{"id":8529,"date":"2014-08-25T16:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:52:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-25T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:52:41","slug":"the_strategically_disconnected_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/25\/the_strategically_disconnected_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strategically Disconnected Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: A lot of conversation now, and even last week, remember the videotape that you could watch if you wanted to, of James Foley being murdered, being beheaded. If you wanted to watch it, you could. Obama comes out and he does an attempt at solemnity and seriousness and commitment. But he just didn\u2019t bring it off. He didn\u2019t bring off the solemn. He didn\u2019t bring off the commitment. He didn\u2019t even bring off that he really cared. It was more like he just appeared he did it because it was called for. And that was given further credence when a mere 10 minutes later a picture is taken of Obama yukking it up and laughing, having a grand old time on the golf course.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Even some Democrats, an increasing number of Democrats, began to wring their hands and say, “This is not good.” And they dragged out some usual suspects in the media to say, “Hey, he\u2019s smarter than all of us, and he\u2019s just letting ISIS know that they don\u2019t bother him. He\u2019s just letting ISIS know that they don\u2019t dictate his day. He\u2019s just letting \u2019em know that he\u2019s not gonna be captured in the White House like Jimmy Carter was in the Iranian hostage crisis back in 1979.” <\/p>\n

But those were lame excuses. And now you\u2019ve heard it, and you can\u2019t get away from it. The media and the Democrats, oh, they\u2019re wringing their hands, oh, my God, what has happened to Obama? Has he checked out? Does he no longer care? Which means, “Does he no longer care about us?” <\/p>\n

When all of these leftists lament that Obama appears not to care about the job anymore, what they really mean is, he doesn\u2019t care about them, or he doesn\u2019t care about us, the citizens, because of course we can\u2019t get through the day without our leader, our president, Washington looking out for us. “My God, Obama doesn\u2019t even care, he doesn\u2019t care about us, he doesn\u2019t, oh.” And they\u2019re just beside themselves in pain and sadness and disappointment. <\/p>\n

And I still think, folks, and I know that I\u2019m in a minority on this, but I still think that this checked out, appearing uninterested could well be — I will not say definitely — could well be a stratagem that is designed to make Obama look like he doesn\u2019t care, like he\u2019s not engaged, while every aspect of his agenda marches on. We have to admit that\u2019s happening, right? <\/p>\n

We\u2019re on the verge of granting amnesty to how many millions of people crossing the border. The leftist agenda is marching on. <\/line>The Democrats may get wiped out in this election, but the leftist agenda is marching on. I mean, the IRS is still doing Obama\u2019s work. Take whatever issue you want, Obamacare, it\u2019s falling apart, but it\u2019s still marching on. I mean, his stated objective of transforming the country is still underway, even though he appears — my point is, he has appeared disengaged from the get-go. It\u2019s been part of a strategy, to avoid accountability for anything. You know, the old Limbaugh Theorem argument. <\/line><\/p>\n

Every appearance Obama makes looks like it\u2019s a campaign appearance. He\u2019s running for office or campaigning against somebody or some issue, and that creates the illusion that, man, he\u2019s fed up with what\u2019s happening, and he\u2019s doing everything he can to stop it, even though what\u2019s happening is the implementation of his policies. So this is just the next phase, Obama\u2019s out playing golf. He\u2019s enabled himself to look like he has nothing to do with what\u2019s going on, while it\u2019s all happening. And I think it\u2019s much easier, if you represent an ideology which is not near the majority thinking in the country, and let\u2019s be honest about something. I don\u2019t care how it looks in the media, and I don\u2019t care what you read and see, liberalism is not the dominant culture. I take it back. It may be the dominant culture, but it is not representative of the majority of thinking. <\/p>\n

Most people in this country are not liberals, even in polls asking people to self-identify. Twice as many people say that they are conservative as say they are liberal. More people admit to being conservative than being independent, moderate, or liberal. They are a minority, folks. Just like most people think the gay population is 30, 35%. It\u2019s not, it\u2019s 1.2, 1.3% of the country. The media makes it look otherwise. And that\u2019s the benefit the pop culture has for the left, is that it makes what they believe appear mainstream, as though everybody agrees, when it\u2019s not the case. <\/p>\n

So if you represent an ideology that is really extreme — and Obama does — and his ideology is rooted in the fact that he disagrees profoundly with America, disagrees profoundly with the founding, the principles, the concepts, this whole notion of limited government, individual liberty and freedom, totally opposed to all that. If you wanted to transform that, if you wanted to transform America and, say, turn it into a socialist democracy much like in Western Europe, do you think you\u2019d have a better chance of doing it in a stealth way or if you got up and announced every day that\u2019s what you\u2019re trying to do? <\/p>\n

<\/a>Has he ever said beyond, “I want to transform the country,” what he really means by it? It\u2019s always left up to interpretation. You have to know who Obama is to know what he means by that. If you don\u2019t really know who Obama is, you\u2019ll be clueless. But if you know who he is, you\u2019ll know what it means. But has anybody ever heard him stand up and say, other than when he apologizes for the country overseas, has anybody ever heard him stand up and say that his intention is to essentially rewrite the Constitution and get rid of this silly notion of the founding and all this stuff and these founders got it all wrong? Has he ever stood up and said anything like? No way. He wouldn\u2019t have a prayer of succeeding or getting elected. <\/p>\n

But the more disengaged and the more aloof — you know, the left always has to camouflage what they do. That\u2019s why they don\u2019t debate and that\u2019s why they want to eliminate opposition. They lose in the arena of ideas, nationally. They really do. More often than not, way more often than not. So they\u2019re always masking themselves. My point is, I\u2019m not altogether sure that Obama\u2019s checked out. Because I don\u2019t think we\u2019re seeing anything new. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry for the long, circuitous route here, but all these people wringing their hands, “Oh, no, Obama, does he care? Oh, no, he\u2019s checked out. Oh, no, I can\u2019t believe he\u2019s so tone deaf. Oh, no, does he not know how bad the picture is?” Everybody thinks that we got a new Obama here. And, see, I don\u2019t. I think this is the same guy that\u2019s been running the show since he took office, since before he was elected. He\u2019s the same cold, calculating guy. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s really anything new here. But because the Drive-Bys have invested so much in a myth, and the myth is falling apart and being replaced by a reality that\u2019s always been there that they didn\u2019t see, now they\u2019re panicking. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a Politico story<\/a>. Again, it\u2019s about Obama going to play golf so soon after delivering the fake speech on Jim Foley. And here\u2019s the telltale line. Again, from the perspective that Obama hasn\u2019t checked out, that this is a ruse, that this is a camouflage, Obama is simply appearing detached and checked out to lull everybody to sleep so that they\u2019re not awake enough to see just how much he is doing, and I think, folks, you had better pay attention. I think you better be very suspicious of this premise that Obama\u2019s checked out and is gotten tired and is dejected and is given up and just is not interested anymore. <\/p>\n

When is the last — honestly, now. Who is the last committed liberal to give up? They never give up, right? They never stop, and they\u2019re never happy no matter what they get. But, anyway, the telltale line, this Politico story, “Obama\u2019s Long Walks Spoiled.” They\u2019re just so sad that Obama\u2019s not able to be who he really could be and maybe doesn\u2019t want to be who he really could be, but there is a line here in this story that, to me, supports the theory that Obama is using this checked out to play golf thing as a purposeful strategy, and it is this. <\/line><\/p>\n

The White House is not apologetic. The White House is not trying to make any excuses. And here\u2019s the line: “The White House has been unapologetic about Obama\u00c2\u2019s Foley-to-golf pivot.” If this really were Obama checking out, if the people around Obama in the White House, the chief of staff, the press secretary, the Valerie Jarretts of the world, who\u2019s really, I think, the mover and shaker while Obama appears checked out. I mean, while Obama\u2019s on the golf course, somebody\u2019s moving this agenda leftward, and it\u2019s Valerie Jarrett, I think. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, if the people closest to Obama in the White House were really worried that he had checked out — now, stop and think of this for a second, folks. When is the last president you can remember reading or hearing about who just gave up, who just lost interest, who just checked out? Now, Eisenhower is a different case. Eisenhower became president after winning World War II. <\/p>\n

When Eisenhower discovered he couldn\u2019t shoot Congress, he said, “Well, this is tougher than I thought it was gonna be,” and he went and played golf. But aside from that, can you can you think — Jimmy Carter didn\u2019t check out and give up. Bill Clinton never checked out and gave up. George Bush never checked out, Reagan didn\u2019t. Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, take your pick, Truman. Can you think of any president who just lost interest, about whom it was said, and the White House didn\u2019t push back? See, the White House is not pushing back. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, if they really thought, the people closest to Obama, if they really thought he checked out, they\u2019d be worried, folks, because that would be representative of something out of whack psychologically. There would be profound concern over that. Presidents are not allowed to get depressed. Presidents are not allowed to have down days. You don\u2019t ever hear about that. They don\u2019t give up. You can\u2019t think of one who has. And yet every day we get to see where Obama\u2019s lost interest, the job\u2019s not challenging, or however else they say it, and the White House is not trying to change anybody\u2019s mind about it.<\/p>\n

Oh, it\u2019s perfectly fine. He spoke to the family and he went out and played golf, and they give excuses, everybody every president needs a vacation, pressures of the job, come on. Hey, the president, job is always there, Oval Office is wherever the president happens to be. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, if they really thought he had checked out, there\u2019d be a whole different reaction from within the inner circle. All I\u2019m saying is just don\u2019t automatically accept this idea that the first president in your life or our lives in the modern era has just given up and checked out and lost interest, \u2019cause I\u2019m telling you, there is a political advantage. You could construct a brilliant and successful strategy by appearing to be checked out while all the stuff you believe in continues to happen, except you aren\u2019t attached to it. You\u2019re not held accountable, because none of what\u2019s happening is supported by a majority of the American people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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