{"id":293168,"date":"2018-11-28T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=293168"},"modified":"2018-11-29T07:21:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T12:21:34","slug":"im-living-rent-free-in-obamas-head-as-he-claims-credit-for-trumps-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/11\/28\/im-living-rent-free-in-obamas-head-as-he-claims-credit-for-trumps-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Living Rent-Free in Obama\u2019s Head as He Claims Credit for Trump\u2019s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay, so yesterday the former president, Barack Hussein Obama, who is just — this is pathetic. It is pathetic. Barack Obama, wherever he goes, is trying to claim credit for all of the good that is happening, primarily in the U.S. economy. But wherever it is, Obama is asking people (imitating Obama), “I want you to remember where it started and who to thank. That\u2019s right. I want you to say thank you.” He\u2019s saying this stuff to people.<\/p>\n

The degree to which we are threatened — that may be too strong a word, but I\u2019ll stick with it. The degree to which we are having to deal with people who are not psychologically secure, and by that I mean the majority of the American left, is frightening. So there is at Rice University a new political institute. It\u2019s the James A. Baker political institute. The James A. Baker who was secretary of state for George H. W. Bush. He\u2019s from the Bush branch of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Rice University is in Houston. So he\u2019s got this Baker think tank there. And they had Obama. That makes sense, doesn\u2019t it? The Bush wing of the Republican Party inviting former President Barack Hussein O to come down and basically rip the current Republican president at the James A. Baker Political Institute at Rice University.<\/p>\n

\"\"And Obama, you know, talk about (imitating Obama), “Suddenly America is the largest oil producer. Well, that was me, people. Say thank you<\/a>.” He said this! “That was me.” That was you? You tried to shut down oil production everywhere you could! You wouldn\u2019t authorize pipelines! You\u2019re building stupid windmills and solar panels everywhere! What do you mean, the oil boom is you?<\/p>\n

Look, you know, folks, I\u2019m gonna have to consciously dial it down here \u2019cause I don\u2019t know how it sounds with me being this mad or agitated or whatever. The last thing I want to do is upset any of you. But some of this stuff, you know, you deal with this garbage every day, you refute it every day, you disprove these people every day, and they still keep lying to people. And then the Drive-By Media is out there promoting and selling all of this BS at the same time.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s some more detail. We got some audio of this, so stand by. James A. Baker did some of the interviewing of Obama, along with Jon Meacham, who used to run Newsweek. \u201cWithout mentioning President Trump, former President Barack Obama praised his indictment-free tenure Tuesday during an invitation-only gala in Houston.<\/p>\n

\u201cObama\u2019s remarks came at the tail end of an hour-long interview with former Secretary of State James A. Baker III during the 25th anniversary celebration of the nonpartisan Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. \u2018Not only did I not get indicted, nobody in my administration got indicted,\u2019 Obama said to a crowd of more than 1,000. \u2018By the way, it was the only administration in modern history that that can be said about. In fact, nobody came close to being indicted, probably because the people who joined us were there for the right reasons.\u2019”<\/p>\n

A nonpartisan Republican think tank sponsored this. Now, this infuriates me more than I can say, but I\u2019m going to maintain my composure here, because the fact of the matter is that this man, Barack Hussein Obama, was a walking scandal by virtue of his leftist transformational policies to begin with. No scandal? How about, \u201cYou like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. You like your plan, you can keep your plan. My plan\u2019s gonna lower your premium $2,500 a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"I think Barack Obama oversaw some of the greatest scandal in our country. The politicization and the weaponization of the IRS. Hello, Lois Lerner. The weaponization, the politicization of the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the DNI, and everything to do with this investigation into Trump. You talk about corruption, the whole FBI, the leadership during Obama\u2019s era was corrupt.<\/p>\n

Our intelligence agencies were in on this. FISA courts might even be involved in it. And his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was allowed to create and maintain an illegal, hidden email server that facilitated the criminal exposure and mishandling of thousands of classified documents and allowed her to have a pay for play scheme with foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation off the record so that none of it was on government computer servers.<\/p>\n

By the way, have you seen what happened to donations to the Clinton Foundation since she lost<\/a>? They\u2019re like down 90% \u2019cause there\u2019s no reason to pay, because there won\u2019t be any play. Since Hillary\u2019s not in the White House, there\u2019s no reason to pay to try to influence her thinking. Clinton Foundation donations have practically come to an end. A screeching halt. Now the Clintons can\u2019t even fill arenas as they go out and try to prove that they are just as popular as Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Obama can run around and talk about nope, nobody on my team was indicted. That\u2019s because nobody had the guts to investigate! Nobody had the guts to criticize this administration! Obama had a boundary around him that never was gonna be permeated. It wasn\u2019t even gonna be approached. It\u2019s called race. This permitted the media to act like Obama was a straight arrow and a moderate, mainstream guy with the sharpest crease in his slacks any president had ever had.<\/p>\n

No accountability, constant platitudes, slobbering, fawning, favorable coverage. And now they get to hear about Obama talk about his scandal free presidency with zero pushback. They don\u2019t even talk about what happened in Benghazi. And if you don\u2019t, you\u2019re the problem. So now let\u2019s go to the \u2013 (interruption) is there one more to this? No, he did say about the oil that he was responsible for the boom. Suddenly America\u2019s the largest oil producer. “That was me, people. Say thank you.”<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is not where he\u2019s being interviewed by James A. Baker III. This is history professor and former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham or Meacham, I\u2019m not sure how he pronounces it and here\u2019s the first bite of their discussion.<\/p>\n