{"id":13485,"date":"2013-01-16T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T19:34:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-16T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T19:34:19","slug":"revenge_on_the_bitter_clingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/16\/revenge_on_the_bitter_clingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge on the Bitter Clingers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna take a stab at answering my question<\/a>. Obama is literally pushing people to snap, attacking the very sanity of the country. To what end? Aside from wanting everybody\u2019s name on a list of some kind, why is Obama doing all of this? I mean, all of this is so in our face. Everything that people hold dear is under assault, deliberately making people upset. This is not what presidents do. Deliberately making people upset. <\/p>\n

Maybe this is about revenge. You know, Obama used that word when he was on the campaign trail prior to the election. He told his supporters in Ohio to go vote and get their revenge. Revenge against who? Well, obviously, the people that disagree with Obama. But who are those people? He clearly knows who they are, and I think the root of this, I think the answer to my question can be found in the comment that Obama made when he thought he was off the record at a fundraiser in San Francisco, when he talked about the bitter clingers. These are people that the liberals all know. These are the not very bright people that want life to never change. They don\u2019t want any progress. <\/p>\n

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They want to remain cloistered in their archaic, antique past, and when things don\u2019t go right, when there\u2019s too much change, when there\u2019s too much progress or progressivism, like when there\u2019s civil rights laws, they don\u2019t like it. When there\u2019s gay rights and gay marriage, they don\u2019t like it. When there\u2019s all kinds of cultural rot on TV<\/a>, they don\u2019t like it. And so what do these people do? They get bitter, and they cling to their guns, and they cling to their religion. They cling to their antipathy for people that don\u2019t look like them, and this would include minorities and immigrants and so forth. Maybe it is that that\u2019s who Obama wants revenge on. Maybe he has an active dislike for the people he calls the bitter clingers. <\/p>\n

That birth control mandate was revenge on the bitter clingers. People clinging to their religion when things are happening so fast around them they don\u2019t understand and they don\u2019t like, so they cling to their religion as though being religious is clinging to something. When people move in that don\u2019t look like them and don\u2019t like them, they cling to their archaic sexist and racist views, and they grab their guns or what have you. Here\u2019s what he said. He said, “It\u2019s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren\u2019t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”<\/p>\n

And if you noticed now, Obama has found a way to get back at \u2019em on every single point. He is in their face on guns. He\u2019s in their face on religion. He\u2019s in their face on immigration. Amnesty by executive order was revenge on those who don\u2019t like immigrants, in his view and the view of a lot of leftists. You people in Kentucky, for example, you in the hills of Kentucky and West Virginia and in Georgia and the Carolinas, down there in Mississippi, Alabama, you people, you\u2019re the ones, you don\u2019t like all this change so you cling to all these old-fashioned standards. And you\u2019re holding this country back from moving forward, being modern and so forth. <\/p>\n