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RUSH: Here\u2019s our Obama bumper sticker. He\u2019s ‘going to make government cool again.\u2019 This was Columbia University, the Service Nations Presidential Candidates Forum. Judy Woodruff was the moderator. She said to Obama, ‘So much is said that\u2019s critical about the people that are in Washington, the way Washington works, bureaucrats in Washington. How much responsibility do you think you and other presidential candidates this year have to change the rhetoric so that people who work in government, work in public service are respected.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If it weren\u2019t for government, then we wouldn\u2019t have a, uh, Civil Rights Act. If it weren\u2019t for government, we would not have the Interstate Highway System. If it weren\u2019t for government, uh, we would not have some of our parks and, uh, natural, uh, wilderness areas that are so precious to America. And so part of my job, I think, as president is to make government cool again. (rimshot)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Make government cool again? All these great things, the parks and so forth. You know, the nature of the question is pretty interesting to me. But here\u2019s a guy. He\u2019s running for change? His ‘change\u2019 now is to make government cool again? I was cool before government? This is why, when they want to try to make Obama newsworthy, he\u2019s not newsworthy. (laughs) His statements are not newsworthy. Do you know how they cringe? Make government cool again, our great parks? Here\u2019s how McCain answered it. Judy Woodruff said, ‘Senator McCain, Senator Obama has put forward a national service plan to do some of the things you\u2019ve talked about. The two of you agree, but his has a price tag around three and a half billion. Is that an amount of money you\u2019d be willing to spend, more or less? I mean is that in the ballpark?\u2019<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I think there are very good proposals there. Some of them are new, some of them are obviously not. But I also want to emphasize, it doesn\u2019t always have to be run by the government. That\u2019s why we also ought to understand that faith-based organizations, other volunteer organizations that are completely separate from the government — that have nothing to do with the government — are amongst the most successful. So let\u2019s not get entrapped by the idea that the government has to run these voluntary organizations and volunteer kinds of programs, because a lot of times the job can be done better with our encouragement.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, with us not being there. A good answer. I like that. But Obama? We need to make bumper stickers out of this. ‘I\u2019m gonna make government cool again.\u2019 Who knew that Obama had such a high regard for small town mayors? It seems to me that I recall him making fun of Sarah Palin for being a mayor of such a small town. Richard Stengel was the co-moderator. He said to Obama, ‘We asked McCain the same question about Governor Palin\u2019s belittling being a community organizer. Did the Democrats in return belittle being a small town mayor? Was she being unfair or was it hypocritical because Republicans actually say…?\u2019 What the hell kind of question is this? Here\u2019s what he said about mayors.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Well, listen, we — we had an awful lot of small town mayors at the Democratic, uh, convention, I assure you. Uhhh, I — I meet \u2019em all the time, and I have, eh — The mayors have some of the toughest jobs in the country, because that\u2019s where the rubber hits the road. You know, we yak in the Senate. (rimshot) They actually have to fill potholes and, uh, duh, duh — trim trees and — and, uh, uh, make sure the garbage is — is, uh, taken way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, am I overwhelmed! I am dazzled! This guy\u2019s grasp of the job that mayors have is just amazing. Did it stun you, too? It leaves me speechless. This guy, folks, knows far more than I ever thought he knew. Why, he knows that mayors fill the potholes and trim the trees and make sure the garbage is taken away! Wow! So now he likes small town mayors. Now he explains why he was so noble to become a street agitator instead of making evil money.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I was surprised by the — several remarks around community organizing and — and belittling it. Ummm, you know, when I think about the choice I made as a 23-, 24-year-old to spend three years working with churches to help people help themselves. Uh, no insult to the president of this fine institution, but it was the best education I ever had because it taught me that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they\u2019re given a chance and when they\u2019re brought together.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now he\u2019s stealing my lines! That\u2019s my line: ‘ordinary people can do extraordinary things.\u2019 That\u2019s not what liberals believe. Liberals don\u2019t believe that\u2019s possible. I want to see the ordinary people that became extraordinary as a result of his tutelage as the community organizer. You know, we don\u2019t hear about any of the people that have worked with Obama. We don\u2019t hear about his classmates in college, either at Harvard or at law school, or anywhere he\u2019s been. We don\u2019t hear about these wonderful stories with his mentorship, how these ordinary people in the streets of Chicago became extraordinary people and did extraordinary things. We don\u2019t hear any kind of testimony. We don\u2019t hear anybody attesting to the greatness of Barack Obama. Liberals don\u2019t even believe this anyway — ‘ordinary people can do extraordinary things.\u2019 If they wanted to promote that kind of thing, there would be no need for liberalism. Liberalism keeps people down. Liberalism keeps a foot on their back so they can\u2019t get up. But he wasn\u2019t doing this, anyway. Community organizing in Chicago is simply getting out the vote, working with ACORN, one of the most voter registration agitation organizations in the country. This is all smoke and mirrors about what he did as a community organizer. It was just prep work for becoming a Chicago thug politician. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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