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RUSH: Speaking of the golf course<\/a>, this business of making a really halfhearted statement about the beheading of James Foley and then immediately dashing back to the golf course is causing a great sense of panic among the Drive-By Media. So many of them had such lofty goals. So many of them invested totally in Obama. So many of them thought that they were going to reach utopia!<\/p>\n

Nirvana was within our grasp, that Obama finally represented all of the idealism they knew existed out there. Back in 2008<\/a>, here it was, and an added bonus, he was African-American! “Oh, my God, it\u2019s orgasm time. We\u2019re gonna have utopia, and it\u2019s gonna be brought to us by the historical first African-American president.” They were totally invested, and being totally invested meant believing that there was nobody even close to Obama.<\/line><\/p>\n

In all of the liberal characteristics that matter and set them apart: Compassion, not being biased, not discriminating, belieeeeving in equality and belieeeeving in fairness and understanding the plight of the disadvantaged and the poor. I mean, it was the whole package! And I think for the, eh, maybe first two years they were still invested, still thinking all this. But I actually believe that it\u2019s longer than just this year that they have been suffering doubts. <\/p>\n

I think there has been a lot of unease and a lot of questioning and a lot of loss of confidence in all of this, going on for three years, maybe four. They\u2019ve done everything they could to say, “Oh, this is just, you know, that he\u2019s just so far ahead of us that we can\u2019t possibly interest him. He\u2019s just so intellectually ahead of all of us that the job of president just doesn\u2019t hold any fascination.” <\/p>\n

Where most mortals would simply be in awe every day of going to work in the White House and becoming one of the few people in a very exclusive club to be president of the United States, where most people would have such reverence and respect for the office… Like Ronald Reagan, they wouldn\u2019t even take off their suit coat while in the Oval Office. Most people would think that if they were in the White House every day.<\/line><\/p>\n

They would be in awe. They would be studying it, looking at it, and lost in all of the history. But with Barack Obama, he doesn\u2019t even like going to the office. He doesn\u2019t like even like being in the office, and the White House is more like a prison to him. He doesn\u2019t particularly have any reverence for it at all. That was assigned to his superior intellect. <\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah, it\u2019s nothing. It\u2019s not that he doesn\u2019t like it. It\u2019s just not challenging! There\u2019s a world out there, and Obama\u2019s a prisoner in the White House. He\u2019s capable of so much more.” You remember the speeches? Now, folks — this year especially, but I think trending the last two or three years — all of these people who made all these investments, had all of this respect and love, all these high hopes?<\/p>\n

Their world is crashing down on them.<\/p>\n

Because once again a liberal icon has failed to meet expectations, much less surpass them. The one who we had all been waiting for, the one who was going to make it all come true, finally, after years of bungling by people like Mao, after all of the mistakes made by good people like Fidel! After the close-but-no-cigar efforts of the great leaders of the Soviet Union, finally we had amongst us the man who was going to bring about a socialist utopia worldwide.<\/p>\n

There was going to be no more hatred, there wasn\u2019t gonna be anymore racism, there wasn\u2019t going to be any more bigotry — and if there was, we would kill them. There wasn\u2019t going to be any more judging of anybody. The poor were going to become rich. The rich were going to be gotten even with. And finally, everybody was going to have what they wanted! Global warming would be fixed. <\/line><\/p>\n

We would get rid of the use of oil, and we would all be flying around in solar-powered jets, going to the moon if we wanted to with Richard Branson or one of his Virgin jets. Alas, ladies and gentlemen, the reality has set in. The dream remains aloof. The dream remains illusory. It\u2019s nothing more than a far-off, impossible-to-reach-once-again beautiful place. The one man better qualified, more able — chosen by history and destiny — to take us all to this wonderful utopia, can\u2019t get himself off the damn golf course. <\/p>\n

Couldn\u2019t it be anything? Couldn\u2019t it be chess? It has to be golf? <\/p>\n

Do you know how much the left hates golf? Do you know why the left hates golf? Global warming! There\u2019s too much empty space out there. Look at all that green! Look at all the water that\u2019s being used to keep that golf. For who? The top 1%! These rich SOBs riding around their golf carts, drinking scotch, smoking cigars, while the rest of the country suffers and starves and sweats. (interruption)<\/p>\n

Hmm? They hate…? (interruption) Oh, yeah, plus ladies weren\u2019t allowed for the longest time. (interruption) Well, it\u2019s still true in some courses, yeah, in some places. In New York, in fact, there are some places where women are only allowed to drop their husbands off. They\u2019re not allowed to get out of the car. They\u2019re not allowed to park in the park. They have to drop their husband off and leave. <\/p>\n

Now, these places have ladies\u2019 day usually one day a week for couple of hours when it rains. The liberals… (interruption) Oh, yeah, you got a lot of liberals playing it. They\u2019re a bunch of hypocrites. There are not many male courses, but in New York there are still some. I\u2019m not gonna name them. I don\u2019t want to cause them any trouble. They\u2019re beautiful places that they don\u2019t want to see women. They\u2019re not permitted. <\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter who they are. They are not permitted. Well, the left hates all, and here\u2019s their guy, and what\u2019s he doing? “Why, he can\u2019t even fake being interested in the job? He can\u2019t even fake caring about it? He can\u2019t wait to get himself back on the golf course?” So now the dream, the dream is falling apart — and they\u2019re beside themselves, folks.<\/line><\/p>\n

He has let them down. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Okay, here we go, CNBC Squawk Box this morning. The cohost Joe Kernen speaking with the chief economic correspondent for Politico. His name is Ben White. They\u2019re talking about Obama playing golf right after his remarks on the killing of James Foley. Kernen says, “Even the New York Times has decided to start talking about this.” I mean, is it kosher to go out and play golf so soon after the speech?<\/p>\n

WHITE: It took a turn for the serious this past week. One minute he\u2019s on TV talking about the beheading of an American journalist. People are scared. People are freaked out about ISIS. They\u2019re certainly scared about what happened to this young man and his family. And then he\u2019s smiling with Alonzo Mourning on the golf course about ten minutes later. The juxtaposition of those images is struggling to people, and not just Republicans who will always criticize him for whatever he does, but for Democrats. There are Democrats on the record quoted in that New York Times story and elsewhere saying this was a bad idea. This was a bad move on his part because it reinforces this narrative and this notion that people have that he\u2019s somewhat checked out from the job right now.<\/p>\n