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RUSH: Now, I mentioned the hundred days and the obsession that the Drive-Bys have. ‘Obama scores high marks,\u2019 and he does, ‘for how he\u2019s handled his job the first three months in office, according to new polls released as the 100-day anniversary of his presidency approaches.\u2019 I mean, all these numbers are sky-high, through the roof. After the failure to fix the automobile business, and after the banks continue to fail, after there\u2019s-no-more-credit-in-the-financial system, after everything that they have taken on and they say gonna fix, after the stimulus bill, nothing of substance has improved — and yet the approval ratings are through the roof.\"\"Which has produced, in addition to the fawning stories (I\u2019ve got four here, two of them from the Washington Post) that are, frankly, surprising to me that they ran these stories. In the Washington Post, by Eli Saslow. The headline is: ”A Hundred Anxious Days — In a South Carolina Town Where the Downturn Has Deepened Since the Inauguration, Two Obama Supporters Have Struggled, Going From ‘Fired Up\u2019 to Tired Out.\u2019 Listen, I can\u2019t read the whole thing to you. I wish I could, but it\u2019s six pages. Listen to this: ‘Greenwood, South Carolina — Her cordless phone stores 17 voice messages, and tonight the inbox is full. Edith Childs, 60, grabs a bottle of water, tosses her hat on the living room floor and scowls at the blinking red light.\u2019A county councilwoman, she spent the past 12 hours driving rural roads in her 2001 Toyota Camry, trying to solve Greenwood\u2019s problems, but only now begins the part of each day that exhausts her. Childs slumps into an armless chair and steels herself for a 13-minute confessional. ‘Hi, Ms. Edith, this is Rose, and I\u2019m calling about my light bill. It\u2019s $420. … There\u2019s no way I can pay that.\u2019 ‘Edith, it\u2019s Francine. … They stopped by my house again today, talking about foreclosure. I don\u2019t know what to do. Can you call me?\u2019 Childs leans her head back against the wall and closes her eyes. Her hair is matted down with sweat, and thin-rimmed glasses sink low on her nose. Every few minutes, she stirs to jot notes on a to-do list that fills most of a notebook.\u2019 This story goes on about economic misery in South Carolina. All these people voted for Obama, and none of it\u2019s getting fixed.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: As usual, my friends, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.<\/p>\n

I want to return to this Washington Post story. It\u2019s actually from yesterday about the failure — I mean, the abject misery — that\u2019s out there in people\u2019s lives who thought Obama was gonna fix all of this. So we\u2019re picking up here with Edith Childs, who is 60. She is a county councilwoman in Greenwood, South Carolina. She was just listening to her cell phone, voicemail, with 13 minutes of complaint calls from people who can\u2019t pay the light bill, their house is going to be foreclosed on. ‘She has to remind herself,\u2019 it says here, ‘that she ran for county council in 1998 because she coveted this role: unofficial protector, activist and psychologist for her hometown. Back then, the hardships of Greenwood — 22,000 people separated from the nearest interstate by 40 miles — struck Childs as contained.<\/p>\n

‘Now she sometimes wonders aloud to her husband, Charles: ‘When does it stop?” Hey, Edith? Have you noticed it\u2019s spreading and getting worse, Edith, in the last hundred days? I just add that as an editorial comment. ‘Across the dark living room, one of Childs\u2019s favorite pictures is displayed on a worn coffee table. It shows Childs with her arms wrapped around Barack Obama, his hand on her back, her eyes glowing. They met at a rally attended by 37 supporters on a rainy day in 2007, when Childs responded to Obama\u2019s sluggishness on stage with an impromptu chant: ‘Fired up! Ready to go!\u2019 She repeated it, shouting louder each time, until Obama laughed and dipped his shoulders to the rhythm. The chant caught on. ‘Fired up!\u2019 people began saying at rallies.<\/p>\n

”Ready to go,\u2019 Obama chanted back. He told audiences about Childs, ‘a spirited little lady,\u2019 and invited her onstage at campaign appearances. By the day of his inauguration, when Childs led a busload of strangers bound for the Mall in her now-iconic chant, her transformation was complete. She was Edith Childs, fired up and ready to go.\u2019 Remember, now, the headline of the story is: ‘Going from Fired Up to Tired Out.\u2019 ‘But now, as Obama nears the 100-day milestone of his presidency, Childs suffers from constant exhaustion. In a conservative Southern state that bolstered Obama\u2019s candidacy by supporting him early in the Democratic primaries, she awakens at 2:30 a.m. with stress headaches and remains awake mulling all that\u2019s befallen Greenwood since Obama\u2019s swearing-in. On Day 4 of his presidency, the Solutia textile plant laid off 101 workers.<\/p>\n

\"\"‘On Day 23, the food bank set a record for meals served. On Day 50, the hospital fired 200 employees and warned of [more]. On Day 71, the school superintendent called a staff meeting and told his principals: ‘We\u2019re losing 10 percent of our budget. That means some of us won\u2019t have jobs next year, and the rest should expect job changes and pay cuts.\u2019 On Day 78, the town\u2019s newly elected Democratic mayor, whose campaign was inspired partly by his admiration for Obama, summarized Greenwood\u2019s accelerating fragility. ‘This is crippling us, and there\u2019s no sign of it turning around,\u2019 Welborn Adams said. On Day 88, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that South Carolina had set a record for its highest unemployment rate in state history, at 11.4 percent. Greenwood\u2019s unemployment is 13 percent — more than twice what it was when Childs first started chanting\u2019 for Obama in 2007.<\/p>\n

And in this little town, his approval rating is in the nineties. There\u2019s another story here, another woman, ‘Evon Hackett, 38, lost her job on Day 20 of Obama\u2019s presidency. She was nearing the end of her Friday afternoon shift on the assembly line at Tyco Healthcare, stuffing three packets of diapers into each passing cardboard box for $8.59 an hour, when a manager asked to see her. Hackett cleaned out her locker on the way to his office. ‘What, was he going to give me a raise?\u2019 she said. ‘Huh-uh. Not happening. Not in Greenwood,” South Carolina. And you go through the whole story and… Well, here. One more paragraph and I\u2019ll give you the piece de resistance. ‘On Day 85 of the Obama presidency, Hackett wakes up and swaps her usual blue sweat pants for a pair of ironed capris and a denim jacket. Eight silver bracelets are divided between two wrists.<\/p>\n

‘Her hair is pulled into tight dreadlocks, which a friend twisted until 11 the night before. As Hackett stands up to leave her parents\u2019 house, she completes her outfit with a pair of pink high heels, purchased at the bargain price of $15.99 because she managed to squeeze into the children\u2019s size. ‘I want people to look at me and think, ‘Classy,” Hackett says. ‘I don\u2019t want nobody thinking I\u2019m some know-nothing loser.” If you read the story, you find out that all these problems, it\u2019s just getting worse and worse and worse — and they just say, ‘Well, I guess we\u2019re just not that high on his priority list yet.\u2019 I guess we\u2019re just not that high on his priority list! In other words: He\u2019s trying! He\u2019s working in other parts of the country right now to pay people\u2019s electric bills, and he\u2019s stopping home foreclosures in other parts of the country. But these people know that their little town\u2019s 40 miles away for an interstate. Now, this Edith what\u2019s-her-name knows Obama personally; but still, ‘I guess we\u2019re not that high on his priority list,\u2019 meaning, ‘He\u2019s going to get to us. He\u2019s going to get to us, it just he must think that there\u2019s something else out there he has to do first.\u2019 (sigh) So it\u2019s the perception versus the reality.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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