{"id":31452,"date":"2009-01-19T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:50:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:50:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:50:32","slug":"caller_thank_you_president_bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/01\/19\/caller_thank_you_president_bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Caller: Thank You, President Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Colleen in Bergen County in New Jersey. Welcome. Thank you for waiting, and it\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s great to talk to you, Rush. I want to start my call off with congratulations on your Pittsburgh Steelers. We love our football. Those are manly men.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll say.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. I also want to say, I want to start by saying, there\u2019s an article that came out in the San Francisco Chronicle by Debra Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Debra Saunders is a friend of mine, by the way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CALLER: Oh, good! Oh, good! All right, see? I knew she had to be somebody good because it started off that Bush &#8216;showed us that the USA is no paper tiger,\u2019 and it starts off, &#8216;From the day Bush took office, the long knives were out,\u2019 and that &#8216;Al-Qaeda members had told our intelligence officials that they never thought Bush would respond to the 9\/11 attacks as ferociously as he did,\u2019 and it also quotes, &#8216;To trash Bush was to belong.\u2019 So this call is about, I want to bid my commander-in-chief a fond and loving farewell, and I\u2019m probably going to get emotional because, &#8216;I want to thank you, Mr. President, George Walker Bush, for keeping us all safe. I can truly say this: You have read those intelligence reports. You know and you have always known the attempts that this enemy has made on our own soil throughout your entire presidency. You truly have protected us. You love our families. You love our sons, our daughters, our nieces, and especially our nephews, as if they were your own, and it\u2019s a testament of how you were raised: so humble and so proud. Wealthy or not, you\u2019re one of the most humble men, you and your father, that I think this country has ever known.\u2019 I mean, Rush, the story that you ate lunch with him and he had peanut butter and jelly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He likes&#8230; It\u2019s either peanut butter and jelly or baloney sandwiches, he likes. I forget. I think he likes the red jelly, not the purple jelly, and he said to me, &#8216;The peanut butter is good for you, Limbaugh. You should try it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Peanut butter and jelly on rye. And you mentioned, by the way, Colleen, intelligence reports. What is the theme that we have heard from President Bush as he\u2019s easing his way out of the White House? He continues his farewell address, other remarks he\u2019s making publicly have to do with how successful he feels in keeping America safe. There has not been an attack on our soil. It\u2019s clearly the thing that he took most seriously. I doubt we can understand what it\u2019s like to be president of the United States, having taken an oath to defend and protect the Constitution and the people and have 9\/11 happen on your watch. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening the next two hours. You don\u2019t know what they\u2019ve got planned the next day, the next week. You have to put that at the top of your priority list and make sure that another one of those things happening on our soil does not happen. <\/p>\n<p>He pulled that off. He succeeded. And I, therefore, all through this transition period, I guarantee you, he\u2019s been reading these intelligence reports, because whether he\u2019s on his way out or not, that remains his number one objective. And as the president-elect, Barack Obama has been reading the same intelligence reports. Whatever Bush is getting, Obama is getting them, too. We haven\u2019t heard a word from him about it. It\u2019s not on his radar to talk about this, at least at this stage. He\u2019s going to have to at some point, because the threats are there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Colleen in Bergen County in New Jersey. Welcome. Thank you for waiting, and it\u2019s great to have you here. CALLER: It\u2019s great to talk to you, Rush. I want to start my call off with congratulations on your Pittsburgh Steelers. We love our football. Those are manly men. RUSH: I\u2019ll say. CALLER: Yes. 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