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RUSH: Here's Michelle Obama yesterday at a rally in Pennsylvania talking about elitism.
MICHELLE OBAMA: There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that. But let me tell you who me and Barack are so that you are not confused. Yeah, I went to Princeton and Harvard. But the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working-class upbringing. I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working-class community. I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.
 RUSH: Oh, come on, give me a break, Michelle (My Belle). For crying out loud, you're out there encouraging people not to do what you did! She's out there, she's talking to poor women in Ohio and in Pennsylvania telling them, like Reverend Wright tells them, to avoid middle-classness. And now she's out there trying to portray herself as the middle class. She's not elite, no. She's public education: Harvard, Princeton, wherever she went, $300,000 working at a hospital after her husband gets a gig in the Senate. These people are so phony, pure elitists. Does she sound a little angry there, by the way? I think she sounded a little angry. These Democrats, they're either fully enraged or they're just on the precipice of it. "But I want people to know when they look at me to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like." Is Princeton public education? It's not. She had student loans, of course, because they've been complaining about how long it took to pay them off. Anyway, this, again, a confusing message from a nearly angry Michelle (My Belle) Obama, saying look at me and see what an investment in public education can do, I'm just middle class, while she's telling everybody else not to do what she has done.
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RUSH: About the last caller, the last caller from Pocatello, Idaho, basically said that he and his family go to church to be uplifted, which is the case for most people. I mean, some people are just putting in time and making an appearance, but most people go to be uplifted. At the beginning of the next hour, I'm going to replay The Battle Hymn of the Republic sung by the US Army Chorus today at the White House welcoming ceremony for Pope Benedict XVI. I guarantee you're going to be uplifted when you hear this. People go to church and people seek God to be uplifted. Barack Obama, however, thinks these people go to church because they're clinging and their lives are in such rotten shape and they're so horrible. But maybe Obama was speaking from personal experience when talking about these small town people, because, after all, what kind of uplifting do you think happens in Obama's church? You know, Obama's friends and Obama's family, they're already bitter. They're already angry, and they go to church, and they listen to Reverend Wright, and they walk out of there feeling even worse.
 They go in these churches and Reverend Wright speaks and they walk out of there and they're depressed as they can be and they're mad and they're loaded for bear, and what Obama did was just project his own experience. You go to Obama's church, I guarantee you you're going to walk out of there being ticked off like you haven't been ticked off before. You're going to go to hear Jeremiah Wright's sermon, and you're going to walk out of it, "Damn it, I knew it, I thought we were making progress, but I just found out we're getting screwed again. We're getting screwed in ways we don't even know it. We're getting screwed where we can't even feel it. We're getting screwed every which way. We're moving backwards, this is horrible," blah, blah, blah. They walk out of there mad as hell. Maybe Obama does, too. So maybe Obama is just projecting that when all people go to church, they come out of there ticked off. Obama is trying to battle this notion that he's an elitist, and so is his lovely and gracious wife Michelle (My Belle). Obama in Washington, Pennsylvania, yesterday, at a town hall meeting with veterans.
OBAMA: I am amused about this notion of elitist, given that, you know, when you're raised by a single mom, or you're on food stamps for a while when you were growing up, you went to school on scholarship, that's when you know we're in political silly season. Hopefully will come to an end fairly soon. |
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RUSH: Okay, so Obama has thrown his grandmother under the bus, calling her a typical white person, and now he tells the world that his mother was on food stamps and that he was on food stamps. See, there's honor in this. There is prestige and there is virtue in having been on food stamps. Look what you can do if you have been on food stamps! You stay on food stamps with your mom long enough and you'll end up going to Harvard and Harvard Law and you'll come out and you'll meet some sleazy real estate guy to help you buy your house that you can't afford. Then you'll be elected to the United States Senate and run for president with absolutely zero qualifications. I owe all this to food stamps.
He's trying to say that he's not an elitist. I've learned this over the course of my stellar career, when people generally accuse you of something that sticks, you run out there and you start trying to offer evidence that you're not that. This is like trying to say -- here's an equivalent. In the old days, somebody would call a white guy a racist, "Hey, I'm not a racist. Some of my best friends are black." That old, "I'm not elite. I grew up on food stamps." His wife Michelle (My Belle), "I'm not elite. Why, my dad got a raise, we were able to go out and buy five spoons." They're trying too hard here. This little charge has obviously hit. Now, this morning on MSNBC Live, Joe Scarborough talking with Obama communication director Robert Gibbs, and Scarborough said, "Let's talk about Pennsylvania right now. Do you think the San Francisco speech has damaged Obama in Pennsylvania and in other states?"
 GIBBS: If you look at the recent polling, the race has stayed mostly the same over the past week despite a lot of coverage about those comments. There's certainly some anger and some bitterness about the fact that politicians come through every four years or every two years and make promises about how they're going to get their lives made better by their politics, and the politicians go to Washington and forget about the people. And I think we've seen that. That's why gas prices are so high. That's why oil is so high, that's why fewer and fewer people have health insurance.
RUSH: None of that is true. Literally none of that is true. It is not because politicians have forgotten about people that gas prices are so high. Frankly, I wish they would all forgot about us and leave us alone. That's not the problem, Mr. Gibbs. The problem is they won't leave us alone. The problem is you people on your side of the aisle treat us like we're four-year-olds and we do not know what's best for us and you've gotta make sure we do that or don't do that or can't do that, and it's infuriating. The fact of the matter is politicians haven't forgotten anybody. It is the way they think of people that has gotten us into trouble. Liberal politicians look at average Americans with contempt and an arrogance and a condescension that makes them see no ability to overcome the obstacles of life, and they don't, these politicians don't want you to be able to overcome those obstacles, they want you to be mad.
This is very hideous here, folks, very devious. You have to learn how to read the stitches on the fastball. You have to learn how to read between the lines. When this clown says, (paraphrasing) "They come in there, and they campaign, and they tell you how politics is going to make your life better. Then they go to Washington and they forget about you and your life goes to hell." You see the connection? Your life doesn't amount to anything unless Washington and some politician or a couple of them are deeply involved in your life. If Washington is not involved in your life, your life isn't going to matter. There are way too many people who have bought into this. It's sad, it's unfortunate, because it is dispiriting and it's destructive to the very people they claim to be championing and helping.
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