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RUSH: It\u2019s Greenville, New York. This is Ed. Welcome, sir. Nice to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Unfortunately, I think the conclusion that the Democrats drew from the 2008 election of Obama is that the majority of the American people are stupid and that\u2019s why they feel that they can get away with calling our military involvement in Libya something no more than, you know, a “kinetic” endeavor. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah. I don\u2019t disagree that they think people are stupid. They think everybody\u2019s stupid except them. Everybody around the world is. Clearly, they are elitists and “superiorists.” There\u2019s no question that they have an arrogant, condescending view toward everybody.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s unfortunate because, I mean, to me the election was really nothing more than Americans showing that they\u2019re gullible and naive and believing someone at face value when they say what they say as opposed to, you know, really looking into it and questioning what this person\u2019s actual motives are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It wasn\u2019t just about Obama. Don\u2019t forget there had been seven years of “Bush sucks!” There had been seven years of “Bush is an idiot!” There had been seven years of “Bush is murdering and destroying America\u2019s image in the world!” Seven years of “Bush can\u2019t talk!” Seven years of “We\u2019re on the verge of a recession,” seven years of “We\u2019re on the verge of an economic collapse,” seven years of the country being laughed at around the country and around the world. So all they had to do was to put forth somebody who could speak. That\u2019s all they had to do, and they took care of the rest. <\/p>\n

They manufactured the image of competence. They manufactured The Messiah image, the media. They manufactured all of this. But he did not win in a landslide. And it took them, it took the media and the Democrat Party, seven years to bring this about. They also had some assistance. The Republicans themselves did not offer a lot of help. I mean, you had wild spending; you had a new entitlement created by Republicans; you had McCain-Feingold hich kind of blew up the First Amendment that the Republicans were behind and supported. You had over-the-top spending. So there was a confluence of events here, and Obama — as untested, unknown — was a canvas, an empty canvas, and you could make him whatever you wanted him to be. <\/p>\n

And if you wanted anything opposite what had happened or other than what was happening, that\u2019s the role he\u2019d fill. People, I think, were not specifically voting for him. I mean, you had a group of people who got caught up in all of this messianic stuff — and we had a lousy candidate. Our lousy candidate was tied with Obama until September when this financial meltdown began. So it wasn\u2019t just that the people of this country just abandoned all sanity and invested in a slate full of lies. It was a carefully orchestrated, manufactured seven years. <\/p>\n

It took a long time. And let\u2019s throw into the mix that the administration of Bush never defended themselves. Karl Rove has now said that that\u2019s one of the mistakes that he admits they made, wishes they could have a do over on that. But, regardless, everybody thinks that people are stupid. I\u2019ll guarantee you I have people in the audience out there, Ed, who are just cheering you on. “Yeah, Americans are stupid, Rush! You have too much faith in people. He\u2019s right. The American people are stupid.” A lot of people think this, and you really can\u2019t blame \u2019em in a lot of regards given what we\u2019re faced with here.<\/p>\n

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