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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I didn’t hear that.
I do not hope this President fails. I hope he succeeds by seeing the wrong things and righting them. I do not hope he fails. I do not hope ANYONE fails. I will pray for President Elect Obama and his family. I did not vote for him but I do not hate him nor do I wish failure on him.
So be it...glad to know where you stand.
What you MUST keep in mind is that the Liberal agenda cannot succeed. Witness the USSR. Is it still with us today? THAT, my friend, is the ULTIMATE liberal agenda, yet it cannot ever be made to work. We ARE in for tough times, made tougher when conservatives keep struggling to make silk purses from sows’ ears. That we DO it only provides fodder to feed the voracious maw of the Left. When there are no more conservatives willing to sacrifice themselves on the altar of Liberalism, only then will Obambi and his crowd FAIL. Because we, the producers, the ones who uncomplainingly feed the leviathan of the left with our very substance, WE are who allow the agenda of the Left to be as successful as it is. Had the West NOT propped up the USSR, it would have died painfully when Stalin starved his Kulaks to death during the 20s and 30s. Or purged the Russian army’s best officers.
If WE continue to struggle on under the Obambi Regime, WE will be the ones keeping him propped up. Go back to Claire Wolfe for details... but bear in mind that Obambi will succeed only because his VICTIMS keep him afloat... and ONLY for as long as we do.
“How can he fail if there’s no real opposition?”
I hope disaster rains down upon Obamachev starting at 12:01 PM on 1/20. I hope that he bobs in a sea of baby guts that he incompetence created. Everyday I will encourage people to reject his lying, fake, chicken, hip hop ass.
America needs to suffer for its sins and Obama is the disease.
What do you mean no opposition?
Ping
Here it is. http://obama2.com/archives/bill-ayers-calls-barack-obama-audio/
(Glad to know I am still fending off craziness!) There is an audio comparing voices. I'm not so sure it is him, since radio sounds different from telephone voices on radio, so it is tough to tell.
Also, see some of the comments down the page.
I am wearing black on Tuesday.
Plenty of NOTHING here!!
Ticks so big we use mouse traps to kill them.
Mosquitoes so big they catch song birds and suck the blood right out of them.
Hotter than hell in the summer...and colder than the South Pole in the winter.
For the love of God don't move here....
Zero gets the same "chance" you leftists gave Bush for 8 years. Zero
ping red blue 2009
I hope Obama is a success at implementing the policies that Governor Palin would have supported. I hope he is a success at governing in accordance with the Constitution. I hope he is a success at cutting back government intervention in our lives. I hope he is a success at killing the bailout plan, recovering as much as possible of the wasted money, and preventing the Congress from wasting more.
I also hope I win the lottery this week, which is worth mentioning in this context because I don't buy lottery tickets or check on the winning numbers. I guess that means I'm not very likely to win $1M this week. I'm only slightly less likely to see Obama try to do even one positive thing during his reign as our dictator.
What are you willing to to do make him fail?
Name one thing the most holy one has seen that was wrong and righted? Even attempted to make right? I will support his failure, even fight for it. I pray that ‘the one’ makes wise decisions and that the stupid decisions fail. So far I’m praying for a complete failure.
Look who is being passed in the senate for Obama’s cabinet? More CROOKS and LAW BREAKERS than our in our jails and THESE are the PEOPLE who are going to ADVISE this coming President through difficult times? I’m most upset about republicans PASSING these LAW BREAKERS on and NOT objecting to them running our country!!!
Americans hsould want Obama to fail.
The best thing for America will be if he fails miserably.
The best thing for America will be if he fails miserably.
and quickly
Thanks!
Oops.......
hsould = should
EVEN if he succeeded in doing this (fear not; it is impossible), it is a strategy that is self defeating by its very nature. Those that have only have so much and, therefore, are a finite resource: once you've drained that vein there is nothing more, and once you've run out of “thems what's got” you have only “thems whats nots.”
You have to produce if you want to consume. Laws of nature and the universe trump any dimbat’s pie-in-the-sky idealistic BS. Worse, he plans to “create” a zillion government jobs, in effect drawing water from the well to recharge the well. The worst form of circuitous logic at its best (huh? lol). Economic cannibalism. Good luck with that.
Something I was taught way back in econ 110: “you do not assume another's assets without assuming the same’s liabilities.” All these bailouts, entitlements, and socialized programs; are going to come back to haunt him in a big way when those who were given a slice of someone else's pie find out they have to cover the costs their “unintending bennefactors” incurred in baking that pie. Honest, there really is no free lunch; yet, 0bama has built his house on the foundational lie that there is. It will be hell to pay when the people he took to dinner get stuck with the bill for a meal they never received. Trust me, the mythsiah is NOT going to raise anything over his head and tear it into pieces enough to fulfill anything, let alone the “promise” that he, we, and God Above know he cannot begin to honor.
First order of business, come Wednesday AM: a lesson in the difference between “wanting TO BE President” and “BEING President.”
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