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RUSH: Also on this program last Friday, I made an observation that ended up being echoed in the Drive-By Media a couple of days later. Here\u2019s what I said<\/a>. It\u2019s audio sound bite number one and two. Here\u2019s what I said Friday about Obama…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: These guys are still so enamored about Obama. They feel sorry for the guy now. I\u2019m convinced that the Drive-Bys feel total sympathy, feel so sorry for the guy. “You know, it\u2019s bad enough to be born black in this country — and then to be elected president and have everybody gunning for you? It\u2019s so bad, it\u2019s like slavery\u2019s still out there.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: The unemployment numbers had come out the day before. It was horrible. It was really rotten. Everybody was dumping on Obama, and I sensed sympathy. Lo and behold, that night on the NewsHour at PBS, Judy Woodruff was talking to David Brooks and Mark “Maxie” Shields. Woodruff said, “Is there time for the President to turn this around in his direction? ‘Is time running out for him?\u2019 is what I\u2019m saying.” And here\u2019s the exchange in answer to the question…<\/line>BROOKS: To some extent you have to feel sorry for him. This is, in large degree, (snickers) not his fault. Things are happening way beyond his control.<\/line><\/p>\n

SHIELDS: (whispering) It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

BROOKS: I don\u2019t think a president has control over a quarterly economy in any case. But the… the European situation is certainly not his fault. The Chinese slowdown is not his fault. Obama has really very little control and he\u2019s a victim of this myth that presidents control the economy quarter to quarter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mr. Brooks, have you no shame? That\u2019s David Brooks of the New York Times. It\u2019s not his fault? Then why did the crease in his pants back in 2008 convince you that he would be the best president ever? Oh, now he doesn\u2019t have control! He can\u2019t do anything about it! (This is the “conservative” on the show, by the way.) He can\u2019t do anything about quarterly economics, can\u2019t do anything about Europe. By the way, speaking of Europe: Obama blamed our economic problems on Europe!<\/line><\/p>\n

He has also advised Europe not to reduce spending, not to cut spending. And the ChiComs? Obama craves the ChiComs! Obama loves the ChiComs. He\u2019s been pointing to China with lesson after lesson after lesson that we could learn. Now they\u2019re feeling sorry for him.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have perhaps the best question of all, ladies and gentlemen. We keep hearing that Barack Obama is personally popular, do we not? Poll numbers may be down a little bit, and everybody may not like the economic situation, they may not like the economic news, unemployment may not be good. But you know, Obama, people really like the guy. Popularity is sky high. Well, if that\u2019s true, why in the name of Sam Hill will he not go to Wisconsin<\/a> and help pull that election out of the fire? If he\u2019s so universally loved, particularly among Democrats, and if they\u2019ve got a turnout problem, if that\u2019s the number one objective for Democrats in Wisconsin tomorrow is turnout, why not send this universally adored, loved, and popular president in there? <\/p>\n

He had six fundraisers on Friday, all very near Wisconsin, but none of them actually in the state. He had some in Illinois, some in Minnesota, but none in Wisconsin. If he\u2019s so popular, why not go in there? No, they sent Bill Clinton in there who endorsed Mitt Romney <\/a>the day before. Now the whole theme of the Sunday shows yesterday was essentially that the economy is not Obama\u2019s fault and that we feel sorry for Obama. And that all of these things are just outside of his control. But, yet, contrast that to the mythology we got about Obama in 2008. He was The One. He was a messianic figure. He was unlike anybody who had ever trodden the earth in American politics before. He had the ability to be post-racial, post-partisan. We\u2019re going to have unity. The world is going to love us. All of these traditional political arguments are going to be set aside. People are going to compromise. We\u2019re going to work together. The old politics is going to be blown up. There\u2019s going to be a new era of love and harmony and all this. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Now we\u2019ve gone from characterizing Obama with those kinds of mythical powers to somebody, “It\u2019s not his fault. He doesn\u2019t have any control of the economy. He doesn\u2019t have any control over Europe. Not his fault. No control over what happened in China. You can\u2019t blame Obama.” What a comedown. What a total plunge here. By the way, fewer than 1,000 people showed up for Clinton\u2019s rally for Tom Barrett in Wisconsin, mayor of Milwaukee. Fewer than 1,000. And this is the godfather. I mean, you think Obama\u2019s popular. Why, Obama can\u2019t hold a candle to Clinton. Clinton\u2019s popularity even blinds that of Obama\u2019s. Less than 1,000, and there was all kinds of pre-pub leading up to this. Lots of pre-publicity. <\/p>\n

Now, if the rumor had been that Clinton had fathered a child maybe a bigger crowd would have shown up because that is a resume enhancement on the Democrat side. A thousand people. Only 1,000 people show up. Now, if messiahs cannot help the economy, who can? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, folks, David Brooks and Mark “Maxie” Shields saying, “Oh, I feel sorry for Obama. He doesn\u2019t have any control over the economy! Obama doesn\u2019t have any control over the quarterly economic numbers or over what Europe is doing. Obama has no control over what\u2019s happening in China.” If that\u2019s true, why worry about what Romney <\/a>would do? I mean, if Obama has no control over the economy, what does it matter what Romney would do because he wouldn\u2019t either, right?<\/p>\n

So what does it matter if presidents have no control? I mean, they\u2019re giving up! That\u2019s the house conservative at the New York Times. “Obama, it\u2019s not his fault.” They feel sorry for him. Obama has no control over it! Well, they sure as hell wanted us to believe that Obama was Mr. God when all this started back in 2009, when he was immaculated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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