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RUSH: Rebecca in Orrington, Maine, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you for having me. I had the great honor of meeting with President Bush in the summer of 2007 as a military mom. I urged him at that time to have Congress really stand up about what the Democrats were doing, saying the war was lost and putting a lot of pressure on people not to fund the troops. In retrospect, what he did was the right thing. He didn\u2019t bring the fray down to their level with people just saying the most outrageous things, and let the military families, just as a matter of fact, speak up.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019ve asked him this question I can\u2019t tell you how many times personally, privately, and his answer has never wavered, and it\u2019s tough for me. I try to put myself in his shoes, try to imagine myself president of the United States, and in my mind, I\u2019m doing everything I\u2019m doing for the benefit of this country. If it\u2019s a terror attack that I\u2019m responding to with military policy, it\u2019s to keep the country safe. If I\u2019m coming up with an economic policy, Social Security reform, it is to benefit the people of this country. And to have that maligned, be personally maligned, I could not — if I were inclined not to sully the office and not respond to it personally, I would not silence my administration. I would turn \u2019em loose. It\u2019s too serious. It matters too much. I would make sure the people that voted for me understood that they had a leader, but he was hell-bent on not sullying the office of the presidency. He told me that I can\u2019t tell you how many times, and to this day it\u2019s tough for me to understand, even now. We\u2019ve got an economy unlike any since the Great Depression. He\u2019s being blamed for it. The Democrat Party and the media are blaming him and he\u2019s content to let long-term history be the judge of this. Now, I know that his faith in God is what gives him the comfort and the confidence to do this, but I would not be able to stand mute about it like he is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was hard for me to understand at the time, but in retrospect it was probably the right thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you think that? I mean, you\u2019re a military mom, you said, but why do you think that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think the media was putting us in such a tight squeeze at the time and trying to drag things into the gutter as much as they could, that staying out of the gutter and really just letting things play out and letting us speak out, you know, the families that were having to deal with this, was the better thing to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but see, everything has a consequence. His reticence to treat them politically might have led to the Democrat Congress in 2007. It might be the reason we\u2019ve got Obama. <\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s Congress\u2019 fault, in a way. Yes, they should have done more, and the media really, you know, we had to find a better way to stand up to them. I put a large part of this at their back door.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I have become an expert in dealing with the media. That\u2019s not a problem. I try to put myself in his shoes. And I\u2019ve had people tell me when I share this story, ‘Well, you don\u2019t defend yourself when you\u2019re attacked.\u2019 Yeah, but I\u2019m not president of the United States. I\u2019m not running the country. I don\u2019t have the power invested in me by virtue of an election. You know, I don\u2019t respond to critics. I\u2019m too famous. I\u2019m just too big. If I respond to critics all I\u2019d do is make them bigger, all I\u2019d do is elevate \u2019em. But in the world he lives in, I mean Congress is Congress. You can\u2019t say that they\u2019re the equivalent of MSNBC to Fox News or something. It\u2019s a death match in a way. Some people say I\u2019m hypocritical because, ‘You know, Rush, you don\u2019t defend yourself, you ignore these critics yourself.\u2019 And that\u2019s very true. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an apples to apples analogy in comparing me or anybody else in the media being attacked by, you know, little ankle biters and Chihuahuas to the kind of things presidents get. We\u2019re talking about the country, the country\u2019s economy, the well-being of the American people, the whole position of the United States of America in the world as opposed to the status of a talk show or a talk show host. <\/p>\n

Anyway, as I say, I\u2019ve asked him I can\u2019t tell you how many times and the answer is always the same, and I\u2019ve asked Rove. You people know, I mean you\u2019ve asked me why all of those personal assaults. I mean, you remember the stuff, not just ‘This war is lost,\u2019 but, ‘Bush is Hitler\u2019 and all this garbage. I mean it was personally slimeball vitriol. There were books on how to assassinate George W. Bush. And the left told us, ‘Well, it\u2019s an art form. We must understand the intellectual artistic expression in these endeavors.\u2019 No, we don\u2019t. If some right-winger was talking about this Democrat president this way they\u2019d be putting him in jail. And the answer is always the same. The office of the presidency is way up here, and those people are down in the gutter, and I\u2019m not taking the office of the presidency down there. So it is what it is. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it, Rebecca. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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