Limbaugh: Obama’s going to try for a third term or something
posted at 6:04 pm on June 30, 2009 by Allahpundit
Yeah, I know Jose Serrano introduced a House resolution to repeal the 22nd Amendment a few months ago. He did the same thing in 2003. It went nowhere then and it’ll go nowhere now. Help me figure this out: Conservatives are absolutely convinced that Obamanomics was, is, and can only be an unmitigated disaster for the country, so much so that the chief strategy among the base for a Republican revival at the moment is to sit back, watch liberalism implode, and then welcome back voters to the right with open arms. If all of that’s true and a backlash to Hopenchange is inevitable, how is Barry O planning to get a constitutional amendment passed before 2016? He’d need 2/3 of both the House and Senate and 3/4 of the states to ratify it. Even if every Democrat in Congress voted to lift presidential term limits (which they wouldn’t, if only for reasons of simple self-interest), they’d still need to pick up a bunch more seats in both chambers to push it through. How bad, exactly, does Rush see things getting for the GOP — especially at the state level, where only 14 red states could block the amendment — that he’d imagine something like that might be possible? I don’t follow him here at all. Click the image to watch.
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That’s what I’m afraid of.
Al in St. Lou on June 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Monkei on June 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM
I hope you’re right.
Jim Treacher on June 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Treacher, get a/your guns.
upinak on June 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Cindy:
Yes, I think that is true. Rush is joking in a sardonic kind of way.
Terrye on June 30, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Who wouldn’t go along, that is.
SteveMG on June 30, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Monkei on June 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM
You are not empowered with the ability to demoralize anyone or even the ability to change any ones mind so what do you get out of trying?
fourdeucer on June 30, 2009 at 6:34 PM
at least rush doesn’t have BO…
right4life on June 30, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Exactly. It’s amazing how people can watch this happen at DailyKos for 8 years and see how ridiculous these people are, and then turn around and do the exact same thing.
tneloms on June 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
That’s a real talent you must have … being able to tell when Rush is serious … there is real money to be made there.
Monkei on June 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
wow a fat joke
you are original
/s
you proved my point. thank you
CWforFreedom on June 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
that bending over part was unfair..you haven’t gotten off your knees in years!!
right4life on June 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
exactly.
Monkei on June 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Think “credit crisis 2008″ redux, but completed.
This is not theoretical. We’ve already seen the mechanism. Just a little electronic bank run (if things hadn’t collapsed on their own, by then), or some words to China to get them to dump our debt …
I am not sure why this event has already been forgotten by so many.
progressoverpeace on June 30, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Allah…all well and good but you’re thinking along the lines that the president who has relied on the “madman theory of government” (a term popularized here) will act legally or ethically. After GM, ACORN, Gerald Walpin, “I won,” midnight document dumps, extra-legal pardons for Black Panthers, no review of 1000+ page bills, federalists = terrorists, Iran vs Honduras etc etc etc are you really that naive?
Mr Snuggle Bunny on June 30, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Monkei on June 30, 2009 at 6:36 PM
It seemed illegal when he restructured Chrysler to screw the bondholders and reward the UAW, but no one stopped him. If ACORN uses tactics like those used to get Franken into the senate in 2010, who will stop them? If Barack either cancels the 2012 election or fudges the results, who will try to stop him? Don’t forget, any actual armed resistance will get called a rebellion of racist right-wing terrorists.
Al in St. Lou on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
You cannot tell when people speak in a sarcastic tone? You really are an idiot. Not that we did not know that a long time ago. I love you jealous losers trying so hard to pretend you are so smart with fat jokes.
CWforFreedom on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Allahpundit,
The way Limbaugh talks you would think Obama was indifferent to a rebellion against a regime that has killed hundreds of usa soldiers and civilians and opposed to a government that had booted a wannabe president for life.
rob verdi on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
oh yeah, I bet you’re as fat as your stupid…tubby boy.
right4life on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Rush is reading my posts. lol.
JellyToast on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Barry, sorry your buddies’ coup attempt in Honduras failed. You might want to chillax and not comment about it for a while, Yanqui.
Christien on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
I agree with you ladies. He gets exasperated when he gets angry and serious. All I heard today was sarcasm with flair.
sherry on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Seriously are you a child?
CWforFreedom on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Well, I hope very few right blogs try to run with this because it is crazy talk. First of all by 2012 hope and change is going to be dead and there isn’t going to enough people to keep him in office forcibly if he doesn’t get re-elected.
boomer on June 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
MB4 on June 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Can you explain what you mean by extra-governmentally?
The use of powers outside of the government such as Czars, and other unelected officials. We have a drop out from law school dismantling GM, we have the President giving money to banks and taking control of them, we have a bending of the Constitution to allow the government to thwart the rules and laws of the US. Where does the law of the land say that our industry and commerce be determined by the government, this is extra-governmental.
hip shot on June 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
fat and drug jokes, you forgot the drug jokes.
Monkei on June 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
If you all listened to Rush for more than just a few soundbites, you’d probably understand him a bit better.
Just sayin’
bridgetown on June 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
uh yeah right, someone multi-millionaire has problems getting girls…yeah you are as fat as you are stupid
right4life on June 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
HEY MONKEI- psst that was sarcasm
CWforFreedom on June 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
I’m not exactly sure where Rush is going either, but do remember that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. As others have mentioned, Obama has already appropriated big chunks of the banking industry and the auto industry. In doing the latter, he showed a complete disregard for contract law and the fourth amendment rights of various creditors.
I’ll give him a mulligan on this one if it’s a one time thing.
thirteen28 on June 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Seems like the Franken thing really juiced up the trolls this afternoon.
myrenovations on June 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM
By 2012, more of Oblahma’s inner circle will have been indicted and out of jail. How is Rezco doing?
Rezco did energy upgrades as a slum lord. He shut off the gas in the winter. saved carbon. Oblahma, when he loses will have to leave America. America will give him the ugly eye.
seven on June 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM
oh I get it now, so Rush is a joke! Whew.
Monkei on June 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Allah,
I think Rush’s point was that while his theory seems out of the question and completely impossible given Obama’s constitutional constraints… virtually everything Obama’s done as President is without constitutional authority. The examples he cited included nationalizing large chunks of the auto and financial industries, governing through Tzars who escape any congressional oversight, firing CEOs, etc…
It seems far fetched but my friends from Venezuela say they didn’t think it could happen there…
edgehead on June 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Senator Franken to you.
Monkei on June 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM
They are trying to get the energy sector with cap and trade too. They will tax them out of business the pretend to be the good guys bailing them out and presto chango we have a state run energy sector.
boomer on June 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Eh, Senator Scumbag to me.
myrenovations on June 30, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Monkei….have you always been this simple and immature?
CWforFreedom on June 30, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Yeah, what a hog, huh? That picture is less than a month old.
Idiot.
Kensington on June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Is Monkei actually Senator Franken?
bridgetown on June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
OK guys it’s time to stop feeding the troll, I know it’s fun and all but after all, it’s all fun and games until somebody looses an eye.
boomer on June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Rush is right he also knows but want say it Rev.is coming soon.You can bank on it.
thmcbb on June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
I listen all three hours, most every day, and this was not his finest day. Several people here have been more cogent on the subject than Rush was today.
myrenovations on June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Yeh Franken is great for America
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Monkey that is sarcasm
CWforFreedom on June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
There is also the incredibly strange concept that administration officials are forwarding that the federal government is charged with providing competition to private markets by participating in them (public health insurance company). This is an argument so foreign to American sensibilities and tradition that it boggles the mind. But the administration turds are proposing it as the backing for their insane bill.
Nothing is beyond The Precedent and his junta. Nothing.
progressoverpeace on June 30, 2009 at 6:43 PM
myrenovations on June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
eh, how many days has the man been live on the air?
There are many bad days, crappy remarks, but for the most part, he’s solid.
bridgetown on June 30, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Maybe we can cut a deal with the Obama worshippers since if the 15 most conservative states form a new union, the remaining states in Democratland will easily be able to repeal the 22nd Amendment for Obama.
Buddahpundit on June 30, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Respect the Amendments and the Constitution, you mean like how they respect the 2nd? And that is just about little mechanical devices that propell lead pellets. We are talking about POWER here.
We have Obama for life. Get used to it, you will be happier.
GunRunner on June 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM
I agree that Rush is usually pretty solid.
myrenovations on June 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Hmmm
http://barackobamathirdterm.net/
CWforFreedom on June 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM
This is tin foil hat kind of stuff and a waste of time. Liberals said the exact same thing about Bush when he was riding high after 9/11.
jonezee on June 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM
ACK!!!!
bridgetown on June 30, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Could it be that Obama is contemplating his own installation as “president for life” and the Honduras incident revealed the sound of distant footsteps. Blatant violations of the Constitution will produce results as unpredictable and uncontrollable as the movement of atoms in free space.
rplat on June 30, 2009 at 6:48 PM
What Rush said:
BTW, I missed this today but I did hear Rush talk about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s notion that “The rich are different from you and me” where he replaced “rich” with “liberals” and that part of the show was spot on brilliant.
Buy Danish on June 30, 2009 at 6:48 PM
They’ve chosen a slower yet more effective road. Massive illegal immigration, centralized bank owned by London based cartel, open trade, and Acorn. This is going to destroy America, the actions necessary for an all out liberal assault have occurred, it’s just a matter of time before things come to a head. Where are the patriots now when we need them?
True_King on June 30, 2009 at 6:49 PM
I see that Monkei is the designated “Oh Yeah” troll. I wonder if he has any comments on other threads defending his side. What is your stand on how Mr. Obama handled the Iran situation? How about the czars that he has installed without the need of Senate approval?
Cindy Munford on June 30, 2009 at 6:49 PM
The states that would secede include all of the energy states (except for those that have energy, but won’t allow anyone to use it). What would be left after just Texas and Alaska pulled away would be a US totally dependent and unable to do much of anything. And, after the idiotic Crap&Trade, the remaining states in the US would comprise nothing but a worthless shell.
Unfortunately, you can’t cut any deals with Obama or his supporters any more than you can cut deals with Iran. The Precedent and his people are totally untrustworthy and will always be threats to everyone around them because of their own incompetence, avarice, and stupidity.
progressoverpeace on June 30, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Monkei:
Hey, speaking of horny politicians, I hear there might some sex tapes with Edwards and the mother of his out of wedlock child. That has nothing to do with this, but then again neither does Sanford.
Terrye on June 30, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Bingo.
That’s why I come here. Best commenters north of the Rio Grande.
Rush mentioned the reason he’d been up late last night is he was working on a big new project, which he ‘hoped he could announce’ soon. My curiosity’s killin’ me.
petefrt on June 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Rush knows just how to wind people up and keep his name in the news. As usual, you’ve fallen for it AP.
Jim-Rose on June 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM
No surprises on my end either.
Hey Monkei, last November did you happen to vote for the one Presidential candidate that admits he had a past history of drug abuse? Just wondering…
After all, it’s a outrage, I tell you, an outrage that a radio host had become addicted to something prescribed by a doctor.
But…it’s okay that our President used drugs for purely recreational purposes.
Cram your lame talking points, Monkei. We hear the same skwawking from liberal parrots all over the internet. Think for yourself or go home.
ynot4tony2 on June 30, 2009 at 6:53 PM
I agree with Rush; Either we are going to be challenged by the tyrants on this planet, or embraced by them; With the current tendencies, get out your khackis.
Cybergeezer on June 30, 2009 at 6:53 PM
progessoverpeace:
I think most Americans would look at secession as somewhere between treason and lunacy. And I also think that any real idea of Obama just refusing to leave is nuts. I really do. I would not vote for Obama if you put a gun to my head. I think he is a disaster as a president, but I really don’t think anything like that will happen.
Terrye on June 30, 2009 at 6:53 PM
He so much as even tries it and you will see a howling erupt in this country from the East to the West and everywhere else in between!
pilamaye on June 30, 2009 at 6:54 PM
if in the next number of years
He may not do it that way,
there might be this movement
Apparently if, may, and might are to big of words, or we don’t know what is is.
fourdeucer on June 30, 2009 at 6:55 PM
He doesn’t need a Constitutional amendment. The way the Supreme Court works nowadays, nobody in the country has “standing” to bring a lawsuit to prevent his third inauguration. He can simply run, and if he wins, he wins. Especially if he gets to stack the court a bit.
joe_doufu on June 30, 2009 at 6:55 PM
OK guys it’s time to stop feeding the troll, I know it’s fun and all but after all, it’s all fun and games until somebody looses an eye.
boomer on June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
“It’s funny until someone gets hurt–then it’s hilarious”
please get the quotes right
/
gstep58 on June 30, 2009 at 6:55 PM
At the end of obamas(sic) term, he will absolve himself by a presidential pardon, and appoint himself a Czar with life tenure.
Cybergeezer on June 30, 2009 at 6:56 PM
… Or ACORN holds a referendum…
Upstater85 on June 30, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Granted, Rush was tired today, but the message is clear. Obama insists on calling the Honduran thing a “coup”. It was not. It was the Honduran government preserving it’s democracy. Their Supreme Court stepped in following their rules and ordered the military to get rid of their president. Their constitution worked.
Rush was wondering, as I am, if our Supreme Court has the guts and wherewithall to actually follow our Constitution. They don’t seem to be because Obama is getting away with destroying our country and our Constitution without even challenging it. They are just falling by the wayside. He didn’t say it out loud, but I will. “Where’s the birth certificate?” Rush has been hinting at this for a few months now. Remeber he didn’t mention it for a few months. All the folks that want to see it have been called “truthers” and castigated for being insane.
One of the Supremes has that case, but nothing has come of it.
The Honduran supreme court is much more willing to act when an anti-democracy thug is in their midst. Ours should be, but they aren’t. I think Rush understands that if we don’t start doing something soon, we will have lost our nation and the “revolution” that will come will get ugly with lots of people dying. It may already be too late. Rush said that he would tell us when to fight. He has already done so a few weeks back with the taking over of Chrysler and the wonderful deal that their bond holders got. Same with GM. People should have been in the streets for that one, too. Not a peep. He’s telling us to start fighting and we aren’t doing it. Waiting for Obama too loose approval points is waiting too long.
Jamming the phone lines last Friday against Crap and Trade wasn’t enough. Stupid Republicans actually passed that mess. Obama is still getting what he wants with very little effort. All he needs is socialized medicine and we are gonners. It’s that simple and Rush has been saying so for the last 6 months.
Rush is right. Do not doubt him. He is always right on the big stuff. He is worried and so am I. Where is the birth certificate?
BetseyRoss on June 30, 2009 at 6:57 PM
We’re incrementally becoming a one-party system. How may Republicans vote with their Dem colleagues, my first evidence being the crap-and-enslave bill that passed the House the other day?
Anything is possible at this point, either from ‘united’ government or a people becoming so cheesed off they take action beyond the ballot box. Note commentary on Drudge about Obama’s ‘evil eye’. Never have I seen a president scowl at others as does this guy occupying the White House like Hitler occupied France. The only difference thus far is Obama can’t have shot those opposing him.
Obama doesn’t need a Constitutional Amendment to get a third term. All he needs is some emergency and a suspension of the Constitution by and with the willing help of a treasonous Congress to get it.
Liam on June 30, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Two flaws in your reasoning here:
1) Even if we expect Obamanomics to fail miserably, it doesn’t mean Obama expects it. Obama’s whole permanent campaign is about one thing: Obama. A third term probably seems only natural.
2) Even if Obamanomics does fail miserably, the media won’t report it that way, so people might not see it that way. How many people recognized Smoot-Hawley as a mistake at the time?
TallDave on June 30, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Instead of trying to predict what Obama MIGHT do, OR poking at Rush for pointing out the inevitable course of democracy, why don’t we start shaping the discussion? Start having an honest conversation about Democracy and Republicanism. What does Obama call these? Rigorous
PressersNooners?Upstater85 on June 30, 2009 at 7:01 PM
For the last nine months, i have been proposing this scenario as Obama’s end game. Even now some HA posters even think Rush is wacko.
I am only a ‘civilian’ but when Rush Limbaugh asserts an opinion you have to be aware he is right 99.1% of the time. Are you skeptics really banking that Rush is wrong on this?
Do you really think Soros, Ayres, Wright, Axelrod, the Far Left, the nutroots, ACORN and their minions are going to relinquish power after working 40 years of meticulous planning in unwarm meeting halls, seedy rooms and dungy basements to radically take over the federal government and impose a permanent radical statist totalitarain regime on America?
And do you think that they will not fight like hell to see that some ‘hick from Wasilla’ does not destroy everything that their whole life has been dedicated to?
Get real folks! Look at what Obama has done already. Do you really think Obama and his merry men and women are going to go quietly into the night?
technopeasant on June 30, 2009 at 7:01 PM
You’re assuming he’d work within the American Constitutional framework. Hypothetically, he might do so if he thought it were possible, otherwise he might take the easier path and follow the
ConstitutionChavez model. Perhaps that’s why he wants Zelaya reinstated even after he’s been impeached, because it would set an international precedent that a democratically elected president can’t be removed from office under any circumstances even through a constitutional process. The concept of checks and balances would be de-legitimized on the world stage, setting a dangerous precedent.That’s not to say that he’ll have the opportunity to do so, I don’t think he will, (he’s Carter 2.0), but he doesn’t know that yet.
FloatingRock on June 30, 2009 at 7:01 PM
El Rushbo:
petefrt on June 30, 2009 at 7:01 PM
BAM! Allah, you need to quit falling into Rush’s trap. He knows exactly how to phrase things to get everyone talking about what he said with just enough strokes of generalities to keep it esoteric. Once enough people in the media and on the blogosphere like you start talking about him and begin to fill in the esoteric spots with their own conclusions, he comes back on the air, explains what he meant, and makes those in the media who talked about it look stupid in the process.
Just wait. Tomorrow, he’ll fill half an hour with sound bites and commentary about those who talked about what he said today.
BobbyDank on June 30, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Manufactured “disaster” that makes Obama call for martial law, etc. etc…..
SouthernGent on June 30, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Buy Danish:
What if the people are sick and tired of him by then? I mean if the people demanded it, then there would be a push to get rid of the 22nd amendment. If they lack support for that, then lack support to pull it off any other way. That is why it is so difficult to get rid of an amendment, the idea is there has to be huge support on a national level in almost every state. I just do not see that happening.
Terrye on June 30, 2009 at 7:02 PM
“Don’t D-O-U-B-T him” !!!
katy on June 30, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Without Rush, Conservatives would not have much of a voice or exposure in this media mujahideen for Obama.
Cybergeezer on June 30, 2009 at 7:02 PM
It isn’t treason and it certainly isn’t lunacy. Most Americans voted for an America-hating marxist who is not a natural-born citizen – which is treason and lunacy.
Maybe you have some particular point you are trying to get across to me? Just say what you are thinking.
He’s already done tons of things that actually are nuts. He doesn’t care one whit for our Constitution or our laws. He hates America and our traditions. He has spent all of his time running around the world, trying to paint America in the worst light he possibly could with his idiotic fabrications and “misremembrances” of history.
I happen to be one who doesn’t think that he’s interested in being Precedent for life, so I’m not sure why you are even bringing this up to me. He is trying to destroy the US. If he stays in power, he’ll be happy, but that is not his motivation. But for you to thinkt hat he would respect anything about the US or our law or our traditions is not only without basis, but with a plethora of evidence to the contrary.
On what do you base your opinion? Give me one or two bits of evidence that support your view.
Based on what? His great respect for America? Come on, Terrye. I know it’s difficult to come to grips with the situation we have gotten ourselves into (I do understand that) but this is how it is.
progressoverpeace on June 30, 2009 at 7:02 PM
SouthernGent:
I don’t think so. I can remember hearing the lefties say the same thing about Bush, that he would create some national disaster. I think it sounds paranoid myself.
Terrye on June 30, 2009 at 7:03 PM
And may I point out that Zelaya somehow (???) wasn’t able to empower the impoverished, isolated
individualspeople of Honduras because of those Evil Elitists… Sounds like ACORN’s excuse for why their “communities” are in the sh*tter…Upstater85 on June 30, 2009 at 7:03 PM
But enough about Ashley Biden.
Jim Treacher on June 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Worse, MSM stalwarts were acting as if the new Hitler had arrived. So it wasn’t some left-wing blogger, but CNN (Cafferty for example) and MSNBC (Olberdouche).
Hysteria is par for the course on the left. Rush isn’t being hysterical, he’s pointing out how Obama usurps the law whenever it serves his agenda.
Richard Romano on June 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM
… or referendums will be held in Kenya, Chicago, the UN, and Tijuanna…
Upstater85 on June 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM
It’s evident that Barack doesn’t care too much about the rule of law or those pesky things called “constitutions”, so it’s not all that far-fetched to imagine him scheming to remain in power by hook or by crook.
Buy Danish on June 30, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Why do leftists treat teenage girls as sex objects to score political points?
Loxodonta on June 30, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I’ve been saying he would go for a dictatorship since he won the election. Amnesty for Mexicans and boatloads of Nigerians could change the political makeup of America almost overnight. He could establish himself as a dictator and ignore the Constitution as he has been doing all along. Remember that a year ago the thought of the gov. owning GM was considered outrageous. Anticipate anything.
UnEasyRider on June 30, 2009 at 7:06 PM
progrewssoverpeace;
Based on what? My God man a 50 year old child molestor pop star dies and the whole country goes crazy. It is all over the place…but somehow or other Obama {or any other president} could just overlook the whole transition of power thing for the first time in our history and people would not notice?
I don’t think that is true. And I don’t think there is any real evidence of it either. Look at our history. When did that ever happen? With Andrew Jackson? A lot of people thought it would. But it did not. We even managed elections after the Civil War. We had elections during 2 world wars.
I am sorry, I just think it is nuts.
Terrye on June 30, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Just BTW…
How is it that you allege that BHO is not a natural-born citizen? I’m serious and curious here because I have read your mention of this on a number of your posts.
My understanding is that natural-born US citizen means begotten to at least one parent who is an US citizen and/or nativity on US ‘soil.’ Forget the birth certificate business–unless you’re alleging that BHO was adopted. Are you?
As far as I know, BHO’s mother was american (because her parents were both American). So what am I missing? Or, again, are you asking for DNA-test-type ironclad proof here?
ConScribe on June 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Well, if FDR can help to further ruin the country and serve for life, I don’t see any reason why Obama wouldn’t be able to deflect blame onto others while always convincing enough people that if not for him things would be so much worse.
Dan Minardi on June 30, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Well, you’ve pointed out that many Americans aren’t very educated… Hopefully not the majority…
Upstater85 on June 30, 2009 at 7:10 PM
And progessoverpeace:
as for secession… I said I thought most Americans would think of it as lunacy or treason. And I stand by that. My point is that saying the energy states would be the first to secede is to infer that such a thing was likely. It is not.That will not happen.
Terrye on June 30, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Won’t happen. Obama is a one-termer, if that.
BottomLine5 on June 30, 2009 at 7:11 PM
I started making my comments about this nine months ago and reading the comments about ‘Rush being on drugs’ convinces me beyond doubt that I was right.
Folks, don’t forget who Rush Limbaugh is. Yes I am a nobody but he is not. He is the really the head of the conservative moovement of the USA. Rush is not chopped liver and he IS NOT stupid or deranged. Anybody who has listened to his program knows that he knows what he is talking about.
I strongly believe Rush hit paydirt today big time. Any conservative who deserts Rush now is a blooming idiot. Rush’s track record speaks for itself.
technopeasant on June 30, 2009 at 7:11 PM
I do think it’s not very likely at all that Obama will attempt some sort of legislative or military coup to stay in the White House for more than two terms.
But…
A few years ago I would have said “there is no way in hell” that a man could be elected President who:
1) had no executive experience
2) had a 20 year relationship with an inflammatory bigot of a preacher
3) had a first name that almost rhymes with “Iraq”
4) has a last name that sounds a lot like “Osama”
5) has a middle name “Hussein”
6) fabricated a “humble roots” backstory ala Vanilla Ice that was blatantly transparent
7) mixed race trying hard to “act black” (yet confused Weezie and Elizabeth)
8) makes several Dan Quayle style gaffes
9) had a wife who said she was only recently proud of her country, and
10) publicly admits he would not use harsh interrogation tactics to save a U.S. city
To name a few. If you had been presented with the above fact sheet prior to 2004, you would have thought it was some sort of screaming parody, as if Sasha Cohen, Monty Python, and The Onion all teamed up for a really obnoxious, over-the-top joke.
Yet, look where we are now. Just about anything is possible.
ynot4tony2 on June 30, 2009 at 7:12 PM
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