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RUSH: I read today a piece written by a friend of mine named Michael Ledeen. I\u2019ve quoted Michael Ledeen on this program before. He\u2019s a noted scholar and think tank thinker, and he\u2019s done a lot of thinking for a lot of different think tanks. He\u2019s been associated with I think Heritage and a number of them. Now, what he\u2019s primarily known for in recent years has been championing the cause of the Iranian people against the oppression that they face each and every day. He\u2019s always been a staunch supporter of the United States military, keen observer, if you will, of the American political scene, and he has a submission here and I happened to receive a copy of it. It\u2019s about this whole notion that Obama is so much smarter than all the rest of us. The reason why this appealed to me is because it\u2019s a question I bring up on this program all the time all the time: What is smart? <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always said that we need to redefine what it is, \u2019cause I don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s smart. I go totally against the conventional wisdom. I look at his gaffes, I look at his inability to speak without a teleprompter, I say, “Where is this notion that he\u2019s brilliant, where does this come from?” Does it come from his ability to speak or read a teleprompter? It must be. I know that that\u2019s a large part of it, and a lot of people by the same token thought Bush was not particularly smart because he looked like a deer in the headlights reading a teleprompter a lot, like they say Dan Quayle did. In fact, I was at dinner with some friends last night. This is kind of frustrating, too. These people are us, folks. I mean they count themselves as one of us and they\u2019re saying, “You know, it doesn\u2019t matter who we nominate, doesn\u2019t matter. The American voter doesn\u2019t care about substance. All the American voter cares about is what somebody looks like on television and how they sound. If they look good, they sound smart, that\u2019s all it takes to become president.” <\/p>\n

So the talk on the Republican side, therefore, centered around Mitt Romney. “Nobody else on our side fits the bill. It doesn\u2019t matter.” I said, “Let me throw some names at you.” “I don\u2019t care. Doesn\u2019t matter.” I said, “Well, what about the elections in November of 2010, the congressional midterms?” There was nobody on the ballot then. I mean that was an election about nothing but substance. And in that election, the Democrats got shellacked. There wasn\u2019t a pretty boy on either ballot. There wasn\u2019t a national race that was being contested. House of Representatives, a bunch of individual races, the Senate, but you go even deep into the state ballots, and you\u2019ll find that the Democrats lost600 to 700 seats in state legislatures.<\/p>\n

And so my point to them was that there was a lot of substance on the ballot in November, and what was it? The Republicans didn\u2019t offer any. I mean they basically shut up. The Republicans recognized that the Democrats were committing suicide, so when that happens you get out of the way and let the suicide happen. The precious independents were not voting for looks, they were not voting for articulate intelligence; they were voting against substance. They were voting against Obama. But that didn\u2019t change anybody\u2019s mind. So I\u2019m here, I\u2019m doing a program each and every day devoted to substance, and I\u2019m listening to the fact that that doesn\u2019t matter to a whole lot of people, not everybody, but to a whole lot of people. <\/p>\n

“They\u2019re not gonna take the time, Rush, to care about the substance. They\u2019re not that smart anyway, even if they want to know about the substance, they\u2019re not smart enough to get it all. Why do you think Obama got elected? He\u2019s the first black president, he sounded smart, looked pretty good, versus who was our guy,” and I had to admit they had a point there. But I don\u2019t think our guy, even though our guy was leading in the polls before they dredged up the financial collapse, and our guy willingly canceled his own campaign, I still understood what they were saying. I tried every which way I knew to budge \u2019em off of it, and nope, doesn\u2019t matter. So by extension you could conclude that there\u2019s only a couple Republicans that they think have a prayer, and it has nothing to do with what any of them think. <\/p>\n

I said, “Okay, Romney.” “Romney, he\u2019s good-looking, he sounds good.” “Do you realize that Romney just came out and articulated the Obama position on global warming? “I don\u2019t care, Rush, that\u2019s my whole point, it doesn\u2019t matter.” And then they said to me you have to win the election, then after you win the election, then that\u2019s when you really start doing what you believe. But this was stupid because most of the people do not agree with Obama on global warming. “Well, the people that don\u2019t vote Republican do, and that\u2019s why it was smart for Mitt to do it.” So our guy should lie, deceive, and be good-looking. How many of you are nodding your head in agreement right now? Three people I see on my side of the glass here nodding their head in agreement. Yep, our guy should lie and deceive and be good-looking. Or our girl, too. <\/p>\n

Oh, and they despise Palin, absolutely despise Palin, and the reason is they don\u2019t think she has a snowball\u2019s chance in hell of winning. It wasn\u2019t about specifics, well, in one case it was about specifics of Palin, although I didn\u2019t bother digging deep there, but it was just no chance. You gotta nominate somebody that could win, but not on substance. It\u2019s gotta be looks and perceived intelligence. And I know, I\u2019ll tell you, the Bush years did have that effect on people on our side of the aisle because the Drive-Bys, State-Controlled Media portrayed Bush as a blithering idiot, and Bush never defended himself or responded to it, so he just let it hang out there. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we have to sit here and listen to how smart Clinton is. We have to sit here and listen to how brilliant Obama is, when in fact Obama isn\u2019t at all. And that takes me back to Michael Ledeen and a piece that he\u2019s written that is a continuation of many other pieces he\u2019s written along the same lines about the same subject. That Obama really is a gaffe machine, a walking embarrassing gaffe machine.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: “What\u2019s Up With All the Presidential Gaffes, Anyway?” writes Michael Ledeen. “Big Media doesn\u2019t pay much attention to them, even though Obama makes an amazing number of errors in his public statements. And I think it\u2019s easy enough to understand why the BM largely ignores them: to report them all would totally undermine the image of the president to which a surprising number of ‘reporters\u2019 and pundits are wedded: that of an unusually intelligent and well educated man. Yet someone who tells a crowd in Vienna that his ‘Austrian\u2019 isn\u2019t very good, who tells Marines that he\u2019s pleased to speak to the ‘Marine Corpse,\u2019 and who, just [yesterday], said he\u2019d given the Medal of Honor to a survivor from the 10th Mountain Division, when in fact the award was given posthumously, doesn\u2019t fit my definition of a brilliant and cultured man.” <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if you are aware of this, but this is a mistake that is pretty bad. This is bad. Obama did visit the 10th Mountain Division, and he congratulated them on their service, and he told the soldiers that were all gathered there that he had given the Medal of Honor to Jared Monti. President said: I\u2019ve given this Medal of Honor to Jared Monti, who came back from Iraq alive. But he didn\u2019t. Jared Monti died in Afghansitan. He was killed in 2006. It\u2019s reminiscent of Vice President Bite Me in St. Louis. “Stand up, Chuck! Let \u2019em see you, Chuck!” He\u2019s in a wheelchair. Bite Me notices he\u2019s in a wheelchair and Bite Me says, “Oh, God bless you. Oh, gee! What I did I say? Everybody, let\u2019s stand up for Chuck! Let\u2019s stand up for Chuck.” But this? Here, we have audio. Here is the president making a mistake about a soldier killed in action in Afghanistan yesterday afternoon, Fort Drum in New York.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I had the great honor of seeing some of you because, uh, a comrade of yours — uh, Jared Monti — was the first person who I was able to award, uh, the Medal of Honor to, uh, who actually came back and wasn\u2019t, uhhh, receiving it posthumously.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He did receive it posthumously. He did not come back. Obama had no clue what he was talking about. Whoever put that on his teleprompter had no clue what he was talking about. Nobody in this regime knows what they\u2019re talking about. Now, some people think they do this on purpose, just to insult members of the military. “Yes, there was a Medal of Honor winner who lived to receive it, but it was a different man. The living honoree is named Giunta; the deceased hero from the 10th Mountain Division was named Monti. Both are Italian names. Did a White House speechwriter confuse the two Italians? And if so, what does that tell us about the ship under the command of President Obama? That\u2019s worth pondering for a moment. <\/p>\n

“When you add up all the mistakes [Obama has] made — not slips of the tongue, but real errors in statements and speeches he could read from the ubiquitous teleprompter — they make quite a number. So what? you may ask. The answer is that hundreds of people traditionally read the drafts of presidential speeches and statements. That happens for two good reasons. First, presidential utterances are instant policy. It\u2019s hard to walk away from a public statement. Second, the myriad political appointees want their leader to look good, and they strain to ensure the accuracy of his statements,” that they write for him and end up on the teleprompter. <\/p>\n

“Or at least they” used to. Ledeen says, “I don\u2019t think that is happening in this administration. A friend said to me earlier today that he was really amazed at the discipline of Obama\u2019s team, specifically in the small number of leaks compared with previous administrations,” and that\u2019s because so few people are in the loop and know anything going on, because nobody trusts anybody in there. But he goes on to point out we\u2019re not dealing with a profound intellect here. Fifty-seven states? We can recount all the faux pas here, and they just laugh and look the other way. “Oh, yeah, it\u2019s just Obama.” But this is major: Announcing somebody as alive who isn\u2019t, at an awards ceremony!<\/p>\n

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