Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Posters in this forum come from a wide range of political beliefs. That's good. That's democracy. That's the system that the founding fathers so brilliantly created more than 200 years ago.

But can anyone support that statement that Rush Limbaugh made on his radio show recently? I heard it reported that he said that his feelings for the new administration can be summed up in four words: "I hope Obama fails."

I found the report so unbelievable that I Googled the topic and was lead to Limbaugh's web site where his statement is pesented in context and in it's entirety. Here's the link...http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/dai...113.guest.html

It's one thing to hold strong political beliefs and positions. But we do all live in and support democracy. It seems to me that at some point in each political cycle a winner and loser will be determined thru a democratic election. From that point until the next political cycle, it seems to me that Americans should give some level of support -- ranging from passive to enthusiastic -- to their elected representatives until the next election cycle begins. After all, it is our country and the democratic process applies to and benefits all of us, regardless of political stripe.

How can a buffoon like Rush Limbaugh make statements like this and even call himself an American? It's attitudes like this that have so fractured our political system that it has frozen and has totally failed to serve the people. Hopefully most people will react to statement's like this in the same way that Limbaugh's own staff did when he said the words on the radio -- they laughed. But hopefully people will also react with disgust with Limbaugh's distasteful and stupid foolishness.