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RUSH: There\u2019s a story here by Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post<\/a>: “President Obama Got Elected on Competence. Now People are Starting to Wonder.” You see, ladies and gentlemen, the Drive-Bys are beginning to get worried. The very low approval numbers, around 40 — I don\u2019t know how it\u2019s that high, frankly. But the disapproval number is almost at 60%. Six out of 10 disapprove of the way Obama\u2019s doing the job. That is really bad. Really worrisome, because, remember, these people back in 2007 and 2008 promoted Barack Obama as the single greatest living human being to get into politics. <\/p>\n

We had never, ever seen anybody with this kind of talent, with these credentials, with this unique ability to unite people and to steer us away from politics as usual. Barack Obama was gonna erase all of the negative aspects of the Bush years. He was gonna make the world love us again and he was going to restore the economy, and he was going to close down Club Gitmo and all of these magical, wonderful things because he was the smartest guy to come along. He\u2019s also the first African-American president, therefore historical. And now the bloom is off the rose. The bloom is way off the rose. The Drive-Bys are very worried about it. In fact, here\u2019s how Cillizza — now, remember the headline, \u2019cause I think he starts with a flawed premise, which I will ‘splain here in a minute. <\/p>\n

<\/a>“A new CNN\/ORC national poll reveals the problem. Asked whether Obama can ‘manage the government effectively,\u2019 nearly six in 10 (57%) say that statement didn\u2019t apply to the president. … Here\u2019s why that number — especially in light of the Secret Service and Obamacare stories<\/a> over the last 24 hours — should scare President Obama and the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

“It goes directly to the heart of why he was elected — as an anti-George W. Bush, a person who, above all else, was competent at handling the basic affairs of government,” the competent candidate. “Here\u2019s how we,” meaning Cillizza, “put it way back in December 2008.” This is Cillizza quoting himself:<\/p>\n

“Barack Obama and the Cult of Competency — Barack Obama won the White House last month in large part by running against George W. Bush and tapping into the public perception that his administration has been ineffectual in handling important policy questions. So it\u2019s not surprise that in the first month of his transition to the presidency, the president-elect is putting a premium on competence above all else.”<\/p>\n

Have you heard about the Secret Service? This is the second time, that we know of, a bunch of Secret Service agents got plastered overnight at a party while they were in town on the presidential detail. It was while the president was at The Hague in the Netherlands. Last time was in Colombia. Some Secret Service agents got plastered in Colombia. Now it\u2019s happened a second time. Now, this is amazingly troubling to the left.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why. Of all things to bother them about Obama\u2019s competence, that does. The Secret Service getting drunk while on the job, to them sends a signal that Obama\u2019s not competent. They\u2019re not worried that they\u2019re not protecting him. That\u2019s not it. They\u2019re worried that… I don\u2019t know. They don\u2019t respect him? They don\u2019t think it\u2019s serious enough task to protect him? I don\u2019t know what it is. <\/p>\n

But they\u2019re really bothered by it \u2019cause Cillizza mentions it here, that and Obamacare. Obamacare, people have no idea, because of these waivers and delays. I\u2019m telling you, people have no idea. If you have benefited from a delay or a waiver, you don\u2019t have the slightest idea what\u2019s gonna happen to you when those waivers are lifted. You have no idea what your policy\u2019s gonna cost you. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna be through the roof. You have no idea. You\u2019re gonna buy a policy, and then you\u2019re gonna find out that the hospital of your choice is not in the network. So then you\u2019re gonna ask, “Well, what kind of policy do I buy to get that hospital?” The answer will be: “Oh, sorry, it\u2019s not available. The hospitals have opted out.” Wait \u2019til this happens. Wait \u2019til this starts happening.<\/p>\n

Wait \u2019til people find out that the catastrophic part of their insurance is worthless because none of the hospitals near where they live are part of the Obamacare network. The vast majority of Americans still haven\u2019t learned that yet. Now, they have learned that they can\u2019t sign up, and they don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve paid. What has happened to people so far is bad enough. <\/line><\/p>\n

But all of these waivers and delays and extensions like the, “You can keep your illegal plan if you like it”? Well, the day\u2019s gonna come where you\u2019re gonna have to give that up, and I shudder when I think about what people are gonna realize, and it\u2019s gonna be too late. It\u2019s gonna be after all the elections, by design. But anyway, back to Cillizza\u2019s piece. Obamacare and the Secret Service thing have got \u2019em ticked off. <\/p>\n

But I think his premise is wrong. Obama got elected on competence? That\u2019s not why he got elected. (sigh) There were people that voted for Obama just \u2019cause he was different. The media was touting him as something almost superhuman, messianic. It wasn\u2019t that people thought he was competent. The Drive-Bys portrayed him as that way! The media did all this PR managing and imaging of Obama. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t do any of it himself. He just accepted it all. He was whatever people wanted him to be, remember? He was a blank slate, a blank canvas. You could paint him as whatever you wanted to be. But there was no evidence of any competence. He\u2019d served 160 days in the Senate, most of it running for office. He\u2019d be a state senator voting “present” more times than he voted yes or no. <\/p>\n

There was no track record to prove competence. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just something the Drive-Bys assigned to him because he was a young, vibrant Democrat. He wasn\u2019t Hillary. But come on, what\u2019s the elephant in the room here? The people voted for Barack Obama because they were so desperate to end the racial strife in this country that they thought if we elected an African-American president, we would once and for all end all of these silly arguments throughout our society that we are a slave or racist country. <\/p>\n

There were people that voted for Obama because they were afraid that if people found out they hadn\u2019t voted for the first African-American president, they would be called racist. Come on! How could you not mention that as one of the reasons? That\u2019s what has the Republican Party paralyzed against any criticism of Obama. It was one of the primary attractions of the media, the historical aspect. But I don\u2019t know…<\/p>\n

Where was there any evidence of this competence? <\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t any. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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