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RUSH: This is Pam in Cincinnati. Hi, Pam. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am a self-employed hairdresser, salon owner in Cincinnati. I\u2019ve been self-employed for about 14 years. Just after the 2008 elections, I had a client come in to the salon and she was born and raised in Italy and said that she had come to the United States in 1990s and how she loved the United States and that she was self-employed here, and I asked her, “Well, can you not be self-employed in Italy?” And she said, “Oh, no. No one is self-employed in Europe because the taxes are so high.” She had quickly become an American citizen. Well, I asked her, “How do you like Barack Obama and all that he\u2019s doing?” She said, “Well, I love Barack Obama. I\u2019m very, very liberal,” and I knew right then that she truly did not understand how capitalism worked, because she didn\u2019t understand where the money came from.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, how could she if she\u2019s from Italy?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Right, but she had been here since the nineties. Long enough to understand how it worked.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Long enough to be here during the Clinton years where the government was the big granddaddy, where the government was the big savior, where the government was the answer, where the Republicans wanted to shut down the government, where the Republicans wanted to starve kids!<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, all during the nineties that\u2019s what she woulda heard.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you\u2019re right. You\u2019re absolutely right about that. I have my share of Republican clients, but I\u2019ve also got my share of Democrats as well. I had a couple that just moved here from Chicago, flaming liberals. They\u2019re as liberal as they get. Just after this election, Bill — his name is Bill — he comes in and he says, “My health care with my employer just went up 4.6%, and I only got 2.3% raise!” I said, “Bill, that\u2019s Obamacare,” and he said, “Well, I just don\u2019t understand how that whole thing got through!” So they don\u2019t connect the dots. They just don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am hearing from more and more people saying this. We had a guy call last week who told me that these are smart people. These are not the low-information voters that he hears me talk about. They simply don\u2019t think things are gonna collapse. They don\u2019t think anything\u2019s particularly wrong. It\u2019s just politics-as-usual. Especially if they\u2019re okay financially, then they don\u2019t think anything\u2019s wrong. They\u2019re not worried about high taxes. Of course, I told him that everybody I know is scared to death that they\u2019re gonna lose everything one way or the other.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Either by the economy collapsing or by the government taking it from them in new taxes and what have you, they\u2019re scared, and he said, “Nah, these are people with their heads in the sand.” You\u2019re telling me that you\u2019ve got these arrivals from Chicago who see all this stuff while they vote for the guy, and then say they don\u2019t understand how it happened.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s exactly it. The way Obama is pulling that off is, they don\u2019t see him as the reason it\u2019s happening. If anything, I would wager — and there\u2019s no way of knowing \u2019cause you probably didn\u2019t ask. But this Bill guy from Chicago, if you had inquired further, you probably could have gotten him to tell you that Obama was fighting the people who are raising these prices and these rates, and he\u2019s doing everything he can but he\u2019s up against these untenable forces that are opposing him. They would not associate the small raise or the vast increase in health care with Obama or with anything he did. They would look at the Obama as the guy fighting to make sure that didn\u2019t happen to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just may pose that question to him the next time I see him.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Do! I think you\u2019ll be amazed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I will. (giggles) Well, thanks for fighting the good fight.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pam, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re out there, and I appreciate the call. Thank you so much. We\u2019re gonna have to redefine low-information voter. They\u2019re not just people watching TMZ. In fact, I would venture to say that over half of the average, ordinary Democrats voting for Obama have no clue what they\u2019re really doing. They\u2019re just being loyal to the latest Democrat president — and the fact that he\u2019s black and historical, that makes it even more important and an even bigger deal. But they have no idea what they are actually complicit in. I\u2019m convinced of it! I\u2019m convinced. It\u2019s not so much intelligence that we lack. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just, we are surrounded by so much ignorance, lack of knowledge, lack of understanding.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, Pam in Cincinnati, here\u2019s another thing for your Italian friend and all that. The media\u2019s telling everybody right now that everything\u2019s okay! During the Bush eight years, everything was terrible, but everything\u2019s okay now. All they know about this country is the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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