{"id":11471,"date":"2013-09-04T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:36:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-04T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:36:43","slug":"obama_i_didn_t_set_a_red_line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/04\/obama_i_didn_t_set_a_red_line\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: “I Didn\u2019t Set a Red Line”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is this morning in Stockholm, Sweden, President Obama and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt — who I have to credit. This guy speaks English better than most Americans do, certainly better than most low information Americans do. It was a joint press conference. During the Q&A a reporter said (impression), Mr. President! “Mr. President, have you made up your mind whether to take action against Syria, whether or not you have a congressional resolution approved?<\/p>\n

“Is a strike needed in order to preserve your credibility for when you set these sorts of red lines? And were you able to enlist the support of the prime minister here for support in Syria?” What a joke question! “Mr. President, have you made up your mind whether to take action against Syria, whether or not you have a congressional [authority]? Is a strike needed in order to preserve your credibility…?” What the about the people of Syria? Isn\u2019t that what this is about? <\/p>\n

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No, it isn\u2019t! It\u2019s about Obama\u2019s credibility now. “And, uh, you know, you set these sorts of red lines, and did you get the support of the prime minister.” Obama: “Uh, no. The prime minister of Sweden has withheld his support and as a result we\u2019re cancelling the operation.” What does it matter if he\u2019s got the support of the prime minister of Sweden? Anyway, here was Obama\u2019s answer… <\/p>\n

OBAMA: I didn\u2019t set a red line! The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world\u2019s population said the use of chemical weapons are ab\u2019orrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use, even when countries are engaged in war. Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty. When I said, in a press conference, that “my calculus” about what\u2019s happening in Syria would be altered by the use of chemical weapons — which, the overwhelming consensus of humanity says is wrong — that wasn\u2019t something I just kind of made up. I didn\u2019t pluck it out of thin air. <\/p>\n

RUSH: So, it doesn\u2019t matter. He didn\u2019t set the red line. (interruption) It is. It\u2019s hilarious, it\u2019s absurd, and it typifies exactly what we know. It\u2019s a Limbaugh theorem. It is the Limbaugh theorem. (Obama impression) “Well, I didn\u2019t do that! You didn\u2019t build it! I didn\u2019t set the red line; the world did.” Believe me, if he could have blamed Bush for it, he would have. But I think even he knew that that might not fly. So blame it on the world.<\/p>\n

Because you can say that they went to the UN for resolution. You can say The UN was involved. Of course, the UN can\u2019t do anything. The UN doesn\u2019t have authority. You may know this or not, but the investigative authority that\u2019s been granted to the UN does not grant them the authority to investigate whether or not these weapons have been used. Not in this case. It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t have blanket authority. It\u2019s the specifics of this case. <\/p>\n

So he didn\u2019t do it. He didn\u2019t set the red line. He isn\u2019t governing. He\u2019s out fighting for the people. He didn\u2019t set that red line. “The world did that, and now because the world is a bunch of idiots, I, Barack Obama, have to come in and try to make sense out of what the stupid world did — and okay, I\u2019ll do it. I\u2019ll try to clean up this mess.” I mean, that\u2019s what he\u2019s saying: “I didn\u2019t do this. I had nothing to do with it! The world did. So, you know, I\u2019ve got to go in and back up the world.”<\/p>\n

And he wasn\u2019t through. <\/p>\n