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Oct. 23, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 23, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What uh what day is it?
Monday, eh?
Well, I guess it's uh beginning of a brand new broadcast week then here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Rush Limble, firmly ensconced behind the golden EIB microphone here at the heavily bunkered, fortified and protected and hidden EIB Southern Command.
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Simon Charleston, South Carolina over the week.
And this, by the way, is why we have ramped up security here at the EIB network Southern Command today, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm Charleston, South Carolina over the weekend for a wedding.
A good friend got married.
I got to stay long enough after the wedding to offer condolences.
Wore all black to the wedding, since uh weddings to me are uh periods of mourning.
But anyway, the night before the wedding, uh love to see Dawn just shake her head in disgust.
The night before the what I said the wedding was Sunday, so Saturday night uh at the rehearsal dinner.
It was at a uh restaurant called Zinc.
It was a great place, but I mean it was impossible for me to hear in there.
It was it was I mean a lot of people in there, and it was a it was just it was difficult to hear.
But one woman managed to permeate the uh the din.
A uh a woman came up to me, a short little woman wearing white, said my uh I think she said my cousin, it could have been her sister, could have been you know her relative from Mars, I don't know, came up and said, you know, Mike, my so-and-so asked me to give you a big hug.
Said just one of the nicest guys, but you know what I would really like to do is kick you in the groin, find out if you are as big an a-hole in person as you are on the air.
So I looked down at this uh woman, I said, Lady, I am the biggest a-hole you ever met.
And I squatted and I said, go for it.
And I then she kind of looked puzzled, and I said, Well, I'm just Nam, I'm a harmless love of little fussbull.
And she just ho-roomped and uh and walked away.
And so we had security threats like this, ladies.
I mean, my groin is a security threat.
And when we get these uh there she goes again, shaking her head.
Anyway, it was a it was a fabulous time.
Uh everybody had a uh uh tremendous time of late nights.
I mean, I it was 2.30 on Saturday night, 130 on uh on Sunday night.
That's why I asked what day it is uh today.
But I got home last night, and while fighting exhaustion and fatigue, nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, began late last night, delving deep into show prep because these next two weeks, I just want to warn you the media template is gonna be is gonna increase.
It's gonna become more intense.
For example, last night's uh sickening puff piece with Nancy Pelosi on 60 Minutes.
Uh it it that you get used to more of these kinds of things.
The uh the media is going to ignore any good news in the polls if there is any about Republicans.
They are going to play up all of the things that's designed or that are designed to suppress Republican turnout.
And uh I just want you to be prepared.
Like Brian said to me, Brian said to me when I was in there telling him even more stories of the wedding weekend, stories I cannot share with you people.
Uh Brian said, Well, you know, uh I got food poisoning on Friday, so I had a whole weekend in front of the TV, and I've concluded they don't pay you enough.
And I said, Well, that's tough because I pay myself.
So you think I should pay myself more?
He said, Yes, because I watched it all weekend.
I watched TV all weekend, and nobody's on our side.
There's nobody but you.
There's nobody on our side.
And it got me to think that that is so untrue.
All of this stuff that you see on TV, the daily barrage, and it's only going to increase, folks.
I just want to warn you, is gonna make all of you feel like Brian felt.
My god, we're lonely.
We're an island in a in a in a sea of blue, about to be swamped by a blue tsunami, and it's the kind of thing that's going to uh uh increase interest and voter turnout, I think, rather than uh rather than suppress it, which is the game because the Democrats have nothing else.
Uh if you look four years ago in 2002, they thought a dead guy in his funeral was going to whisk them to office.
Uh That would be the Wellstone Memorial.
Two years ago, they thought a war hero from Vietnam dressed back up in his military duds was going to whisk them to power.
And six years ago, they thought a DUI story from George Bush's youth was going to whisk them to the White House.
And what today are they thinking Mark Foley, uh Mark Foley, Mark Foley, if you take a look at what it is they use to make themselves feel all pumped up and positive and think they've got a chance is all of this stuff that has nothing to do with who they are.
They are giving no one a reason to vote for them.
And I've always maintained that in heated election periods, people vote issues and they want reasons to vote for some.
I know Democrats are going to vote against Republicans on principle, but I'm talking about the fact that I still don't believe that they're out there building a movement.
I don't believe that the country is 60% Democrat, 40% Republican, or 60, 20, and 20 if you want to factor independence in.
Uh and all that.
But we will see.com is a is a satire website, and it's hilarious.
Uh his posting, Democrats suffer bouts of optimism, Prozac sales plunge, with polls showing Republicans uh could close uh lose control of Congress after the November elections.
Capitol Hill doctors have been swamped with Democrats reporting symptoms of optimism, a condition almost unknown among Democrats.
Eli Lilly, the maker of the antidepressant drug Prozac, announced today that sales in Washington have plunged in the weeks since Mark Foley stepped down in the wake of a scandal involving lurid emails.
Each time CNN announces a new body count plateau for American troops in Iraq, Prozac sales in the D.C. area dip again.
Our core customer base in this area, Washington, is rapidly vanishing, said an unnamed Eli Lilly spokesman.
However, long-term prospects for Prozac look bright since optimism is an acute condition among Democrats and not chronic.
And that, I think, nails it.
Uh in the satirical way.
Democrats suffering bouts of optimism.
It is rare, is it?
In fact, now get this headline from uh Adam Nagorney and Robin Toner in the New York Times two days ago.
Guardedly, Democrats are daring to believe.
Guardedly.
Guardedly.
Guardedly, Democrats are daring to believe.
Nancy Pelosi's out there saying, I will get any suite I want.
We will not impeach President Bush.
We are going to do these.
They're already there.
They're already there's nothing guarded about them at all.
Daring to believe.
They're not believing anything.
It's done and over with.
There's something unusual, bubbling in Democratic political waters these days.
Optimism.
With each new delivery of bad news for Republicans, a party that has become so focused to losing is considering disbelievingly, and with the requisite worry, the possibility it could actually win in November.
Where have these two writers been?
They're just now figuring out they could they've had this wrapped up for six months in their own minds and of course in the minds of the media.
Gordon Fisher, former chairman, Iowa Democratic Party.
I've moved from optimistic to guidie.
I really have.
Barney Frank, Democrat Massachusetts, in line to become chairman of the Financial Services Committee in a Democrat House, offered raw evidence of the changing perception of the race.
His office, Mr. Frank said, has been contacted by a portrait painting firm offering to talk about possibilities for the traditional committee chairman's painting.
One of those perks of power long absent from the lives of House Democrats.
I've acquired a lot of new friends this year, Frank said, and uh I haven't gotten any nicer.
Still, Democratic ebullions could be found in all corners of Washington over the past few days.
It was palpable at social and work gatherings, where Democrats traded gossip about how big a Democrat majority of the House could be.
In Capitol Hill conference rooms where Democrats were prepping transition plans under orders To keep them quiet, and in offices of Democratic strategists and pollsters who were drawing up growing lists of Republicans who might be vulnerable.
So Democrats guardedly are daring to believe.
That story is an attempt to tone down what has already become their obvious mindset, and that is they win.
And there's some controversy.
I remember when uh New York Times ran a story said that Bush and Rove inexplicably.
Uh see the Republicans holding both houses?
And speculated as to whether or not they might be delusional in the House.
The same thing is happening with a story from uh Barons magazine.
It's part of the Wall Street Journal Orb.
Uh Barron's cover story, the GOP victory.
It's by Jim McTaig.
Jumillet Democrats should reconsider their or uh order for confetti and noisemakers Barron's claims in their next edition of Democrats is widely reported, expecting GOP weary voters to flock to the polls in two weeks, meaning Democrat voters and hand them control of the House for the first time in twelve years.
But we just don't see it here at Barrens.
Our analysis, based on a race by race examination of campaign finance data, suggests the GOP will hang on to both chambers, at least nominally.
We expect the Republican majority in the House to fall by eight seats to 224 of the chambers 435.
At the very worst, our analysis suggests that the party's loss could be as large as 14 seats, leaving a one-seat majority, but that's still a far cry from the 20-seat loss some are predicting.
In the Senate, with a hundred seats, we see the GOP winding up with 52 down three.
And now everybody's going on going off on Barons.
Who are these guys?
What there's I thought you Democrats were guardedly optimistic.
And now, but when somebody comes out and says you're not going to win it despite what you think, they get mad.
How can you say that?
We've already counted the votes.
And the votes are in the polls.
And we already know it's over.
It's just a matter of uh time here.
A mere formality.
At any rate, we've got a lot of great audio soundbites today, folks.
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A quick time out, ladies and gentlemen.
We will be back.
We'll continue broadcast excellence right after this.
Well, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has hit another all-time high.
Uh it was over 12,100.
It is 12,114, it's up 112 points today.
The reason, according to experts, is that uh shares of Walmart shot up on plans by the company to slow new store growth and to slash capital spending.
Invest Ooh, that's great.
That's uh that's more money for us than the share price.
So um once again, Walmart coming to the rescue of the United States economy, doing far more for the average American than any liberal social program or combination thereof ever could.
Now, the drive-by media today, folks, is going bonkers over this candidate in a Hillary Clinton debate who made remarks uh referencing her appearance.
John Spencer, running for the Senate in New York against Hillary Rodham Clinton, said that the Senator used to be ugly.
Now he didn't he didn't use the word.
He speculates that she got millions of dollars in plastic surgery.
What he did say was, have you ever seen a picture of her back then?
Woo!
I don't know why Bill married her.
He uh he said of the Clintons who celebrated their 31st anniversary this month.
Uh noting noting that Hillary Clinton looks much different now.
He chalked it up to millions of dollars of work.
Plastic surgery.
She looks good now, John Spencer said.
Spencer's bizarre comments came during a conversation with a reporter seated beside him and his wife Kathy on the 1030 AM jet blue flight Friday to Rochester, the site of the race's first debate in the wide-ranging chat.
He also declared that his GOP running mate, Attorney General hopeful Janine Pierrot was going to lose.
Howard Wolfson, an aide to Clinton, who turns 59 Thursday, said she'd never had plastic surgery, but he declined otherwise to respond to Spencer's comments.
So media all day ask you, did he really call her ugly?
Is that what he did?
And is that a taboo?
Is that crossing a line that you're not supposed to cross in uh in politics?
You know what they say, folks, and I've I've mentioned this to you before.
Politics is just showbiz for the ugly.
Um and it's you know, when it comes well, uh I'm not defending what the guy said.
Now, startling don't don't go notes here.
Don't you know I'm just saying that it is look at what you can say about people compared to what you can't.
Look at what the left has said about George W. Bush, and nobody says that crosses the line.
You can call him a liar.
You can say he's Hitler.
You can say that he worked as part of a conspiracy to blow up the World Trade Center.
You can say all of that, but it doesn't cross the line.
But you as a candidate can speculate why Bill Clinton married Hillary and the drive-by media will descend on you like white on rice.
As they say.
I j I just I find the the the thing I I know you can't well, you but okay, Snerdley says you can't call any woman ugly in in public and get away with it.
Can women refer to men in deleterious physical ways and get away with it?
Hell yes.
What's different than saying such and such woman reminds me of uh or reminds somebody of your ex-wife or your ex-wife and her mother in law?
What what what is to Anne Richard said that about George W. Bush?
It reminds me of my ex-husband.
It reminds every woman of her first ex-husband.
Uh uh Ma Richards said, of course, we all laughed at that, but you try that, you're right.
Try it the other way around.
Let Rick Lazio walk over to Hillary's uh podium and offer her a piece of paper to sign on campaign pledges and financing, and he's accused of being a predator.
It's attacking the girl.
You can't hit the girl, but the girls can hit back all day long, wherever and whenever they want.
And it is a uh it is a double stand.
Anyway, I I just I find it fascinating.
The media is uh is absorbed with this.
Now the New York Times today, and meet the press, yes, folks, there is we've got a new asum out there, obasms.
There are obasms, Barack Obama obasms are breaking out in orgasmic fashion all over the place.
He got his coming out appearance on Meet the Press yesterday.
He's got a couple stories in the New York Times today, Time magazine last week speculating in an obasm on Obama for 08, and a couple of questions spring to mind on this.
Are these is the New York Times pushing Obama over Hillary?
Is Time magazine pushing Obama over Hillary?
Are there people out there in the Democratic side that are really worried, don't think Hillary can win, and they need to and they need the new fresh, exciting face.
My question is, what's Obama ever done to warrant all these obasms?
What has he done?
What really?
What does he accomplish?
What?
I'm okay, raise more money anybody except Hillary fine and dead, but what has he done in terms of achievement?
What has he done that warrants this vault from um a first term senator to presidential contender?
Likeable?
Fine.
You still aren't naming any achievements for me that you don't know what he's done.
You don't know what his you don't know what his achievements are legislatively, you don't know what he's a good he's a good liberal.
You saying none of that matters to the left.
You're saying all that matters is he's likable, he can raise money, and but but well, what about the Hillary connect?
Charisma's Clinton without the intern?
Well, give him time.
Clinton without the inter.
What does that mean?
Smooth talking, charismatic lies.
Well, what does it mean?
All of the above.
I'm just telling you there's something at work here.
Now, do you think Obama is being elevated here to be on the ticket with Hillary?
Hillary Obama.
Uh, or or Clinton Barack.
You know, whatever.
No, Clinton Obama is his last word.
Clinton Obama.
Ever since Ted Kennedy started calling him Osama Obama, I can't I get confused on what his name is.
Anyway, I think it's an interesting dynamic that they're pumping this guy up and it uh it it's called what?
Well, no, but I know what it is.
I know why, but it's Colin Powell all over again, but they didn't puff up Colin Powell to go against Hillary.
These are Democrats building this guy up.
Media building this guy up when they've got a presumptive nominee already.
Well, you don't like that?
They're begging me not to say it.
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I've been thinking about this.
You can't you can't hit the girl in politics.
Well, you can't hit a girl anywhere.
You can't you can't cross a certain line.
Uh let's just stick with politics here.
When discussing uh certain characteristics of uh female politicians.
The line doesn't exist when you're talking about male politicians.
But seems to me, ladies and gentlemen, that uh that line didn't exist when the liberals wanted to go after and the media too.
I mean, liberal media cartoonists wanted to go after Condoleez Rice uh for her appearance.
I saw some of the most disgusting cartoon caricatures of Condoleez Rice as a slave mama, as a slave, period.
Uh I saw one cartoon implying she's a sex slave to George W. Bush, and they they grotesquely amplified her characteristics.
Her hair, her cheekbones, her lips, her nose.
Uh and I mean they there there was no guilt, there was no remorse.
There were they didn't think they'd done anything wrong.
Catherine Harris.
Immediately after the Florida recount uh uh embrolio was over, we got we got stories, well, even in the middle of it, about rotten hair, all of the makeup, uh the Cruella Deville appearance, and Corilla Deville, of course, a mean cartoon character wanted to wipe out a bunch of Dalmatians for their fur for her coat.
Uh so don't don't tell me that that you can't cross the line when discussing the beauty aspect, the physical characteristics characteristics of women in politics.
You most certainly can.
Now don't misunderstand.
I am not suggesting that it's okay what this guy said.
I uh but I the idea uh that it a line has been crossed here is not right.
I'm not saying that what was done to Condoleez Rice and Catherine Harris, there are probably a number of others as well, was okay, and so tit for tat, not saying that at all.
I'm just saying the double standard here uh is what allows for this kind of arrogant condescension toward this guy Spencer and praise and laughter for the people who have uh who have made fun of Catherine Harris and Condoleez Rice, and of course, in Connellisa Rice's case, it wasn't even race, or not even race uh uh formed a firewall.
Uh they they just blew right past that.
Past I mean, and and Saturday Night Live routinely did uh little bits on what they consider to be the unattractive appearance of hell of uh Chelsea Clinton.
Uh uh so you know there are there are this this line may exist, but there are clearly a bunch of Nimrods who will cross it, and if you're a certain Nimrod, liberal Nimrod who crosses it, you'll get away with it.
Uh if you're not, you won't.
Now, in addition to the New York Times having their obasm uh for Barack Obama seems uh was it ran today.
Here's one also from today, the Los Angeles Times, Obama admits he's thinking oh eight.
Senator Burr.
Oh, and by the way, the Financial Times uh has a story on Obama.
They've got their own obasm.
And they quote me, and I think I haven't seen it.
Somebody has told me about this.
They uh they quote me in a way they ask Obama, what's it like, or how do you feel uh w when you hear that Rush Limbaugh calls you Obama Osama?
Well, I didn't.
Ted Kennedy did.
Ted Kennedy was in one of his rants at the National Press Club, and I think it was in QA, and he got a question about and he called him Osama Obama.
We put together a parody of it because we thought it was so funny.
Here it is.
So once again, I'm quoted for something I don't say in an august publication such as the Financial Times, when in fact it was uttered by Senator Kennedy.
Anyway, this LA Times piece, Obesim, he's a rock star.
Obama 45 told me the press he would not make any decision about running uh before the November 7th midterm of well, how big of him.
Ah, my throat's getting dry, folks, over all these Obama stories, pardon me.
Drinking uh tropical fruit flavored water today, switching off the uh usual grape.
Love this stuff.
Anyway, I'm still at the point.
Or I've not made a decision to pursue higher orifice, he said, but it is true that I have thought about it over the last several months.
After November 7th, I'll sit down, I'll consider, and if at some point I change my mind, I'll make a public announcement, and everybody will be able to go at me.
A second Democratic strategerist who asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, said it may be difficult for Obama to translate his popularity into a White House run after only two years in the Senate.
That's no big deal.
Hillary's doing it after five.
But this gets to my question.
What's he done in two years?
And he's a presidential candidate.
There's there's there's nothing of substance.
He may be a substantive guy, just nobody knows it yet.
You know, there's sort of like there's a Cuomo aspect.
He gave a good speech once.
Like Cuomo did at the 84 Democratic Convention.
He lived off that still lives off that speech today.
Last oh month, uh Obama was the main speaker at Senator Tom O'Harkin's Iowa Steak Fry, an annual political event that attracts thousands of Democrats in a state that plays a key role in presidential politics.
Yeah, he he took it by storm.
Uh he like a rock star hit the place, said Joe Trippie, who's been working in campaigns since 1979.
Bill in Bowlingbrook, Illinois wants to weigh in on this.
Uh nice to have you with us, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
And what an honor it is, sir.
Thank you.
I just wanted to throw my two cents out there about not having a clue what Obama has done here in Illinois.
The only thing I think he's done was joined Oprah's book club.
And I could do that if you need a Republican senator.
I just can't imagine what uh what people use when they decide who they want for their next president.
Well, you are you saying uh Oprah is one of the reasons his star is rising?
I gotta believe.
It's my total opinion is if he can't.
She did she did have she did have her own Obasm.
I uh I remember that.
Well, that could be it.
Hell on the Democratic side, it's got to be anything but substance.
But I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
I am gonna tell you something.
I'm gonna be the first out of the box with this.
Somebody has to say this, ladies and gentlemen.
No major party has nominated an African American, or for that matter, a woman to run for president.
So a Democratic field that included Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama would be, at the least, his star historically notable.
One Democratic strategerist close to Mr. Obama who spoke on condition of anonymity suggested that Obama would probably look to the results in Tennessee, where Harold Ford's trying to become the state's first black senator to measure the obstacles Obama might face in a national election.
You know who the biggest uh what the biggest obstacle would be for Obama would be the Democratic Party.
And that's what needs to be said.
It's easy to get excited about the girl you'll never get, and that's where a lot of people are with Obama.
He's the girl they'll never get.
You th look at what the Democrats had done to Carl McCall.
Look what they did To uh Maynard Jackson, look what they've done to Kwaisium Fume.
Uh they tried to throw Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana overboard for the $90,000 in his uh in his freezer.
Let's just let's just wait and see.
The uh the Reverend Jackson uh yes, had to run third party because the party chose Mondel.
Uh you know, this is uh this is one of the world's best kept secrets.
Worst kept from our spec uh vantage point, but uh one of the world's best kept secrets is that for all this talk about how the Democrats empower blacks, you take a look at the prominent blacks who have sought to rise in power in this party and they get undercut.
Look at Quezi Mfumi got me almost didn't endorse Ben Cardin in Maryland.
He wanted he's been a loyal Democrat.
He's done the right stuff, said the right stuff, did the right thing when he ran the NAALCP, member of Congress from Maryland, thought he'd be a shoe-in, get the party endorsement.
They wanted nothing to do with him.
Ben Cardin got the gig.
Uh it's, you know, the it's just one of these things, folks.
Well, everybody's riding high on Barack Obama right now.
Uh, but when it when it when it gets down to the you know pedal meeting the medal, it's going to be fascinating to see once we get to this period in 07, when the campaign begins in 08, uh to see how they deal with this.
And if if Mrs. Clinton doesn't want this guy on the ticket, uh, if this is not part of a grand scheme to get him on the ticket as VP, and it might well be that, who knows?
Uh, but if it's not that wait till and if he becomes a viable opponent to Mrs. Clinton.
You want to see what happens then.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
By the way, here's the reference, uh, misquoting a total misrepresentation of me in the Financial Times that uh published today.
A subtle but effective political soft sell.
This is another obasm from the Financial Times.com and the uh the writer, reporter Edward Luce.
Whether or not the young politician was offended by being dubbed Osama Obama by Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio talk show host, or blah, blah, blah, blah, I didn't do that.
It was Ted Kennedy that did that.
And as you know, it's just it's not that hard to listen to this program.
Where does this guy get this stuff?
Well, you know, i i it i the way they'll cover this is well, yes, Ted Kennedy said it in a slip-up.
Ted Kennedy got his tongue tied for whatever reason at the National Press Club.
But you, Limbaugh, you've built on it and you made a whole bit out of it and so forth.
Yeah, but I didn't say it first, it would have never occurred to me to say.
The fact is, I must tell you, since I first heard Ted Kennedy say it, uh Cookie find the bite.
You know, we I know we've got it in the archives uh because we did the bit on it.
We got to find the bite.
So you can hear how Ted Kennedy's a room laughed.
Uh Kennedy laughed, if my memory is correct on this.
And every ever since he called him in, I said it's it's you know, it's like the last song you uh heard, you keep singing it for an hour or two.
When he said Obama Osama, I mean I have to check myself sometimes.
Uh and I make the mistake of assuming that everybody listens to this program every second it's on, and so that if somebody hears me say Osama Obama, they will remember that it was a uh a Ted Kennedy faux pas.
Rick in Cincinnati, you're next on the program.
Great to have you.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Um my theory is that the liberal media is perpetrating the stories of the Democrats taking over and winning elections strictly for Democrats fundraising issues.
If they told the truth and said, well, they're not going to gain control, fundraising for Democrats would think.
That that that may be a factor, and I and I I I think that's uh uh uh just that a factor, but I think there are two other things.
I think they believe it already.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body, Rick, not just the back of my hand, and they already think it's in the bag.
And that's why they're right there.
You have to understand their birthright is power.
That birthright has been denied them through chicanery, voting fraud, tricks, and marketing for twelve years now.
And it's Only just and right that power be returned to them.
They are the elites.
They are the smartest people in the room.
They are the ones to whom power naturally flows.
Everybody else is a contemptible, incompatible, incompetent boob.
And so they can taste it.
This is it.
They were doing the same thing in 02.
They were doing the same thing in 04, and look where it got them.
It's just been more concentrated and intense this year.
In addition to that, I think they're trying to suppress Republican turnout.
As well as if they're trying to do fundraising and not working all that well, I mean, they've had to go out and borrow five or ten million dollars for some House and uh and Senate seats.
I think they're trying to suppress turnout.
There's no question what's going on.
There's a coordinated effort between the drive-by media and the Democratic Party.
But if you look around, ladies and gentlemen, you find uh little stories that don't fit the template.
I happen to have one of them here in my nicotine stained fingers.
It is from Hayward, California, which is the Bay Area.
Sitting in the Democratic Party's downtown Hayward storefront, surrounded by empty chairs and silent phones, as the weekday turns into night, Sean Wilson resembles the Maytag repairman, the loneliest guy in town.
The pep that marked prior Democrat campaigns, including the June primary, has skipped a beat as the Eden area United Democratic campaign moves into the final weeks of the fall election season.
In terms of getting volunteers, it's the worst campaign ever, says Sean Wilson, a Democratic stalwart on leave as Alameda County Supervisor Alice Lee Bitker's chief of staff.
He attributed the low turnout to volunteer fatigue after the highly contested primary, individual comments or commitments rather to other campaigns, a lack of new volunteers, and some disinterest in campaigning for state office.
Wilson's concern that electoral doldrums will hurt Democrats in the voting booth.
It's sad, he said.
In the past, we've used Alameda County to neutralize Orange County and other counties voting Republican.
This is essentially San Francisco.
This is essentially the Bay Area.
And the headline of the story, this is inside Bay Area.com's website, Democratic Party volunteers, it's not big media.
It's not the drive-by media, it's some some local publication.
Democratic Party volunteers wane in off-year election.
Now, this doesn't fit the template.
This is not what we've been hearing.
We've been hearing that Democrats can't wait.
They're having to be physically forcibly restrained in their homes practically and offices.
They're so eager to get to the ballot box, and here this poor guy can't even get any volunteers to show up.
Now, since it's the Bay Area, you might assume that it's possible that people don't think there's any reason to go out and work because Democrat victories there are easy and automatic.
Even so, little place like Hayward in the Bay Area, no enthusiasm.
Volunteers way down.
What else is not being told us by the drive-by media?
We found a Ted Kennedy bites from January 11, 2005 at the National Press Club.
Actually, it calls Obama Osama bin Laden before he figures out what his name is.
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