{"id":8517,"date":"2014-08-26T16:11:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:11:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-26T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:11:51","slug":"don_t_doubt_me_obama_hasn_t_checked_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/26\/don_t_doubt_me_obama_hasn_t_checked_out\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Doubt Me: Obama Hasn\u2019t Checked Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I think, ladies and gentlemen, I might have started something<\/a>, because I\u2019m holding here in my formerly nicotine stained figures a story from TheHill.com, and the headline: “White House: Checked-Out Obama is a Media Myth.” The White House is reacting to this now. Everybody in the Drive-Bys is worried that Obama has checked out, that he\u2019s not interested, and I\u2019m cautioning everybody. There were two things. There was one thing I mentioned yesterday, and that is the White House, up until today, was not trying to push back on this. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another. You know that picture of Obama 10 minutes after the attempt at the solemn reaction to the murder of James Foley? Yeah, the picture of him laughing and yukking it up on the golf course. That was not a paparazzi picture. That was taken by the Regime. It was a White House released picture. They don\u2019t allow paparazzi on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. Indian casinos, yeah. But not… (interruption) Oh, you haven\u2019t heard about that? Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. Well, sit tight. No. The Regime took that picture. That was a White House photo, and they released that photo. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Now, from TheHill.com:<\/a> “The White House is bristling at suggestions President Obama is disconnected, checked out or out of touch. White House allies maintain that the storyline of a checked-out president is a myth drummed up by the news media during the summer doldrums. ‘It\u00c2\u2019s [BS]\u2019 said one former senior administration official. ‘This is a guy who reads 10 letters a day simply to keep in touch with the American people.'” Oh, that\u2019s a ringing endorsement. He is so busy, he reads 10 letters a day just to keep in touch with the American people. <\/p>\n

“He spends all his time thinking about the economy and improving lives of the American people.” It\u2019s time wasted. He\u2019s not doing that. That\u2019s a hell of an admission, for this former staffer to say he spends all his time thinking about the economy and improving lives of the American people. It ain\u2019t working. <\/p>\n

“He\u00c2\u2019s constantly in touch.” You know, it\u2019s pretty darn scary to learn that a senior White House official thinks that reading 10 letters a day and thinking about the economy constitutes hard work and being in touch. That is quite eye opening, is it not? Here you have a former White House official attempting to disprove the notion the president is checked out. And I think, folks, this is pretty scary, the evidence that he hasn\u2019t checked out: he reads 10 letters a day and is thinking about the economy all the time. That constitutes being in touch. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what I think is going on. I think the Drive-Bys know that he hasn\u2019t checked out, too. I think it\u2019s a stratagem, folks. I think it\u2019s a media stratagem designed to allow him to be disconnected from what is happening. There\u2019s evidence of that in a story today. You may have seen it yourself, and I wonder if you noticed it on TV. Here\u2019s an AP story<\/a>: “Sources: US Surveillance Planes Fly Over Syria.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, listen to this first paragraph. What stands out here? “The US has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the OK.” On cable TV there was a story: “Obama Approves of Drone Flights Over Syria.” What is this “gave the okay and approves”? It\u2019s his decision. Is he approving of himself? Did he write himself a memo and give the okay? I mean, what is this? This is another example of it. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s this guy, he\u2019s in North Carolina, and somebody said, “Yeah, yeah, we want to fly some drones over Syria.” <\/p>\n

“Okay, I approve. I approve that. I okay that.” (interruption) What? (interruption) Well, yeah, that\u2019s another thing. (laughing) You mean up \u2019til now we haven\u2019t been flying drones over Syria? That\u2019s another matter. The point here is that we\u2019re flying drones over Syria, who knows and who cares when it started, and the story is that the White House, Obama, approved it, that Obama gave the okay. <\/p>\n

This is what I\u2019m talking about. The way they strategically position this guy so that he\u2019s not initiating anything, that he\u2019s not directly responsible. So let\u2019s say a drone crashes and blows up Bashar Assad\u2019s house, take some example, an accident that happens,. Obama, he didn\u2019t initiate it. Somebody else came up with the idea. Yeah, he approved it, he okayed it, but he has some distance. <\/p>\n

I think what\u2019s going on here, I think the Drive-Bys know Obama hasn\u2019t checked out, but they are tired of him looking like he has because it isn\u2019t gonna look good and isn\u2019t gonna help the 2014 midterms. I think the media and the Democrat Party are trying to ratchet up this criticism of Obama as a way of forcing him to get engaged and to do some more executive orders. I think that\u2019s what this is all about. <\/p>\n

And, in fact, how about this. Luis Gutierrez, Democrat, Illinois, proudly squawking<\/a> around all over yesterday telling everybody to get ready for executive amnesty for at least five million illegals by Labor Day. Luis Gutierrez is running around squawking about everybody has to get ready, this is gonna be major, it\u2019s gonna be huge, and we\u2019re gonna have to get ramped up and make this a reality. Because after Obama grants amnesty via executive order, then some real-life things have to start happening. <\/line><\/p>\n

We have to find those five million. We have to identify them because there\u2019s supposedly 11 or 12 million of them. But Luis Gutierrez is excited. He can\u2019t even contain himself, he\u2019s so excited about this. And I think that the stratagem of appearing — this is the most ideological president we\u2019ve had in the White House in I don\u2019t know how long. The most partisan, committed president we\u2019ve had in I don\u2019t know how long. And the idea that he\u2019s checked out and has lost interest is a trick. I\u2019m telling you, it is a ruse to allow him to get away with even more. <\/p>\n

You see evidence of it, and I think that the media and some Democrats don\u2019t like the strategy. I don\u2019t think they like the trick because they\u2019re looking at low-information voters reading and seeing these news reports about how Obama\u2019s bored and he\u2019s checked out, and that\u2019s not good. “I mean, if our hero doesn\u2019t care anymore and if he doesn\u2019t like us anymore, and he\u2019s not gonna take care of us,” then why vote? <\/p>\n

So I think they\u2019re really concerned. I think they want him to issue more executive actions to overcome this sweep that\u2019s gonna happen in November, the likely sweep. That\u2019s another thing. Larry Sabato<\/a>, political scientist at University of Virginia, the Sabato Center, is holding up his hands and saying, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, there is no evidence here of a wave. Where is this wave? There\u2019s no evidence the Republicans are gonna take the Senate. All this talk about the Republicans taking the Senate, where\u2019s the evidence?” meaning where\u2019s the polling data. And that led to a very interesting investigation. <\/p>\n

Jim Geraghty at National Review<\/a>, Campaign Spot, found out there aren\u2019t any polls. Do you understand, the media\u2019s not taking any polls on these up-for-grabs Senate races. There aren\u2019t any. I wonder why not? I wonder why there aren\u2019t any polls being taken. So you have Sabato saying, “Where\u2019s the wave? There isn\u2019t any evidence of a wave.” Jim Geraghty says, “Wait a minute, that\u2019s right, polling data. There isn\u2019t any.” <\/p>\n

So the Drive-Bys, the Democrats, do not like the Obama strategy of appearing disconnected, bored, checked out, tired, what have you. And, believe me, the White House is responsible for that. Again, the picture of Obama yukking it up 10 minutes after the James Foley speech is a White House photo, not a paparazzi picture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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