{"id":14633,"date":"2012-09-10T17:43:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-10T17:43:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T17:43:31","slug":"do_americans_pity_their_president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/10\/do_americans_pity_their_president\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Americans Pity Their President?"},"content":{"rendered":"RUSH: It\u2019s an interesting take. “Why Obama is Pitied. It\u2019s Kyle Smith in the New York Post. He does movie reviews now and then. He writes on Sundays. Here\u2019s how he starts the piece. <\/p>\n“Two hours after getting drunk on the rhetorical moonshine served up by Bill Clinton Wednesday night, delegates and hacks won\u00c2\u2019t stop believin\u00c2\u2019 there\u00c2\u2019s a decent place to get a real drink in this dismal Southern burg. We\u00c2\u2019re stumbling thirstily along South Tryon Street at 1:31 a.m. when a hunched lone figure is stopped by an excitable young woman. Dude is dressed all in black, scraggly beard, greasy hair, tiny frame. He\u00c2\u2019s so aggressively meek that he\u00c2\u2019s gotta be a celebrity of some sort. He looks like the rough draft they threw out when they were making Johnny Depp. Girls in iridescent cocktail dresses and freshly pressed hair have a better sense for these things than I. They flock around the little guy brandishing iPhones. He poses without smiling, then moves along, hands in pockets, the weight of fame pressing his head downward. ‘Who was that?'”<\/p>\n<\/p>\nSomebody says it was Jared Leto. Jared Leto, “rock star, a love object, a monster.” Obama supporter. Then he moves on. That\u2019s just how he began the piece, just to set it up. <\/p>\n“In 2004, Obama said, ‘We worship an awesome God in the blue states.\u2019 … But a flock of the faithless thrice cried ‘No!\u2019 when asked whether a single mention of God should be added to the party platform. They furiously booed when their voice vote was ignored. To put it mildly, booing God doesn\u00c2\u2019t look good when the world is watching, and the pundits were forced to hit pause on 30 years of asserting conventions are phony stage shows to admit that the Democrats had come up with something spontaneous, and it was spontaneous combustion. Who boos God? Who makes a fuss over one harmless word? Were they worried about offending the United Association of Satanists? Does Lucifer have a back-channel link to Valerie Jarrett?<\/p>\n“Obama did not mention the Lord (except for the ‘God bless you\u2019 stuff at the end) but did quote Scripture. It turns out the part he finds intriguing is the seven words that sound most like one of his campaign slogans: ‘Ours is a future filled with hope.\u2019 But according to the speech, ours is a future filled with the past. Thousands of words boiled down to three: ‘More of same.\u2019 Obama promised more unfunded ‘investments\u2019 of the kind he borrowed $5 trillion to buy in his first term — in the poor, in health care, in clean energy, in education, in regulations. He issued prickly defenses of previous bailouts and handouts. … ‘We reinvented a dying auto industry,\u2019 he claimed.” Except he ignored Ford. Biden runs out and says we saved a million jobs in the auto industry. The only problem is there are only 700,000 in the whole industry. <\/p>\n<\/a>“All auto manufacturing in the US combined employs only 700,000 people. Saving GM and Chrysler saved 1 million out of 700,000? Must be another lesson in what Obama called ‘Clinton arithmetic.\u2019 … Nor would GM have ceased to exist (Biden: ‘If the president didn\u00c2\u2019t act immediately, there wouldn\u00c2\u2019t be an industry left to save\u2019). Had it gone through an ordinary bankruptcy; it simply would have restructured and shed more of the union obligations that are a hazard to its long-term health. And far from thriving, GM (‘on top of the world\u2019 \u00c2\u2014 Biden) is about to fall into third place and its stock has been about as attractive as Groupon\u00c2\u2019s. Taxpayers got the sticker shock of $25 billion. And for that they didn\u00c2\u2019t even send you a Malibu. … So why did the crowd cheer? The answer was written on a bus parked outside the arena.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n“It was promoting an Obama-backing PAC, and emblazoned on its side was an elaborately painted image of the president and the legend, ‘STOP DISRESPECTING MY PRESIDENT!\u2019 … People didn\u00c2\u2019t feel that President Bush was them. To put the goal of defeating Obama so bluntly felt like singling out the nation\u00c2\u2019s most successful black man. It felt personal, it felt like disrespect.” His point here is that Obama is still pitied because he\u2019s the first black president in a bad economy and Romney, everybody running around talking about getting rid of this guy, people feel sorry for him. <\/p>\n“Obama is unlike any candidate in the way many millions of his supporters feel a personal connection to him, one that can be closely tied to race.” To many of them, any knock on Obama is a knock on all of them, the entire group. “Voters know, or think they know, that Obama means well, but they also know he has failed. Democrats know this also. … Even many white moderates who convene in focus groups speak in hushed tones of their personal fondness for Obama, or at least for his ‘story.\u2019 Catering to them is a group of the most polite and delicate attack ads in history, in which ordinary people first praise Obama before announcing their support for his challenger. Undecided voters say things like, ‘He\u00c2\u2019s trying,\u2019 but also things like, ‘Disappointing.\u2019 Obama is pitied.”<\/p>\nAnd Romney needs to tread carefully because of Obama\u2019s race. “He must not make things personal, must not indulge in name-calling of any kind, must not turn Obama into a victim. Yet in a sense Obama is the nation\u00c2\u2019s No. 1 victim, of the absurdly grandiose mythology he unabashedly encouraged.” I found it an interesting take. His real point here is that a majority of Obama\u2019s supporters are not rah-rah, want more, they just feel sorry for the poor guy. It\u2019s founded in his apparent likability and it seems like the world\u2019s ganged up on the poor guy and so forth. They just feel sorry for him, and that\u2019s why Romney better not go… it\u2019s why race is still a factor. He\u2019s still the first black president. Any criticism makes him a victim, and people in this country rally to victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s how he starts the piece. “Two hours after getting drunk on the rhetorical moonshine served up by Bill Clinton Wednesday night, delegates and hacks won\u00c2\u2019t stop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDo Americans Pity Their President? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/10\/do_americans_pity_their_president\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Do Americans Pity Their President? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: It\u2019s an interesting take. “Why Obama is Pitied. 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