{"id":14647,"date":"2012-09-07T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-07T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:56:28","slug":"it_s_uncanny_obama_copied_jimmy_carter_s_convention_acceptance_speech_from_1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/07\/it_s_uncanny_obama_copied_jimmy_carter_s_convention_acceptance_speech_from_1980\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Uncanny! Obama Copied Jimmy Carter\u2019s Convention Acceptance Speech from 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We also have done something. It\u2019s amazing, by the way, when you hear it, how similar Obama\u2019s speech last night<\/a> was to Jimmy Carter\u2019s in 1980. It really is kind of stunning. We\u2019ll do an A-B, side-by-side comparison and let you hear it. First we start in Fredon, New Jersey. Mark, great to have you. You\u2019re up first on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, mega one-of-the-89-million [not in the labor force] dittos,<\/a> Sir Rush!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Last night, and after listening to you this morning on the opening monologue, I realized why I love you so much. Because evidently we felt the exact same way last night. I sat down in the chair and I turned on Fox and I said, “I\u2019m going to watch this speech even though I don\u2019t feel well.” I felt so poorly that I went and took three Maalox prior to the speech. This is not a joke. I am not over-exaggerating. I did literally do that, and I sat there and I watched him walk out on stage to some of the oddest music, first off, that I\u2019ve ever heard at a convention.<\/p>\n

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It was mellow. It was not uplifting. It was nothing patriotic. I was kind of sitting there going, “What am I watching?” He didn\u2019t stride out on the floor; he kind of meandered out onto the stage. He did not look like his normal, fiery self. And I was concerned. I must admit, I was concerned that if he hit a home run last night, it could have really changed the momentum of the election. He didn\u2019t do it. As a matter of fact, I think he lost the election on one line last night, and it\u2019s a line I haven\u2019t heard you mention. I was sitting there feeling ill to my stomach, and he said, “I am the president,” and he stared right at the camera. He snarled at the camera. He snarled at the American people, and he said, basically, “Screw you, guys! I am the president.” I jumped up out of my chair.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I remember that. I didn\u2019t quite have that reaction, but I can understand yours. The reaction I had was, “Duh! Yeah, like we didn\u2019t know that?”<\/p>\n

CALLER: I jumped up out of my chair, Rush, and I said, “You just lost the election. You don\u2019t throw that in the American people\u2019s faces. We already know we made a mistake last time.” I didn\u2019t vote for him last time, I promise you that, but those that did who are already feeling poorly about their choice, he reinforced it to them by saying, “Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah! You screwed up! I am the president and you\u2019re suffering because of it.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can see your point. It might have served him well not to remind us that he\u2019s president. Grab sound bite four. I decided moments ago not to play this but now it might fit, because it is interesting. This is Obama from the convention last night. He did say, “I\u2019m the president.” I don\u2019t have the context here. I can\u2019t remember it right off the top of my head, but he did say it. But this was a very curious thing to say.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: You see, the election four years ago wasn\u2019t about me. It was about you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: My fellow citizens, you were the change! If you turn away now… If you turn away now, i-i-i-i-if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn\u2019t possible… Well, change will not happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is stunning! In 2008, he was The One! In 2008, he was The Messiah. In 2008, he was “O.” He was The One we were waiting for! All of that. He was the empty canvas on which you could paint any picture. You could make Barack Obama anything you wanted him to be. Four years later, it\u2019s on you. Four years later, this debacle is all on you. “That election wasn\u2019t about me.” This is a phony attempt at humility, number one.<\/p>\n

But number two, he\u2019s trying to ladle this audience with guilt. It\u2019s up to them (“us,” if you will) to see to it that he has the opportunity to stay president. I don\u2019t know. I found it was malaise. Let\u2019s do a couple Obama-Carter comparisons. The similarities are striking here. Here\u2019s last night. Barack Obama compared to Jimmy Carter in 1980. They\u2019re not quite carbon copies, but they are close. Here\u2019s Obama trying to cast himself as FDR…<\/line><\/p>\n

OBAMA: The truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape a minute! Stop the tape! Wait a minute, now. Here\u2019s another thing. All during this convention, Kathryn and I kept looking at each other and saying, “Didn\u2019t he say that if he hadn\u2019t turned this around in three years, he\u2019s a one-termer? Yes, he did say that, Maude. He said it. He said it to a number of journalists, and we\u2019ve had the tape. Everybody\u2019s been airing it, by the way. It\u2019s been all over Fox. We\u2019ve had the sound bite. In three years, if he doesn\u2019t get this done, it\u2019s “a one-term proposition.”<\/p>\n

Cue that to the top. Now, “it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades”? This guy hates Reagan, by the way. Here\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to convince people, that the 30 years of conservatism from the eighties gave us what we\u2019re having now. The 30 years of Reagan<\/a> (with an interruption for Bill Clinton, eight years of Clinton). But 30 years of Reaganomics, conservative ideology gave us this economy with all this unemployment.<\/p>\n

He wants people to believe, “I thought I could fix it in 3-1\/2 years. It\u2019s gonna take longer than that. It\u2019s worse than I knew. They didn\u2019t tell us how bad it was when I took office in 2009. They didn\u2019t tell me how bad it was. It\u2019s worse than anybody ever knew. Bush lied. He didn\u2019t tell me how bad it was, and it\u2019s much worse than I thought it was, and it\u2019s gonna take much longer than anybody thought to fix this.” That\u2019s where he\u2019s coming from. That\u2019s his perspective.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the bite again, in toto…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades. It will require common effort and shared responsibility and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: FDR\u2019s “experimentation” is a whole ‘nother subject. Here\u2019s Jimmy Carter saying the same thing, almost…<\/a><\/p>\n

CARTER 1980: [W]e have a memory of Franklin Roosevelt, 40 years ago, when he said that there are times in our history when concerns over our personal lives are overshadowed by our concern over “what will happen to the country we have known.” This is such a time, and I can tell you that the choice to be made this year can transform our own personal lives and the life of our country as well.<\/p>\n