August 16, 2021 • 18 mins
RUSH: We are here on the Left Coast. We’re in Hollywood. We’re in Los Angeles, broadcast excellence for the fourth straight date out here, and one more to go after today. We’re having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I showed up yesterday, played at a golf course called Saticoy up in Reagan country. You know where it is? It’s up there in Camarillo. So we drove up there, you need meal money to get up there from here. And we show up, go to the 18th hole, it’s a long par five. I, El Rushbo, I’m hitting the ball off the tee as well as I have in I don’t know how long. Bammo, it’s about a 535 yard par five. The second shot, 3-wood, bammo, straight down the middle. I have about 80 yards in, and I sort of yank, come over the top on the gap, wedge ends up in the trap, the green side bunker. And we’re one down here, this is gonna tie it up and not losing any money. And of course everybody thinks I’m in the bunker. I’ve got a reputation for being a bad bunker player. Okay, it’s over.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are here on the left coast. We're in Hollywood
where in Los Angeles broadcast excellence for the fourth straight
day out here and one more to go after today.
We're having more fun than a human beings should be
allowed to have showed up yesterday. Plan a golf course
called Santa KOI up in a Reagan country. You know
where it is. It's up there in uh in Camarillo
(00:21):
or do they say camar Rio? Here camar Rio. So
we drove up there. You need meal money to get
up there from here, and uh we show up. Got
the eighth hole. It's a long par five. I l rushboa, Joe.
I mean, I'm I'm hitting the ball off the tea
as well as I have and I don't know how
long bamo it's it's it's about a five thirty five
(00:45):
yard part five a second shot three wood bammos straight
down the middle and I have I have aout eighty
yards in and I started yank, come over the top
on the gap. Wedgends up in the trapped greenside bunker
that we're one down here by this is this is um.
This is to tie it up and not not losing
(01:06):
any money. And of course everbody thinks when I'm in
the bunker, I've got a reputation being bad bunker player. Okay,
it's over. So I go in there and I take
my first swipe in the bunker and the ball doesn't move.
I whiffed. I got right under the ball, but I
kept the pose. I kept the pose as though I
had hit the best shot ever. I was just trying
to cover my embarrassment in case anybody from high up
(01:26):
the hill of clubhouse is looking. So that I looked down,
the ball still there. I pop up, take another shot
at it. Two hops in the hole, holdout from the greenside,
monker four or five, wiping out the opposition. You've been
a long day. It's a hilly golf course, up and down.
They just that, just that just took all the juice
(01:46):
out of that. Was it. As another successful fun day
brought to an exciting conclusion. And here we are ready
to kick it off again. Happy to have you along, folks.
Telephone numbers eight D eight eight to if you want
to be on the program. The email address l rush
bome at e I B net dot com. Now, as
I told you yesterday, during yesterday's excursion into broadcast excellence.
(02:12):
I was not going to have a chance to watch
the bamster's speech on Afghanistan. I just didn't need to
watch it. I know what he was gonna do. But
is my job to watch it in large parts so
that you don't have to And I would come in
here and tell you what you missed, and as an
added bonus, sometimes to tell you what to think about
(02:33):
what you missed. But even if that, folks, I didn't
we UM. After the sterling day and the golf course
went to UM, went to dinner place in Malibu. I
forget the name of the place, with a high up
on the hill overlooking the ocean looking south. Beautiful place
up there. And got home and I was just exhausted,
sa zapp so UM. I didn't even fire up the computer.
(02:55):
Toyter around on the iPad for a while, and I
came in. I talked a couple of people and found
out what happened, and we basically have put together a
summary for you if you didn't want you either, hell,
I don't blame you if you don't want to want it.
We've got a summarize here in about what a minute
and a half. I think that's about all it takes
to summarize what happened last night, and no, the honest,
(03:17):
condensed version of the President's Afghan troop withdrawal speech good evening.
To begin with, I got Osama bin Laden, so really,
anything I do in Afghanistan is okay. So I'm removing
thirty troops just like I promised the Taliban two years ago.
Our mission in Afghanistan will change from combat to retreat
(03:39):
because I killed Osama bin Laden. What does this tell
our enemies? You will be held accountable unless I'm running
for office and I think I'm losing. Of course, huge
challenges remain, like creating an imperfect Afghanistan for future generations.
But tonight we take comfort in the fact that we
(03:59):
have killed Ben Ladden. Now, some would have us retreat
from the world. Others would have us over extended, confronting
every evil in the world. I want a little bit
of both, like in Libya, where we just dropped bombs
from thirty thousand feet, hope we killed Kadafi and pretend
democracy will just spring up out of nowhere. Oh and
(04:21):
did I tell you that I met the guys who
took out Ben Ladden. We are bound together by the
creed written down in our founding documents, the Magna Carta,
the Prenuptial, and the New Deal America. It's time to
focus on nation building here at home. Now, let us
respectfully in these wars. God help our troops because I
(04:45):
want thank you pretty much. Sums it up right? You
watch it doing well? See you didn't have to know
you know you. I'm sure you have a wonderful idea
exactly what happened last night. Um Obama and his address
to the nation. Stumbling through the show prep today, and
I do mean stumbling. It's uh, you know, I if
(05:08):
I try to try to stay on an East Coast
schedule when I'm out here, and if I if I did,
that would mean going to bed at eleven I go
to bed about two am. That would be going to
bed at eleven here and getting up as it is
four and getting in here at about uh we're gonna
(05:29):
get it at five. Yeah, it hasn't been working out.
I've been going to bed at two o'clock here and
getting up at five o'clock here after all of these
action filled days doing the program and then uh, you know,
hustling out of here and heading to the golf course
of the day, and then going out and having a
(05:52):
tasty morsel at dinner, and then back home to some
show prep before getting to bed. So just a little
bit on the frazzled side. But you wouldn't know it
if I, if I didn't mention it to you. We
do have a couple of sound bites from Obama, and
it's his own trial balloons here in trying to make
this whole claim that the Republicans are purposely destroying the economy,
(06:16):
the Republicans are responsible for all of this. To sound
bites maybe three from Obama's White House speech last night
on Afghanistan, we take comfort in knowing that the tide
of war is receding. Fewer of our sons and daughters
are serving in harm's way. We've ended our combat mission
in a rock, with a hundred thousand American troops already
(06:38):
out of that country. And even as there will be
dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light of a secure
peace can be seen in the distance. These long wars
will come to a responsible end. Those long wars started
long before I got here, will come to an end.
And he kept going. He wasn't finished over the last decade.
We have spent a trillion dollars on war at a
(07:00):
time of rising debt, economic time. Tape, Stop tape there,
you haven't you see where this is going. For the
last decade. Translation since Bush, we've spent a trivion dollars.
There's the magic number. His healthcare bill costs less than that. See,
I mean actually doesn't. But that's what they wanted everybody
(07:20):
to believe. Trillion dollars on a war, rising debt, hard
economic times over the last ten years. Let's continue now.
We must invest in America's greatest resource, our people. Stop
that tape. So now it's time for change. I'm Barack
(07:43):
Obama and I just got here. You elected me in
November of two thousand and eight. But today is my
first day on the job. And after ten years of
absolute purposeful destruction the economy by my predecessor and his party,
and after wasting a trillion dollars on this war, I
(08:06):
have finally shown up and it's time to invest in you.
So I Barack Obama, am starting that today or in
his case, last night. Let's keep going. We must unleash
innovation that creates new jobs and industries while living within
our means we must rebuild our infrastructure and find new
(08:29):
and clean sources of energy. America. It is time to
focus on nation building here at home. That's I'm Barack
Obama and I just got here, and yeah, we we
It's time to unleash innovation, new jobs, shovel ready infrastructure.
We haven't tried that yet. I was elected in two
(08:50):
thousand and eight, but I've been, you know, playing golf.
I just now showed up. Time to invest in you.
We're gonna have shovel ready jobs. We're gonna leash innovation
that creates jobs. See, he hasn't been doing any of
this the past two years. No, folks hadn't been doing it.
All that stuff that's been going in the past two years.
(09:11):
They've been trying to dig themselves out of the swamp
that George W. Bush created. And finally, two years after
we get rid of Bush, finally, as of last night,
finally time to start rebuilding ourselves here at home. This
is David Rodham Gurgan. Now this is seeing special coverage
(09:31):
of Obama's address on the beginning of the withdrawal of
troops from Afghanistan, and Anderson Cooper speaking of David Robin
Rodham Gurgan, and he said, what did you make of
Obama's speech here? It was a very good speech. I
thought he summarized very well what he believed, and you know,
(09:52):
I thought he was concise and he made his points. Okay,
that was a very good speech out there. Anderson, I
thought he summarized very well what he believes, and you know,
I thought he was concise and made his points. Well,
there was a problem Anderson Cooper decided a probe a
(10:13):
little deeper. He said, do you see this binny chance
as a victory for Joe Biden. Now you see when
when you ask David Rodham Gurgen about the substance of
the speech, not whether or not Obado his points and
summarize very well, so you you get into the substance
(10:34):
with him and you get a different take. There's no
question about that. General Petraeus and Story Clinton and Bob
Gates all have been reported tonight to have reluctantly accepted
this outcome. They wanted them more robust, and I, frank
you must say, what I partly puzzled about is when
you're trying to wind down a wark and everybody agrees
you have to wind it down in Afghanistan. You've got
a general who's turned around two wars, is the most
(10:55):
successful general of modern times. He comes to you with
a recommendation on how to do it, and you say, no,
thank you, I'm gonna do it a different way. Oh
so uh. David Rodan Gergan not so happy with speech.
We learned when he starts examining the specifics in the
substance here you The answer to this is actually very simple.
(11:21):
Petraeus is a goof. He's an idiot. All he's ever
been as a military hawk. All he's ever been necessarily
loves killing people, shooting guns, and so forth. The theoreticians
at the Faculty Lounge at Harvard much more compassionate than that.
We're much more sophisticated East warmongers. I'm not gonna listen
(11:43):
to some warmonger. I'm Barack Husein Obama, and I'm not
gonna listen to some warmonger. Besides, I'm not out to
win this thing because I don't like victory makes me nervous.
I don't like having to see Emperor hero Hito show
up and surrender. I just don't like that. Emperor hero
he To, of course didn't David Ignatius, a columnist at
(12:06):
The Washington Post, basically says it doesn't matter. Obama is
the commander in chief, screw the general's. Charlie Rose asked
him a question here. Here's what intrigues me is the
president's mind. What's happened here between the two thousand nine assessment,
that long drawn out assessment of Afghanistan, and everybody who
(12:27):
participated said was very interesting and very productive for them.
What's happening between then and now? What Obama's is screwing
We're getting out of there. This president has become commander
in chief. This is the president who took a very
gutsy decision to send the seals in it to take
out Asavan Laden. And I think that changes you. He
commander in chief changes you in what way? Well, what
(12:50):
he's deciding is, I'm going to make up my own
mind despite what the generals are telling me. In General
petres a pretty progressive argue, and he's deciding what I
think works. He's counter terrorism, and I'm gonna have the
force that supports that, and I'm not gonna send in
the coin force as the general, and I'm going to
set the policy. Okay, there you have it. So he's
(13:13):
a commander. Screw the general's screw portray Us there, Mr Gurgan,
is your answer. Obama is a commander in chief. Obama's
maturing right before our very eyes. Obama's single handedly We're
back to this. Now can handle all of this. There's
no question this speech last night was a campaign speech.
(13:35):
What better way to fire up the Democrat base than
to announce you intend to lose the war in Afghanistan.
That's what the Democrat base wants. So Obama essentially says
I'm not to lose in The Democrat base is happy.
They're all excited about it. You know what, what what
do um? General Petrayus and Gates the Defense secretary? What
(13:59):
do they know? They were? They were both opposed to
Obama when he made his guts he called, don't you
remember that only Obama knew how to go out and
get bin long. Only Obama understood all the patrols. Only
Obama was able to see all the things that could
go wrong. So he's a brilliant guy getting been aligned
(14:21):
and now he's a brilliant military strategist. You know, Hitler's
generals trying to argue with him too, fools. President Obama
in a nutshell now says we cannot continue to fight
in Afghanistan. Too expensive. But what is the logic here?
Doesn't He insist that massive government spending is the only
(14:44):
thing that will lift us out of recession, and that
we have to do a lot more of it. But
somehow all that's spending on the military and Afghanistan that
won't cut it. And as we speak, Dingy Harry, Senate
Democrats pushing for yet another round of stimulus spending, but
(15:06):
the war in Afghanistan would suffice. In fact, it was
World War two that got FDR out of the fire.
It was Paul Krugman, Just to remind you of New
York Times, Paul Krugman saying just a few months ago,
back in September is almost a year, nine months, that
(15:26):
we needed another World War two to get us out
of the recession. Even Krugman was finally admitting that it
was only World War Two that finally lifted us out
of the Great Depression. It was not the New Deal.
So if massive government spending is good for the economy,
how come the war in Afghanistan isn't actually helping the economy.
I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why it's re elected.
(15:50):
Don't doubt me on this, folks. You're going to think
that this is over the top. It's not. It's re
elect time. It's run for re election time. Obama is
losing his base, He's lost the independence. He has got
to get the base down, gotta get him back. You
don't get the base of the Democrat Party by winning wars.
(16:13):
You do not hold the far left fringe of the
Democrat Party as ardent, energized supporters manning phone banks for
you and running around bundling funds and raising funds. That's
not gonna happen among the base. If you go out
and win a war, lose a war, ah, now we're talking,
(16:40):
go out to lose a war and maybe humiliate a
general or two in the process, then you have a
chance of reclaiming the Democratic base. Don't doubt me, Mr Limball.
That simply that simply unaffickable that you can think something
like that about of a country of the United Things true,
(17:00):
Mr new Castrati, And you know it as well as
I do. I mean, you have to admit Obama's campaign
speech last night was for what it was, one of
his most impressive so far, it was clear that Obama
needed and wanted to shore up his anti American bass
known as the Democrat Party. If I had to guess,
(17:26):
I'd say that most of Obama's fringe is not all
that happy he killed Bin Laden. He's probably been paying
a little bit of a political price. Maybe not so
much for killing bin Lad, but he's been out there
doing as Tarzan Bigness chest and claiming credit big time
warrior now I killed Bin Laden. That doesn't sit well
(17:48):
with the Democrat base. And announcing he's now planning to
lose the war in Afghanistan was maybe one of the
best moves he could have made to reconnect with the
Democrat bas
We are here on the left coast. We're in Hollywood
where in Los Angeles broadcast excellence for the fourth straight
day out here and one more to go after today.
We're having more fun than a human beings should be
allowed to have showed up yesterday. Plan a golf course
called Santa KOI up in a Reagan country. You know
where it is. It's up there in uh in Camarillo
(00:21):
or do they say camar Rio? Here camar Rio. So
we drove up there. You need meal money to get
up there from here, and uh we show up. Got
the eighth hole. It's a long par five. I l rushboa, Joe.
I mean, I'm I'm hitting the ball off the tea
as well as I have and I don't know how
long bamo it's it's it's about a five thirty five
(00:45):
yard part five a second shot three wood bammos straight
down the middle and I have I have aout eighty
yards in and I started yank, come over the top
on the gap. Wedgends up in the trapped greenside bunker
that we're one down here by this is this is um.
This is to tie it up and not not losing
(01:06):
any money. And of course everbody thinks when I'm in
the bunker, I've got a reputation being bad bunker player. Okay,
it's over. So I go in there and I take
my first swipe in the bunker and the ball doesn't move.
I whiffed. I got right under the ball, but I
kept the pose. I kept the pose as though I
had hit the best shot ever. I was just trying
to cover my embarrassment in case anybody from high up
(01:26):
the hill of clubhouse is looking. So that I looked down,
the ball still there. I pop up, take another shot
at it. Two hops in the hole, holdout from the greenside,
monker four or five, wiping out the opposition. You've been
a long day. It's a hilly golf course, up and down.
They just that, just that just took all the juice
(01:46):
out of that. Was it. As another successful fun day
brought to an exciting conclusion. And here we are ready
to kick it off again. Happy to have you along, folks.
Telephone numbers eight D eight eight to if you want
to be on the program. The email address l rush
bome at e I B net dot com. Now, as
I told you yesterday, during yesterday's excursion into broadcast excellence.
(02:12):
I was not going to have a chance to watch
the bamster's speech on Afghanistan. I just didn't need to
watch it. I know what he was gonna do. But
is my job to watch it in large parts so
that you don't have to And I would come in
here and tell you what you missed, and as an
added bonus, sometimes to tell you what to think about
(02:33):
what you missed. But even if that, folks, I didn't
we UM. After the sterling day and the golf course
went to UM, went to dinner place in Malibu. I
forget the name of the place, with a high up
on the hill overlooking the ocean looking south. Beautiful place
up there. And got home and I was just exhausted,
sa zapp so UM. I didn't even fire up the computer.
(02:55):
Toyter around on the iPad for a while, and I
came in. I talked a couple of people and found
out what happened, and we basically have put together a
summary for you if you didn't want you either, hell,
I don't blame you if you don't want to want it.
We've got a summarize here in about what a minute
and a half. I think that's about all it takes
to summarize what happened last night, and no, the honest,
(03:17):
condensed version of the President's Afghan troop withdrawal speech good evening.
To begin with, I got Osama bin Laden, so really,
anything I do in Afghanistan is okay. So I'm removing
thirty troops just like I promised the Taliban two years ago.
Our mission in Afghanistan will change from combat to retreat
(03:39):
because I killed Osama bin Laden. What does this tell
our enemies? You will be held accountable unless I'm running
for office and I think I'm losing. Of course, huge
challenges remain, like creating an imperfect Afghanistan for future generations.
But tonight we take comfort in the fact that we
(03:59):
have killed Ben Ladden. Now, some would have us retreat
from the world. Others would have us over extended, confronting
every evil in the world. I want a little bit
of both, like in Libya, where we just dropped bombs
from thirty thousand feet, hope we killed Kadafi and pretend
democracy will just spring up out of nowhere. Oh and
(04:21):
did I tell you that I met the guys who
took out Ben Ladden. We are bound together by the
creed written down in our founding documents, the Magna Carta,
the Prenuptial, and the New Deal America. It's time to
focus on nation building here at home. Now, let us
respectfully in these wars. God help our troops because I
(04:45):
want thank you pretty much. Sums it up right? You
watch it doing well? See you didn't have to know
you know you. I'm sure you have a wonderful idea
exactly what happened last night. Um Obama and his address
to the nation. Stumbling through the show prep today, and
I do mean stumbling. It's uh, you know, I if
(05:08):
I try to try to stay on an East Coast
schedule when I'm out here, and if I if I did,
that would mean going to bed at eleven I go
to bed about two am. That would be going to
bed at eleven here and getting up as it is
four and getting in here at about uh we're gonna
(05:29):
get it at five. Yeah, it hasn't been working out.
I've been going to bed at two o'clock here and
getting up at five o'clock here after all of these
action filled days doing the program and then uh, you know,
hustling out of here and heading to the golf course
of the day, and then going out and having a
(05:52):
tasty morsel at dinner, and then back home to some
show prep before getting to bed. So just a little
bit on the frazzled side. But you wouldn't know it
if I, if I didn't mention it to you. We
do have a couple of sound bites from Obama, and
it's his own trial balloons here in trying to make
this whole claim that the Republicans are purposely destroying the economy,
(06:16):
the Republicans are responsible for all of this. To sound
bites maybe three from Obama's White House speech last night
on Afghanistan, we take comfort in knowing that the tide
of war is receding. Fewer of our sons and daughters
are serving in harm's way. We've ended our combat mission
in a rock, with a hundred thousand American troops already
(06:38):
out of that country. And even as there will be
dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light of a secure
peace can be seen in the distance. These long wars
will come to a responsible end. Those long wars started
long before I got here, will come to an end.
And he kept going. He wasn't finished over the last decade.
We have spent a trillion dollars on war at a
(07:00):
time of rising debt, economic time. Tape, Stop tape there,
you haven't you see where this is going. For the
last decade. Translation since Bush, we've spent a trivion dollars.
There's the magic number. His healthcare bill costs less than that. See,
I mean actually doesn't. But that's what they wanted everybody
(07:20):
to believe. Trillion dollars on a war, rising debt, hard
economic times over the last ten years. Let's continue now.
We must invest in America's greatest resource, our people. Stop
that tape. So now it's time for change. I'm Barack
(07:43):
Obama and I just got here. You elected me in
November of two thousand and eight. But today is my
first day on the job. And after ten years of
absolute purposeful destruction the economy by my predecessor and his party,
and after wasting a trillion dollars on this war, I
(08:06):
have finally shown up and it's time to invest in you.
So I Barack Obama, am starting that today or in
his case, last night. Let's keep going. We must unleash
innovation that creates new jobs and industries while living within
our means we must rebuild our infrastructure and find new
(08:29):
and clean sources of energy. America. It is time to
focus on nation building here at home. That's I'm Barack
Obama and I just got here, and yeah, we we
It's time to unleash innovation, new jobs, shovel ready infrastructure.
We haven't tried that yet. I was elected in two
(08:50):
thousand and eight, but I've been, you know, playing golf.
I just now showed up. Time to invest in you.
We're gonna have shovel ready jobs. We're gonna leash innovation
that creates jobs. See, he hasn't been doing any of
this the past two years. No, folks hadn't been doing it.
All that stuff that's been going in the past two years.
(09:11):
They've been trying to dig themselves out of the swamp
that George W. Bush created. And finally, two years after
we get rid of Bush, finally, as of last night,
finally time to start rebuilding ourselves here at home. This
is David Rodham Gurgan. Now this is seeing special coverage
(09:31):
of Obama's address on the beginning of the withdrawal of
troops from Afghanistan, and Anderson Cooper speaking of David Robin
Rodham Gurgan, and he said, what did you make of
Obama's speech here? It was a very good speech. I
thought he summarized very well what he believed, and you know,
(09:52):
I thought he was concise and he made his points. Okay,
that was a very good speech out there. Anderson, I
thought he summarized very well what he believes, and you know,
I thought he was concise and made his points. Well,
there was a problem Anderson Cooper decided a probe a
(10:13):
little deeper. He said, do you see this binny chance
as a victory for Joe Biden. Now you see when
when you ask David Rodham Gurgen about the substance of
the speech, not whether or not Obado his points and
summarize very well, so you you get into the substance
(10:34):
with him and you get a different take. There's no
question about that. General Petraeus and Story Clinton and Bob
Gates all have been reported tonight to have reluctantly accepted
this outcome. They wanted them more robust, and I, frank
you must say, what I partly puzzled about is when
you're trying to wind down a wark and everybody agrees
you have to wind it down in Afghanistan. You've got
a general who's turned around two wars, is the most
(10:55):
successful general of modern times. He comes to you with
a recommendation on how to do it, and you say, no,
thank you, I'm gonna do it a different way. Oh
so uh. David Rodan Gergan not so happy with speech.
We learned when he starts examining the specifics in the
substance here you The answer to this is actually very simple.
(11:21):
Petraeus is a goof. He's an idiot. All he's ever
been as a military hawk. All he's ever been necessarily
loves killing people, shooting guns, and so forth. The theoreticians
at the Faculty Lounge at Harvard much more compassionate than that.
We're much more sophisticated East warmongers. I'm not gonna listen
(11:43):
to some warmonger. I'm Barack Husein Obama, and I'm not
gonna listen to some warmonger. Besides, I'm not out to
win this thing because I don't like victory makes me nervous.
I don't like having to see Emperor hero Hito show
up and surrender. I just don't like that. Emperor hero
he To, of course didn't David Ignatius, a columnist at
(12:06):
The Washington Post, basically says it doesn't matter. Obama is
the commander in chief, screw the general's. Charlie Rose asked
him a question here. Here's what intrigues me is the
president's mind. What's happened here between the two thousand nine assessment,
that long drawn out assessment of Afghanistan, and everybody who
(12:27):
participated said was very interesting and very productive for them.
What's happening between then and now? What Obama's is screwing
We're getting out of there. This president has become commander
in chief. This is the president who took a very
gutsy decision to send the seals in it to take
out Asavan Laden. And I think that changes you. He
commander in chief changes you in what way? Well, what
(12:50):
he's deciding is, I'm going to make up my own
mind despite what the generals are telling me. In General
petres a pretty progressive argue, and he's deciding what I
think works. He's counter terrorism, and I'm gonna have the
force that supports that, and I'm not gonna send in
the coin force as the general, and I'm going to
set the policy. Okay, there you have it. So he's
(13:13):
a commander. Screw the general's screw portray Us there, Mr Gurgan,
is your answer. Obama is a commander in chief. Obama's
maturing right before our very eyes. Obama's single handedly We're
back to this. Now can handle all of this. There's
no question this speech last night was a campaign speech.
(13:35):
What better way to fire up the Democrat base than
to announce you intend to lose the war in Afghanistan.
That's what the Democrat base wants. So Obama essentially says
I'm not to lose in The Democrat base is happy.
They're all excited about it. You know what, what what
do um? General Petrayus and Gates the Defense secretary? What
(13:59):
do they know? They were? They were both opposed to
Obama when he made his guts he called, don't you
remember that only Obama knew how to go out and
get bin long. Only Obama understood all the patrols. Only
Obama was able to see all the things that could
go wrong. So he's a brilliant guy getting been aligned
(14:21):
and now he's a brilliant military strategist. You know, Hitler's
generals trying to argue with him too, fools. President Obama
in a nutshell now says we cannot continue to fight
in Afghanistan. Too expensive. But what is the logic here?
Doesn't He insist that massive government spending is the only
(14:44):
thing that will lift us out of recession, and that
we have to do a lot more of it. But
somehow all that's spending on the military and Afghanistan that
won't cut it. And as we speak, Dingy Harry, Senate
Democrats pushing for yet another round of stimulus spending, but
(15:06):
the war in Afghanistan would suffice. In fact, it was
World War two that got FDR out of the fire.
It was Paul Krugman, Just to remind you of New
York Times, Paul Krugman saying just a few months ago,
back in September is almost a year, nine months, that
(15:26):
we needed another World War two to get us out
of the recession. Even Krugman was finally admitting that it
was only World War Two that finally lifted us out
of the Great Depression. It was not the New Deal.
So if massive government spending is good for the economy,
how come the war in Afghanistan isn't actually helping the economy.
I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why it's re elected.
(15:50):
Don't doubt me on this, folks. You're going to think
that this is over the top. It's not. It's re
elect time. It's run for re election time. Obama is
losing his base, He's lost the independence. He has got
to get the base down, gotta get him back. You
don't get the base of the Democrat Party by winning wars.
(16:13):
You do not hold the far left fringe of the
Democrat Party as ardent, energized supporters manning phone banks for
you and running around bundling funds and raising funds. That's
not gonna happen among the base. If you go out
and win a war, lose a war, ah, now we're talking,
(16:40):
go out to lose a war and maybe humiliate a
general or two in the process, then you have a
chance of reclaiming the Democratic base. Don't doubt me, Mr Limball.
That simply that simply unaffickable that you can think something
like that about of a country of the United Things true,
(17:00):
Mr new Castrati, And you know it as well as
I do. I mean, you have to admit Obama's campaign
speech last night was for what it was, one of
his most impressive so far, it was clear that Obama
needed and wanted to shore up his anti American bass
known as the Democrat Party. If I had to guess,
(17:26):
I'd say that most of Obama's fringe is not all
that happy he killed Bin Laden. He's probably been paying
a little bit of a political price. Maybe not so
much for killing bin Lad, but he's been out there
doing as Tarzan Bigness chest and claiming credit big time
warrior now I killed Bin Laden. That doesn't sit well
(17:48):
with the Democrat base. And announcing he's now planning to
lose the war in Afghanistan was maybe one of the
best moves he could have made to reconnect with the
Democrat bas
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