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Let's all join Rochelle Riley in wishing Rush Limbaugh well.

Good column (assuming that the statements she's talking about were actually written - I truly don't know because I generally skip anything that has "Rush Limbaugh" in the title.)

Hard to get concerned about idle hopes of those who have had it with Rush's vitriol. he has complete control over the matter. he could become rational, sane, and objective and thus remove the hopes or he can continue to inspire them. His bed; let him sleep in it.

No.
I won't stop.
Let me edit this, in order to leave no doubt as to what my statement says.

No. I won't wish him well.

If it's okay for Rush to hope Obama fails, it's okay for me to hope he fails.
Anything else is a double standard.
I don't directly wish for people to die as a normal part of my day, and it's not high on my list of priorities because I know my wish carries no weight.

But Obama is the president, and while I may be extremely disappointed in him at this time, I want him to succeed as the leader of this country. I want him to be good at his job and to make a difference, and I want him to finish his term whole, healthy and vital.

Rush's only job is to run his mouth. That's all he does.
He doesn't sign legislation, he doesn't craft foreign policy, he doesn't command the military, he doesn't do anything other than flap his gums. That is the Rush Limbaugh equipment inventory, that is the software and hardware that goes into the Limbaugh operating system, that is the Limbauh apparatus and I want it to fail.

If it is possible for it to fail without him losing his life, say perhaps his vocal chords refusing to function then fine, that's good enough for me. He can live out the rest of his life as a brass pole in Bangkok for all I care, or on the golf course in mute contemplation at the 19th hole tavern with his cigars.

If his mental faculties take a hit sufficient to render him unable to formulate commercially viable thought then fine, he can gum his oatmeal at the rest home.

If his psychological outlook takes a turn that diminishes his mental capacity to the point where he makes no sense then fine, he can be the whacky old man who once held sway over millions but who now can't distinguish shite from Shinola without lapsing into paranoid schizo meltdowns.

But I want him to fail. I want him to be the bookend on the closing of The Decade That Sucked. I want him and his brand of revisionism to be left at the doorstep of all the other failures that have haunted this country for the last ten years.

Rush Limbaugh has made enough money that he can comfortably retire now, he has left his mark on American politics and American society. Without a doubt people will be carrying his torch for many years, but now it is time for that torch to be passed and for an era to end.

Rush Limbaugh is not too big to fail.
Let him go the way of Lehman Brothers.
Let him be a casualty of his own beliefs, let the advertisers decide that someone else can garner better ratings speaking truth to power instead of molding and omitting whatever doesn't suit his agenda.

I do not wish death on anyone.

Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. He has been elevated to the exalted political philosopher status by:

1. The illiterate, the semi-literate, the lesser read and the willfully ignorant who are unable or unwilling to process and compare various sources of national and international information regarding policy and governance. In other words, they don't know any better and thus have permitted an entertainer to do their political analysis for them.

In the beginning it was a bit of fun. In time, these suckers, dummies and fools began to take Limbaugh far too seriously. His ratings increased as a result and Limbaugh found himself in a situation that was much too good to ignore. His success is a combination of ignorance (theirs), talent (his), and national syndicated talk radio.

2. People of the opposition who, knowing better, react to Limbaugh as if he actually were an exalted political philosopher and thus lend credence to his bombastic utterances.

If I may clarify: I don't wish him ill OR well. For one thing, I'm not convinced Rush Limbaugh (tm) and Rush Limbaugh private citizen are the same people.

I really don't care one way or the other about the private man (other than to hope I never encounter him) - and I don't need to wish him dead; if someone would lower his volume, that would be good enough for me.

I just think wishing for someone's death (as I said - if that did indeed happen) is, well, tacky.

It raises an interesting question: Would one ever wish anyone dead? bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot? And if so, where is the distinction between those who would qualify?

Let's understand one thing: No one will use this web site to wish someone dead simply because they have a different philosophy or political view.

If you can't debate an issue without wishing death on those who disagree with you then I will impose the death sentence on your right to debate here.

Are we clear?

--Doug

yes... the eternal question..

comes full circle doesn't it? Euthanasia, Abortion, Braindead, Mercy Killing, DNR, Cost/Benefit, Murderers, Enablers...

I have long been of the opinion that if in fact we did ever capture or kill bin Laden it would be in the best interest of United States to say nothing at all about it.