{"id":11511,"date":"2013-08-29T16:37:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-29T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:37:55","slug":"the_american_dream_is_not_dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/29\/the_american_dream_is_not_dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Dream is Not Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you something. You look out over America today, and there is discontent everywhere. There is a malaise. This massive depression, this fog has just settled over the country. I mean, even yesterday at that Martin Luther King rally, they were expecting 100,000, and barely 20,000 showed up. <\/p>\n

The most noteworthy thing that happened yesterday was Bill Clinton taking a huge swipe at Obama. The media today is out there saying, “No, no, no! Clinton didn\u2019t take a swipe at Obama.” You know what Clinton said? He said, “Martin Luther King didn\u2019t die…” I\u2019m paraphrasing; I don\u2019t have it right in front of me. He said, “Martin Luther King Jr. didn\u2019t die so that his heirs could complain about gridlock in Washington.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Who is complaining about gridlock in Washington? That\u2019d be Obama. Who is he blaming for it? Me! I mean, the Republicans won\u2019t go along with him, the Republicans won\u2019t talk to him, the Republicans won\u2019t agree with him — and it\u2019s because of me, he says. They\u2019re afraid of me! Clinton is saying Martin Luther King Jr. didn\u2019t die so that his heirs could complain about Washington gridlock. Who\u2019s complaining about gridlock?<\/p>\n

It was obviously at slap at Obama, and so the media is petrified, and they\u2019re out there, “No, no, no! That\u2019s not at all what happened.” I have the sound bites coming up, and you\u2019ll be able to hear. Well, I know Clinton blamed me for the same thing. They all blame me. But Clinton hasn\u2019t been talking about “gridlock” for the past two weeks; Obama has, or for the past five years; Obama has. Clinton\u2019s not gonna go up there and take a swipe at himself. <\/p>\n

So who was he taking a swipe at? <\/p>\n

It had to be Obama.<\/p>\n

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Obama didn\u2019t even know it, he was so self absorbed by what he was gonna say. You know what? Snerdley told me, “You know, the best thing you can do is don\u2019t even talk about that event yesterday. Just ignore it,” and I fully intended to, but there are some things I just can\u2019t ignore. Here\u2019s the main thing. I think if you want to sum up what\u2019s really wrong about all this, Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights coalition of his era was about one thing, and that was integration. <\/p>\n

Martin Luther King Jr. was interesting. If you read a lot of what he said or wrote, Martin Luther King did not blame the Constitution. Martin Luther King acknowledged that the Constitution did indeed spell out the right thing for all people. He said that it was just not properly applied at first, but eventually it was and has been. He did not rip the Constitution. He did not think the founding of the country or immoral or unjust. <\/p>\n

He thought the implementation, in the early days, was flawed. It\u2019s real simple. The 13 original colonies, in order to rebel, in order to form a union, had to accommodate the southern colonies. In some of them, slavery was the thing for them, and they weren\u2019t gonna give it up. A number of the Founders knew it. Jefferson, Adams, they all wrote, “This is gonna lead to trouble down the road,” but they had to talk about compromise.<\/p>\n

They had to make compromise, accommodation, in order to found the country. Martin Luther King knew all of this, and he said that the founding was proper and actually a blessing, just improperly applied. He was about integration, not separatism, and not segregation. But that\u2019s what was on stage yesterday. Everything about the civil rights movement today is back to segregation. We gone back to pre-Martin Luther King days, essentially. It\u2019s about a never-ending race battle. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s about segregation. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s about never wanting to be integrated and then after the integration has taken place, then segregate. It\u2019s a bastardization of what he stood for. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about it. But regardless, I was driving home yesterday, and I listened to Obama\u2019s speech on the radio, and I know that people don\u2019t attach much credibility to me when I\u2019m commenting on Obama because they think my criticism is only political. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not true. It\u2019s based entirely on substance. I just have to tell you: Based on the expectations of what I know people were expecting, that speech yesterday was a disaster. I mean, it was a disappointment. The media is all talking about seminal moment, greatest speech. But I was literally bored driving home, listening to it. Anyway, that\u2019s just a brief aside. We\u2019ve got discontent. We had 100,000 people expected; barely 20,000 showed up. <\/p>\n

African-Americans in this country are fed up. <\/p>\n

White people are fed up and depressed. <\/p>\n

Hispanics are confused. <\/p>\n

And Obama the Magnificent, who criticized Bush for not having a coalition in Iraq, seems ready to go help Al-Qaeda in Syria, but not too much. We\u2019re gonna do a limited strike just to show that you can\u2019t cross Obama\u2019s red line, but beyond that we\u2019re not gonna do much. The American people are ticked off. There\u2019s high unemployment. There are high oil prices, stagnant wages, growing debt. Obama lives in a vacuum in Washington and Martha\u2019s Vineyard. He\u2019s living the life of Riley! <\/p>\n

A lot of people are ticked off, but not enough of them are mad at Obama and the government. The sad thing is that so many people, particularly young people, are losing faith in America, the American dream. There is no America if there\u2019s no American dream, and a lot of young people don\u2019t think the American dream is possible. They\u2019re losing faith in it — and there\u2019s nothing wrong with America except who\u2019s running it right now. <\/p>\n

America is, as we speak, is the product of policies, not the product of evolution. We\u2019re not trending downward simply because what came before us was a mirage. America\u2019s greatness was not an accident. America\u2019s greatness was not a coincidence. America\u2019s greatness was not luck. It was the result of a blessing and genuine substance. And it is not in decline because of evolution. It\u2019s not in decline because no nation can remain at the top forever.<\/p>\n

The ingredients are all there for the United States to remain on top for as long as we want to. But when you have leaders who have never believed in the goodness and the greatness of this country and its founding; when you have people who think that America is the problem in the world, not solution; when you have people who think the American military is the focus of evil and not the solution; when you have people who think…<\/p>\n

Do you know what Obama said yesterday? <\/p>\n

He actually said that one of the great things about this country is “ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” and then he said, “The sad fact is, there aren\u2019t many examples of that.” There aren\u2019t many examples of that? There are examples of it every day, “ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” The first person I ever heard use that phrase was Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, and I immediately stole it and appropriated it as my own. <\/p>\n

Only occasionally do I credit Senator Graham, as I am doing now. I don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s ever used it prior to yesterday. But even when he used it, he didn\u2019t believe it in. He said, “There are no instances of maids becoming billionaires.” I\u2019m paraphrasing. He used maids, housekeepers, these kinds of jobs that he\u2019s always associated with slavery, if I may be honest. Nobody has ever risen up or very few have ever risen up from those jobs. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s a crock!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what, I mean, when I say that we have people who do not understand this country, don\u2019t believe in it. They have been taught a totally erroneous version of this country. So now we\u2019ve got a president who\u2019s a steward of decline, because he thinks it has to happen, because he said and others in his party have said that America\u2019s greatness in the past was just a coincidence. We had the story. <\/p>\n

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Speaking of Obama and no maid has ever made anything of herself, no street sweeper has ever made anything of himself, may I remind you of the Martin Luther King speech to the junior high school in 1967 that we played yesterday? In fact, Mike, grab that again and have it handy. I know you\u2019ve got it there. This is the speech where King said, “If your lot is life is to be a street sweeper, be the best street sweeper there\u2019s ever been.” <\/p>\n

There was no dishonor in work, in his world. There was no job that was beneath any individual. It\u2019s such a stark contrast. But we have leaders who believe this country was unjust from its early days, immoral from its early days, undeserving of superpower status. We have leaders who believe that we have a country that needs to be shown what it\u2019s like the way the rest of the people in this world live.<\/p>\n

The rest of the people in this world live substandard lives because the United States has existed and stolen everything from \u2019em, and I am not exaggerating when I say that that is the kind of thing that informs radical leftists today. It\u2019s what they\u2019re taught. If their parents are radical leftists, it\u2019s what they grow up hearing at home; then when get to school, they hear the same thing. <\/p>\n

And they get into adulthood and they believe all this stuff. And then they end up thinking they\u2019re the smartest people in the world for realizing it. There\u2019s virtue, in fact, attached to not thinking of America as great. That\u2019s real honesty. That\u2019s real virtue. So we have a situation where the country is in decline, people losing faith in America, which is a crying shame because the American dream need not die and there\u2019s no reason — other than these policies that we\u2019re being governed by — for this situation to be.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We got time to squeeze this in by Martin Luther King, at a Philadelphia junior high school in 1967<\/a>. Listen closely.<\/p>\n

KING: What I\u2019m saying to you this morning, my friends: Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures! Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well!” If you can\u2019t be a pine on the top of a hill, be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub on the side of the rill. Be a bush if you can\u2019t be a tree. If you can\u2019t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can\u2019t be a sun, be a star. It isn\u2019t by size that you win or you fail; be the best at whatever that you are!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sounds to me like the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King believed in the American dream in 1966, \u201967. It sounds to me like he believed in the American dream.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There is nothing wrong with this country that a change in leadership would not cure. I\u2019m gonna tell you: The time, right now, is ripe for anybody who doesn\u2019t like what\u2019s going on to stand up — and I\u2019m talking about in electoral politics leadership. The time is right for anybody who wants to stand up, make the case for the American dream, and do a Norman Vincent Peale on everybody. The American people are thirsting for it, they\u2019re hungering for it, they want to hear that the American dream is not dead! <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to live in a nation in decline, they don\u2019t want to have lost faith in their country, and it\u2019s not necessary that they have lost faith in their country. Being purely political, what they need to lose faith in is the policies of the Democrat Party and radical liberalism. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. It\u2019s easy to say; it\u2019s tough to change people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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