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RUSH: Andrew in Lakeland, Florida, glad you called. Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening to you even before I knew what the radio was.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: And it\u2019s great to talk to you now. I was listening to the show today, and I was browsing Drudge Report, and I thought you would find this funny. Obama, the one that wants to give everybody who can\u2019t afford anything the Obama phone,<\/a> now he\u2019s asking people to give up their stuff. On his website today — I\u2019m reading this — it\u2019s called, “The Obama Event Registry.” Have you heard of this?<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: The Obama Event Registry? Yes, just today. I didn\u2019t study it. Somebody sent me an e-mail about it with a Web link in a commercial break. I didn\u2019t have time to look at it. But yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It says, “Let your friends know how important the election is. Register with Obama and forego your gifts and give him a donation instead of a gift.” So now on the one day that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It looks like a wedding invitation, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. On weddings, birthday, anniversaries, just give up what your friends want to give to you and give it to Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I also saw there\u2019s a fundraising letter from Michelle and she tells people that when they were living in Chicago and they were poor, and it snowed, Obama went out there and shoveled the sidewalk for her so she wouldn\u2019t fall when she left the house.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Isn\u2019t that great?<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he\u2019s doing the same for us. It\u2019s a fundraising letter.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Obama is your spouse, too. Is the theme.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to Andrew in Lakeland, Florida. Here\u2019s this Michelle letter. I wanted to read it to you so you could hear it on the phone.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right, go for it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It starts out this way: “For the first 10 years of our marriage, Barack and I lived in an apartment in my hometown of Chicago. The winters there can be pretty harsh, but no matter how snowy or icy it got, Barack would head out into the cold — shovel in hand…” Do they not get the irony here? She\u2019s got Obama leaving the family abode with a shovel. Here\u2019s a guy that promised shovel-ready jobs and then joked about them. He leaves the family abode, “shovel in hand — to dig my car out before I went to work. In all our years of marriage, he\u2019s always looked out for me.<\/p>\n

“Now, I see that same commitment every day to you and to this country. The only way we\u2019ll win this election is if we can rely on one another like that, all the way to November 6th. You should know that your recent donation means a lot to both of us. Barack is working hard, but he can\u2019t do this alone — he needs your help. Will you make another donation today to build this campaign? When you do, you\u2019ll be automatically entered to join Barack and me for a casual dinner.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m surprised that he doesn\u2019t have us helping shovel snow so he can get his way from Hole 9 to Hole 10 on the golf course.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, why would he have time to shovel snow for Michelle when he\u2019s too busy having Popsicles with his daughters?” But, hey, I guess he\u2019s the savior, so…<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know why Michelle is leaving the house. She had a no-show job.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right!<\/p>\n

RUSH: When there\u2019s ice and snow on the ground, stay home.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Obama was shoveling the place so he could leave, if he even did that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yes, exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, yes, this wedding invitation thing you saw is a new name for “redistribution.” Instead of giving… Let\u2019s say your best friend\u2019s getting married. Instead of getting them a gift, tell them that you\u2019re donating to Obama instead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can you imagine what they would say? “Yeah, I gave my gift — your new gift — to Obama. Hope you support him.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know. “You were registered there at Neiman Marcus.”<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: “And instead of getting you the gravy boat, I decided to spend the equivalent on Obama for President.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. The funny thing is, even people commenting on Obama\u2019s site don\u2019t like it. All the comments are negative. Even people who are on his side can\u2019t believe he\u2019s doing it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s becoming, in a lot of ways, a laughing stock. In Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals, one of the many rules it hypothesizes is: “Heap ridicule on your opponent.” That\u2019s the one thing that they can\u2019t answer. It\u2019s the one thing that they can\u2019t do anything about, is when you ridicule them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s starting to happen to Obama. But this invitation thing that you saw, it\u2019s just crass. And it also smacks of desperation. The story was yesterday. We had it. He\u2019s spending more money than he\u2019s collecting — which is no surprise, actually, given the way he spends.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not noticing this stuff in a vacuum, Andrew. I\u2019ve been telling people for 23 years: It\u2019s not just you noticing this stuff. A lot of people are. And I\u2019ll sit here and tell you: I have not changed my mind. I think it is right now much worse for the Democrats in the White House in their reelect effort than anybody (particularly in the Drive-By Media) wants to admit or recognize. But I think they\u2019re in full-fledged panic, and I think they\u2019re waiting with baited breath to see what happens with Obamacare next week.<\/p>\n

But this is nowhere near where I thought they would be, and I\u2019m sure they thought that Romney would be the never-ending joke once he got the nomination. I don\u2019t think they expected the kind of rapid response they\u2019re getting from Romney to some of the attacks. So I think he\u2019s in a heap of big trouble. And it would be only logical. What about anything that\u2019s happening in this country does anybody want more of?<\/p>\n

I know. “The people on welfare want more.” Of course. But I\u2019m talking about the people who make the country work. There\u2019s still more of those than not, and a lot of people who are unemployed want to go back to work. Work is how most people identify themselves. It\u2019s where they take their sense of identity. Most people don\u2019t like sitting around doing nothing. It\u2019s easy to think that most people do. It\u2019s easy to think it\u2019s a nation of slackers, but I don\u2019t think that we\u2019re there yet.<\/p>\n

A lot of people do. They disagree with me. They think I\u2019m looking at things through rose-colored glasses.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I checked the e-mail as I always do during the break. And there\u2019s some people that do not believe our caller Andrew. They thought he was making it up about Obama asking you to forego wedding gifts. He\u2019s not. This is at the Drudge page. It\u2019s called the Obama Event Registry. And here\u2019s what it says. “Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up? Let your friends know how important this election is to you — register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It\u00c2\u2019s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it\u00c2\u2019s a gift that we can all appreciate — and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.”<\/p>\n

He was not making it up. The Obama Event Registry. You can click on “register with Obama 2012.” You\u2019re getting married or you have a birthday. You\u2019re supposed to tell your guests to donate to Obama instead to you. It\u2019s right here. Obama is asking people getting married to forego gifts for themselves and ask their guests to donate to him. It\u2019s a guy calling other people greedy and selfish. Exactly right. Now Valerie Jarrett\u2019s daughter got married not long ago. Did she forego gifts? Valerie Jarrett\u2019s daughter. Did Obama ask Valerie Jarrett\u2019s daughter to ask her wedding guests to send money to him? No way. You know it didn\u2019t happen. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: How long is it going to be before Obama starts asking people to remember his campaign in their wills? You can see it now, a website, (Obama impression) “If one of my death panels determines your life is to end, please remember my re-election campaign in your will.” It\u2019s just as brazen as asking you to forget wedding gifts and give them to him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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