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RUSH: Open Line Friday on Wednesday. Alex, in Charlotte, North Carolina, hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: First-time caller and longtime listener. I didn\u2019t think I was going to get on. When I called, talked to Snerdley, I didn\u2019t think I was able to get a cogent question or issue out and he summarized it in like a minute, then I got put on hold and I thought I was kind of like in the file. But here\u2019s my question. I\u2019d like to get your thoughts about Obama\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And let me give you some background kind of like, if I can, on the nature of my question. I reluctantly voted for McCain, gave Obama a real good hard look but eventually went to McCain. Over lunch was talking with some colleagues and we were talking about the recent events and we said okay, well, maybe Obama just may have the experience, okay, the lack of experience, but experience nevertheless to maybe bumble into the right solution. And the thinking over lunch, was like, well, if you look at his history, he was able to manipulate the situation in Chicago, as a community organizer. He was able to overcome his environment and lead and prevail. He got elected to the Senate. He overcame that environment. Led, prevailed —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait a minute. Overcame that environment? He got elected to the state senate and the United States senate by making sure his opponents were thrown off the ballot.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But still that\u2019s a win, do you not think?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I guess that\u2019s change. Run unopposed so you have no choice but than to win. Look, I have to take a break here, Alex. Can you hang on? We\u2019ll continue this after this bottom of the hour time-out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I sure can.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, wonderful.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back now to our captivating conversation with Alex in Charlotte, North Carolina. Okay, resume, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, what I was saying is, about Obama\u2019s experience — and I guess the point I\u2019m trying to make is that — and I know he doesn\u2019t have any, so I\u2019m not going to go there with you. But Obama does what Obama needs to do to look good. And I don\u2019t think his ideology is going to filter that. And if the premise is saving the economy is going to make him look real good, do you not think that he\u2019s smart enough to understand what really would be good enough for the economy, like tax cuts, not raising taxes —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m glad you asked this because this, to me, is fascinating, and it points one of the real problems we have in this country. By virtue of your question, you have just said to me that you see things entirely differently than I do. There\u2019s nothing good or bad, right or wrong about this, except, how do we come together at some point, because you are willing to set aside everything you heard Obama say and continues to say about what he\u2019s going to do and instead are investing in something you have no idea can be true? The hope that he\u2019s not going to do what he says he\u2019s going to do. You didn\u2019t vote for him, which is a positive sign, but now you\u2019re getting sucked in, because you think common sense should rule the day. That… Okay. We got a bad economy and his future hinges on it. He\u2019s got to fix it. Well, there\u2019s so many ways to answer this. I don\u2019t expect him to put aside what he said he\u2019s going to do. I expect him to, as soon as he can, to raise taxes and kill off a recovery.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But if he would do that, I mean given everything that\u2019s happened these past two years, and everything he said for two years —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why? Why do you want to do that? Why do you want ignore it? Why do you want to get rid of it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you said, ‘Given everything…\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, given everything he said, and I\u2019m specifically focused on the taxes. He said a lot of things that, you know, when I voted for McCain, I had to take a really good, hard look at Obama. And maybe I\u2019m vacillating on… You know, maybe I\u2019m not a real conservative. Maybe I need to see the doctor. Maybe I need some medicine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. You know it doesn\u2019t have anything to do with that. Well, it does in the sense that if you\u2019re not conservative by definition you will become moderate or liberal. Conservatism is a constant learning and intellectual application. Liberalism is easy: just feel, like what you\u2019re doing now. You\u2019re hopin\u2019. You\u2019re hoping he does the right thing — despite what he says, despite what he has said, given that he said it, and this is where you and I see the world different, hope to me is an excuse for not doing anything. I\u2019m not talking about biblical hope. Please do not ream me on this. Sitting around and hoping for something is an excuse for doing nothing. You can hope all you want, but if you don\u2019t take some action at some point, whatever you want to happen has no chance of happening, unless it\u2019s just by, you know, blind luck draw. I\u2019m waiting, too, to see what Obama actually does, but I\u2019m not hoping<\/emphasize>. <\/p>\n

I just played a sound bite today illustrating exactly what he\u2019s going to do. He wants to grow this government like it\u2019s never been grown. He wants the government in charge of as much as possible. This is who he is, and he does have experience in telling us this. His alliances, his friends, his books that he wrote, the things that he has said since he was elected that he wants to do — it\u2019s all out there. People did not want to pay attention to that because they were captivated by the personality, by the charisma, the fact that he sounds confident and in charge. So people can forget about it now. They elected him and they can go away because they feel confident he\u2019s going to do the right thing. Well, people like me think he\u2019s not, and somebody has to try and stop it if they take it off the rails, and we stop it by informing as many Americans as possible. I\u2019ll tell you this, if he ends up doing the right things, I\u2019m going to be the first to applaud. If he starts cutting people\u2019s taxes and if he takes actions that actually grow in economy, put money in people\u2019s pockets that they earn and that they are keeping \u2019cause taxes are cut — not because he\u2019s throwing money at them; if he starts doing that — I\u2019m going to be the biggest champion this guy\u2019s ever had. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m into truth! We know what works and we know what doesn\u2019t work. I\u2019m not going to make myself try to feel good that he believes in things that don\u2019t work but he might change his mind. I\u2019ve looked at his cabinet, and I see people who raise taxes all over the place in his cabinet. I hear him today say his job is to provide the vision. The vision? And his various groups are going to be the ones implementing what he sees? Well, we can\u2019t relive the campaign, but we know who his alliances are. We know who he is. We just do. His chief of staff, Alex, is talking about what a great ‘opportunity\u2019 this crisis is. They\u2019re talking about the opportunity for themselves to implement their agenda, not the opportunity to make things better for you. They think things will get better for you the more you depend on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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