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To: Neeka who wrote (490991)6/14/2012 4:16:11 PM
From: Geoff Altman3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793800
 
If BO is so darned upset about the economy he "inherited" then why hasn't he been serious about getting the Senate to pass a new budget?
Any budget that the demorat controlled Senate would consider would royally piss off 2/3s of the country..... Not that BO was ever serious about cutting anything, well, except the military that is....



To: Neeka who wrote (490991)6/14/2012 4:57:07 PM
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And by the same token, if Obama was "so" serious about all the leaks on various issues, including National Security, why wasn't he front and center when the leaks occurred with his wrath?/??? Of course, he chose to let the NYT go on with it, and didn't say a word.....UNTIL Finally, the Repubs and Diane Feinstein decided it was past time to go forth and demand the leaks stop....

The O man is all blather.



To: Neeka who wrote (490991)6/15/2012 2:54:02 AM
From: KLP3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793800
 
Rush had a couple of beauts today...Here's one.... Obama Made His Choices -- and in November We'll Make Ours
June 14, 2012



BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Okay, Obama's big speech is this hour. He's in Cleveland. This is the big reset speech. This is the speech where there's gonna be plenty of blame for Bush, because there's a Gallup poll out that says 68% of the American people hold Bush more responsible for this than they hold Obama for it. I kid you not. Fifty-two percent blame Obama. A combined, to one degree or another, blame Bush 68%. That will be a home run for Obama to run with, that and Europe. But I want to give you some things to keep in mind during this blamethrower speech that's coming up.

As you listen to him complain, as you listen to him blame, as you listen to Obama whine, combined with all the progress we're making, that it would be even faster if it was not for that dreaded Bush and how horrible he was, keep in mind what Obama's really doing is telling us he doesn't have what it takes to fix what Bush did wrong. It's stunning. You take this out to its most logical conclusion, and what we're hearing from Obama is, "This Bush guy was so bad, I can't fix it. I've been at it three-and-a-half years, and I can't fix it, and there's no reason to reelect me. I've shown I don't know how to fix it." That's what he's saying. He doesn't know it, but that's what he's saying. And that's what I'm gonna continue to remind people he's saying.



But you keep in mind, when you hear this speech or when you see highlights of it, whenever you see it, he chose to run for president. He chose to accuse Bush of being unpatriotic for increasing the deficit. He chose to promise that he would cut the deficit in half by now. He chose a nearly $1 trillion shovel-ready stimulus that was nothing more than a slush fund for public employee union members. He chose trillion-dollar budget deficits every year. He chose to jam Obamacare down our throats. He chose to go to war against the fossil fuel industry. The thing to keep in mind, everything that is happening in this country that has gone wrong, he chose to do it, starting with choosing to run for president. You keep that in mind as you hear him blame other people. And even if he doesn't blame other people, he's still gonna whine because he's a baby.

He's really nothing more than a childish baby who grew up pampered and one of these people, self-esteem left and right, "You're special. You're wonderful. The world couldn't survive without you. The world is a better place with you in it, little Barack." It is not in him to be humble. Humility and Obama are strangers. He can't even fake that, I don't think. Barack Obama cannot escape his choices. The Democrats took over Congress in 2007. Barack Obama never tried to trim one Bush budget while he was in the Senate. He voted for every spending measure that Bush sent up there. He voted for every spending measure the Republicans or the Democrats in the House initiated.

As you listen to him today, you remember this, please. He chose everything that's happening, including to run for president. He did not oppose one penny of spending. He said that he had a plan for the country when he ran for office. The American people gave Barack Obama a Democrat Senate and a Democrat Congress for two years to execute his plan. He had majority control over the executive and legislative branches for two years. The Republicans couldn't stop anything that Obama and the Democrats wanted to do. They didn't have the votes in the House of Representatives, and they didn't, of course, anywhere near the Senate. They didn't have the chance to stop anything. The Democrats could have got everything they want for two years.

Obama baked massive deficits into the cake, starting in his first year. And with that stimulus fund, that slush fund, the baseline was expanded by nearly a trillion dollars guaranteeing trillion-dollar deficits every year after that, if nobody did anything. Now, the Republicans in the House since 2011 have slowed Obama's spending urges. There is gridlock, and this is one of the greatest illustrations of the value of gridlock, is that Obama has been thwarted, but he baked a bunch of deficit expansion into this budget the first two years that nobody has been able to do anything about. Every year Obama submitted budgets, and his budgets were so outrageous that not even the Democrats in the House and Senate voted for it. Not one.

So Obama baked all of this deficit expansion and all of this debt into the cake the first two years. It's his signature, it's his cake, it's his recipe. George Bush was nowhere around. Obama also baked massive baseline spending increases into the cake, regulatory increases. And along with all of this came massive uncertainty, which has paralyzed business in this country. Business is paralyzed, the standpoint of investing in itself because they don't know what's ahead. They fear what's ahead if Obama's reelected. They're sitting on what they've got, rather than invest it in a losing economy and a losing proposition. You keep all this in mind as you listen to him, because everything that has happened has been his choice. Everything that he's done has his signature on it. It's his recipe. It was his kitchen. It was his oven, and it was his cake that he baked with all of these things in it. He made his choices. In November we will make ours.

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RUSH: Barack Oblame-o. Barack Kardashian Oblame-o claims that people aren't listening. Just this week he said they're not following the ups and downs, the ins and outs of the campaign. It's too soon. Why is he giving a speech today, then, if people aren't paying attention? Let us use our intelligence guided by experience, shall we? When you say things are fine -- when things are fine, things are operating in a normal manner -- do you pay attention to 'em? Do you inspect your refrigerator condenser coil or fan when everything's okay? Do you schedule a doctor's appointment when you're feeling good?

No.

When things are going right, you don't notice it, 'cause that's what "is." That's what should be. When everything's normal, you go about your business. It's when things aren't working, when things aren't right that you notice 'em. And things aren't right. And they haven't been right for many, many moons. And they are getting worse. And I think the fact that Obama is gonna go out and make a speech today is a tantamount admission that people are paying attention, which is not good for him. Here, grab sound bite number five. We have The Forehead here last night on CNN with Anderson Cooper, who said, "What's your take on what Carville had to say about [Oblame-o]'s message being off."



BEGALA: He's my best friend for almost 30 years now, and also I advise the pro-Obama super PAC. At the same time, I think James has a point. Elections are always about the future, not the past. It is very difficult for incumbents to understand that. I know the president has, actually, stopped the Bush depression. I know he's created 4.3 million private sector jobs. If you go out there and say that, though, to those 25 million Americans who are hurting -- and the hundred million Americans, uh, who are worried -- you're not gonna be well received. So I do think the president's gotta make this much more about the future.

RUSH: Yeah. He can't make it about the present or the past. He's nailing shut his own coffin. But this 4.3 million jobs is a bogus number. How do you lose over two million people from the labor force and create four million jobs out of that? There's so much smoke and mirrors going on here. There certainly isn't any truth. So even The Forehead says, "Don't talk about how great it is. With all these people hurting and 25 million out of work, you don't talk about the private sector being fine."

See, if the economy is not doing fine -- and it isn't. Unemployment is over 8% for the longest period since the Great Depression. It is. We got Taxmageddon months away. It's been said if nothing's done, the economy might collapse because of these tax increases coming. If Obamacare is left in place and you lose your insurance (and many people will), would you be following the ups and downs, the ins and outs of this campaign? Were the voters in Wisconsin paying attention?

You know, Obama's lying to himself.

He's telling himself (impression), "Well, people aren't paying attention now. It's too soon. They're not following ups and downs, ins and outs of the campaign. It ain't happening." People in Wisconsin were paying attention. People in Indiana were paying attention. People in Utah were paying attention. They're paying attention everywhere. If people aren't following current events that affect their lives, why were so many people who were once obsessed with Obama now so disinterested?

Why has he lost 20% of the black vote in the polls in North Carolina if people aren't paying attention? Why would all these emphatic, slavish idolizers of Obama change their minds and go "ho-hum" if they weren't paying attention? Why are so many polls showing major shifts in voting preferences? Why have so many Jewish voters in New York bailed on Obama (again, according to the polls)? 'Cause they're not paying attention? Why did so many young voters vote in Wisconsin?

Scott Walker got the lion's share of voters under the age of 25. Why have the "yutes" become so unenthusiastic about The One? Could it be that they're paying attention to the fact that they can't find jobs? Could it be that they're paying attention to the rising student loan debt that they are incurring? Let's stop all this nonsense. Obama's always gonna minimize his problem. It's the way he's wired. His narcissism won't allow him to be critical of himself, and he doesn't have any humility.

So blame Bush!

The Politico has an excerpt, they say, from the Obama speech. It's not much of one, but here's what The Politico says the president will say: "This election offers the American people a chance to break the stalemate between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs, and pay down the debt." (repeating) "This election offers the American people a chance to break the stalemate between two fundamentally different visions..." Uh, I think what the American people want to do is stop this vision, the Obama vision. Everybody sees it with 20/20 vision. They don't want any more of it. That's why he's making the speech.

Let's go to the Theodore, Texas. Hi, Carolyn. I'm glad you called. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It's a great honor to speak to you.

RUSH: Thank you very much.

CALLER: I ponder a lot of things that I listen to all the time, and one of the things that's come to mind... Well, I have a couple of points, if you'll bear with me. The first one is that I think all the super PACs need to get together and slam Obama over this do-nothing Congress. Thank God we have a do-nothing Congress! If you can see where we got to by 2010, imagine where we'd be right now if they still got everything through they wanted.

RUSH: Yep, that's exactly right. Well, you'll be happy to hear that Sheldon Adelson, who is a big Las Vegas casino gaming tycoon (he was funding Gingrich's campaign for a while) has donated $10 million to Romney's super PAC.

CALLER: Yes, sir, I understand that. I'm aware of that.

RUSH: Well, that ought to make you pretty happy out there.

CALLER: Well, yes, sir. It does. But another point I'd like to make is that you were speaking along these lines a few minutes ago when you were talking about our whiner of a president. And I think, number one: We need common sense in these offices. And, number two: Anybody would be better than Obama. Because it is so painfully obvious that he has absolutely no experience in dealing with anything. And to that extent, I think there's a lot of abuse of power in the way that he's governing.

RUSH: See, that... You've hit on something. For what his intentions are and for what he intends to do, he doesn't need any experience. Everybody keeps looking... I'm not criticizing you. Everybody keeps looking at this guy through the traditional lens of politics. "Yeah, he's gotta have a deficit reduction program. Yeah." No, no, no! This guy doesn't need any of that. For what he intends, he doesn't need any experience. He just needs the will to do it. This guy is out to transform our country, not fix anything. And the reason for blaming Bush is to set the table for his continued reconstitution of this country.

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RUSH: So President Oblame-o saying that we need to vote for him to end the stalemate. There's a stalemate here. Two visions to fix the economic mess, and we need to vote for him to end the stalemate. Now, the problem with that approach is, he's the problem. He's the reason for the stalemate. People are trying to stop him. That's why there's a stalemate. He thinks if he wins, the message will be sent that people are supporting what he wants to do, and everybody will bow down, get out of the way, let it happen. And you couldn't blame him for that interpretation if he does win.

Go back to Ronaldus Magnus. Ronaldus Magnus won because he ran on fixing Carter's mess. That's what he said he was gonna do. He was gonna fix Carter's mess, and he succeeded. And then he was reelected after doing that before. Now, this stalemate business, I made a big point mere moments ago, and I want you to work very hard remembering this. For two years, Obama was and had a juggernaut. The Republicans could not stop him. That's why, if you recall, the election of Scott Brown to the Senate, Massachusetts, was so noteworthy. It kept the Senate from having 60 votes. They couldn't be stopped those two years. Obama ran on the promise he was gonna fix Bush's mess. He's made it worse. By blaming Bush for it he's admitting he doesn't have what it takes to fix what Bush did wrong, and yet he wants four more years to try, theoretically. But Obama had a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate.

So if he couldn't do it then, if his vision couldn't at least begin to turn things around in two years with unstoppable power, what difference is a reboot gonna make? I hope The Politico's right. I hope that that's the theme of the speech, because that theme can be fitted for a cement swimsuit and put on him. I'm telling you, two competing visions. We've had two years of unobstructed Obama juggernaut power. They couldn't fix it. They made it worse.

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To: Neeka who wrote (490991)6/15/2012 2:56:30 AM
From: KLP2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793800
 
And Here's the other one: President Barack Oblame-o

June 14, 2012



BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I think we have yet a new name for our president. He's not just Barack Hussein Kardashian. He's now Barack Oblame-o Kardashian. They're keeping it up. They're blaming Bush, and now they've got a Gallup poll which says that's the smart thing to do.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Now, look, there might be some good news for Oblame-o here. I actually don't believe this, but I'm just gonna tell you what the news is. After his latest worst week ever, according to a Gallup poll that came out today, even though George W. Bush has been outta office for nearly three-and-a-half years, Gallup says 68% of the people polled still blame him, Bush, for a great deal or moderate amount for our economic woes. So obviously there were two categories and they're combining the two and getting a grand total of 68% who blame Bush somewhat or a lot. Fifty-two percent believe Obama's to blame.

Now, that's still not a good number for Oblame-o. Fifty-two percent, but let's again look at this poll. Sixty-eight percent blame Bush a great deal or moderate amount for our economic woes. Now, put this in perspective, a little historical perspective. Barack Oblame-o has been in office nearly six months longer than John Kennedy was president. Can you imagine how absurd it would be to have heard Kennedy still blaming Eisenhower for the state of the economy by this point in his presidency? But I think this poll -- and, you know, we can cherry-pick this stuff. We can look at a poll that doesn't make sense, that we don't like, and say, "Okay, well, how could this be massaged?"

I think any poll involving Obama is going to have a bit of a Bradley Effect to it. You get a phone call or somebody runs into you at the mall: "Who do you think's responsible for the bad economy?" "Not the black guy. You just make sure you got me on this, not the black guy. I don't think the black guy has anything to do with it." You can't tell me that that's not a factor in every Oblame-o poll. I don't know to what extent.

Matt Drudge just posted a couple stories and one of them backs up something that I read last night. Michael Barone is back, National Review Online, with another great column. This one details who it is that Obama is actually listening to for campaign advice. Not so much listening to for campaign advice, but who he's trying to please. And it is rich, rich liberals. For example, on the Keystone pipeline, there is some rich billionaire heiress woman, Susie Buell or something, I don't remember her last time. This woman is an environmentalist wacko fruitcake nut who has all these concerns about groundwater poisoning and so forth. She picketed an Obama fundraiser. A billionaire heiress went out and picketed a performance or an appearance of his somewhere.

Barone says she's the reason the Keystone pipeline has not been approved. That that's who he cares about. He cares about the money from the richest liberals in this country, and he goes through with some names and some locales. Now, I've got the Barone article here toward the end of the Stack, so I don't think I can just find it right off the top of my head. I'm going to have to pretty soon because, as I say, Drudge just posted a story here from Breitbart that starts out: " Michael Barone is correct, Obama really needs to stop taking advice from wealthy, limousine liberals." And the point of this story is that it's Steven Spielberg who is behind Obama's failed attack on Bain Capital. This story is laying it off on Spielberg. It was Spielberg's idea. It was Spielberg's advice to Obama to have him head out after Romney and Bain.

It says here: "If you were looking for advice on how tell a story that would impact millions upon millions of people, would you go to a director whose last four films were 'War Horse,' 'The Adventures of Tintin,' 'Indiana Jones 4,' and 'Munich?' Nope. But Team Obama did, and what they got in return was a continuation of the ongoing Spielberg flop-streak." This guy's point is that Spielberg's last four movies have bombed, that he really doesn't know how to reach an audience anymore, and so why would you listen to him?

"At DreamWorks Studios, Steven Spielberg spent three hours explaining how to capture an audience’s attention and offered a number of ideas that will be rolled out before Election Day. An early example of Spielberg’s influence is RomneyEconomics.com, a website designed by the Obama team to tell the story -- a horror story, by their reckoning -- of Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital. Afterward, Spielberg insisted that Messina sit down with the DreamWorks marketing team. Hollywood movie studios are expert, as presidential campaigns also must be, at spending huge sums over a few weeks to reach and motivate millions of Americans.

"Obama campaign advisor Jim Messina took the meeting and is adamant the Bain attacks worked, but then I'd like to know why the Bain attacks have stopped cold?" Obama did revive it a little bit in the last couple of days. So that's that. The point of this story is Spielberg not only offered advice, he was the instigator of the attack on Bain. Now, we'll wait and see if Spielberg denies this. 'Cause, remember, we're talking about Barack Hussein Kardashian Oblame-o. The guy lays it off on anybody he can.

The next story: "Obama’s Messina Taps Google’s Schmidt for Wisdom on Winning Race -- The day after Jim Messina quit his job as White House deputy chief of staff in January 2011, he caught a plane to Los Angeles, paid a brief visit to his girlfriend, and then commenced what may be the highest-wattage crash course in executive management ever undertaken.



"He was about to begin a new job as Barack Obama’s campaign manager, and being a diligent student with access to some very smart people, he arranged a rolling series of personal seminars with the CEOs and senior executives of companies including Apple Inc. (AAPL), Facebook Inc. (FB), Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), Google Inc. (GOOG), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM), and DreamWorks SKG, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its June 18 issue. 'I went around the country for literally a month of my life interviewing these companies and just talking about organizational growth, emerging technologies, marketing,' he says at Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago.

"In two long, private conversations, Steve Jobs tore into Messina for all the White House was doing wrong and what it ought to be doing differently, before going on to explain how the campaign could exploit technology in ways that hadn’t been possible before."
They ended up choosing Eric Schmidt of Google for wisdom. Now this is a guy, Barack Oblame-o, who has his whole career done everything he can to make people think that he's for the little guy, the average guy, the people that community organizers need, union workers, the working class. More and more we learn this guy not only in his own mind is an elitist, but that's who he hangs around with and that's who he takes advice from. And so somehow he's talking to these technology whizzes, getting advice on what to do with his campaign.

In the meantime, why don't they give him some advice on what to do with the economy, while they're at it? The people that Oblame-o was talking to are doing well in the economy. And I just... It's quite telling. There's always been the association of Democrats and Hollywood. That's nothing new here. But for these people to be orchestrating it? It's interesting. So now, whatever happens in the campaign, they can lay that off on Eric Schmidt. And the Bain thing falling flat, they can blame that not just on Cory Booker. They can blame that on Spielberg now.

By the way, tonight's the big night, Oblame-o over at Sarah Jessica Parker's house with Anna Wintour. One of the theories about Anna Wintour being involved is she's up for the ambassadorial position to Great Britain, the Court of St. James, which literally is a party post. It is the post that requires the least amount of diplomatic talent or skills. It basically is a social position. That's where she's from. Apparently... (interruption) Well, it's the Kennedy post.

But, you know, a friend of mine, Charlie Price from Kansas City, was Reagan's ambassador to the court of St. James. It traditionally goes to among the highest and wealthiest of the presidency's donors. As I say, it's not really a diplomatic post. You go do some charity stuff and you hang around and you learn the way to all the castles and secret bedrooms there and have fun. And then you dress up properly whenever it's called for. It really is a plum post. Apparently that's what she's angling for.



So tonight you have Sarah Jessica Parker at her house, hosting the big winner with the $3 winner, the $3 donor. And then Oblame-o and his wife, Michelle Antoinette, get in the limo and they head up to the Plaza Hotel where there is another dinner and fundraiser. The headliner there is Mariah Carey, but guess who is the co-host? Cory Booker! (interruption) I thought he was dead, too, but then I read that Cory Booker is going to be the co-host, or whatever the word is. Yeah, I think it's co-host of the event. (interruption)

Well, we don't know that he's resurrected. We don't know that he's actually going to be permitted in or show up. So basically... Look, what we've learned here so far? Obama listens to the 1%. He's out there trying to make everybody think he hates 'em. And he's gonna punish 'em and he's gonna get even with 'em and he's gonna take everything they've got. They're being blamed for everything. And, meanwhile, that's who he's listening to. The people Obama is getting advice from are completely dependent on private equity.

Spielberg's worth a lot of money, but his movie production place still has to have money, investors, and so forth. Private equity. Same thing with Google: Private equity. The real powers, the real powers in Hollywood are the people who can get the money out of private equity. That's who the powerbrokers are there. So, anyway, we're off and running here. Bill Clinton, by the way, they dredged this up. Two years ago... It's in USA Today. Two years ago, Bill Clinton said (impression), "Hey, I want everybody to listen to me.

"Just give us two years. If it doesn't work, vote us out." Now that surfaced. "Just give us two years, and if it doesn't work, then just vote us out." I don't know what he meant by "us." I think he meant the Democrat Party. And... Oh! Oh, yes. Smack-dab in the middle of our program today on the EIB Network, Barack Oblame-o with his "major speech." It's at 1:45 Eastern time, a " major speech" where he... I think it's in Cleveland? I'm not sure where it is. It's Ohio somewhere. (interruption) I don't know if I'm gonna JIP it. It's a "major speech" from Oblame-o and it could go an hour.

I'm just telling you this.

A little note here to our affiliate stations: If I JIP it, I will pause for commercial breaks. I am not gonna throw away our obscene profit time-outs. We will, if I JIP it, take our spot breaks. But it's a major, major reset speech. This is where he's gonna once again tell everybody he's got their back. That he cares. That he understands. Probably gonna blame Bush, got that Gallup poll out there. There's gonna be a lot more blaming Bush. By the way, the Drive-Bys are very uncomfortable with this. Grab sound bite number four. Gloria Borger last night on Anderson Cooper 1. He said, "If people don't think things are getting better, can the president be reelected?"

BORGER: The problem about trying to characterize the economy or talk about the economy is that the economy speaks for itself. You know how you feel around the dinner table in your household; what's happening to your savings account. You can't really characterize the economy for other people. Now, what President Obama can do and what he's been trying to do is sort of say, "Look, here was the context in which I came to the presidency. We were in a ditch. I'm trying to get you out of it." And the Democrats that I was talking to today are saying, "That's fine, but you can't sound like you're whining when you're president of the United States because that's not what people expect from a leader."

RUSH: Sorry. That's what he sounds like, Gloria. He does sound like he's whining and complaining. It comes across. So they're concerned about it. They're softening on it because of the Gallup poll, but they're still worried he might come across as whining about it. But some things to say about this. I just want you to keep some things in mind during Oblame-o's blame-thrower speech, 'cause that's what it's gonna be. And the basic thing I want you to remember is: He chose everything that's happening here.

He chose to run for president.

He chose to accuse Bush.

All of it, he chose.

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RUSH: Here's the Barone piece: "Who does Barack [Oblame-o] listen to? Not Republican politicians. Evidently weeks go by between his conversations with Speaker John Boehner... Not Democratic politicians. We have it on good authority that he seldom talks to Democratic members of Congress. ... But there is one group of people [Oblame-o] has to listen to: the people who give him large sums of money. He recently attended his 150th fundraiser. That's more than the number attended by the last four presidents put together."

His fundraisers dwarf other presidents' just as does his debt creation.

"Obama has seen enough Architectural Digest-type interiors in Park Avenue triplexes and Beverly Hills mansions, and on the block in San Francisco's Pacific Heights, where every house is owned by a billionaire, to develop an expertise in Louis XV walnut commodes and Brunschwig & Fils fabrics." For those of you in Rio Linda, let me explain. A Louis XV walnut commode is not a toilet. I don't want you thinking that Obama's hanging around places where there are wood toilets. That's not what a commode is.

"He's also had plenty of chances to absorb the advice of the kind of rich liberals who like to give money to Democratic presidents. And the evidence that he has taken some of that advice is his initiatives on three issues... The first and least risky of these stands is his endorsement of same-sex marriage. Many Democratic money-givers, straight as well as gay, have strong convictions on this issue," and so that decision was driven by big money. "The second issue on which Obama seems to have been listening to his money-givers was the health-insurance mandate requiring employers to pay for contraceptives and abortifacients."

That, apparently, is coming from rich donors.

But don't forget: He doesn't need any help there.

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RUSH: So the third issue... Barone says there are three problematic issues for Obama that are getting him in trouble. And he's taking positions because he's listening to the big money 1%, elite, rich liberals. Okay. "The first and least risky," just to repeat, is "same-sex marriage. ... The second issue on which Obama seems to have been listening to his money-givers was the health-insurance mandate requiring employers to pay for contraceptives and abortifacients." This is the religious thing.

And when you start talking about rich Hollywood liberals, the 1%, they hate religion. They despise it. And so this is a huge, huge deal. "The third issue is the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil produced from tar sands in Canada to United States refineries and create thousands of jobs in the process. Earlier this year, Susie Buell Tompkins (sic), John Kerry's fourth-biggest money-raiser in 2004, picketed outside an Obama fundraiser at San Francisco's W Hotel to protest the pipeline.

"She wanted Obama's State Department to block it because she thinks tar-sands production hurts the environment and the planet." So because of one wacko rich female liberal, Obama says "no" to the Keystone pipeline. At least, that's Barone's point. And the Canadians are making arrangements now for other pipelines. They're not waiting for us. Now, one thing about that. I have no doubt that Michael Barone is true here. But none of these things are off Obama's radar. He's perfectly...

This "evolution" of same-sex marriage, that was gonna happen.

They wanted to wait until closer to the campaign bullet-points like a convention, or Labor Day. They wanted to wait for a really big impact. But these people insisted. He was gonna do that anyway. The Keystone pipeline, we know that he's personally opposed to fossil fuels. These people just give him added impetus. None of these things are off his intellectual radar. So that's who he is. And now Spielberg gave him the idea to go after Romney and Bain Capital. And Eric Schmidt at Google is advising the campaign via Jim Messina.

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