RUSH: Audio sound bites. Last night in Kansas City. Well, I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s in Kansas City or if he was interviewed by Kansas City station, KMBC-TV. The anchor, Lara Moritz, was interviewing President Obama. Obama said this…<\/p>\n
OBAMA: (haltingly) Ultimately I think that, uh, I will be judged based on, uhhh, the American people believing that I\u2019m fighting for them, and if next November they feel like I\u2019ve been on their side and, uh, I\u2019ve been workin\u2019 as hard as I can and have been getting, uh, some things done to move us in the right direction, I\u2019ll win. If they don\u2019t, then I\u2019ll lose, and, uh — that\u2019s not to say that the other candidate is irrelevant, but it does mean that I\u2019m probably gonna win or lose depending on their assessment of my stewardship.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that\u2019s partially true. He says here that he\u2019s “gonna be judged based on the American people believing he\u2019s fighting fpr them.” So he says, basically, he\u2019s gonna be elected on his good intentions. The American people believe he\u2019s in there fighting for them. If that\u2019s what he\u2019s relying on… I saw something also that the White House is gonna ignore the economy. They\u2019re not even going to talk about the economy during their reelection effort, which is a wise thing because they\u2019ve destroyed it! So I\u2019m sitting here today and yesterday and last week and the last week before that telling you, “If the election were held today, Obama loses and loses big, and it\u2019s not even close,” and guess what? (shuffling paper)<\/p>\n
Right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a story just cleared here from the Washington Times: “A Democratic polling firm said President Obama\u2019s already weak job-approval numbers are ‘worse than they appear\u2019 and he likely would lose the election if it were held today.” Everybody knows this. This is one of these famous internal polls, which means it\u2019s honest. This is one of those polls that they\u2019re paying for and conducting themselves. They need the truth. You know, an internal poll, a campaign poll, a presidential poll from inside the White House, those polls are never released. They\u2019re not trying to shape public opinion with it. They really want to get snapshot of where they are, and that\u2019s what this poll is.<\/p>\n
This is Public Polling Policy, a pro-Democrat firm. “For the first time in a year, Mr. Obama does not lead former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Public Policy Polling\u2019s monthly national poll on the 2012 presidential race. They are tied at 45 percent, and Mr. Obama is losing among independent voters by a margin of 49 percent to 44 percent.” Now, just yesterday we had that bogus NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll which told us: Guess what? The independents have had it! They forgot the way they voted in November, or they regret the way they voted in November, and they have ran back to Obama at breakneck speed. They are in love with Obama again! They want Obama to prevail in the debt fight, they want Obama to prevail in the debt ceiling, they want Obama to prevail in the budget. The independents have had it with the Republicans!<\/p>\n
All bets are off. There\u2019s no indication from this regime that they have any intention doing anything different whatsoever. They just want to double-down on what they\u2019ve done. For the vast majority of the American people, nobody\u2019s happy, nobody\u2019s looking down the road to the future with a rosy outlook. Well, maybe Apple, Incorporated. Maybe a couple of corporations that happen to be defying the odds, which always happens. No matter how bad the economy is, some people are always gonna do well in it, but the average American? No — and this PPP poll is right on the money.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I want to go back to this Obama sound bite because I got a couple that are companion sound bites after it that I want to play. He was in the White House, he wasn\u2019t in Kansas City, just did an interview for Kansas City local station, KMBC, infobabe Lara Moritz, and again, this is what he said about the next election.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: Ultimately I think that I will be judged —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: — based on the American people believing —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: — that I\u2019m fighting for them.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: And if next November they feel like I\u2019ve been on their side, and I\u2019ve been working as hard as I can and have been getting some things done to move us in the right direction, I\u2019ll win.<\/p>\n
RUSH: BS.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: If they don\u2019t, then I\u2019ll lose, and that\u2019s not to say that the other candidate is irrelevant, but it does mean that I\u2019m probably gonna win or lose depending on their assessment of my stewardship.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, he says, “based on the American people believing I\u2019m fighting for them.” Who? He\u2019s fighting for us. Against who? Who is Obama fighting? He\u2019s fighting us! He is fighting against the people of this country. He is governing against the will of the people of this country. Obamacare, his ideas on immigration, his ideas on anything are governing against the majority will of the people of this country. (imitating Obama) “The American people think I\u2019m fighting for them.” From the perspective of the American people, who, let\u2019s say there are some who think Obama is fighting for them, who is he fighting? Militant Islamists? Communists? Hugo Chavez? Who\u2019s he fighting? He\u2019s fighting Republicans. He\u2019s fighting conservatives. He\u2019s fighting other Americans.<\/p>\n
This is a president at war with his own country. Is he fighting against unemployment? No. Is he fighting for energy independence? Nope. Claims to be. Here\u2019s what Obama said back in February of 2009. This is on the Today Show, Matt Lauer said, “You\u2019ll know quickly how people feel about the job you did in office. You\u2019ll get a pretty good feel quickly about what\u2019s happened.”<\/p>\n
OBAMA: That\u2019s exactly right. And, you know, a year from now I think people are gonna see that we\u2019re starting to make some progress, but there\u2019s still gonna be some pain out there. If I don\u2019t have this done in three years, then there\u2019s gonna be a one-term proposition.<\/p>\n
TODD: The president says that the election is gonna be a referendum on himself. I can imagine how the White House campaign team is gonna spin this a little bit and they\u2019ll say something like, “Well, of course it will be somewhat about the president, but the idea of two visions is still going to be a matter, and it is still gonna be a choice at the end of the day.” We\u2019ll see. That\u2019s a classic Washington gaffe when somebody accidentally speaks the truth in one of those spin sessions.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Whoa. F. Chuck just said that Obama committed a gaffe because he told the truth. Now, what does that tell us? F. Chuck, (imitating F. Chuck) “I\u2019ve been trying to cover for the guy. We\u2019re doing everything we can to cover for the guy but he had to go out there and screw it all up by telling the truth so we gotta find a way to sell this or to spin it. Bad move for Obama to say the election will be a referendum on –” F. Chuck, you gotta realize you\u2019re dealing with a narcissist here. He wants the election to be about him.<\/p>\n
One more. Last night, I guess he was doing interviews all over the place from the White House, little bits and pieces of interviews. This is from Ohio 10 TV Eyeball News, the anchor Jerry Revish says, “There\u2019s still a lot of frustration from people continuing to wait for that change that you\u2019ve promised. They don\u2019t feel better off now than they were three years ago. How do you convince them that we\u2019re headed in the right direction?”<\/p>\n
OBAMA: The vast majority of people understand that this is something that we inherited, that when I came into office we\u2019d already lost four million jobs and then the few months after I got sworn in we lost another four million. What I think the American people want to know is there\u2019s a game plan for the future. What people want to know is that we\u2019re moving in the right direction, even if they\u2019re frustrated about how fast we\u2019re moving. We need to speed it up, but I think the trajectory is a good one.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s all Bush\u2019s fault, is what that means. Yeah, yeah, vast majority of people understand it\u2019s something that we inherited. I came into office, we\u2019d already lost four million jobs. No, not true. The massive layoffs began in November of 2008 after he won the election and before he was immaculated. That\u2019s when everybody\u2019s grandmother got pushed over the cliff. That\u2019s when it started because businesses, “Oh, my gosh, we\u2019re cooked,” because they had heard what the guy said, and that\u2019s when it all started. “And so what I think the American people want to know is there\u2019s a game plan in the future.” Damn right. Where\u2019s your plan?<\/p>\n
Mr. President, you don\u2019t have a budget. You don\u2019t have anything on paper. There\u2019s nothing anybody can go to and say, “This is what you believe or what you want,” particularly in the debt fight, which of course is by design. So he\u2019s banking on the fact that he still has the power of this messianic personality and the dominant mainstream media to continue getting away with the illusion that is Barack Obama, that they succeeded in convincing everybody of in 2008, and I don\u2019t buy it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so our Dear Leader — “Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm, mmm, mmm!” — says we\u2019re going in the right direction, and people gotta realize that he\u2019s fighting to them. What he doesn\u2019t realize is that Bill O\u2019Reilly owns that. Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s been looking out for us for ten years. There\u2019s no room for Obama be looking out for us \u2019cause O\u2019Reilly\u2019s got that sewn up. O\u2019Reilly\u2019s caring for us, so Obama\u2019s late to the show on that. So now he\u2019s, gone from, “Well, they know we\u2019re fighting. I\u2019m fighting for them.” Yeah, fighting who? And now the stimulus? “Hey, who cares about the results? It was my good intentions. That\u2019s all that counts.”<\/p>\n
The typical answer every time a leftist program ends up in the track or is a gigantic failure, they always end up saying, “Don\u2019t judge the outcome! Don\u2019t judge the results! Look at my heart. Look at my intentions.” Okay, I am more than willing, I\u2019m more than willing to challenge Obama\u2019s good intentions \u2019cause I think he got exactly what he wanted with all this. He said, “We\u2019re going in the right direction.” Really? “New claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, a government report showed, pointing to a labor market that\u2019s struggling to regain momentum after job growth faltered in the last two months.” I cannot stop laughing \u2019cause that\u2019s the only way I can keep from crying. Their headline: “Jobless Claims Rise Above Expectations.”<\/p>\n
Rise Above Expectations? Doesn\u2019t that sound like a good thing? When you see a headline: “Jobless Claims Rise Above Expectations,” wow, that\u2019s good news! This is classic journalistic malpractice. “Jobless Claims Rise Above Expectations.” Don\u2019t we all want to rise above our expectations? Everybody wants to outdo their expectations, everybody wants to do better than their expectations, and now our jobless claims? Why, they\u2019re rising above expectations! No! I\u2019m beginning to think the labor market must be racist to keep being so mean to Mr. Obama here, judging from the AP piece, consumers must be racist saboteurs as well. You know, Chuck Schumer and all these other people say, “Well, the economy is fine. It\u2019s just people are cowards and they refuse to go out and participate.” At any rate, the jobless numbers are way up. There\u2019s nothing good about them. We\u2019re not going in the right direction on unemployment, except maybe from Obama\u2019s point of view. This irresponsible headline notwithstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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