{"id":213715,"date":"2016-06-02T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/02\/an_obama_post_presidency_preview\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:26:31","slug":"an_obama_post_presidency_preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/02\/an_obama_post_presidency_preview\/","title":{"rendered":"An Obama Post-Presidency Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019m serious.  I made this prediction, and I meant it.  It\u2019s deadly serious, folks. Well, not deadly.  But it\u2019s politically serious.  If I\u2019m right about this, it\u2019s unprecedented.  Well, slightly unprecedented.  Bill Clinton at least went overseas to rip on George W. Bush.  And Algore went overseas to rip on George W. Bush during his first term. <\/p>\n

But Obama is gonna stay in Washington<\/a>.  He\u2019s already bought the house.  It\u2019s the house that was owned by Joe Lockhart.  Well, he\u2019s renting the house.  Who knew, by the way, that White House press secretaries make enough money to buy $9 million dollar houses, with seven bedrooms and 17 and a half bathrooms or whatever it is.  Lockhart now works for the NFL, spokesman or communications director. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Anyway, my point is that it\u2019s unprecedented.  Presidents, after they leave Washington after one or two terms, they go to their hometowns, wherever they are, or they just slink away.  And custom has it that they shut up.  They\u2019ve had their time, and it\u2019s a matter of respect that the new president is given whatever honeymoon period, or what have you.  But, even beyond the honeymoon period, it\u2019s just been SOP, standard operating procedure, that ex-presidents do not comment. <\/p>\n

And I know for a fact — I mean, it hasn\u2019t happened yet, but I am as certain of this as I\u2019ve been of anything that Obama is gonna comment on anything that happens that might lead to unraveling his agenda, and it isn\u2019t gonna take him long at all.  And all I\u2019m telling you is we got a preview of it yesterday in Elkhart, Indiana.  Obama is chomping at the bit to get involved in this campaign.  He can\u2019t stand not being part of this. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll tell you why.  It\u2019s because the Democrat candidate is such a dryball.  The Democrat candidate may as well be an empty podium versus Donald Trump out there, who\u2019s everything Trump is. All the pizzazz, all the excitement, all the energy, all of the focus.  Whether there\u2019s controversy involved or not, there is lots of energy, there\u2019s lots of pizzazz, there\u2019s lots of showbiz, everything Obama dreams of recapturing for himself, you know, that he had in the campaign of \u201908 and into his first term.  He\u2019s just chomping at the bit. <\/p>\n

In fact, there was even a leak, a CNN story. An unnamed White House source, someone who apparently is close enough to Obama, leaked that “Obama was chomping at the bit to get out and ‘get people fired up\u2019 about the upcoming election,” a White House source told CNN<\/a>.  But then they said, “Obama will remain largely on the sidelines until the Democrats have a nominee. Obama expects to ‘explode onto the scene\u2019 once the nominee is selected and ‘knows his power\u2019 to fire up the Democratic base, the source said. ‘It\u2019s driving him crazy\u2019 to be mostly hands-off, the source added.”<\/p>\n

Now, this is passed off as a leak.  Let me ask you something.  There aren\u2019t any leaks like this that come out of the Obama White House. This was not a leak.  This was a strategically planned leak.  Somebody called CNN and said (excitedly), “Hey, I got a — I got a — I got a quick bit of news here for you!  Nobody knows that I\u2019m telling you this, so leave my name out of it, but guess what?  Obama\u2019s chomping at the bit!  He\u2019s going crazy watching this campaign.  He can\u2019t believe it! He\u2019s looking at the campaign and he can\u2019t believe what he\u2019s seeing!<\/p>\n

“He can\u2019t wait to get out there and correct the record,” blah, blah, blah.  And it\u2019s being portrayed as somebody has betrayed Obama. But it\u2019s not a big betrayal, but still has spoken out of turn.  And that\u2019s not true.  This is all planned.  Obama wants it out there that he\u2019s chomping at the bit.  And let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites.  And, by the way, you\u2019re gonna find out what it\u2019s like when somebody takes a teleprompter away from Barry.  And this is not the first time this has happened, by the way. It\u2019s like our third sound bite coming up here, where Obama just stammers.<\/line><\/p>\n

When the subject of Trump comes up, he can\u2019t talk. <\/p>\n

He starts stuttering left and right using slang lingo that you have to look up. I had to go to the Urban Dictionary to find a definition for something he said.  So let\u2019s get started.  It\u2019s his usual rant against me and Fox News, his usual rant that me and Fox News are totally destroying his accomplishments. We are destroying his legacy by, of course, lying about it.  We\u2019re lying about how bad his great economy is. We\u2019re lying about how bad his great detail health care system is. We are poisoning the minds of people. We\u2019ve been doing it for 7-1\/2 years, and he\u2019s sick and tired of it.  He\u2019s had it! <\/p>\n

So it was yesterday afternoon in Elkhart, Indiana.  Here\u2019s the first of three bites…<\/p>\n