White House: Obama vs. Limbaugh Debate “Unlikely”

Why Would President Obama want to Waste his time With a Pill Pooping coke Snorting Idiot Comedian? Who Dosent even Know the Constitution! The President has WAY MORE IMPORTANT Things to do.

What a ridiculous notion that any president would waste time and stoop so low as to debate an oxyconton’d-out pig! Now really!!

Healthcare needs to be reformed, plain and simple. If you are sick there should be help. If you cut your finger off, you should be able to go to the hospital to have reattached. You should not be questioned about your financial status while you are bleeding, nor should a person have to result to sewing it back on himself.(movie “Sicko”)Also why is Rush Dumbaugh challenging that man to a debate. He is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. He does not have to stoop to this mans childish banter, and like it or not, he has already debated the people that matter in his campaigning days. Rush does not matter. He should know his place which is on the radio and not in the Whitehouse. And where did this 100 days stuff come from. He is not on probation. He has 4 YEARS, and he has my vote in the re-elect.

Why would a pill popper debate a coke snorting idiot?

If he is above this, why does he keep going after Rush. Obama is a coward and would look foolish if he ever accepted this debate. He’d actually have to explain his plan- which could not happen because Pelosi would have to be by his side.

“That’s because the wh knows that Rush would mop the floor with Obama. Obama would be taken to the woodshed and whipped like a red headed stepchild. Beat like a mule. Then used as Rush’s pet monkey. What Rush flush’s down the toilet has more credibility than all of Obama.”
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Just like Mccain and Hillary did during the debates, right?

David:”If he is above this, why does he keep going after Rush.”
Could you define what you mean by “keep going after Rush”? Rush and the media have been hyping it up like crazy, but it’s nothing like the legendary Bush Admin vs. the Traitorous NY Times battles.

“Republicans appear to be growing tired of the Obama administration and its allies’ efforts to keep Rush Limbaugh center stage”…LOL!!! are they finally catching on???? Rush is in narcisitic heaven thinking he’s relevant while Obama is more than happy to have folks see that fat ugly hateful face seen as the ‘other’ option.

The moment that Rush has the courage to run for office – ANY office, City Council, dogcatcher, anything – Obama might consider a debate. As long as Rush cowardly hides behind a microphone, alone, in a soundproof room, hidden from all dissent, he’s not worth the time.
Hey dittoheads, at least Al Franken had the guts to run, to face the acceptance/regection of the people, to deal with dissent and disagreement in real time.
Rush’s narcissistic, self-indulgent cowardliness won’t allow that.
Hey Rush, quit hiding. Get in the game.

“Rush would mop the floor with Obama.”…Well, then, by all means, have your fat boy run for president! Do it! Start the campaign today,my friend! Put your money w here your mouth is, or, rather, have Rush put his money where the gallon of ice cream usually is! ALL OF IT! Why not put his hot air to the test. HE believes what he says so much, then bank on it. EVery last cent he has throw it into a campaign so if he failed, he has nothing left. Do it. LEt him learn his own insignificance. I can’t wait to see every little detail of every failure in his life brought to the forefront – three failed marriages, no kids, flunked out of college, fat as all hell, ex-junkie…oh yeah, baby, bring it on!

Obama has to have a boogey man to go after. He’s doing it with Rush now and he did it with Joe the plumber.
Poor Obama.
Hows the stock market today Obama?

marty
Um does confusion and liberalism go hand in hand? Obama drew first blood. Obama is the one that went after Rush. Liberalism is a mental disorder, obviously.

Newt Gingrich was on GMA this morning. He said that he and his institute look forward to working with Obama on the HealthCare issue, and he (Gingrich) sees a lot of opportunity for meaningful reform, especially as everyone agrees that the system is broken and needs fixing. He also said that Obama has a chance to work with him and many other conservatives and Republicans if he really means what he (Obama) says about bi-partisan solutions to important problems.
Seems like Gingrich is willing to work with the President, and Gingrich actually has concrete ideas.
Now, I ask you, and you especially Kate, doesn’t that sound a lot more production than your name calling? Rush Limbaugh is a bully, albeit an affable bully, and like all bullies he will always find a cadre of like minded bullies (Kate, you still listening?) that find joy in mocking the defenseless, enjoining in juvenile name-calling of those with whom they disagree, and generally denigrating and trying to humiliate anyone who threatens their pathetic and closed-minded points of view.
And yes, I do listen to Rush Limbaugh enough to know what I am talking about.

If the administration’s spokespeople give Limbaugh the time of day, it’s to allow that flatulence-inflated blowhard to continue to display his own ignorance and emphasize his own irrelevance. Limbaugh is hanging himself by his own petard while the American public laughs.

on the drug issue. At our ages, apres 70′s, just about everybody tries drugs in their youth. Not the point. WHO are the WEAK ones who got addicted??? THAT is a show of weakness, character flaw. Neither bush nor Obama was addicted to coke. Though bush may be an alcoholic. But the difference between someone like clinton, or obama having tried some drugs, like i did, was the HUGE difference between me trying it once and how weak and deeply troubled were the poeple who turned it into their lifestyle and got addicted. That says something about someone. You can’t compare obama trying while doing very well in a hard hard college (so obviously he must have remained perfectly functional and on his game) to someone who got addicted to the point where he is spending enormous amounts of money for it and is losing functional ability to run their life. I hate to say, I don’t mean this to make fun of someone, but his being so enormously fat also is a very similar weakness to someone who is addicted to drugs. WHy is he is so fat? why does he have no control over himself? That lends to a certain weakness of character. he has no wife, no children, no repsonsibilities, he’s rich. Why does he STILL do such a lousy job managing his own body?

David:”Everyone knows, and the WH admitted that they were involved in trying to paint Rush as the face of the GOP. They are trying to demonize him to be the new Bush to energize the left. ”
Amazing. Pointing out that he is the defacto head of the GOP, after he forced Congressmen and the actual Chair of the RNC to personally apologize and acknowledge his prestige, is “trying to demonize him.” Let me just savor that for a moment – calling someone a leader in the Republican party is demonizing him. Not comparing him to Bush, not mocking him personally (the WH has been careful to keep criticism professional, unlike blowhards on this board) – no, merely pointing out that he is the most powerful Republican voice out there is demonizing him.
That is frankly hilarious.

So we have Obama’s side to this.
Rush starts in 2 minutes…
I’ll tune in to hear his side and decide for myself.

This was just more buffoonery from the republicans, they have noth8ng concrete to offer so they give us distractions. GOP, your turning into a bigger joke than you were before.

“That lends to a certain weakness of character”..well, yeah, Mary, the man just confused the DOI with the constitution. Slight difference. LOL! He should have looked it up before he went on and started ranting it. He’s lazy. google it. takes two seconds, nah, that’s too much for him. better to go on in front of millions of people (or whatever, i dont know how many listen to him) and make a bloody fool of yourself. LAzy. btw – your name made me do a double take. mary – marty, ya know? I thought “good post….I wrote it???? ” Ha!

Well – he couldn’t be any worse than any other Obama crooney – Blago, Ayers, etc.

Speaking of pot smoking, coke snorting windbags, that perfectly describes Obama.

Whew, marty | Mar 5, 2009 11:39:52 AM, that was quite a rant you displayed up there! Don’t let the vermins on this site get your blood pressure shot up.

Gin:”Then in four years we can see if the conservatives are running an effective campaign. Until then, I will call it being effective since that’s what you call what the liberals did for eight years.”
For two (debatably 4) of those years the liberals – at least the ones in Congress – were lined up behind President Bush. You seem to forget that for a while Bush had the highest approval rating of any president since polling began – beating the likes of WWII FDR. Before his – I think we can all agree – unfortunate rating to the 90′s, he was still well over 50% and didn’t dip under 50% until the 2004 election was underway. The Democratic Congress accepted his mandate and gave him his signature tax cuts and the No Child Left Behind act.
It is documented fact that the Democratic party compromised, they did not stand on principle and obstruct until Bush’s failure was proven.

Er, I think its more like Republicans keeping Limbaugh in the limelight by inviting him to speak at CPAC, (video of conservatives giving him a standing ovation), and the sight of moderate Republicans apologising for saying his talk show is rating driven, ugly and divisive. But, whatever, Rick. If you enjoy blaming Obama for the fact Limbaugh is the face of the Republican Party at this time, OK. Obama has wide shoulders, he’ll take the blame for Limbaugh’s existence.

Just sad that the Republican party has fallen so low, and now basically represents the uneducated, prejudiced, followers of kook religion, and budding national socialists – i.e. Nazis, for those ‘publicans without a clue – about 95% of them, it would seem. We need a new copnservative party that stands for conseervative principles – stop needless foreign wars and expenditures, support education in science and technology, understand and adhere to our constitutional principles, and do whatever possible to support a meritocracy-based society. Dwight Eisenhower as a great Republican and great leader – perhaps the last one. He was also not stupid, uneducated, and simply a mouthpiece for idiot ideology.

President Obama would be wrong to accept such an invitation at this stage in the game. However, if he plans to make his accusations that the Republican Party is in disarray, he should do precisely that and show up on Rush’s show as soon as he possibly can.

I hear a chicken clucking at the whitehouse. Too funny.

“Nobody in their right mind who have a President debate somebody who is has NO SKIN IN THE GAME.”
The mind goes one way, the fingers go another.

THE CORE REASONS FOR EXTREME REPUBLICAN STRATEGY !
1) EXTREME REPUBLICAN CORE IDIOLOGY STEMS FROM CORPORATION CULTURE OF DOMINANCE. THE 5% OF POPULATION GOLDEN RULE.
2) THEY ACHIEVE SEVERAL POSITIONS BY ENDORSING RUSH Limbaugh, SEGREGATION THROUGH
FLAMMABLE RHETORIC DIVIDE AND CONQUER THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, KEEP AMERICANS QUESTIONING A TRUE FORWARD DIRECTION. THEY DON’T WANT AMERICA TO PROGRESS
IN THE SAME WAY THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DO. THEY DON’T MAKE SENSE OF THINGS LIKE HIGH SPEED RAIL, HEALTH CARE , EDUCATION AND GREEN ENERGY,
BASIC INSTINCTIVE PROGRESSIVE NEEDS WE SEE AS IMPARITIVE TO OUR SUCCESS.
THESE ARE CLEARLY ISSUES WE HAVE NOT MADE PROGRESS IN FOR DECADES AND THEY WANT TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.
3) PROGRESS IN THESE AREAS WOULD BRING AMERICAN PEOPLE TOGETHER IN A WAY NEVER SEEN BEFORE. UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ARE NOT SO DIFFERENT AND WE WANT THE SAME BASIC EVOLUTION IN LIFE.
4) THE REPUBLICANS CAN’T STAND HAVING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COME TOGETHER UNDER OBAMA. COMING TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF ALL THAT WOULD BE CONTRADICTORY TO CORPORATE DOMINANCE AS WAS THE RULE UNDER BUSH, COMMON THREAD.
5) IT IS NOT SO HARD TO SEE WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WILL DO NEXT WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND ONE SIMPLE CONCEPT AT THERE CORE. THEY ARE STRATEGIST ON BEHALF OF SOME OF THE BIGGEST MOST POWERFUL CORPORATIONS IN THE WORLD. GREED IS AT CORE ANSWERING THE QUESTION OF IDIOLOGY. MONEY FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY THIS IS WERE ALL THIS STOP MAKING SENSE RHETORIC COMES FROM.
6) ONCE WE UNDERSTAND THIS WE CAN CALL THE EXCENTRICT REPUBLICANS FOR WHAT THEY ARE CORPORATE NAZIS. NOT A GROUP THAT WANTS TO SEE THIS COUNTRY SUCCEED IN THE SAME WAY YOU AND I OR THE AVERAGE JOE WANT IT TO SUCCEED. THEY HIDE BEHIND SOME EXCENTRICT FLAVORED EXTREME CULTURAL IDEOLOGY WORKING TO INSITE HATE AND FEAR.
7) THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNET WAS AND IS CRUCIAL TO WHY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GOT THERE WAY AND ELECTED OBAMA. THE INTERNET IS THE ONE MEDIUM THAT CAN KEEP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TOGETHER SO WE MAY TAKE CONTROL OF THIS COUNTRY FROM THE EXTREME RIGHT REPUBLICANS FROM THE GREEDY CORPORATIONS.
8) REPUBLICANS CAMPAIGN THROUGH FEAR, DIVIDE AND CONQUER AND A WEALTH OF MISS INFORMATION. LIKE GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT REAL. MINIMALLY CONFUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
9) WE NEED TO WAKE UP AND APPROACH THIS FOR WHAT IT IS OF COURSE IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE TO MOST AMERICANS . THAT IS THE HOLE POINT IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE CONFUSION IS KING.
IF WE APPROACH THIS FROM ITS VERY CORE WE MAY MINIMIZE THIS CANCER IN OUR CULTURE
THAT HOLDS US BACK FROM BEING OUR VERY BEST.
10) RUSH Limbaugh IS THE EPITOME OF THE NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN. DISTRACTING OUR ATTENTION FROM WHATS IMPORTANT. CONFUSE DIVIDE PLANT FEAR ADD KAYOS, DON’T LET AMERICANS HAVE JOY IN EVOLVING AS A HEALTHY COUNTRY WOULD . THEN THEY WILL BUILD ON MORE COMPLEX FRAMEWORKS CAMPAIGNS STRATEGY’S THAT WILL BEST MUDDY THE PURSUIT OF HEALTHY AMERICANS VISION OF EVOLUTION .
11) SOME BODY NEEDS TO CALL THE EXTREME REPUBLICANS FOR WHAT THEY ARE. THEY NEED TO SAY THIS ON PUBLIC TV WAKE UP AMERICANS WE ARE FIGHTING FOR COMMON HORSE SENSE PROGESS AND VALUES IN THIS COUNTRY WE ARE NOT SOCIALIST WE ARE NOT COMMUNISTS WE ARE SMART LOVING AMERICANS THAT WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN OUR COUNTRY AND OUR PRESIDENT TO SUCCEED. THEY ARE CORPORATE NAZIS!!!!

Al Franken as well as other liberal pundits on the radio had their collective posteriors handed back to them trying to compete with Limbaugh. Rush continues to laugh all the way to the bank and would be taking a cut in pay to assume any political office. He is however, modern day’s foremost proponent of Hayek and de Tocqueville. And yes, he knows the Constitution inside and out.

So Obama (through his press secretary) take MULTIPLE opportunities to attack Rush. Rush calls him on it and offers a friendly debate on the issues. Obama (through his press secretary) laughs it off. What a COWARD!! First of all, for the President of the United States to spend his time demonizing a radio talk show host is pretty sad. Doesn’t Obama and the Democrats have bigger foes to worry about? Like the economy and terrorists? I suppose Rush is an easier target for someone like Obama.

The devil is busy why in the world would President Obama have a debate with that clown who what to be in a position but no one wants him,not even his so call friends.This reminds me of the Jim Crow days when the more affluent whites would use the less educated of the group to causes problem this is what is going on right now.There has been a changing of the guard.Let’s except it and move forward are continue to waste valuable time.President Obama we the people of this country voted for you.Now Rush needs to just state what he is a hateful little white man.By the way I’ll take you on.The President doesn’t have time for you,he’s trying to put hope by in this country.But most of all we have to put God by in this country and it isn’t about President Obama.
I’m waiting Rush let’s do this.

So- the Rushbots think that our President wakes up each morning wondering how to embarass old Rush today. Does anyone actually believe such nonsense? Or that, even if the President wanted to address the “concerns” of the gasbag of the century, that he could even find the time? Unlike Rush and his cheering section, the President has real work to do. Work that is important to democrats and republicans alike, even though the gravity of it all is probably over the heads of the whiners and complainers, and just plain hate-mongers who find their “voice” with Rush. Rather than contribute ideas and solutions, the squeaky peanut gallery contents itself with name-calling and bellyaching. We do have free speech, guys, so you can go on with your diatribes as long as there is a station that will carry you and a sponsor who will pay for it. But reasonable folks who actually want to get things done also enjoy that same freedom, and I will partake of it long enough to admonish the bums in the “NO!” corner that, although I cannot make you shut up, I can suggest you grow up. Rush is no different than any other demagogue that stalks the fringe from the shadows. He just pushes your buttons better and shouts a little louder. Most speakers who have little substance to offer do make lots of noise, and Rush is no exception. Get a real job, and get a life all you Rushbots! And Rush- the next time you lose count of the oxycontins, don’t wory. Us liberals will go easy on you, just like we did before. It’s funny how the conservative tune changes when the largess of the court goes their way, and check is made out to one of them.
Marianne Menter

So lets see if I understand this:
Before the election those who would become the white house staff decide on a strategy of attacking Rush Limbaugh
The White house anoints Rush as the leader of the opposition.
The White house demands that republicans state if they support Limbaugh or no.
Limbaugh answers the White House and offers him 3 hours on the most popular radio program in history to debate the leader of the opposition that they have appointed.
And now the White House demurs and their defenders all say they have more important things to worry about and instead attack his former addiction. (Note that Rush in his challenges to the president didn’t bring up President own self admitted drug history) Their answers are only insults.
Apparently the president and his staff and his followers are not convinced they can stand up to Mr. Limbaugh and persuade this audience, particularly without a teleprompter to tell him what to say.
As Glenn Reynolds suggested time to break out the chicken suit and begin the countdown on the number of days since Rush issued his challenge and the White House demurered.
Of course this announcement doesn’t totally reject it. No solid decision either way. President Obama has apparently discovered a way to vote “present” as president.

What a ridiculous notion that any president would waste time and stoop so low as to debate an oxyconton’d-out pig! Now really!!
Posted by: hang | Mar 5, 2009 11:10:04 AM
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You have to “love” the hatred that spews out of the foaming at the mouth “compassionate” Liberals.
and attackign Limbaugh on drugs? you can’t be this much of a hypocrite. Your President is a cocaine head.

Obama has much better things to do with his time then wallowing in the slime with a wind bag like Limbaugh!
Posted by: ZakD | Mar 5, 2009 9:08:18 PM
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Of course you are right ZakD. Obama needs to keep on destroying what is left of our once mighty economy.

I have to say, if our own President of United States, cannot take on a radio host in a debate, what hell are we going to do when he has to sit down a debate with the leader,or leaders, of other country’s. Obama has to be able to talk to anyone, about anything that will effect the people’s thoughts him. If he cannot do that, then all of us in the United States had better be ready to do it ourselves. In closing, Obama, as a citizen of this wonderful counrty, stand up to these people,network’s, radio commitators that are saying “you can’t, won’t, or are not going to lead this country into a better future for our us, our children, and their children. and if you cannot do that, then let your wife do it.

B Hussein Obama will be failed for sure, if he takes a debate w/ Rush . He in only a Community Organizer-in-chef

When Limbaugh is the Repubs Presidential candidate, I’m sure President Obama would be happy to debate Ol’ Missouri Fats. Ol’ Fats will not run for Prez because… 1. He would not want to be embarrassed by the scrutiny he would have to face. 2. All the money he would lose by not being able to spew the poison he spews on the radio. 3. The Repubs don’t want him to.