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RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, President Obama — and I really feel that that\u2019s more descriptive than to call him ‘Commander-in-Chief Obama\u2019 — made his fourth iteration of a position on the near-disaster over Detroit. That was a tragedy that was averted by good luck and nothing else. Now, we were told by the national security chief of staff there, General James Jones, that after the message we would feel, quote, ‘a certain shock,\u2019 end of quote, and everybody was breathless all day. ‘What are we going to hear? What\u2019s going to shock us?\u2019 I didn\u2019t feel a shock at whatever was revealed and I don\u2019t think anybody else did. What the heck does ‘connect the dots\u2019 have to do with this? Why do the dots have to be connected? Look, everybody wants to get rid of Napolitano or get rid of this guy that stayed on the ski slopes. The guy to get rid of is Obama! Folks, we have a bunch of 1960s, free sex, free love, peaceniks running around in these important positions. <\/p>\n

We have people who are obsessed with political correctness, and they take their orders from on high. The guy at the top sets the tone, and he doesn\u2019t care. All this is a political inconvenience for him. He doesn\u2019t really wish he had to deal with this. He really believes that ‘toning down the rhetoric\u2019 and running around the world apologizing for America will make all these people love him and thus not attack the country. He doesn\u2019t have the slightest understanding. A peacenik can\u2019t possibly because peaceniks always blame America for the problems that we face in the world, and when they blame us they think we sorta deserve whatever we get. So you got guys that don\u2019t come back from vacation after an event like this, including the president. And you\u2019ve got Janet Napolitano out there who is saying some of the most ridiculous things like she\u2019s most surprised by ‘Al-Qaeda\u2019s determination.\u2019 How can anybody in this country, whether you\u2019re in the government or not, be surprised by their determination? <\/p>\n

These people are willing to kill themselves for whatever perverted cause they believe in. It matters who we have in these positions, and we have a bunch of Global Peace March people. We really do have a bunch of New Agers in there who believe that all the problems in the world are caused by this country. And Obama, because he runs around apologizing, is certainly one of those people, and that\u2019s who he hires. That\u2019s who he appoints. We shouldn\u2019t be surprised by any of this. When a 20-something Muslim male buys a one-way ticket with cash and has no luggage, that\u2019s not a dot. That\u2019s a fire alarm! He may as well have ‘I\u2019m a terrorist\u2019 taped on his T-shirt. And the buck stops with Obama? That\u2019s just boob bait for the media, and it\u2019s working. The media and everybody is saying, ‘Oh, he\u2019s really coming around now. He really gets it now.\u2019 The failure here is… He can have all the speeches in the world he wants. <\/p>\n

He can have all the tough talk he wants. But if we don\u2019t have the will to fight, to face who we are up against and understand honestly who we\u2019re up against and then deal with them accordingly — if we\u2019re going to beat up ourselves over Abu Ghraib, if we\u2019re going to beat up ourselves over Guantanamo Bay and not understand who the hell we\u2019re dealing with — then we\u2019re never going to beat \u2019em, despite all the great rhetoric and speeches anybody can give. The failure here is not setting the nation and the world on a wartime mentality. I watched that speech yesterday. I actually expected him to say at the end of it (Clinton impression), ‘Now it\u2019s time for me to get back to work on health reform for the American people.\u2019 Now, I can imagine how this went yesterday as they rehearsed the speech. He kept having all of these delays. They delayed the time Obama was going to come out and speak four times. They kept redacting it. Everybody is waiting for all the ‘shock\u2019 that James Jones told us was going to be present. So I imagined how it went in these rehearsals here. You got somebody — maybe it\u2019s Rahm Emanuel, maybe it\u2019s Axelrod — and they say, ‘Okay, Mr. President. Mr. President, America wants you to behave like a commander-in-chief. You gotta be able to say ‘war.\u2019 Can you say ‘war\u2019? Let\u2019s try it.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: …war.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great! Great! One more time.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: War…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, okay. Ah, progress. That\u2019s a buy, Mr. President. Now let\u2019s direct the war. Please say ‘war against.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: War against…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Perfect. Perfect. Okay, now, we got war and we got ‘against,\u2019 and now let\u2019s name the enemy, Mr. President. Can you say ‘war on Muslim terrorists\u2019?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: War against Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nice pronunciation of ‘Al-Qaeda,\u2019 Mr. President. Try and say ‘war against Muslim terrorists.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: War against Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) Mr. President, Al-Qaeda is Muslim terrorists. If you\u2019re going to have any credibility here, sir, you\u2019re going to have to say ‘war against Muslim terrorists.\u2019 Try it this way: Say ‘war on Mmmmm-m-m-m-m-m-m Muslims.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: War against Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. (sigh) Okay. Okay, forget ‘the war on Muslim terrorists.\u2019 Just go out there and say that you take full responsibility. The media\u2019s going to eat \u2019em all up, you\u2019ll see. It will be the lead on tonight\u2019s news. And, of course, it was the lead on tonight\u2019s news. Here is the president discussing this. Here\u2019s a portion of what he said yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: While passions and politics can often obscure the hard work before us, let\u2019s be clear about what this moment demands. We are at war. We are at war against Al-Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9\/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again; and we will do whatever it takes to defeat them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I now have to get back to work very hard on health care reform for the American people. I mean, we have an academic\/intellectual\/professorial dissertation here. I guess it was progress to say ‘Al-Qaeda.\u2019 He doesn\u2019t allow people to say Al-Qaeda. We can\u2019t say ‘terrorists\u2019 but he did say ‘war,\u2019 but at the same time he\u2019s bringing the same kind of people for a show trial in New York City. If he really, really cared about intelligence, he wouldn\u2019t be doing that for sure. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The reason the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber nearly succeeded in blowing up an airplane with 300 passengers was laziness. We had the information. We had more than enough information. But nobody did anything with it. They were all technically on the job but they weren\u2019t doing what they were paid to do, which is to protect us, to think, to be imaginative, and to communicate with one another. And the Gorelick wall is gone, by the way. There is nothing to prevent anybody from sharing information with each other anymore. I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s done. In fact, earlier this week on MSNBC<\/a>, this network, we sit here and we laugh at them and we make jokes about them but I don\u2019t know how to characterize them beyond incompetents. It\u2019s not even enough to say they\u2019re propagandists. They actually had on their Countdown show one night this week Richard Wolffe a guy who has a book on Obama and is working on a second book on Obama and probably has great access to Obama, and he\u2019s a Brit, and he said on this show that the White House believes that there were a bunch of people in the intelligence community who purposely ignored this to make Obama look bad. They ran with this for a whole hour and they acted like this conspiracy theory was the God awful truth because Richard Wolffe has access. <\/p>\n

And then something happened, in the next show, in the next hour Richard Wolffe came on, (paraphrasing) ‘Ah, I just spoke with the White House, we\u2019re sort of ten steps ahead of where they are.\u2019 They had tried to fly a balloon here. MSNBC, at the direction of Obama and the White House, because that\u2019s what MSNBC is, they tried a trial balloon. They wanted to see if they could make it stick that the intelligence community purposely let the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber get as far as he did so as to embarrass Obama and obviously it wasn\u2019t flying and the White House walked them back on it, and it\u2019s breathtaking to watch. This is a division of NBC. And there are so many people at NBC that have jobs that nobody can figure out how they keep them and how they got them, from the top on down. And that network is at the top of the list. There\u2019s no greater collection of genuine ignorance of what\u2019s really happening than at MSNBC. <\/p>\n

Now, back to this laziness that existed. It wasn\u2019t a conspiracy. They were on vacation and the man at the top sets the tone. If you have a bunch of peaceniks, if you have a bunch of sixties anti-war types who thinks the US is responsible for all that happens to it and might even deserve some of what happens to it, if you have these people in important high-level positions, State Department, Pentagon, even in the intelligence community, you\u2019re going to get what you\u2019re going to get. Everybody was on paid vacation. Some were vacationing on the clock, some were out of the office; nobody was working. Nobody gave a damn. They didn\u2019t even come off of vacation when this near-disaster happened. You and I both know what vacations are. They\u2019re temporary escapes from responsibility, but not for the president, and not for his national security team. The problem was that nobody acted responsibly here either before, during, or after their vacations, and the president, ‘systemic failure.\u2019 That\u2019s his way of not blaming anybody, because if he blames somebody, he\u2019s gotta blame himself. <\/p>\n

Nobody\u2019s going to get canned here because that would make him accountable. So he can\u2019t say that there was any one person or a series of people that blew it here. He\u2019s gotta say the system failed because the system allows him to blame Bush or allows his spokesman to blame Bush which you will hear in mere moments. I predicted it yesterday and it happened last night<\/a>. Nobody is being held accountable. The system is worthless if you have worthless people in it. A system is worthless if you don\u2019t have any commitment to it. The president said the buck stops here, but no one including the vacationing president was here. They all checked out. And when they were informed of the widespread inexcusable negligence nobody cared to come back to the office. Nobody gave a damn on the job. Senior management is always on the clock, but not in this administration. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to learn that all the vacationing national security figures involved in this had their phones turned off. ‘Don\u2019t bug me. I\u2019m on the ski slopes.\u2019 I mean, the president wasn\u2019t even informed right away, and it took him three days. And when he came out in Hawaii and made a statement he seemed irritated, and he didn\u2019t take any questions, he moved on. <\/p>\n

Now, this debacle, like what happened at Fort Hood in Texas, has nothing to do with insufficient resources. It has to do with insufficient dedication. And all of this was predictable. Liberals are who they are. Peaceniks, anti-war people are who they are. The blame-America-first crowd is who it is, and they have these positions of power now. What\u2019s really in order here are mass firings just to get the attention of those who remain, who are paid to keep vigil and keep us safe. They could dock everybody a week\u2019s pay. Do something to light a fire. But, see, we can\u2019t do that because that would make the president look bad, and we can\u2019t have that. And try this. If you want to talk about genuine stupidity here, this is from CNN: ‘State Department says it was unaware terror suspect had visa before attempted bombing. Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab\u2019s misspelled name led to visa snafu.<\/p>\n

‘It is one of several unconnected dots — the State Department failed to determine that Christmas bombing suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab had a U.S. visa until after he nearly set off explosives on a U.S.-bound airplane. State Department officials told CNN on Thursday that a series of errors caused AbdulMutallab to avoid classification as a terrorist, which would have have placed him on a no-fly list and caused his multiple entry visa to be revoked. One of those errors was the inability of the State Department — which issues visas — to initially determine whether AbdulMutallab had one,\u2019 because they had his name misspelled in the database. Okay, now, since they have publicized this, every terrorist now knows all they have to do is throw a few more vowels in the name they are registered with and they\u2019re good to go. We\u2019ve made the mistake of compounding the mistake by telling them how we failed. Perfect example of a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy. I can\u2019t wait, folks, until we start assigning classifications to cancer patients so they can be treated. ‘Sorry, your tumor is only P2 and only P3s are going to get treated. I cringe when I think that this kind of incompetence may soon be in charge of virtually every health care decision made in this country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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