{"id":9905,"date":"2014-03-13T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-03-13T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T17:12:36","slug":"obama_lets_putin_take_crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/03\/13\/obama_lets_putin_take_crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Lets Putin Take Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: In this segment I want to demonstrate, yet again, that you should not doubt me when I am predictive of what liberal Democrats are going to do. I know them. I know them like every square inch of my glorious naked body. I know what they\u2019re gonna do before they do it. I just know them. Take you back, March 6th, one week ago on this program, me.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Obama doesn\u2019t think that the United States is any different than any other nation. And if Putin wants Ukraine, then it\u2019s not for us to stop him. But he knows that he\u2019s president, and he knows that some Americans believe that the US should have and should play the role of outpost for freedom and defender of liberty. So he\u2019ll go through the motions of drawing the red line and trying to, you know, intimidate these other — “You better not do that or else you\u2019re gonna deal with me.” Of course then nobody ever has to deal with him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the point was that all of this bluster and these warnings to Putin, “You better leave \u2019em alone. You better not do that or you have us to deal with,” are just warnings. He\u2019s just saying it, \u2019cause he really doesn\u2019t care, it really doesn\u2019t matter. He doesn\u2019t think we have any moral authority to stop Putin.<\/a> Who are we? If Putin wants Crimea and we don\u2019t, who are we to say no? If the Iranians want a nuclear bomb and we\u2019ve got some, who are we to say no? That\u2019s how he looks at it. That\u2019s how a lot of young people look at it. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is how a lot of young people are taught to look at it. We\u2019re no different. We\u2019re no better. This business about the United States defending freedom around the world, that\u2019s bunk. Who gives us the right to even say that freedom is the way to go? Some people are taught that when Berlin Wall fell, Soviet communism was defeated, “Some people are just not cut out for freedom,” it was said about the Russian people when they had freedom. They had been enslaved for so long that they really had to relearn self-reliance. They had to relearn providing for themselves. <\/p>\n

They had been conditioned like any living organism — you\u2019ve heard about these stories that tour groups go out on the ocean and you watch dolphins or whatever being fed. And it doesn\u2019t take long, the dolphins will stop trying to feed themselves, they\u2019ll just wait for the American shipping boat to arrive. Well, human beings are no different. And after 75 years of being conditioned to being taken care of in whatever state, whatever condition, if the provider goes away and you haven\u2019t been raised to take care of yourself and it doesn\u2019t kick in, there\u2019s gonna be some confusion, and there was.<\/line><\/p>\n

So we dispatched all kinds — I remember Paul Weyrich was one. We dispatched all kinds of people to go over and help Yeltsin to implement the concepts of freedom. There were a lot of really great Americans that went over to help this, but the left had plenty of people, “Hey, see? See? Freedom\u2019s not for everybody.” Which is an outright denial of the preamble of our own Declaration of Independence. It\u2019s an outright rejection of our whole existence. And it\u2019s taught, and there are a bunch of people, “Hey, who says freedom\u2019s the best anyway? With freedom and capitalism, look at all the unfairness that you have, and look at all the inequality that you have.” And that manifests itself, “If Putin wants Crimea, let him have it.” Mario Cuomo said of Saddam Hussein, “The way to deal with this, give him a couple of islands and he\u2019ll go away.” <\/p>\n

But the whole idea of the United States as the outpost, the bastion, the beacon of freedom is rejected by many on the left, for a host of reasons. A, they look at freedom as being imposed on people, and I do not think you can impose freedom. That\u2019s contradictory to me. Freedom is not an imposition. Freedom is a grant. Freedom is the nature of our creation, and that is in the preamble of our own Declaration of Independence. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let me go back to this Ukraine business, because I played for you what I said a week ago. Obama doesn\u2019t care. He\u2019s just gonna say he cares because he knows a lot of Americans think that the US should, in fact, be the beacon of hope for the world; freedom, liberty, so forth and so on. But he\u2019s not gonna stop Putin<\/a>, \u2019cause if Putin wants it, who are we to say he can\u2019t have it? <\/p>\n

I mean, who are we to say that any nation can\u2019t do what they want to do? What gives us the right? That\u2019s what people like Obama believe, and that\u2019s why it was easy to predict that Putin is not gonna face any serious opposition from Obama. So now let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites where this is proven. First up, Ed Henry, the Fox News Channel on The O\u2019Reilly Factor last night, and O\u2019Reilly said to Ed Henry, “So what\u2019s the headline today? Is there anything over there that\u2019s gonna happen?”<\/p>\n

HENRY: No. It doesn\u2019t really look like there\u2019s gonna be much US action. Officials were telling us privately in recent days that, look, as long as Putin doesn\u2019t extend beyond Crimea, then fine, he\u2019s not escalating the situation. That was a direct signal that they\u2019re not gonna do anything to stop him from keeping Crimea. The US has already sent a tacit signal that Putin can have Crimea. They don\u2019t want him to have it, but they\u2019re not gonna do anything to take it back as long as he doesn\u2019t escalate beyond that.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute, didn\u2019t we say at first, “Hey, get outta Ukraine. You can\u2019t have Crimea.” Then Putin took it. “Well, okay, but if he goes any further, we\u2019re gonna really get mad.” It\u2019s just history repeating itself. This happened in Syria, drew the red line, then denied drawing the red line, blamed it on Congress. There hasn\u2019t been any punitive action on Bashar al-Assad or whoever has been doing the evil doings over there. It\u2019s just a bunch of huffing and puffing. <\/p>\n

So here you have it, “Well, direct signal, they\u2019re not gonna do anything to stop him from keeping Crimea.” So we\u2019ve given Putin Crimea. He said he wants it, and who are we to stop him? Then late yesterday afternoon, the White House, after meeting with Ukraine prime minister, Obama and the prime minister spoke with reporters about the meeting.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Mr. Prime Minister, I would ask that you deliver a message on behalf of the American people to all the Ukrainian people, and that is that we admire their courage. We appreciate their aspirations. You can rest assured that you will have our strong support as you move forward during these difficult times.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, big whoop. Mr. Prime Minister, you tell your people we\u2019re thinking about \u2019em. And we really are thinking about \u2019em. And we\u2019re really thinking good things when we think about \u2019em. You\u2019re on your own, you\u2019re on your own, but we want you to know that as you\u2019re on your own, we support whatever you\u2019re doing while you\u2019re on your own. And while you\u2019re on your own doing whatever, just know that, my God, we\u2019re thinking of you. And the prime minister: Well, that\u2019s worth a lot. I appreciate that. Here is the prime minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaking with reporters after his meeting with Obama.<\/p>\n

YATSENYUK: My message to President Putin: Mr. Putin, tear down this wall, the wall of war, intimidation and military aggression.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute now. So Obama says (imitating Obama), “Mr. Prime Minister, I want you to go tell your people we\u2019re really thinking about you, and we admire your aspirations.” What are their aspirations? Well, they aspire to be free. “We admire that, and you tell \u2019em we really admire it,” while they\u2019re getting their butts kicked. “We admire it. We admire they want to be free. You tell \u2019em we\u2019re thinking about \u2019em.” And this guy says, “Well, my message to Putin is ‘tear down this wall.'” Obama says, “Well, go ahead, we\u2019ll be thinking about you,” as you tear down this wall. So easy to predict. What else Putin wants, whatever it is, he\u2019s gonna get it. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the Ukraine — stop and think about this. Here\u2019s the Ukrainian prime minister quoting Ronald Reagan in front of Obama. “Mr. Putin, tear down this wall.” Obama\u2019s thinking, “You SOB, how dare you come here to the White House and quote that right-wing fanatic in my face. All right, all we\u2019re gonna do is think about you, and to hell with what I said about your aspirations. Screw you! You quote Reagan to me? How dare you.” You imagine Obama goes back to the Oval Office, throws down a piece of paper, “Did you hear what that guy did? That stupid little guy quoting Reagan? ‘Mr. Putin, tear down this wall of intimidation, war, military aggression.'” Obama won\u2019t say it. The prime minister of Ukraine, somebody\u2019s gotta say it. Not us, though, anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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