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<\/p>\nRUSH: I want to try to explain to you in a little different way why this whole Sandy business, I don\u2019t think, has anything to do with what this election\u2019s about except as a microcosm in one way, and it\u2019s this. I said to people last night, and I\u2019ve tried today, too, when I talk about fundamentals. There\u2019s a reason why Obama doesn\u2019t have any momentum. There\u2019s a reason why the momentum\u2019s all Romney. There\u2019s a reason why Obama is flailing. He\u2019s been a lousy president. People wonder, “Well, what can he do here, Rush, three days, Hurricane Sandy, what can Obama do?” He can\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n
He hasn\u2019t been able to do anything about unemployment for four years, folks. He hasn\u2019t been able to do anything about the economy in four years. He hasn\u2019t been able to do anything about gas prices in four years, except make it worse. He has not been a good president, and there\u2019s nothing that can happen in these three days that changes that. There\u2019s nothing that can happen here. You want to say, “Well, he could make it look like he feels or cares.” People know that, or think that anyway. As for, “Well, it gives him a chance to look presidential.” He\u2019s supposed to. He is the president. He\u2019s not gonna get points for looking presidential. The reasons Obama\u2019s in trouble are too deep. They aren\u2019t shallow. In fact, this whole Sandy and its aftermath, you can almost portray it as a microcosm of why Obama\u2019s in trouble. <\/p>\n
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New Jersey and Queens and all that, they\u2019re gonna be rebuilt. But not because of a president. Not even because of a governor. They\u2019re gonna be rebuilt not because of any politician. These areas are gonna be rebuilt because of people, the people who make the country work, local communities, neighbors helping neighbors, churches, you name it. Individuals and families will pick themselves up. They won\u2019t wait around. There are not very many people in this country that wait around for the government, but New Orleans was one of them. Well, that\u2019s what liberalism does to people. They wait. They don\u2019t take charge of their own lives. This is not gonna happen here. This disaster illustrates what a president cannot do. This disaster illustrates what a government cannot do. And to me that\u2019s what this election\u2019s all about. Government\u2019s become way too big, way too important, way too big a factor.<\/p>\n
Way too many people have shucked their own responsibility, they\u2019ve set aside their own ambition and ability in exchange for government coming along and doing something to help. Way too many people are in that circumstance, and it\u2019s a disservice to those people that they\u2019ve been led down that path. Churches, synagogues, other faith-based organizations, local communities, people, families, and, by the way, the private sector profit motive is going to play a large factor in stuff getting rebuilt. Don\u2019t think that it won\u2019t. There are insurance companies. New Jersey\u2019s gonna get rebuilt just like San Francisco rebuilt after the earthquake and just like any other community has after a hurricane. The area is gonna get rebuilt, Queens, all these areas, they\u2019re gonna get rebuilt because that\u2019s what Americans do. It\u2019s what Americans have always done. <\/p>\n
Politicians come and go, communities, neighborhoods, cultures are permanent. Obama can\u2019t wave a magic wand. There isn\u2019t one. He can\u2019t do anything, not substantively, to fix this. And nor can Christie, and nor can Bloomberg. It\u2019s not how it\u2019s going to happen, the fix for this. And it doesn\u2019t serve any purpose to run around like Governor Cuomo\u2019s doing and blame it on global warming to try to further another plank of liberalism and politics. I don\u2019t believe that people sitting in New Jersey and Queens, I don\u2019t think most of them really think that they can just sit around and do nothing and it\u2019s gonna magically get fixed. They built it in the first place. <\/p>\n
Chris Christie did not build what was destroyed, nor did Obama, nor did Bloomberg, nor did Clinton. In fact, after the BP oil spill, what did Obama do? He put a moratorium on drilling for oil and further hammered the region. If you want to talk about what he did for the Gulf, he handcuffed them even more. I just am of the opinion here that rather than look at this three day interval here in fear, “Oh, my God, how\u2019s this gonna help Obama?” What this is doing is illustrating what Obama can\u2019t do. This is illustrating what Obama can\u2019t do. No president can do, and that\u2019s what this election\u2019s about. Too many people have turned over too much of their lives to government thinking government\u2019s the answer, government can give \u2019em health care, government can give \u2019em this, and government can\u2019t. <\/p>\n
Look at the welfare numbers. We\u2019re spending $60,000 a year on every welfare recipient in this country, and we still got poverty. How does that happen? Seriously, how does $60,000 per person below the poverty line, and we\u2019ve still got poverty. How is that possible? We do it every year, and we\u2019ve been doing it since 1960. How is that possible? You think it might be because the people living in poverty don\u2019t do anything but get that money from the government? You think maybe that wasn\u2019t the purpose for the Great Society and LBJ and the Democrat Party to begin with, to create this level of dependence? They\u2019ve done a good job at it. I just think we got a great lesson here to teach everybody. <\/p>\n
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My thinking… (chuckles) I could be dead wrong about this. I just don\u2019t think the depth of the disappointment, the depth of the dissatisfaction with Obama can be reversed in three days with a storm where he doesn\u2019t fix anything, where he doesn\u2019t do anything. And sitting in the White House looking like a president isn\u2019t gonna cut it. He\u00c2\u2019s supposed to do that anyway.<\/p>\n
And, by the way, can we see the pictures of you in the Situation Room when four Americans were killed in Benghazi, sir? Can we finally hear what you knew and what you did when you found out that this was going on, and when did you find out it was going on? You have the gall to say at the store, (impression) \u00c2\u201cWe leave no one behind.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n
Tell that to Tyrone Woods and Christopher Stevens and the other two Americans.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u201cWe leave no one behind.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n
Not.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me amend, folks. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna work here. I\u2019m going to be honest that I don\u2019t know, \u2019cause I remember… I was telling some people the other night when people started expressing their fears and concern to me. I said, \u00c2\u201cWell, remember the late charge from the media and the Democrats in 2000, the Bush DUI?\u00c2\u201d That nearly cost Bush the election. And that happened late. I mean, in the last three or four days.<\/p>\n
What is undeniable here is that Obama was flying around all over the country doing his campaign appearances, and it wasn\u2019t working. So now this is the strategy. Sit around in the White House during the disaster to look presidential and then go out there with Christie. That\u2019s the latest strategery. The flying around wasn\u2019t working, and the way I know that is because… Folks, this is still weird to me.<\/p>\n
Sunday afternoon he leaves Washington for Florida and a campaign appearance on Monday. And on Sunday when he left, the forecasts for the storm were just as dire as they were the next day. And yet he spent the night in Florida on Sunday night and went back Monday morning without doing a campaign appearance. And they let it out because they thought it wouldn\u2019t look good if he wasn\u2019t in Washington when this happened.<\/p>\n
But he left town not worried about that. Something happened. Somebody on his staff said, \u00c2\u201cYou know, I\u2019m overruling you, Mr. President. We\u2019re taking you back. This is silly. These campaign appearances aren\u2019t working, but that\u2019s still weird to me.\u00c2\u201d You leave Sunday, when you know full well every bit the forecast on Monday. It\u00c2\u2019s no different in terms of the storm.<\/p>\n
You leave and you don\u2019t do the appearance and you make a big deal of flying home, maybe that\u2019s what it was. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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