{"id":16660,"date":"2012-02-02T19:37:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:37:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-02T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:37:25","slug":"are_we_stupid_enough_to_reelect_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/02\/are_we_stupid_enough_to_reelect_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Stupid Enough to Reelect Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Pete, Southold, New York, glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, Rush how you doing?  I love you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Thank you, sir, very good.  Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  You\u2019re the only thing that keeps me sane, but, after 25 years of watching politics, listening to you, I\u2019m giving up.  I\u2019ve come to the realization that people aren\u2019t misinformed or ill-informed.  They\u2019re just plain stupid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_58758\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama-bad-luck.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  Yeah.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Obama\u2019s got a 48% approval rating.  Who are these people?  What planet do they live on?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That happens to correspond to the number of households that are receiving a government check of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, it\u2019s just too much to overcome, Rush.  I have ten good years left, I can\u2019t put up with the aggravation.  I talk to these people every day.  They give me every reason in the world why they support this clown in the White House. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Let me give you two words.  New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  (laughing.)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I know what you mean.  I know exactly what you mean.  Take any person in this country who\u2019s totally absorbed in pop culture.  The big thing in their life is watching Entertainment Tonight.  They vote.  If they vote, we\u2019re screwed.  You know damn well they haven\u2019t the slightest idea what\u2019s going on.  But that\u2019s always been the case.  There\u2019s nothing new about it, Pete.  The number of people who are clueless, uninvolved, no interest whatsoever, they\u2019ve always had a sizeable percentage of the American population that qualify for that characterization.  You\u2019re just older than most and you\u2019re far more informed than most, and you\u2019re saying, &#8220;How come other people can\u2019t see it?&#8221;  And you\u2019re singing my tune.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  It\u2019s gonna take 150 years to turn that attitude around, Rush.  I just haven\u2019t got the time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, if you\u2019ve only got ten years left, it\u2019s not your problem.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll work on it. Look&#8230; (sigh) It\u2019s dire, this health care bill. And I want to tell you again: If this guy with his 48% approval rating, with his unpopularity issue to issue &#8212; you look at Obama issues and look at how they poll &#8212; if this guy gets reelected? Katie, bar the door! When there\u2019s no accountability, when there\u2019s not another election to win, it isn\u2019t gonna matter. The next four years is where Obama is gonna be totally devoted to fully implementing the agenda he\u2019s been trying to hide in large part these three years. It\u2019s going to be earth-shattering, and the next four years is what you wish were happening now is going to happen. The next four years, if he gets reelected, is when people are gonna say, &#8220;Oh, my God, what have we done?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You think it should be happening now. Wait \u2019til the next four years if he gets reelected. That\u2019s when it\u2019s going to happen. Because nobody is going to be untouched by this. Everybody is gonna be made poorer. Everybody is going to lose a significant amount of liberty, just in Obamacare alone. Everybody is going to see the elementary basics of life shoot up in price: Food, gasoline, whatever. It\u2019s going to skyrocket, and that\u2019s when people are going to say, &#8220;Oh, my God, what happened?&#8221; At a certain point in time in the future, there isn\u2019t going to enough money in the hands of other people to tax it and redistribute it. They will be bled dry. The Golden Goose won\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_58759\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obamageddon-Barackalypse-Now.jpg\"\/><BR\/>If this guy gets four more years, there\u2019s nothing stopping him. The fact is that he won\u2019t have to get reelected. There won\u2019t be any games of extending the Bush tax cuts, for example. There won\u2019t be any health care waivers. There won\u2019t be any delaying the onslaught of the massive increase in the size, reach, and scope of government. There\u2019s a reason Obamacare doesn\u2019t fully implement \u2019til 2014. If it fully implemented by now, no Democrat would be reelected in November. That\u2019s why this is important. That\u2019s why so many people are pulling their hair out over the Republican primary and demanding &#8212; hoping, praying &#8212; for a genuine conservative. That\u2019s why people are willing to overlook some of the baggage, because the people that do get it, Pete, like you, understand what\u2019s at stake here.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>People that don\u2019t yet understand it, \u2019cause they\u2019re too clueless, in a fog, wandering around&#8230; I know what you\u2019re wondering: How can people get up every day and be happy? How can people get up every day and laugh with what\u2019s happening in the country. I know. You turn on your television and you watch a sporting event or you watch a television show, whatever it is, and you wonder: &#8220;How come these people don\u2019t get it? How can these people not understand what\u2019s going on?&#8221; You expect there to be, expressed by everybody, an awareness that we are in trouble. And when you don\u2019t see it, you scratch your head and ask, &#8220;What are these dummkopfs not seeing?&#8221; I know exactly how you feel. It\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to change here.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re all in the same boat together at the same time. In 2013, no more nice Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing: About the <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16663\">airlines<\/a>. I left something out that\u2019s very important and I shoulda said it. This is on top of the list in terms of reasons. The unfunded pension plans that they are responsible for, they\u2019re talking $10 billion to $50 billion in underfunded pensions, if you look industry-wide. I\u2019ll guarantee you&#8230; I can\u2019t say this conclusively without looking it up and confirming it. But my wild guess would be that of the airlines year-to-year that do well, they\u2019re either not union, or a very small percentage of the workforce is union. And the airlines that are in huge, big trouble owe money years and years and years in the future to retired employees who aren\u2019t going to be productive. And it\u2019s choking \u2019em. That would be probably at the top of the list, to answer the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Pete, Southold, New York, glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush how you doing? I love you. RUSH: Thank you, sir, very good. Thank you very much. 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