{"id":14821,"date":"2012-08-21T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-21T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T17:38:13","slug":"e_book_sheds_light_on_obama_s_fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/21\/e_book_sheds_light_on_obama_s_fears\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Book Sheds Light on Obama\u2019s Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Have you heard about the e-book? There\u2019s this new e-book out that says the Obama campaign is roiled by conflict, that there\u2019s a bunch of people in this campaign that nobody likes, and they don\u2019t like each other, and they\u2019re not unified. They\u2019re having all kinds of problems inside the Obama campaign. The long knives are out from one person to the next. <\/p>\n

By Glenn Thrush. “President Barack Obama\u00c2\u2019s campaign team, celebrated four years ago for its exceptional cohesion and eyes-on-the-prize strategic focus, has been shadowed this time by a succession of political disagreements and personal rivalries that haunted the effort at the outset. Second-guessing about personnel, strategy and tactics has been a dominant theme of the reelection effort, according to numerous current and former Obama advisers who were interviewed for ‘Obama\u2019s Last Stand<\/a>,\u2019 an e-book out Monday published in a collaboration between Politico and Random House.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“The discord, these sources said, has on occasion flowed from Obama himself, who at repeated turns has made vocal his dissatisfaction with decisions made by his campaign team, with its messaging, with Vice President Joe Biden<\/a> and with what Obama feared was clumsy coordination between his West Wing and reelection headquarters in Chicago. The effort in Chicago, meanwhile, has been bedeviled by some of the drama Obama so deftly dodged in 2008 — including, at a critical point earlier this year, a spat that left senior operatives David Axelrod and Stephanie Cutter<\/a> barely on speaking terms — and growing doubts about the effectiveness of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie [“Blabbermouth”] Schultz.”<\/p>\n

Okay, well, make of what you will. But there\u2019s an interesting lift from this. It\u2019s an interesting paragraph here. Listen to this: “The two things Obama fears most…” This is from this e-book that\u2019s out yesterday. “The two things Obama fears most about a Romney victory: A 7-to-2 conservative Supreme Court within a few years. And the equally unbearable possibility, in his mind, that Romney will get to take a victory lap on an economic rebound Obama sees as just around the corner.<\/p>\n

“‘I\u2019m not going to let him win … so that he can take credit when the economy turns around,\u2019 Obama said, according to an aide.” Now, folks, how stupid do they think we are? There isn\u2019t going to be an economic turnaround with Barack Obama in charge of things! What economic turnaround? There isn\u2019t going to be one! Oh, there might be minuscule improvements in one area of the economy or maybe a couple, but there\u2019s not gonna be “an economic turnaround” like there was in the eighties, with 400,000 and 500,000 new jobs a month being created.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t possible with what Obama\u2019s policies are that are yet to be implemented if he wins a second term. Obamacare alone is going to make an economic recovery of that kind impossible. The book also makes it plain… You know, I have had this story off to the side here for two or three weeks now. There\u2019s a sound bite that I keep telling Cookie, “Hold this.” I\u2019ve told her three or four times to give it to me, and I haven\u2019t gotten to it. It\u2019s a story that Obama really personally dislikes Romney, and why.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t simply political opposition. There is a personal, visceral dislike for Romney. There\u2019s a contempt for Romney that\u2019s held by Obama and Michelle Obama. And I know why. Romney personifies everything wrong with this country, in Obama\u2019s view. Romney, in one human being, personifies everything wrong about this country. And that\u2019s why Obama hates him. He doesn\u2019t have a bad point. He\u2019s as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. He doesn\u2019t smoke, doesn\u2019t drink. He\u2019s successful. He\u2019s wealthy.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Romney is the classic illustration of somebody who got what he has who “doesn\u2019t deserve it.” Romney is the classic illustration of a power elite that\u2019s been running this country from the days that it was founded. Romney personifies that. Romney is everything Obama dislikes about this country. But this book… If Obama really thinks that he is leading this country out of a recession, that\u2019s scarier than anything Akin<\/a> could ever say. And I mean that from bottom my heart. If this quote is true, that Obama is worried that the eventual economic recovery…?<\/p>\n

What does he think, it just happens on its own? It\u2019s just something cyclical? He probably does. He looks at the private sector as this never ending golden goose. It\u2019s got all this money he can go get from it whenever he wants it and transfer it to someplace else. He has no clue how it\u2019s created. We know that. (impression) “You didn\u2019t build that. You didn\u2019t do that on your own. It was the roads and bridges that make your business successful. The government did that!”<\/p>\n

The man is clueless. You want to talk about stupid, ignorant, whatever word you want to use? He just thinks it\u2019s gonna rebound on its own given enough time, or that his policies are gonna make this economic rebound? And then if Romney wins, Romney\u2019s gonna get credit for it? If there is an economic rebound, and Romney is president, it\u2019s gonna be because Romney gets rid of the — dare I say it? — chains and shackles that Obama has put on this economy.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am still chuckling here over this e-book that the Politico has put out with Random House and that passage.<\/p>\n

It said that one of the two things really irritating Obama is his concern that Romney\u2019s gonna get credit for the eventual economic recovery if Romney wins. There isn\u2019t going to be an economic recovery if Obama wins! The only way there\u2019s gonna be a recovery as if Obama loses, and Romney wipes out a bunch of economic policies that are currently in place, and if we repeal Obamacare. Otherwise there isn\u2019t gonna be a recovery, as we\u2019ve known them in the past. It\u2019s laughable.<\/p>\n

For Obama to actually sit there and say… We\u2019re talking about stupidity, which seems to be the theme of the day<\/a>? Well, I\u2019m gonna tell you, folks: It is blatantly stupid if the president of the United States thinks that by just sitting there and doing nothing after what he\u2019s already done, there\u2019s gonna be some magical economic recovery, and it\u2019s gonna happen next year or the year after that. If he realize believes that…<\/p>\n

And I bet he does, \u2019cause I don\u2019t think he has the slightest idea of how economic activity actually takes place — or private sector activity, growth, all of that takes place. I don\u2019t think he understands it. I know he hates it, I know he despises it, but I don\u2019t think he knows how it happens. I think he thinks it\u2019s an accident. And somehow people that don\u2019t deserve to do well end up doing well, and that\u2019s what has to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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