Obama Will Try to Rig a Third Term: Limbaugh

Barack, like Honduran prez, just wants to 'rule' for as long as possible

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 30, 2009 2:40 PM CDT

(Newser) – Rush Limbaugh says President Obama condemned the military coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in order to “lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016,” RealClearPolitics reports. The army moved against Zelaya when he tried to eliminate term limits—“basically rip that country’s democracy to shreds,” Limbaugh said. “And Obama sides with the guy who wanted to rip up the constitution.”

Obama’s “cult-like” followers—who, Limbaugh notes, “include a wide percentage of minorities”—will come to see him as irreplaceable. Obama will be only too happy to indulge them, at the cost of the Constitution, because he and his Latin American chums like Zeleya and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez “are people who seek power for reasons other than to serve. They seek to rule.”

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2-bits

Jul 1, 2009 12:43 PM CDT

He actually only knows the meaning of one of those words. The other one he insists on using over and over again. Annoyingly.

MrsK

Jul 1, 2009 12:25 PM CDT

Rush is dead wrong. BO won't even serve a second term. His approval will be in the tank by the end of the year. He'll never be re-elected.

kokuaguy

Jul 1, 2009 11:53 AM CDT

It was Cheney we were worried about, toad. Bush figured out what the Neo-con cabal was up to, With the help of Sy Hersch Bush realized what the Neo-con cabal was up to and in his second term fired Rummy and brought a saner crowd in that didn't allow the Dr. Strangelove scenario to be played out.

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Obama Will Try to Rig a Third Term: Limbaugh