Comments on: Rush Limbaugh Blames Obama for Sanford’s Affair

By: dennis

dennis — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:19:26 +0000

What Rush say’s everyday is so counter productive an un-American. His comments surely influence a lot of people. This scares me. What a lot of uneducated listeners do not know is that this man is an entertainer, commentator and not a person who reports the whole truth. He has and probably still uses drugs, he is a bigot, racist and a want to be. He critized H. Clinton on not being able to join the armed services, saying that the reason was they did not make uniforms large enough to fit her ankles and derrier. Why was he Excused? Had to do with His A–. I really feel sorry for Rush as he was probably abused in some way as a child or by Choice

By: stahr

stahr — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:31:06 +0000

Nah, the problem with Clinton and Monica is that Bill was physically in the oval office (with Monica under the desk) but mentally in cosmic bliss when he was talking about serious security issues; quite similar to going MIA without notifying anybody. Plus the perjury thing, and leading the country on a wild goose chase to show off his degree while his party demonized the paid investigator who followed orders of both Reps and Dems when doing his investigating. That said, Rush’s continuing and worsening absurdities are making me ashamed I’m reg’d to the same party, and prouder than before that I not only voted for, but canvassed for, Obama.

By: Mike b.t.r.m.

Mike b.t.r.m. — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:50:27 +0000

Leslie- You are correct. First, while I was talking about the overall show for the day, I was saying it was mostly in jest, but in a later post, I agreed the specific cut of the tape was not said as a joke. (That cut though I argued didn’t try to blame Barac for the affair which started before Obama’s election) what I said in (post#11) was Rush was trying to make a connection to Sandford’s handling of the exposure/confession of the affair to a dispondancy of Spirit of which Rush blames Obama to be a contributor. If you missed my follow up posts, blame me as they didn’t post my last name like the first did.

By: Leslie Parsley

Leslie Parsley — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:51:55 +0000

Responding to Mike Hatcher’s comments way back up there in # four -

I’ve reviewed that tape several times and I just don’t get a feel for tongue-in-cheek. Admittedly I make a point of never listening to or watching him, so perhaps I’ve missed something (doubt it from what I’ve read). But my mom always said you have to have brains to have a sense of humor. Frankly, I just don’t see either one in RL.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:02:27 +0000

Im sure Rush meant it as much as Evan Thomas meant about Obama being “sort of God”

By: Fritz

Fritz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:49:54 +0000

No, he would want to punch Bill for the disdain in his voice when he said it. When I first heard Clinton say it I had two thoughts:
1. Yes he did have sex with her.
2. If I were Monica’s father I would be only a short time away from being tackled by a Secret Service agent.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:44:03 +0000

Yes, the free punch sounds fair. (But technically her father would want to punch her for having sex; not for denying that he had sex.)

By: Fritz

Fritz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:39:46 +0000

Battlebob — yep. Even though technically the impeachment was about perjury. But still, an utterly stupid waste of time and energy.
The only thing that should have happened to Bill Clinton is that Monica’s father should have been allowed to have a free punch at his chin for “I didn’t have sex with That Woman”.

By: battlebob

battlebob — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:19:01 +0000

Fritz,
Then you must also agree that the Bubba-Monica tryst was not worthy of impeachment. After all, nothing meaningful came out of that…

By: Fritz

Fritz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:18:19 +0000

Battlebob — to me the only relevant thing (for resignation) is whether there was a real state issue with having the governor MIA for a week without notifying his staff or the Lt Gov. It’s not like the state forces were going to fire on a Federal fort in the meantime.

By: battlebob

battlebob — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:24:03 +0000

Fritz,
Do you hink Sanford should resign from office?
To me, besides deserting his state and fouling his family, he is turning out to be another political hypcrite.
Elliot Spitzer made his name as a crime busting attorney and would probably been Obama’s AG. Once he broke the law committing crimes he busted people for earlier, he was done.
The problem with those who tout themselves as holier then thou, when they aren’t (as none of us are), they have to pay the price for their actions equal to their words.
It was the same when Newt was running around on his wife when he voted for impeaching Clinton for lying about running around on Hillary. Newt doesn’t have a chance.
One-by-one, the rebub presidential contendors end up getting caught with their pants around their ankles. Instead of saying their are at a higher moral level then the rest of us, how about saying they have the same weaknesss the rest of us have? It makes their mistakes far less fatal.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:13:29 +0000

Sanford’s family and career are just the latest public sacrifice on the altar of enforced monogamy.

By: Mike b.t.r.m.

Mike b.t.r.m. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:58:57 +0000

Sample cut v.s. whole show, since I listened to the whole show yesterday, I knew Rush wasn’t blaming Obama for the affair. but in the sample cut posted here, which I just listened to, it is true, that part Rush isn’t trying to be funny. He is arguing that Obama is an emotional downer, there was no “therefore Sanford had an affair”. You could say that Rush is trying to connect Obama’s policies not to the affair,which I belief Rush acknowledged started befor Obama even took office, but the wacky, flippant, way Sanford “dealt with” what Sanford knew would be the public discloser of the affair.

By: Yanett G.

Yanett G. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:53:12 +0000

Now, there you have it, and they still wonder why we voted the way we did!!!
Very sad about two deaths that can not be separated from our global genetic social quilt, Which President Obama had nothing to do with. As far as that Gov. Sanford, it is so increadable selfish, not to mention the public embarrassment, shame and pain that he caused his family, is owed all to him alone! Rush needs to go back to school and take classess on Marriage and the Family along with Cultural Diversity.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:36:19 +0000

Of course blame the President or the federal government for an extra marrital affair. Conservatives have this whole “this is the end times mentality”. Its very scary and it is so easy to blame someone else for your problems. Rush was probably praying to whatever deity supplies his drugs that Obama would get into office. After all if the country fell apart under another Republican what could he do? He couldnt sell his half brained theories with that. He needed another Dem. President. On a side note Sanford had a very lousy relationship with his own party that controlled the senate. He burned his own bridges there and with his wife. Amazing. But Pres Obama pushed Sanford into bed with his mistress and killed his “spirit”.