the Republicans at the meeting happened to mention the concept of tax cuts, and Obama chuckled and said, "Yeah, well, that would matter, except I won," which meant, "Screw you, pal. I won. There aren't gonna be any tax cuts."
Now he's worked his way down to moats and alligators with his speech yesterday, the appearance yesterday in El Paso. Now, recently, President Obama (with great transparency) paraded around the country on a trophy-wielding, football-spiking victory tour that has been classless and self-aggrandizing. Now, I don't think this is what Americans want from their president. This is really small, narcissistic behavior. In reality, here, President Obama has snubbed Texans, who suffered through massive losses from wildfires. He has snubbed and ignored Texans through various natural disasters that they've had. He even declined the governor's request for a state of emergency for Texas because of the fires.
He then launched a war on Boeing jobs in red state South Carolina. He invites rappers to the White House who sing about shooting at cops during National Police Week, this guy Common. You know, Common, ABC's blog has a report on the guy. It's hysterically poor. They talk about all the awards he's won, the great sensitivities he has. They don't mention that he's advocating the killing of cops, that he defends some woman from Philadelphia who fled to Cuba after having killed a cop. They don't mention on the ABC blog that Common celebrates this kind of behavior in this woman. Now, Obama also recently invited Republicans including Paul Ryan to a budget speech, and Ryan's sitting there in the front row, and Obama smears Ryan.
It was one of the most thuggish presidential speeches in history. He supported union members trespassing on and defacing the Wisconsin capitol building. It goes on and on and on, and let's not forget Obama's deliberate failure to thank and congratulate George W. Bush when intelligence developed under the Bush administration played such a crucial role in the demise of Bin Laden. I think that classless arrogance -- not "cool" and "calm and collected"; I think we've got a cold guy here, a very young, immature, bitter, cold guy' classless arrogance -- has marked his two-plus years in office.
Frankly, I don't mind that he's out there showboating and milking the Bin Laden assassination. It shows him for who he is. The Weekend at Bernie's joke works because you can almost believe it! You can almost believe he's got the Bin Laden corpse in tow. It's who he really is. He doesn't have the time to fly over the flooded Mississippi River and look out his window. He can ignore unemployment and the double-dip recession in the housing industry. He can talk about taxing job creators, and he can divide the American people at every turn. This is his way of telling us who he is -- and then I have to hear that he's unbeatable.
Then we have to hear this business, "He can't be beaten," and I so profoundly disagree. He is landslideable beatable running on this record, but the Republicans are going to need a message, and they don't have it yet. I've got it. You all have it; you know what the message is. They don't have it yet. There is not a statement or two that you can come up with. What if somebody landed here from Mars and asked you, "Who are the Republicans?" You could answer the question, "Who are the conservatives?" You could answer that question, but, "Who are the Republicans? What do they believe in?" You couldn't tell a Martian in a couple of sentences. So Obama's eminently beatable, but it's going to require a message that's rooted in principled core beliefs and policy that flows from all that.
Okay, brief time-out. We must take -- Snerdley, I don't...I can't do it now. I gotta take the break now, we'll do it, we'll come back and continue with all the rest. Everybody thinks they can do this better than I do, no matter... (sigh) No matter. You'd think after 23 years people would finally figure out that I know what I'm doing.
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