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RUSH: To the phones. New Port Richey in Florida. Betty, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. Thanks much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s good. Do you know, Rush, I spoke with you exactly a year ago in October, before the big election, and I explained to you that I\u2019m in my seventies, my husband is in his eighties and he fought in World War II. And I told you that we were going to vote for President Obama. And, of course, you were very upset about that. But I want to know, and like I asked the screener, what is your main reason why you dislike President Obama? What is it? Can you pinpoint it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Easily. But first I should point out, it\u2019s nothing personal, I don\u2019t even know him. I think he does have a personality that kind of grates on me with that insufferably large ego that is unbearable for me, but no, I don\u2019t like the fact that he looks at this country as an obstacle, the greatness of this country, that there\u2019s no such thing as American exceptionalism, that the country was immoral and unjust before he was elected, and his effort to totally remake it and rebuild it with the government as the central focal point of everybody\u2019s lives is just something, Betty, that I can\u2019t abide. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Would you call remaking country, would you call that like medical reform, would you call that trying to build a strategy for the war in Afghanistan? Do you call that a remake? <\/p>\n

RUSH: The specifics, yeah. We\u2019re not talking about medical reform. That\u2019s not what this is. Health care reform is simply a vehicle for the denial of individual liberty and freedom and the opportunity for government to regulate every aspect of the moment you\u2019re awake and sleep.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have a nursing home crisis brought to you by the people who want to control your health care. (interruption) What, you want me to answer that lady? I mean, she\u2019s been listening to me for how long? How often have I said on this program what my problems with Obama are? I don\u2019t believe we\u2019re trying to build a strategy to win the war in Afghanistan, Betty. I think Obama has said he\u2019s uncomfortable with the whole concept of victory in Afghanistan. He\u2019s got a public spat going on with the general. He\u2019s not a general. Obama looks at the military and kind of frowns. He\u2019s not a big military guy. He\u2019s one of these people that thinks the US military is one of the problems in the world, not the solution. He looks at the United States as one of the problems in the world, not a solution to the world\u2019s problems. He said it over and over and over again. I\u2019m sorry. He doesn\u2019t see the America I have lived in, and he doesn\u2019t want the America I\u2019ve lived in to continue. He wants to remake it, government being the focal point of everybody\u2019s life. National health care is simply a gold mine of regulatory power for people like Obama and the reason, Betty, it\u2019s not going to be implemented \u2019til 2013 is because he\u2019ll be reelected, he hopes, in 2012. <\/p>\n

Once this thing gets implemented there\u2019s going to be a revolt but there\u2019s nothing anybody can do about it at the ballot box, he\u2019ll be in, that\u2019s why none of this stuff gets implemented while he\u2019s in his first term. It\u2019s bad enough talking about it, but wait \u2019til the stuff actually happens, wait \u2019til people actually have to start living these policies. His objective is to destroy the wealth of 70% of the people in the country and transfer it to the 30% of the country he thinks have gotten the shaft since the founding of this country. And that\u2019s what he\u2019s in the process of doing. The student loan business is now totally run by the government — or it will be starting next year. If we\u2019re not careful, whenever you need a loan, of any kind, for any reason, you\u2019re going to have to go to an Obama-controlled entity. And then do you think it might matter whether or not you support Obama or contribute to Democrats as to whether or not you\u2019ll be given assistance with your financial needs? Why are we even talking about this? This is not the role of the US government. None of it\u2019s mentioned in the founding, none of it\u2019s mentioned in the Constitution. <\/p>\n

I mean all I have to know is what Obama has said. The Constitution is a list of negative rights. I\u2019m sorry. From that perspective how can the Constitution be negative? The Constitution tells government what it cannot do to the people. Obama looks at that as a negative. He wants the Constitution to say what government can do to people. Well, he says ‘for.\u2019 But he means ‘to.\u2019 This is a dangerous man, Betty. This guy wants to do things that your husband fought World War II for to prevent, if I may be so bold. And now we have this: ‘The nation\u2019s nursing homes are perilously close to laying off workers, cutting services — possibly even closing — because of a perfect storm wallop from the recession and deep federal and state government spending cuts.\u2019 The headline of this AP story: ‘Waves of New Fund Cuts Imperil US Nursing Homes.\u2019 What kind of cuts, you say? ‘A Medicare rate adjustment that cuts an estimated $16 billion in nursing home funding over the next 10 years was enacted at week\u2019s end by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — on top of state-level cuts or flat-funding that already had the industry reeling. And Congress is debating slashing billions more in Medicare funding as part of health care reform.\u2019<\/line> <\/line>But wait, but wait, but wait, I thought they weren\u2019t going to touch Medicare, I thought they were going to get money from Medicare by cutting off fraud and abuse, and already we\u2019re dangerously close to closing some nursing homes. I thought they weren\u2019t going to do any of this. They weren\u2019t going to do any of this, Betty, but they\u2019re doing it right before your very eyes. How you don\u2019t see it mystifies me. ‘The funding crisis comes as the nation\u2019s baby boomers age ever closer toward needing nursing home care. The nation\u2019s 16,000 nursing homes housed 1.85 million people last year, up from 1.79 million in 2007, US Census Bureau figures show.\u2019 It\u2019s bad out there, Betty. All you have to do is have the courage to believe what you see. <\/line><\/p>\n

Susan in Monrovia, California, glad you called, nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. You\u2019ve got another mad Susan in Southern California.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would be you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And I think what makes me so furious is that we keep on looking at this president, when in reality it\u2019s Barack ‘Puppet\u2019 Obama. And we need to start looking at where he takes his talking points every day. This is a man who looks at the teleprompter and if it fails, he has no idea. So he has to look at Rahm Emanuel, the media, we have to look at the labor unions, the ACLU, we have to look at these wonderful czars, which were all election obligations given, and that\u2019s who we need to start focusing on, because Barack, he\u2019s a teleprompter, and only if it works. It\u2019s most frustrating. Do you think I\u2019m mad?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Not deranged mad. I think you\u2019re angry, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s amazing when I listen to a woman such as Betty, and she doesn\u2019t see that this last election was all about the media getting its power back, all about the media. They took a man who had no experience, a couple of days in the Senate, they even chose the Republican candidate, and then they wonder why all of this is going on. It was all about control, and they got it back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t disagree with this as you well know. I myself have articulated these sentiments. I know the media was desperate to show itself, that it had the power to shape public opinion and public events, their outcome and all that, but the thing that you said about who is Obama, who is writing the stuff, without the teleprompter he\u2019s nowhere. We\u2019ve gone back and forth on that subject. Is Obama a puppet, is he a Manchurian Candidate, what is he? And whether or not he\u2019s a Manchurian Candidate, what you have to understand, Susan, is that he believes it regardless whether he can write it himself or whether he can put it on the prompter himself, he believes it. This is who he is. Whether he\u2019s a front man for somebody else, who would it be, George Soros, Rahm Emanuel, Axelrod.<\/p>\n

If my sensibilities are quite na&iuml;ve, but it didn\u2019t take me long to see the reality. I think a lot of people bought into this whole postpartisan Obama is a brand-new kind of guy, he\u2019s going to get rid of all the partisan divide, no more blue state\/red state and he had a lot of supporters on that basis, a lot of people joining him in the White House. It wouldn\u2019t have taken me very long to realize this is not who I thought he was. This is not right. This is not what this country is all about. Government does not run everything that happens here. We are not going to enact policies that are gonna destroy the US economy. We\u2019re not going to do it and yet nobody has defected. And if you look at the people that he has put in there, he\u2019s got child abusers, he\u2019s got perverts, he\u2019s got noted communists, he\u2019s got people who do not like this country at every level of his administration. So you have to assume that\u2019s him, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, maybe, but I think the only thing Obama believes in is himself. I think he\u2019s a huge ego. And I think he is so angry right now that he can get on a microphone and no one\u2019s buying it except Betty. And yet there are people out there that are still holding onto the sixties movement feeling that it\u2019s Enron yet they\u2019re not looking at GE, that, you know, that it\u2019s all about what he says, and he\u2019s going to make the change. And I disagree, I think he only believes in himself. I think he does hate the US but I only think he believes in himself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t think he hates the US. I think he sees the US as an opportunity for it to be remade in a way that he thinks is more fair and more just because basically the whole country was structured and put together in the most unfair, discriminatory way. But, look, there\u2019s no questioning his ego. But don\u2019t doubt for a moment that he\u2019s just a brainless puppet here executing somebody else\u2019s words. This guy, this is who he is. This is in his heart. This is in his brain. It\u2019s how he was raised; it\u2019s how he\u2019s been taught. And it\u2019s why he\u2019s able to surround himself with so many people like him, \u2019cause the shocking truth is that there are a lot of them in this country who believe exactly as he does. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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