Rush Limbaugh all but conceding 2012; warning that Obama is going to seek a third term in 2016

[TeamJordan23]

:rofl:

Rush Limbaugh on Obama Wanting to Stay in Office Past 2016:

You have to wonder if Obama is just trying to lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016. I wouldn't be at all surprised if in the next number of years there is a move on the 22nd Amendment, which term limits the President of the United States. He may not do it that way, he may not openly try to change the Constitution. But there might be this movement in the country from his cult-like followers to support the notion that a democratically-elected leader who is loved and adored has carte blanc once elected. Just serve as long as he wants because the people demand it, because the people want it, because the people love it.

And I wouldn't put it past Obama to be plotting right now how to serve beyond 2016 and I think the way he's reacting to what's happening in Honduras - Look, they've got a constitution, they're a democratically-elected set of officials down there and you had a guy running the country, Mel Zelaya, who was just going to basically rip that country's democracy to shreds and the country moved in to stop in him from doing it and Obama sides with the guy who wanted to rip up the constitution. He sides with other dictators in the region. Regardless, I mean, one thing is clear here: Obama is nothing if not a hardcore liberal. Always, always more sympathetic, appearing to side with the bad guys on the world stage.

And I'll tell you folks, this business about running beyond 2016, you know, the thing that when you look at Obama's followers - and we've discussed it here - they are a cult-like bunch and their attachment to him is not political, it's not ideological, it is not issue-wise, it is cultish. It includes a wide percentage of minorities, by the way, who for different reasons, who will come to think that he simply cannot be replaced. Let him succeed with amnesty, for example, and all the illegal aliens who are instantly made citizens. He'll be too important. Just like right now he's too big to fail as far as the drive-bys are concerned, he's too important to be replaced. No one else can lead the nation, they will say. And they won't care a whit about the legalities that might be trampled. Half of the legalities if they don't even know about them because they haven't been properly educated. I think this situation in Honduras is very instructive. Anybody who thinks that he intends to just constitutionally go away in 2016 is nuts ... These are people who seek power for reasons other than to serve. They seek to rule

http://thepage.time.com/2009/06/30/the-nightmare-or-the-dream/

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Obama 2016!

[Buzz Clik]

2. Piggy will never see 2016 unless he figures out how to correct his bloatedness.

Unhealthy!

[Ganja Ninja]

5. He hasn't seen his feet or his package in over 20 years either. n/t

[Buzz Clik]

6. Probably not much of a view in either case.

[RoadRage]

13. ...

:puke:

[AndyA]

3. If Obama keeps all of his campaign promises, I'd be for another term in 2016.

Things should be getting in pretty good shape by then.

[curiousdemo]

4. Fatso is just trying to pre-emp and not

get blame for the lostest he will help encure in 2012. I hope he Fail!!!!!!

:bounce:

:rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

7. Why is there a 22nd amendment?

Because the republicans, who were whiners way back when figured that would be a good way to get back in the white house. Irony, the first president prevented from getting a third term was a republican, Eisenhower.

We don't need term limits. Democracy is hard work. If ya wanna get rid of an incumbent then roll up your sleeves and do it. And what's so democratic about taking choice away from the electorate?

Fucking conservative pukes pick and choose in the constitution like "christians" pick and choose in the bible.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Hmm. Maybe I'll put an "8 More Years!" sign on my car.

That should get to the neighbor with the anti-Obama signs on his truck.

[JuniperLea]

9. And his idiot followers...

Just don't get that Obama needs votes in great numbers to be reelected... just like the votes in great numbers he received when... HE WON THE LAST ELECTION!!!

They just don't get that he won, that there are far more people for him than against him, and that he can do it again, and that their incessant whining is sealing the deal FOR Obama!

Cretins. Makes you wonder how they actually survive in this world.

[derby378]

10. Aiiieee! Black man in the White House!

This is getting really old really quick. :mad:

[Politicalboi]

11. What's wrong with that if the people want it

Bill Clinton would probably still be President. LOL! I think Supreme Court appointments should only be 20 years not a life time.

[tritsofme]

14. Well we wouldn't have had Bill Clinton if they kept trotting out Reagan through the 90s

Taking extraordinary measures, I'm sure, to conceal his illness.

Reagan would have won easily in 1988, and I'm sure it would have been irresistable to have him "beat" FDR and serve through his fourth term.

I think too much power can be consolidated in the presidency, its probably for the best that everyone gets kicked out after 8 years.

[Hippo_Tron]

16. Reagan's dementia was worriesome in '84, probably too risky in '88

And he absolutely wouldn't have been capable of running in '92. If FDR had been President during the TV age he would've stepped aside instead of running in 1944.

[beac]

12. LOL. Someday, Limbaugh will be a famous psychological case study.

I'm sure some enterprising PhD candidate is already writing their dissertation on his weapons-grade case of "projection."

Generally, I take a dim view of laughing at the mentally ill, but his paranoid, angry, racist, drug-addled rantings are pure comedy gold.

:rofl:

[Willo]

15. Michael Bloomberg's gotta be loving Rush about now. nt

[nomorenomore08]

20. Imagine - Bloomberg runs as an independent, and the GOP candidate comes in *third*!

:rofl:

[mikiturner]

17. Someone asked about this in Gibbs presser yesterday

I found it an odd question, but I suppose it makes sense given this latest delusion from Rush.

[DFW]

18. Sure he'll seek a third term in 2016

Just like has already confiscated their guns, made all their daughters get pregnant and then have abortions,
spent more money on art exhibitions than on the military, ordered the Soviet flag to replace the Stars and
Stripes, and made Islam the official religion of the USA.

Oh. He hasn't? Well, it's only because he was waiting for Al Franken to be seated in the Senate. Or something.

I think Rush is waiting for Godot.

[nomorenomore08]

21. And just like in the play, if "Godot" ever actually arrived, there'd be no story...

And guys like Limbaugh are banking on his failure to appear, so to speak - gotta keep people scared, right? :shrug:

[DFW]

22. Without fear, they're as visible as bacteria

Fear is ALL they have.

The radical right and their cynical media heroes who make money off them
spend literally 100% of their time trying to warn their faithful about all
the horrible things Obama Almighty is going to do to them. If they ever
realized that there is a distinct possibility that Obama is on their side,
their fear would dissipate, and their media gurus melt like the wicked witch
of the west.

The sorry thing is that after 8 years of the Obama presidency, some of these
idiots--like tens of millions of them--will STILL be stocking up on guns and
canned goods in fear of what Obama is going to do to them.

But fear is one very powerful emotion. In England, during Napoleon's time,
mothers used to try to scare their kids into behaving, saying "Bonny (Bonaparte)
is going to get you." These days, it's the towel heads and the "libbruls." Only
the cast of characters has changed. The tactics remain the same.

[applegrove]

19. Funny how Limbaugh takes anxieties the world over, like Presidents undoing term limits

in Venezuela and Honduras..anxieties like that and applies them to Obama. It is as if he and his grover norquest fax tree friends have run out of ideas to scare people with and now look outside the country for all manner of outrage to stir his listeners with. He has to keep them stirred up otherwise they might think for themselves.

[DCBob]

23. Clearly he is simply spewing the most outrageous, anger-inspiring thoughts he can come up with.

His pathetic simple-minded racist listeners feed off this sort of thing.

[old mark]

24. That's a great idea!!! If only we can get Obama to go along with it...

Since the GOP is responsible for the 22nd ammendment anyway to prevent another FDR, maybe the Democrats could repeal it - but just for Obama.....

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