{"id":34616,"date":"2010-02-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:25:06","slug":"michelle_my_belle_defends_her_stunningly_ineffective_husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/02\/09\/michelle_my_belle_defends_her_stunningly_ineffective_husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle (My Belle) Defends Her Stunningly Ineffective Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s a fascinating blog, Andrew Malcolm from the LA Times, Top of the Ticket blog: &#8216;President Obama Day 386: What\u2019s happened to him? &#8212; A favorite story about Chicago politics involves Roman Pucinski, who served six long terms of political apprenticeship in the Washington minor leagues of the US House of Representatives &#8211;&#8216; (laughing) that\u2019s interesting. The House of Representatives is the minor leagues to the Chicago &#8212; (laughing) &#8212; don\u2019t you love that? (laughing) The House of Representatives minor leagues. &#8216;&#8211; before the Windy City\u2019s vaunted Democratic political machine allowed him to step up and serve on the City Council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2010\/02\/obama-chicago-emanuel.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_579144ae0fb76.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>&#8216;The late Pucinski then served for 18 years as a loyal operative assigned to the 41st Ward (of 50). It\u2019s always useful for Chicago pols to have White House connections if, say, they\u2019d like to dispatch someone famous to fly off to Copenhagen to lobby the International Olympic Committee for their city\u2019s 2016 summer games bid. But the Chicago Daley machine, which is actually a ruthless coalition of urban Democratic factions united by the steel reinforcing rods of self-interest, didn\u2019t much care about this Barack Obama fellow before, as long as he was quiet, obedient and headed on a track out of town. How he acquired a reform label coming out of that one-party place is anyone\u2019s guess. But now that the sun has risen on the 386th day of the Obama White House, many political observers are coming to see that the ex-state senator from the South Side is running his federal administration in Washington much the way they run things back home: with a small&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;&#8230;claque of clout-laden people from the same school who learned their political trade back in the nation\u2019s No. 3 city, named for an Indian word for a smelly wild onion.\u2019 Did you know that? Learn something every day. Is Chicago the Indian word or is it a derivative? H.R. claims to know this. Oh. Okay. You knew it, but you don\u2019t know the exact word, which means you don\u2019t know it. Named for an Indian word for a smelly wild onion. &#8216;That style is tough, focused, immune to any distractions but cosmetic niceties.\u2019 Anyway, the bloom\u2019s off the rose here, or peeling the smelly onion. They\u2019re asking, &#8216;Where did the hopes for Obama go?\u2019 The people who understand what Obama is and who he is and where he came from are asking, &#8216;Why in the hell is he so ineffective?\u2019 There hasn\u2019t been a worst practitioner of Chicago politics ever. They genuinely get what they want. And his agenda, the big items &#8212; while a bunch of stuff behind the scenes actually is getting rammed down our throats, we don\u2019t know it &#8212; big items are bombing out. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to go back to April 25th of 2005, and the reason I play this, we played this once before but I want to play it again because it\u2019s all related to Obama\u2019s poll numbers dropping and the media\u2019s refusal to report them. Nobody, there\u2019s not anywhere near a majority anywhere in this country for any of his major proposals. So we go back to April 25th, 2005, five years ago, almost, at the National Press Club, Senator Obama speaking about Social Security reform, the Q&amp;amp;A, got this question: &#8216;Someone in the audience would like to know what should the American people do to stop the privatization of Social Security?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA 2005: The president has been on his 60-day tour, and everywhere he goes the numbers just get worse. The American people have essentially voted on this proposal. If they let go of their egos &#8212; I\u2019ve been on the other side of this where, particularly with my wife &#8212; (laughing) &#8212; where I\u2019ve gotten in an argument and then at some point in the argument it dawns on me, you know what, I\u2019m wrong on this one, and it\u2019s irritating. It\u2019s frustrating. You don\u2019t want to admit it. And so to the extent that we can provide the president with a graceful mechanism to &#8212; to say we\u2019re sorry, dear, then I think that would be &#8212; that would be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. So here he is making fun of Bush. Hey, the American people voted on your Social Security privatization, they don\u2019t want it. Same thing here with health care. They have voted numerous times. I mean in more ways than the American people ever voted on Bush\u2019s privatization. Obama\u2019s lost two statehouses and the Kennedy seat. Now, that\u2019s a pretty damning indictment, ladies and gentlemen. But Michelle (My Belle) Obama, who got her obesity bill today, or presidential directive, came to his defense on Good Morning America today. Robin Roberts interviewed her: &#8216;People were full of hope. How do you feel when people make light of something that was very important to the campaign, had every intent, still do, to bring hope and change and make it a better world for people?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignright\"\/>MICHELLE: People are frustrated, right? But one of the things that Barack Obama said and continues to say is, change ain\u2019t easy, and it doesn\u2019t happen overnight. And it certainly doesn\u2019t happen in a year. My husband has done a phenomenal job staying on course, looking his critics in the eye, coming up with clear solutions, and again staying the course. That\u2019s what leadership is. But people have a right to criticize the president of the United States.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/> RUSH: There is no leadership. Leaders have solutions. He\u2019s got no solutions. He\u2019s just an agitator. He\u2019s offering solutions zip, zero, nada. But don\u2019t you love the question? Robin Roberts: &#8216;So many people are making light of something that was so very important and had every intent, still do, to bring hope and change and make it a better world &#8211;&#8216; the world is disintegrating. I mean we\u2019ve got the Iranians promising some big bang this week, we\u2019ve got the Russians saying missile shields aimed at them, we\u2019ve got the ChiComs suggesting that they sell some of our bonds to send us a big message. And who\u2019s making fun of it? &#8216;You think people make light of something that was very important to the campaign &#8211;&#8216; who\u2019s making fun of hope and change? Could it be me? You think she might mean me when I ask, &#8216;How is that hope and change working for you?\u2019 Oh, you think Robin Roberts is worried about me making fun of it? Yeah, that really irritates them, we discussed yesterday, you\u2019re not supposed to make fun of Democrats and liberals, no, no, no, \u2019cause they\u2019re too serious, their work is too important, you\u2019re not supposed to make fun. So then Robin Roberts said, &#8216;The peaks and valleys of this year, successes, some shortcomings, and the rhetoric of the last few months, is there ever a time you look to your husband and say, &#8216;We gotta fix this?&#8221;<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/> MICHELLE: It\u2019s a constant struggle. You know, the coarsening of Washington and politics has always been here. We had hoped that more progress would have been made, but as I say you just keep holding the hand out, you know, you never give up on the possibility &#8212;<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/> RUSH: Stop the tape a minute. You hold a hand out with the middle finger extended is what\u2019s happening here. Yeah, the hand\u2019s being held out but there\u2019s a middle finger extended. Resume tape.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/> MICHELLE: &#8212; more civility. You never walk away from that, right? You keep your hand-held out, you keep that smile on your face, you stay open to the possibility of partnership, and one day there will be another hand out there to accept yours. That is the beauty of Barack Obama, his hand stays out, positive and focused. It\u2019s a gift.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/> RUSH: With the middle finger extended. So what is she suggesting here? People keep their handouts? He\u2019s extending these hands out there and waiting for somebody to take the handouts. Disguised lingo. You have to be in the welfare state to understand the code lingo here, folks. It means the gravy train\u2019s going to keep on coming.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right, here\u2019s the Indian word for Chicago that means &#8216;smelly onion.\u2019 It is s-h-i-k-a-k-o, shiKAko, and from that you get Chicago. Could be shiKAKo, I\u2019m not sure, but regardless that\u2019s the word, furnished to be by none other than H.R. It does sound similar to &#8216;macaca,\u2019 which drove George Allen out of the Senate rase. You have here shiKAko. ShiKAKo. 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