{"id":14102,"date":"2012-10-31T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-31T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:10:55","slug":"chris_christie_plays_role_of_greek_column_for_the_obama_reelection_campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/31\/chris_christie_plays_role_of_greek_column_for_the_obama_reelection_campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie Plays Role of Greek Column for the Obama Reelection Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided to play the role of a Greek column today for President Obama.  Obama and Chris Christie will tour the Jersey shore.  Who lives on the shoreline, Snerdley?  That\u2019s exactly right.  The one percent live on the beach.  It isn\u2019t cheap, Rachel.  I don\u2019t know if you know this or not.  It isn\u2019t cheap to live on the beach anywhere.  Well, there are a couple places, but, I mean, for the most part. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>President Obama and the Greek column, Chris Christie, will be walking the coastline, viewing properties owned by the one-percenters, to whom Barack Obama has said, &#8220;You didn\u2019t build that. You didn\u2019t make that happen.&#8221;<\/line><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68925\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christie-Obama.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: To the phones we go and we\u2019re gonna start in Hoover, Alabama.  It\u2019s Michelle.  Great to have you on the program.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  It\u2019s an honor to talk to you for the third time, so I\u2019m gonna try not to be nervous this time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You don\u2019t sound nervous at all.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Okay, well, that\u2019s good.  Couple questions for you.  It\u2019s kind of a two-part question.  First, do you think that what Chris Christie is doing and how he\u2019s, you know, basically campaigning with Obama today, if that hurts or helps Obama or hurts or helps Romney?  And, you know, the other point I wanted to ask you about is, you know, in 2008 when Obama and McCain were campaigning and McCain suspended his campaign, and Obama came out and basically said, &#8220;Look, if you can\u2019t do both, you know, as president you gotta be able to juggle both, then you don\u2019t deserve to be president.&#8221; Well, he doesn\u2019t seem to be able to be juggling both.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  What Obama said in 2008 was when McCain suspended his campaign and went to Washington, Obama said, &#8220;Well, you go ahead,&#8221; and said what you said, &#8220;You gotta be able to juggle a bunch of things. I\u2019m going to Florida, you know how to reach me if you need me,&#8221; and it was at that point that if McCain had any chance it vanished.  Look, before I tell you about my thoughts on Christie, what do you think?  You\u2019re the caller.  You tell me what you think.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, honestly, you\u2019re probably gonna think I\u2019m crazy for thinking this, but in some ways I would think it would help Romney because Chris Christie\u2019s a Republican &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; he\u2019s doing a good job running the efforts there, and my prayers and thoughts go out to all those people, and that they\u2019re gonna say, &#8220;Okay, so the president\u2019s come here to do his meet-and-greet and look at the ground, but can we now let our Republican governor get back to work to actually helping these people.&#8221;  That\u2019s what I think.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  All right, let me ask you a question.  What did you think of Chris Christie\u2019s Republican convention speech?  You remember it?  Did you see it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Oh, heavens yes, I saw it.  At first I kind of liked his boisterous personality, but it really kind of seemed like, &#8220;let me tell you about me,&#8221; and it wasn\u2019t really about how Mitt Romney would be good for this country &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5PyB93AM984\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah, it wasn\u2019t about that, was it?  It wasn\u2019t about how good Romney was gonna be, was it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  No.  Not at all.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay, now, do you remember what Christie said before the first debate? <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  What did he say?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  He basically said that this race is gonna turn on a dime once Mitt Romney debates Obama.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right.  He is the only person in the country who thought that.  You go back, everybody was scared the first debate \u2019cause Obama\u2019s the smooth talker, Obama\u2019s this guy that\u2019s gonna mop the floor, and nobody thought what Christie thought.  He was the only guy who said Romney is gonna wipe the floor with Obama.  Nobody else thought that. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I did.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m asking this series of questions for a specific reason. You may have figured it out; you may have not figured it out. If you haven\u2019t, it will be up to you to figure it out. But when you sit there and you\u2019re the only guy saying that Romney\u2019s gonna clean up, what are you doing? You are raising expectations. It was thought to be unfair what Christie did. He put all kinds of pressure on Romney to mop the floor with Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: Before the first debate, the conventional wisdom was that Obama is just the greatest speaker ever. I\u2019m not talking about you and I. We know he\u2019s nothing without the prompter. I\u2019m talking about population at large in the media. So Christie goes out there, raises these expectations to a point that nobody thought Romney could possibly do that, and what if Romney hadn\u2019t done that?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68949\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ChristieBam_large.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What if Romney hadn\u2019t come through? Now here we are just speculating. I\u2019m just asking some questions. Here we are a week\/six days before the election. And yesterday Chris Christie said, \u00c2\u201cI don\u2019t care. The election\u2019s not important right now. I need the president of the United States here. He\u2019s been great for me and my state,\u00c2\u201d and so forth. Now, when you look at it as I have laid it out, what do you think?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I just don\u2019t think Chris Christie is&#8230; I mean, there are things about him that I love and things about him that I don\u2019t like. I just don\u2019t think that Chris Christie, being such a strong Romney supporter and advocate &#8212; especially during the primaries, out there with Romney &#8212; you know, saying these things and putting the president up on a pedestal, so to speak&#8230; I think maybe he\u2019s just saying, \u00c2\u201cLook, you know, I need some federal money here, and I need to get it as fast as I can.\u00c2\u201d But ultimately if I\u2019m a person in the state of New Jersey like I was a person here in Alabama when we had all those tornadoes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. Okay. All right, well, look. Let me share with you an e-mail that I have here. I have e-mail from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\">Rush 24\/7 subscriber email<\/a>. That\u2019s a private e-mail address. You only get that e-mail address if you\u2019re a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com. And it\u2019s from William Ganz. He said, \u00c2\u201cOh, my, this is great. The narcissist-in-chief took the bait. Governor Christie baited Obama to come to New Jersey to survey the damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u201cAnd Obama is now wasting precious time in a state that he\u2019s gonna win anyway. So Obama wastes time in New Jersey while Governor Christie\u2019s friend takes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and, as an added bonus, Christie scores big Obama bucks for his state, which shores up his status as a good governor for the whole population of New Jersey.\u00c2\u201d So this take is, this a brilliant move by Christie. He asked Obama to come, and Obama said, \u00c2\u201cSure.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(interruption) Who made this request? Do we know? We don\u2019t know who made the request. So this guy\u2019s assuming that Christie called Obama and said, \u00c2\u201cCome in,\u00c2\u201d and Obama said, \u00c2\u201cOkay, I\u2019ll be glad to. I\u2019ll be there.\u00c2\u201d So Obama landed just now. Air Force One just landed in a marsh and they\u2019re gonna get together. This guy thinks that Obama\u2019s been rope-a-doped. They\u2019re together on Marine One right now. Okay, they\u2019re together on Marine One. They\u2019re flying to the devastation of one-percenters in people that live on the shore.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIsEXWpv7MM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>So Obama\u2019s gonna go out and he\u2019s gonna give money to the one-percenters in New Jersey, \u2019cause that\u2019s where most of the damage is on the Jersey shore. And Christie has said it\u2019s unthinkable. It\u2019s unbelievable, this devastation there. So that\u2019s one take, that this is a slick move by Governor Christie. It\u00c2\u2019s really smart. It gets Obama out of the White House. It gets him out there, wasting time in a state he\u2019s gonna win anyway. <\/line><BR\/>Christie gets the Obama bucks.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>New Jersey gets its help.<\/p>\n<p>The election isn\u2019t gonna be moved. It\u2019s gonna happen Tuesday. Of course, the opposite theory is, \u00c2\u201cWhat the hell is Christie doing? He\u2019s giving Obama a chance to look presidential, clean up a state, look competent, look like he cares and so forth. What\u2019s a Republican doing propping up Obama?\u00c2\u201d That\u2019s the other take on this. (interruption) How long before who gets fed up? (interruption) Well, Snerdley\u2019s asking how long before New Yorkers get fed up with how long it\u2019s gonna take to restore things.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, nothing is going to get fixed by Election Day. Obama is not Superman. He can\u2019t go to New Jersey and get the water out of people\u2019s homes in the one-percenters\u2019 houses. He can\u2019t rebuild the 80 houses that went up in flames in Queens. Hundred and ten now. He can\u2019t rebuild. Do you know that Bob Turner\u2019s house is one of those? Bob Turner, Congressman Bob Turner, was the chairman\/CEO of Multimedia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68948\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><BR\/>You know, it was Bob Turner that put my TV show on the air, and his house went up in flames due to the storm. Obama can\u2019t rebuild any of those. There\u2019s nothing he can do by Election Day. Bloomberg is saying, \u00c2\u201cI don\u2019t even want you here.\u00c2\u201d Bloomberg wants whatever credit that\u2019s gonna accrue here, if there is any. But then there\u00c2\u2019s that crane that\u2019s dangling near the Parker Meridien on West 57th.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>They have no idea what they\u2019re gonna do to get that fixed, and that\u2019s gonna cause people to not be able to go into surroundings buildings for a long time. There\u00c2\u2019s nothing Obama can do about the crane. There isn\u2019t a Spider-Man to call. There\u2019s no Superman to call. There no Chuck Norris to call. So he can\u2019t do anything. It is gonna take a while. I don\u2019t know what New Yorkers\u2019 patience threshold is going to be on this.<\/p>\n<p>But might not be much. But from the standpoint of Governor Christie, could you say, \u00c2\u201cBeing charitable, Governor Christie, don\u2019t you think you maybe would do better with a President Romney assisting you in your state than Obama? Obama\u2019s gonna win New Jersey anyway.\u00c2\u201d There are any number of ways to look at this. Now, the Drive-Bys think that Christie is saving Obama\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Drive-By Media. The Drive-By Media got some love for Chris Christie. They are loving them some Chris Christie today. Chris Christie is saving Obama. Now, one thing: We know that Obama called Bloomberg, the mayor of New York. And Doomberg said, \u00c2\u201cNo, don\u2019t come.\u00c2\u201d Now, therefore we know that Obama was making phone calls. So is it possible&#8230;\u00c2\u201d I\u2019m just throwing it out there.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that Obama called Christie and said, \u00c2\u201cYou want some money? You want some? You better let me come. Doomberg already said, I can\u2019t come.\u00c2\u201d So what if Obama called and wants to come, and made money contingent on it? Christie wouldn\u2019t reveal that. I\u00c2\u2019m trying to be charitable here, folks. I\u00c2\u2019m trying to be charitable.<\/p>\n<p>There are obvious other explanations. Christie doesn\u2019t want to wait \u2019til 2020 to run for president. There are any number of things that could be going on here. Let\u2019s listen to what the Drive-Bys think. This is yesterday, last night, and this morning. It\u00c2\u2019s a montage of various Drive-Byers grasping at straws, suggesting here that The Messiah needs Chris Christie to save his bacon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DIANE SAWYER: President Obama will be in New Jersey meeting with the governor there, Chris Christie. Seven days to go now until Americans go to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>SARA EISEN: President Obama did draw praise from Chris Christie, New Jersey governor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68958\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/obamachristie_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>ERIN BURNETT: Could a small thing like Chris Christie coming out with a very serious and significant endorsement of president\u2019s handling of the storm tip the race?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>JOHN AVLON: Chris Christie speaking honestly this morning probably helped the president.<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>CHARLES LANE: He\u2019s being praised by not just the Republican governor, but the one who gave the keynote address at the Republican National Convention.<\/line><BR\/>BOB BECKEL: Chris Christie was full of praise for President Obama.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: High praise from Republican Governor Chris Christie, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLES PAYNE: Chris Christie, the Republican governor, praising President Obama&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CAROL COSTELLO: Will Christie\u2019s newfound love for President Obama tilt the election Obama\u2019s way?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I didn\u2019t think it needed \u00c2\u201ctilting.\u00c2\u201d The way I read the polls today, this race is over and Obama\u2019s winning. That\u2019s what the latest round of polls all say. But now these Drive-Byers say, \u00c2\u201cWhoa! Maybe Christie can save Obama\u2019s bacon.\u00c2\u201d They\u2019re hoping. I mean, they\u2019re grasping at straws. \u00c2\u201cCould it tip the race?\u00c2\u201d Christie is praising Obama\u00c2\u2019s flood relief efforts and his great presidential actions since the storm hit.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Christie tripping over himself to praise Obama&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CHRISTIE: I was on the phone for the third time yesterday, last night with the president of the United States. He called me at midnight last night. He accelerated the major disaster declaration for New Jersey without the usual red tape. I can\u2019t thank the president enough for that. [He] signed that this morning. The cooperation has been great and the cooperation from the president of the United States has been outstanding. He deserves great credit. He\u2019s been incredibly supportive and helpful to our state and not once did he bring up the election.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right, now, it must also be said that Chris Christie can get really emotional, and I don\u2019t doubt for a minute when he tours the devastation that it rips him apart. He\u2019s the governor of the state and he\u2019s powerless. There\u00c2\u2019s nothing anybody can do. You can\u2019t get the water out of people\u2019s houses. These people\u2019s lives are upside down. He\u2019s the governor. It\u2019s his job to fix it. There\u2019s nothing he can do.<\/p>\n<p>He needs money. He doesn\u2019t have any money. Obama\u2019s got the money, even though Obama doesn\u2019t have any. We don\u2019t have any money. By the way, speaking of that, how about all the money Obama has wasted on this silly green energy campaign of his? Wind, solar, Solyndra, all this stuff. Imagine if we did have that money. Imagine if it had not been thrown down that endless rathole.<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s all that new green energy helping out today?<\/p>\n<p>Where is it? Where all those jobs?<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s all the new energy technology helping to solve the problems, the devastation? Anyway, I don\u2019t doubt that Christie is devastated what he sees and wishes he could do something about it. And Obama\u2019s the one guy in the country that can roll into town with money. And he does it as governor. It\u2019s his job to fix it. He probably sees Obama as the only route.<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest to him maybe President Romney would be even more helpful to you than Obama would be, and I\u2019m not speaking politically. Thinking long-term down the road. This is not gonna get fixed by next Tuesday. There\u2019s nobody that\u2019s been flooded out or burned out of their homes who\u00c2\u2019s gonna end up in their home by Tuesday. (interruption) You object? Well, you can save your objection. I don\u2019t care about it. We\u2019re outta time.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: My friends, I\u2019m being too reasonable. I\u2019m just too nice a guy for this job. I\u2019ve been saying, \u00c2\u201cNobody expects their house to be rebuilt by Tuesday. Nobody expects the water out of their house by Tuesday. Nobody expects everything to be back to normal by Tuesday.\u00c2\u201d But, damn it, they did during Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>They expected FEMA to be there instantly. They expected Bush in the Superdome. Everything in New Orleans was supposed to be fixed the next day, and it would have been if there\u2019d-a been a Democrat in charge like Obama. But Bush was incompetent. Bush didn\u2019t care. I\u2019m being too reasonable. Democrats are on record as saying they do have such expectations.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I was just watching the Fox News Channel and a story about people in New Jersey and New York who are driving 50 miles to pick up a few gallons of gasoline.  The picture showed a long line of people, standing in line with little gas cans, to fill up to take back to wherever.  It was not a line of automobiles.  It was a line of people standing in line.  Now, my question to you is this.  Those people standing in line for a gallon or two of gasoline &#8212; open-ended question &#8212; I\u2019m not leading you.  I don\u2019t have a conclusion here in my mind that I\u2019m trying to lead you to.  I\u2019m just asking the question for you to think about.  Are those people thinking, &#8220;Well, this is really cool, I\u2019m voting Obama&#8221;?  Or do you want a change when you\u2019re in a situation?<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re standing in line and you have a two-and-a-half, five-gallon can, you\u2019re waiting to put gasoline in it. Your house, maybe you can\u2019t get to it, maybe you don\u2019t have it anymore, it\u2019s flooded, what are you thinking?  If you\u2019re thinking about the election, &#8220;Boy, this is cool. I\u2019m going to vote for what\u2019s happening now. I\u2019m gonna vote for the status quo&#8221;?  Or are you thinking, &#8220;You know what, this has gotta change because this isn\u2019t any different, really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The simple fact of the matter is &#8212; and I think it\u2019s a good analogy, by the way, \u2019cause I\u2019ve been a little bit too reasonable here.  I\u2019ve been pointing out, as far as Obama being helped by this, \u2019cause there\u2019s all kinds of fear that he\u2019s being helped by it, helped by this storm.  How?  He can\u2019t fix anything by Election Day, which is all that matters to Obama right now.  Believe me, whatever he\u2019s doing is calculated for that day only.  And there\u2019s nothing he can do.  He can\u2019t rebuild anybody\u2019s house. He can\u2019t get the floodwaters out of anybody\u2019s house. He can\u2019t repair roads that have been destroyed. He can\u2019t rebuild houses that have burned down. He can\u2019t open an airport that\u2019s still closed. He can\u2019t do anything by Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Snerdley points out, &#8220;You\u2019re being too reasonable, because all of that was demanded of George Bush during Katrina.&#8221;  Where\u2019s the FEMA trailers?  Where\u2019s our debit cards? Where\u2019s our giveaways?  Where\u2019s the repair to the roof of the Superdome? Where\u2019s our house being rebuilt?  Bush doesn\u2019t care.  And he\u2019s right.  They put all these immediate expectations and demands on Bush and Brownie and FEMA and tried to illustrate,  because Bush didn\u2019t do anything in the first five days, that he didn\u2019t care.  Well, we could say Obama doesn\u2019t really care, what\u2019s being fixed here, folks? <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know, maybe some of you think Obama\u2019s gonna get you back in your house in three days. He hasn\u2019t been able to fix the economy in four years. What makes you think he can fix your house?  He hasn\u2019t been able to do anything about rising gas prices in four years.  What makes you think he can do anything about it now?  He hasn\u2019t been able to create jobs in four years.  What makes you think that he can fix this in three days?  He hasn\u2019t been able to do anything about the Iranians and their acquisition of nuclear material in four years.  What makes you think that he can fix anything here in three days? <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68963\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaQuoteAmericanBusiness2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t fix New Jersey anyway.  You can\u2019t fix New Jersey.  Not just this, you just can\u2019t fix that state.  It\u2019s perpetually unfixable.  But my point is, there are people that have these expectations.  I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s still any left, but I tell you, if this storm had happened the first six months of Obama\u2019s term, federal teams would have been in there already, checks would have been written, people with new houses.  This is what they thought Obama was gonna be able to do, and I don\u2019t think anybody thinks that anymore.  But for all of you who think this is gonna help Obama, he hasn\u2019t been able to help the economy four years, why is this gonna help him? <\/p>\n<p>As to Governor Christie, there\u2019s an observation that needs to be made.  He said in that clip we played, &#8220;He called me at midnight last night.&#8221;  Christie said Obama called him.  Now, we know that Bloomberg said Obama called him.  Bloomberg told him no.  Bloomberg has also endorsed Romney, by the way.  Bloomberg told Obama no. So Obama\u2019s making these phone calls.  Obama is looking for somebody to play the role of a Greek column today, and he found Governor Christie willing to do it. <\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s examine the rest of this tri-state area.  Has Mayor Bloomberg requested time and assistance from Obama?  No.  Has Governor Cuomo in New York, Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, has he asked for Obama to come and stand side by side with him, so that they can have a joint photo-op of fixing New York?  Have either of them spoken of Obama the way Christie has?  They haven\u2019t?  I didn\u2019t think so, \u2019cause I haven\u2019t heard it.  I have not heard Andrew Cuomo praising Obama.  I haven\u2019t heard Bloomberg praising Obama.  I haven\u2019t heard the governor of Virginia, McDonnell, haven\u2019t heard him. I haven\u2019t heard the governor of Connecticut praising Obama. <\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t heard the governor of West Virginia praising Obama.  I haven\u2019t heard the governor of Ohio praising Obama.  Tennessee got hit, too.  I haven\u2019t heard the governor of Tennessee praising Obama, Bill Haslam. He\u2019s a Republican. Well, so is Christie, what am I talking about?  Chris Christie\u2019s the only Republican out there not just praising Obama, I mean, let\u2019s just put it this way.  Is it wrong for one man to love another man?  But that man love out there, it\u2019s isolated to the state of New Jersey.  Well, just telling you what I\u2019ve observed casually with my busy broadcast eyes and my cochlear implant-aided ears. <\/p>\n<p>Here is Bloomberg, by the way.  This is yesterday, city hall, in New York.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_68965\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bloomberg-55871261.jpg\"\/><BR\/>BLOOMBERG:  What I pointed out to him is that we\u2019d love to have him, but we\u2019ve got lots of things to do. I\u2019m not trying to diss him but I know he had planned a trip to New Jersey and I said that\u2019s fine, it represents the whole region. People understand the storm, and he doesn\u2019t have to &#8212; he\u2019s got a lot of things to do and I was flattered that he offered to come, but I think the thing for him to do is to go to New Jersey and represent the country.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Ho-ho-ho-ho.  Now, Bloomberg\u2019s endorsed Romney.  Obama called him.  He sounds pretty uncomfortable there, but he made it plane, he doesn\u2019t want Obama there.  Part of the reason is when the president shows up &#8212; this is why Bush did not go to New Orleans &#8212; the president shows up and every resource has to be devoted to the president\u2019s security, transportation, and all the relief efforts just come to a screeching halt, and Bloomberg said, I don\u2019t want to give this guy a photo-op.  But Christie has said not only am I gonna give him a photo-op, I\u2019m gonna be in it.  And here\u2019s Bloomberg, &#8220;Let him go to New Jersey and represent the country.&#8221;  (laughing)  I don\u2019t care about it. I\u2019m not on the ballot. I\u2019ve endorsed Romney. I\u2019m not gonna do anything to help Obama.  That\u2019s what Bloomberg is saying. <\/p>\n<p>But then you\u2019ve got, again, Governor Cuomo, I guarantee you Obama called him, too.  If he\u2019s calling these guys, he\u2019s calling Cuomo.  See, Obama knows he\u2019s gotta get out of the White House. He doesn\u2019t win this staying in the White House with photos out of the Situation Room.  He probably called Christie thinking there\u2019s no way. He\u2019s sitting there on the phone, (imitating Obama) &#8220;Hello, governor, Barack Obama,&#8221; puts the phone down expecting Christie to start shouting at him.  Instead, Christie starts kissing the phone, and Obama, &#8220;Oh, I\u2019ll show up on Air Force One, bring the big plane so everybody sees me arrive.&#8221;  Where is Obama again, where they going?  I hate to keep bringing this up.  They\u2019re going to the shore. They\u2019re going to the one-percenters.  It\u2019s wealthier people that have the means to live on the ocean to live on the water. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go back.  This is what the governor of New Jersey has welcomed to the state.  We\u2019re up to sound bite number ten.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  If you got a business, you didn\u2019t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You didn\u2019t build that house.  That house, that wouldn\u2019t be here if there hadn\u2019t been a road.  And that bridge, well, there used to be a bridge there, but it\u2019s gone.  But you didn\u2019t build that, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided to play the role of a Greek column today for President Obama. Obama and Chris Christie will tour the Jersey shore. Who lives on the shoreline, Snerdley? That\u2019s exactly right. The one percent live on the beach. It isn\u2019t cheap, Rachel. 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