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RUSH: Topeka, Kansas, this is Debbie. Debbie, it\u2019s nice to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling in, I — I saw the report that Barack Obama, 72% of the people strongly approve of him in the first 100 days, and from ABC News. What I got a hold of was the PDF file that has all of the questions asked of them, because I couldn\u2019t believe it. I went to the tea parties and 25% of the people there were Democrats that were disapproving of the way things were going. So I got a copy of this report from ABC News, and what they\u2019re reporting is so misleading. You know, if you add up — if you take a look at the numbers and you add them up — the approval rating of his programs is less than 60%, and the funniest thing that he got the highest approval rating on was the situation in Iraq, 71% of the people approve of that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I believe some of this, because even Rasmussen today has a poll out, I forget the number, well over 50%, Deb, of the American people believe in the private sector, not big government. But he\u2019s got high approval numbers. What people are saying is they love him personally. People like him personally. They really don\u2019t like his policies much, but it\u2019s the like him personally that\u2019s getting him through everything. The like him personally allows people to say, ‘Well, he doesn\u2019t really know about all this stuff that\u2019s going on. Administrations are very big.\u2019 It\u2019s not even a hundred days yet. It\u2019s very hard to make him accountable. But that\u2019s the challenge that we all have. The task that we have is to attach ownership of all this stuff to Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, when they asked the specific questions, only 51% of the people approve of the federal budget deficit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yup.<\/p>\n

CALLER: When you ask about the situation with the US automakers, only 41% approve. So when you take a look at what they ask, his approval ratings for a specific item are actually pretty low.<\/p>\n

RUSH: On policy. ‘But how do you think he\u2019s doing at president?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Oh, oh-ho-ho, I love the guy! Wonderful!\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘What about his auto policy?\u2019 ‘Ah, I don\u2019t like that. But I love the guy! He\u2019s so smart. He\u2019s so elegant!\u2019<\/p>\n

‘What about his plan to save the banks?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I don\u2019t know that we need the government running the show.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘What about him?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I love him! Ho-ho! I love the guy!\u2019<\/p>\n

Look, you have identified why a lot of people are going insane trying to understand the American people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It makes me insane because I don\u2019t… What\u2019s interesting is, my whole family basically is Democrat, and none of them like him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I know, that makes it worse, but we\u2019re just going to have to work harder on tying all this stuff personally in an accountability-responsibility way to The Messiah.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Janice in Westchester, New York. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, Janice. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Hi, Rush. I\u2019m calling today to thank you very much for your show and your courage. You have become my educator. I was a Democrat, I must admit, for a very long time, and then an independent, and recently you have educated me a lot and really opened my eyes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I really do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So keep up the good work. And because of your show I took to reading a lot of books, and I did read Obama\u2019s books, and I do agree with your stance of his agenda and his underlying anger. And I think you can get that feel from reading his books.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s all there. I mean, people who have read his books are not surprised by any of this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, they shouldn\u2019t be at all, and I think that who\u2019s going to be surprised is Congress, because from reading the book, I feel that eventually I think he\u2019s going to work to even bypass Congress in many instances in getting things done. That\u2019s my opinion. That\u2019s how I feel, and that\u2019s what I think. There is a pattern of this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019ll do that when he wants. He\u2019s also going to use Congress. He\u2019s gonna slough off some controversial stuff to Congress so it doesn\u2019t tie to him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s done a couple 180s on torture memo investigations. He first said, ‘We\u2019re not going to look into Bush lawyers. We\u2019re going to move forward. We\u2019re not going to look past,\u2019 and then somebody talked to him that night and the next day he said, ‘We are going to look into it,\u2019 and then all hell broke loose again. So on the third announcement in two days, he said he\u2019s going to turn it over to Holder —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and Congress to look into it. So…<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I think if they gave him a hard time, he\u2019s just going to bypass them. They don\u2019t realize that, I don\u2019t think, at this point, personally. That\u2019s my own opinion. But also your aspect of the emotional is very important, because the emotions are in the seat of the subconscious mind. And most people do not understand that when you are soliciting an emotion, you open the subconscious mind, and when once the subconscious mind is open —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re exactly right, and that\u2019s why I am not a prisoner of my subconscious because I have no emotion. I am dead reality based in there, total, a hundred percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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