Man in Black

[blue]

Im sure you watched the speech, if not part one is here. He is clearly using notes not a teleprompter, something Ms Pelosi and Mr Obama should learn to use.

We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. [Applause] We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life. [Applause] Liberty, Freedom. [Applause] And the pursuit of happiness. [Applause] Those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded. We conservatives think all three are under assault. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you.

Is that a gaff? He probably could have worded it better, but that hardly makes him an idiot. At least he didnt um um um his way through his speech sans teleprompter.

Full speech is here.

[Edwina's Secretary]

At least he didnt um um um his way through his speech sans teleprompter.

Now Blue...GW is a private citizen now so you should stop making fun of his speaking style!

What a coincident! Cover story of Newsweek that arrived in my mailbox today...

"Enough! A Conservative's Case Against Limbaugh" by David Frum

p.s.....where in this thread did anyone use the word "idiot" to describe him???

[blue]

Now Blue...GW is a private citizen now so you should stop making fun of his speaking style!

What a coincident that arrived in my mailbox today...

"Enough! A Conservative's Case Against Limbaugh" by David Frum

At least Shrubco can get through a speech without toting a teleprompter everywhere with him, unlike his umm uh ahh successor.

Why am I not shocked at all that Newsweek would attack Rush or that you read it?

p.s.....where in this thread did anyone use the word "idiot" to describe him???

p.s. Who cares? Most of the posts have insulted him and you post an attack piece on the man and called it

one of the best accounts of Rush Limppaw's speech after the event.

With a futher insult added on top.

Why is it I doubt you watched or read Limbaugh's speech?

Do you think Obama has the back bone to take Rush up on his offer after all of the DNC attacks?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Blue,


I hope Limbaugh and Obama can read better than you do.

This is a quote from Liz

one of the best accounts of Rush Limppaw's speech after the event.

Not me.

Find me where I referred to Limbaugh by anything other than his name!

[blue]

Blue,


I hope Limbaugh and Obama can read better than you do.

This is a quote from Liz

Not me.

Find me where I referred to Limbaugh by anything other than his name!

Whoppitydo if you didnt. Sorry I misquoted you but again whooppitydo, I doubt your views are any different.

You started this thread, did you either read or hear the entire speech? Do you think Obama will take Rush up on his challenge?

You are only trolling to get conservatives worked up, again.

[blue]

Its obvious Obama is a better reader then I am, he cant give a speech without a telepromter.

[caseysmom]

Juvenile banter...Puck...we can both agree on that one!

[Marigold2]

President Obama, of course, is aware of this lumbering and clumsy gift from the right - so much so that he sent chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to Bob Schieffer's CBS studio this morning to declare Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party."


LOL Rush is a crazied Nazi.

[Puckstop31]

President Obama, of course, is aware of this lumbering and clumsy gift from the right - so much so that he sent chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to Bob Schieffer's CBS studio this morning to declare Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party."


LOL Rush is a crazied Nazi.

What an embarrassment that the POTUS actually takes the energy to have his staff engage in a verbal war with a private citizen. It lowers the position AND encourages Rush's fans. If anything, you help increase his reach.

But, this from you does not surprise me. Somebody who is ignorant enough to actually compare Rush Limbaugh to a Nazi. What the hell is wrong with our education system that people can actually think that somebody who is the very enbodiment of the American Dream is a Nazi? You don't have to agree with Rush, but you cannot take away his self earned success.

[sasvermont]

As ES noted: "I'd fight to the bitter end over his right to speak his piece. It just frightens me that there are people who see him as someone to be taken seriously."

RL's "followers" deserve him and each other.

[Puckstop31]

RL's "followers" deserve him and each other.

Yeah, loving liberty is certainly something to roll your eyes at.

All you can do is attack his delivery, which is DESIGNED to piss people like you off. But you haven't got anything on his base message...

Individual Liberty over government control.

I too wish Rush was less caustic in his delivery. But it works for him and he has made millions doing it. Good for him.

Don't hate the player.... Hate the game.

[blue]

As ES noted: "I'd fight to the bitter end over his right to speak his piece. It just frightens me that there are people who see him as someone to be taken seriously."

RL's "followers" deserve him and each other.

Yet it seems ES and others support those who support the Fairness Docrine.

[lizbud]

What the hell is wrong with our education system that people can actually think that somebody who is the very enbodiment of the American Dream is a Nazi?

The enbodiment of the American Dream ????? I hope not.


http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.asp


Rush "Ass Cyst" Limbaugh Attacks Vietnam Vet, Calls For Radical Change in Military Policy
Posted December 6, 2005 | 07:20 PM (EST)


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Sometimes you just have to just laugh at Rush Limbaugh. Here's a guy who dodged the Vietnam War draft by citing a cyst on his ass (no joke), and yet who accuses Vietnam War heroes essentially of treason. Today, Limbaugh's attack is on Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). You remember him – he's that guy who actually went over and served in Vietnam, while Limbaugh sat home, dropped his pants, and pointed his draft board to a cyst on his own ass in order to avoid serving his country.

Limbaugh is actually claiming that Kerry called American troops terrorists this weekend on CBS. Boy that would be real bad...if it were even close to true. So let's go to the transcript, shall we, to see if old Rush "Ass Cyst" Limbaugh is telling us the truth:

KERRY:... There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children...

Yes, that's right – Limbaugh and other right-wing outfits claim that means Kerry is calling American soldiers terrorists. Clearly he's not – he said "there is no reason" for them to be required to do that as the war intensifies. He went on to say that it is time for the Iraqis to enforce their own security.

And that begs a question: does Ass Cyst Limbaugh – the same guy who avoided combat – actually WANT American troops to start "going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children?" Because that's what he is actually endorsing. I don't know about you, but I'd bet military commanders in the field would think that's a bad idea.

Actually, we don't have to bet - we can just look at the record and see that yes, top military commanders agree with Kerry - not with Ass Cyst Limbaugh. For instance, back in 2003, the UK Guardian reported that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, head of the allied forces in Iraq, "said the US had decided to revise its strategy and limit the scope of raids after being warned they were alienating the public." He said, "It was a fact that I started to get multiple indicators that maybe our iron-fisted approach to the conduct of ops was beginning to alienate Iraqis. I started to get those sensings from multiple sources, all the way from the governing council down to average people."

Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. military was rightly questioning its own raid strategy – as Kerry alluded to – because:

"The raids turn up little and leave hard feelings among civilians who resent foreign soldiers bursting into their homes, breaking doors and gates and pointing guns at their heads. They resent these men catching their wives and daughters in their bedclothes. They resent them barking orders, telling them to get on the ground, invading their homes, emptying drawers and turning over mattresses."

So let's be clear: what Ass Cyst Limbaugh is doing is both lying about Kerry, and frontally endorsing a radical change in U.S. military policy whereby our soldiers actually do start terrorizing people. He is doing this, even as our own military says that would be a mistake.

But then, Ass Cyst Limbaugh always talks with such confidence that maybe we should we should call him Sgt. Ass Warts Limbaugh, issue him a weapon, put him in uniform, and send him over to actually implement his new house-to-house urban combat raid strategy. He seems so excited and supportive of it – and so determined to have the U.S. military commanders adopt his ideas - I'll bet he's ready to go serve his country, right?

Don't hold your breath - you can bet if we tried that, he'd simply start crying in fear, beg for mercy, and then desperately unveil his fat ass and point to it as an excuse to once again avoid actually living by his own rhetoric.

[Puckstop31]

The enbodiment of the American Dream ????? I hope not.

Sure he is... He came from less than wealthy roots, worked his arse off (Ok, not literally, it IS large and apparantly full of cysts...) and made something of himself. You don't have to agree with him or even like him. But you cannot deny his success.

What, pray tell, do you think the American Dream is Liz?

[Medusa]

p.s.....where in this thread did anyone use the word "idiot" to describe him???

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