{"id":37548,"date":"2011-02-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:05:11","slug":"the_unraveling_obama_presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/11\/the_unraveling_obama_presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unraveling Obama Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Snerdley tells me that there is a movement out there, people calling in saying, ‘Why don\u2019t we export republics instead of democracy?\u2019 That doesn\u2019t pass the IQ test. Just because I say I don\u2019t have to be interested, doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re gonna turn the program over to people whose IQ\u2019s can fit in a pencil erase. No offense. That\u2019s just the way it is. <\/p>\n

Now, this Egypt stuff, I think all of you know the essence of what\u2019s happened here and you are fully aware why the media is all upset and how they were humiliated and so forth. Just a little summary of things to keep things in perspective here and pointing out there are some great opportunities to illustrate hypocrisy here. One example, this is a story that ran last night — actually, this morning in the 8 a.m. hour. It\u2019s from the Associated Press. ‘Losing Patience, Obama Challenges Egypt\u2019s Leaders — Showing deepening dismay, President Barack Obama is questioning whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak\u2019s promised transfer of power has any credibility or meaning. <\/p>\n

‘As a defiant Mubarak stayed in office, Obama challenged the autocratic Egyptian government to explain its path toward democracy to its people and the world.\u2019 So Obama was furious. I mean, these guys were humiliated by Mubarak yesterday. Obama goes out and looks at that silly, childish, self-centered, narcissistic, immature campaign speech in Michigan trying to make what\u2019s happening in Egypt really an extension of his own campaign of 2008. So Obama was furious that he got slapped around, the media was furious that they got slapped around, because their demands haven\u2019t been met. But here\u2019s my question: Isn\u2019t this the same Barack Obama and the same news media that claimed the United States has interfered with other countries for far too long? <\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this the same Barack Obama who said, ‘Now that I\u2019m here, the world\u2019s gonna love us. The world is going to respect us, and we\u2019re no longer going to impose our way on people. No more of this cowboy foreign policy.\u2019 I don\u2019t know about you, ladies and gentlemen, I definitely remember Obama all through his campaign. The left constantly has, throughout my entire life, said, ‘We can\u2019t impose our way on the rest of the world. It\u2019s none of our business,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah. In fact, most of the time the left has contests with itself to see who can get us out of various parts of the world. I\u2019ll never forget during the \u201984 Democrat presidential primary, Gary Hart(pence) was seeking the Democrat nomination against Walter F. Mondull, and they got into an argument over who could get us out of South Africa first, and then that elevated into who can get us out of there, over there.<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019ll get us out of there!\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I\u2019ll take us out of there, too.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now all of a sudden we are demanding — Obama, his regime and the media are demanding — that Hosni Mubarak do what we say. Haven\u2019t these people complained? Didn\u2019t they complain during the 2008 presidential campaign, ‘We are too arrogant as a country. We are too arrogant a people. We practice cowboy diplomacy. It\u2019s none of our business. We\u2019re not gonna impose our views on other governments,\u2019 but the first time things don\u2019t go Obama\u2019s way, he becomes angry, petulant, apoplectic. ‘Without naming Mubarak directly, Obama issued a written statement on Thursday night in which he criticized the leader for a lack of clarity and direction.\u2019 Boy, you — you talk about the pot calling the kettle half black? <\/p>\n

I cannot believe that. Getting on Mubarak\u2019s case for lacking clarity and direction? ‘That assessment came after Mubarak surprised those protesting in Egypt\u2019s streets by saying that he would shift powers to his vice president but remain in charge.\u2019 Why was anybody surprised? We know people were surprised because the media was reporting all day yesterday that Mubarak was gone. ‘In mere moments, he\u2019s going to make speech! In mere moments! In mere moments Mubarak will address the people, and all of their concerns will be met, all of their demands.\u2019 This was the media. And, by the way, it was our media that provided the source information for our CIA director and for our president and the people on the ground in Egypt. <\/p>\n

So listening to the media, the US media and the rest of the media, Mubarak was gone. ‘Be patient, here. Just a couple minutes here. In a couple of minutes he\u2019s gonna show up, he\u2019s gonna speak, and he\u2019s gonna give you what you want and he\u2019s gonna leave. He might even commit suicide for you! He\u2019s going.\u2019 Well, that didn\u2019t happen, and so who were they mad at? Mubarak? But Mubarak was never the source authority for the fact that he was leaving. ‘He had been widely expected to step down on Thursday, as even the CIA chief had suggested was in the offing.\u2019 (snorts) Now, this is AP. They did not include that Panetta said this because he had seen it on CNN. Why are we paying Leon Panetta? Why do we have a CIA? <\/p>\n

Anybody can turn on CNN and learn what\u2019s going on. Look, I would just as soon use STRATFOR.com as I would CNN to figure out what\u2019s going on in American policy. So, anyway, there\u2019s that. They\u2019re all upset. If Egypt, my friends, has made anything clear (and this is not necessarily good), it is that Obama has no idea what\u2019s gonna happen five minutes from now. He\u2019s flying by the seat of his pants. You don\u2019t go out and make speeches based on information you\u2019re getting from television, from the media. Triumphant? ‘Ding-dong, the witch is dead\u2019 kind of speeches? And trying to make the events in Egypt an extension of your own campaign from 2008? The sad reality here, folks, is that events around the world continue to slap Obama upside the head. <\/p>\n

He is perpetually caught by surprise — and that\u2019s not good for America. Who in their right mind would roll out a ‘Recovery Summer\u2019 campaign when the facts on our economy were so well known? Recovery summer. That was last summer. It still hasn\u2019t happened. A week ago Obama led us to believe that this would be Recovery February for Egypt. Now, what\u2019s clear to me is that… I think part of Obama\u2019s problem is that he\u2019s obsessed with settling past grievances at the expense of future progress. He doesn\u2019t seem to care as much about ‘winning the future\u2019 (this is his slogan) as he does redistributing yesterday\u2019s transactions — or, as he sees them, transgressions. So it became obvious. Obama is now out to settle the score with Mubarak because Mubarak humiliated and embarrassed him. Has Obama been doing what\u2019s necessary and appropriate to have a stable ally in Egypt a year from now? <\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have any idea. It doesn\u2019t appear so. Obama is making this all about him. ‘The Egyptians dissed him and they\u2019re gonna find out what that means! You don\u2019t diss Obama like this!\u2019 The president of the United States, in a situation like this, goes on television and is supposed to tell the American people what it means for our interests. That still hasn\u2019t happened, and I don\u2019t think anybody in our regime has the slightest idea what this means. Certainly not if their source information is CNN and the rest of the media. You can\u2019t ‘win the future\u2019 with poor judgment, a mountain of debt, an addiction to spending, and an administration staffed with amateurs and radical leftists. We\u2019re not winning the future. Slogans be damned! <\/p>\n

So you have a president, Barack Obama, surrounding himself with people angry about yesterday, angry about last month, angry about 200 years ago, angry about something in this country, rather than proud. After two years this much we know: Obama\u2019s fixation on what he sees as past injustices has made it impossible to win a 24-hour news cycle much less the future. And now it\u2019s all about the 24-hour news cycle: Proclaim victory there and nothing else matters. Obama, his presidency, apologizing for America, his policies are an apology for free markets. This is disastrous, looking at all this — and in the foreign press, the foreign press clearly understands this. They see it, and they report it. You know, in some parts of the world…<\/p>\n

In some parts of the world that really depend on us for their defense, military defense, security, whatever — I guarantee you many parts of the world — they are looking at a presidency unraveling here. There\u2019s no stability. There is no sense of competence. From Obamacare to Egypt, from the stimulus bill to the deficit, from the Olympics bid for Chicago to bowing down to foreign leaders, from the trampling on creditors\u2019 constitutional rights at Chrysler and so forth, failing to uphold voting rights (that\u2019s the New Black Panthers) this president has demonstrated his incompetence at every turn. I mean, we\u2019re in the middle. We\u2019re in the middle, watching the destruction of the US economy and the unraveling of our very foundation. Right before our very eyes. Jimmy Carter\u2019s second term indeed. <\/p>\n

I mean, look at it this way, we have Panetta showing total incompetence, the CIA director, quoting a Twitter feed, a ‘tweet\u2019 that was totally wrong. And then that guy Clapper testifying that the Muslim Brotherhood is scholar. Obama was trying to take credit and personalizing this powder keg situation and using it as an extension of his own campaign. We\u2019ve got incompetence. We\u2019ve got immaturity, inexcusable, amateurish, clumsy, bush league behavior (dare I say, a little twist on words). Say what you want about Egypt, but they were an Arab ally in the Middle East, and I hope we don\u2019t lose \u2019em, but, folks, it appears to me we could very easily lose Egypt like Jimmy Carter lost Libya and Iran. But the stakes are so much higher now. You know, one four-year term of utter incompetence in Jimmy Carter, okay, fine. But no, not a second one. Not compounding on his failures, and certainly not during these times.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mubarak leaves Cairo as military asserts control. And this is not part of the Egyptian constitution. All right, let\u2019s go to the phones. It\u2019s always exciting. You never know. Sometimes it can bomb royally. Not always. Not even frequently. But what was it, three or four weeks ago, maybe longer, time flies. (interruption) Eight weeks ago, you have not forgotten it. What, have you marked it on your calendar? Eight weeks ago Open Line Friday was an utter bomb, and it was such a bomb it was funny. This doesn\u2019t happen very often, but it did eight weeks ago. So we start always with a little trepidation. I, frankly, folks, just to share something, I\u2019m very trepidatious because Snerdley, I have watched him screening calls during this entire first hour, and I swear I saw the blood pressure rising. He was moments away from whipping that telephone headset off his head, throwing it down on the ground, just like Rex Ryan when the Jets lost to the Steelers and storming out of the room. And I finally said during a break, ‘What are you getting?\u2019 ‘I got a bunch of people thinking we ought to be exporting republics and not democracies.\u2019 I said, ‘Oh, it\u2019s one of those, huh?\u2019 So we\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n

Look, I just want to reiterate something here, folks. Obama, (paraphrasing) ‘We\u2019re not gonna impose our will on anybody anymore. We\u2019re not gonna do that. The days of Bush and cowboy are over,\u2019 except on Israel. We\u2019ll tell Israel where they can and can\u2019t build houses, for crying out loud, and we will impose our way on the American people, but we\u2019re not gonna impose our will anywhere else, and yet here they are. I find Obama\u2019s respect for protests funny. He hates the Tea Party, he hates their rallies, he accuses them of being all kinds of things, but the protesters in Egypt, why, they are great, Muslim Brotherhood, secular, they\u2019re not interested in violence. Obama loves these people in Egypt all the while he is in violation of a federal judge. This man is so concerned about the law in Egypt, he\u2019s got his own health care bill declared unconstitutional, and he acts like the court has never ruled. So all this talk about democracy and the rule of law, give me a break, he\u2019s flipping Judge Vinson the bird. <\/p>\n

He may claim to love democracy in Egypt. He knows what that group is. He\u2019s a community organizer. He knows exactly what that group is. That\u2019s why he\u2019s such a big supporter of that. He knows that group\u2019s just a bunch of agitators. But to sit around and start talking about, ‘Oh, we love democracy, and whenever we see it bubbling up, we\u2019re gonna support it out there.\u2019 Yeah, except when the judge says your health care bill\u2019s unconstitutional, we\u2019re gonna ignore that. He loves democracy in action except when it\u2019s the Tea Party. Then all of a sudden they become a bunch of tea baggers, as far as he\u2019s concerned. Yeah. I\u2019m not kidding. The American Tea Party, they\u2019re responsible for shooting people, they\u2019re responsible for all the violence. I mean, who\u2019s worked this crowd up into a fevered pitch? I don\u2019t know that my program\u2019s on the air there. And if it were — he-he-he-he-he-he-he — they wouldn\u2019t like me much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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