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RUSH: Tim in St. Louis. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First-time caller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that there\u2019s going to be a big surprise in the election with the number of crossover Democrats like myself that are gonna vote for Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, it won\u2019t surprise Trump. Trump\u2019s out there saying he doesn\u2019t need to unify the Republican Party \u2019cause of guys like you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you talked about it before. Moderate and conservative guys, you know, our fathers and uncles were the Reagan Democrats. In the last seven years or so we\u2019ve said, “What in the heck has happened to this party?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve been asking that for more than seven years, Tim.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, my best friend in college who\u2019s now the Republican speaker of the North Carolina House — shout out to Tim Moore — we would listen to the radio, and I\u2019d always go, “Man, why do you listen to that guy?” I mean, he was right (chuckles) twenty-five years later.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And now you\u2019re here. Well, so what…? Let me ask you something. What is it about the last seven years that has you saying, “What the hell are we doing here? What\u2019s happened to us?” Meaning the Democrats. I mean, frankly, Tim, there\u2019s a lot of us who\u2019ve been asking this for a lot longer than 7-1\/2 years.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just the priorities of the party, you know? It seems letting somebody that wants to call themselves a boy or a girl go to whatever bathroom they want to, is more important than job security and national security.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Yes, exactly right. Exactly. All those things, seems who wants to marry who and who wants to use what bathroom matters more than jobs, standard of living, the economy. I tell you something else. You African-Americans out there who believe that the election of Barack Hussein O was going to mean — and I addressed this last week, too — substantive improvement. And I don\u2019t mean welfare. I don\u2019t mean more goodies and benefits. I mean, election of Obama was gonna genuinely improve life circumstances for African-Americans. Obama\u2019s at Howard University, said, “Hey, I was never about that! Other people said that I was into this postracial America stuff. I was never into that! I never said that,” and he\u2019s right. He never did.<\/p>\n

But a lot of people thought it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number seven. I just want case somebody wants to doubt me. This is Obama. This is Saturday in Washington, Howard University. This goes by fast. It\u2019s just eight seconds. Here it comes in three.. two.. one…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: My election did not create a postracial society; I don\u2019t know who was propagating that notion. That was not mine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know how many people know what a “postracial society” is. Let me tell you what it means. It means colorblind society. Postracial means race ends as a factor in America. A lot of people voted for Obama hoping that\u2019s what their vote meant. You know this as well as I do. There are people that voted, white people who voted for Obama hoping to end this. They think it\u2019s tearing the country apart. They think there\u2019s been a lot of progress. There\u2019s still some to go, but there\u2019s no reason for the country to be further divided by it.<\/p>\n

They were hoping that a black president would send such a message and that it would mean substantive improvement for African-Americans in this country. And again, I want to reiterate: Nobody thought that meant more welfare or more benefits or more dependence, but that actual, quality standard of living improvements would take place. And there haven\u2019t been any, at large. And here\u2019s Obama saying: I will remember what I was about. Other people out there were saying that, but that was not mine.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s admitting it. Post racial, post… He was also supposed to be “postpartisan,” if you know what that means. How many of you remember during the campaign Obama he was gonna end all the division? He was gonna unify us. We were gonna come together. We were gonna be a nation at one with each other. Yeah, “No red states, no blue states; no Democrats, no Republicans.” That\u2019s from his convention speech, Democrat convention, what, in 2008? So postpartisan. That means that partisan America, the divide is gone.<\/p>\n

Obama was gonna do all that. He\u2019s telling the students at Howard University, “Hey, I never said that. That was not me. I never said it,” \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t want it to end. He thinks there\u2019s so much payback still needed. This country has committed unforgivable sins, and there\u2019s no way the people who committed \u2019em are gonna get away this easily. No way, Jose. So I wonder how many people are shocked, if any, to actually hear Obama say it. Here\u2019s another one. Try this. You\u2019re at Howard University, here comes the president of the United States, the first African-American president.<\/p>\n


\nKeep in mind, again, why so many white people voted for him. Believe me, a lot of Republicans voted for Obama hoping to end all this racial strife, hoping that the symbolism of it would send such a message to black people: “Hey, there\u2019s not any racism anymore. How could there be racism when there\u2019s a black president? We got Oprah, we got a black president. We\u2019ve gotta stop thinking this way.” But Obama said, “No, that\u2019s not what I was about.” Now, you think you voted for Obama because he was about improving the circumstances for African-Americans. Let\u2019s listen little bite.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Be confident in your heritage. Be confident in your blackness. … Remember the tie that does bind us as African-Amer\u2019cans and that is our particular awareness of injustice and unfairness and struggle. … We have cousins and uncles and brothers and sisters who we remember were just as smart and just as talented as we were, but somehow got ground down by structures that are unfair and unjust. And that means we have to not only question the world as it is and stand up for those African-Amer\u2019cans who haven\u2019t been so lucky. Because yes you\u2019ve worked hard, but you\u2019ve also been lucky. That\u2019s a pet peeve of miiiine: People who\u2019ve been successful and don\u2019t realize they\u2019ve been lucky, that Gooood may have blessed them. It wa\u2019n\u2019t nothin\u2019 you did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What was that? What was that? Was he reverting there to ethnic…? (interruption) That\u2019s his version of Hillary saying, “I ain\u2019t no ways tired.” (impression) “Gooood may have blessed them. It wa\u2019n\u2019t nothin\u2019 you did.” All right, so you\u2019re out there, you\u2019ve just graduated Howard University, and you\u2019ve got the president saying, “Hey, you\u2019ve been lucky. Nobody gets it.” You know, this is a this is an offshoot of Elizabeth Warren, “You didn\u2019t build that. You didn\u2019t make that happen.” Meaning, your business or whatever else that you have built up.<\/p>\n

“You didn\u2019t do that. Everybody else did that for you. Without everything we did, you couldn\u2019t have done diddly-squat.” Here\u2019s Obama (impression), “People have been successful and don\u2019t realize they\u2019ve been lucky! Got all these people out there successful thinking they actually done something. You hadn\u2019t done nothin\u2019! You nothin\u2019 but lucky!” He\u2019s not criticizing that. He wants people to realize that, because what Obama wants people to realize is that without government — and without “betters” and without people in command-and-control authority — you\u2019re not gonna have diddly-squat.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the people that got connections who get lucky, and that determines whether or not they successful enough. “You did nothin\u2019.” That\u2019s a hell of a commencement speech, isn\u2019t it? That\u2019s a hell of an inspirational message. I\u2019d be really motivated. Okay, so I\u2019ve spent four years or however many years here in this university trying to equip myself for success, and now I\u2019m told that\u2019s not a factor. I gotta go out and learn luck. Where do I go to study luck? Where do I go to get my degree in luck? And the unspoken message is: If you\u2019re black, you aren\u2019t gonna have it, \u2019cause the people in charge of luck aren\u2019t gonna pass it out to you.<\/p>\n

This is hideous, folks.<\/p>\n

Anyway, he\u2019s admitting it.<\/p>\n

“Postracial? I wasn\u2019t about that!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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