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RUSH: Late yesterday afternoon, this is in the Coral Gables, this is at a fundraiser, this is after Obama sang the praises of pond scum<\/a> as the next substitute for oil.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We\u2019ve gotta make sure that everybody\u2019s doing their fair share. Everybody needs a fair shot, everybody\u2019s gotta play by the same set of rules, everybody\u2019s gotta do their fair share. Everybody\u2019s gotta do their part! Everybody in this room, we are here, successful, because somebody down the road have not just thinkin\u2019 about themselves, they were takin\u2019 responsibility for the country as a whole.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: What an absolute crock! That is the exact opposite of what goes on. That is his translation of Karl Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” This is absolutely full of it. “Everybody gotta do their part. Everybody in this room, we\u2019re here, successful, \u2019cause somebody down the road was not just thinkin\u2019 about themselves, they were takin\u2019 responsibility for the country as a whole.” That is not what propelled this country! This country was propelled by rugged individualism and rugged self-interest, and it was made possible by virtue of the freedom this country offers its citizens thanks to our Constitution, founding documents, and Founding Fathers.<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, this may be a fine line. Obama wants you to think that everybody that he deems “successful” is first thinking of government and then, second, thinking of government, and then the last thing they think of is government, and everything they do is oriented toward making the government better. And that isn\u2019t true. Most people today are finding a way to avoid the government! Because of guys like Obama, most people are trying to find a way to evade the government. Because the government, run by guys like Obama, is an obstacle. It\u2019s in people\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the next sound bite.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We\u2019re not gonna win the race for new jobs and new businesses and middle class security if we\u2019re responding to today\u2019s challenges with the same old, tired worn out “you\u2019re on your own” economics that hasn\u2019t worked. What these other guys are peddling has not worked. It didn\u2019t work in the decade before the Great Depression. It did not work in the decade before I became president. It will not work now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you believe this? The country has never worked. Capitalism has never worked. America was not great until the New Deal, and then America plunged into the abyss again, and only is on the path to reclaiming its greatness now that Obama is replicating the New Deal by a factor of ten. Has he ever heard of the Roaring Twenties? Has he ever heard of the boom in the fifties and the sixties and the seventies? Has he ever heard of what happened in the 1980s? It never worked? This is the second time he\u2019s said this in such a prominent way. Last time was when he made his speech, I guess it was in December, might have been January, the days run together so quickly now, in Osawatomie, Kansas, where he said, America, as founded, hasn\u2019t worked. <\/p>\n

Mr. President, you keep talking. And, by the way, Stan Greenberg has a memo <\/a>out there saying that what you\u2019re doing isn\u2019t working. Don\u2019t bother reading that memo. People aren\u2019t believing your lies about how great this country\u2019s doing, how great the economy\u2019s doing. They\u2019re not buying it \u2019cause they\u2019re not living it, sir. And contrary to you, most people don\u2019t get up every day and face the direction of Washington and bow down and pray. Government is not first and foremost in people\u2019s lives. That\u2019s not how Americans are wired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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