Why Does Rush Limbaugh Hate American Democracy?

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, his mind apparently still clouded by the Oxycontin he had to scarf down to get through the inauguration, has proudly declared he hopes Obama fails. This statement can only indicate that Limbaugh despises the very concept of democracy and free elections.

Obama was elected with 52.9% of the popular vote and an overwhelming margin in the electoral college. More importantly, he is the first presidential candidate to capture a majority of the popular vote since George H. W. Bush in 1988.

To clarify: Bill Clinton was able to win the presidency in 1992 with 43% of the vote in because of Ross Perot (who won 19%, leaving the elder Bush with 38%). Perot ran again in 1996, and while he had fewer votes than four years earlier, he still kept Clinton to 49.24%. Then in 2000, Limbaugh's hero George W. Bush won the presidency despite have captured fewer votes than Al Gore. And in 2004, Bush managed to squeak by with 50.74% and a narrow margin in the electoral college.

But even more importantly, Obama won more popular votes (69,456,897) than any other presidential candidate in American history. Here are some more fun facts: The last presidential landslide was Reagan in 1984, and he won 54,455,472 votes (58.8%). Nixon in '72 had just over 47 million votes. Granted, Franklin Roosevelt managed to win over 103 million votes, but it took him four elections to do it.

Limbaugh should stick those little factoids in his crack pipe and smoke them.

But that prescription drug swilling lard butt isn't done. Thanks to his drug induced dementia, Limbaugh has begun referring to our current economic crisis as "Obama's recession." Huh? What about George W. Bush, who was President for the last eight years? What about the House of Representatives, which the Republicans controlled for 12 years? Or the Senate, which the Republicans controlled for much of the same time? And let's not forget the financial collapses of Enron and Worldcomm, both of which took place under Bush's presidency. Shouldn't those two fiascoes served as a wake-up call to questionable financial practices by American corporations?

Limbaugh needs to face the ugly truth: was the Republican philosophy of lax business regulation that got us into this freakin' mess.

Oh, and then there's that fun little "Barack the Magic Negro" song that Limbaugh was playing on his radio show last fall. If that's not pure, unadulterated racism, I don't know what is. Yet 20 million Americans continue to listen to this drug-addled right-wing lunatic!?!?!?

With the election of Barack Obama, America has demonstrated that it has moved into the 21st century. Until people like Rush Limbaugh and his fellow Republicans figure that out, they will remain stuck back in the 19th century wondering where all the slaves have gone.