Like Bin Laden, Rush Limbaugh hopes that Obama fails
Despite that America is facing a potential depression, and unemployment is at over 7%, fat addict (Faddict?) Rush Limbaugh hopes that President Obama fails. "I know what his plans are... I don't want them to succeed." Limbaugh, who recently signed a 400 million dollar contract with a company that just laid off 9% of its workforce, categorized Republicans who "lie down" with Obama as drinkers of Kool-Aid.
Does this mean Democrats can start questioning the patriotism of Republicans who don't support Obama? We are in such terrible times, the President needs the support of ALL Americans, even unpatriots like Rush Limbaugh. Oh my God, it's like post-9/11 America, in reverse!
HOLY ! KARMA IS A BITCH, ELEPHANTS!
We called 600 random phone numbers and asked every person who picked up the phone to answer this question:
Why do YOU want President Obama to fail? Tell us in the comments.
It's a shame so many americans actually connect with the man. I find it slightly ironic (or maybe not) that the two biggest names in conservative talk radio are college drop-outs (i.e., Limbaugh and Hannity). I don't know what happened to Coulter, unlike those two, she was actually educated at very good schools (i.e., cornell and michigan law).
Renzo
I may be wrong here, and someone correct me if I am, but if Obama's policies fail, we all lose. There is far too much money and time invested into these policies and into these programs.
There is no such thing as Obama's economic policies failing, yet miraculously companies throughout the nation experience unprecedented growth and our economy experiences a sudden boom. There is no such thing as the "nationalization of the mortgage industry" being a catastrophe, but yet foreclosures are at an all time low.
I wouldn't hope for failure on an enemy, let alone our own President.
Capitalizt
If Obama fails to enact his policies, America wins. If he succeeds enacting them, he wins..but America loses. The goose that laid the golden egg will have it's tubes tied permanently.
The17sss
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Originally posted by jerZ07002
if you actually read any of those quotes you see that the man is highly moronic. Calling the new deal the raw deal is ridiculous. Some of our most important legislation in the past 100 years came from the new deal: unemployment benefits, social security, FDIC, SEC, etc.... If those are bad policies, then i'm entirely in favor of enacting more bad policies. Rush is just stupid. I don't through stupid around frequently anymore, but the man is stupid.
true or false: you claimed that Rush didn't say he hopes Obama's policies fail, and I provided multiple direct quotes that he did say it. End of story.
The rest is just your opinion. And Social Security was never meant to balloon into the massive burden it has, but that's just another in a long line of unintended consequences of liberal policies... which are always defended by saying "we had the peoples' best interests at heart." If the New Deal was such a good idea, why are the same proportion of people on welfare and other government handouts today than back then? Why is the poverty rate pretty much where it's always been? It just goes back to the concept that giving people for free, especially those who already don't pay taxes and/or wait around for the government to do things for them, isn't the answer.
The17sss
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Originally posted by jerZ07002
It's a shame so many americans actually connect with the man. I find it slightly ironic (or maybe not) that the two biggest names in conservative talk radio are college drop-outs (i.e., Limbaugh and Hannity). I don't know what happened to Coulter, unlike those two, she was actually educated at very good schools (i.e., cornell and michigan law).
That's a pretty elitist thing to say. I guess dropouts like Bill Gates, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, William Boeing, Walter Cronkite, David Geffen, Ralph Lauren, Edgar Allen Poe, and Stephen Speilberg are all stupid too, just like Rush.
And, Hannity dropped out of NYU for financial reasons.
this is not his first song and dance playing the race card and thats EXACTLY what he is doing....but this time its bigger. He obviously has issues with men of color.
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“ "Sorry to say this, I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. [57]" ”
On October 1, 2003, Limbaugh resigned from ESPN with the statement:“
"My comments this past Sunday were directed at the media and were not racially motivated. I offered an opinion. This opinion has caused discomfort to the crew, which I regret. I love Sunday NFL Countdown and do not want to be a distraction to the great work done by all who work on it. Therefore, I have decided to resign. I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of the show and wish all the best to those who make it happen.[58]"
Halcyon+On+On
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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
My point is only that he is not motivated out of any altruistic sentiments for country or countrymen - he wants to make a dime, and, as you've pointed out quite well, the easiest way to do that is to appeal to people's most base desires. The seed of hate may be planted in everyone, but people like him have made a career in carefully cultivating and directing that hate to serve solely personal aims. I think he is a very dangerous person.
The enormous cynic in me wants to argue that altruism is a ruse, that it isn't genuine or it isn't understood. Everyone wants to make a dime for themselves, the current state of things has just ever-increasingly indicated that it is far more prudent to do so by rallying people behind your cause, whatever it may be.
Even people who believe in the good of a nation, in its people, in its goals and organizations, its ability to change the world we live in - even those people have their camp, their pole to huddle around, simply waiting to dismantle the opposition in the name of "what's best". But all the best intentions ever boil down to are self-interest and its subsequent feast upon lesser ideals.
That said, I completely agree - he is a dangerous man, one whose influence reaches the far-right and uninspired minds of taxpayers living in a sheen of equal voting power. But this direction - this "hatred" - would its absence save people? Would it save mankind? I think that humans have demonstrated well enough that hate is unnecessary to bloodlust - no matter how you manipulate it, it shall not ever be quelled nor quenched.
But that doesn't mean we can't play the game where we pretend to be free of it just long enough to destroy those credited with its perpetuation.
LazFX
one hell of a guy
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In these excerpts from one of his early interviews, Rush reveals how the talk radio sausage is made. Like any form of entertainment, the primary goal is to capture the attention of the audience and compel them to keep listening. Rush is remarkably candid in describing his attitude toward his performance and the importance of caller screening.
