I normally don’t listen to Rush very often. When I do, it’s almost always when I’m in my car and there’s nothing else on the radio. Yesterday I had more time than usual behind the wheel, so I suppose it was inevitable that I would eventually tune in to see what he’s been up to and what he’s been saying. This is where I came in, and I think it’s dead-on accurate:
Now, this business about what he inherited drives me batty. He keeps blaming it on his “predecessor.” No president has ever done that. This is childish. It is immature. It’s narcissistic. Let me tell you what Barack Obama “inherited,” as president of the United States. Barack Obama inherited greatness. He inherited the birthplace of the individual. He inherited the defender of liberty at home and abroad, the United States of America. He inherited American exceptionalism.
He inherited the concept of equal opportunity and the right to fail and to try again. Barack Obama, as president, inherited the financial center of the world. He inherited the country that has successfully championed capitalism and widespread prosperity. Something else that President Obama also inherited: great responsibility. He inherited the great responsibility to lead the world’s lone superpower. He inherited the responsibility to preserve and to strengthen free markets. He inherited the responsibility to continue the philosophy and tradition of a country founded on Judeo-Christian morals, ethics, and principles. He inherited the Constitution of the United States. He did not inherit the right to unilaterally rewrite it or to remake it. He swore to uphold it! Barack Obama did not inherit a mess.
He inherited the United States of America, where anything is possible, where greatness has been delivered to the world time after time in the form of private sector inventions, innovations, and advancements in products that improve people’s lives for over 200 years. Barack Obama inherited all of that and a country of individuals energized by their liberty, individuals strengthened by their character. Barack Obama inherited a country that liberates the oppressed. Barack Obama inherited the greatest economy in the history of human civilization. That’s all. Nothing more; nothing less. There is nothing to apologize for what he inherited! He may as well be a five-year-old crybaby spoiled brat. (crying) “I inherited this mess of my predecessor.” He has nothing to apologize for regarding what he inherited. There is so much to be proud of in the United States of America. There’s always a lot of work to be done to preserve it and to grow it, but not in the way Obama is proceeding. Obama is destroying what others before him created. He did not inherit a mess. He has created one — and as the mess he creates deepens, so does his blaming it on his predecessors. That is gutless. It is childish. It is immature. It is unbecoming someone who serves as president of the United States.
Obama inherited a minor mess from the Bush years, but it wasn’t Bush’s doing. It was Democrats in Congress and the Clinton Administration that gave us this recession. Bush tried to stop it, but Democrats in Congress over the last couple of years wouldn’t work with him to prevent it. Now, instead of a minor recession that could have been over in a year or less, we’re teetering on the brink of a major recession, perhaps a depression (I don’t think it’ll get that bad, no matter what Obama does to the economy), and we’re trillions more in the red than we were before it began. Helluva way to run a railroad, if you ask me.
If we are going to get out of this mess, we have to return power to the people and to the states, get Washington out of our pocketbooks, and make them balance the budget and get us out of debt. We cannot spend like this any longer. People (and other countries) who buy our debt are getting nervous about our ability to repay it, and understandably so. You don’t keep extending credit to deadbeats who don’t pay their bills, after all. Sooner or later, you cut them off. And that’s going to happen to us if we don’t get this crap under control, and fast.
Obama and his cohorts are adding trillions to the deficit, and he’s only five months into his term. We’re on the hook for about $63.8 TRILLION with no end in sight, and liberals want to pile on MORE debt to that with their communist/socialist/whatever-you-wanna-call-it agenda. Of course, their answer is always the same: more taxes. But we’re bleeding to death over high taxes as it is. We don’t need MORE taxes, we need LESS government.
Update: Read this, and then try to tell me the press isn’t carrying Obama’s water for him.
