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RUSH: Sarkozy. You know, we talked about him yesterday. Sarkozy is expressing all kinds of nervousness about Obama. Last night on Greta Van Susteren\u2019s show on Fox she spoke with Jack Kelly of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette who says that he has sources who have told him that Sarkozy has the same opinion of Obama that we do. Greta Van Susteren\u2019s question was, ‘Prior to this issue of Iran arising in Pittsburgh at the G20 and before that at the General Assembly at the UN, what was President Sarkozy\u2019s view of President Obama, and have they patched things up a little bit?\u2019<\/line><\/line>KELLY: I have a friend who has — one friend who is close to Sarkozy and another who is a member of France\u2019s external intelligence agency, and they both say that Sarkozy thinks that President Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical, so egotistical that no one can dent his naivete, and he\u2019s very worried about what that means for the West, because the president of the United States is the leader of the free world, and if the president of the United States isn\u2019t going to lead the free world, it isn\u2019t going to be led.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: See, I go back and forth on this naivete business. I don\u2019t doubt that there\u2019s some naivete but I think that there\u2019s an incredible ego and hubris. But, see, I think all this is on purpose, from destroying the US economy, to creating as much welfare as possible, to creating as much dependence on government. I\u2019m sorry to sound like a broken record on this, but I really don\u2019t believe it\u2019s naivete. I think that Barack Obama and the gang which spawned him have an active dislike for this country as founded. You can hear it in all of his speeches. Every time he goes around the world, apologizes for the United States, that speech at the United Nations, everybody says it\u2019s sophomoric, probably was in a strict analysis on the basis of content and so forth, but if you listen to several things about it, you find there\u2019s hardly any naivete there. He essentially said, ‘My country sucked, my country sucked, and every one of you in this body who thought the United States was a bad deal, you\u2019re right. But look at what we\u2019ve done to change it in the last nine months, look how much it\u2019s better since I\u2019m here.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that\u2019s naivete. It is certainly ego. But, folks, we\u2019re dealing with a guy who is out to destroy the whole concept of the West, western civilization, the West in terms of a geopolitical organization of nations, out to destroy it. We\u2019ve never seen anything like this. Gore Vidal even says that we\u2019re headed toward a dictatorship soon in the United States of America and this is in the UK Times. He voted for Obama. Now, Gore Vidal himself is insane, but this nevertheless is quite instructive. Gore Vidal famously switched allegiance from Hillary to Barack Obama during the nomination process, and now in this interview he regrets his change of heart. ‘How\u2019s Obama doing? ‘Dreadfully. I was hopeful. He was the most intelligent person we\u2019ve had in that position for a long time. But he\u2019s inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters. He\u2019s acting as if Afghanistan is the magic talisman: solve that and you solve terrorism.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Another notable Obama misstep has been on healthcare reform. ‘He [screwed] it up. I don\u2019t know how because the country wanted it.\u2019 &hellip; America has ‘no intellectual class\u2019 and is ‘rotting away at a funereal pace. We\u2019ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama would have been better off focusing on educating the American people.” Now, this is in the women\u2019s section of the UK Times, the life and style section. But Gore Vidal, who himself is a left-wing lunatic, despite his lunacy is seeing the lunacy he\u2019s looking at when he looks at the White House. I guess it takes a lunatic to see a lunatic, to know one. See, the problem is, if Obama had more experience in the public or private sector, he never would have been elected president in the first place. The more we know, the more the myth of Obama fades. It was Obama\u2019s inexperience and platitudes that got him elected. It\u2019s his inexperience that\u2019s going to do great harm to the country and the world that we used to lead. <\/p>\n

I think all the inexperience, all the naivete misses the point of what we\u2019re dealing with here. We\u2019re dealing with somebody who\u2019s got a chip on his shoulder, and it\u2019s been placed there from the moment he was born by people who reared him, by the church he went to, by his buddy Bill Ayers. If you just look at who his friends are, Valerie Jarrett, the Chicago machine, Richard Daley. Why is Obama off in Copenhagen? Now, there are many theories about this. Some people think, no, it\u2019s not in the bag, it\u2019s not in the bag, and Daley wants it. Daley made Obama, Daley opened up the machine to Obama, and Daley said you better get yourself over there and you better get this for me because I want all that money flowing in here for 2016. I need to keep going on my patronage and I need to get corruption — you know the way the machine works. So Obama\u2019s been essentially ordered by Daley to get over there and get this done. That\u2019s one theory. Another theory is, it is done, and Obama\u2019s going over there just to accept the accolades and so forth. The theory being that he would not dare step foot in Copenhagen if there was a chance that Chicago would not be granted the 2016 Olympics. <\/p>\n

Now, Michelle (My Belle) Obama arrived there this morning, two different airplanes. She flew her 757. He\u2019s going to fly the 747 tomorrow. A third 747 goes to provide communications over the Atlantic. All kinds of support people have to fly over in advance commercial, a bunch of military jets and cargo planes have to take the limousines and so forth, and this is not state business. It would be a mistake to focus on all the money that\u2019s being spent on this. Instead, they need to focus on the priorities and I really do believe, I thought about this, I really do think that it\u2019s not in the bag and I think that\u2019s why Daley ordered him to get over there. And Daley said, the mayor of Chicago, ‘Get yourself over there and you get this done.\u2019 You owe us, is I think one of the things that\u2019s guiding this.<\/p>\n

Mike, I\u2019m going to interrupt what I told you about the sound bite order, because Gore Vidal says we really don\u2019t know who the guy is. Joe Klein said the same thing. Joe Klein, TIME Magazine, thinks that talk radio is the biggest problem facing America today. He was on MSNBC yesterday afternoon, Andrea Mitchell\u2019s show. She said, ‘We saw that even now with David Gregory on Meet the Press, any interview with Bill Clinton is just a rich mine of his knowledge, his assessments, his instincts. And I suspect that that\u2019s one of the reasons Obama had lunch with him in Greenwich Village two weeks ago to pick his brain.\u2019 Now, these people are living in a fantasy world if they think that\u2019s why they had lunch together. But here\u2019s what Klein said.<\/p>\n

KLEIN: He knows a lot. The other interesting thing is the contrast between these two men. Clinton is so wildly emotional and over the top, and Obama is so buttoned down. And it makes you realize how little we still know about President Obama, even after eight or nine months in office.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then what explains your slavish devotion to him, Joe, if so little is known about him? Joe, call me, I\u2019ll tell you everything you want to know about the guy, and I\u2019ve never met him, and I\u2019ve never covered him up close like you have, and I\u2019ll tell you everything you want to know. I\u2019ll tell you everything he\u2019s doing. And I\u2019ll be spot-on right. Let\u2019s go back to the archives. October 29th, 2008, Charlie Rose Show, PBS, he\u2019s talking to Tom Brokaw. <\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t know what Barack Obama\u2019s worldview is.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: No, I don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t know how he really sees where China is.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: We don\u2019t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.<\/p>\n

ROSE: I don\u2019t really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Yeah, it\u2019s an interesting question.<\/p>\n

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Two of them. I don\u2019t know what books he\u2019s read.<\/p>\n

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?<\/p>\n

BROKAW: There\u2019s a lot about him we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that was a couple days before the election, three or four days before the election, and Joe Klein says eight or nine months later we still don\u2019t know who the guy is. Call me, Joe. Send me an e-mail, Joe, I\u2019ll tell you exactly who Barack Obama is and what\u2019s headed for this country. It\u2019s right out there for everybody to see. It doesn\u2019t take a neophyte to understand his economic policies are not designed to improve things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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