What Barack Obama Inherited (by Rush Limbaugh)

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | Monday, June 8, 2009 | Rush Limbaugh

[kristinn]

(Note this is excerpted from Rush Limbaugh's opening monologue yesterday. For those who are sick and tired of Obama blaming his 'inheritance' for his faltering administration, this is for you. If only an elected official had the courage to say these truths...)

If I might correct the architect of the collapse of the Soviet Union, well, the partial architect, Ronald Reagan helped as well, that would be Mikhail Gorbachev. Mr. Gorbachev, Russia was destroyed, the Soviet Union was destroyed by freedom; it was destroyed by capitalism; it was destroyed by American exceptionalism. Socialism as an opponent to capitalism is what died with the Soviet Union. Communism as an opponent to capitalism is what died. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what Barack Obama inherited. Barack Obama continually, childishly, immaturely blames predecessors for all of the mess that he and he alone has compounded. If he wants to talk about what he inherited, I'd like to put it down on the record what he inherited. The problem is he inherited it temporarily. He's in the process of destroying it.

Barack Obama inherited greatness in a nation. He inherited the birthplace of the individual. He inherited the defender of liberty at home and abroad, the United States of America. He inherited the opportunity to lead a nation of sheer exceptionalism, a nation of equal opportunity, a nation which featured its citizens the right to fail and to try and try and try again. He inherited the financial center and capital of the world. Barack Obama inherited the country that has successfully championed capitalism and widespread prosperity. He inherited a nation which liberated billions of people who lived in oppression. He also inherited great responsibility. He inherited the responsibility to lead this great nation, the world's lone superpower, a nation oriented toward the good of humanity. He inherited the responsibility to preserve and strengthen the free markets and economies that made this the greatest nation in the history of human civilization. He inherited the responsibility to continue the philosophy and the tradition of a country founded on Judeo-Christian morals, ethics, and principles.

He inherited the Constitution of the United States. He did not claim the right to remake it, to rewrite it, to change it. He swore to uphold it. And he's in the process of wreaking as much damage to the Constitution as he can get away with, with nominations like Sonia Sotomayor, as he is wreaking damage to the US economy. Barack Obama did not inherit a mess. He leads a mess. He inherited the United States of America, where anything is possible. And greatness has been delivered to the world time after time in the form of private sector inventions, innovations, advancements in products that improve people's lives for over 200 years. He inherited a country of individuals energized by their liberty and strengthened by their character. Barack Obama inherited the leadership of the greatest collection of human beings in the history of human existence.

And what has he done with this inheritance? He has run around the world and apologized at every stop he makes for what he considers the sins, the immorality, and the unjust unfairness of the way he perceives the United States of America. He inherited a country that liberates the oppressed, as I said. He inherited the greatest economy in history. He inherited that, nothing more, nothing less, plus the Constitution. There is nothing to apologize for. It is childish, it's babyish, it is immature, it is unbecoming anyone who holds the office of president of the United States to run around crying like a baby while lying about the mess he inherited, because he didn't inherit a mess. He inherited years and decades of stewardship from the Oval Office of the greatest nation in history. In his mind, he inherited a flawed social experiment. He has now made the mess that is the United States economy. He is making a mess of United States foreign policy.

There is a lot to be proud of this country, but you don't hear much about that from the Oval Office or wherever Obama's teleprompter happens to be planted. We don't hear people in his administration talk about how proud they are of this country and how proud they are of the people who make this country work. There is a lot of work to be done, but not the way Obama is proceeding. He is creating more work for future generations to reclaim their birthright that is the greatness of this country. Barack Obama is destroying what others before him preserved and expanded upon. He's now saying, we can no longer postpone health care, just like we couldn't postpone stimulus, we couldn't postpone TARP, now can't postpone health care. If he gets what he and the Democrats want, single payer national health care, your kids and grandkids can forget the American dream as you and your grandparents knew it.

[villagerjoel]

Right on.

[BenLurkin]

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[Niteranger68]

Do not forget....BHO asked for this job. (Don't ask for something you can't handle)

[GeronL]

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[Ditter]

I LOVE Rush Limbaugh!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Limbaugh: "He inherited the responsibility to continue the philosophy and the tradition of a country founded on Judeo-Christian morals, ethics, and principles."

Obama doesn't believe they are exceptional. He doesn't believe in Christian exceptionalism or that there is anything exceptional about Western Christian civilization. He has denied this both in his Cairo and Notre Dame speeches. He thinks that socialism, modern liberalism, moral relativism, multiculturalism, and a kind of anti-Western, anti-colonialist United Nations ideology which always requires criticizing America and apologizing are the way to go. He does not identify with the U.S., Christianity, or Western civilization culturally, nor, apparently, does he consider them worth defending and promoting.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

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[nhwingut]

Obama is like the infamous Rich Kotite. The worst NFL coach of all time. Always made a bad situation worse. Anything he touched bombed. Everything he planned failed. But always blamed everybody else.

[Dixie Yooper]

The way I see it, the Presidency is not inherited. It is sought after. Obama worked very hard for over two years to become President. He even pushed aside his responsibilities as Senator to pursue this goal. Just because everything wasn't just the way he wanted it when he started, doesn't mean he gets to push it to the previous administration by claiming he inherited the problems. His campaign promised to tackle each and every one of these issues. It wasn't so long ago he said “I won” to shut up the opposition on an issue he wanted his way on. Now he claims that the problems he promised to fix are an inheritance. Make up your mind Obama! Did you win the Presidency, or did you inherit it?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"Anything he touched bombed. Everything he planned failed. But always blamed everybody else."
9 posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:11:18 AM by nhwingut

Like a jinx.

You never know what he will mess up or destroy next.

[Neoliberalnot]

Rush is always highlighting the positive and talking up the greatness of our nation while the second hussein is constantly talking down and denigrating the same.

[Ben Ficklin]

On one hand there are those who say that US exceptionalism is based on Puritanism traced back to the Sermon on the Mount.

OTOH, there are others who say otherwise. One such would be those market economists who say ownership is the basis.

[a fool in paradise]

He made it clear that he sees the Constitution as an obstacle to ushering in the change he wants. He and his wife have said that this nation’s history and traditions must change.

They’ve made no bones about being down on America.

He is an apologist when he is abroad and a critic of conservativism when he is at home.

This is not news. The lap dog media has been down on America since 1968 too. Again, this is not news.

Welcome to America 2.0.

[CheneyChick]

Outstanding. I’m sick and tired of the excuses Obama makes. Rush nails it.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Obama doubts BOTH American and Christian exceptionalism. He takes it much wider in his criticism of our civilization. But the American Framers and Founders did understand themselves to be part of a Judaeo-Christian moral and spiritual tradition which places freedom from statism in God-given rights and a tradition of morality and ethical principles. Pat Boone touched on this in his article about Obama's gaffes yesterday, on whether the U.S. is a Christian nation:

Pat Boone: "You studied law at Harvard, didn’t you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago? Did you never read the statement of John Jay, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark Federalist Papers, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers — and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation — to select and prefer Christians for their rulers”?

In your studies, you surely must have read the decision of the Supreme Court in 1892: “Our lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.” - Obama Sounds Like President Without a Country.

Take that away and they start down the path to tyranny, relativism, or jihad. Quite possibly all three with the One's policies.

[Ben Ficklin]

Thanks but no thanks. I'm not big on Pat Boone and Newsmax.

OTOH, I do have a keen interest in this subject of what Obama inherited from Bush and what policies he chose to inherit from Bush.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

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Rush's point stands.Limbaugh: "He inherited the responsibility to continue the philosophy and the tradition of a country founded on Judeo-Christian morals, ethics, and principles." The One can strip that away at our peril and that of civilization.

[Ben Ficklin]

I can read and I can interpret, and I can say that this from Rush is just more from those who are trying to say that those policies that Obama chose to inherit from Bush are just that, Bush Policies.

So the conflict on these policies are conflicts in the GOP. Rush, Cheney, and others certainly want to make these policies a conflict between republicans and Obama/democrats, but they are not.

[Aria]

“In a way Obama is standing above the country, above the world. He’s sort of GOD. He’s going to bring all different sides together.”
- Newsweek editor Evan Thomas

See, the job of POTUS is too little for this community organizer. The US is only one cog in the wheel of the power he seeks.

I knew he’d be bad...that electing this guy with a rat majority in Congress was going to be a rough road but had NO idea that it would be so incredibly horrible and he’s just getting started.

I pray the Supreme Court sticks to the law and stops his Chrysler fiasco.