{"id":26579,"date":"2007-08-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:05:20","slug":"overrated_barack_o_mcnabb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/08\/17\/overrated_barack_o_mcnabb\/","title":{"rendered":"Overrated: Barack O\u2019McNabb"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125107.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: You know what, folks? I think it\u2019s time for a new name for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and until it changes, until the way he\u2019s being treated by the Drive-Bys changes, I\u2019m going to start calling him &#8216;Barack O\u2019McNabb.\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you why. He\u2019s out there saying some of the most ridiculous things. McNabb doesn\u2019t say ridiculous things, don\u2019t misunderstand, but Obama is saying some of the most ridiculous, dangerous things. What he said about US troops bombing and killing civilians in Afghanistan, I really took him to task earlier this week over that, but nobody else is. He\u2019s got all kinds of statements out there that are really impolitic and irresponsible, and the Drive-Bys say, &#8216;Well, I\u2019ll tell you what he\u2019s trying to accomplish. He\u2019s trying to set himself apart from Mrs. Clinton.\u2019 So there is such a desire in the Drive-Bys that Obama do well, like there is in the NFL for people like McNabb to do well, that we\u2019re going to call him &#8216;Barack O\u2019McNabb.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Now, it may be starting to change. We go to the audio sound bites here. This morning on Good Morning America, Robin Roberts spoke with George Stephanopoulos, the ex-Clinton advisor who now has his own ABC show (I\u2019m still holding out for that offer to Karl Rove from one of the networks to get a gig like Stephanopoulos has), and she said, &#8216;Obama, a little extra pressure on Sunday, George?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>STEPHANOPOULOS: On this question of the experience it takes to be president, look at these numbers: 80% of voters believe that Hillary Clinton has the experience it takes to be president &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Stop the tape! Eighty percent of the voters in this country are thus idiots!<\/p>\n<p>STEPHANOPOULOS: &#8212; only 41% of the voters believe that Barack Obama has the experience it takes to be president. He\u2019s been pummeled on these issues over the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By who?<\/p>\n<p>STEPHANOPOULOS: What he\u2019s going to try to do on Sunday, Robin, is turn it around, a Jiu-Jitsu move, where he says all this criticism coming in is just the same old conventional wisdom in Washington. It\u2019s time for fundamental change.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We have that. We\u2019ve got that story. So the Democrats have their Sunday morning debate, for which they have a large audience because Democrats usually on Sunday mornings are at home. The Republican debate Sunday morning, of course, nobody saw it because they\u2019re in church. Democrats don\u2019t believe in that, separation of church and state. If you have your political candidates on Sunday morning on TV, you can\u2019t go to church without it being a violation of the Constitution. So, anyway, 80% of voters believe that Hillary has the experience it takes. That\u2019s stunning. That is a sheer testament to the puffball coverage of Mrs. Clinton and her husband ever since the early Nineties. What experience can you cite? What has she done? What really has she done? We\u2019ve been through this. You know all this. What is it that recommends her? She\u2019s a victim. &#8216;She stood by her husband. She had to go to Arkansas. She had to give up her whole future to go to the hayseed, hick state of Arkansas,\u2019 as far as the libs are concerned. She\u2019s never been an executive or run anything, is exactly right. (sigh) You know all this. We\u2019ve been through this. <\/p>\n<p>Back to Obama &#8212; or O\u2019McNabb, sorry, Barack O\u2019McNabb &#8212; &#8216;who accepts special interest money and played poker with lobbyist pals as an Illinois lawmaker, acknowledged Thursday that he swims in &#8216;the same muddy water\u2019 that corrupts Washington, but he pledged to reform the system if elected president. Presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton &#8216;doesn\u2019t recognize the problem,\u2019 Obama told The Associated Press. &#8216;I have a bunch of friends who were state lobbyists. The fact of the matter is &#8230; I played poker with them, so I don\u2019t think that lobbyists are evil,\u2019 said the first-term Illinois senator. &#8216;I just think they\u2019ve got an agenda and you got to be clear about that, and not pretend that they don\u2019t.&#8221; So he\u2019s going to bring a new voice to Washington. I\u2019ve never heard that position before, and then, in the New York Times. &#8216;Obama Takes Sharper Tone to the Trail\u2019 is the headline of the New York Times, and in this story it\u2019s really Michelle Obama who is going after Hillary on &#8216;truth\u2019 and the ability of Hillary to &#8216;run her own house.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Get this quote: &#8216;Even Michelle Obama presented a contrast here on Thursday as she introduced her husband in an open-air barn at the Cass County fairgrounds. She told a crowd&#8230;\u2019 (laughing) It\u2019s a joke what these people have to go through to be president. Go to (laughing) an open-air barn? What good is an open-air barn anyway? What would you put in an open-air barn? Anyway&#8230; &#8216;She told a crowd of more than 200 people that family values and trust were important in the next presidential candidate. &#8216;Our view is that if you can\u2019t run your own house, you certainly can\u2019t run the White House,\u2019 Mrs. Obama said.\u2019 She\u2019s referring to Mrs. Clinton. &#8216;Later, she added: &#8216;This election is about truth and authenticity. There is nothing more important than your word. Truth does matter,&#8221; and she\u2019s being lauded for this! She\u2019s being lauded for this attack on Mrs. Clinton. She\u2019s being lauded for her little tirade the other day on how everybody is just encumbered with fear. Imagine if Karl Rove had said this. The Drive-Bys would have gone berserk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You know what, folks? I think it\u2019s time for a new name for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and until it changes, until the way he\u2019s being treated by the Drive-Bys changes, I\u2019m going to start calling him &#8216;Barack O\u2019McNabb.\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you why. He\u2019s out there saying some of the most ridiculous things. 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