Rush and callers are speechless

[Jack_Dawson]

"Rush I really think this is going to make Obama a lock for the next election. I want to be happy but am just depressed."

http://www.kogo.com

[harun]

1. Did he really say that?

[demwing]

3. Who? Rush? no that was a caller...

right?

[Jack_Dawson]

11. Correct - that was a caller.

[seabeyond]

2. but..... he really wants to be happy. that is a plus, lol. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Nobody who regularly listens to Rush wants to be happy.

They want their reservoirs of rage topped off for the day.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. exactly!

You got that exactly right, Jackpine.

:hi:

[Kingofalldems]

4. Their true colors come out--they are traitors

[harun]

13. They view Obama as their enemy. While they were making Obama show his papers,

Obama was going after a real enemy. Says a lot.

[PATRICK]

5. Maybe we can stop

the GOP enthusiasm for trashing the economy for 2012? Doubt it.

[jillan]

7. HuffPo has a piece on Rush's praise for Obama this morning.

Rush Limbaugh did something he rarely does: he praised President Obama on his Monday show for the death of Osama bin Laden.

"We need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama," he said. "President Obama has done something extremely effective, and when he does, this needs to be pointed out."

The effectiveness, he said, came from President Obama's decision to send a Special Forces team to kill bin Laden--something he said, citing news reports, that none of the president's military advisers had thought of doing.

"Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth...but President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death...it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden," he said, adding, "thank God for President Obama."

Limbaugh also said that it was Obama's continuation of President Bush's military and detention policies that provided the intelligence which led to bin Laden's killing. (He also made the by-now-common gaffe of swtiching Obama's and bin Laden's names around in his sentences.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/limbaugh-thank-god-obama-bin-laden_n_856425.html

I'm sure tomorrow he will go back to calling him a socialist marxist american hating librul, but for a few moments pigman gave him praise.

[Mojorabbit]

12. this part has to be sarcasm

He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death...it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden

as I am reading lots of posts in other places that are outraged that Obama is "taking credit" for what the heroes in the military did. I am rolling my eyes here.

[TalkingDog]

14. Nope, he's setting him up to take the fall.

If Obama ordered those troops to (essentially) invade Pakistan in order to take Bin Laden, then Obama will be the one responsible if Pakistan does not react favorably.

That's why Rush is hammering home that "Obama single-handedly and alone... came up with the strategy".

He's positioning the President as the only person culpable in this situation.

[CoffeeCat]

8. If Rush really wants to be happy...

...he needs to do what he's always done--whip up a nice vicodin smoothie and let the love flow.

[kentuck]

9. I caught a little Rush on the way home from work...

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

[treestar]

10. Rush speechless?

Now that takes some doin'!

[Initech]

15. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

[lpbk2713]

17. And BTW Rushbo, that's not a candy bar in your punch bowl.

BWAHAHAHA.