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RUSH: Our buddies at PowerLineBlog.com actually listened to Obama\u2019s Memorial Day speech (thank goodness they did, because I didn\u2019t), and they report some of the transcript. Not the whole transcript, but a lot of it. And here are some of the things that Obama said. In addition to saying on, ‘This Memorial Day as our nation honors its own broken line of fallen heroes…\u2019 By the way, let me see. I just got 34,000 sound bites here at two minutes after… Let me see if we\u2019ve got any of this, if we got Obama. Don\u2019t worry, Cookie. If we don\u2019t, it isn\u2019t any big deal. I\u2019m just checking. Let\u2019s see. Yeah. Play cut 16. We have this one at least. This is Obama seeing dead people in Las Cruces, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in…in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, a lot of people say, ‘Rush, don\u2019t harp on this. He\u2019s just trying to be nice.\u2019 Look, I wouldn\u2019t harp on it if this wasn\u2019t gaffe number one million. I don\u2019t think he knows what Memorial Day is. We honor the dead who have served the country; they can\u2019t possibly be anywhere where Obama sees them. (interruption) Yes! What do you mean…? Do I mean what? I don\u2019t think he understands. I think he probably confuses Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Memorial Day he probably thinks we\u2019re saluting all veterans, and that we do it again on Veterans Day. I know he\u2019s running for president, but what percentage of high school graduates — whether they can read their diplomas or not — even know what Memorial Day is? And you know that by the time Obama gets to university such as, where did he go, Harvard? Those people hate the military there. They do everything to keep recruiters off campus. They probably disparage Memorial Day and all sorts of things because we\u2019re celebrating, you know, warriors and barbarians and rapists and murderers — which is the left\u2019s view of the US military. Let me put it this way, Snerdley, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he doesn\u2019t know what Memorial Day is. But it\u2019s even worse if he does know, if he knows we\u2019re honoring the dead. Because somebody wrote the damn speech! He doesn\u2019t do a speech like this that is not written, somebody had to write the thing. Here, listen to it again, audio sound bite 16.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in…in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, maybe by fallen he thinks by Memorial Day we honor the injured. ‘Our fallen heroes, many…\u2019 Here, listen to this again and imagine any Republican saying this. The only other guy who could get away with saying this much stupid stuff is Charles Barkley.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in…in the audience here today — <\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t believe this!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you want to hear some other things he said? He said we\u2019re going to have hundreds of thousands of new veterans coming in, many of them — he\u2019s talking about veterans who are alive here, on Memorial Day. Now, you contrast that to the president. Here. I think it\u2019s on the last page. Yeah, grab number 26. No. Grab 24, 25, 26, and have them standing by. It\u2019s Bush yesterday in Arlington, who knows what Memorial Day is. He routinely goes to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — and, Senator Obama, there\u2019s nobody alive in there. Here\u2019s what else Obama said. ‘We\u2019re going to have hundreds of thousands of new veterans coming in, many of whom suffer posttraumatic stress disorder. They are not being diagnosed quickly enough; they are not getting the service that they need quickly enough — sadly, the group of veterans probably bearing most negativity in this area are women veterans. We gotta do a better job of creating facilities,\u2019 and the idiot audience started applauding. Then he continued. ‘Part of what we need is to recognize that oftentimes our women service members are more prone to posttraumatic stress disorder partly because they — and there\u2019s a sad but real problem of sexual harassment, sexual abuse for women veterans and that makes them much more prone, then, to have posttraumatic stress disorder.\u2019<\/p>\n

This speech is on Memorial Day where we are honoring the nation\u2019s dead war veterans! This doesn\u2019t make sense whether he knows what Memorial Day is or not. If this many women are being sexually abused, get \u2019em outta there! Wouldn\u2019t that be the thing to do? Get them out of there, if there\u2019s this big a problem. This guy\u2019s a waking liberal cliche. This guy is merely a sponge. He soaks up all the liberalism that he\u2019s heard throughout his life. He hasn\u2019t had one original thought. Just like that comment we are 3% of the world\u2019s population and have 25% of the world\u2019s resources that we steal and use. I mean, I\u2019ve been hearing that since 1980. That\u2019s out of the liberal playbook page. Now, here\u2019s an interesting thing from Rasmussen. Rasmussen Reports\u2019 polling unit. ‘As Obama inches closer to formally wrapping up the nomination, the number of Democrats who want Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race has declined. The latest Rasmussen Reports national phone survey finds…\u2019 This is from last Friday; this is probably before the Bobby Kennedy comment. Yeah, it was. Its 10:08 a.m. A national telephone survey back then found ‘that just 32% of Democrats now think that Clinton should withdraw from the race, down from 38%.\u2019<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if that would still hold up today. But if it holds up, there\u2019s gotta be a reason for this and that\u2019s \u2019cause the rest of the Democratic Party knows that Obama is stupid. Is that too harsh a word? Well, no, it\u2019s not. Let me try it this way. Barack Obama is the first generation to run for president of the United States who was educated totally in the indoctrination mills known as public education and private universities. It\u2019s not that he\u2019s not smart; he may be. I doubt that he\u2019s smart. I mean, he\u2019s affirmative action guy. It\u2019s that he is not educated. That\u2019s why all the gaffes. He is not educated. I believe he doesn\u2019t know what Memorial Day is. He does now, but before yesterday, he didn\u2019t know. He is not educated. The things that he has been learned… (laughter) Sorry. The things that he has learned, the things which have been taught to him… You can hear it in his speech. He does not respect this country. He does not like it. He sees nothing but its flaws. He has no concept of American exceptionalism because he\u2019s never been taught about it. All 57 states! He doesn\u2019t like all 57 states. He\u2019s been to most of them. <\/p>\n

He said he\u2019s been to almost all 57 states in the campaign. Here\u2019s the bottom line. As far as the Drive-Bys and the people that assess these things are concerned: If you\u2019re liberal, you\u2019re smart. That\u2019s just it. That\u2019s the explanation of Mrs. Clinton being referred to as the Smartest Woman in the World. Do you think John Kerry\u2019s smart? This guy is a walking, bungling, effete snob who doesn\u2019t know diddly-squat. He talks and talks and talks, he says nothing, but the liberal Drive-Bys eat it up and they eat it up now with Obama because — guess what? — he\u2019s smarter than the Drive-Bys. He must be. He went to Harvard. But wait. George W. Bush went to Harvard and yet he\u2019s an idiot. So that proves the point here that only liberals are smart. Think about this. What if Obama is the classic affirmative action result? That is, someone who could not have gotten into Harvard without affirmative action and probably didn\u2019t get outta Harvard without affirmative action; now is the poster child for what\u2019s wrong with affirmative action. Think anybody in the Drive-Bys is going to let that slip out? And think about this, too. The libs don\u2019t have any trouble arguing that Bush is dumb and stupid and only got into Harvard by way of legacy — you know, his old man. They argue that\u2019s bad, that that\u2019s unfair. ‘Legacy affirmative action, that\u2019s not good.\u2019 So why is real affirmative action any less pernicious? Here\u2019s Bush. This is Bush on Memorial Day. This is at Arlington National Cemetery. By the way, Obama, this is where dead heroes who have served in the military and others are buried. It\u2019s right near Washington. You can see it up there.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: A few moments ago I placed a wreath upon the tomb of three brave Americans who gave their lives in service to our nation. The names of these honored are known only to the Creator who delivered them home from the anguish of war, but their valor is known to us all. It\u2019s the same valor that endured the stinging cold of Valley Forge. It is the same valor that planted the proud colors of the great nation on the mountaintop on Iwo Jima. It is the same valor that charged fearlessly through the assault of enemy fire from the mountains of Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq. It is the valor that has defined the armed forces of the United States of America throughout our history.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is George W. Bush — the ‘stupid, dumb, can\u2019t speak\u2019 George W. Bush — at Arlington National Cemetery. Here again, Obama from Las Cruces, New Mexico, yesterday.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in…in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is President Bush, our second bite from yesterday.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: From far-away lands they will return to cemeteries like this one where broken hearts receive their broken bodies. They found peace beneath the white headstones in the land that they fought to defend. It is a solemn reminder of the cost of freedom that the number of headstones in a place such as this, grows with every new Memorial Day. Here in Washington and across our country, we pay tribute to all who have fallen — a tribute never equal to the debt they are owed. We will forever honor their memories. We will forever search for their comrades, the POWs and MIAs — and we pledge, we offer a solemn pledge to persevere and to provide the security for our citizens and secure the peace for which they fought.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You heard him say, ‘We pay tribute to all who have fallen.\u2019 He did not say, ‘I see some of them standing here today.\u2019 Here\u2019s Obama yesterday, Las Cruces, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in — in the audience here —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the — Sorry.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — particularly strong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was so inspired by that, I interrupted. Here\u2019s a final sound bite from President Bush.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: On this Memorial Day, I stand before you as the commander-in-chief and try to tell you how proud I am of the sacrifice and service of the men and women who wear our uniform. They\u2019re an awesome bunch of people, and the United States is blessed to have such citizens. I am humbled by those who have made the ultimate sacrifice that allow our free civilization to endure and flourish. It only remains for us, the heirs of their legacy, to have the courage and the character to follow their lead and to preserve America as the greatest nation on earth and the last, best hope for mankind. May God bless you, and may God bless America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Again, that\u2019s the stupid idiot George Bush who can\u2019t speak, on Memorial Day. This was Barack Obama in Las Cruces, New Mexico, yesterday.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in…in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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