{"id":14386,"date":"2012-10-03T17:19:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-03T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T17:19:42","slug":"it_s_obama_not_romney_who_can_t_relate_to_the_vast_majority_of_the_american_people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/03\/it_s_obama_not_romney_who_can_t_relate_to_the_vast_majority_of_the_american_people\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Obama, Not Romney, Who Can\u2019t Relate to the Vast Majority of the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: How do we synthesize this? Well, try this: In the midst of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on commercials trying to convince people that he is the man of the middle class. <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14383\">He\u2019s Mr. Roads and Bridges!<\/a> (impression) &#8220;You didn\u2019t build that! The people that built the roads and bridges, they\u2019re the ones that make your factory bustle!&#8221; And here\u2019s the guy, <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14387\">in the 2007 tape,<\/a> saying he doesn\u2019t want to build any roads in the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Roads and Bridges himself wants no roads in the suburbs anymore. He doesn\u2019t like you people in the suburbs. It\u2019s not me saying it; he said it. He doesn\u2019t like the fact you\u2019ve fled the cities. You left the po\u2019 behind, the po\u2019 behind. They got the dilapidated schools and you\u2019ve sought a better life and you left the po\u2019 behind and you don\u2019t care. Obama does, though. And his whole ad campaign now is that he\u2019s the man of everybody.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the man of 100% of the people!<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_67748\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaClassWarfareProtestor2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s postpartisan. He\u2019s postracial. He\u2019s a messiah! He\u2019s spending all they money in his ad campaign trying to at once people that he is the man of the middle class; that it is Mitt Romney who lives in a small, cloistered world of the 1% <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14396\">who doesn\u2019t hug his garbage man<\/a>. He\u2019s got an ad! Obama\u2019s running an ad from Romney\u2019s garbage man saying Romney never hugged him and Romney doesn\u2019t care about garbage people. That\u2019s how cloistered Romney\u2019s world is.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind the fact that Romney, when he was governor, actually did collect garbage for a day to find out what those people do. I don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s ever collected garbage, has he? That\u2019s the whole point. Obama wants you to think he\u2019s the man of the middle. He has had the trials and tribulations. He\u2019s experienced all the rotgut crap that this country presents to everybody, and he gonna make sure that everybody has to experience that crap; that there isn\u2019t gonna be a 1% that doesn\u2019t have to experience it.<\/p>\n<p>Not anymore!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re gonna spread crap equally and we\u2019re gonna call it Fair Crap. That\u2019s how you have a just society, when everybody has to go through the same crap. We\u2019re not gonna have people that don\u2019t have to experience the same crap. We\u2019re gonna make sure everybody does. It\u2019s Romney who is the cloistered elitist, writing-off-half-the-country. Mitt Romney.&#8221; Well, I\u2019m sorry, but this 2007 video that Chatsworth Osborne Jr. released undercuts all of that.<\/p>\n<p>It is Obama who is cloistered with his people.<\/p>\n<p>It is Obama who is writing off half the country &#8212; and with resentment, I might add. That\u2019s kind of interesting that Obama is trying to make people think that it\u2019s Romney who actually looks at the world as Obama really does. We all knew this! But he\u2019s saying it out of his mouth here. Attacking the suburbs? Here\u2019s Mr. Roads and Bridges, who doesn\u2019t want to build any bridges to the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?width=585&amp;deepLinkEmbedCode=I0ZXEyNjpnfCdoMXulS8XIOcpzf13thD&amp;height=360&amp;embedCode=I0ZXEyNjpnfCdoMXulS8XIOcpzf13thD&amp;video_pcode=k4Nmw6Cri746xA2OsoSlngyrIudg\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In fact, what is that sound bite? It\u2019s number 11. Let\u2019s go back and play number 11 again. This is Obama attacking the suburbs. I want you to remember, now, this is Mr. Roads and Bridges. The stimulus was to build roads and bridges, and ever since roads and bridges have been the key. If you don\u2019t have a road and bridge in front of your property, you\u2019ll never amount to anything.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve only succeeded because other people built roads and bridges for you to build your factory where you can exploit people, which is what Obama think businesses do. So listen to sound bite number 11 here again. This from 2007, the Hamptons, Virginia, tape. You keep in mind all the references you remember Obama making about wanting shovel-ready jobs, roads and bridges.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA 2007: We need additional federal public transportation dollars flowin\u2019 to highest need communities. We don\u2019t need to build more highways out in the suburbs if we have people in the cities right now who want to work but have no way to get into those jobs! We\u2019ve gotta help connect them to the jobs that exist. We should be investing in minority-owned businesses in our neighborhoods so people don\u2019t have to travel from miles away.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, we don\u2019t need any roads now. We didn\u2019t need any roads in 2007. This roads and bridges business is phony as it\u2019s always been. There\u2019s another video that Patterico\u2019s Pontifications, Patterico.com, has uncovered. They\u2019ve released a video of State Senator Barack Obama from Illinois. This is January 21st, 2002 in Chicago at the University of Chicago\u2019s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. This is during Martin Luther King Jr. day memorial services.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA 2002 (garbled audio): I don\u00c2\u2019t know if you\u00c2\u2019ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JuzwIsNrXgQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA 2002: Why wouldn\u00c2\u2019t they be? They\u00c2\u2019ve got what they want!<\/p>\n<p>AUDIENCE: (applause and laughter)<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA 2002: They want to make sure people don\u2019t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. Kill it, kill it, kill it. With all that god reverb, you can\u2019t understand. I\u2019ll read to you what he\u2019s saying: &#8220;I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn\u00c2\u2019t they be? They\u00c2\u2019ve got what they want. They want to make sure people don\u00c2\u2019t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes that there are more subtle forms of violence to which we are answerable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The spirit of empathy condemns not only the use of fire hoses and attack dogs to keep people down but also accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down. &#8230; When a company town sees its plant closing because some distant executives made some decision despite the wage concessions, despite the tax breaks, and they see their entire economy collapsing, they feel violence&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is Obama ten years ago. He hasn\u2019t changed, is the point. This is who he is! The rich, of course, they\u2019re all for nonviolence. They don\u2019t like community organizers. They don\u2019t like people raising hell in the streets. They don\u2019t like violence. They got their stuff. They got what they want. They just want to make sure that folks don\u2019t take their stuff. By the way, that\u2019s why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett run around and claim they\u2019re for tax increases.<\/p>\n<p>So that these &#8220;rabble&#8221; in the streets don\u2019t want to take their stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_67752\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/><\/a>That\u2019s why they do it. Yeah, people ask me all the time, &#8220;How can these rich liberals&#8230;?&#8221; Because everybody assumes that a rich person has to be conservative, a rich person has to be self-reliant, a rich person has to believe in entrepreneurism and all the things that go along with acquiring wealth. And when they hear these real super-rich guys talk about raising taxes, being in favor of it, they scratch their heads and say, &#8220;Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because of what Obama\u2019s saying here: &#8220;[R]ich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn\u2019t they be? They\u2019ve got what they want. They want to make sure folks don\u2019t take their stuff.&#8221; (chuckles) Exactly right. So, &#8220;rich people are for nonviolence. &#8230; They have all that they want.&#8221; This is anger, folks. This is Barack Obama selling seething anger. This is Barack Obama ginning up resentment of successful people.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s gonna stand up on a stage tonight debating a guy who stands for everything he hates. Mitt Romney personifies everything Obama hates. Romney is a rich guy. He doesn\u2019t like violence. He doesn\u2019t want anybody taking his stuff. 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