{"id":5898,"date":"2015-07-14T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-07-14T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:34:40","slug":"it_s_all_about_the_legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/07\/14\/it_s_all_about_the_legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s All About the Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: For the explanation of why do this, and from an Obama standpoint, why do this? And, by the way, did you see when Obama went out to announce<\/a> this he had Biden standing there? If I\u2019m Hillary Clinton, I don\u2019t like that. Why bring Biden out there? And Biden was looking defiant. Biden was looking defiant and proud, and then I remembered all the way back when Biden was put in charge of making sure nobody scammed the stimulus, Obama said, “Nobody gets anything past Joe.” <\/p>\n

So obviously Biden\u2019s there to make sure the Iranians know that they better not cheat, \u2019cause, if they do, they\u2019re gonna have to deal with old Joe here. ‘Cause old Joe, he was right over Obama\u2019s right shoulder, left shoulder if you\u2019re looking at the TV screen, and just looking defiant and tough and proud. And unstated in that picture you\u2019re still wondering, is Biden gonna run? If Biden runs, that throws one of the biggest wrenches in the Clinton plans that you can possibly imagine. But more on that later. <\/p>\n

Yesterday I explained, and I know it\u2019s hard, why would anybody — I know you don\u2019t want to believe this. I don\u2019t want to believe it. You don\u2019t want to believe that we\u2019ve actually conceded this way. You don\u2019t want to believe that the Iranians have emerged — the Iranians, for God\u2019s sakes, are responsible for the deaths of how many Americans alone, not to mention others. There\u2019s still four Americans being held prisoner, a journalist included, in Iran. This deal doesn\u2019t even get them released. Do you believe that? This deal doesn\u2019t even get them released. Things like that weren\u2019t even discussed. <\/line><\/p>\n

If you want to know why we\u2019re doing this, you have to understand what it\u2019s about. And it is not about Iran and nuclear weapons. It\u2019s about Obama. Are you at the same time asking yourself, or have you heard others ask — maybe you\u2019ve even seen this addressed in the Washington Post today. People have been noticing and mentioning for a while, but the Post has finally got on board now, Obama hasn\u2019t called the Steinle family out in San Francisco. He hasn\u2019t lifted a finger. He hasn\u2019t called them. He hasn\u2019t had an emissary call. <\/p>\n

This is the woman who was killed by the illegal alien immigrant in San Francisco who was there because San Francisco\u2019s a sanctuary city. Hell, Obama called Sandra Fluke, for crying out loud. Obama called Trayvon Martin\u2019s mom, Obama called anybody he could in Baltimore. Obama is calling them all over the place in Ferguson, Missouri. He\u2019s not called the family of Katie Steinle. You know why? Because there\u2019s no way he can turn that event into being something about him.<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard for people, particularly Millennials, who have the exact opposite picture of who Obama really is. Obama is one of the biggest egoists and egotists and superiorists that we\u2019ve ever heard serve in the White House. It is literally all about him. All of these things are about him. He doesn\u2019t call that family in San Francisco \u2019cause there\u2019s no way he can turn this event into something positive about him. This is a negative for him and his policies, that whole event. So he\u2019s not gonna go anywhere near it. <\/p>\n

Now, you might be a member of the New Castrati listening today and shouting, “Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, does that mean that you\u2019re saying that Obama doesn\u2019t really care about these families when he does call them?” That\u2019s pretty much what I\u2019m saying, Mr. New Castrati. “Do you realize how absurd that that is? He\u2019s the most compassionate Democrat president we have ever had.” Mr. New Castrati, you\u2019ve got it all wrong. Obama calculates everything and how it can benefit him or will it benefit him. And if it won\u2019t, he\u2019s not gonna touch it; he\u2019s not gonna go there. <\/p>\n

So if you want to know why we have a deal with Iran that is the way it is, the answer to the question is: It doesn\u2019t matter what the deal is; what matters is that there is one. Here, listen to me explain it from yesterday<\/a>. The explanation hasn\u2019t changed from day to day, and this is what I said yesterday attempting to explain to people why we have this deal.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Obama, folks, can you say the word “legacy”? That\u2019s all this is. Look, when Obama finishes he wants to be able to say he\u2019s the first president to do national health care. In 200-some-odd years, every president theoretically has wanted to do this, but who got it done? Barack Hussein O. And in the midst of terrorism and an uneasy world that is teetering on the edge of terrorism daily, who is it that got a nuclear arms deal with Iran? To hell that it allows them to have them, they won\u2019t get mentioned. Who got a deal with Iran? Not Clinton. Not Bush. Not Reagan. Obama got the deal. That\u2019s what he wants.<\/p>\n

He wants the legacy. And remember the old saying, the victors get to write history? Well, in this case the victors are the ones that get to pervert it. So Obama and his merry band in the Drive-By Media are gonna be able to write this great, great presidential legacy of great, great Barack Obama achievements. And right up there at the top is gonna be a nuclear deal with Iran that nobody ever thought possible. <\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: And nobody else ever secured. The fact that the deal is based on the inevitability of the Iranians getting a nuclear weapon is beside the point. No other president ever did this, got anywhere close. Same with national health care. Same with reducing the deficit by two-thirds. Obama said that yesterday. He\u2019s reduced the deficit by two-thirds, his policies. He\u2019s got a roaring economy going. It\u2019s all about the legacy. It\u2019s all about the ego, folks. It\u2019s all about history. It\u2019s all about a hundred years from now people reading about Obama as the best ever, the most special ever, the most unique ever. The details are beside the point. And that\u2019s why this deal had to get done and had to get done now, before Obama leaves office. And here\u2019s the Drive-Bys doing exactly what I predicted they would do.<\/p>\n

ALISYN CAMEROTA: This is just another notch in the president\u2019s legacy that has grown measurably.<\/p>\n

KRISTEN WELKER: This is a legacy issue for the president.<\/p>\n

ED HENRY: As a major legacy item for him.<\/p>\n

ALAN FISHER: It\u2019s a significant development for him particularly when it comes to painting his legacy and, of course he won the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

JIM PETHOKOUKIS: A major piece to his legacy.<\/p>\n

FAWAZ GERGES: This would be Barack Obama\u2019s foreign policy legacy, the highest foreign policy legacy.<\/p>\n

JOHN KING: He thinks this is the biggest foreign policy achievement of his presidency. He made clear, he views this as history.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. I mean, I called it yesterday, the media goes out, that\u2019s a montage of media people from CNN and NBC, from just this morning. Now, the guy that couldn\u2019t pronounce “legacy” was Fawaz Gerges. That\u2019s how it\u2019s spelled. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not pronounced that way, but he was the guy saying (imitating Gerges), “This would be Obama\u2019s foreign policy legacy, legacy, the highest, highest foreign policy legacy.” <\/p>\n

Anyway, legacy is what it\u2019s all about. It\u2019s all about Obama. Health care, you name it. Do you hear any of these people discussing the details of this deal? Do you hear any Drive-By people talking about it up, down, good or bad, significant, insignificant? Nah. That\u2019s for later. The current immediate goal for low-information consumption is that Obama is the one who demanded this. He\u2019s special. You know it must have meant something when he was making those speeches in front of those Greek columns. <\/p>\n

I guess Obama was the one we were waiting for. I guess Obama really is the real deal. Oh, that\u2019s what this is about. And to sit here and to go through all the details evidencing our failure, not gonna make a difference to the people who are going to be dazzled and wowed by the fact that Obama did it. I even took note this morning, I was watching CNN and they had some apologist on there for Obama. I mean, there are people that know this is a disaster, I mean, even on the Democrat side. <\/line><\/p>\n

The Democrats are kind of caught in the middle here on this because just as the Democrats opposed Obama on that pan-Pacific partnership, that transpacific, that trade deal that nobody was allowed to see, read, or talk about, the one the Democrats abandoned him on, the one that Republicans saved for him. Yeah, that\u2019s another legacy deal, by the way. <\/p>\n

The Democrats are in a similar position here. The Democrats, by and large (want everybody to believe, anyway, by and large), that they are pro-Israel. This is not pro-Israel. And they are really caught. They are under intense pressure to not do anything that would deny Obama his legacy. But there are people who think this deal is bad, that it stinks, that it\u2019s rotten, and the Democrats who think that can\u2019t and don\u2019t dare say so. So I watched one of these apologists, who is clearly troubled by this.<\/p>\n

\"large\"It was the most… I say, “outrageous.” It wasn\u2019t that. It was just… It was kind of insulting and hilarious at the same time. This guy was ranting and raving and comparing Obama to Reagan dealing with the Soviets. His point was, “You remember when Reagan and everybody was talking the Soviet Union and nuclear disarmament and so forth and Gorbachev and so forth, and everybody said Reagan didn\u2019t know what he was doing and the Soviets were just running rings around Reagan and Reagan was silly?<\/line><\/p>\n

“It turns out that Reagan was just running the rings around the Soviets, and it was the Soviet Union that imploded, and that\u2019s what Obama\u2019s doing here. Obama has seen to it that Iran\u2019s gonna implode! It won\u2019t be very long before Iran\u2019s gonna be giving up.” It was incredible. I\u2019m struck by, whenever these Democrats get in trouble trying to analyze and actually put Obama somewhere up on this legacy of greatness, they always trot out Ronald Reagan as the comparative.<\/p>\n

Even though they despised Reagan, hated Reagan. Whenever they want any Democrat president to be thought of as great, they always bring Reagan up as an example of greatness to which in this case Obama should be compared. But there is no similarity between what Obama did here with the Iranians and what Reagan did with Gorbachev, say, at Reykjavik, or any of the other summits that he had with them. <\/p>\n

Reagan did clean the Soviets\u2019 clock, and the Soviet Union, as it existed then, is gone. That\u2019s what Reagan\u2019s legacy was in terms of foreign policy. He actually abolished and got rid of the Soviet Union. Obama\u2019s not gotten rid of Iran! Obama has strengthened Iran. Obama has empowered Iran. This silly idea, this comparison to Reagan, just added insult to injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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