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RUSH: We go back to the phones now and John in Jacksonville. Thanks much for waiting. I appreciate it, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, sir. How you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I was watching Good Morning America, and they had Obama on, and he was actually trying to defend himself against all these Clinton attacks. For some reason, the news media people can\u2019t figure out what he\u2019s doing. All he\u2019s doing is running interference for Hillary Clinton to win Super Tuesday coming up. I don\u2019t know why they can\u2019t figure that out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama is running interference for —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, Bill Clinton is against Obama. Obama is trying to defend himself against the Clinton —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay. We\u2019ve got some sound bites from this. I\u2019m going to use your call out there, John, to get into these sound bites. Now, I said, listening last week, I made the point that Obama is actually being ganged up on. It\u2019s two against one out there. You got an ex-president and a sitting senator and they\u2019re ganging up on the guy, and they\u2019re telling lies about him. In fact, it was Monday, January 14th, let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bite. Well, I don\u2019t want to hear this because this is when my voice was good. This is going to make me jealous of myself. Well, let\u2019s play it.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Have you noticed it\u2019s Obama versus the Clintons, two against one. Obama campaigning against both of the Clintons. I wonder how well Mrs. Clinton would hold up if the shoe was on the other foot. That is, if she had to run against an ex-president and a senator. I think she\u2019d cry and complain about the unfairness.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so this morning on Good Morning America, actually taped yesterday, cohost Robin Roberts interviewing Obama, she said, ‘Do you feel at times you\u2019re taking on two candidates at once?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Oh, you know, there\u2019s no doubt that, you know, having President Clinton on the trail and attacking — spending most of his time attacking me could be a distraction during the course of the campaign. But anybody who\u2019s heard my wife Michelle on the stump knows that she\u2019s an incredible asset. So I feel like it balances out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then Robin Roberts said, ‘In a Newsweek article that\u2019s coming out this week, prominent Democrats are saying what he\u2019s doing is an inappropriate role for a former president to take such an aggressive role. Do you think it is inappropriate the role he has taken?&rdquo;<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I completely understand him wanting to promote his wife\u2019s candidacy, and Michelle is out there doing the same thing on my behalf. I do think that there should be some certain — there should be some standards of honesty in any political discourse. That\u2019s part of the change I want to bring about. If you have something that just directly contradicts the facts and it\u2019s coming from a former president, I think that\u2019s a problem because people presume that a former president is going to have more credibility, and I think there\u2019s certain responsibilities that are carried with that.<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: Anything else that you want to set the record straight that he said one thing about you and you\u2019re now saying it\u2019s false?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: President Clinton went in front of a large group and said that I had claimed that only Republicans had had any good ideas since 1980, and then he added, ‘I am not making this up.\u2019 He was making it up, and completely mischaracterizing my statement.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Clinton\u2019s not going to go away; he\u2019s not going to shut up. That\u2019s what they do. (doing Clinton impression) ‘Yeah, you\u2019re right about that Limbaugh. I lie and I lie about everybody else because they believe what I say.\u2019 I can\u2019t do Clinton because I need to breath diaphragmatically. I can do McCain. (doing McCain impression) ‘Yeah, do me. I need the attention.\u2019 Fine. David Plouffe, one of Obama\u2019s guys. ‘In a sufficient succinct statement amended to a released quotation from his boss Obama said the Obama campaign was investigating more than 200 reports of irregularities in Nevada. We currently have reports of over 200 separate incidents of trouble at caucus sites including doors being closed over 30 minutes early, registration forms running out so people were turned away, ID being requested and checked in a nonuniform fashion, this in addition to the Clinton campaign\u2019s efforts to confuse voters and call into question the at-large caucus sites.\u2019 Anyway, it\u2019s breaking out all over the place between Obama and the Clintons, and I think, to Obama\u2019s credit, he doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019s whining about it, and he seems to be fending it off. I think he\u2019s just trying to get the impression out to people that this is what\u2019s happening. Now, Clinton himself claims to have seen voter intimidation while Chelsea was standing by.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: Yesterday, when Chelsea and I were going through one of the hotels here and someone was, going behind us, saying ‘if you vote for Hillary, we are going to give you a job assignment that keeps you from going to the caucus.\u2019 And I haven\u2019t seen tactics like that in decades. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Come on, haven\u2019t seen — you authored tactics like that last week! Haven\u2019t seen tactics like this in America, what did he say, in decades? Yeah, and that\u2019s if it really happened in the first place. After all, it is Clinton saying he saw it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just trying to visualize here somebody walking behind two Clintons, somebody walking behind Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton would say out loud that your job is endangered if you vote for Hillary Clinton. I\u2019m just having trouble visualizing this, here\u2019s Clinton walking through — what strip club was he in? I understand he\u2019d get the stripper vote sort of wrapped up for Hillary. So here\u2019s Clinton, he\u2019s walking through the casino, wherever he\u2019s walking through, the caucus, some idiot standing right behind him is going to say in a loud enough voice, ‘Hey, your job at the union, you vote for Hillary and your job\u2019s in danger,\u2019 somebody going to say that with Clinton right there? I just don\u2019t buy it, folks. I just don\u2019t buy it. And, by the way, speaking of Clinton, here\u2019s something else. Mr. Obama, we like you here at the EIB Network, and we want to help you. Here\u2019s something you might raise. This is a question, next time you do an interview, and you might say it exactly this way, or close to it: ‘If the former president, Bill Clinton, cannot control himself during the course of a campaign, imagine how out of control he\u2019s going to be back in the White House?\u2019 I\u2019m not talking about the sexual stuff, but the setting of policy and interfering with governing generally. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say that Hillary proposes her massive economic plan, discussed here in the New York Times: ‘For Clinton, Government as Economic Prod.\u2019 The whole basis of her economic plan, income inequality and get-even-with-\u2019em-ism, and here\u2019s what she said. ‘I want to get back to the appropriate balance of power between government and the market.\u2019 The appropriate balance of power between the government and the market? You know what that means. So, Hillary gets elected and she\u2019s trying to implement this massive economic plan, which is going to freeze foreclosures for 90 days; she\u2019s going to freeze interest rates for 90 days, and let\u2019s add in, she\u2019s going to freeze stock prices for 90 days. If she can freeze foreclosures and freeze interest rates, why not stop the stock market spindle? I mean, it\u2019s heading down, why not just put a floor on it, say no stock\u2019s going to go below X price. ‘Well, Rush, she can\u2019t do that.\u2019 Well, why can she suspend interest rates for 90 days, or foreclosures. So let\u2019s say she implements the plan, and some people up on Capitol Hill don\u2019t like it, is Bill Clinton going to be running around all over the place? Yes, trashing the people. <\/p>\n

Now, the truth may be that it could backfire. The Democrats really want Bill back in the White House, Hillary\u2019s just the vehicle, the transition, the driving board, the what have you. Regardless, he\u2019ll be back in the White House, but he\u2019s not going to be allowed to do anything officially. We just do the best we can, folks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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