America Thinks Obama Has Failed

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | September 9, 2014 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

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RUSH: Somebody asked me today, "Have you ever thought that maybe, when you have a prediction, just hold it? Don't say it publicly, and then you won't get beaten up and you won't get ripped over the coals, and you can say it privately to let people know you've made the prediction. But it's just unfair, Rush, that you have to carry the singular burden of being right for so long all by yourself."

I said to this observant friend, "What are you talking about?"

"Well, what you said back even before he was inaugurated that you hoped he failed. You were six years ahead of the curve."

I said, "Yeah."

"Well, look at the burden you carried! Look at the all the arrows you took. Look at the all the criticism you took. Look at all the lies that were told about you because of that."

I said, "Yeah?"

"Well, if you wouldn't have said it in public and you had just held it for six years, when everybody else caught up with you, then you could have said it and you wouldn't have gotten so much grief."

"Well, maybe so, but I can't hold back what I think."

What they were talking about was January 16th, 2009. This is what I said in explaining to people that I did not need 400 words in the Wall Street Journal op-ed section to explain my hopes for the Obama presidency.

RUSH ARCHIVE: 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 for 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."

RUSH: By now this is legendary. "I hope he fails." January 16, 2009. The Wall Street Journal was asking a bunch of people for 400-word essays on their hopes, dreams, thoughts on the Obama presidency. I said, "I don't need 400. I can do it in four: 'I hope he fails,'" and there was an eruption.

"How dare you say that!"

People said, "You can't say that!"

Even people on the Republican side said, "You can't run around saying you hope the country fails!"

I said, "I'm not. I'm saying the exact opposite. I hope Obama fails because I know who he is. I know what he's gonna do. I don't have my head in the sand. I'm not caught up in the historical nature of all this. You know, he's the president. He's not the black president, not the first this, the first that. There's no messiah. He's the president. What he thinks is what matters, what his policies are. That's all that matters to me.

"I know what they're gonna be, and I hope they don't work. I hope he fails!" Well, here we are. Washington Post. Six years later, ladies and gentlemen. "A majority of Americans and even many Democrats consider President Obama's tenure to be a 'failure,' according to a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News. The poll shows Americans say 52-42 that Obama has been more of a failure than a success.

"Among registered voters, the gap is even bigger -- at 55-39 -- with four in 10 (41%) saying they 'strongly' believe Obama has been a failure." Now, I must admit, the public definition of failure is not exactly what mine was. What they are claiming is that the country's just in a funk. The country is lagging. The country's in malaise. The country's not moving forward.

There isn't any progress taking place. There's nothing good happening. There's nothing to be excited about. The Obama administration's been a failure in terms of what he promised. The truth of the matter is it has not been a failure. He has not failed. The Obama agenda continues to march on, and that's why people are disappointed.

The Obama agenda is succeeding, and whether people know it or not, that's why they're depressed. They don't want this, these 52%, these 59%. They didn't vote for this! This is not why they voted for the guy. They were voting for wholly different reasons. Chief among them, I'm convinced, many people thought voting for Obama would end racism, would end the allegations of racism.

It would demonstrate that we're long past slavery, would go a long way to absolving ourselves of our original sin. And because the Obama presidency has succeeded in his terms, that's why people are in a funk. They don't want this. They don't want a president that doesn't seem to care enough about his own country's standing in the world to maintain it.

They don't want a president who is happy or content with the job market the way it is. They do not want a president who lied to them 30 times about how they can keep their doctor and their health plan when they couldn't! They didn't vote for the federal government taking over the health care system.

They didn't vote for a failed HealthCare.gov website that doesn't work and may be compromising their privacy. They didn't vote for skyrocketing insurance premiums and reduced coverage. They didn't vote for 400,000 people migrating across the border since January alone, many of them teenage (and under) kids. They didn't vote for any of this. That's why they're in a funk.

They didn't vote for a president who's happy to preside over the new normal of unemployment at 11%. They didn't vote for that. That's why they're in a funk. So they say the Obama administration has been a failure. He hasn't moved the country forward. He hasn't reestablished upward mobility. He hasn't done away with federal spending and the debt. He hasn't reduced spending.

Well, he was never gonna do any of that. But people only know what they're told, and they were lied to. They were lied to by the Obama campaign; they were lied to by the media. It wasn't simply that Obama misled them. There were out-and-out lies. It's not just that Obama presented illusions and tried to hide the truth of the left-wing agenda.

They were lied to, such as (impression), "You like your doctor? You keep your doctor! You like your plan? You keep it!" They were lied to over and over again. People believe their president; he lied. The Democrat Party lied. The media stands up and supports the lies. They didn't vote for any of this. In hindsight, I ask myself, "Why couldn't more people have seen that exactly this was going to happen?"

I did, and it's not hard. These are liberals. These are socialists. These are people who have been educated to believe the United States is the problem in the world, not the solution. These are people who've grown up, and had it inculcated in their minds inside out for their entire lives, that the United States does not deserve to be a superpower.

That we're only a superpower because we have purloined what we have from other innocent people the world over. In other words, we're illegitimate. We were founded immorally and unjustly and we've become a big power by subjugating and being mean to others. Only the American people were not told that's who these people are, and the people running for office, Obama and the Democrats, did not announce this is who they are.

It isn't hard to find out.

All you have to do is listen to them when they're not campaigning. So while a majority of Americans say Obama's presidency is a failure, it isn't from Obama's perspective. Now, he may not have big approval numbers. People may not be happy. But I'm telling you, in terms of his agenda, he doesn't care. He may care ego-wise. He may himself have a messianic complex. He wants to be loved and adored. I don't know. But I guarantee you, Obama's not unhappy over the state of his agenda.

Everything they've touched in the Middle East has gone to hell, from the Arab Spring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to Syria, to Cairo to Egypt, you name it. I mean, it's utter disaster. Benghazi. Some people chalk it up to incompetence. They're being generous. Some people chalk it up to purposeful intent. Regardless, it's happening. And in the polling data it's very clear that the American people don't want this. That's why they view Obama's presidency to be a failure.

But he has succeeded, and he continues to. He's not checked out and he's not disinterested. That is a ruse. That is a game to help him speed the adoption of his agenda. Amnesty. Well, I mentioned that. The people didn't vote for this. They don't want amnesty, preelection, postelection. They didn't vote for it. This is not what they thought they were gonna get. So now the story is that Obama's depressed and dejected. He's bored. The job's beneath him. Gee, it's such a shame. It just doesn't challenge him. He'd rather play golf. All of these things like ISIS are just irritating interruptions of what Obama really likes. It's just such a shame.

Well, what better way than stealth? If you have the objective to totally transform this country, what better way to do it than to have people think you're not trying? You get them totally disarmed. Get people believing he's checked out, he doesn't care, he's not interested. Meanwhile, the agenda marches on. Obamacare is just marching to full implementation, despite every mess and problem that there is. There's no rollback. There can be. We could put the brakes on a lot of this stuff. It's going to take a willingness to oppose it.

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RUSH: Now, Good Morning America today, George Stephanopoulos speaking with Jon Karl, White House correspondent, about this new poll on the terror threat from ISIS, and Stephanopoulos and Karl are in crisis. They look at the poll, they see America wants to fight ISIS, America wants to vanquish ISIS, and they don't think Obama's ready.

KARL: An equally large number of Americans in this poll support expanding those air strikes into Syria. This is a dramatic change in public opinion. Just a couple of months ago there was deep reluctance to get involved militarily in any way in the Middle East. Now you see widespread concern about the threat posed by a group that has been beheading Americans, taking over large territory, large amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria. In this poll, 91%, 91% say that they see ISIS as posing a vital threat to US interests.

RUSH: But they don't think Obama looks at it that way and they're not happy. Here's Stephanopoulos, he's a Democrat strategist masquerading as a news anchor. Never forget that. He's a Democrat operative masquerading as a news anchor, and you can hear the panic in his voice here.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But the president is not prepared to announce tomorrow night that he's ready to strike Syria with air strikes, and it comes at a time when he's facing some real popularity problems. We see 56% of the country disapproving of how the president's handling foreign policy.

KARL: Right, and the single biggest factor in that is that a majority say that the president has been too cautious in responding to this threat.

RUSH: So he's got this big plan tomorrow night, apparently three aspects to the plan. And his speech tomorrow night's gonna be the result of poll-driven research, no doubt.

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[al baby]

Is that old wind bag still on the air?

[Kaslin]

And with great success!!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Only 47% think he’s failed because health care is not free, the minimum wage is not $15, and there are not televised public floggings of bankers, live from Yankee Stadium.

[chris37]

Sorry, I couldn’t get past “America Thinks”...

No, it doesn’t, it clearly doesn’t.

[waredbird]

And this correct prediction helps us how Rush?

[GraceG]

The welfare hordes would disagree that obama is bad.... He gives them phones and free food..

[PghBaldy]

Obama would be handily re-relected, if he so chose to ignore another part of the Constitution.

[Mr. K]

He needs to say only ONE clarification - He meant “I hope he fails at implementing socialism” and NOTHING ELSE.

That is exactly what he meant all along, but libtards were unable -or refused to -understand that.

[alloysteel]

Failed? Failed how?

Some may think the Current Occupant has “failed” because he did not succeed in establishing all his agenda. Others may say The Won has “failed” because he had not kept the pledge to be a leader of all the people and to discharge his duty to the office in a commensurate and competent manner.

“Failure” is one of those terms that mean different things to different people.

He surely has been a disappointment. On so many levels.

[Mr. K]

Just tell them to shout “yes we can” a few dozen times again and that will fix everything.

[MrB]

This “America” is a dumbass.

Obama has been hugely successful at his real goals.

[MrB]

More to the point, he makes it possible to NOT WORK and still live a great life.

[hal ogen]

I agree...very successful.

[DoughtyOne]

Thinks? The evidence is in.

It doesn’t matter what America thinks.

It’s an indisputable fact!

This man is unfit to hold the office of the Presidency.

The sooner something is done, the better.

Honestly, if this guy can’t be taken down on breach of oath of office, this nation is really a third world enterprise.

[Mr. K]

clearly! Remembert his from Animal Farm (no wonder it is not taught in schools anymore)

“At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating “Four legs good, two legs bad” both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into “Four legs good, two legs bad” at crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches.”

Orwell’s genius becomes more and more apparent all the time.

[Principled]

pfl

[chris37]

That is truly art from another time and even another species that can no longer be understood.

If it was taught, which it absolutely should be, I fear it would be lost on its audience.

It is as if mankind has his defense in nature, his intelligence. He has corrupted that for a different purpose, and that corruption is going to cost us all.

[muir_redwoods]

There’s where we differ; I think the marxist bastard succeeded.

[Kaslin]

Some people would be so stupid to vote for that arrogant pos again