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RUSH: So, Obama: Post-racial, post-partisan, gonna unify everybody, we\u2019ve never seen anybody like him. We have never seen anybody in our politics like this man who is going to get rid of all the usual divisions in the country and make the world love us. There won\u2019t be any more terrorism attacks. There won\u2019t be any more war. We\u2019re all gonna get together and we\u2019re gonna solve global warming, and we\u2019re gonna make sure the United States is cut down to size and punished for all of the illegal things it has done since it was founded. That\u2019s the man we were gonna get, and yet we have the president Sunday in Philadelphia at a Moving America Forward rally. (Not to be confused with the MSNBC slogan: ‘Lean Forward, This Won\u2019t Hurt a Bit.\u2019) This was a Moving America Forward rally. Here\u2019s a portion of what the president said.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: See what the other side is counting on, what they\u2019re counting on is you\u2019re gonna stay home. They\u2019re counting on your silence. They\u2019re counting on your amnesia. They\u2019re counting on your apathy. They\u2019re countin\u2019 on young people staying home and union members stayin\u2019 home, and black folk stayin\u2019 home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A-ha. You wait for it and the gem shows up. ‘Republicans are counting on blacks staying home.\u2019 We\u2019re not ‘counting on blacks staying home.\u2019 We are counting on enough votes of our own to overwhelm whoever shows up for Obama. We don\u2019t hope anybody stays home. We welcome \u2019em to go vote. But I want to address this, \u2019cause I think this deserves some serious analysis and commentary. What was it that Bill Clinton said when he went in there to West Virginia to eulogize Robert Byrd? I\u2019ll tell you what he said. (doing impression) ‘You know, Bob Byrd, he came… He came from the hills and the hollers here in West Virginia, and he had some things he did in his past that he regretted, that he felt sorry for — and he spent every day of his life apologizing for \u2019em. <\/p>\n

‘He made sure everybody knew the truth about that, but let me tell you something else about Senator Byrd: He did what he had to do. He came from the hills and the hollers of West Virginia. He had to get elected. He did it for you.\u2019 So Bill Clinton was telling the people at the Robert Byrd funeral he had to not only join the Ku Klux Klan, he had to become a Cyclops or Kleagle or whatever. A grand Cyclops! He had to become a recruiter. He did it for you. That\u2019s what it took for him to get elected, and so we\u2019ll look past it since he spent his day apologizing for it. He had to do that to get elected. Okay, so a tiger is a tiger. A politician is a politician. An election as an election. I know how people play the political game, and I find it loathsome in the real world. <\/p>\n

But it is what it is, and, since politics is how we end up organizing ourselves and our affairs, we have to be involved in it. But it is stinky, and it is loathsome. And it\u2019s predictable. We have talking points, the spin: Taking credit for everything good, passing the buck for everything bad. The lies, the gaffes, the misspeaks, even the mudslinging. A tiger is a tiger, especially when the tiger\u2019s hungry and the tiger is falling. As Bill Clinton told us: You have to do things, or say things, to win an election. (doing impression) ‘That\u2019s right. He had to join the Klan! I didn\u2019t use those words, Limbaugh. I know you know that, but I know the audience knew what I meant. He had to join the Klan to get elected. People in the hills and hollers of West Virginia were a bunch of racist bigots back at the time Bob Byrd was running for office! That\u2019s why he had to do what he had to do.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re a Democrat, if you\u2019re a liberal, any transgression is perfectly fine, it\u2019s understandable if being done for the people. But even I, your all-seeing Maha Rushie, never thought… Well, I can\u2019t say I never thought. I can\u2019t say I\u2019m really surprised, but I guess I am somewhat surprised. From The Messiah such base, pedantic things. Republicans are counting on blacks to stay home? I mean, he\u2019s playing the race card, revving up racial division. Mr. Unification. The Messiah. And now he\u2019s smearing Republican donors, charging foreign money buying elections — with no proof, no support from the liberal media. The liberal media doesn\u2019t like this. They\u2019re embarrassed of it. They are asking him to stop it in their own way. You heard Schieffer on Face the Nation on Sunday: Is that the best you got? ‘Is that the best you can do?\u2019<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not even comfortable with this. Loathsome, dirty tricks like these are usually the things you hear from the mouths of The Forehead or James Carville or other political so-called strategists and operatives on the cable shows. They\u2019re the ones who genuinely run around and accuse the other guys of being crooks, or racists. But now the president? For a president of the United States to sink to that level! This is what Bush would never do. One of the things that many people were upset with Bush about. He would never defend himself. He would never get down in the gutter with these people on the partisan political stuff. He didn\u2019t want to sully the office of the presidency. We all disagreed with that, but Obama apparently has no concern about that whatsoever. He will sink to whatever level he must sink — and it\u2019s disheartening, it\u2019s worrisome, and it\u2019s troubling to see this in a president because he\u2019s incompetent. <\/p>\n

This is what you get when you have an agitator and a community organizer who has no experience doing anything other than riling people up and dividing people. This is what you get when you elect one of them president. It\u2019s precisely what you get. You get demeaning the office, impugning the office. Now, we all know these are challenging times to the country, for the world, and we have an elected leader who will serve for two more years. He\u2019s gonna go off on these kind of rabble-rousing screeds. He\u2019s personally gonna put Carville and Begala outta work. This is the kind of thing they run around and say, not presidents. But he\u2019s gonna diminish the entire office of the presidency (which I think he\u2019s doing anyway) and thus he\u2019s gonna diminish the aura that is the United States of America, which he\u2019s doing already. <\/p>\n

Whether by accident or by design, it\u2019s happening — and, if it\u2019s an accident, he doesn\u2019t care to do anything to rectify it. He\u2019s perfectly happy with it. But if I were Carville or Begala or some of these other people that are on cable, I\u2019d call the White House, Axelrod and whoever, and I\u2019d say, ‘Look, you\u2019re president. You let us handle this muck. You let us deal with the unseemly stuff. That\u2019s our territory. Stay out of it. For the good of the party. Stay out of it for the good of the country. A community organizer kicking down the barn is not the image we want to have as the guy leading our party.\u2019 It\u2019ll never happen, never happen, but you don\u2019t see this kind of stuff from the office of the presidency, until this guy.<\/p>\n

Have we ever had a president who was…? And there\u2019s no other way to put this. Have we ever had a president who was such a partisan hack, such a race-baiter? This guy was supposed to end all of this! What a laugh it is that this is the same guy promised to be beyond partisanship, to be post-racial. I mean, we don\u2019t care; it\u2019s never mattered to us. This is the truth. ‘First black president? Yeah, fine.\u2019 We got over that in one day because it\u2019s his policies that count and matter to us, not the color of his skin. We don\u2019t care; we never have cared what his race is. But he is starting to show his true colors — and has been showing his true colors in times of adversity, and what do we hear? Adversity is when we find out who people really are. Adversity is what tells us what people are made of. He\u2019s not made of much, if this is how he ends up descending in the throes of adversity, because this is what\u2019s facing him with the massive election defeat everybody predicts is coming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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