Waxing Poetically: Addressing Culture with a Twist of Poetry

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Oh, how seasons seem to roll on so constantly in the steady and (at times) laughable course of history. As you may already know, a March 4, transcript of conservative talk titan Rush Limbaugh’s radio show has stirred up and likely brewed a a sizable bit of hot soup for politicos on both sides of the isle (presumably the side with soup on it) with Limbaugh’s adamant request that President Obama debate him on core issues of the economy, heath care and social welfare. Though there is no official reply from the President as of this writing, I would suggest that President Obama should without question take on Limbaugh even if only for the purposes of intellectual discourse and a certain reassurance to the public that its commander-in-chief has thought his views over quite a bit. So in the same vain, I take you to an earlier post from January 28 concerning Limbaugh’s comment in January in which Limbaugh decreed with full indigent fortitude, “I hope he fails.”

Quoting Poetically: Rush Limbaugh on Why He Wants Obama to Fail

“I got a request here from a major American print publication. ‘Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency. We would love to include you. If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday night, that would be ideal.’ Now, we’re caught in this trap again. The premise is, what is your “hope.” My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, “Well, I hope he succeeds. We’ve got to give him a chance.” Why? They didn’t give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I’m not talking about search-and-destroy, but I’ve been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don’t want them to succeed.” - Rush Limbaugh January 16, 2009

GOP juggernaut Rush Limbaugh said the above comment about Barack Obama on a January 16 edition of his talk-radio show. He argues that because he does not agree with a great many of Obama’s policies, he wants those to fail. But that kind of failure is quite different the total, unilateral societal collapse which pundits like Limbaugh seem to blame on liberal media and the “liberal agenda.” Sure Obama wants to close Guantanamo Bay’s prisons. Sure he wants affordable healthcare, and a large federal oversight of banks. But then of course, there is reality. Guantanamo detainees will not be just walking the streets; they will in fact be prosecuted, sentenced, executed or shipped out of the country and separated from their terrorist cohorts in all likelihood. also, affordable healthcare, Socialist or not is something all people tend to want, and furthermore Obama’s plan is not for government-mandated coverage that makes every citizen a number, but coverage which by virtue of its very existence allows every citizen to be treated. Lastly, the banks’ socialization is indicative of an under-regulated system - if it were not, the word crisis need not apply.

What Limbaugh fails to see is that Obama’s policies are aiming to be 180% distance from those of the Republicans solely because of a certain law of opposites. That is to say, if the previous attempts by the GOP flopped, logic will inform the wise to do the reverse. Thus, America stands at a new place in history in which change may mean all the things you hate, Mr. Limbaugh. But in the name of common sense, what choice do you have? Couple that what Obama’s willingness to hear opposing arguments and actually listen to words of dissent and one may see how the sum of these parts can very likely lead to solutions; and is that not what you want? I should think so, Sir.

Wax for a better America!

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