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RUSH: Ron, El Segundo, California. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Good to be with you, and good luck with your wedding anniversary coming up. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that. Even I remembered it. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I was just making a point about Obama and his competence. I think he\u2019s a very, very good politician as far as tactics. He\u2019s a very competent tactician. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think, as you do, that he\u2019s as incompetent. He may be more incompetent than competent, but I think he\u2019s more competent than you and other conservative talk show hosts give him credit for. Uh, what is your view on that? Am I making a valid point here? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019re going to have to define “competence.” If you want to talk strictly about political tactics, in order to achieve a desired result? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know. Everywhere you look a majority of people disagree with Obama. A majority oppose health care. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. <\/p>\n

RUSH: A majority oppose his Financial Regulatory Reform proposal. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. <\/p>\n

RUSH: So I think it\u2019s a big myth that the guy is competent. I think what fools everybody to think he\u2019s competent is that he sounds like an intellectual. He has a manner of speaking that conveys or connotes intellect, high intellect or being an intellectual. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. <\/p>\n

RUSH: But what is smart about what he\u2019s doing? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think in a way he does things that he thinks will be advantageous for him. For example, the Osama bin Laden killing or taking out of. I think he knows when to show himself to be a conservative. During the campaign, he showed himself to be very moderate. He said 95% will get a tax cut. He made comments about black fathers needing to be responsible that prompted Jesse Jackson to make that comment that he thought was off microphone. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but, see, now there\u2019s a record to measure all of that stuff against — and that\u2019s where he\u2019s going to have big problems and come up short. <\/p>\n

CALLER: And I think it\u2019s very ironic that the liberal media did not fear not knowing anything about Barack Obama but fear Sarah Palin knowing nothing about her either in the sense that she is competent. She will be a great president, and she will help America move forward — and that\u2019s a very, very blatant showing of what liberals really truly want for America. <\/p>\n

RUSH: That is well stated in a number of ways. Because one of the things — and, again, anecdotal, just the past two, three days, including in the e-mails, all this controversy that has arisen here about Palin ever since Annette called here and said: “Rush, you\u2019re missing the boat. The reason why women don\u2019t like Palin is she\u2019s a “10.” She\u2019s good looking, and they\u2019re just jealous.” The firestorm that inspired! It\u2019s being talked about on other broadcasts all across the country, and the e-mails I\u2019m getting obviously are in response to that, and the comments are based on that comment. There\u2019s maybe two e-mails in this — and no phone calls — in this whole period of time (the last two-and-a-half days) disagreeing. Only two people said: “Rush, I don\u2019t care about any of that. I just don\u2019t think she\u2019s qualified.” <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve only had two people say, “I don\u2019t think she\u2019s qualified.” Now, maybe that\u2019s because her qualifications aren\u2019t the subject being discussed, her appearance is. But even so, the door\u2019s been open here to tell us why you don\u2019t like Sarah Palin and nobody has said she\u2019s not qualified. So here we\u2019ve got Ron saying, “She\u2019s going to be the greatest president ever. She\u2019s going to move the country forward and do great things,” and the media is scared to death that\u2019s going to be the case. They didn\u2019t know anything about Obama and they don\u2019t care where Obama\u2019s taking the country. They don\u2019t care. He\u2019s right about that. We\u2019re sitting around, we\u2019re watching the country disintegrate in front of our eyes and they don\u2019t care. All they care about is, “Will he continue to get away with it?” <\/p>\n

Issue by issue it\u2019s, “How will this affect Obama? How will this affect this re-election?” <\/p>\n

Uh, Mr. Matthews, are you concerned that he\u2019s destroying the economy? <\/p>\n

“No, I only care about his re-election.”<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t care. They have no interest in that. Because everything in politics is a war. The decency, the goodness, what\u2019s right for the country is not what\u2019s on the table. The left is circling the wagons to protect their Weiner. They\u2019re circling their wagons to protect Obama, they\u2019re circling the wagons to protect liberalism. The country? “Meh, we\u2019ll deal with that later.” The media think Obama is one of them. They think Palin is not one of them, even though she went to journalism school; Obama didn\u2019t. The media believed they and Obama are one, that they are from the same class, that they are from the same ideological stripe and so forth. So there\u2019s a kinship there. What he\u2019s doing to the country policy wise they couldn\u2019t care less. In fact, their frustration is that his approval numbers are not higher given how hard he\u2019s trying and how “smart” he is and, “Why don\u2019t people appreciate him as much as we do?”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: I just once again checked the e-mail. “Rush, what about this with Obama? You often talk about the question: Is he just full of fettered, leftist ideology or is he incompetent?” This is what this caller just brought up. I think, folks, it\u2019s interesting and fun. It\u2019s ultimately a waste of time to choose whether or not Obama\u2019s incompetent, unqualified, what have you, or ideological. The fact that he is full fledged liberal socialist makes him incompetent as far as I\u2019m concerned. If you have a modicum of intelligence, especially now, you have to understand it doesn\u2019t work. So if you have a modicum of intelligence, you understand it doesn\u2019t work and you persist with it, then we\u2019re not talking about, “Are you an ideologue or are you incompetent?” We\u2019re talking about something entirely, entirely different motivation, purpose or what have you. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not talking about somebody\u2019s accidentally screwing something up here. Whatever is going on, for whatever reason, it is purposeful. But to my way of thinking, incompetent and liberalism are one in the same. Incompetence and stupidity, liberalism, are one in the same within the political realm. That\u2019s why it was so easy for me to say, “I hope he fails.” It didn\u2019t even require much thought. You remember, the genesis of this was the Wall Street Journal, before the immaculation, was asking people to write 400 words on their hopes and dreams for the country and Obama and blah, blah, blah; and I said, “I don\u2019t need 400 words. I can do it in four: ‘I hope he fails.'” Kablooey! (chuckles) That was January 16th, 2009.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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