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May 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 24, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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And hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the most listened-to radio talk show in America.
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Each week, tune in.
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I got a giant target on the front and the back as a result of that.
And I'm just the guy for it.
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If you want to be on the program today, the email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
I want to read you an email I got last night that made me choke up.
I actually got some tears in my eyes reading this.
The subject line of the email from a subscriber at rushlimbaugh.com.
His name is Brady Hendricks.
And the subject line of his email is joining the Marines because of your inspiration.
Mr. Limbaugh, I just graduated from LSU last Friday with my Bachelor of Science in Psychology.
I have had ambitions of pursuing a profession in the medical field.
I also have the option available to me to me to begin taking over the family business if I so wished.
However, I've realized that serving my country is my call in life.
There's a strong lineage of Marines in my family, grandfather in World War II, uncle during Vietnam, and a cousin just back from Iraq.
Although this lineage is strong, military life was never an option that I was forced towards as an adolescent.
I wish I could say that the events of 9-11 were enough to compel me into action, but sadly, it wasn't.
I was young.
I was in high school, arguably a young skull full of mush.
I actually remember saying to a friend on that day that I was worried about myself because I was turning 18 in a few weeks and I didn't want to have to go fight, egocentrism at its best.
The atrocity of the situation in Iraq became evident when more and more I saw people being kidnapped and beheaded, not soldiers, but innocent contractors, reporters, members of relief agencies.
I was conflicted about my desire to join because still being a skull full of mush, I didn't want to risk my own death.
I began praying feverishly about what I should do.
And it was around this time that I began listening to your program.
I was actually in the factory where I worked, the family business, when I first heard you on the radio of a fellow co-worker.
The business is in St. Louis, so I was listening to you on KMOX.
I began listening every day, and it was not long before I was a member of your website, and then I had EIB.
Your words and your insight gave my emotions the definition and understanding that I was having trouble providing, truly an answer to my prayers.
So I just wanted to thank you for helping me to become a better and more informed citizen and also a more motivated and purpose-driven individual.
So early on Sunday, June 3rd, I will meet with the captain from the OSO office here in Baton Rouge and board an airplane to Quantico, Virginia to begin training as a candidate in the officer candidate course with the United States Marine Corps.
I'm proud and eager to serve my country and defend it at any costs, including my life.
And I'm infinitely proud to have you as a fellow American citizen.
Thank you for all you do.
Never, never, never stop.
Sincerely, Brady Hendricks.
You can't, after reading something like that, have anything but, well, in addition to choked up emotion, you can't have anything but an overwhelming sense of pride of the people in this country.
He's not alone.
There are many before him who have signed up, and there will be many after him who have signed up.
And they're doing it for the reasons that he expressed here.
He wants to go serve his country.
And as you heard, he's very educated.
He doesn't come from a disadvantaged background.
He doesn't have a hopeless future without joining the military, which is what some, and this angers me like I can't tell you.
When some in the media, some of the Democrat Party besmirch and impugn members of the military as facing a rotten U.S. economy, no future here unless they go to the military, no other chance to go to college or what have you.
These are truly special and unique people.
There aren't very many of them, and they don't deserve to be impugned, and they don't deserve to be ridiculed.
They deserve full support and love.
And when I read something like this, you know, and same time I'm reading it, I'm thinking back to what some in this country, political people, have said about the troops and about the war in Iraq and all that.
And it just angers me, but at the same time, the anger fades away and is replaced by just a swelling pride that there are people like this in the country.
I've told this story a bunch of times, and I'm going to tell it again.
This is three years or so ago, and I was in Miami on just the festive weekend.
And the host and hostess of my weekend, after dinner on Friday night, you've got to go by and see the Versace mansion.
Okay, I'm not crazy, but whoopee-doo.
I mean, it's not owned by Versace anymore.
It's owned by somebody in North Carolina.
So we drove by, went in there, and I was, well, I don't want to surprise what I saw.
I just took note of it.
It was primarily young people.
This is about 10 o'clock at night, 10 or 10:30.
It's primarily young people, and they were in there hooking up and trying to get ready to go out, hit the clubs on South Beach and so forth.
And that was their total focus.
And don't misunderstand, I'm not condemning this.
I'm just observing it.
And they were just, they were totally focused on having a good time, which is fine.
I think this is one of the things that I've always fallen back on and talking about what a great country we have.
Here we were.
This thought entered my mind at the moment I met.
A couple of these people actually came up.
They were Rush babies.
One of them was a Rush student baby.
His professor happened to listen every day.
And a couple of their parents listening.
They came up and they talked about that.
And these kids were all nice.
Don't misunderstand.
They were little floozies in there that I saw.
But they were just, it was a Friday night, South Beach, and they were going to head out and make whoopee.
And I reflected on at the same time, and this is just early on in the Iraq war.
This is shortly after the invasion.
This was in March or April.
And I thought, wow, there are people the same age as these kids I met at the Versace mansion who have a totally different focus on things, a totally different outlook on life.
They've signed up, they've joined up, they're going over to Iraq or Afghanistan.
And when they join the military, this climate, they know what they're signing up for, they know where they go or where they're headed.
And I just, the contrast here was unmistakable.
To me, it was a little bit profound.
And I thought, wow, what an amazing country that we can engage in hostilities.
Very serious is the outcome with some people not having to worry or care about it at all.
Now, some might say, well, that's not good.
I just, it reinforced my theory that we're so affluent and prosperous.
And We have the time on our hands and the freedom to actually pursue our own happiness.
Others are willing to share the burden of going to Iraq or going to Afghanistan or take it on.
I don't mean this to be critical of anybody here.
It just struck me how different a climate it is from, say, World War II or Vietnam even.
And then I get this letter from Brady Hendricks, and it melts my heart, and it confirms everything I've always thought about these people that volunteer to do this.
So, Brady, thanks for the note.
And I'm happy to be able to share your note to me with the American people because they need to know the American people are battered each and every day with what's wrong with this country and how it's going to hell in a handbasket.
And notes such as yours that I can share with the people in this audience do more to inspire them than you will ever know, including your service to the country.
Thank you so much, and God bless you.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
You know, I'm struck.
I want to go back to what the Commerce Secretary, Carlos Gutierrez, said he was marveling over the fact that such a deal, the immigrants are coming in for free.
We don't have to pay them to come in.
And that's not true.
That is erroneous.
If they were coming in for free, there wouldn't be as many complaints about this.
You know, our forefathers came here for free.
They came here for nothing but hope and opportunity.
But the problem is that many of these people entering the country today are entering for free stuff, free education, free groceries, free emergency health care, free commission of crimes without penalty, free money to send home, free loading in general.
And even the ones that come in here to work are making not enough to make up the balance of the redistribution of wealth that we're paying them because the courts have ordered this.
And we know this.
So did Democrats.
They're getting a new victim class of voters for free, and that's important because their old constituency is dying off and aborting itself into a permanent minority status.
It is.
We have to be honest about this.
Liberals are the ones that have most of the abortions.
You know, I wonder, no government officials say this, but of course that doesn't constrain me.
Let me throw another thing out and see what you think of this.
I'm just throwing it out as a conversation point, as a little think piece.
Most of these people that are coming in from the southern border are Catholic, are they not?
All right?
Nothing wrong with that, but don't start talking religion and people get their hackles up.
But as Catholics, and this is something the government would never say, just like they would never say that we've got to do this to keep the safety net going because we've aborted too many of our own babies.
But you bring in millions and millions of Catholics.
You might also think that you are providing a little bit of bulwark and resistance against Islamo-fascism.
So I'm just telling you, there's more to this than meets the eye, but this notion that they're coming here for free, that's not true.
That's what previous immigrants did.
Here's Lori in Albuquerque, New Mexico, also in my top 10 favorite girl names.
Hi, Lori.
How are you?
Well, thank you.
I've called you several times, so that's nice to know.
I've actually had a cardiovascular workout while I've been sitting here waiting for you because I was so angry when I first called.
And then I got nervous on hold.
And then every time you bring up Chertoff or this other thing, I get all angry again.
I think my blood pressure is.
That's what life with me is like, Lori.
a never-ending series of up-and-down emotions.
Truly Rush, I can only imagine.
What I called about is I was so angry watching President Bush because he's talking about securing the Iraqi people for democracy and securing their border.
And we can't let al-Qaeda come through.
And I'm living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I'm watching literally the destruction of my America because these people have not fought for it and they don't understand fighting for freedom.
And they bring their third world corrupt culture with them because they are not assimilating.
They are not having to pay any price to become an American.
And I am just furious at him because I don't understand why we can't secure our border first and then deal with the problem later.
Can I give you the blunt truth to this?
You've been explaining the blunt truth, but what I'm saying is they keep telling us we don't get it, and we do get it.
We understand the assault.
We look at the Brady's of the world and what they're fighting for.
And they're not, what are we going to have if we import all of these people who don't want to become Americans?
What is he fighting for?
The destruction of our country.
Oh, he's fighting for what he believes.
Well, he absolutely does.
And we still outnumber him.
I understand that for a while.
But look, this is not an irrelevant question.
Why don't we do border security first?
It's a great question.
It's one of these common sense questions.
Okay, if we're going to have a certain level of immigration of this class, you know, the undereducated or uneducated and poor, which will be low-wage earners, why don't we secure them, especially with the fact that any potential terrorist can sneak across the border.
Well, exactly.
All right.
Well, the answer to the question is we don't want to keep them out.
I understand that.
I'm sorry.
No, I do understand that.
Like I said, I completely understand why we're letting them in.
But what is being threatened is our culture, is our identity, because we are not requiring them.
Plus, additionally, the INS is so broken as it is, they can't even find the people that are here supposedly living.
Right, Know all this.
The thing about this is, is that, like I said yesterday, the politicians, you know, they're passing personalities.
They come and go.
The American print, the traditions, institutions that made the country great need to survive.
Now, these politicians doing this today know full well that the potential negative, destructive impacts of this are going to happen long after most of them are out of office.
And it's going to be somebody else's problem.
They're doing this now for their own political.
Thomas Sowell, another great piece, three days in a row, he's written about this.
He's, look, this is a deal for politicians.
This is a piece of legislation to help out politicians and their immediate concerns, which are to get elected and secondly, to spend money.
But that's why the American people are so angry, because we are going to have to live with the consequences of it.
Well, I tell you what.
You've got the Fred Barnes and all these people running around saying they're astonished at the anger.
Exactly right.
But you know what's going to happen?
What's going to happen is that somewhere down the road, your kids, grandkids, whatever, when they mature, they get old and they understand the tax rate they're going to be paying to pay for all this, at some point they're not going to put up with it.
The question is, will it be too late?
Now, we conservatives have had a constant mantra that we have been attempting to persuade a majority of Americans to believe in.
And that is that a never-ending welfare state and a constantly growing welfare state will be the end of this country as we know it.
It won't be the end of the country, but it'll be the end of the country as we know it.
And isn't it interesting that if I am right about this, that the whole reason, unsaid, unwritten, unspoken reason for this limitless immigration, not only we're going to let the 12 to 20 that are here become legal, we're going to say bring your families.
We're talking 50 million, a huge demographic shift.
These are people that are being brought in specifically to be able to pay taxes so that our social safety system doesn't have to be reformed.
Medicare, Social Security, all these things.
That's too hard.
That's too tough.
Politicians might lose their office if they actually engage in serious reforms.
So we got to keep it going, status quo, but we don't have enough people here for all the obvious reasons.
We've got to import them.
We've got to get them in here.
But when they get here, they're going to be of the variety.
They're going to be unskilled and uneducated.
And so they themselves are going to be accessing the social safety net.
And while the wizards in Washington think this is going to solve a temporary problem of not enough people to pay taxes to provide retiree benefits and health benefits and all that, the simple fact of the matter is that this is going to increase the growth of the welfare state.
And it is that precisely which is going to lead to the greatest pressure on the survival of this country as we have come to know it and as it has been for a long time.
So we conservatives have been right from the get-go.
The welfare state, a never-ending, no-end in sight to it, constantly growing welfare state, is going to put one of the greatest pressures on the existence of this country.
You know, the distinct American culture is impugned today, laughed at.
Rugged individualism, self-reliance.
You start talking about those things and the libs come running for you.
Oh, yeah, easy for you to say, well, what about the poor?
And what about the sick?
And what about the hungry?
And what about the thirsty?
And what about women and minorities?
We'll be hardest hit on all this.
They do not have the desire nor the faith for a majority of Americans to be rugged, to be individualistic.
And by the way, that's not selfish.
Self-interest is not selfish.
Big, big difference.
But self-interest is being portrayed today as selfishness.
And of course, selfishness means you don't care about other people.
It means you don't have compassion.
It means you are cold-hearted and cruel.
It means you are a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, blah, People don't want to be called that, so they shirk into the shadows and they shut themselves up.
That's the distinct American culture that is being aimed at with all this.
So we conservatives have been right all along.
The welfare state, never-ending and growing, is going to put the greatest stress and pressure on the aspects of the distinct American culture that have defined this country for over 200 years.
Not too late, by the way, to fix this.
Don't become fatalistic about it.
Not too late.
But the battle will always be raging because there will always be liberals who want a bigger welfare state.
Never going to be one.
Oh, happily and gladly.
That's what we do here, ladies and gentlemen, make the complex understandable.
It's one of our little trade secrets here at the prestigious and distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right, let's talk about, let's talk about Barack Obama.
Here we go again.
This time, the story in the Chicago Tribune.
I have lost count now.
How many stories there have been in the liberal drive-by media oriented around the subject, is Obama black enough?
This one tackles the subject from a different direction.
Is he too black?
I am, I can't help but laugh.
These people who think they're conducting a serious investigation of the effect that impact Barack Obama and his problems that he's going to have.
If the people in this audience, I just want to talk to you in the drive-by media.
I know some of you listen.
You never admit it, but I know you're out there.
If the people in this audience, for example, when it comes time to assess whoever it is running for president, when they look at Obama, they are first going to examine what the guy says he's going to do.
Intelligent, informed, involved people in this country, people who are engaged, care more about what somebody's going to do, what their policies are, what they claim they're going to do, what their character is, than they care about the color of their skin.
And most of the people in this audience are conservatives.
It matters not to us.
You're the ones talking about it.
You're the ones that can't let this go.
You're the ones that come up with this term magic Negro to describe a bunch of white liberals who are voting for the guy simply out of guilt.
I mean, that piece in the L.A. Times put down everybody, put down Obama and put down the whites that are supporting him.
Admitting, by the way, confirming what I've always said, that you people on the left are driven by things other than ideas.
You're driven by surface things.
You're driven by the color of somebody's skin or their gender or their sexual orientation or their position on global warming or whatever.
Not even that.
And then you dare to throw out all these accusations at people in this audience and at me about how we're the surface, but we have more depth than you could ever sink to.
Now, let me share with you some of this.
This is a story out of St. Louis, but it's in the Chicago Tribune.
In a converted Shriner's Temple, presidential hopeful Barack Obama stood before a majority white crowd on a recent afternoon and spoke of uniting the country beyond race nearby at a soul food joint called Sweetie Pies.
A mostly black crowd debated whether his race would keep America from ever giving him the chance.
He's got the chance.
In fact, he's doing so well, he's got the Clinton campaign panicked.
And so, frankly, does the Brett Girls campaign.
The Clinton campaigns out there wonder, what the hell?
They thought this was going to be a cakewalk, and it's not.
At any rate, Lee Merrifield, a 50-year-old college administrator who thought Obama's chances are good, said the workplace is much more integrated, as is society with blended families.
You have more white people with more personal experience with people who are different.
Her sister, Carolyn Kristol, 55 school teacher, was unconvinced.
Society's so tated, she said, what makes me think they're going to let this black man win?
Two words for you.
The Oprah.
If we're such a racist society, how can the Oprah be the most popular and the highest paid television personality in this country?
The basic question, according to the Chicago Tribune, the basic question is whether society has made enough progress on race to elect a black person to lead it.
In a country where a black man still can have a hard time catching a cab.
Danny Glover!
Danny Glover can't get a cab in New York, he says, because the guys that wear turbans won't stop for him.
If a black man can still have a hard time catching a cab, can he be president of the United States?
I don't think Obama takes cabs.
Opinions within the black community are mixed.
In some circles, there is a reluctance to believe that white people will vote for Obama.
You ever heard of the white liberals that can't wait to, just to get rid of their own guilt?
While some blacks question whether he's black enough, others think in the end he will prove to be too black.
They say that they're resigned to the notion that he's doomed not by black ambivalence, but by white prejudice.
I can't keep up with it anymore, folks.
Can't keep up with you drive-by media types and you liberals who can't could somebody write a story on what this guy's policies are?
Could one of you write a story and leave his wife out of it without griping at his wife?
How in the world can you sit there and gripe at Michelle Obama and give Hillary Clinton a free pass on the feminist stuff?
To be sure, it's a conversation black America's had before.
A similar dialogue took place in the 96 campaign when General Powell's mainstream popularity prompted many to call him, call on him to run for president.
But the fact that Obama is an actual contender has brought an immediacy to today's discussion.
Voters like Chicago real estate appraiser Barry Tatum think white people will vote for Obama because of his multicultural pedigree, but that their endorsement would not reflect an improvement in race relations.
Oh, of course.
Well, see, we can never win then.
If white people are going to vote for Obama, but it doesn't mean anything about race relations.
Of course not, folks, because we can't ever solve the race business.
It would close down.
So if whites end up voting for Obama, no, no, don't get this mistaken notion here that it's going to say anything about the problem of race.
How absurd to think white people will vote for Obama because of his multicultural pedigree, but their endorsement would not reflect an improvement in race relations.
He says it's just like with Tiger Woods.
They want to make him the exception.
He ain't really black, said Tatum 43.
It's the same thing with Obama.
That's why he can win.
He ain't really blessed.
So Chicago Tribune comes through again.
Obama too black, not black enough.
Lynn Small, one final quote here.
Lynn Small, 70-year-old retired advertising and marketing executive from Chicago, agreed.
He said that while there are pockets of white America that could accept a black president, the country as a whole is not ready.
Yeah, they give lip service to the right thing, he said, but when they get in the voting booth, it'll be hard to pull that lever.
They don't know what they're talking about, but they're in the Chicago Tribune, so they're experts.
So Chicago Tribune found them.
They're quoted.
They're experts.
They have no clue what people are going to do in the voting booth.
You see what's being set up here.
If he wins, it ain't because he's black.
It's because he's multicultural.
No, the race problem's not solved.
If he loses, it'll be totally because he's black, and the white bigots in this country wouldn't vote for him.
Let's go to Findlay, Ohio, and this is Luanna.
Luanna, nice to have you with us.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Oh, warm, conservative mega-dittos, Rush.
It's an honor and treat to speak with you.
Thank you so much.
I am calling regarding the article you referenced yesterday written by the lib on Michelle Obama's decision to temporarily give up her fast-track career to play hostess to her husband while he campaigns.
Well, that was a couple days ago.
That was a salon.com, and it was a woman writing that she's giving up her fast-track career to be a hostess and wife, and that bugged her.
I didn't say that.
I wasn't.
No, no, no, no.
I did reference that it was an article that was written.
Right, right.
And it also said something to the effect that, you know, Hillary can't carry the burden for all of the.
Blah, blah, blah.
Well, it struck me as so odd because where would Hillary be if she hadn't hit the campaign trail?
I mean, she played hostess.
If she hadn't hit the campaign trail.
Well, she had to.
No, that's not the question.
The question is: where would Hillary be if her last name weren't Clinton?
Well, where would Hillary be if she hadn't married this guy?
That's what the feminists don't get.
No, that's what I mean.
The whole thing, it's like it ignored any of the historical facts regarding Hillary.
I mean, it's just.
Yeah, but see, your question confirms my theory as to why Hillary is the Lib's inevitable candidate.
She was Michelle Obama back in the 60s and 70s.
She gave it all up to marry this guy from Arkansas.
She had to leave the Ivy League, and she had to go to Arkansas once she hitched her wagon to Bill Clinton.
And that's to the liberals going to Arkansas.
You may as well go to Mississippi.
I mean, it just, they just, that's the sticks.
It's the swamps.
It's a bunch of hayseed hicks down there, born-again Christians and this sort of stuff, even though it's a Democrat state.
And then when she got down there, she was humiliated constantly.
Jennifer Flowers wanted to.
And she's still stunk by her master.
Exactly.
And see, that was my other point, too.
What was worse is that the entire time she was denying all of these infidelities, at least Michelle doesn't have to bear that embarrassing burden.
I mean, really.
I just thought that whole thing yesterday went.
No, it's a good point.
Why the double stamp?
Why is Michelle Obama being crucified for the same things that Hillary Clinton has done that have launched her to this position of inevitability as a presidential candidate?
Excellent point out there, Luana.
Thanks for the call.
Well, thank you very much, Rich.
You bet.
Have a great day.
We'll be back and continue, folks, right after this.
We're cooking today, folks.
We're sizzling here on the EIB network.
This is Marilyn.
And I think one of the reasons we get a lot of female callers today, and they always add a lift to the program and a different perspective.
And even their anger is more manageable and cuter.
Well, I probably shouldn't say cute.
Not trying to mischaracterize it.
Just enjoy it.
Marilyn in Salem, Oregon.
Thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
And I'll get right to my question.
I would like your view on the idea that maybe it would further embolden terrorists in Islamic countries if Hillary, heaven forbid, became president.
And also, would she get her choice of Burka colors?
Black.
You know, this question, I get this question a lot.
Hey, Rush, we got this problem we face out there in the Middle East, and these guys are in the seventh century, and, you know, they love chopping hands off of women who raise the veil and so forth and do other things.
What's going to happen?
You know, I think it matters who the woman is, not that she's a woman.
I mean, my God, I tell you, you give me Margaret Thatcher today.
Give me somebody like Margaret Thatcher.
Vote for her.
Jean Kirkpatrick, I would have voted for her.
We can't let what those seventh century dolts think of our culture affect what we do here.
You know, we are who we are.
In fact, let me find a story.
Folks, bear with me a minute.
I've got to find this because this goes right to the nature of the comment I want to make regarding your phone call.
I hope I recognize the headline.
If I don't find this quickly, then I'm not going to waste your time looking for it while conducting the broadcast excellence here.
Ah, here it is.
Here it is.
The Australians have a citizenship test for immigrants.
A controversial citizenship test being introduced by the federal government has been branded biased and un-Australian by the nation's key body of Muslims.
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils today released a statement strongly questioning the proposed test, saying that members of his group share the serious concerns it has raised in the wider Australian community.
While we don't oppose regulated immigration, we believe that a test with biased questions targeting particular cultural or ethnic groups goes against the very values of democracy in a fair go that the government is trying to inculcate.
He said it is unfair and un-Australian to expect Muslims to study about Anglo-Celtic and Judeo-Christian values, especially when those migrants are coming from a different religious and cultural background.
And the Australians are saying, no, it's not.
This is who we are.
We are an Anglo-Celtic and a Judeo-Christian country.
And these are the values.
And if we're going to have immigrants, you're going to have a citizenship test.
We're going to have a citizenship test.
Now, the Islamo-fascist immigrants need to be taught.
Why do they want to come here?
Why do they want to go to Australia?
What's the point?
Our culture is not like theirs at all, especially the radical Islamists.
They need to be reminded that the comfortable lifestyle, the ample freedom and choices, the high standard of living, freedom of speech, and all the other freedoms, particularly freedoms for women in secular Western society are directly related to the Judeo-Christian tradition.
What the Islamic world has given us is theocracies, convert or die choices, and laws about stoning women and honor killings and so forth, stoning rape victims.
They treat women as genuine second-class citizens.
They are truly anti-Semitic and so forth.
The same thing's happening in our country here, although we don't have a citizenship test.
So the question arises, why do they want to come here?
So my answer, the reason I'm going through this, Marilyn, is that we shouldn't be afraid to elect a president, male, female, black, white, whatever, on the basis of what our enemies are going to think of it.
If we get to the point that we think we are going to buy goodwill by electing, not electing a woman because they have biases against women.
You could ask the same question.
Well, how effective could Condoleezza Rice be as Secretary of State having to flit around all over there dealing with these people?
At that level, at the diplomatic level, it is what it is.
She hasn't had any of those kinds of problems.
But the minute we start trying to decide, no, this person's not good because this is going to inflame our enemy.
Come on, folks, that's once again acting defensive and letting the people who essentially in that part of the world are our enemies dictate to us what we're going to do not to offend them.
I'm frankly fed up with, don't offend them.
We've identified, I think, two, maybe all three of those captured soldiers.
They were tortured.
They were shot in the head.
They were murdered.
I wonder how Senator McCain feels today.
And all the people like Dick Durbin and Ted Kennedy, who are running around saying that, well, we put underwear on the heads of people at Abu Ghrab and made them sit in pyramids where we're only going to wreak havoc on ourselves.
Why?
That's not the, we can't do that kind of thing.
If we straighten up and fly right and we put them in club gitmo with prayer rugs and five free meals a day and five prayer sessions and all this and the best health care they can get in the world, they will treat our people.
It is time to wake up and understand what we're facing.
And it's time to answer this question.
Why in the world these people want to come someplace with a culture so vibrantly different than theirs, if not to change ours?
So as to this question of a woman, I think Marilyn was trying to be a little rhetorical, perhaps a little humorous with the question.
I'm not going to let the rest of the world dictate to me who would be the best candidate here, male, female, whatever it is, just because it might offend them.
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I've been reading some excerpts of Bob Shrum's book, Rand Kerry's campaign.
He's never run a victorious Democrat presidential campaign.
The Democrat Party is a soap opera.
And he is dumping on John Edwards like you, Cambodia.
Harry regretted.
Edwards thought he was a lightweight.
Edwards was a whiner and complaining.
Get this.
In his new memoir, the title of Shrum's book is No Excuses, Concessions of a Serial Campaigner.
He recalls asking the Brett girl at the outset of the campaign, what is your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights?
And the Brett girl, he's quoted, Shrum quotes the Brett girl as saying, I'm not comfortable around those people.
That's what Shrum is saying.
And Elizabeth Edwards, Edwards' wife, said, John, you know that's wrong.
Edwards pollster, Harrison Hickman, was in the room at the time, says Shrum is sensationalizing this and taking out of context Edwards' honest admission about his lack of exposure to those issues and openly gay people.
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