{"id":31230,"date":"2008-12-23T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:02","slug":"barry_obama_is_no_abe_lincoln6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/12\/23\/barry_obama_is_no_abe_lincoln6\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Obama Is No Abe Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Here\u2019s a story, this is on the New York Times blog today. ‘Obama to Take Oath on Same Bible as Lincoln.\u2019 This is by Katherine Q. ‘Kit\u2019 Seelye. ‘Barack Obama will be sworn into office with the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used for his first inauguration in 1861. The move further extends the parallels that [The Messiah] has drawn with Lincoln since he announced his candidacy for president in February 2007 in Springfield, Ill. <\/p>\n

‘This will be the first time an incoming president has used Lincoln\u2019s Bible, which is part of the collection at the Library of Congress.\u2019 Now, folks, it is a grotesque distortion of Abraham Lincoln and the history of this country for Obama to continually create the false impression that he is of the same mettle and that this is the same type of time or period. It\u2019s even more grotesque that the media allows this comparison of Obama to Abraham Lincoln to go on and on and on. And then there are the comparisons between Obama and FDR. But, come on, folks. We face nothing like the Civil War today. The economic conditions are challenging, but they don\u2019t equate with the kind of circumstances of the Civil War. Our nation\u2019s not at war with itself. Our people are not at war with themselves — and Obama\u2019s notion of freedom, I have to say, is nothing like Lincoln\u2019s. There are no similarities in these two, other than they\u2019re… <\/p>\n

Well, Obama\u2019s not even from Illinois. Do you think Lincoln would have closed Club Gitmo or given terrorists the kind of rights Obama and his liberal buddies insist on? Lincoln had opposing party members put in jail for opposing him on the Civil War. Obama wants to give our enemies that kind of benefit of the doubt! Lincoln was all about victory in a war, period. Obama\u2019s more like McClellan in this regard, not Lincoln. And there\u2019s nothing in anything Lincoln has ever done or said that would justify invoking his name to populate the bureaucracy with a bunch of leftists who are committed to undermining our economic system and our superiority around the world. There\u2019s no comparison or similarity whatsoever. Lincoln never adopted European socialism or any other kind of socialism. It did exist at the time. It was a growing philosophical body of work, European socialism was. Hegelism, if you will. Lincoln\u2019s concept of freedom and Obama\u2019s are totally at odds. Lincoln fought for the individual; Obama fights for big government. This is another bit of PR imagery that is just full of it, folks.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, Obama — I didn\u2019t know this. He\u2019s left-handed. Did you know that? At least he plays golf left-handed. I think he writes left-handed. I\u2019m not sure. All I know is that people who are left-handed, there\u2019s a reason for it. You know how left-handedness happens? Have you ever studied this, because I have. It\u2019s the result of poor potty training in the formative years. (interruption) No, it has been proven. I learned this at a pig-iron convention in Kansas City, Missouri, when I lived there, when I was working for the Kansas City Royals. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m being told here by someone who cares deeply that Abraham Lincoln was left-handed. That may well be, but that was in the days of outhouses and there wasn\u2019t any potty training back in those days. You can\u2019t say Lincoln\u2019s left-handedness is the result of poor potty training. There weren\u2019t any potties. I appreciate all this assistance from my buddies out there. Now, folks, I want to finish up with this business of Obama and Lincoln, \u2019cause this really is a grotesque distortion of Lincoln. It\u2019s a grotesque distortion of Obama. Here is a man who hasn\u2019t done anything. He didn\u2019t do anything as a Senator. He is accomplishing playing golf; naming a bunch of fraud, phony moderates to his cabinet. You see Hillary is trying to take over the State Department now? I think that\u2019s smart of Obama. Let her just run the whole thing, that way he can sit there and be President while people in his cabinet are actually out doing things.<\/p>\n

She wants more envoys; she wants a more domestic role for the State Department. So, anyway, Obama hasn\u2019t done anything, except be The Messiah. And, of course, that\u2019s not working out too well because now Biden is today warning everybody around the world, ‘Lower your expectations.\u2019 Obama took care of us. He told us, ‘You gotta lower your expectations.\u2019 Obama has sent Biden out to tell world leaders, ‘Hey, hey, hey! Don\u2019t get your hopes up.\u2019 We\u2019re not going to let \u2019em get away with this, folks. They got elected on high expectations and magic happening, and we\u2019re gonna hold \u2019em to it. The Drive-Bys won\u2019t, but we will. So he\u2019s out there, and he hadn\u2019t done anything. He didn\u2019t do anything in the Senate. Don\u2019t get mad at me, folks. He may end up being one of the greatest presidents ever. Frankly, I hope so. I have doubts, but if he is, I\u2019ll be the first one to say so. But he hasn\u2019t done anything yet. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s out playing golf. He\u2019s out eating Spam at the halfway house at the golf course. His brother is still living in a hut in Nairobi! They can\u2019t find grandmother or grand-uncle or aunt whatever it is, Zeituni. (interruption) What does it mean when you were ambidextrous? It means you didn\u2019t need to be potty trained; you could do it yourself. It\u2019s very simple. People are peppering me with these questions as though I don\u2019t have the answers. (interruption) Well, girls and potty training, that\u2019s another thing. Their left-handedness comes from different things. Don\u2019t even make me go there. You know, this is… I\u2019m not going to tell you what happened in Love Actually that you wouldn\u2019t want your kids to see. Don\u2019t make me go to explaining female left-handedness. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s Open lane Friday, I know. I haven\u2019t taken a call. I\u2019m answering some of these questions. Some of the best questions I answer are those I ask of myself. Some of the best questions I get, some of the best answers I give are to the questions I ask myself. Who needs calls? (sigh) People keep trying to distract me from this Lincoln-Obama thing, and it isn\u2019t going to happen. Obama hasn\u2019t done anything. How in the world…? It is grotesque. How in the world do you allow this comparison to take place? And I\u2019ll tell you why it is important. We are allowing, by our silence on this, the left and the media and Obama to rewrite history and create false images of Obama; and false images of Lincoln. Lincoln is not Obama and verse vice-a. Obama, by the way, is far worse than FDR. <\/p>\n

Obama, if he does what he says he\u2019s going to do is going to spend far more money than FDR ever dreamed of printing. Now, Obama intends to spend far more than FDR did, even taking inflation and currency differences into consideration; which means to me, folks, that Obama is intentionally ignoring America\u2019s experience with socialism and plowing ahead anyway. And the reason is that this stuff was pounded into him from his earliest days. He\u2019s not Lincoln; he\u2019s not even FDR. If he does, if he follows through with the plans that he has promised to, quote, unquote, ‘save the country,\u2019 then I think he\u2019s going to be a disaster. But I hope for the opposite. I really, really do. Here\u2019s how wacko it\u2019s getting, folks. This is how silly it is. Everybody in the global warming movement, the militant environmentalist wacko movement is saying that this bitter cold illustrates irrefutable evidence of global warming. This bitter cold shows just how fast the earth is warming! <\/p>\n

Do you realize the sophistry of this? This is something a six-year-old could blow holes through using simple logic. <\/p>\n

‘Mommy! Mommy! You mean when it\u2019s ten below outside, it\u2019s actually getting hotter?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yes, little Johnny. This is the brilliance of the people who are monitoring computer models, tracking the global warming.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘But mommy, how can it be getting hotter if it\u2019s freezing?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Johnny, go back and watch An Indiscriminate Truth or whatever the hell Gore\u2019s movie is and that will explain everything to you.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Okay, so in the spirit of widespread bitter cold being irrefutable proof and evidence of global warming, Obama ought to call a press conference in Hawaii (his home state, I know) and declare with the utmost confidence the following: ‘A weak economy is evidence of robust job creation. Deficits are proof of wise planning by public officials. High tax rates — combined with middle class welfare and massive deficit spending, cap-and-trade and socialized medicine — are essential for increased liberty and a major economic expansion.\u2019 Just go make the case for these things. All you gotta do is say it; the dumbed-down Drive-Bys will repeat it. It will echo around with the American left, and people will begin to accept this idiocy is true, too. You could also say this: Negative growth in retail sales indicates consumers have more disposable income. <\/p>\n

Yes, you could say that. ‘Retail sales are going down. It just shows that consumers have more money than we thought.\u2019 Being surrounded by crooks and radicals his entire life has made Obama a better man. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg\u2019s sheltered, elitist, and otherwise unremarkable life have been ideal training for public servant on a national stage in trying times. Plus, she ate at Sylvia\u2019s. Hillary Clinton\u2019s massive conflict of interests will have zip, zero, nada impact on how she performs her job as Secretary of State; because she\u2019s already a cold, calculating, money grubbing thief. Well, not thief. I take that back. Uh, uh, uh, ‘recipient of donations.\u2019 Obama\u2019s obsessive workouts are proof positive he\u2019s going to work around the clock keeping the country safe and turning the economy around while posing nude from the waist up for Us Weekly.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jim in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. Nice to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Merry Christmas and thank you to you and your EIB team for your outstanding service to our country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate it. The contribution of the staff is wonderful, somewhat overrated and exaggerated, but you\u2019re very nice.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re correct, that it is a gross distortion to compare Obama to Lincoln. However, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that much of a stretch to compare these times with the times of the Civil War. I mean we have more division now than any time since then, probably, and I know Lincoln did what he had to do to eliminate that division. I\u2019m afraid Obama is gonna do whatever he can do to keep the division going.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, that\u2019s the difference. You\u2019ve just nailed it. Look, you can take the red-blue divide and you can take the ideological wars we are having and you might have fun trying to draw an analogy between that and the Civil War, but you can\u2019t. The Civil War was about a number of states who wanted to secede. Frankly, if the liberals wanted to secede and start their own little socialist country, I would not stop them. I would let them do it. You know, pick a couple of states that they all love, not even all the states. Make the liberals live in San Francisco, Seattle, Upper West Side of Manhattan, you know there aren\u2019t that many of them, they just live in big voting blocs. Lincoln inherited a divided country and kept it intact. The American left, not just Obama, is trying to divide this country. Obama is pushing through socialism, particularly in terms of government run health care. You\u2019re going to have a divided country and a virtual civil war. The only thing Obama might have in common with Lincoln will be over 600,000 dead economically, if he gets what he wants. Economically, Snerdley, economically, the American left is trying to destroy this country as it was founded and as it is known today, and he\u2019s not trying to stop that, he\u2019s not trying to save the country as it was. He\u2019s helping to further this division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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