{"id":8253,"date":"2014-09-30T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-30T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:22:06","slug":"obama_gets_no_poll_bump_from_isis_bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/09\/30\/obama_gets_no_poll_bump_from_isis_bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Gets No Poll Bump from ISIS Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Time for a See, I Told You So, a huge See, I Told You So<\/a>. If you\u2019ve been listening with any regularity, you\u2019ve heard me say in recent weeks that our entire military engagement against ISIS or ISIL is poll-driven. It\u2019s happening because Obama\u2019s numbers have plunged in terms of national security, safety, these kinds of things. A month ago Obama was calling these people “the JV squad,” and after that he admitted he didn\u2019t have a strategy to deal with this. <\/p>\n

Again, as the details will be forthcoming soon on the program, it\u2019s now widely known that the intelligence community has known about ISIS<\/a> for two years and has been telling Obama or trying to tell him. He just didn\u2019t care. When he started to care is only when polling numbers started to plunge and Democrat candidates, primarily for the Senate, but pretty much everywhere, started expressing concern to the Democrat National Committee and the White House saying, “Hey, you\u2019re leaving us out to dry here.” <\/line><\/p>\n

So Obama called a press conference and announced the big military action, and all of a sudden after not caring and no strategy and the JV team, “Bammo! We\u2019re launchings a full-scale military attack with no boots on the ground. We\u2019re gonna use the Iraqi army for that.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re gonna bomb them to smithereens with our jets and our bombers,” and I said it was all political. In fact there was a time I wasn\u2019t even discussing it much while it\u2019s all that was being talked about elsewhere in the media, and I started getting e-mails. “Hey, Rush, you\u2019re not talking about this much. Why?” And I answered it, and I want to replay that to set up this giant See, I Told You<\/a>. Audio sound bite number one.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: People have been saying, “Rush, you haven\u2019t really been talking much about Obama and the new war on ISIS and Iraq and Syria.” I paused and I reflected and I had to agree that that\u2019s probably true. I mean, I have not gone wall-to-wall on it. I certainly haven\u2019t spent the time that you can see spent on it on cable news. So I asked myself why. I think it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t care. <\/p>\n

Please do not think that. It\u2019s that I just don\u2019t believe anything is going on right now. I think all of this is smoke and mirrors. I had to actually think about it, and I decided, I concluded, that my instincts took over without my even being aware of it. I just refuse to be drawn in to the daily media soap opera. Because I\u2019m telling you, all of this, what\u2019s going on right now is an effort by the Democrats and the White House and the media to prop up Obama\u2019s chops as a foreign policy president who is not bothered at all by engaging in military activity. <\/p>\n

<\/a>It is an effort, they\u2019re trying to suck everybody in, to get them talking about that aspect of it. As always, it\u2019s about Obama. Will Obama do this? Will Obama listen to the generals? Will the generals overrule Obama? I just get tired of it. Three weeks ago, three weeks ago now, Obama didn\u2019t care about any of this. They were the JV team, ISIS was. Three weeks ago he was not concerned about this at all. Then the polls started coming in and started being reported, and that changed everything.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Even with that detailed and irrefutable explanation, there remain the doubters, people who thought that I was wrong. Even after 26 years proving that I\u2019m right, yes, I still have the courts. “Rush, you\u2019re not talking about this enough. This is important.” And I said, “Well, maybe it is, but I\u2019m telling you it\u2019s not legitimate from the White House standpoint. They\u2019re only doing this because of polling data.” Can I prove it to you now? Yes. Let us return to the audio sound bites. This a giant See, I Told You So. This is yesterday afternoon, CNN\u2019s Wolf. The host Wolf Blitzer is reporting about a new presidential job approval poll. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: The president\u2019s approval rating remains essentially flat at only 44% approve of the job the president is doing compared with 43% before he ordered the air strikes. Uh, basically statistically negligible. His disapproval rating uncomfortably high, at 52%. How come he doesn\u2019t get a bounce? Usually when the US goes to war, the American public sides with the president in increasing numbers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? There\u2019s Wolf Blitzer, CNN, worried. “Oh, no! What happened! How come Obama didn\u2019t get the bump? All presidents get a bump in the polls when they go to war. How come Obama didn\u2019t? What\u2019s unfair here? It\u2019s just not right. Bush got a bump when he went to Iraq, and Clinton got a bump.” Well, Clinton was a bump. “But why didn\u2019t Obama get a bump?” Wolf\u2019s terribly upset about this. <\/line><\/p>\n

See? What\u2019s the media\u2019s primary concern? It\u2019s exactly as I stated. <\/p>\n

“How does it help Obama or does it help at all?” It didn\u2019t help, and they\u2019re beside themselves, proving what is this really all about. If you\u2019re still not convinced, we stay with CNN\u2019s Wolf. Yesterday afternoon, after Wolf expressed his public confusion and his curiosity as to why this brave military action is not redounded into improved polling numbers for Obama, he called in noted CNN, Newsweek, and Washington establishment journalist Gloria Borger. <\/p>\n

Wolf mentions all this to her and asks her what\u2019s up.<\/p>\n

BORGER: If you look at the president\u2019s numbers on the handling of terrorism, on ISIS, on foreign affairs, you\u2019ll see that he gets a bit of an uptick. But the problem for the president also with our numbers is that less than 50% of people in this country, about 48%, trust him as commander-in-chief. When you have that kind of a problem, it\u2019s not gonna translate into a huge uptick in the polls particularly, even at this time. And they\u2019re… The public is also ambivalent, Wolf. You know, they want these air strikes, they don\u2019t want boots on the ground. So it\u2019s very different from sort of what George W. Bush had, uh, post-9\/11.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s just so unfair, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s just so unfair. I mean, Obama didn\u2019t get his bump, he got a little, but they still don\u2019t like him out. It didn\u2019t work is the bottom line, and they\u2019re beside themselves at CNN, and that means they\u2019re beside themselves at the rest of the Drive-Bys. This was all about raising Obama\u2019s polling numbers, as I said. I don\u2019t mean to sound braggadocious, don\u2019t misunderstand. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just interested in facts and people getting the truth on things. Then she has to even massage it, “Well, you know, Wolf, when you have that kind of problem, it just isn\u2019t gonna transfer. The public is really stupid — uh, ambivalent — Wolf. The public is really dumb. How else do you explain Bush getting a bump and poor old Obama not getting a bump? It\u2019s gotta be that the public is ambival — stupid.” See? For those of you who doubted me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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