{"id":29805,"date":"2008-07-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:35:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:35:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:35:38","slug":"dems_flip_on_fisa_for_election2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/07\/10\/dems_flip_on_fisa_for_election2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Flip on FISA for Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Great illustration from the media monopoly known as the Associated Press here on the kid-glove coverage for the Lord Messiah Barack Obama by David Espo. This is a story about the Lord Messiah Obama\u2019s shift in voting for telecom immunity in the FISA bill. Reading this story is the Twilight Zone, begins this way: ‘Sen. Barack Obama\u2019s vote in favor of anti-terrorist surveillance legislation on Wednesday marked an about-face on the issue that left him comfortably in the bipartisan middle, no matter the criticism from John McCain nor the discomfort among liberal Democrats.\u2019 Now, David Espo, it says here is a special correspondent. This piece is not labeled commentary. Why should anything at the AP be labeled commentary? It all is commentary. Right out of the bat we get an opinion and instructions from David Espo to the reader on how they are to interpret this, and it\u2019s absurd. ‘Senator Barack Obama\u2019s vote in favor of anti-terrorist surveillance legislation on Wednesday marked an about-face on the issue that left him comfortably in the bipartisan middle\u2019? <\/p>\n

‘Given the choice between voting for an improved yet imperfect bill, and losing important surveillance tools, Senator Obama chose to support\u2019 the legislation, his office said, even though it contained a provision the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting had flatly opposed. Translation: With the general election looming, preventing another terrorist attack trumped fears that privacy rights may be violated.\u2019 Now, hell\u2019s bells, folks. You talk about giving somebody a pass, here is a man, a member of a party which has for the last year or longer done everything it can to weaken America\u2019s defenses and ability to be forewarned via surveillance of the next terrorist attack. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Democrat Party, have tried to undermine the FISA court, they\u2019ve tried to undermine the FISA bill, they have stood in the way every time it\u2019s come up for a vote, though, after all the huff and puff that they do, they eventually pass it. This passed two to one. <\/p>\n

Now, if it\u2019s important for Obama to size up the need to prevent another terrorist attack with an election coming, why was it irrelevant to protect the country from a terrorist attack a year ago when the election was not right around the corner? And yet Mr. Espo, the special correspondent of the Associated Press, finds absolutely nothing contradictory, finds absolutely nothing troubling about this whatsoever. So a year ago Obama can rail against FISA, rail and get his all his left-wing troops all railed up about the fact that Bush is spying on them, intercepting their phone calls, reading their computer e-mails, violating everybody\u2019s civil rights, now all of a sudden when there\u2019s an election out there, it\u2019s okay because we gotta stop terrorism? A year ago, two years ago, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Democrat Party tried to ensure defeat against terrorists in Iraq. Now with an election coming up, according to the AP, why, fabulously fine that Obama do a 180, \u2019cause we gotta stop terrorist attacks. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to be harsh here, ladies and gentlemen, but this is somewhat new, the Democrats placing defense against terrorism attacks at the top of their priority list. I\u2019m not going to say they don\u2019t care about it, but clearly it has not been one of their priorities, undermining it has been. But all of a sudden the election\u2019s coming up and the presidency is at stake and the Democrat Party thinks, you know what, we better do a flip-flop here, we better get our guy out there saying we care about terrorist attacks, we want them to be shut down before they happen. And right here, slavish, sycophant, this Espo guy is going to die of anal poisoning before it\u2019s all over he\u2019s following Democrats around so close to their rear ends. And I mean that\u2019s just one of many examples in this story. The dirty little secret is, Obama may have voted for this, and he may be doing all these so-called tacks to the center, t-a-c-k-s, but none of it means anything. What we have here, we don\u2019t have a flip-flopper. We have a politician of convenience who I swear I don\u2019t think you can pin down what he really thinks. Well, I can, but I mean the average voter, the average person listening to this paying scant attention has no idea who Obama is. And that\u2019s one of the points, is to try to obscure the fact that he is a radical leftist who wants to expand the federal government at whatever the cost, including individual liberty and freedom, but knows he can\u2019t get elected saying that. <\/p>\n

But this is just a great example of the incompetence, the inexperience that this man brings to the table, contrary to the image of a transcendent candidate, a transformational candidate. Somebody out there in the Democrat Party, some of you leftists who buy into this whole messiah thing, would you tell me what is different about anything Obama is doing? As a former Clinton advisor said in the LA Times today, ‘Reagan didn\u2019t tack to the center, Reagan moved the electorate to the right.\u2019 That\u2019s why they hated Reagan; that\u2019s why they fear Reagan; that\u2019s why they fear conservatism. Everybody else is in this for show. Obama moving to the center is for show. McCain joining the left and so forth, that\u2019s to create, craft, and maintain an image. Yet nobody\u2019s got the guts to actually do what moves the electorate when done properly with an articulate, charismatic leader. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bob in Tulare, California, welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s Tulare, Bob from Tulare.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t start doing Obama on me here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, look, look, we gotta resurrect a mantra from the Reagan era, and that is, we\u2019ve gotta say no. We gotta say no to B.O. because he\u2019s only got 143 days of experience. That smells. You know, he\u2019s telling us we gotta speak Spanish, we gotta learn Spanish, and that smells. And then I\u2019m pumping gas every three days in my truck to work trying to make a living and that smells because it\u2019s doubled in price. So you know what, we gotta just —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, he\u2019s got 143 takes of experience. He cannot speak Spanish. He\u2019s just embarrassed that Europeans think of the bitter clingers the way they do. And, of course, the only thing he\u2019s ever said about your rising gas prices is that he\u2019s upset how fast they went up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jack, Southborough, Massachusetts, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wonderful to speak to you, and I hate to criticize you \u2019cause I love you, but I think you made a mistake on the reason Barack voted for the FISA bill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s doubtful, but give it a shot.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I believe Mayor Daley\u2019s brother runs one of the large telecoms, so Barack being a loyal Chicago hack was told to vote for it, and he did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Could be. I don\u2019t doubt that. That\u2019s fine and you could be very right, and if you are right, I would applaud you, and it\u2019s not surprising to me. In fact, if that is the reason, that\u2019s even worse.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, of course he\u2019s going to follow. Mayor Daley will direct him what to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s worse for this reason. Remember, my focus on this story was the special correspondent from the monopolistic Associated Press, David Espo, who said that he was comfortably moving to the center now and that he switched his mind on this because, with an election coming up, it\u2019s very important to prevent another terrorist attack. Well, why wasn\u2019t that important a year ago? Why wasn\u2019t that important a year and a half ago? Now, I know maybe they want to position Obama — see, I don\u2019t think it helps him however they try to justify this change in opinion on this, whether it\u2019s Mayor Daley pulling the strings or his brother pulling the strings or whether or not Obama thinks, ‘The American people really do care about another attack, I better get out in front of it.\u2019 Either way, what it means is that the last year and a half, two years of Obama have been a lie, have been a fraudulent presentation of who he is, or else this is, one of the two is. <\/p>\n

CALLER: He is a very deceitful candidate —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and I will tell you one thing — of course I\u2019m not voting for him, but he tends to wear thin on you. I\u2019m getting it now which means in three months the general public will agree with me. He isn\u2019t somebody you enjoy constantly seeing, learning from —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — hoping that he will change things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have to agree with you on that, too, especially when out there trying to emulate the Kennedys.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m hoping only in time that Senator McCain brings more passion to his campaign. And one other thing that I\u2019d like you to push that I\u2019m pushing, and I\u2019ve written the McCain campaign, I would like to see the United States drill for oil and use that money to pay my Social Security and my Medicare when I become 65 years old.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why would I push that? That\u2019s an Obama idea.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, not at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, that sounds like the way Obama might shift on drilling. ‘I\u2019m gonna use the money to pay for your retirement.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, let us be the first to use it. The Social Security is broke, Medicare is broke, we have lots of oil, let\u2019s get it now, and let\u2019s secure our retirement with it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not — no, no, no, no. Now, that\u2019s straight out of the playbook of liberalism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, not really.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s just —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, they owe us the Social Security. They signed a contract with us; they were going to pay us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are going to pay you. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, with what money?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kids and grandkids who aren\u2019t born yet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I say use the oil money to pay us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you gotta use the oil money to get the gas — the oil — jeez. You are becoming a selfish citizen. This is unbecoming of you to say this on this program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I want that oil and I want it to help pay my Social Security.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your Social Security is going to be paid.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not the way things look now, Mr. Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jack, have you reached retirement age yet?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I can\u2019t afford to retire.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because Social Security is not enough for you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, God, I couldn\u2019t manage on that. No, I want to live in Manalapan near you and get myself a new GV. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me tell you something about oil money when we come back. (laughing) Thanks for the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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