to Red Leader: a dictator with term limits? interesting concept..... Please pick a better buzz word next time. That one's tired.

to Gavin: Why would one pander to a non-majority? My point was that his decisions were unpopular. Empty suits don't defy their advisers, which makes your point moot. Bad decisions are OK with me because officials can be voted out or have term limits. I never defended his policies or his balls. YOU added those gems. But since you love our current president so much, ask yourself this: Why did Obama wait to see the public's reaction to AIG, and then speak out on that subject? That's what we have senators for Mr. President. Let THEM be outraged....since THEY don't do anything wrong.

to Lent: The hatred is seeping through your pores. That's evident from the first 4 words of your post. Obama has proven to me that he feels threatened by talk radio. "Scumbags", "bigotry", and "ignorance" shouldn't strike fear in a president. He should be above that as this country's new leader. It's a shame he mentioned Rush and Hannity by name. In effect, he is saying that CNN should be the only source for news, and dissenting points of view must be delt with and crushed.For crying out loud Lent, your Messiah is afraid of someone's opinion!! Do I need to repeat that for you? I hope not.
But Lent, you go ahead and keep getting all your information from one source with one agenda. Hitler's Germany did that too and that worked out well, huh?
I'm happy for you though Lent, because you can show your ignorant rage for anything you like, as a US citizen. In some countries that might be a nightstick to the face and no one ever hearing from you again. Soak that in for a minute...

Limbaugh is a scumbag and a moron, with absolutely no cognitive or even argumentative ability. The only way he could win such an argument is to shout louder or start sputtering nonsense.

That said, I would be greatly disappointed if Obama helped to support such bigotry and ignorance by appearing on his show. Obama did already appear on O'Reilly's show, but he's more focused on purely belligerent stupidity than outright hatred (fueled by said stupidity). It was rather uninteresting, though, as all O'Reilly did was yell and repeat himself, and you could almost see him covering his ears and yelling NANANANAN while Obama spoke, and then of course made up some nice guy routine stuff.

Obama's only problem is he doesn't want to offend the Republicans, which he really needs to stop worrying about. However, Rush's nonsense is so ridiculous I don't think it would really be an issue.

Also, this idea that Obama is overly reliant on a teleprompter seems to have minimal basis in fact. He's spoken publicly numerous times where he definitely didn't have one, and did fine.

I'm actually kind of astounded that people actually consider Rush Limbaugh at all intelligent. I mean, there are intelligent Republicans, but Rush Limbaugh? He's incredibly stupid, and I don't think he even pretends otherwise. He's a failed sports reporter who realized he could have a job in fanning ignorance, nothing more.

As much as I would like to see that debate, it won't happen. Obama got elected president after debating the issues with McCain. Never mind that McCain is a senile idiot who is far from being a champion of small government. In the mindset of many Americans, Obama already won that debate, and no president is going to debate a talk show host.

Although, I do hope for a miracle to happen to convince Obama to debate Rush. Republicans could sell that idea by saying it might increase "bipartisan" support for his agenda.

A debate of this nature would be pointless, unless the definition of the term "win" is declared from the outset. Regardless of each participants ability to successfully argue a case, popular opinion will not be overcome. I think that the discrepancy between support for Obama and support for his policies are indicative of this. In essence, no matter how successful Limbaugh argues his point, Obama remains such a "nice guy". This fact alone offers a clue as to which side is dreaming. The point is, you cannot successfully argue a case logically with anyone whose reason is guided by emotion.

it would be an opportune time for BOplenty to prove himself to those of us that did not vote for him and those that have already lost faith in him.

HAAAAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!

I'd say he's as much an empty suit as his predecessors. Are you sucker enough to believe otherwise, smooth operator?

Hey, I had an ORIGINAL sock monkey. Obama is NO sock monkey.....LOL

Dude! Wait, I got it! What if Rocky fought Rambo? Dude, he would totally wipe the floor with that pansy!

The last President barely held press conferences but the current President is supposed to focus his time and energy on some meaningless, topicless debate with an entertainer? Dude, I'm so wasted!

Put down the bongs, stoners.

The dp was chicken to debate on FoxNews, they will be content snipe and ankle bite. That's fine with me, it makes the dp look bad, not Mr. Limbaugh. Never stop an opponent from making a fool of themselves, as someone once said.

What the hell if your gonna fantisize lets make it good.Put on a tag team event with Rush"deGodfather"Limbaugh and Neal"talkmaster"Boortz vs Barack"Telepromptnator"Obama and Barney"justplainugly" Frank.Put up a ring in Vegas(maybe a cage match)with costume wrestling tights for all parties.Pelosi and Ann Coulter could be the "round number"showgirls.Joe Biden could be the fight bell(just wack him in the head,I'm sure it would ring)John McCain would be the ref. since he is despised by both parties. I think the pay-for-view revenues could cover the stimulis package. If not then future match ups might. Maybe even do away with elections all together and replace them with this.

The liberal tools comparing Rush to McCain are way off the mark. McCain is the candidate that the DEMOCRATS (and media) gave to the Republicans. McCain was embarrassing and the only reason many "right-wingers" voted for him was to keep Obama from becoming Teleprompter-in-Chief.

Rush is a much better debater than McCain could ever hope to be.

Hey liberals, remember Obama's debate with O'Reilly? Bill went somewhat easy on him and he still looked inept. With Rush, Obama would not have it quite so easy.

By the way, college education does not equal instant intellect, Hugo. The man [Rish] can argue a point better than most and is richer than God, so I don't think he's hurting too bad without that wonderous, miraculous DEGREE.

Your sock puppet, teleprompter candidate in action..... Jon Stewart skewers B. Hussein in this clip....
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=218356&title=clusterf#@k-to-the-poor-house

Dream on.

I just told the daily kos to begin a petion and have all the masses of asses sign up to demand that Limbaugh and Pebo have a debate. How about that comrades.

Copy wrote "a seasoned intellectual in the face of Obama, whose cool calm and mastery of basic facts and logic."

Barf bag, please.

I don't think so, Copy. Detached from his teleprompter, the sock puppet known as Obama would be the stuttering, stammering, hesitating fool that we all know him to be. And the sock puppet's handlers know it.

How nice that you would bring up Rush's former addiction , while conveniently leaving out Obambi's own admitted affection for "Blow" and pot. Not to mention the cigarettes that he's stinkin' up the oval office with.

You are the one fantasizing BTW..rush did 1 hour speech off the top of his head with NO TELEPROMPTER!! Obama supposedly wrote his own speech yet had to use a teleprompter just to get through it.

BTW..Obama must've felt threatend by Rush or else HE wouldn't have started this whole mess in the first place. Talk about insecurity and ineptitude, but it is rather sad when the leader of the free world feels it's necessary to attack a piddly lil ol' radio host.

Of course Rush wants Obama on his show -- that way he has an already-biased audience primed to be receptive to his message and completely dismiss anything his opponent says. It's a very clear and obvious tactic to pull his opponent into a hostile environment and put him up as a puppet for his hard-right listeners to ridicule.

If he really wanted to show Obama up, he'd offer to set up a debate live on C-Span or a similar public affairs channel with no inherent leaning one way or the other, and far more exposure than his radio audience. Let the rest of America see Rush's arguments in the light of day instead of his nice, cozy little cave.

But then, the reason he won't do that is the same reason he'll never run for office despite all his blowhard, windbag grandstanding: He's fully aware that if people that weren't already extreme right were exposed to his views, he'd be laughed right out of existence.

I think President Obama should accept the challenge for the following reasons: first, he would win the debate (just as he easily defetaed McCain in all 3 presidential debates, teleprompter-free, unless you go by the polls of the unscientific insta-polls of Fox News viewers).

Second, if Rush were selected to represent the republican party in this debate, it would help to cement Rush as the embodiment and de facto head of the republican party. Ths may help the republicans with their ever-shrinking base of rural less-educated bitter white males in the bible states who form their opinions on the basis of what talk show hosts tell them. But it would hurt the republican party's image with everyone else.

If Rush were truly interested in a debate, he'd offer to do it on PBS, C-Span, etc. - somewhere other than his own show.

Wake up boy, without a teleprompter Obama couldn't muster up more than two coherent sentences and you know it! Who you trying to convince? Yourself?

It would be awesome.

Neal,
Maybe you could have a pay-for-view prime-time debate with a college graduate from Texas A&M,about what each of you learned at college!
Then you could debate some of the soldiers,marines,sailors or airman who served in the Vietnam War!

Limbaugh would bluster and whine and interrupt and TRY to look like a seasoned intellectual in the face of Obama, whose cool calm and mastery of basic facts and logic would reduce Limbaugh to blubbering ranting and Vicondin-induced hysteria.

Wasn't that FUN? Got any other fantasies you'd like to spin about imaginary circumstances that won't happen?

Keep living in that imaginary world, right-wingers... it's the only place where you can claim victory over the grownups.