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Reviewing Obama’s Embarrassing Joint Presser with David Cameron
May 26, 2011

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052611/content/01125112.guest.html

OBAMA: The other point I think David and I would agree on is that this is going to be a constant process of trying some things, making adjustments. There are gonna be opportunities for us to make investments. There are gonna other areas where we think those were good ideas at the time, programs that were started with the best of intentions and it turns out they’re not working as well as they should. If a program’s not working well we should get rid of it and put that money into programs that are working well. It means that we’ve gotta make sure that we take a balanced approach and that there’s a mix of cuts but also thinking about how do we generate revenue so that there’s a match between money goin’ out and money comin’ in.

RUSH: (pause) Hmm? (pause) Sorry, folks, I don’t think there was any “there” there. Okay, that was pretty meandering. That was wandering aimlessly in vain search of a coherent thought, and I don’t think he found one. That was just gobbledygook. On Libya, another reporter: “Mr. President, you’ve said that Moammar Khadafy’s exit from Libya is inevitable and that the US will continue with the campaign until his attacks stop. Does that also mean that you will commit the US to that campaign until Khadafy’s removed from power, and would you be willing to commit additional US resources if that meant speeding up Khadafy’s exit?”

OBAMA: The reason that we intervened in Libya was to protect people on the ground, uhh, and to give the Libyan people the space that they needed in order to bring about, uhhh, a change toward democracy.

RUSH: The space that they needed?

OBAMA: We are strongly committed to seeing the job through, making sure that at a minimum Khadafy doesn’t have the capacity to send in a bunch of thugs to murder innocent civilians. So we have not put forward an — any artificial timeline in terms of how long this will take.

RUSH: Yeah, you did. I mean, you said it would just take “days” at the outset. You said it would just take days. Yeah, you said “weeks, not months.” That’s right, “weeks, not months,” and now it’s open-ended. “Well, there’s no timeline on this. No timeline on it. We gotta give the Libyan people the space that they need to bring about a change toward democracy.” We have to give the Libyan people space? It’s Khadafy that’s gotta give ‘em the space. I think that’s right! Obama is the one that ran against Bush for not having a timeline to get out of Iraq. He wanted a timeline for exiting Iraq. And now, “Well, we can’t be bound by timelines. Of course that’s artificial.”