Rush Limbaugh reads and reacts to this article by Shelby Steele at the WSJ. The entire article below the video.
A Referendum on the Redeemer - Barack Obama put the Democrats in the position of forever redeeming a fallen nation rather than leading a great one.
WSJ - By Shelby Steele
Whether or not the Republicans win big next week, it is already clear that the "transformative" aspirations of the Obama presidency—the special promise of this first black president to "change" us into a better society—are much less likely to materialize.
But apart from this politics of numbers, there is also now a deepening disenchantment with Barack Obama himself. (He has a meager 37% approval rating by the latest Harris poll.)
His embarrassed supporters console themselves that their intentions were good; their vote helped make history. But for Mr. Obama himself there is no road back to the charisma and political capital he enjoyed on his inauguration day.
The first answer is well-known: His policy making has been grandiose, thoughtless and bullying. His health-care bill was ambitious to the point of destructiveness and, finally, so chaotic that today no citizen knows where they stand in relation to it.
His financial-reform bill seems little more than a short-sighted scapegoating of Wall Street. In foreign policy he has failed to articulate a role for America in the world.
Next week's election is, among other things, a referendum on the idea of president-as-redeemer. We have a president so determined to transform and redeem us from what we are that, by his own words, he is willing to risk being a one-term president. - Continue reading > > >
Blog author's comments - Barack Hussein Obama was never qualified to be President. He has done nothing but damage the country. He has also divided the people, which I believe was his intention.
Say what you want about presidents we've had, most of them have at least viewed themselves as representatives of all the people. Not so with Obama. Obama, Reid, Pelosi, his entire regime, view over half of the country as the enemy. November 2 we begin to take back our country.
If the Republicans finally get serious about their jobs and what is at stake, they will do what most of us know is necessary. They need to change the direction of the country, to take a lesson from the Tea Party people, and convince a majority of the country that neither Obama nor any Democrat should be elected president in 2012.
h/t: the right scoop
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