In response to this nuclear summit, commentator Anderson Cooper had the chutzpah to compare Obama’s foreign policy approach to that of Ronald Reagan, and was wondering why Republicans were so disagreeable.
When I heard that, I was incredulous. Comparing Barack Obama with Ronald Reagan is like comparing Carter to Washington or Lincoln. In so many ways—from the economy to energy to foreign policy—Obama is Jimmy Carter part 2. Ronald Reagan, in my view, deserves to be on Mount Rushmore with the other great men who presided over our republic.
When Rush heard a liberal commentator comparing Obama to Reagan (and it hasn’t been the first time), he wouldn’t have it for one second. Below is a complete distruction of the leftocracy’s ridiculous Obama–Reagan comparison.
Among Rush’s best quotes from this clip are:
Barack Obama is the antithesis of Ronald Reagan in virtually any way you can imagine — and you people in the media need to be ashamed of yourselves or worse. This template, this narrative out there that Obama is simply doing what Reagan’s doing and why are we not happy about it? You impugn the memory of Ronald Reagan when you associate anything this little man-child, five-minute career, inexperienced, community organizer does and compare that to anything Ronald Reagan did or wanted to do. It is an embarrassment and you’re not fooling anybody who was alive during the 80’s and knows full well what Ronald Reagan was all about. It still amazes me that you people who despise Reagan to this day feel the need to revive him to give your little president some sort of credibility he has not earned.
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Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union. You are reestablishing the Soviet Union, Obama. Reagan put missiles in West Berlin or Western Europe, and Obama put our missiles in the dustbin! There is no comparison whatsoever. Reagan would have been focused on destroying our enemies, not coddling them — and certainly not apologizing to them for his own country.
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Let me be clear about this: The era of Reagan is never over because the era of liberty and security and capitalism is never over. Reaganism is simply constitutional freedom. Freedom will never go out of style.
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You guys on the left, doesn’t it bother you at all that your guy has to be compared to Ronald Reagan so he appears to have some chops, some cred, some street cred? Obama is Obama. He is not FDR, he is not Lincoln, he’s not Reagan. Obama is Obama, which means Obama is a failure. He will always be a failure because Obama does not learn from experience, from evidence, or from history. He has his agenda. He’s hell-bent on pushing it. He is presiding over the decline of the United States of America, and he is doing so happily and purposefully.
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REAGAN (March 23, 1983): Free people must — voluntarily, through open debate and democratic means — meet the challenge that totalitarians pose by compulsion. It’s up to us, in our time, to choose and choose wisely between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.
RUSH: And now that freedom’s enemies are growing stronger day by day, aided and abetted by President Obama. So I don’t want to hear it anymore. I don’t want to hear little nitwits like Anderson Cooper or whoever else in government-run media, wonder why Republicans are upset when Obama is just continuing the work of Ronald Reagan. Nothing could be further from the truth.
[Edited for long silences, commercial breaks, and extraneous talking]
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