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RUSH: Now, Snerdley has asked a good question. Rare, but good question. When it doesn\u2019t work, aren\u2019t the American people going to blame the guy in charge? Well, who\u2019s that going to be? Obama? I am surprised at this question. I\u2019m surprised that you would ask this question. Do you think the American people are going to blame Obama? <\/p>\n

Let me tell you what\u2019s going to happen. Mark this date down, January 9th, 2009. Within a week — \u2019cause it\u2019s already actually started — within a week of the Immaculate Inauguration, we\u2019re going to start seeing stories that will feature those man-on-the-street interviews with people whose lives are starting to get a little bit better and they see the light at the end of the tunnel now. They go on more job interviews and they are doing a little bit better. The Drive-Bys will start setting the stage to create the impression in the minds of people that we\u2019re coming back, when we\u2019re not. Just as they try to set up this mood that we\u2019re going to hell in a handbasket when we\u2019re not, notice how that works. That convinces people, the old sawbuck, ‘Well, I\u2019m doing fine, but I\u2019m hearing on the news my neighbor is about to lose his job, we\u2019re in trouble here.\u2019 So how does it play when you\u2019re outta work, but you hear that other people are getting jobs? If you are an Obama voter, you think your time is just around the corner, you gotta be patient because he\u2019s already working, his plan is already working. <\/p>\n

Snerdley, why would people who voted for Obama on the basis of vibes, good feelings, and all this meaninglessness, all of a sudden turn substantive? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They\u2019re not going to lose their homes. There was a piece of legislation being debated now to keep \u2019em in there. They\u2019re not going to lose their homes. The only people that are going to lose their homes are people that can afford to pay for it, but for some reason don\u2019t. There will be people out of work, but there will be hope, because there\u2019s change. And this attitude of hope will sustain people through the bad times \u2019cause Obama is there. You\u2019ve gotta understand how the media is going to portray this, and then to the extent that that doesn\u2019t work on everybody, there\u2019s always, ‘It was much worse than we knew because of Bush.\u2019 Remember, Bush is going to be a whipping boy. I would love to say that you\u2019re right, that the American people, not going to take \u2019em too long to figure out that this is bogus, this guy sold them a bill of goods, that their economic situation is in the toilet, somebody\u2019s about to hit the flusher, and they\u2019re gonna want change and so forth again, but it took four years for that to materialize with Jimmy Carter, and Jimmy Carter ain\u2019t no Barack Obama in terms of being able to hypnotize people while he speaks.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Perhaps if there are people in the audience… Those of you out there who happen to agree with Snerdley and disagree with me, who believe that the American people will not put up with economic failure for very long and will get mad at Obama, may I remind you of the reputation Franklin Delano Roosevelt has to this day among people who voted for him? Franklin Delano Roosevelt did an Obama and prolonged the Great Depression by seven years. He won two terms and nearly got away with packing the Supreme Court. The war came along, but there were seven years, there were seven years of abject misery before the war came along during the Great Depression, when the New Deal was put into place. As my buddy Steve Gilbert reminds me, people were singing songs of joy back then. ‘We\u2019re in the money now. We\u2019re in the money now,\u2019 and unemployment was at 25%. <\/p>\n

It was much higher than what we have today. And if you think, if you think a demagogic, flowery-spoken candidate or president with an accomplice media can\u2019t convince people things are great when they\u2019re bad, you\u2019ve got another think coming. If they can convince \u2019em things are horrible when they\u2019re good, the opposite\u2019s also possible. To this day people who were alive and voted for Roosevelt think he\u2019s the greatest president we ever had, and not because of World War II. It\u2019s because of Social Security, because of Medicaid, because of the New Deal. So don\u2019t doubt me. Don\u2019t think the American people that voted for this guy are going to turn on him in two years. I\u2019m sorry to be depressing, but it\u2019s realistic. It gives you an idea. There\u2019s good in everything that happens. This is a profound opportunity we have here. It will all unfold as we lead our way back to prominence here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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