Rush Responds To “I Want Obama To Fail’ Comments

Hannity interviews Limbaugh about Obama and asks him about his “I want Obama to fail” comments which prompted Chris Matthews to wonder whether or not Rush hates America.
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Rush’s point about people reacting to Obama emotionally, instead of logically, is a good thing. I think people like Obama because he makes them feel good. They don’t know that much about what his policies are or what he’s going to do, but they know that he looks good on television and he sounds good (like what a movie President would look and sound like) and that makes them feel good. So they support him.
Reagan had the same qualities. The difference is that Reagan had leadership to back it up.
I didn’t understand the whole controversy about Limbaugh not wanting Obama to succeed. Of course Limbaugh doesn’t want Obama to succeed. I don’t want Obama to succeed either, and that’s because Obama’s stated agenda for this country is something that I don’t support. Thus, I don’t want him to succeed at advancing it.
This really isn’t shocking stuff.

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  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    More than a few, several of whom (predictably) have popped up here.

  • Spartacus

    Given the previous path, we already have failed and failed miserably.

    Yup, and the largest portion of the past 230+ years have consisted of a Democrat majority proposing and passing legislation that lead to where we are today.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Hawk – Obama is President. Obama suceeding is good for America…

    Succeeding in what?

    And the answer to that question is therein where you become lost, only to lash out at those you do not understand.

  • Wing Chun Geologist

    I for one hope Obama is successful at…

    Defeating our enemies in battle.
    Keeping the country safe.

    But a lot of the rest is open to interpretation.

    Becoming energy self reliant

    Well we already know that he’s opposed to any more drilling. I guess he thinks that throwing up windmills and making us drive Yugo sized cars will do the trick.

    Restoring Americas stature in the world.

    I really don’t care what countries that have surrendered in the war on terrorism think of us. In 30 years Paris is going to be Tehran, only under a more militant form of Islam. Countries like Holland, Denmark, Norway, Germany and others will cease to exist in my lifetime, replaces by some kind of pan-Muslim state. Not only are the Europeans allowing this to happen, but subidizing it through their welfare systems. Any policy that restores our “stature” in their eyes is bad news for America.

    Whittling down the deficit

    Isn’t he planning on spending a couple trillion on make work programs under the guise of stimulus.

    Fixing the educations system

    As a teacher, the main thing wrong with our education system is that far to few kids feel inclined to study. Is Obama going to make them put away their Ipods, skateboards, music videos, and whatever drugs they were planning on taking? Can Obama get the kids to turn off the TV and pick up a book? Can Obama make kids stop misbehaving in school and get all their homework done?

  • Mickey

    RUSH in 2012

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Let’s remember who among us REALLY wants the country to fail.

    No, seriously, I HATE this country and think it should disappear. No more united states. It’s the cause of most of the world’s problems. It’s like a cancer.

    Just split it up and let it lose its power. Done. Finished.

    DINO on January 13, 2009

    That’s from a typical Barack Obama voter.

    Make your own conclusions.

  • pparets

    barfuckle describes Arianna Huffington…

    the offensive, divisive, and anti-American drivel that opiate-addled cocksmooch brays about.

    No? Sure sounds like her.

  • robert108

    Obama suceeding is good for America…

    Only if and when he changes to real American values, and I hope PBO does that real soon. Only by adopting real American values will his succeeding be good for America.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Well, we have just witnessed over the last eight years what happens to US when a president is a failure.

  • rightwing conspiracy

    As if people with brains in their heads gave a fuck what a fat, drug-addicted, self-aggrandizing hypocrites like Rush squeal about.

    Classic case of “If you can’t handle the message, attack teh messenger.”

  • SigFan

    I’m pretty sure neither the left or the right want America to fail, they just want it to be the country that either of their respective ideologies portray. That said, I hope Obama is a good president and succeeds in sustaining us as a free country. However, given his stated positions, the people he surrounds himself with, and the ideas they are putting forward, I pray his policies fail miserably, which they will if enacted. He is an unabashed, unashamed leftist, I am an unabashed, unashamed conservative. Why would anyone seriously expect that people with half a brain would wish for someone to succeed in creating an environment so diametrically opposed to what they hold dear? (That goes for either side again). Currently, the left has the lead dog position, until we get it back (which we will) the old saying holds true:
    “Unless you’re the lead dog, the view’s the same.”

    Can anyone tell me what the big A on Dino’s image stands for … oh, never mind, I think I just figured it out.

    BTW – in the quote in my signature has anyone noticed that the left and Obama already have two of the three requirements? How are we going to prevent them gaining the third?

    And as far as world opinion is concerned, the world is very quick to criticize the US, and even quicker to hold their hands out when they need our help. So as far as I’m concerned, they can take their opinions and put ‘em where the sun doesn’t shine.

    There, my morning rant is done, meds are kicking in, I’m feeling much better now.

  • mnconservative

    Gustav, I think that it is time for you and your kind to wise up. First of all do not presume to tell me how I think. Long before Rush, Hannity, Levin or any other conservative talk show host I believed in personal responsibility, that America is the land of opportunity for all, the less gov’t is the best gov’t, that social programs should have only been used in emergencies and not as a way of life, and finally that an unborn baby is just that a baby. Our founding Fathers were wise men and came from gov’t that oppressed their people, hence to mass exodus to the new world. Read the ‘Constitution’ just once and you will understand that is the America that Rush, Hannity, Levin, and the rest are talking about. I had turned off the MSM years ago because of their bias, though not a blatant then still present. Now it’s just an out & out love fest for the left. The Right finally has a voice and you guys can’t take it. If you would like to live in a socialist regime then I might suggest you move to one, but I imagine that you won’t because you like the privileges that capitalism affords you…even though you rail about it all the time. That is the biggest hypocrisy of the left. Further more if you listened to Rush you would know that he actually doesn’t hate anyone but instead hates many of there principles. Nice try though…oh and Boon funny how now we are weakening our country if we speak out against policies that we think will forever damage this country but when the lefties told our enemies that our President was stupid, etc…that was ok and very patriotic, what a double standard.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Rush mentions the Democrat’s Fringe Kook Base. I think we may have a few DFKB’s around here!

  • 2Hotel9

    dinothefakehomo, why don’t you shut me up? I been in the same place for 20 years, hide from no one, why don’t you take a shot at the title. I’ll be waiting.

    Barri has clearly stated he is going to “rebuild America” to his socialist ideal. All real Americans want him to fail, those who support him are not American. Period.

  • Boon

    ‘Suitpotato’: Invoke something that Bush did right “at every opportunity”, besides simply anecdotal. The man wasn’t infallible; neither is Obama. Why the certainty that the current POTUS will be worse than the previous one?

    ‘Robert108′: What are ‘Real American Values’? The ones you’ve decided? Or that you’re political persuasion has decided? Why not define them for yourself?

    Unless I’m mistaken, which I don’t think I am, President Washington said, quote:

    The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

    There is more to that speech, but it’s a matter of public record which can be sought out. The point is: why weaken the unity of our country through political revenge? Not difference of thought or political ideology, but through hatred that one side doesn’t agree with the other?

  • syn

    Gustav, my dear, I used to be just like you before 9/11/2001 CHANGED me.

    I used to be like you spouting ‘Rush is a right-wing nutcase out to destroy America’ and like you never once listened to his show; like you I once was a full blown arrogant narcissist who was full of craptacular ego.

    I look at you, the mirror of my former self, and am disgusted with what I once was, a delusional useless idiot.

    Sometime around 2003 I tuned into Rush and haven’t stopped listening since; he helped me to understand that the former liberal life I lived was a fraud and a lie.

    Thank God for Rush Limbaugh. I am in agreement with Rush, I don’t want Obama to succeed either; I hate Serfdom and the miserable suffering that illiberal evil brings.

  • syn

    After Bush was elected we all wanted nothing other than success. After 911 we all rallied around him and supported his administration.

    Really? Did ‘we’ forget that the Left egged his 2001 inauguration which occurred before 911?

    Further, you may have missed the two weeks after 9/11/2001 when George Soros, Moveon.org, United for Peace and Justice, ANSWER, Sen John Rockefeller and various other high-positioned Democrats began their sabotage against America just to get George W. Bush.

    Not a day goes by that I have not forgotten the betrayal these MFers did to America.

    On point further, there is no such thing as fiscal conservative/social liberal. For example, fiscal conservative do not believe tax-funded dollars such be given to Planned Parenthood to provide free abortions.

    Social liberalism needs tax-funded money to thrive and requires Big Government intrusion to carry out policy so by default one cannot support social liberalism and be fiscally conservative.

    As Rush often points out ‘if one is liberal by default one is not conservative’

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    It is not only about the person, BHO, but what he stands for and who elected him.

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    The criminals, gangs, racists and communists have taken over this country and certain people are comfortable with their appeasement policy.

    Chief RZ on January 23, 2009 at 04:35 am

  • imagine

    I am a social liberal and a fiscal conservative

    I never wanted Bush to fail. He did that on his own.
    After Bush was elected we all wanted nothing other than success. After 911 we all rallied around him and supported his administration. We believed and supported the WMD situation…shortly thereafter the house of cards began to crumble.

    Rush is a sad little man, speaking to, and apparently for, other sad little men.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Hey, it looks like Rush is on my side. He wants to see Obama fail so the country will crumble and split up.

    And you guys worship him.

    Many of you feel the same way. I just had the balls to admit it.

  • Wing Chun Geologist

    Succeeding in what?

    Oh, little things Liqwid.

    Little things like;

    Defeating our enemies in battle.
    Keeping the country safe.
    Restoring Americas stature in the world.

    And what will it take to restore our position in the world.

    Nothing short of Releasing Guantano Prison terrorists into the US population, even if they’re dangerous.

    http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/europe_let_guantanamo_terrorists_go_free_inside_the_united_states/

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Finally, the Bush cult of personality that screams “No We Cant” is finally over.
    Good riddance Kenny!!

    Yes, the cult of screaming “Yes, we can” is here. Then, just like last time, it won’t happen.

    We cannot become energy independent. It’s not possible. We need oil to drive our cars, and we cannot produce enough on our own. Thus, this is not an attainable goal. It’s bunk that the politicians promise us.

    Thank God we have idiots like you saying “yes we can whittle down the deficit”, while Obama is flat out saying he’s not going to do it. It CAN happen, but it’s not going to. I don’t know why you highlighted this one, as Barack Obama has said he will not do it…so you look really stupid. Or the one where I cite Biden. So again…looking stupid.

    Education. He has said he refuses to do anything the unions dislike. Since many union rules don’t let schools fire bad teachers, no education reform will happen. Obama’s economic plans are also bad, as bankrupting the coal industry and passing cap and trade will cripple our economy.

    What the hell is your point fool?

  • Hawk

    Obama is President. Obama suceeding is good for America and that is bad for Rush, the greatest partisan hack of his generation.

  • http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

    I’m not the biggest fan of rush. I don’t carry the vitriol for him that I do for, say, Coulter, he’s just not my type.

    I’ll give credit where credit’s due though, he’s on the wall with these comments, and he logically explained himself. Good for him.

  • http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

    It is not only about the person, BHO, but what he stands for and who elected him. The criminals, gangs, racists and communists have taken over this country and certain people are comfortable with their appeasement policy.

  • Hannitized

    Kenny Reveals, he was part of the “No We Cant” Bush culture!! Good riddance!!

    “Defeating our enemies in battle.”

    Well, as Obama is already showing, he has little desire to do that.

    Keeping the country safe.”

    Even VP Biden doesn’t think he will.

    Restoring Americas stature in the world.”

    Not gonna happen.

    “Winning the GWOT”

    Not gonna happen.

    “Whittling down the deficit”

    Obama himself admits he has no desire to do this. “Trillion dollar deficits for years to come.”

    “Becoming energy self reliant”

    Not possible.

    “Fixing the educations system”

    Would require steps Obama is unwilling to take.

    “Restoring our economic might”

    Not with his plans.

    Finally, the Bush cult of personality that screams “No We Cant” is finally over.

    Good riddance Kenny!!

  • MikeAdamson

    Just to throw in my two bits, I don’t think Limbaugh’s comments in themselves caused any surprise or angst. I think the criticism of his remarks should be understood in the context of the flack that those who opposed Bush’s policies received and the accusations that those who didn’t agree with Bush wanted America to fail.

    I predict there’s going to be a lot of this “but you said this about Bush back then” from both sides…lots of accusations surrounding hypocrisy too I’m sure.

  • pparets

    A REAL AMERICAN can’t even spell ‘faggots’ or ‘believe’. Yet another leftist intellectual heard from.

    Crawl back under your rock, a-hole.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    “Defeating our enemies in battle.”

    Well, as Obama is already showing, he has little desire to do that.

    “Keeping the country safe.”

    Even VP Biden doesn’t think he will.

    “Restoring Americas stature in the world.”

    Not gonna happen.

    “Winning the GWOT”

    Not gonna happen.

    “Whittling down the deficit”

    Obama himself admits he has no desire to do this. “Trillion dollar deficits for years to come.”

    “Becoming energy self reliant”

    Not possible.

    “Fixing the educations system”

    Would require steps Obama is unwilling to take.

    “Restoring our economic might”

    Not with his plans.

    Here are a few more I WANT him to fail on:
    His rabid pro-abortion agenda. Includes his sick desire to reallow PBA and strike down the BAIPA.
    Bankrupting the coal industry.
    Cap and trade.
    His health care plans.
    Passing the “Employee Free Choice Act”.
    Raising taxes on everyone.

    Those are the first ones that pop into mind.

  • dirl126

    Oh C’mon liberals-on-this-blog you can not possibly think that during the Bush Administration the general gist (curiously twisted by the perception-controlling media)was not “no we can’t”.

    Look, Obama won. I support him: I’m a republican. I will openly disagree with is policies and his gaudy rhetoric, I will do WHAT MANY LIBERALS NEVER DID by not having such a negative piss-poor (old-man) attitude! ; )

    I suggest the same for other righties, except their probably stuck in their old ways

  • http://northerngleaner.blogspot.com/ Gene

    Is it just me, or has ol Rushmeister put a few of those lost pounds back on?

    Not that I have any stones to throw being a stove that is blacker than the kettle.

    Love mixing metaphors.

  • Wing Chun Geologist

    Rush Limbaugh has his millions- Where is yours?

    Unlike liberals, I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what other people have. I concentrate on improving my life, and the lives of those I can help.

    It neither harms nor helps me that Rush has millions.

    On the other hand, the Billions that Democrat doners Herb and Marion Sandler made by selling risky loans to risky clients have helped sink our economy.

  • evie2020

    For those of you who wish that President Obama fails, I hope that your kids and grand kids don’t fail, because you really cannot see the forest because of the trees. Given the previous path, we already have failed and failed miserably. How much worse can it get. Rush Limbaugh has his millions- Where is yours?

  • Hannitized

    Succeeding in what?

    Oh, little things Liqwid.

    Little things like;

    Defeating our enemies in battle.
    Keeping the country safe.
    Restoring Americas stature in the world.
    Winning the GWOT
    Whittling down the deficit
    Becoming energy self reliant
    Fixing the educations system
    Restoring our economic might

    But, why root for those things to be improved when we can sit around and create fantasies about him, in order to suit our pre-fabricated desire to paint him as the next Carl Marx?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Mike, isn’t that why Al Gore invented the internets in the first place?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Rush, the greatest partisan hack of his generation.

    Is Keith Olbermann considered to be from a different generation than Rush?

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    I’m not the biggest fan of rush. I don’t carry the vitriol for him that I do for, say, Coulter, he’s just not my type.

    Though when you posted a list of errors on Coulter, you were wrong. So your vitrol seems rather…unfounded.

  • END GAME

    Would you expect to get something for nothing Socialism is not a happy candy land. What they will expect in return are both your rights and your sovereignty. If you swallow the pill of socialism you may not wake up soon enough to stop thing until it is far to late. Never put your blind faith in any party or person they are all demicans and republicrats the two parties are dead and in there place we have a group so corrupt that there is only one solution left. There is such a thing as a winnable war democracy will prevail over socialism i would rather die then be socialist if i have to kill ten times the number of people i killed in the name of my county then let it be so. Be careful which side you choose in the coming battle and don’t get caught in the middle nothing good ever happens to the people caught in the middle. Like common drug addicts our leaders crave there next fix of money and power can you hear the echoing call from Washington DC …………… MORE.

  • jk

    How much worse can it get. Rush Limbaugh has his millions- Where is yours?

    Between Leon Pinetta and Janet Napolitano, better buckle up.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    A REAL AMERICAN

    Was it Della Reese who said

    “If you have to hang a sign on you saying you is, then you ain’t!”

    Nice use of all caps and profanity, too!
    Now we really believe you!

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Excellent post, Gustav at 11:08 pm. What you have stated is exactly what is going on.

  • dawneyr

    Reagan = solid easter bunny

    Obama = hollow easter bunny

    The controversy was media-manufactured to create a diversion since Rush made a good point. Could poke out an eye or something with good points flying around.

  • A REAL AMERICAN

    FUCK ALL THE RUSH/BUSH LOVIN FAGOTS IN HERE, IF U REALLY BELEIVE BUSH MADE THIS COUNTRY BETTER THEN U REALLY NEED TO STOP SUCKIN UP THE COCAINE U BEEN DOIN FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS…FKIN CLOWNS.

  • Neiman

    Good Lord!

    Rush did not apologize, for what? If you knew anything about “context,” his statement was that Obama’s socialist policies would fail!

    Obama is President. Obama suceeding is good for America

    Yeah, for socialist, anti-Christian America of yours and his dreams, but not for the America our Founding Father’s gave us!

  • Mickey

    Obama suceeding (succeeding) is good for America and that is bad for Rush, the greatest partisan hack of his generation.

    Rush has more listeners on a daily basis than showed up to Obama’s inauguration.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Republicans need to STFU and sit in the corner with their hands on their dicks. They messed this country up and should be publicly humiliated for their failures.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Well, we have just witnessed over the last eight years what happens to US when a president is a failure.

    The longest sustainable economic growth in American history, and two winning wars?

  • Gustav

    What do you really know about Hannity, Limbaugh or Levin?

    It used to be there were all these loud Bible-thumpers on the radio spouting hell-fire and brimstone. They are all gone for the most part because people got wise to them and stopped listening and sending in their dollars for their vials of phony miracle holy water.

    Hannity, Limbaugh and Levin are the 21st C. versions of these radio preachers. They realize that advertisers are where the revenue’s at, it’s not coming from the little guy who listens to them and buys their books and coffee cups. The little guy buys the Zicam that Rush swears is a miracle cure for the common cold. Levin will tell you that you have to buy “Go 2 My PC.”

    Wise up, gents. You are being manipulated and your anger is being exploited for monetary gain. These radio personalities are taking your money from you while they tell you “the liberals” or “the socialists” are stealing it.

  • docdave

    Well, we have just witnessed over the last eight years what happens to US when a president is a failure.

    The topic is about Obama, nitwit. We’ll all get a chance to see real failure when Obamas programs collapse. Of course, you libs will find a way to place the blame on Bush.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    I believe we should invoke everything Bush did right at every opportunity. Eventually every lib ready to froth at the mouth will, and to the point they become completely loony. This next four years stands to be fun.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Rush only hates a majority of America.

    As if people with brains in their heads gave a fuck what a fat, drug-addicted, self-aggrandizing hypocrites like Rush squeal about.

    All his apologies and statements are just a means of repeating for his brainless audience the offensive, divisive, and anti-American drivel that opiate-addled cocksmooch brays about.

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