{"id":30722,"date":"2008-10-27T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:10:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:10:33","slug":"we_must_tie_obama_to_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/27\/we_must_tie_obama_to_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Tie Obama to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Doug in Orlando. Nice to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, mega dittos, Rush. And, yes, we want victory. (chuckles)<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Hey, you know, professor\/state senator Barack Obama is sounding pretty theoretical in that clip you played, but he wasn\u2019t theoretical at the time at all. I went to the Way Back Machine. I don\u2019t know if you know what that is, but I looked at the Woods Fund website back in 2001 and 2002, and there you can see what they did and who was there, and there he was: Barack Obama, on the board of directors with Ayers. And in 2001, they were going through a strategic reorganization of the Woods Fund toward… You know, they crafted a new strategic plan, and they crafted it so that the Woods Fund would go in the direction of distributing money for projects that were community activism. You could see who they gave it to like ACORN and so on. They wanted to promote social change. So it\u2019s an experiment with community organizing, you know, to promote or advance social change. So it wasn\u2019t theoretical. It sounds theoretical; it certainly wasn\u2019t. He had the means, the money, the mechanism in hand there with Ayers to experiment with this stuff and put it on the street.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, I agree with all of that. But we\u2019ve got eight days to go. We\u2019ve gotta start thinking tactics now. It\u2019s like this driver\u2019s license thing, folks. Let me just hit you between the eyes: It\u2019s a waste of time. We can\u2019t prove it! When you can\u2019t prove something, you drop it. It\u2019s a waste of time. Now, the judge threw the case out in Philadelphia last week. A Mr. Berg had filed it and so forth. Nobody was ever going to be able to prove it. All there is is speculation. Eight days speculation is not going to do anybody any good. It\u2019s not going to sway any independents. It\u2019s not going to change anybody\u2019s minds. You know, the birth certificate thing, who knows? They may find out at some point, but you can\u2019t prove it, so it\u2019s a waste of time. This Woods Fund stuff and Bill Ayers, there\u2019s no question that Obama found these people. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got eight days to go. We need to focus on Obama not the Woods Fund, because, ‘Who\u2019s that?\u2019 And we need to focus on Obama, not Ayers, because I guarantee you, a lot of people don\u2019t know who he is. McCain focused on Ayers in one of the debates, but he didn\u2019t tell anybody who Ayers is so nobody outside of this universe of people that really cares about it understands who Bill Ayers is. And the Drive-Bys are doing CYA now. The New York Daily News has a story today saying (paraphrased), ‘Come on! Bill Ayers is a 1960s joke. You know, it\u2019s time to give the guy a break, cut him some slack. There\u2019s nothing there.\u2019 They\u2019re trying to cover the bases, circle the wagons and all this stuff. It\u2019s time to tie Obama to Obama! We\u2019ve got to tie Barack Obama to Obama, and after we tie Obama to Obama then tie him to hear Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, and what\u2019s going to happen to this country if they get unchecked power.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bites. This is yesterday in Colorado Springs on the radio, Senator Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: There are a lot of Democrats who may be elected who have made a commitment to their constituents to be centrist. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to want to have big, sudden lurches to the left, I don\u2019t think that we\u2019re going to have to time to engage in a bunch of crazy things that people — that the McCain campaign specifically has — has suggested we might.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you something, Senator Obama, I\u2019m not even listening to Senator McCain on this, I\u2019m listening to you. I am not worried about whether Senator McCain can accurately express or convey to people what you\u2019re saying. I just need to listen to you. And listening to him in this bite, ladies and gentlemen, is more confirmation. There are a lot of Democrats who may be elected who have made a commitment to their constituents to be centrist? Yeah, with Barney Frank talking about a 25% cut in the military budget, when we\u2019ve got two wars going on and an enemy at our doorstep every day and night? Centrist? Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, centrist? Forget about these Democrats who may be elected who have made a commitment to their constituents to be centrist, we look at the leaders, Obama. That means Reid and Pelosi and you, and we hear what Pelosi wants to do and we hear what Reid wants to do, they\u2019re salivating at 60 votes in the Senate. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to want to have sudden lurches to the left? <\/p>\n

Where do you think we\u2019ve been heading under your party for all of these years? We\u2019re just doing everything we can to stop you in your tracks! A sudden lurch to the left took place decades ago in your party, and it hasn\u2019t stopped except when we\u2019ve beaten you at the ballot box. Then he says, ‘I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to have to time to engage in a bunch of crazy things that the McCain campaign specifically has suggested we might\u2019? Not going to have time? He could do a lot of this by signing one piece of legislation, some little peace treaty with the UN. He could do a lot of damage in six months, suddenly lurching to the left. We\u2019re not going to have time? Otherwise you\u2019d do it? We\u2019re not going to have time to lurch to the left? That\u2019s much different than saying, I don\u2019t want to lurch to the left, I\u2019m a centrist moderate. We\u2019re not going to have time. We\u2019re not going to have time to lurch to the left. If you, again, this Obama tape, I want to again remind you, he is complaining in this tape from 2001 that the Supreme Court hasn\u2019t been radical enough, and he doesn\u2019t think he can count on the Supreme Court to accomplish all the redistribution that he wants. There\u2019s too much in the Constitution about limited powers. There\u2019s too much in the Constitution about separation of powers. It\u2019s problematic, too much to do there. <\/p>\n

The Constitution is too big an obstacle is what he\u2019s saying. This whole discussion of negative versus positive rights can be boiled down to something very simple. What Obama wants to do and his buddies, they want the Constitution to be used to forever require judges to rule as a matter of law for economic and social justice. That\u2019s the bottom line. They don\u2019t think there are enough rights in the Constitution. They think the Constitution limits the federal government too much. They want the Constitution to have more rights, but they can\u2019t do that, it\u2019s too big a problem to change that so they want the judges to do it for them, just the way they found rights to allow Roe v. Wade. They want new rights found in the Constitution by judges and they\u2019re calling this positive. They\u2019re calling all of this positive rights. They\u2019re looking at it as expanding constitutional rights for social justice and economic justice, and social and economic justice simply equals redistribution. They want judges to find these rights, since it\u2019s too problematic to go argue before the courts all the time because it takes time, the judges are going to get caught up in the Constitution itself. <\/p>\n

So he\u2019s saying to change the Constitution, we\u2019re going to have to get judges appointed that will simply invent law and therefore call it constitutional. That\u2019s his idea. And along with that, when he says ‘One of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.\u2019 Let me translate that for you. Yeah, the courts aren\u2019t the place to do this redistributive work. The Constitution\u2019s usefulness in this regard was limited by the founders. There are all kinds of separation of powers claptrap; this bogs down our mission. The secret of transforming America to my Obama utopia is community organizations and all the hell they can raise, like ACORN. That\u2019s the fulcrum of the power we can leverage to remake society, community organizations just raising hell. I mean, the notion that Obama believes the key to his radical agenda is organizations — the reason he says that, by the way, is \u2019cause they last. You set up an ACORN, you find a way to get the federal government to fund it and it\u2019s there forever. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all over his early writings. It\u2019s all over his early interviews, and this one, too, from 2001 that we\u2019re playing. And it\u2019s easy to gloss over these kinds of statements \u2019cause community organize — we still make fun of it. We make fun of the fact he was a community organizer, but he\u2019s dead serious about it, and that\u2019s his foundational building block to change the Constitution from outside, not within. He was doing that. He got hold of ACORN, he aimed it straight at the heart of the American republic. It was the key to voter fraud and the torpedoing of the American economy. Without ACORN, they would have had a much tougher time bringing off this calamity that the subprime mortgage crisis is, because ACORN was out there agitating, which is what community organizations do, everybody, banks, government, politicians, you name it, and they were getting federal money to do it to boot. So if you take ACORN out of this subprime mess, you have less of a subprime mess. I am convinced that ACORN is and has been far more significant and dangerous than we even realize.<\/p>\n

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The way for me to sum this up to you, the way I look at this — and, yes, I\u2019ll admit I have fear about this, we see all these investigations for fraud involving ACORN, 15, 17 of them, whatever the number is now, they\u2019ve been at this for 30 years. This is what America is going to look like in order to accomplish Obama\u2019s social and economic justice, his redistribution. Along with his tax increases, this group out there working on his behalf, this is what America is going to become, one giant, constantly agitated populace. And you know people don\u2019t like to be agitated, and when they start to be agitated and people start harassing you and start hassling you, you do one of three things, but the idea of any action you take is to stop it. And most Americans are appeasers. Oh, you\u2019ll stop harassing me if you get this, fine. And they\u2019ll vote for somebody to give \u2019em that, just for peace, just to get some peace. Even if you\u2019re a businessman, you don\u2019t want to be hassled by ACORN, fine, give \u2019em something, get \u2019em off my back. It\u2019s easier to appease them. But they are never satisfied. You can never give the left enough. Look at all they got in the Great Society. Look at all they\u2019ve gotten, eventually every social program they want. It\u2019s never enough. They just keep coming, and that is why it\u2019s crucial we have people willing to stand up and stop \u2019em. <\/p>\n

There are fewer and fewer on our side willing to stand up and stop \u2019em. And to those I say, who are unwilling to stop the forward march of the left, fine, go join \u2019em if you want a job with them down the road. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ll go to San Francisco. This is Jeff. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You do great work. I\u2019ll get right to the point, as Bo told me. I recently reread Saul Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals after about 35 years, and it\u2019s the key to Obama. The whole book is about rubbing raw the healing wounds of the society in order to gain power. And one of the things he says, and this is a quote, ‘An organizer working for change doesn\u2019t have a fixed truth. Truth to him is relative and changing, and if you\u2019re worried about this gives somebody like Hitler moral credibility, you\u2019d be right, if he won the war. But since he doesn\u2019t, he\u2019s devil.\u2019 And he goes on to say, ‘The organizer must gain the trust of the people by looking and sounding just like them. All effective actions require the passport of morality. If the people are churchgoers, the organizer had better go to church, too.\u2019 And he says that the ends always justify the means. And he also makes the point in there that nothing can help the poor but that the people who are in the middle are the ones for whom you can gain trust and credibility and therefore gain power, and that\u2019s what Obama is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, how would you explain Saul Alinsky to people who never heard of him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he was an organizer in Chicago, which I believe is why Obama went to Chicago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me shorten the question, because of time. Why would anybody like Saul Alinsky, why would anybody like Barack Obama, why would they want to take this great country and pervert it and change it? Why are they so angry about this great country?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think what he preys upon, at least to that, is the idealism of youth; people who really are not experienced and don\u2019t know very much about American history and about the Constitution and who do see some, you know, injustice and poverty about them and are motivated to try and correct them. But they don\u2019t understand that America is the vehicle for correcting those problems.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, that\u2019s exactly right. The people, their social justice desires are preyed upon, and they become useful idiots. They become pawns for Alinsky and his disciples to actually reform the government, and have whatever you want to call it. Socialist, Marxist, whatever it is. They want to destroy capitalism. They use the guilt and the fear of the majority of people, which is the middle class, constantly throwing at them, ‘Look at how unfair this is, the person sleeping under the bridge or the sewer grate. This is unfair. We\u2019ve gotta do something about it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yes it is totally unfair. I don\u2019t like looking at it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, we\u2019ll raise taxes on people! We\u2019ll redistribute income. That will get rid of it.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Oh, yeah! I want to feel better about my country and so forth.\u2019<\/p>\n

They have no clue how they\u2019re being utilized because the idealism of their desires, wanting a utopia, is what allows the Obamas and the Alinskys to further their notions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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