{"id":7860,"date":"2014-11-07T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-07T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:51:14","slug":"it_s_time_to_understand_barack_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/11\/07\/it_s_time_to_understand_barack_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Understand Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is classic. And again, not a criticism. It\u2019s an illustration here of communication. Peggy Noonan\u2019s piece in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> is very revealing, and this one sentence — you know, Peggy, she\u2019s such a nice woman. She really hates all the fighting, and she doesn\u2019t like all the disagreeing, and she really wishes that people would get along. She\u2019s writing here about Obama.<\/p>\n

“It is confounding — not surprising but stunning, unhelpful and ill-judged — that the president is instead going for antagonism, combat and fruitless friction.” What she is reacting to here is Obama not understanding that he got skunked in this election. She doesn\u2019t understand why Obama is going to continue to antagonize, why he wants to stay combative, and why he wants to cause this fruitless friction. She\u2019s wondering why can\u2019t Obama understand that he lost, take the meaning that he lost and start working with the Republicans to make a wonderful, beautiful Mr. Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood country.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Now, I think Peggy would be one of those who probably disagreed profoundly when I said “I hope he fails,”<\/a> and to this day she may not even know why I said it. Barack Obama was raised by a toxic blend of Marxists like Frank Marshall Davis, communists like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and anti-Americans, and among his friends were anti-Israeli militants, anti-Semites, racists and other assorted bigots. These are the people he was influenced by. This is how he was raised. He was raised with a chip on his shoulder about this country.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s an angry man. He\u2019s not cool. He\u2019s not calm. He\u2019s not collected. He\u2019s a narcissist. He\u2019s a community organizer, and what do they do? They agitate. By definition, that\u2019s all they do. He\u2019s not gonna slink away. He\u2019s not gonna admit defeat. Did you hear what he said in the press conference? “I\u2019m gonna listen to the two-thirds that didn\u2019t vote.” Hey, Mr. President, the two-thirds that didn\u2019t vote are the ones that walked out on you in all of your campaign appearances the last two weeks before the election. (imitating Obama) “I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m gonna focus on the two-thirds that didn\u2019t vote. Those people are so disenfranchised, so upset, that\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna do.”<\/p>\n

So you can sit around and hope that Obama would realize he lost and work to come up with a nice country. That\u2019s not who he is. The point of my frustration is how, six years in, can people not know who Obama is now? But if you\u2019re one who doesn\u2019t know who he is, you\u2019re not gonna understand when somebody says, “The mandate of this election is to stop Obama.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>“That\u2019s needlessly harsh. That\u2019s unnecessarily frictious. Why, we need to compromise, to work together and make the system work.” He\u2019s not interested in that. He is the problem here. We\u2019ve tried working with the guy. The Republicans have bent over backwards trying to show they can cooperate and be bipartisan. It\u2019s one of the reasons they\u2019ve gotten themselves into such trouble over the years.<\/p>\n

So just to be clear, the mandate of the election, the American people, the exit poll data now proves it: stop Obama, stop Obamaism, stop the implementation of policies, for example, that are doing great harm to the free enterprise economy. Stop Obamacare and repeal it. Stop this unnecessary wild spending. Stop illegal immigration. It\u2019s all there. Just enforce the law. Stop Obama. That does not mean do nothing. It can\u2019t mean do nothing, nor did I ever say it means do nothing, nor did I ever say ignore Obama. I\u2019m simply translating for people inside the Beltway what the election results meant. I\u2019m translating for the left so that they know what it meant. They can\u2019t afford for this to take hold again.<\/p>\n

Stop Obama and then pepper him with bill after bill after bill that we know he\u2019s gonna veto, but portray hip as the obstructionist, portray him as the guy saying “no.” Portray him as the guy governing against the will of the people because every bill you send up there is accompanied by a poll showing it\u2019s majority support for the American people. Now, I don\u2019t know how you get to “ignore Obama” from that. I don\u2019t know how you get to “that means do nothing,” none of which I said.<\/p>\n

But in spite of all this, we still have progress because now we have people on record saying, “Yep, that\u2019s right, we\u2019ve got to stop Obama,” instead of we\u2019ve gotta compromise with him. Remember, that was the context in which I first offered my take on what the election meant. We had Republicans out saying we gotta compromise. The consultants, the media, we gotta work together, we gotta get along, we gotta fix the system.<\/p>\n

No, no, no, no. The Republicans were not sent there to compromise. They were not sent there to govern with Obama. They were not sent there to fix anything. They were sent there to stop the things that are transforming and, in some cases, destroying the country.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, by the way, let me say I realize in my recent illustration of a sentence Peggy Noonan used in her latest column… I said Obama\u2019s raised by “a toxic blend,” I called it, of Marxists, communists, and various anti-Americans to one degree or another. It\u2019s undeniable. Reverend Wright, Frank Marshall Davis, Muala Kahir, whatever the guy the LA Times has the tape they won\u2019t release of some.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of Obama\u2019s buddies bashing Israel at some fundraiser in LA. Bill Ayers? We know how Obama was raised. We know that he wants to transform the country. None of this is a mystery. But the fact that people don\u2019t accept it, that\u2019s what fascinates me. The fact that after six years there are people that don\u2019t want to admit it or don\u2019t see it, it just fascinates me.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t want anybody to tell me that I\u2019m insulting Obama, because I\u2019m not. These are not insults. These are descriptors. I\u2019m describing him to you. And. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s confounding. Obama doesn\u2019t confound me and he doesn\u2019t stun me, and the fact that he wants friction and chaos is documented. Why would that change now? These next two years are gonna be potentially worse than anybody is contemplating.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t personally insult a narcissist like the country just did in this election and get away with it. I mean, there\u2019s gonna be, “Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? You think you\u2019ve shown me? Well, let me show you. You don\u2019t like amnesty? Try 20 million!” I mean, who knows what can happen here? But I\u2019m not making this up stuff up and I\u2019m not being incendiary. I\u2019m being descriptive. It\u2019s who the guy is.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why the country voted the way they did on Tuesday!<\/p>\n

The sooner people figure it out… I can\u2019t fathom not understanding it six years in, but clearly people still don\u2019t get it or don\u2019t want to admit it. But it\u2019s time to get with the program and understand exactly what we\u2019re dealing with here, and it\u2019s unique. It\u2019s not the standard, “He\u2019s just the latest Democrat president. The Republicans are in opposition.” This is far more involved than just that.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got the Democrat Party has become radicalized. They\u2019re not just the usual bunch of corrupt thieves and thugs that they\u2019ve always been. There is a radical, radical, liberal element in the Democrat Party which doesn\u2019t need to win elections in order to implement what they believe throughout the strata of this country. That\u2019s the purpose of community organizations like ACORN.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t need to win elections in order to corrupt the institutions they don\u2019t like. Obama, he doesn\u2019t need to win. Okay, so he lost the election. Big whoop! That isn\u2019t gonna stop him from doing what he wants; it\u2019s not gonna stop his fellow community organizers or his fellow liberals. I mean, they\u2019ll take election victories, yeah, hubba hubba, but they do not get stymied when they lose them.<\/p>\n

The traditional old hat — the typical union, corrupt-thug, Harry Reid\/Pelosi wing of the Democrats– yeah. Now, they get upset when they lose, and there\u2019s hell to pay when they lose. ‘Cause they do everything they do legislatively. Now, they work with the new liberal wing, the community organizer wing like Obama. They work with \u2019em. Occupy Wall Street.<\/p>\n

But Occupy Wall Street and the militant environmentalist wacko movement and the pro-choice wackos, they are gonna continue to be organizing and causing friction and doing whatever the hell they can do to upset things, whether they win or lose. This is what I don\u2019t think is understood, widely understood by a lot of otherwise really smart Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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