{"id":28700,"date":"2008-03-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:05:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:05:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:05:38","slug":"guilt_by_association_and_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/17\/guilt_by_association_and_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilt by Association and Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Here is Jerry, as we go back to the phones, of Fort Myers, Florida. Nice to have you here, Jerry.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much for taking my call. It\u2019s an honor to be on your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. A couple months ago I was researching various candidates\u2019 positions on different topics.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You actually do that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. I do that. I try to take a look at, you know, at the field and just see what it is that, you know, different people think, and gee, just trying to be informed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you do this with Democrats, too?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I was researching Obama in this case.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because you were thinking maybe of voting for Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughter) Oh, God no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. I\u2019m genuinely curious. Most people spend most of their time researching people they hope to vote for, they want to vote for to find out if it\u2019s going to be a waste of time or if they\u2019re worthy of their vote. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, actually, you know, I\u2019m of the opinion prob — The listener to your show, the average or most probable listener is probably going to research the field simply in order to know what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad to hear that you\u2019re doing that. You\u2019re probably right about the audience of this program. What did you find when you researched Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Well, I found that he had opposed legislation in Illinois which came to be known as the guilt-by-association legislation. Apparently he was successful in his opposition of this thing. What it would have done is made it a parole violation, or at least illegal in some capacity, for someone who was on parole to associate with a known gang member or criminal, okay? It would have made it a felony. And his reasoning — and I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t have all the stuff in front of me —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so there was a bill? What was this called?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Called the guilt-by-association legislation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Guilt-by-association bill. And he voted against it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. He was against this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was against penalizing people who were on parole for hanging around with racketeers?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You got it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he wanted people on parole to be able to hang around with the criminal element in Illinois?<\/p>\n

CALLER: His reasoning… I find a parallel to the Jeremiah Wright situation in his reasoning at that time. What he said, in concept — and I don\u2019t know his exact words, I don\u2019t have the quote, but what he said — was that the black youth were so intertwined with gang culture in their every day life —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and family and just the people they know on the street and school, that they would never be able to get away from these associations of family members and such —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Holy hell!<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and never be able to do anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where is Al Sharpton on this? You just had Barack Obama say that the whole black community is criminally disposed —<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and convicted, and it\u2019s impossible to avoid the criminal element when you\u2019re hanging around —<\/p>\n

CALLER: He said that. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — a black neighborhood?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. He said that they had no choice, so they all get a pass. Now, by extension, a couple of things come up for me. One: Is this how he excuses himself from his own associations, from Ayres, from the black liberation rhetoric? Does he think that as a black politician, he can\u2019t avoid it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, he might be saying, ‘Yeah, because of my race, because of my business, I can\u2019t avoid criminals. I can\u2019t avoid them. So, you know, William Ayres, the Weather Underground, and Rezko, Reverend J. Wright, I can\u2019t avoid these people. You can\u2019t hold me accountable, so don\u2019t. Guilt by association is against the law in Illinois and will be against the law in the Obama administration.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is funny. This is hilarious.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: But, again, note who it is that\u2019s insulting the black neighborhoods of America? It\u2019s Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s precisely correct. So I can\u2019t understand that his vision for any sort of positive change. If he believes that the black community is only united by their lowest common denominator, what on earth does he think he\u2019s going to do as president except impose Big-Government solutions upon them?<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is important because it gets back to what Obama\u2019s real view of the country is, and we don\u2019t know. We really don\u2019t know. We know other people are writing these flowery speeches for him, like David Axelrod. We know that the preacher says what he says. We know that Michelle Obama is out there parroting some of what the preacher says. So these are valid questions, but we\u2019ve gotta get this to Hillary. Where did you find this in your research, do you remember? Do you remember the source?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t remember the name of the website, but I was Googling Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It doesn\u2019t matter. We can find it, we can find it. Guilt-by-association legislation. We\u2019ll find it. We gotta get this to Hillary. See, somebody on the Democrat side needs to come out and say, during this legislation debate in Chicago, ‘Barack Obama voted against the guilt-by-association bill because he said it\u2019s not possible for young blacks or any black to avoid the criminal element in their neighborhoods.\u2019 Whew, baby! We gotta get this to Hillary!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The first thing, and we\u2019re still looking for this ourselves, still doing research on the guilt-by-association act in Illinois that Obama was opposed to. We had a caller who said he researched Obama and found that Obama had opposed the Illinois guilt-by-association act, and what it did, is it would not allow people on parole to fraternize with the criminal element — racketeers and others — who have found themselves in the clink. Obama voted against it, and the stated reason that he gave was that it would be impossible for black people to avoid, in their own neighborhoods and communities, people who had been in the criminal element. It would not be possible. Now, stop and think about this. This is a Democrat saying this about the black population of the country. If this is true — and I\u2019m not doubting the caller; it\u2019s just we want to confirm these things ourselves — if this is true, and of course if we give this the large megaphone, this is the kind of thing that sends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson over the edge, I wonder what their reaction to that will be. Mrs. Clinton, if this is true — and if we can find evidence, documentary evidence that indeed Obama said this, and this is his rationale for opposing the guilt-by-association act — it\u2019s made to order for her on a silver platter. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We, so far, ladies and gentlemen, have been unable to find anything on the state of Illinois legislative website about the guilt-by-association act. We may have been scammed, but we weren\u2019t scammed because we were always cautionary about accepting this. We\u2019ve been looking. I\u2019ve had a couple people looking at it for the last hour, and they can\u2019t find it. It doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not there; we are talking about Illinois. But it\u2019s not readily discoverable. So we will continue our exhaustive search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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