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Story #1: Thomas Friedman Begs Barry to Get Tough
RUSH: When you get a 20-point swing in white women from Obama to McCain, that's unprecedented. I don't think anybody's seen that kind of movement that quickly in presidential politics in their lifetimes. You know the Democrats live and die by the polls, and they're out there saying, "Well, the polls don't matter, don't matter! Change every day! Snapshots! Doesn't mean anything!" They live and die by it. I'm telling you, there's got to be panic back there. Evidence of this can be found in the New York Times today, a column by the esteemed (ahem) Thomas Friedman, who has this advice for The Messiah. "Somebody needs to tell Obama that if he wants the chance to calm answer the phone at three a.m. in the White House, he's going to need to start slamming down some phones at three p.m. along the campaign trail.
"And if Obama wants to rally his base, he has to be more passionate about his own ideas," and then he write this: "Obama will need to find another way to connect his ideas clearly, crisply, and passionately." Now, this is the esteemed Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times, who is essentially saying Obama has lost his base. His base is the media, and the kook fringe. Obama's lost his base and he's lost his way to connect his ideas. He doen't do so "clearly, crisply, and passionately." Now, I'm sure that Mr. Friedman is trying to help here when he writes, "Somebody needs to tell Obama," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, Mr. Friedman, I think you better get in line. This is what Obama's thinkers have been telling him for weeks, if not months.
This is the advice Obama's disappointed, sycophantic followers have been giving him. Friedman, you're a little bit late to the party here. Obama's idiotic lipstick and dead fish comments were examples of Obama getting tough. That's how he gets tough! This is how community agitators man up, folks. The real problem -- and I say this to Tom Friedman and to all the others who are getting quaky in your boots. I mean, this clown that calls here right before the end of the hour, if that doesn't illustrate liberals, I don't know what does. Call here and say Sarah Palin can't put two sentences together, when his own candidate can't put a paragraph together without an uh, and an eh, you know, uhhh. Obama doesn't have any ideas he can get tough on. See, this is the real problem.
How would he get tough on tax increases? How would he get tough on surrender in military conflict? How does one get tough about not drilling for oil? I mean, is he going to sit there and angrily pound his fist and say, "If you don't properly inflate your tires, I'm going to lose it! Shut up about high gas prices and listen to me, quit your whining. Go out and buy a tire gauge and use it in an air pump or stick it where the sun don't shine!" What's he gonna do? How does he get mad about that and get tough about his issues? How do you get tough telling people how you're going to screw 'em? You hide the fact that you're going to screw 'em. Barack Obama does not have any ideas that Americans want, Barack Obama does not have any ideas that Americans need.
The guy is a one trick pony. He climbed into the arena of ideas with a speech from 2004 in one hand and in the other, a speech about him being The One we've been waiting for. And now that he's punched out, his followers are stunned, that's all their guy had. They have been passionately backing a man who has accomplished zilch, zero, nada. He hasn't accomplished anything. He has no life story he can tell. Well, he has a life story, but he won't tell it.
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