Posted on 01/18/2009 2:44:52 PM PST by Libloather
Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails
January 16, 2009
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RUSH: I got a request here from a major American print publication. "Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency. We would love to include you. If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday night, that would be ideal." Now, we're caught in this trap again. The premise is, what is your "hope." My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance." Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed.
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it.
Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated? Why do we have to play the game by their rules? Why do we have to accept the premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency, that we want him to succeed? This is affirmative action, if we do that. We want to promote failure, we want to promote incompetence, we want to stand by and not object to what he's doing simply because of the color of his skin? Sorry. I got past the historical nature of this months ago. He is the president of the United States, he's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me. We're talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids. Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it, four words, "I hope he fails." And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Shows you just how far gone we are. Well, I know, I know. I am the last man standing.
I'm happy to be the last man standing. I'm honored to be the last man standing. Yeah, I'm the true maverick. I can do more than four words. I could say I hope he fails and I could do a brief explanation of why. You know, I want to win. If my party doesn't, I do. If my party has sacrificed the whole concept of victory, sorry, I'm now the Republican in name only, and they are the sellouts. I'm serious about this. Why in the world, it's what Ann Coulter was talking about, the tyranny of the majority, all these victims here, we gotta make sure the victims are finally assuaged. Well, the dirty little secret is this isn't going to assuage anybody's victim status, and the race industry isn't going to go away, and the fact that America's original sin of slavery is going to be absolved, it's not going to happen. Just isn't, folks. It's too big a business for the left to keep all those things alive that divide the people of this country into groups that are against each other. Yes, I'm fired up about this.
Reasons number 249 and 50 why I'm not a Republican. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has been chosen to introduce Vice-President-elect Biden at a bipartisan dinner in Washington on the eve of the immaculation. Biden was one of Hagel's closest friends in the Senate. "Bipartisan dinners also held that night honoring McCain and Colin Powell. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina will introduce McCain at a dinner." So all these Republicans are being honored on the night before Obama is immaculately inaugurated, as though they're part of the Obama administration. Our presidential candidate is being honored. I can understand liberals honoring their losers, but I just -- (tearing up story)
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Ron Brownstein, National Journal, used to be the Los Angeles Times, on PMSNBC this afternoon with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, she said, "Ronald Brownstein, you've written about the blue wall and the politics of this, what Democrats have been able to achieve in the last election. Obama is right there in Ohio, which is one of the critical states."
BROWNSTEIN: Democrats have now won, Andrea, 18 states for at least the last five elections consecutively, plus the District of Columbia, 248 Electoral College votes. They haven't won that many states over that long a period since Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. They also now hold, if Franken maintains his lead, 33 of the 36 Senate seats in those 18 states, over two-thirds of the House seats, two-thirds of the governorships. They have built their strongest Electoral College base since the days of Roosevelt and Truman, and that is an important foundation for Obama. It's going to be very difficult for Republicans, I think, to systematically challenge Obama and the Democrats over time if this much of the country is virtually off-limits for them.
RUSH: The Democrats own the country. There's nothing anybody can do to stop it. We should just lay down and accept it.
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Hey, this guy is a con artist. He will fail. I just hope his band of creeps he appointed don’t try to pull a soviet style power grab.
Of course we all know that won't happen. We can't hope for socialism to succeed, since the definition by socialists of "success" is a submissive slavery of the masses where the people have enough to eat, and the party members live well. That kind of success we don't need.
He needs to learn how to channel the dead like Hillary used to do with former First Ladies. Obama needs to channel the spirit of Ronald Reagan and then have an epiphany and become the second coming of Ronald Reagan and govern as a fiscal and social conservative.
If he can do that, then I want him to succeed! Otherwise, Rush is right and I hope he fails.
I see that too. What the heck is the reason for that belt of blue?
What part(s) of Obama’s “plans” do you want to see succeed?
Montgomery area. Predominantly black.
The liberal agenda will never succeed, it never has. What will happen is the liberals in charge will give it the illusion of success. The MSM will tout every move Bozo makes as being the work of a God, infallible and worthy of our worship. Wait for the Bozo salute and greeting to be implemented. People are so stupid, the same things happen over and over again in history and people fail to learn from it.
The tree of liberty does indeed need to be watered, even if it means that the majority of people think we all need to be slaves!
San Bernadino county is the largest county in the USA - being high-desert, SB county was formerly settled sparsely and therefore, never broken into separate counties. SB was Republican until the recent 'housing boom'. the Poor homeowners in Los Angeles sold out, and moved to the new housing being constructed all thru the high desert - renters in poor neighborhoods were evicted as their homes were sold (or, later, foreclosed on) and also moved to the high desert.
Many speculators, unable to flip the new housing, or find enough employed renters moving into the market, resorted to renting to Section 8, since the government guaranteed the rent payments. Lancaster, Rosamond, Palmdale, Hisperia, Apple Valley have all seen increases in gangs and crime, with small-town police departments that are unable to deal with the massive influx - some special gang task forces from LA have been sent in to help, with little measurable result so far.
Needless to say, with the change in demographics, San Bernadino county, formerly largely relatively pristine desert, is now dotted with abandoned and foreclosed housing developments, and has become one big grafittied, household-trash-dumped-everywhere, major crime and population center. I wouldn't be surprised if the move is made to split the county sometime in the near future to reflect the changed demographics and obtain more federal money to control the population/crime growth. imo moo
Did Bush let the Obamabots take over the White House basement early?
The only way I want to see Obama succeed, is if he converts to conservatism, which isn't going to happen.
I will pray for his conversion anyway, and/or that the damage he will inflict upon our country is minimized.
If he “succeeds” with his policies, where does that leave conservatism? I’m 100% confident he will not succeed, not only due to his policies, but, also due to the man that he isn’t. But, I’d like your take on his potential success versus conservatism.
Go back to DU troll
Uhhhhh, you didn't understand a single word of what Rush said and I don't think it's by accident.
The way things work around here, most of the time, is that I get to ax you a question and you get to respond. My question remains - you don’t listen to Rush much - do you?
I want the country to succeed.
I hope Obamanation is a complete and total failure, because his success would mean an end to this nation as it was founded, and as we love it.
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I hope he is a failure too but this nation AS IT WAS FOUNDED ceased to exist long ago.
But that wasn’t my question.
I listen to Rush every day.
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