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RUSH: Let me read to you some excerpts of Jim Cramer, Mad Money, CNBC on a website called MainStreet.com entitled, ‘My Response to the White House — Now some, including Rush Limbaugh, would say I am on another enemies list: that of the White House. Limbaugh says there are only a handful of us on it, and if I am on it for defending all of the shareholders out there, then I am in good company. Limbaugh — whom I do not know personally, but having been in radio myself, know professionally as a genius of the medium — says, ‘They\u2019re going to shut Cramer up pretty soon, too, but he\u2019ll go down with a fight.\u2019 Limbaugh is dead right. I am a fight-not-flight guy, so I was on my hackles when I heard White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs\u2019 answer to a question about my pointed criticism of the president on multiple venues, including the Today Show.\u2019 Here\u2019s what Cramer said about this (audio sound bite 15) last night on his CNBC show Mad Money.<\/p>\n

CRAMER: I know Rush Limbaugh today said that I was on the White House enemies list and that they would try to silence me but I would put up a good fight. And let me tell you, I am really more of a fight-than-flight guy, for those of you who know my personal life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jim Cramer is a liberal Democrat. He said this: ‘I had been a relentless critic of the Bush administration\u2019s ‘stewardship\u2019 of the economy, calling repeatedly for changes to avert the disaster that I saw coming … But Obama has undeniably made things worse by creating an atmosphere of fear and panic rather than an atmosphere of calm and hope. He\u2019s done it by pushing a huge amount of change at a very perilous moment, by seeking to demonize the entire banking system and by raising taxes for those making more than $250,000… I also made it clear in a New York magazine article that I favored Obama over McCain because I thought Obama to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat…\u2019 Jim, I love you, but this really dumbfounds me. <\/p>\n

It dumbfounds me on a lot of levels for a lot of people. How in the world anybody could have ever mistaken Obama for a middle-of-the-road, triangulating, above-politics kind of guy…? He was lying when he said he was going to get past the politics of usual. He\u2019s going to get past the bipartisan. He was gonna get past all the fighting and we\u2019re gonna be one. The sea levels are going to sink by four feet and we\u2019re going to have peace. Love for the country is going to be back. All of that crap during the campaign! I don\u2019t understand — and Cramer\u2019s a smart guy, and David Brooks is a smart guy. Christopher Buckley is a smart guy. I don\u2019t just mean educated. How in the world do you not see a liberal when he\u2019s two inches in front of you? How do you look past it? <\/p>\n

You have to have hope. You have to hope the guy ain\u2019t liberal \u2019cause there are other things about him you like, like that he can talk — and now we know it\u2019s a teleprompter! The New York Times even has a story making fun of his teleprompter use today, when he introduced Kathleen Sebelius. The White House is doing it. The New York Times has a story that it\u2019s never seen that before. They do it under the guise of: his remarks are scripted; they never vary; they never wander. Their point is that Obama is so brilliantly on message. It\u2019s not it. You let him ad-lib and it\u2019s a risk. It\u2019s an accident waiting to happen. When Kathleen Sebelius got up to accept the nomination, teleprompter screens descended and she started joking, ‘Oh, where are they going? Where are they going?\u2019 Obama said, ‘They\u2019re for me. For me!\u2019 <\/p>\n

Jim… ‘I favored Obama over McCain because I thought Obama to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat…\u2019 (groans) One of the most frustrating things in my life and my work in political things is the seeming resistance people have to understanding what liberalism is. Obama wouldn\u2019t have had a chance. Of course, McCain wouldn\u2019t call him a liberal. We wouldn\u2019t call him anything, because everybody\u2019s panicked and paranoid of charges of racism. Anyway, Cramer says, ‘If that makes me an enemy of the White House, then call me a general…\u2019 Listen to this. Jim Cramer, a guy who supported, urged everybody else to support and voted for Obama. ‘If that makes me an enemy of the White House, then call me a general of an army that Obama may not even know exists — tens of millions of people who live in fear of having no money saved when they need it and who get poorer by the day.\u2019 Jim Cramer acknowledges the mind-set that exists. That\u2019s who Obama\u2019s talking to when he says, ‘I haven\u2019t forgotten you.\u2019 Those of us who listen to Obama say that, our retort is, ‘Please forget us.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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