I hope Obama fails too.

[Herb Schaffler]

In the new April, 2009 issue of Liberty, David T. Beito writes:

The media and others have shamelessly taken out of context Rush Limbaugh's statement that he wants Obama to fail. Rush may be a defender of perpetual war and an enemy of civil liberties, but on this issue he is right.

Here is what Limbaugh said: "I hope he fails. (What Obama is) talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all these things. I don't want this to work."

Limbaugh's essential point was that he hopes Obama will fail in his policy goal of expanding governmental control over the economy. To interpret this, as some have done, as claiming that Limbaugh wants the "country" to fail, bears no relationship to the facts.