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RUSH: You know, Jim DeMint… I am envious. I\u2019m jealous. Jim DeMint has done today what I normally do. I\u2019ve spent an hour here trying to categorize this Obama speech, and I\u2019ll tell you why I goofed up. I goofed up because I take this job seriously, and I was trying to give you in-depth analysis and tell you what was wrong with this thing — and it doesn\u2019t take two seconds to do it. Jim DeMint had the best reaction. It\u2019s from an interview at National Review Online. Jim DeMint said, ”Frankly, I can\u2019t believe what he says anymore. It was really hard to take it seriously.\u2019 Obama\u2019s ‘duplicity\u2019 … ‘It was hard to listen to the contradictions.” That nails it. You just don\u2019t believe what he says. You can\u2019t take it seriously. <\/p>\n

I was trying, in my analysis to you, to take it seriously, but you can\u2019t. (interruption) Well, just because he\u2019s the president doesn\u2019t mean you have to. But my point is, Snerdley, that I could have done a better job for the audience in analyzing this. Rather than going through the hand-wringing here and try to analyze it topic by topic and so forth, I coulda just said what DeMint said: Folks, basically I didn\u2019t take it seriously. I don\u2019t know what to believe. You don\u2019t believe anything he says. (Of course I never have. This is the thing.) Some people have. But it was. It was genuinely mindless. Because I was trying to be civil, and this is what happens. I was trying to be civil in that first hour.<\/p>\n

I was trying to be respectful and analyze this in the serious vein in which it was ostensibly given, and I ended up with diarrhea of the mouth. That normally doesn\u2019t happen. Normally it\u2019s people like DeMint quoting me. So I realize I gotta work even harder here. I gotta stop practicing golf more and get back into here what… (laughing) That\u2019s for you at the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd. But DeMint is exactly right: You can\u2019t believe what he says anymore; it\u2019s hard to take seriously. Here, I have a little game. I told you, Cookie, ‘Go grab me three Obama sound bites. I don\u2019t care what they are. Don\u2019t work hard. Don\u2019t study. Don\u2019t find anything specific. Just pick three. Like get a dartboard and throw a dart up there.\u2019 So she gave me June 2 of last year, a February 1 of last year, and June 15th of last year — and I defy you to tell me what\u2019s different. So here he is. This is at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh last June.<\/p>\n

OBAMA JUNE 15, 2010: (godlike echo) We have to build a new and stronger foundation for growth and prosperity — and that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ve been doing for the last 16 months.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really?<\/p>\n

OBAMA JUNE 15, 2010: (godlike echo) It\u2019s been based on investments in our people and their future, investments in the skills and education we need to compete, investments in a Twenty-First Century infrastructure for America from high-speed railroads to high-speed Internet, investments in research and technology like clean energy that can lead to new jobs and new exports and new industries. This new foundation is also based on reforms that will make our economy stronger and our businesses more competitive; reforms that will make health care cheaper, our financial system more secure, and our government less burdened with debt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He sounds like a commentator, not a president. Here\u2019s a guy, ‘This is what we need to do. We need to ramp up here; we need to ramp up there.\u2019 He\u2019s been in charge for two years! He\u2019s basically trying to position himself as an outsider here, as a spectator. ‘This is what we need to do,\u2019 forgetting the fact he\u2019s been in charge of ostensibly fixing all of this, starting with the stimulus bill — and after two years no progress, by his own admission. But not because he hasn\u2019t tried. Just because nobody has. The Republicans are still the problem, or whatever is in his mind. That\u2019s so close to last night it\u2019s scary. Now, let\u2019s go to another one. This is February 1, 2010, almost a year ago, at the White House.<\/p>\n

OBAMA FEBRUARY 1, 2010: (godlike echo) We simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits don\u2019t have consequences, as if waste doesn\u2019t matter, as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like Monopoly money, as if we can ignore this challenge for another generation. We can\u2019t. In order meet this challenge I welcome any idea from Democrats and Republicans. What I will not welcome, what I reject, is the same old grandstanding when the cameras are on and the same irresponsible budget policies when the cameras are off. It\u2019s time it hold Washington to the same standards families and businesses hold themselves. It\u2019s time to save what we can, spend what we must, and live within our means once again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a year after he\u2019s blown the budget sky-high, a year after he\u2019s blown it all up! (sighs) You think all this isn\u2019t planned? He just said that a piece of Sputnik crashed in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where he happens to be today. Fifty years ago. Underscoring his statement last night, ‘This is a Sputnik moment.\u2019 He went to Manitowoc only because he wanted to say, ‘Sputnik crashed here 50 years ago. Sputnik is a big theme.\u2019 It\u2019s disingenuous. But again he speaks as a bystander, not as somebody who has promised to fix this stuff. Not as somebody who has said, ‘Jobs, jobs, jobs, is our focus;\u2019 not as somebody who said, ‘I\u2019m rolling up my sleeves and we\u2019re getting serious about this.\u2019 One more. This is from June 15th of last year from the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

OBAMA JUNE 15, 2010: What has defined us as a nation since our founding is the capacity on shape our destiny, our determination to fight for the America we want for our children. Even if we\u2019re unsure exactly what that looks like, even if we don\u2019t yet precisely know how we\u2019re gonna get there, we know we\u2019ll get there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that was the boundless JFK, Reaganesque optimism that America can own the future. From last night? No. Does anybody know what this means? And again, that sounded lifestyle as last night \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t believe this. And, by the way, one of the reasons that DeMint says, ‘I can\u2019t believe what he says anymore. It\u2019s really hard to take it seriously,\u2019 is because the media has built this guy\u2019s expectations up so high, built him so high that there\u2019s no way he can meet people\u2019s expectations. He\u2019s starting to become a ho-hum to a lot of people. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Edward in Shelby Township, Michigan. Where are you, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. We\u2019re about 30 miles outside of New Fallujah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckles) You know, I\u2019ll never forget the trouble I got into with our affiliate in Detroit there, WJR, when I referred to it as New Fallujah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: The then president of the radio station, Mike Fezzey, called me and said, ‘I know what you mean, here, but you gotta…\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I said, ‘You can\u2019t be serious. People took it seriously? He said, ‘I don\u2019t want to run the risk.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: I heard your caller say that yesterday, and I hadn\u2019t heard it for a while, and I go, ‘Oh, yeah.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we just changed it to Fallujah and threw away the ‘New.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. (chuckles) I\u2019m honored to speak to you again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening going on 20 years now, so it\u2019s been quite a while.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate it. I am stunned when I hear people have done that, and I really thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, we enjoy it, and we appreciate you very, very much. What I was calling about was, of course, the president\u2019s speech and how I thought basically what you said: This was a kickoff for reelection. But I thought it was a speech for really useful idiots, like the Drive-Bys, the unions, the left, the Hollywood group — and, of course, the independents. The people who can\u2019t make a decision for themselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait, they did make a decision for themselves.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Last time they did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They abandoned the Democrats last November.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes, they did. This was one of the few times I can remember that happening, ever since Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, when they went big for Reagan. I don\u2019t know why we should listen to anything that he spoke about in his speech, because he\u2019s lied to us in the past on just about everything he said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s done everything behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And then the one thing that really stuck in my craw was when he said this — and you know what he meant. He says, ‘We\u2019re either gonna move forward together or not at all,\u2019 and pretty much saying that, ‘If I don\u2019t get what we want, we\u2019re not going anywhere.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, even if he meant it genuinely, ‘We move together or we don\u2019t move at all,\u2019 screw that! I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m not waiting for everybody else to follow me as I climb the ladder!<\/p>\n

CALLER: No! No! I mean, that\u2019s ridiculous. Any thinking person who wants to get ahead in life, or doesn\u2019t want to get ahead, either way, but to say something like that I think is kind of an insult to the American people who have been so innovative over the years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. That\u2019s exactly right. One of my problems with the thing, and there were many, was it was hard to take any of it seriously because you know you do believe half of it. They put it on the prompter. He doesn\u2019t believe half of it, and that\u2019s why I think it came off flat. You know, faking passion… Put yourself in a position of having to give a speech where most important thing, the thing you want you believe in most and you want to persuade people agree with you is liberalism. Ask yourself if you could do it, if you were good enough to fake it and get away with that. I don\u2019t think too many people are, and I don\u2019t think he had it in him last night to do it. It was all part of the strategy: ‘Let\u2019s make everybody think I\u2019m moving to the center.<\/p>\n

‘The media has everybody thinking that, people want to think to at that so let\u2019s go ahead and say the words and then we\u2019ll head out to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and say, ‘That\u2019s where Sputnik fell! I happened to come here. Sputnik\u2019s a big deal,\u2019 and we\u2019ll just keep moving to my 2012 reelection.\u2019 Thanks for the call. I appreciate it, Edward, very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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