{"id":30657,"date":"2008-10-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:10","slug":"obama_playing_prevent_defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/17\/obama_playing_prevent_defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Playing Prevent Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Open Line Friday, to Miami, and Richard. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you. Rush, I read on your website that we can\u2019t expect McCain to hold Obama to the fire on many issues like ACORN, Fannie Mae, and his anti-American mentors. So I thought just as Obama is so ready to sit down unconditionally and is so brave to meet with these terrorists leaders from all over the world, I thought, &#8216;Why don\u2019t you challenge him publicly through the liberal media and New York Times, full-page ad or something kind of the way the old boxers used to challenge each other to a one hour, no-holds-barred meeting with you.\u2019 Let\u2019s see if he has the guts to stand up to your conversation with him. That\u2019s one point. I have another one if you have time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, if I were to do that, I wouldn\u2019t go the showbiz route. I wouldn\u2019t put an ad in the New York Times. I\u2019m not going to spend a lot of money; I\u2019m not going to waste a lot of money on what I know the answer is going to be. You have to understand something here, Richard. That is Barack Obama is more afraid of somebody like me than he is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Of course.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Obama is playing prevent defense. You have to understand, he\u2019s not going to be aggressive. That\u2019s what made his appearance in Roanoke today so remarkable. The Obama game plan right now is to coast. Don\u2019t do anything that could upset the applecart. Don\u2019t anymore, &#8216;We want to just spread the wealth around.\u2019 His whole philosophy is don\u2019t make a mistake. Are you a football fan?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Well, there\u2019s a thing in football called the prevent defense, and let me explain to you. Do you watch football ever at all?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Here\u2019s the prevent defense: in the fourth quarter, one team is up by two touchdowns, and there\u2019s five, six minutes to go, maybe seven or eight minutes to go. The losing team gets the ball. The defense only rushes three weak guys. They put everybody back in the secondary, and they give up all the yardage in the world. They give up ten yard passes, 15-yard passes, but they don\u2019t want to give up the bomb, the long bomb to the end zone that could beat \u2019em. But in the process, they give up all this yardage. They do give up all this ground hoping that the other team will take a whole lot of time to gain the ground and run time off the clock. The prevent defense, one of the things that people accuse is of is &#8216;preventing\u2019 victory because it lets the other team back in. If you just play your standard defense, you do run the risk of giving up the big play but how often is the big play happen? <\/p>\n<p>You want to go through and out, make \u2019em punt, give the ball back and then freeze the clock. Anyway, Obama right now is playing the prevent defense. He\u2019s backing off. He\u2019s going to let&#8230; Whatever McCain says, he\u2019s not going to engage, he\u2019s not going to get aggressive. He\u2019s trying to run out the clock. Now, the danger in this is that he doesn\u2019t have that big a lead to be running out the clock, according to two pretty reliable polls out today, and one out yesterday: the IBD (Investor\u2019s Business Daily)\/TIPP (T-I-P-P) poll, which has Obama up three. So he\u2019s running out the clock, but I think he\u2019s even slipping out of that because this appearance in Roanoke today, there was no smiling, and there was no fawning. It wasn\u2019t the usual Obama appearance. He was responding in anger to things that McCain said last night at the Alfred Smith dinner and in the most recent debate. I didn\u2019t get to see enough of it to see if he brought up Joe the Plumber, but he did yesterday, making fun of Joe the Plumber. His whole campaign is doing that, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Open Line Friday, to Miami, and Richard. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello. CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you. Rush, I read on your website that we can\u2019t expect McCain to hold Obama to the fire on many issues like ACORN, Fannie Mae, and his anti-American mentors. 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