OT - Limbaugh: I hope Obama 'fails'

[Voyager]

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It just goes to show how much that right-wing windbag cares more about bigots being in control than he does about whether the USA succeeds or fails.

What a loser!

[Arkansas]

And if Obama does have troubles too much to overcome, the blame will get put on the previous administration. Obama will get a free pass no matter what. I hope Obama works his butt off and makes good change, however, even if he doesn't, he'll walk away unscathed...because nothing will ever be his fault.


later~

[Voyager]

And if Obama does have troubles too much to overcome, the blame will get put on the previous administration. Obama will get a free pass no matter what. I hope Obama works his butt off and makes good change, however, even if he doesn't, he'll walk away unscathed...because nothing will ever be his fault.

later~

So in other words, anyone who doesn't like Obama has the right to wish failure on him? Wow, you're really setting him up for success. In your mind he may as well just resign today because he will never make the right wing happy.

You would think that eight years of failure would open the minds of the closed minded, but I'm not so sure.

[Arkansas]

Regardless of political affiliation, everyone has the right to wish for anything. I for one wish success.
However, if things do occur disagreeable to some, many will still support him because he can do no wrong. For the rest of his life, this man gets a free pass no matter what. The blame for even the smallest failure will get displaced, and many layers of accolade will get heaped-on, regardless of outcome. He will always be in a win-win situation.

He can sit on his thumbs until he leaves office, and he'll still be today's MLK.
He'll get statues and sainthood. No doubt.


later~

[Jana]

And if Obama does have troubles too much to overcome, the blame will get put on the previous administration. Obama will get a free pass no matter what. I hope Obama works his butt off and makes good change, however, even if he doesn't, he'll walk away unscathed...because nothing will ever be his fault.

later~

So in other words, anyone who doesn't like Obama has the right to wish failure on him? Wow, you're really setting him up for success. In your mind he may as well just resign today because he will never make the right wing happy.

You would think that eight years of failure would open the minds of the closed minded, but I'm not so sure.

Joe Scarborough on his morning show this morning showed such class and emotion about the inauguration. He basically stated to hope for Obama's failure was selfish, especially in light of the problems we are facing. He's a conservative Republican, but he wasn't acting bitter this morning and was genuinely moved and made insightful, thoughtful comments.

[Voyager]

I admit I voted for Bush in 2000 but not in 2004, and I voted for Obama in 2008. I used to be a right winger, but now I am just a pro-American.

[Don]

Rush wouldn't have anything to harp on if Obama didn't get elected. He couched his remark in such a way that he'll get all the publicity but can say it was taken out of context if the heat gets too hot for him. He's just a loudmouth and a hypocrite. He craves to be someone who people will listen to and rally around, but if he died tomorrow, within a week people will have already dismissed his very existence.

[stevew2]

He is a fuckin oxycoton low life pig . he will go to hades .that bastard

[Voyager]

Maybe Bush and Rush will get together and start a new douche company called 'Douche Dumbaugh'.

[Don]

Maybe Bush and Rush will get together and start a new douche company called 'Douche Dumbaugh'.

They can take Al Franken with them, he won't be missed.

[stevew2]

Maybe Bush and Rush will get together and start a new douche company called 'Douche Dumbaugh'.

They can take Al Franken with them, he won't be missed.

that guy is retarded,how can anyone vote for a comidian from Sat. night live to hold a public office? His mouth looks like a vagina to

[RedWingFan]

Why don't you dumbasses actually listen or read what he says before you fly off the handle???? He's right, as usual. Read it and tell me where he's wrong. Then please point out the nearest strong socialist utopia for me. (before you say Canada, keep in mind we have Army platoons larger than their entire Army. If we become like Canada, who's gonna cover OUR defenseless ass???) Thanks!!!

RUSH: I got a request here from a major American print publication. "Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency. We would love to include you. If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday night, that would be ideal." Now, we're caught in this trap again. The premise is, what is your "hope." My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance." Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed.

If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it.

Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated? Why do we have to play the game by their rules? Why do we have to accept the premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency, that we want him to succeed? This is affirmative action, if we do that. We want to promote failure, we want to promote incompetence, we want to stand by and not object to what he's doing simply because of the color of his skin? Sorry. I got past the historical nature of this months ago. He is the president of the United States, he's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me. We're talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids. Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it, four words, "I hope he fails." And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Shows you just how far gone we are. Well, I know, I know. I am the last man standing.


I'm happy to be the last man standing. I'm honored to be the last man standing. Yeah, I'm the true maverick. I can do more than four words. I could say I hope he fails and I could do a brief explanation of why. You know, I want to win. If my party doesn't, I do. If my party has sacrificed the whole concept of victory, sorry, I'm now the Republican in name only, and they are the sellouts. I'm serious about this. Why in the world, it's what Ann Coulter was talking about, the tyranny of the majority, all these victims here, we gotta make sure the victims are finally assuaged. Well, the dirty little secret is this isn't going to assuage anybody's victim status, and the race industry isn't going to go away, and the fact that America's original sin of slavery is going to be absolved, it's not going to happen. Just isn't, folks. It's too big a business for the left to keep all those things alive that divide the people of this country into groups that are against each other. Yes, I'm fired up about this.

Reasons number 249 and 50 why I'm not a Republican. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has been chosen to introduce Vice-President-elect Biden at a bipartisan dinner in Washington on the eve of the immaculation. Biden was one of Hagel's closest friends in the Senate. "Bipartisan dinners also held that night honoring McCain and Colin Powell. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina will introduce McCain at a dinner." So all these Republicans are being honored on the night before Obama is immaculately inaugurated, as though they're part of the Obama administration. Our presidential candidate is being honored. I can understand liberals honoring their losers, but I just -- (tearing up story)

[conversationpc]

I'm not a Limbaugh fan at all but RedWingFan is right...What he's saying is he wants to see the country succeed but he wants Obama's policies to fail because he believes they will be bad for the country. Big difference.

[RossValoryRocks]

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It just goes to show how much that right-wing windbag cares more about bigots being in control than he does about whether the USA succeeds or fails.

What a loser!

Well the left wing windbags did the same to Bush...so hey fair is fair...

[UncleKG]

Well the left wing windbags did the same to Bush...so hey fair is fair...

Fortunately for the left wing windbags, Bush went right out and made their wildest dreams come true.

[RossValoryRocks]

Well the left wing windbags did the same to Bush...so hey fair is fair...

Fortunately for the left wing windbags, Bush went right out and made their wildest dreams come true.

Probably true...and Obama is off to a good start with closing Gitmo and bringing the terrorist to US prisons...

It's going to be a interesting few years listening to the various media outlets!

[conversationpc]

Probably true...and Obama is off to a good start with closing Gitmo and bringing the terrorist to US prisons...

It's going to be a interesting few years listening to the various media outlets!

I'm against closing Gitmo but look at it this way...Our homegrown criminals probably won't take kindly to the foreign criminals. Prison bitch time!

[Uno_up]

Probably true...and Obama is off to a good start with closing Gitmo and bringing the terrorist to US prisons...

It's going to be a interesting few years listening to the various media outlets!

I'm against closing Gitmo but look at it this way...Our homegrown criminals probably won't take kindly to the foreign criminals. Prison bitch time!

Nah...these guys will be instantly protected by other Muslims in jail. It's more of a gang in a prison setting than a real religion.

[Tito]

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It just goes to show how much that right-wing windbag cares more about bigots being in control than he does about whether the USA succeeds or fails.

What a loser!

I caught him on Hannity's show last night for a little bit and happened to catch the part your talking about. He said he hopes Obama's liberal/socialist policies fail and so do I. I don't want to live in a socialist country. I want the country to do well though.

[stevew2]

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It just goes to show how much that right-wing windbag cares more about bigots being in control than he does about whether the USA succeeds or fails.

What a loser!

I caught him on Hannity's show last night for a little bit and happened to catch the part your talking about. He said he hopes Obama's liberal/socialist policies fail and so do I. I don't want to live in a socialist country. I want the country to do well though.

Happened to???I know Rush is your hero dickbag

[brywool]

OH MY GOD, SOMEONE'S BASHING RUSH. OH MY GOD.

I bashed Limbaugh a few months ago and peeps went apeshit.
Rush Limbaugh is a douchebag, pure and simple.

[Rocker Chic]

I'm not a Limbaugh fan at all but RedWingFan is right...What he's saying is he wants to see the country succeed but he wants Obama's policies to fail because he believes they will be bad for the country. Big difference.

Same here. Some of what he says he wants to accomplish scares and mystifys me. And, yes, in those respects, I hope he fails at them, too. I hope us, as a county & people, get back doing well, but that is as far as my hopes will reach.

His skin color means absolutely nothing to me and I regard this "history" that everyone speaks of as simply the 44th President taking office. Sure he is a black American, but he is also a white American. Many are cheering that they finally have a President in office that looks like them... Well, he doesn't look like me... He's got a penis (presumeably). Hell, not a single President that was in office looked like me! What the hell does that have to do with anything? Hearing people talk, they're acting as if Obama is the second coming of Christ! WTH?? He's just a president that happens to be half black... Big deal!

What is important to ME and this COUNTRY is that he turn our economy around, enable all those who lost their jobs in droves find good work again, and allow all Americans to realize their own "American Dream" again. THAT is the heart of soul of our country, not that we have a president who is half Black.

Oh, and BTW, does it mean, since minorities have now realized that they can achieve the same thing that non-minorities have for years, that they will allow our country to treat everyone as equals now??? Can we finally get rid of that minority label and allow everyone the same equality in all aspects of life??? Um, yeah... I didn't thing so...

[Tito]

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It just goes to show how much that right-wing windbag cares more about bigots being in control than he does about whether the USA succeeds or fails.

What a loser!

I caught him on Hannity's show last night for a little bit and happened to catch the part your talking about. He said he hopes Obama's liberal/socialist policies fail and so do I. I don't want to live in a socialist country. I want the country to do well though.

Happened to???I know Rush is your hero dickbag

Your wrong fuckface. I bet since he's been on the air, I've listen to him an equivalent of less than one day/show.

[stevew2]

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It just goes to show how much that right-wing windbag cares more about bigots being in control than he does about whether the USA succeeds or fails.

What a loser!

I caught him on Hannity's show last night for a little bit and happened to catch the part your talking about. He said he hopes Obama's liberal/socialist policies fail and so do I. I don't want to live in a socialist country. I want the country to do well though.

Happened to???I know Rush is your hero dickbag

Your wrong fuckface. I bet since he's been on the air, I've listen to him an equivalent of less than one day/show.

Bullshit numbnuts, I know damn well you got the am station that the fuckin pig grunts of his garbage on programed on that shitty radio in that clunker you drive.I got ways of finding out to

[Don]

I'm not a Limbaugh fan at all but RedWingFan is right...What he's saying is he wants to see the country succeed but he wants Obama's policies to fail because he believes they will be bad for the country. Big difference.

It's not what Rush says sometimes as much as how he says it. He got Maximum impact form the bullet statement which he knew was going to happen and maximum hits on his website from everybody reading the full statement. I don't care if he is Dem or Rep, he went off the beaten path a long time ago with his rants. I used to listen to his program when I was younger but the drugs he got hooked on seem to have ratcheted up his penchant for viperous attacks on anyone who doesn't see the word exactly as he does. Do Dems do the same thing? Of course, but we are talking about Rush in this thread, not them. If there is a hell, I know I will probably be there but I won't be alone because Rush will be right along side spouting his same old shit to Lucifer himself.

[Tito]

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It just goes to show how much that right-wing windbag cares more about bigots being in control than he does about whether the USA succeeds or fails.

What a loser!

I caught him on Hannity's show last night for a little bit and happened to catch the part your talking about. He said he hopes Obama's liberal/socialist policies fail and so do I. I don't want to live in a socialist country. I want the country to do well though.

Happened to???I know Rush is your hero dickbag

Your wrong fuckface. I bet since he's been on the air, I've listen to him an equivalent of less than one day/show.

Bullshit numbnuts, I know damn well you got the am station that the fuckin pig grunts of his garbage on programed on that shitty radio in that clunker you drive.I got ways of finding out to

Your source will agree with me. I've always blasted Fox News. I've stated that they are the worst thing for the conservative movement.

[Tomulator]

I admit I voted for Bush in 2000 but not in 2004, and I voted for Obama in 2008. I used to be a right winger, but now I am just a pro-American.

Honestly...I don't care who you are.

I just dig your AVATAR!!!!!!

[stevew2]

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It just goes to show how much that right-wing windbag cares more about bigots being in control than he does about whether the USA succeeds or fails.

What a loser!

I caught him on Hannity's show last night for a little bit and happened to catch the part your talking about. He said he hopes Obama's liberal/socialist policies fail and so do I. I don't want to live in a socialist country. I want the country to do well though.

Happened to???I know Rush is your hero dickbag

Your wrong fuckface. I bet since he's been on the air, I've listen to him an equivalent of less than one day/show.

Bullshit numbnuts, I know damn well you got the am station that the fuckin pig grunts of his garbage on programed on that shitty radio in that clunker you drive.I got ways of finding out to

Your source will agree with me. I've always blasted Fox News. I've stated that they are the worst thing for the conservative movement.

That may be true dick face but you would still would let that fat bastard ream you out like Ned Beatty

[DrFU]

Limbaugh: I hope Obama 'fails'

Come on you libs, DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC!

remember?

Goose/Gander

Absolutely. I admire his patriotism. I also think he's an egomaniacal, hypocritical, ill-informed, self righteous blowhard.

[cheekymonkey]

He's right, as usual. Read it and tell me where he's wrong. Then please point out the nearest strong socialist utopia for me. (before you say Canada, keep in mind we have Army platoons larger than their entire Army. If we become like Canada, who's gonna cover OUR defenseless ass???) Thanks!!!

Firstly, Rush is a lowlife/pill popping/fetid windbag, who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground,
Secondly, Canada is not a strong socialist utopia, and worse things could happen if you (USA) were to become more like "Canada". Our army was not created to take over the world and stick our faces in places we shouldn't be. Because of you though, we have to be involved, to be "peacekeepers". Too many innocent men and women in both countries have died because of assholes like Bush and Rush. Jesus, my worst nightmare is to live in a country that has been run ( Bush ) like yours.