{"id":30255,"date":"2008-08-28T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:25:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:25:21","slug":"the_messiah_s_coronation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/28\/the_messiah_s_coronation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Messiah\u2019s Coronation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Jim, Kingwood, Texas, welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: With utmost respect, Rush, from a very blessed third-time caller.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Thank you for watching the convention for us so I don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckles) Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, this country has come a long way. I mean, it used to be a bright talented young man might be passed over a position just because he was black, and now we have a bumbling inexperienced young man whose only qualification is that he is black. Picking Joe Biden as his running mate I don\u2019t think he\u2019s done himself any favor. I mean, sure, Biden gives Obama some gravitas, but as you point out, elections are ultimately determined totally by people in this country who can\u2019t claim minority status, and that\u2019s white males. You\u2019ve said that every man views Hillary as their ex-wife. Well, we look on Joe Biden as our ex-boss. He\u2019s an insufferable know-it-all who doesn\u2019t know when to shut up. He\u2019s not a guy I look for, look up to, or follow into battle like McCain. He\u2019s a guy I\u2019d avoid if I saw him coming down the hall.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is the guy worse than your boss. This is your coworker stabbing you in the back to get himself advanced.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) You got that right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s who Biden is. Plus, he\u2019s got this insufferable arrogance at the same time. You know, his personality can rub you the wrong way if you\u2019re working in close confines, Jim. This is one thing. In fact, there\u2019s a story, there\u2019s a story in a British paper. It\u2019s the Guardian, I think. The international Drive-Bys are doing a lot better covering this presidential race than the domestic Drive-Bys. I gotta find it in the Stack. I don\u2019t want to have to try to paraphrase this, but it was a question. Somebody asked Jesse Jackson, Jr. a question about the racial component of the presidential election of Barack Obama, and he wouldn\u2019t answer it. Rather than paraphrase what the reporter said, I want to find it in the Stack. <\/p>\n

In the LA Times today they have a wacko leftist columnist by the name of Rosa Brooks. She\u2019s not happy. ‘He\u2019s Barack Obama, Not The Messiah,\u2019 is the headline of her piece. ‘Democrats need to temper their expectations; their candidate inspires, but there is plenty of hard work ahead.\u2019 You have to work to get this guy elected. ‘He\u2019s not the messiah. Get over it, Democrats. Get over it for the obvious, pragmatic reason: If you want a Democrat in the White House, you\u2019ve got to stop fretting about your nominee\u2019s lack of magical powers and just work to get him elected. … You want a transformative political leader? In Obama, you may have one, but don\u2019t expect him to do that transforming all by himself. Obama\u2019s good, but no one\u2019s that good. For Obama to shepherd in real change…\u2019 Hey, Rosa, what has your party taught people? Your party has taught people to wait around for the government, and here comes Obama, who says, ‘I\u2019m going to be the government! I am it!\u2019<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s parlaying this messiah thing, Rosa? Have you seen the place he\u2019s going to do his speech tonight? Have you seen his logo? ‘We are the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for\u2019? Who is it that thinks he\u2019s The Messiah? You can sit there and you can tell your people to go out there and work hard, but your party doesn\u2019t tell people that. Your party tells them to sit around; do nothing; blame Republicans and others for their plight; and then hope the government comes along and gets even with the people that are screwing you. If you people would start teaching a little self-reliance like Michelle Obama\u2019s life was full of, apparently; and like Biden\u2019s life was full of, apparently… I don\u2019t know what happened to all these liberal Democrats when they were young. They had very conservative parents, a very conservative home life, and they were inspired and taught to be self-reliant people. Something along the way came along and made them say, ‘I guess that self-reliance is okay for me, but not when I\u2019m a politician because I want to create as much dependence as I can, destroying more and more people\u2019s lives each and every day with these messianic promises that all you gotta do is wait for me to come along. You may not be okay, but I\u2019m going to sure as hell get even with those people doing better than you.\u2019<\/p>\n

Richard in Fresno, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: From the Left Coast.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. Fresno is out there in California.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, sometimes. Okay. It\u2019s a coronation, and here\u2019s my justification. His wife appeared on a magnificent stage at the DNC. So did the old lion, Kennedy. As much as I don\u2019t like him, I was glad to see him up his feet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You had Hillary Clinton with 18 million votes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks to us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Then on top of that, you had a two-time Democratic president that wasn\u2019t FDR. Here\u2019s the best part. He\u2019s not good enough to appear on that stage. ‘You must build me a bigger stage, in a bigger arena, where only I will appear.\u2019 That\u2019s like a coronation, where I come from.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Excellent observation, and you know something else?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, the pope\u2019s not in town! Who\u2019s going to put the crown on him? He\u2019s going to have to crown himself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, Nancy Pelosi is there. She\u2019ll do it!<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yes. Probably so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, she\u2019s the pope. She\u2019s just rewrote Catholic doctrine on abortion.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, Pope Benedict may still think he\u2019s running the show, but Nancy Pelosi\u2019s gotten females into the sisterhood over there, and she\u2019s Pope Pelosi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I never thought of it that way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nancy Pope Pelosi. Hell, yes!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there we go. There\u2019s the full circle.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is. So Nancy Pope Pelosi will be there with the crown or whatever it is. You\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a coronation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘That little stage inside that little basketball arena is too tiny for me. I\u2019m The Messiah!\u2019 They had the decision to do that, made the decision to do this before the European trip from what I\u2019m told.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s why they\u2019re now having some doubts about it in certain sectors of the Obama campaign. They did this before the big European speech, where 200,000 people showed up to hear Obama outside Berlin. That\u2019s an excellent take out there — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — Richard, on the Left Coast.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oklahoma City, this is Patty, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush, mega dittos from the Bible Belt.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: You\u2019re welcome. Hey, have you heard the one about Jesus rode in on an ass but he didn\u2019t vote for one?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and I\u2019m thinking if this is a Greek temple thing tonight and the Democrats are looking for show biz, why don\u2019t they use their own symbol to bring Barry in, which is an ass.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my gosh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He could come in on an ass.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Palm branches and all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And holding some arugula! He\u2019s gotta be holding some arugula that he just picked in the fields here to feed the crowd with. You\u2019re going to have 75,000 people there. Obama can feed them, to hell with the concession stands. He can feed them arugula. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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