Rush was right. By Rich Lowry. Politico, January 23, 2013.
Rich Lowry: Rush Was Right About Obama. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, January 24, 2013. YouTube video here.
Lowry:
There
should have been something for everyone in President Barack Obama’s second
inaugural address. For liberals, a full-throated call to arms. For
conservatives, vindication.
Obama
settled once and for all the debate over his place on the political spectrum
and his political designs. He’s an unabashed liberal determined to shift our
politics and our country irrevocably to the left. In other words, Obama’s foes
— if you put aside the birthers and sundry other lunatics — always had him
pegged correctly.
If you
listened to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, you got a better
appreciation of Obama’s core than by reading the president’s friends and
sophisticated interpreters, for whom he was either a moderate or a puzzle yet
to be fully worked out.
Rush,
et al., doubted that Obama could have emerged from the left-wing milieu of Hyde
Park, become in short order the most liberal U.S. senator, run to Hillary
Clinton’s left in the 2008 primaries and yet have been a misunderstood centrist
all along. They heeded his record and his boast in 2008 about “fundamentally
transforming the United States of America,” and discounted the unifying tone of
his rhetoric as transparent salesmanship.
They
got him right, even as he duped the Obamacons, played the press and fooled his
sympathizers. David Brooks, the brilliant and winsome New York Times columnist,
has been promising the arrival of the true, pragmatic Obama for years now. In
his column praising the second inaugural address, he appeared finally to give
up. “Now he is liberated,” Brooks wrote. “Now he has picked a team and put his
liberalism on full display.”
