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’m with you...and Rush...on this one.
He scares me to death!
Mark...I couldn’t have said it better myself!
I’m very disturbed that we’ve managed to elect our first dyed in the wool, true-blue Marxist Socialist.
Folks can celebrate the fact that we’ve elected our first Black President, but I would have preferred someone such as Thomas Sowell.
In fact, had we elected someone such as TS, I would be raising the roof with sheer delight!
Instead, I’m in a tad bit of a panic.
I share your hope that Obama is a one term President.
That's a fair question and, honestly, I'm unsure as to how to answer. I am a believer in conservative ideals. I am well aware that Obama is the antithesis of everything that conservatism stands for and yet I am torn because we are stuck with at least four years of him as president. I can't bring myself to desire four years of the country falling deeper and deeper into a economic chasm.
Many, even a few Freepers, have said that the economy is cyclical and will naturally correct itself, but I can't help but be somewhat uncertain as to that outcome. I suppose if I were to try to explain my feelings, I would have to say that I hope that it is possible for him to effect a sea change in the economic picture, but fail in other areas such as the closing of Gitmo, enacting the Fairness Doctrine, expanding abortion rights, pulling out of Iraq, weakening our military, and exposing us to potential terrorist acts. Maybe I'm fantasizing that if he is completely preoccupied with getting the economy on track, he won't have time to drastically muck up other areas.
Thats the point he is making dope ,just because the idiot won the election doesnt make him right if morons who dont know what this country stands for elect a Marxist .
This is still America for a very short time I fear but I dont have to support an idiot who is the most unqualified individual ever elected to the office , after all I agree with Hillary Dissent is Patriotic
I hope the economy recovers and no Americans die at home or abroad.
But that doesn’t mean I want to HIM to succeed. I want him to go to Hell. Hell, Norway, population 352, and stay there, far away from the US.
“Obama receives the same chance Bush received.”
I agree. It has got to the point that I cannot stomach the sound of Obama’s voice. I’ve become Pavlovian in that sense. The next two days will be interminable, and I fear for the USA over the next 4 years. The left truly could have sown the seeds for the second armed insurrection.
Thanks for the correction...I didn’t think Rush would want something like that.
I can’t believe how many times I had to read your post to see my error. LOL
I actually had to get away for a few minutes before I could properly read what I had written. Scary.
That portion of Alabama called the black belt has nothing to do with blacks living there. It has to do with the type of dirt and earth in that area. Not that blacks live there.
Well, don’t bother to be afraid that my life is going to be one of continual disappointment. It isn’t and won’t be. I have shut it all down with TV, radio and the like. It’s all a bunch of negative talk, anger, bitterness and the like. I am living my life with my own hopes and prayers. I don’t need to be watching TV with all those people and their own agenda...much less garbage they “report.”
I’m happy and will continue that way and as a result...I will pray for President Obama to succeed and be a good President to the whole country. That’s who I am.
I would pray for the same thing ... that any bad decisions he makes for America will fail but...I am not wishing him out and out failure.
You are nuts, then. I don’t want socialism.
Sorry you have to call me nuts but...that is your right.
Now...back on subject... I don’t want socialism either. I want a President who will do what is right for this country. I am hoping and praying President Elect Obama since he was elected WILL be able to do that for all of us.
We’ll wait and see. I am looking to the future with hope and prayer.
Not worth a response.
not worth a response.
No, not necessary. But thank you.
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