How Did America become GREAT? part two

How Did America Become Great?
show aired on October 28, 2008

by Rush Limbaugh.


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freedom is the answer. Most of the people around the world have not lived with the great degree of freedom that our country was founded with. And you can read it in the Founding Fathers' ruminations at the days of the founding, talking about the industriousness of individuals and how to promote it for the common good. You can look at the original true story of Thanksgiving and find out how they tried socialism. The whole community produced whatever it produced and everybody got to go take what they want from the production, and some people figured out after awhile they didn't have to produce anything in order to get something. It didn't work, they changed it. Everybody was assigned a plot of land, grow what you want, grow as much as you want, and you keep it, sell your excess. Plymouth colony expanded like crazy.

The answer is freedom. The answer is also that our Founding Fathers recognized that freedom is part of our creation, and so our founding documents recognize that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and these are human rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. We all have these. Every human is born this way, with that yearning spirit. However, depending on where the human being is born, they never get to exercise it. We and our ancestors had the chance to exercise it, and they did, and they built, and they created, and they invented. And as a result, the greatest country in the history of humanity became the United States of America. And it is that freedom allowing each of us to use our own ambitions, our own desires, our own ingenuity, our own creativity, unshackled, to pursue our passions, to do what we love with as few obstacles in our way as possible, certainly fewer obstacles than any other nation's people have faced in their lives. And we see the result. We see the greatest country in the history of civilization
Why does this matter? Now we have in this presidential campaign not just Mr. Obama, but an entire political party which resents deeply all that I just described to you. They resent the way this country was founded and built because the way they view things is they see that those who worked hard and invented and were industrious and indulged their ambitions did whatever it was necessary to do. They worked hard, they got up before sunup, they went to bed at sundown, they went to school, whatever it was they had to do to become what they wanted, they did it. And, of course, some didn't. Some didn't have as many ambitions as others. Some didn't have that drive. We're all different. And so, the resulting capitalism here that I've just described produced some people that -- in this country, almost everybody does better than anywhere else around the world. However, when just this country is taken as a subset of humanity, yeah, we have some people that don't do well. And we also have some people who in our past were discriminated against for one reason or another. They were denied, at first, the same opportunities that other citizens had. But this country's dealt with that, and those opportunities, however you want to argue, good or bad, the way we've gone about it, those opportunities are now far more available to far more people than even at the founding, than even 60 years ago.

Great, great progress has been made. However, Barack Obama, the Democrat Party still see this nation not as I've just described it to you. They see it as the greatest failure in the experiment of social justice and economic justice and equality that the human race has ever produced. It's got to change. We have got to stop this. We've got to fix it so that everybody ends up the same. We can't have people doing all that well while some people don't, even though that has resulted not because people have been oppressed, not because they've been stunted, not because they've been squashed, because they didn't have the ambition, they didn't have the desire, but they're living their lives, and they're happy, for the most part. So we have the Democrat Party and Barack Obama who want to take every ingredient that made this the greatest country in the world and even you who are gonna vote for Obama and even you who are buying into this notion that some people have too much and that we need to take from them and give to you, you still expect what? You still expect a grand life. You expect a life of prosperity. You expect greater income; you expect a bigger house; you expect a second car. It's just that you think it's going to come from some politician taking it away from somebody else.

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[mmahan21]

everyone in america needs to hear this

[preacherofbarack2008]

YES, YES,

This should be taught in Schools and those new Citizens wanna be.

Awesome.

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[121black]

GO RUSH YOU ARE 100% CORRECT!!

[petebax1]

You don't understand Human Rights in USA if you did you would be higher placed in the United Nations list of Human Rights. Until USA gets into the top 5 counhtries in the world for Human Rights shut the f up

[Holiday6121]

Little monkey comment isnt really that concerning. I call my kids little monkies lol. The Olympics most americans dont want, atleast the people I know dont watch them. we live in a time of political correctness, you have to try and please everyone. Rush Limbaugh makes his bucks by catering to people who have specific views, and people who dont share those views think hes racist or totally wrong. Unfortunately the NFL doesnt share SOME of his views, and to appease there personnel "The players".

[nataniellek]

Rush Limbaugh is the apex of ignorance.

[Holiday6121]

Beeirish I dont think its just Obama and congress. ITS ALL THE CURRENT POLITICIANS, from either party that are totally screwing us. They are all out for themselves and the special interests that placed them in their chair of power.

[Holiday6121]

In regards to Donovan McNabb a few of his accolades. Holds the record for Big East touchdown passes. Holds 1st in Syracuse school records for Pass Efficiency and Passing Yards. He olds NFL records for. Most consecutive pass completions (24). Least intercepted Quarterback per pass attempts ever. 1 of 6 quaterbacks to pass for over 25,000 yards and rush for 3,000. 3rd highest winning percentage among active QB's behind Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.

[Holiday6121]

Quotes from Rush Limbaugh in regards to African Americans; "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you James, Godspeed". In regards to the NFL "Look let me put it to you this way: The NFL all too often looks like a game between the bloods and the crypts without any weapons. There, I said it"

Just two of the reasons the NFL didn't want Rush in their association.

[Beeirish1965]

Part III

Holiday6121,

Monday Night Football telecast in September 1983, for calling a wide receiver for the Washington Redskins, Alvin Garrett, a "little monkey." Howard Cosell

Not even close again to what Rush said.

Bryan Gumbel is an arrogant no-nothing. So he says the Winter Olympics are not real sport and that no real athletes are competing & "Count me among those who don't care about them & won't watch them"... Is this racial? I think it is an opinion but others might not!

[Beeirish1965]

Part II

Holiday6121,

Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder, CBS Sports commentator, analyst and oddsmaker, was fired by the network yesterday after a controversial television interview Friday in which he said many blacks were superior athletes because of breeding from the time of slavery and that the only area in sports left for whites was coaching.

Not even close to what Rush said!

[Beeirish1965]

Part I

Holiday6121,

ESPN hired Rush to analyze the NFL players play. Opinions! There are overrated players & underrated players in sports all the time.

2003 statement from Rush, "I think is a little social concern in the NFL.The media .. very desirous that a black QB do well. "There is a little hope invested in McNabb, & he got a lot of credit for the performance . he didn't deserve.The defense carried this team."

At the time of this broadcast this was true about McNabb? YES!

[Holiday6121]

Beeirish he said that Donovan McNabb was a crappy quarterback and the only reason he was starting for the Eagles was because he was Black. He also has had numerous "Questionable" comments in regards to colored athletes in years prior. BTW I love u  :) lol