{"id":9960,"date":"2014-03-06T19:51:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:51:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-03-06T19:51:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:51:28","slug":"do_obama_and_putin_share_a_worldview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/03\/06\/do_obama_and_putin_share_a_worldview\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Obama and Putin Share a Worldview?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Steven in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s nice to speak to you. You\u2019re my number one role model. You\u2019ve got me to figure out myself and figure out who I am. So I appreciate what you do and what you do every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. Really appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You haven\u2019t robbed any banks or anything, have you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What?<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: You haven\u2019t robbed any banks or anything like that? (laughing) <\/p>\n

CALLER: No. No. (laughing) Rush, I have a question. Well, actually it\u2019s not a question. It\u2019s more of a observation. I watched a documentary, and after watching that and seeing what Putin is doing and knowing what our president is doing, I was wondering if you saw this connection between Putin and Obama and that basically there is no difference between them, and that although one of them is a KGB officer, and the other is, as you mentioned earlier, from ACORN, fundamentally they\u2019re no different from each other. They\u2019re basically the same exact people, and that brings me to something that I figured out. In my opinion the reason why Obama hasn\u2019t been doing anything is because he does want Putin to expand the Soviet Union and he does want socialism in our country, because, again, he\u2019s been doing nothing. He said in 2008 that he wanted to fundamentally transform our nation, so that sort of would make sense why he\u2019s basically just sitting there constantly drawing red lines and basically saying if you cross those red lines, then there\u2019s gonna be consequences, and ultimately —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But there never are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There never are. Well, you may have a point. It would be hard for people to accept the premise that they\u2019re the same because Putin is looked at as a brute bully, take whatever he wants whenever he wants it, take no prisoners kind of guy. Obama\u2019s image is not that. Obama\u2019s image is scholarly, learned, brilliant, smarter than everybody else that\u2019s ever lived, so far ahead of us we can\u2019t hope to understand what he\u2019s thinking. We would be silly to even try. But you\u2019re speaking in terms of worldview. <\/p>\n

Now, you may have a point in this sense. When you say that Obama isn\u2019t really troubled by what Putin is doing, because he\u2019s spreading socialism, communism, and Obama\u2019s all for that, I think what may in fact be more true is that 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 be, 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 others: “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

I mean, the story in the Politico today is the worst thing that\u2019s happened here is that his vacation\u2019s in jeopardy now.<\/a> Right here. Obama\u2019s vacation plans in jeopardy. Vladimir Putin has put Obama\u2019s vacation plans in jeopardy. Not Vladimir Putin is attempting to commandeer a country and enslave its citizens. No, no, no. Vladimir Putin has put Obama\u2019s vacation plans on hold. That\u2019s serious stuff. Vacation plans are big deals for people that don\u2019t work very hard. <\/p>\n

Obama has been asked about American exceptionalism; and his answer is (imitating Obama), “Well, you know what? I think if you asked the Russians, they\u2019ll tell you they think they\u2019re exceptional. And the British, they\u2019ll tell you that they think they\u2019re exceptional.” And what he means by that is, who are we to say we\u2019re better than those? We\u2019re not better than anybody. In fact, Obama believes the United States and its imperialist military has always been the problem in the world. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Obama may believe that Putin\u2019s doing what he\u2019s doing because we, George Bush — and, by the way, folks, you know, you might laugh about this, there are a bunch of liberal media people that are blaming Bush for this. I kid you not. A couple of \u2019em on MSNBC. I don\u2019t want to mention any names over there, but a couple of those people, I think a couple of prominent newspaper leftist columnists have blamed it on Bush. I kid you not. <\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll ever persuade people that Obama is like Putin in the sense that he will deploy his military to conquer other countries and put them under the United States flag, but he won\u2019t stand in the way of anybody else going wherever they want in the world, because he is of the liberal mind, who are we to tell \u2019em no? In fact, that\u2019s almost out of the liberal national anthem. Who are we to tell \u2019em no? <\/p>\n

The way that works is, the real belief in this Regime about the Iranian pursuit of a nuclear weapon is, well, who are we to tell \u2019em they can\u2019t? We\u2019ve got one. And nobody told us we can\u2019t. Who are we? What right do we have to tell the Iranians they can\u2019t build a nuclear bomb? And that\u2019s the way they look at it. So with Putin on the march, I think Obama\u2019s view is it doesn\u2019t matter, but he\u2019s a gotta act like it does, even if it means delaying a vacation. Syria, it doesn\u2019t matter, doesn\u2019t care. But he has to act like he does. “So here\u2019s the red line. You better not cross it. Oh, you crossed it. Now I\u2019m really mad. I\u2019m gonna draw — you better not cross, I\u2019ll get really, really mad.” Never does anything about it. And of course that\u2019s the bottom line. <\/p>\n

Look at what he does. Zip, zero, nada. A lot of talk, a lot of trying to sound tough, but I think it\u2019s all rooted, Steven, in the fact that Obama doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s any of our business to stand up for the freedom of people in Ukraine, even though we promised them that we would in two agreements. Bill Clinton and Obama reaffirmed it in 2009. We promised them that if they would gut their army, gut their military, get rid of their nukes, that we would protect their borders. What country\u2019s ever going to believe us again? And that has been operative for quite a few years now, not just now. But even though we promised them that we would, we\u2019re not going to. <\/p>\n

Does anybody really think Obama would use any kind of force whatsoever? He\u2019s gonna send Kerry over there and they\u2019re gonna talk sanctions and this kind of stuff, but it\u2019s never gonna matter and happen. And that\u2019s all for show, to make some in the stock market think that Obama is traditional in the sense that America is the defender of liberty and freedom in the world. But that\u2019s so passe now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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