President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill Friday that they need to quit listening to radio commentator Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with democrats and the new administration. At one point during a meeting between Obama and republican leaders, a critic spoke up about their objections to Obama’s stimulus plan, Obama simply replied “I won, I will trump you on that”.

Last I checked, Rush Limbaugh was a radio commentator, paid to discuss his views and opinions. I didn’t know he was so much of a problem for someone such as the president. I guess when you have a different opinion about something, there’s no way that you can get along with someone else that has a different opinion. Thats what I’m led to believe by President Obama’s statements. I could very well be wrong, but I don’t remember a point in time when a president denounced a radio talk show host or any sort of other editorialist and labeled them a troublemaker. I also don’t remember a time when a president so smugly retorted “I won”, especially in such a childish manner.

I listen to Rush on occasion, and there are times when I’m nodding my head in agreement and others when I’m yelling at the radio at what a moron he is. Rush is simply a talk show host who people listen to in order to hear a different perspective. He doesn’t command legions of drones, he has an audience that sometimes agrees with him, and at other times they don’t. Sure there are some listeners out there that idolize him and believe everything he says, but that can be said for just about any talk show host, and Obama himself.

Many people have been claiming that Rush has been saying, “I hope Obama fails”. Then all of these people have proceeded to blast him for what he’s said. However, as I’m sure many other people have already said, his words are consistently being taken out of context in an effort to start some mudslinging against him and put him in a bad light. If people were to actually listen to what he has to say instead of listening to sound bytes, you would quickly realize that people have been taking his words out of context. Rush has consistently repeated the fact that he hopes Obama’s socialist agenda fails, not that he hopes that Obama fails as president. Rush is trying to drive a wedge between Obama and his policies while others are portraying him as driving a wedge between Obama and conservatives, which Obama really needs no help with, as his actions to keep up heavy government spending and expanding government have conservatives outraged, and rightly so.

I have my radio tuned to the station in Texas that broadcasts people such as Rush and Hannity, two very conservative talk show hosts. Why do I have my radio tuned to this station? I’m basically a conservative and I agree with some of the things they say, while at times I scoff at some of the other things that spew from their mouths and even their caller’s mouths. I find myself changing the station at different points during the day after I’ve had enough of listening to the crap that they sometimes talk about. I’ve also heard liberal talk show hosts that are just as guilty of being ignorant at times as the conservative talk show hosts that many people loath. If these people are a problem for a president, then I’m not sure that person has any business being the president.

I find it odd that Obama speaks of unity and working together, yet denounces people for listening to a talk show host. If we want to accomplish anything and if we want to get along with the democrats, we have to stop listening to certain people. When I say we, I’m not talking about conservatives or republicans, I’m talking about everyone who isn’t in line with the democrat agenda. This is a two way street, and I will not advocate that someone stop listening to a certain person if they are to get along with me. It seems to me that instead of compromising, Obama wants us to just come to his side instead of meeting in the middle.

I am a Libertarian and I think and act for myself, no radio commentator is going to command me or any other person that chooses to think for themselves. I support the closure of gitmo, I support abortion, I opposed the bailout and all of the heavy spending that both democrats and republicans are doing, and I didn’t vote for McCain or Obama. I didn’t vote for nor did I support what Bush did either, however Kerry and Gore are just as bad of choices as Bush was. It’s pitiful that we run with a two-party system that systematically puts us in heavy debt and oppresses our rights while they hardly ever gives us good candidates to choose from. I am against the patriot act and against foreign aggression except in a defensive manner. I support a war on terror, not the war on terror. I don’t dictate with my bible or believe that everyone should be equal in a material sense. I believe that gay people should have the same exact rights as everyone else and that affirmative action is a load of bullshit. I don’t think the government is the solution to most problems and ultimately causes most of the problems they rush to “fix”. However, I do believe that regulations and laws are needed to provide a fair and free society.

We’re not all sheep as many politicians believe, and we do have ideas and opinions that are going to be different, and we shouldn’t be denounced for that. We have the right to say what we wish and listen to those say what they want as we wish. No politician should ever even hint at attacking our rights in such a way, as I feel that President Obama has. Why is everyone scared of the big bad radio commentator?

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