Obama’s War on Capitalism Statements – Audio
Rush played a montage of President Barack Obama’s statements over the years against Capitalism….from September of 2008 all the way through the present day.
OBAMA (montage): I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street. You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas. I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It will bankrupt them. The insurance industry is making this last-ditch effort to stop reform even as costs continue to rise and our health care dollars continue to be poured into their profits. Cost-cutting has become embedded in their operations and in their culture. That may result in good profits, but it’s not translating into hiring. Speculators can reap millions while millions of American families get the short end of the stick. If that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that’s 30,000, 40, $50,000 immediately the surgeon is reimbursed. The market will take care of everything. Here’s the problem. It doesn’t work. It has never worked. White folks’ greed runs a world in need. In this country, broad-based prosperity has never trickled down from the success of a wealthy few.
RUSH: Capitalism doesn’t work. America doesn’t work; it has never worked. (interruption) Why play it again? There’s so much in there? Okay, we’ll play it again. Snerdley wants to hear it again. Here it is again. It’s about 58 seconds. It’s about a minute. And this is a series of statements from Obama which individually and cumulatively all add up to a guy who is unquestioningly anti-capitalist, and now he’s running for reelection on that basis, running against capitalism. Now, the stuff at the end of is the most pointed and direct, but every one of these little excerpts has an anti-capitalist hatred, dislike, resentment, foundation, whatever you want to call it.
OBAMA (montage): I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street. You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas. I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It will bankrupt them. The insurance industry is making this last-ditch effort to stop reform even as costs continue to rise and our health care dollars continue to be poured into their profits. Cost-cutting has become embedded in their operations and in their culture. That may result in good profits, but it’s not translating into hiring. Speculators can reap millions while millions of American families get the short end of the stick. If that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that’s 30,000, 40, $50,000 immediately the surgeon is reimbursed. The market will take care of everything. Here’s the problem. It doesn’t work. It has never worked. White folks’ greed runs a world in need. In this country, broad-based prosperity has never trickled down from the success of a wealthy few.
RUSH: Here’s Obama. This is last night in Denver. He’s at a campaign event. The news stories about this, by the way, are not good. He was overwrought. Tired. It had been a long day. By the time Obama took the stage in Denver it was 1:15 a.m. Eastern time. In fact, he went someplace to do a campaign appearance, and they preceded his appearance with a 17-minute video, and the video ended and that was the cue for Obama to hit the stage to roaring applause. Problem is, 150 people short of capacity showed up. They scheduled this appearance someplace with a capacity of 700 people, 550 is all that were there. They didn’t even fill up a 700-seat venue, and then the video ended and Obama didn’t show.
So the crowd had to get into it and start trying to keep each other upbeat, positive, and so forth. He finally shows up, and then they said his speech was very flat, it was essentially the same speech he had given earlier in the day somewhere. And his excuse? He was so tired, got up so early, Air Force Academy graduation, commencement, three fundraisers. How many times have I gotten back from something at three o’clock in the morning and I’ve shown up here, and I’ve not used fatigue as an excuse. Only as a warning. But not as an excuse. Anyway, here’s Obama, last night in Denver, campaign event, saying that the election’s gonna be close because of foolishness.
OBAMA: I don’t know how they’ve been bamboozling folks into thinking that they are the responsible, fiscally disciplined party. They run up these wild debts. And then when we take over we gotta clean it up. This election will be closer than the last one. People don’t remember, the last election was close. We’re gonna have to contend with even more negative ads, even more cynicism and nastiness and just plain foolishness.
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Wild Thing’s comment…….
I love when his own words are blasted against him. He cannot deny things that way. Not that he cares but maybe his zombies might notice.