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RUSH: Here\u2019s Barry in Atlanta. Barry, it\u2019s nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you doing? My name is Barry Brooks, from Atlanta, and I had a couple things I wanted to talk about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fire away, my brother.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All righty. I — I believe that Obama is really gaining momentum by the negative press that you\u2019re giving him, as well as other talk show hosts. I believe his trip to across seas has — I believe the negative comments and just what you have to say about him has put a magnifying glass on him and he\u2019s actually gaining momentum from this. That\u2019s what I believe. And I know — <\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: It —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Say what?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It might be an interesting theory, except he\u2019s not gaining momentum. This is the problem. He can\u2019t get over 50%. He can\u2019t close the deal. The Democrats are worried. He couldn\u2019t close Hillary Clinton out and he\u2019s having trouble here. With all of this attention, all of this press coverage his momentum is largely in the media because, you know, they\u2019re his disciples. But it\u2019s not materializing out there in a lot of other places, especially with women.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe it will materialize, because the focus is on him across the world and in the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but the world doesn\u2019t vote here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, the world doesn\u2019t vote here, but it helps him. And I think the nation is going to vote for him. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I\u2019m going to tell you something, Barry. I actually think that Europeans idolizing this guy and going gangbusters over this guy is going to hurt him more than it\u2019s going to help. The American people are sick and tired for the last five years, hearing how we\u2019ve gotta bend over; grab the ankles for the Europeans — and now we\u2019ve got a guy running for president who has just done it. And the American people do not think of their country the way Obama and many of his supporters do. The American people do not think that we need to exist so that Europe likes us. If you want to think of anything that is going to slow him down, he\u2019d better stop cultivating all of this worldwide support from people, the American voter will be offended when you tell them we\u2019ve gotta emulate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Me personally, I would rather have a president that is liked worldwide. I think it\u2019ll help United States out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We do. We have a president who\u2019s liked.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, Castro doesn\u2019t like him and Hugo Chavez doesn\u2019t like him. The tyrannical dictators of Iran and the Middle East don\u2019t like him, but why should they? Why do we want a president that all these reprobate, thug dictators are going to like?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean, we have to build our allied support.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is it about Obama you like?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I like — I like Obama\u2019s — I like — I like what he\u2019s going to do for the US as far as our pockets.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I like his idea about raising taxes on the rich. It\u2019s going to give me a break. I don\u2019t make over $250,000. It\u2019s a lot of Republicans out there that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Barry, Barry, wait a second. You gotta hear me on this, if the taxes on the rich go up any more, we\u2019re going to get — the rich are maxed out. Rich are already paying 40%; the top 1% are paying 40% of all taxes. If the rich get another tax increase, which will happen, it\u2019s not going to change your life at all. How is it going to change your life?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s going to change my life because I\u2019ll get a tax break being in the middle class.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you\u2019re not going to get a tax break. Nobody\u2019s going to get a tax break!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s going to help the lower class and the middle class.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s going to cause job losses, Barry, because the people who hire in this country are going to be paying money to the government they can otherwise pay to hire people. This is the thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We can\u2019t lose any more jobs than we already lost under the administration than we have now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Barry! Barry! We\u2019re practically at statistically full employment in this country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if you count McDonald\u2019s and Wendy\u2019s, yeah, but we got a lot of people out here that lost at IBM and a lot of major companies that are having to take lesser-paying jobs. I understand that. That\u2019s why the economy is the way it is today. I mean, they\u2019re giving out all these extra refund checks to pump money back in the economy, and that\u2019s the reason why.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Those are bribe checks, Barry. That\u2019s Democrats and Republicans bribing voters in an election year. Those are just bribes. They\u2019re not ‘stimulating the economy\u2019 at all. But if Obama does what he says he\u2019s going to do, you\u2019re going to get hurt, Barry, not helped.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Donald in Valley Stream in New York, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Congratulations on 20 years. I gotta tell you, I\u2019ve been listening to you for all 20 years and you\u2019re like a member of my family. I feel like you\u2019re my brother.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love you like a brother, I really do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re very welcome, sir. The reason for my call, part of it was sparked by two callers ago, you had this guy talking about he really likes Barack Obama. There is a series of articles this week in Investor\u2019s Business Daily, and it\u2019s called the ‘Audacity of Socialism.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve got one right here called ‘Obama\u2019s Global Tax,\u2019 and it talks about what I mentioned earlier, his Global Poverty Act, which is pure, global socialism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He wants tax increases on the American people to quit and retire poverty around the world. No mention of free markets, no mention of market economics at all to boost people\u2019s lifestyles, no, nothing like that. Did socialism create the United States of America as the greatest, most prosperous nation in history?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not at all. So why does Obama and his party want to spread socialism all over the world and bring more of it to this country?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, part of it has to do with yesterday\u2019s part of the article, which is his ties to socialism and communism to his mentors, which brought him to this space where he is today, the place where he is today. He also wants to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour and pin it to inflation, which would kill small business. I\u2019m a small business owner. It would kill me. I can\u2019t believe this guy is even thinking of doing this, and if he gets control as president and then has Congress following him, my fear is that they will change things, that we will have no way out of these things that he sets up because nobody\u2019s going to come in and say we\u2019re going to take these things away because we\u2019re going to have to this fear of starving children and hurting the poor and everybody —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, if it\u2019s as drastic as you say, they won\u2019t work, and one of two things will happen then, the Democrats will lose en masse in elections, and then stuff gets fixed, but the problem is it\u2019s going to take a long time to roll it back, if it ever gets implemented to the degree that Obama wants to. You saw this news story yesterday that the Los Angeles city council voted to ban any more fast food restaurants in south Los Angeles because of obesity.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh yes I did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right along the lines of what you said, who do you think is employed by these restaurants? The very people in south LA who need jobs. This is liberalism on the march. This ban ostensibly to keep people healthy and stop them from eating any more fast food is actually going to lead to more people not having work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with you, but, you know something, it brings me to another point I would like to make.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And here\u2019s my fear. The Democrats, after being truly out of power for the past few years, I really believe will never want to relinquish power again once they get back in. If they control both houses of Congress and the presidency, it\u2019s going to be a dream state for them. And my fear is that they somehow will set up some kind of a commission or something to monitor elections so that we don\u2019t have any hanky-panky in elections and set it up so that Republicans never win and that way we\u2019re trapped in this endless stage of Democrats constantly winning and perpetuating these things because if they instituted any of these things they would fail like you say. It would be like Jimmy Carter all over again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know a lot of people that have that fear, that the Democrats, once they get their power back, they\u2019re not going to go through another eight years like this, they\u2019re not going to let a Bush get elected, it\u2019s not going to happen. They\u2019re not ever going to let the House of Representatives go. They\u2019re not going to go for the 14 or 15 years not in power, that\u2019s not fun, it\u2019s their birthright, blah, blah, blah. The thing about that, I guess it\u2019s understandable fear. The thing that worries me about that is not what the Democrats are going to do, but rather what\u2019s becoming of the Republican Party. The Republican Party doesn\u2019t seem to have any desire to contrast itself with this extremism. They instead seem to have people who want to go in that direction because that\u2019s where they think the American people are. They think the American people want bigger government with more entitlements and more benefits, and they don\u2019t. And so the idea the new Republican Party is going to pander and show those Americans out there that we don\u2019t think they\u2019re bad, and we don\u2019t have any hard feelings for them, we want to give them what they want, and we\u2019re better at it than the Democrats. That\u2019s the thing that bothers me, because this is a golden opportunity for contrast with the right candidates to wipe all this stuff out. This is not a guaranteed win for the Democrats. So many Republicans think that it is. Look, I appreciate the call, Donald. Thanks very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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