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Monday, March 9, 2009

Rush wants Obama to Fail, Dems wanted Bush to Fail

Rush Limbaugh took a lot of heat for saying he wants President Obama to fail -- but a lot of Democrats felt the same way about former President George W. Bush during his second term.

An August 2006 poll conducted by FOX News/Opinion Dynamics showed 51 percent of Democrats did not want Bush to succeed. Thirty-four percent of independents also did not want Bush to succeed.

By comparison, 90 percent of Republicans said at the time that they wanted Bush to succeed, and 40 percent of Democrats said the same.

Conservative radio talk show host Limbaugh says he doesn't want the economy to fail -- just Obama's policies. But his comments last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference drew sharp criticism from the White House.

After CPAC, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told CBS' "Face the Nation" that Limbaugh's stance was the "wrong philosophy for America." - FOX News

I must be slow on the uptick here. What is all of this about? Sure most of us want Obama's policies to fail. If you don't believe in bigger Government, more spending, higher taxes, then you want them to fail. I don't get why that is news? I don't want the US to fail, the economy to fail, just the policies of someone that I disagree with.

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