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RUSH: Obama is making me look as prescient as I have ever been. We even found an example before Obama was inaugurated, in which I predicted that what he would say eventually as president, is he had no idea how bad this economy was. It was so much worse than anybody ever told him. “The Bush administration, the transition team, outgoing, never told us how bad this economy really was. And that\u2019s why it\u2019s taken my policies so long, or that\u2019s why it\u2019s going to require such drastic measures.” Obama — we\u2019ve got the audio coming up on this at some point — is out there saying, “I didn\u2019t understand how bad things were.” <\/p>\n
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What we\u2019re going to do, we\u2019re gonna go back and we\u2019re gonna find audio sound bite examples of Obama telling us how bad it was, and we are going to play that sound bite of him saying recently, “I didn\u2019t understand how bad things were.” He said it in an interview with the local Fox affiliate in Atlanta, WAGA-TV. This is on Real Clear Politics. He was lobbed a question by a sympathetic reporter who said he\u2019s getting pelted in the media for making a campaign promise he didn\u2019t keep. It\u2019s about reviving the economy, about employment being under 8%, all those promises. Obama said, “Well, we\u2019re not there yet, because this recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized.” That was his excuse for his inability to cut the deficit in half. “I didn\u2019t understand how bad things were.” <\/p>\n
He is the one who has been telling us how bad things are, as an excuse for his stupid, failed policies not working. I think we even did a montage of this back on December 14th. I think we did a montage of Obama\u2019s “I had no idea.” Every time he\u2019s tried to make this statement, “I didn\u2019t understand how bad things were,” we have refuted it, we\u2019ve had the audio to refute it, we have gone back and played sound bites of Obama saying he had no idea how bad it was and then sound bites of Obama telling us it was the worst economy since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. January 16th, 2009, right here on this program. January 16th is roughly a week before Obama was immaculated.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (January 16, 2009) After The One accepts the oath was office we\u2019ll start hearing, “It\u2019s worse than we knew. We didn\u2019t know how bad it really was.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: January 16th, 2009. Over three years ago I predicted this. Now, let\u2019s go back and review just some of the many, many times I predicted that this is exactly what he would do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (January 16, 2009) After the One accepts the oath of office, we\u2019ll start hearing. It\u2019s worse than we knew We didn\u2019t know how had been it really was.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: (January 29, 2010) “Oh, it\u2019s much worse than we were told! Bush didn\u2019t tell us how bad it was. We had no idea it was going to be this bad.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: (May 12, 2011) “Frankly, it took longer than we thought for our policies to start to have any impact because it was so much worse than we even knew.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: (January 9, 2009) You\u2019ve gotta understand how the media is going to portray this, that it was much worse than we knew because of Bush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (June 14, 2011) What their campaign is going to be, and I told you this, when they got into Washington they discovered it was far worse than they even knew.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (June 8, 2009) “We have this recession — that, frankly, was worse than we thought — that was given to us.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: (October 28, 2011) I\u2019m gonna tell you what it\u2019s gonna be: “See? It was worse than we knew when Obama was inaugurated!”<\/p>\n
RUSH: (December 1, 2011) It\u2019s exactly what I told you they were gonna do: “You can\u2019t change horses midstream.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yep. So just to document all the times and more that I have predicted what they would do. Last night in Atlanta, Fox 5 News, the infobabe said, “You\u2019re getting pelted in the media. They\u2019re showing this video over and over again of you in February of \u201909 saying by the end of your first term you were gonna reduce the deficit by half. We\u2019re not there. We\u2019re not there.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: Well, uh, we\u2019re not there because, uh, this recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized. Everybody who was out there back in 2009, uh, if you look back at what their estimates were in terms of how many jobs had been lost, how bad the economy had contracted when I took office, everybody underestimated it. We lost, uh, eight million jobs just in the year span about half, uh, uh, uh, a year before I took office and half a year after I took office. So the dye had been cast but a lot of us didn\u2019t understand, at that point, how bad it was gonna get.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. Well, okay. Let\u2019s go back to October 7, 2008, in Nashville, a presidential debate. Senator Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So which is it, Mr. President? You didn\u2019t know how bad it was, or do we accept what you said October 7, 2008: Everybody knows we\u2019re in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That\u2019s pretty bad. How can you now tell us that you didn\u2019t know how bad it was? I know these people, folks. I know these people better than they know themselves. I know what they\u2019re going to say and know what they\u2019re gonna do before they even do it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want to go back to another subject that we discussed earlier in the program, and that is Obama saying, “I didn\u2019t understand how bad things were.” Last night in Atlanta: “I didn\u2019t know how bad things were.” Now, you heard the sound bites from me from prior to his immaculation predicting that he would say that. You also heard sound bites from Obama admitting that he knew how bad it was. Even before he was inaugurated, he was saying, “This economy is the worst since the Great Depression.” That\u2019s bad. That\u2019s as bad as you can get. And he\u2019s made no secret of the fact, in these past three years, that this economy is bad.<\/p>\n
Now he\u2019s saying he didn\u2019t understand how bad things were.<\/p>\n
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It is not what he inherited. He has doubled down and he has worsened by a factor of five what he inherited. If that weren\u2019t bad enough, where are the Republicans reacting to this in the right way? Why does everybody seem…? On our side, why does everybody seem like they are conceding the point that he inherited a mess from Bush? Why is everybody on our side seemingly conceding that? This mess is directly traceable to Obama. He is accountable. His policies, the enactment of his policies. All the spending, all the debt, back home, all the new regulations, all the taxes, all the shackles on business, all the drilling moratoriums, the Keystone pipeline. Every policy designed to stop and prevent economic growth is his and his alone.<\/p>\n
Every problem we are having in housing is directly traceable to Barack Obama. He owns it! As a Senator, as a community organizer, the only thing Obama didn\u2019t like about Bush\u2019s big spending policies is that the spending was never enough. He never got mad at Bush because he spent a lot; it was because it wasn\u2019t enough! They got mad at FDR not because he spent too much, but because he didn\u2019t spend enough. They\u2019re trying to make up for that now. They\u2019re making up, Obama is making up for that fact. Look at gasoline. Obama takes office, gasoline is $1.61. We are heading to $4- or $5-dollar-a-gallon gasoline, and he wants us to believe that\u2019s George W. Bush\u2019s fault. He wants you to believe and the media want us to believe that that is what he inherited.<\/p>\n
Where…? Where are the Republicans standing up and saying, “No, sir! You don\u2019t get to do this. You don\u2019t get to blame the Republican Party, essentially, for this mess.” Barack Obama is attempting to occupy a position that essentially is, “I haven\u2019t been president for three years. I\u2019m running for office for the first time here. And we got these problems out there, and I need to address \u2019em. It\u2019s worse than anybody ever told us!” When does he get blamed? When is anything — just one thing! — his fault? Name for me any other president three years after a disaster like this who would not be blamed at least for some of it. You can\u2019t. This is unprecedented. There never has been a president like this. (interruption) Well, maybe JFK, but that\u2019s arguable. But the fact remains that this is all tied to Barack Obama. Every aspect of this nation\u2019s present circumstance and disaster is owned, fully and solely, by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The United States had a AAA credit rating when Obama was immaculated, a $1.61 a gallon gasoline price, a 7.2% unemployment rate, a deficit four times smaller than it is today — and Obama as a Senator voted for every spending increase put before him. Every one! Everything he “inherited,” he voted for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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