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	Yes, we are back.
	Rushlin Boy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	It's Friday, and you know what that means.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
	Alrighty then, 800-282-2882.
	If you want to be on the program, email address rush at EIBnet.com.
	Say, Ed, before we start with Soundbite 3 and go in order there, I want to start with number 19.
	You got number, okay, you got 19 delivered to you.
	Good.
	We've been playing economic soundbites.
	Michelle Dobson, I think it was.
	Let me make sure I will assault to see Melody Dobson.
	Melody Dobson ABC put things in perspective today in the stock market.
	That day it lost, what, 300 points or whatever.
	It's down again today, some, but she put it in perspective.
	She said, hey, at a 2% drop, there's nothing to be worried about here.
	This is a percentage basis is nothing compared to if it would have fallen 300 or 400 points when it's at 7,200, it's a bigger deal.
	But we're at 14,000 and drops.
	Don't panic here.
	Unbelievable for the drive-by media to take a story that fits the action line of the economies falling apart because of George W. Bush.
	So I put out a call here to Joe, who's up there assembling the audio soundbites while Cookie's on maternity leave.
	And I said, well, you can't leave out Erin Burnett here, the street sweetie.
	And lo and behold, she was on Scarborough's show today on PMS NBC Morning Joe, and she was reporting on the Dow Jones sell-off yesterday.
	This is what Aaron Burnett said.
	I want to remind everybody of three things.
	Three things that should show you that you shouldn't be a lemming and run off the cliff.
	This is not an Armageddon-like situation.
	Here they are.
	We're just 4% away from an all-time high for the market.
	Just 4% away from an all-time high.
	And even if we fell another 850 points, we'd still be all right.
	Because if we fell another 850 points, that would be 10% off of the level we hit last week when we were on here with great fanfare yelling and screaming about 14,000 on the Dow.
	That's just what we call a garden variety correction.
	So, hey, 850 points down today, and you should still be okay.
	I am so happy she still has her job after the first time I praised her.
	Now doing it again, I realize I keep doing this same thing with Michelle Dobson.
	If the past is any indication, I am putting their careers at risk by citing their work.
	But it's great to hear.
	It's great to see that this kind of accurate, sensible, rational economic reporting is taking place out there.
	Right before the break, you might have heard this at the top of the hour, but four days after the Democrat debate in Charleston, South Carolina, more than 400 questions directed to Republican presidential candidates have been uploaded on YouTube.
	The Republicans are scheduled to take their turn at video populism on September 17th, but only Senators McCain, well, Senator McCain and Ron Paul have agreed to participate.
	This debate co-hosted by the Republican Party of Florida in St. Petersburg.
	Aside from those two candidates, we haven't heard from anybody else, said Sam Feist of CNN, which is co-sponsoring the debate with YouTube.
	Rudy and Mitt, both with dozens of videos on their YouTube channels, have not signed up.
	Neither have the rest of the Republican candidates, including Tan Credo.
	We haven't heard from any of them yet, Madden said.
	Romney said he's not a fan of the CNN YouTube format, referring to the video of a snowman asking a Democrat's question about global warming.
	He said, I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman.
	All right, Mitt.
	You know something else?
	Mitt is out there hammering the Democrats every day.
	He is literally hammering them out there every day.
	Good for you, Mitt.
	You know, one more thing here, folks.
	This public cynicism about your kids' future that some of you probably feel.
	Remember, we were in a malaise during the Carter years because we were miserable.
	There was a genuine malaise.
	People are trying to talk you into being miserable today.
	And it's not that difficult to do with the daily pounding from the drive-by media.
	I mean, we had double-digit inflation, unemployment, Iran hostages, diminished world standing.
	I mean, we had it all back in the Carter 70s.
	So now we have Democrats hellbent on telling you how miserable you are, even though the economy is surprisingly strong, GDP at 3.4%, the most recent figure.
	Carter-esque inflation is nowhere in sight.
	The war is starting to go well.
	But yet they say the stock market's imploding.
	That's why we played these soundbites and these two economic reporters to put it all in perspective.
	And then you have a story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
	It's actually a Washington Post story, but we got it from the Chronicle.
	Look at the headline here.
	Carbon tears up crowded market, killing at least 25 once safe Baghdad neighborhood has seen surge in attacks.
	Now, come on.
	That headline is purposely written to confuse and to destroy the whole progress that's going on with the surge of new U.S. troops to root out al-Qaeda.
	But now there's a surge in attacks because we are there, obviously.
	However, the BBC, amazingly, the most liberal news organization in the world outside of the new Iranian news agency actually puts this in perspective.
	During the seven-day period, July 25th to July 25th, the number of violent deaths across the country of Iraq was 414,219 less than the previous week.
	So the real picture is just this week alone, violent deaths down across Iraq.
	Coalition casualties are down, as was the number of Iraqi police who were killed.
	Although the number of civilians killed was higher than any other group, it was much lower than the toll of the previous week.
	And yet the Washington Post, treating everybody to the news that the surge is leading to new surge in attacks and so forth.
	So Reagan was not only optimistic.
	And this is the thing, folks, it's a good point too.
	Reagan was not only right or optimistic, he was right.
	His was not a phony optimism.
	It was not false in any way.
	He was right.
	He understood the basic nature of Americans.
	He understood the nature, the traditions, institutions that made the country great, and he appealed to them.
	And he appealed to the best in people.
	And it's just waiting to happen again.
	You don't have to be Reagan to do it.
	You don't have to have his personality or his words.
	All you have to do is have the same opinions, the same passions about the country and its greatness and its potential.
	And you have to understand that it's the people who make the country work.
	It is not elites.
	It's not academia.
	It's not corporate CEOs.
	It's not government elites and elected officials.
	The people who make the country work are you.
	You're out there, the people toiling away in anonymity, not seeking fame, not trying to get noticed, not uploading YouTube videos and say, please notice me, I want to be famous.
	There are people out there in the millions who make this country work.
	And it's to those people you appeal.
	It's to those people that you try to inspire.
	It's those people you thank.
	It's those people you encourage.
	And that's if you have a genuine belief in what I just said, that the people, average ordinary Americans accomplishing extraordinary things, if you believe that that's what makes the country work and you run around and tell people this, cite the statistics, give them some hope.
	Everybody needs leadership.
	There are very few self-starters out there, then you can write your own ticket.
	But the tendency in politics these days is to dwell on the negative, get people frightened, because then you hope, if you take that tack, that they will eventually surrender some control over their lives to let you fix, as a politician, what you tell them is wrong.
	And the worst thing can happen is that people get up every day and wait for somebody else to make it right for them.
	We got class envy in this country, which has been exploited by Democrats for years and years and years.
	And it's borne about, brought about by people who are not doing well or not happy, looking around, seeing other people who are.
	And of course, they think it's unfair.
	So a politician comes along, well, I'm going to punish those people.
	I'm going to raise their taxes.
	I'm going to make it harder for them.
	People go, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Doesn't improve their lives any, but they get this satisfaction that those people are going to be gotten even with.
	The way people ought to look at this is: wait a minute, I keep hearing how rotten this economy is, but look at that, what I see.
	This person, family doing well.
	It ought to show people it's possible for everybody, not just for a select few.
	That's been the magic, if you know, the miracle of this country is that anybody who wants it can go out and take a stab at it, regardless what government obstacles are in the way.
	And what's so frustrating to me as I listen to any candidate from any party start campaigning for national office, presidency, or what have you, to not even talk about any of this when the lesson of two landslides in the 1980s is just right there to be followed.
	But you don't have to fake it.
	You can be right in your optimism when you're talking about the future of the United States.
	Quick timeout.
	We'll be back.
	Audio soundbites and your phone calls continue after this.
	All right.
	The big question about Barack Obama has been: is he black enough?
	Is he down for the struggle?
	Well, you be the judge.
	We have an ad.
	The new radio ad began playing in South Carolina on Wednesday.
	It's entitled, It's Time, with Soft Jazz Music in the Background.
	It's time.
	It's time for Barack Obama.
	I know what you know.
	Despite all the progress that has been made, we still have more work to do.
	We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America.
	It's Barack Obama time.
	A Christian family man, community organizer, civil rights lawyer, courageous legislator, and U.S. senator who's told the truth as a soldier for justice.
	We have more work to do when the black incidents of HIV/AIDS and diabetes and asthma and every other illness is multiple times higher than the rest of the population.
	We've got more work to do when it takes a hurricane and bodies floating through a street for us to recognize race and poverty.
	Come on.
	The time is now for Barack Obama for president.
	I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.
	Paid for by Obama for America.
	We've got more work to do.
	We see hurricane bodies floating through a street for us to recognize race and poverty.
	Lord, we can't get away from it.
	Speaking of all these things.
	Yeah, it's a soldier for justice.
	That's right.
	Soldier for justice.
	You know, all these statistics that he cites.
	I have a companion story here.
	This is from the AP.
	Democrats back Urban League agenda.
	Really?
	Leading Democratic presidential contenders today endorsed a national urban league agenda that calls for mandatory early childhood education and the universal health care for children.
	Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Breck Girl each promised support for the Urban League's plan, which favors extending childhood education programs to children as young as age three now and guaranteeing access for all to attend college.
	You know, nothing these people have promised in 40 years, meaning the Democrats, nothing they have promised has changed anything.
	But it doesn't stop these civil rights groups from just lapping it all up.
	Nothing has changed.
	It's gotten worse, in fact, and yet they keep going back for more.
	And you know why?
	I'll tell you exactly why.
	Because what this is about is keeping the Urban League in a position of power in the Democrat Party, the Urban League leaders.
	Same thing with every other element of the Civil Rights Coalition.
	These people go out, they deliver the words, they deliver the votes, and they'll be sitting at the table of power at the Democrat Party.
	Whether the situation improves or not is irrelevant.
	Now, the feud between Obama and Hillary continues.
	This is on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.
	Obama said this about Senator Hillary Clinton.
	I don't want a continuation of Bush-Cheney.
	I don't want Bush-Cheney light.
	I want a fundamental change.
	It's time to turn the page on how we do business and say to the world, we are ready to lead.
	We are ready to lead by deed and example.
	Oh, man, is this stirring it up?
	He just called Hillary Bush and Cheney.
	Bush-Cheney-Light.
	Here is more.
	If we want fundamental change, then we can't be afraid to talk to our enemies.
	We can't be afraid to...
	I'm not afraid of losing the PR war to dictators.
	I'm happy to look them in the eye and say what needs to be said.
	I'm happy to tell them what I think.
	I'm not going to avoid them.
	I'm not going to hide behind a bunch of rhetoric.
	All right, this is what it's all about.
	Hillary said that this approach that he advocated in a YouTube debate was naive.
	And Obama's saying, oh, yeah, it's not naive at all.
	It makes more sense in you getting Butch the authorization to go to war, blah, blah, blah.
	So Hillary takes to the CNN airwaves.
	John King spoke to her yesterday about Obama's criticisms, and here's her response.
	This is getting kind of silly.
	You know, I've been called a lot of things in my life, but I've never been called George Bush or Dick Cheney, certainly.
	You know, you have to ask, what's ever happened to the politics of hope?
	No attack ever fed a hungry child.
	That's what you need to start saying, Hillary.
	That's what Bill said to Bob Dahl in a 1996 debate.
	No attack ever fed a hungry child.
	Now, Hillary, speaking with John King about Obama's criticisms, continued with this.
	I have been saying consistently for a number of years now, we have to end the Bush era of ignoring problems, ignoring enemies and adversaries.
	Stop.
	Let me recue that, Ed.
	I'm sorry, folks.
	I'm awash in incredulity here.
	They are complaining about Bush not leaving our enemies alone.
	They're the ones that want to ignore things.
	They're the ones that want to pull out.
	They're the ones that want to pretend there's no war on terror, just a bumper sticker slogan.
	They're the ones that say the world is not great danger here, and we're certainly no nation in great risk in this ignoring enemies and adversaries.
	I mean, we can't even call them enemies.
	We can't even call them enemies.
	We can't call them the enemy.
	If you work at Reuters, you can't even call them terrorists.
	Okay, here's the whole bite from the top.
	I have been saying consistently for a number of years now, we have to end the Bush era of ignoring problems, ignoring enemies and adversaries.
	And I have been absolutely clear that we've got to return to robust and effective diplomacy.
	But I don't want to see the power and prestige of the United States president put at risk by rushing in to meetings with the likes of Chavez and Castro and Ahmadinejad.
	This is the smartest woman in the world.
	So she would do exactly what Bush is doing.
	She would ignore Ah Ahmadinez.
	In fact, we have diplomatic talks going on with Ahmadinejad.
	It's a waste of time.
	Castro?
	Chavez?
	Bush is ignoring all of these people?
	Just as what she would say she would, you don't, for the very same reason, you don't elevate these people's status in the world by acting like you care.
	You don't grant them equal status.
	The dictator of Cuba, the dictator of Venezuela, the dictator of Iran are not, I'm sorry, on the same field as the president of the United States.
	They would love to be.
	And all it would take for them to get there is for an idiot president to start having them in town, having state dinners, go wherever they are and talk to them and find out what's on their mind and how we can help them and so forth.
	And you immediately elevate them.
	But I don't know who she means if we're ignoring enemies and adversaries.
	Chavez Castro, Ahmadinez.
	Well, we're not even ignoring Ahmadinezad.
	By the way, speaking of Cuba, the interim president there, Raul Castro, announced Thursday that the government of Cuba will seek to open the country to more foreign investment, the clearest indication yet of his plans for ruling this robust island nation.
	Raul Castro said that his government is studying ways of increasing foreign investment without repeating the mistakes of the past, a reference to the often heard complaint that the U.S. and other foreign countries dominated Cuba before their 59, 1959 resolution.
	Look at the best way to translate this, and this is a San Francisco Chronicle story, Raul Castro reaching out to capitalists for help.
	That's the way to translate this.
	Meanwhile, we have Democrat candidates who want to take us in the direction of Cuba.
	Back in a sec.
	And look at this.
	Looks like reefer madness is real.
	Or it can be.
	Pot smoking linked to psychotic disorders among all cannabis users, including sporadic experimenters and habitual users.
	The lifetime risk of psychotic illness increased by 40%, according to a study published yesterday.
	It's not as if you smoke a joint, you're going to go crazy, said Richard Rawson at UCLA.
	And he was not involved in the study, by the way, but he cautioned it, definitely not a good idea to use heavy amounts of marijuana.
	The researchers found that the risk for psychotic illnesses did appear to increase with dose, suggesting that stopping marijuana use would decrease the risk.
	Psychotic illnesses, by the way, for those of you in Rio Linda, include schizophrenia and disorders with such symptoms as hallucinations or delusions.
	In other words, normal for you.
	I didn't say about munchies or obesity, but of course, if you hang around fat people, you're going to get fat.
	You know, that's a study about that.
	If you hang around fat people, you're going to get because it's going to make you feel comfortably be fat.
	See other fat people.
	In fact, even if you have a fat friend that lives across the country, just knowing the fat friends 2,500 miles away is fat makes you comfortable being fat.
	But they say, don't throw your friends overboard.
	Well, why not?
	If fat friends lead to obesity, obese, why not get rid of your fat friends?
	And if you smoke pot, you won't care.
	But if your friends smoke pot, are you going to smoke pot?
	All these things are socially contagious out there now.
	We don't have a chance, folks.
	We're just, we're doomed.
	This is hilarious.
	This is absolutely President Bush said yesterday the Democrat-run Congress ought not leave Washington for its August recess without at least finishing a spending bill covering the Defense Department.
	In a time of war, one spending bill ought to take precedence over all the rest, he said.
	This is a speech that he gave.
	Congress due to begin the month-long recess in about two weeks, and Bush said lawmakers ought to finish work on that defense bill, even if they don't get to the 11 other government spending bills by then.
	Now, in a companion story, excuse me, missing from Thursday's session of the Iraqi parliament were about half of the members, including the speaker.
	Also missing a sense of urgency.
	Despite the high stakes here, this is an L.A. Times story.
	The Iraqi parliament appears to be deliberating at a pace to rival plodding legislative bodies around the world.
	Do tell.
	Are they mired in endless investigations too?
	What's the Iraqi parliament doing?
	They can't come to an agreement on the distribution of their oil profits.
	And our congressmen here are giving these guys all kinds of credit or grief for going on vacation in August because it's hot over there.
	And they're going to do the same thing.
	What a way to phrase it, at a pace to rival plodding legislative bodies around the world.
	The dirty little secret is that our brilliant founding fathers set up this system deliberately so it would be plodding.
	They distrusted government power.
	They set it up so that it would take all kinds of time to get anything done.
	All right, to the phones, Open Line Friday continues.
	Bruce in Atlanta.
	Glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to the show.
	It's a great honor to talk to you, Rush.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	I want to state that I'm a Republican for victory.
	A Republican for victory?
	Well, cool.
	Kumbaya.
	Hey, why can't we give Iran an ultimatum?
	Get out of Iraq or we'll take out your refinery.
	Well, there's an easier way to do it because Iran has to import more gasoline.
	I don't think it has but one refinery.
	I mean, they're in bad shape.
	They're a pretty rich oil nation, but they don't have any refineries.
	They have to import gasoline.
	They produce, they drill for their oil, they pump it up, and they send it out to get refined and bring it back in as gasoline or whatever other products they mean.
	All it would take would be an ocean blockade.
	Just a port blockade, and that wouldn't require any direct military action.
	Look, I can't answer the question.
	I don't know what's being planned.
	That may well be in the plans.
	I can't speculate on things that I don't know in that regard.
	Russians are out there saying that the nuclear plan, a nuclear plant in Iraq, Iran will go online in early 08.
	I don't know if that's, they're not talking about weapons-grade nuclear there.
	This is the so-called North Korean version of a nuclear power plant.
	And I just, you know, this is, look at, this is exactly what I was talking about earlier.
	This is one of these Churchill moments.
	You know who the Iranians are.
	You know what they are saying.
	They are promising.
	They are committing.
	And it's all coming from their religion.
	The 12th Imam, who needs to be liberated from the well, where he's hold up.
	And they think that launching an attack on the infidels of the world will release the 12th Imam, and that's the equivalent of their paradise showing up.
	They're Armageddon, Second County, Rapture, whatever you want to call it.
	And they're telling us everything they're going to do.
	And we're sitting around saying, well, that just doesn't.
	Look at a little guy just trying to get attention.
	He'd never do what he's saying.
	It never would do what he's saying.
	You look at what's happening in Lebanon.
	You look at what's happening in Syria.
	You look at what's happening with the funnel of terrorists coming into Iraq from Syria and Iran.
	It'd be silly to ignore this.
	And I just can't believe that there are people in Washington who are at the administration level.
	What their plans are, don't know.
	Charles in Pittsburgh, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
	Mr. Limbaugh, let me tell you what an honor this is to speak to you, bud.
	I've been listening to you since 1992 when I was a junior in high school.
	Really?
	So you're a rush baby?
	Absolutely.
	And I want to thank my dad, Clark, and my mother, Sharon.
	They both turned me on to you back when I was mindful of mush.
	Well, it's great to have you here.
	Thanks much for calling.
	Hey, I got two points I want to get to you.
	I want to tell you about the YouTube debates.
	What is the point in that silver-haired-headed Fox Anderson Cooper, whenever the question about taxes came up, he immediately throws it to Dennis Kucinich?
	Why would that be?
	You know, obviously he stands no chance of getting in the Lighthouse.
	So why wouldn't they ask one of the frontrunners the question on racial?
	Who knows?
	That thing was so produced.
	You have to.
	Of course.
	It was produced.
	They knew every second of that show what was going to happen.
	They had built-in time for the candidates to answer.
	And if you watched, you could hear Cooper occasionally say time, time.
	They put that whole thing together.
	I know how TV shows work.
	They put every video together.
	They put it in the order they wanted, and they chose which candidates are going to go to first.
	In fact, one of the things kind of surprised me, the Brett girl didn't get an answer, didn't get a question for the first seven or eight, maybe nine minutes or six or seven questions away.
	He was last on the list.
	He sat there patiently, stood there patiently, but roughening his hair.
	I don't know how they, I don't know how they decided who would get which question.
	You could, and I'm sure you're relating this to the fact that they might have some bias on it.
	I don't know.
	But it's CNN, and they produce TV shows, and that YouTube show is exactly what we produced show under the guise of being a debate.
	Well, one of the reasons why I was able to observe that is for the fact that you're able to observe it, and, you know, you being the professor of conservatism, that's fine, though.
	But I also want to tell you that I do not think we should drill for our own oil right now.
	Why not?
	Well, use up the rest of the world.
	If we're thinking long-term strategy, as Mr. Bush would say, President Bush would say, I think we should just hold off on drilling for our oil for a while.
	It's an interesting strategy.
	Am I going to get somebody in trouble for saying that?
	No, you're not going to get anybody in trouble for saying it.
	The problems with that are that we're almost being held hostage to price and supply and all the other ramifications of becoming dependent on other sources of oil.
	And I don't think, you know, where there's more oil than you think, we can't sit around and wait them out till they run out.
	There's more oil down there than you think.
	The thing to do here, this is really simple.
	It's really, really simple.
	We are the United States of America.
	We are a growing economy.
	We cannot continue economic growth.
	If you want your kids to have a better life than you did, you can't get there by conserving energy alone.
	We have to have more.
	We have to produce more.
	Growth, productivity, opportunity are all related.
	And if we're going to sit here and hamstring ourselves and put ourselves in handcuffs under the guise of protecting the environment and so forth, we're going to lose the status that we have.
	And it may become a reality someday that your kids won't do as well as you do.
	The only way that we are going to be able to sustain this kind of growth that we, by the way, demand, we are a very high expectation society of our own country.
	We expect when we go to the grocery store that whatever we want is there.
	We expect when we go to gas station that the gasoline is going to be there.
	We expect when we stop at a hotel that there's going to be a room there, that there's going to be a hotel.
	We have these expectations.
	We expect when we go to the restaurant that they're going to have what they have on the menu and that we're going to get it served at a proper time.
	We have all these expectations.
	We go to the automobile dealership and they're going to have the car that we want or we're going to order it.
	We're going to get it at some point.
	We're going to be able to negotiate the price.
	All of these things are interrelated, but they lead to high expectations that the American people have.
	And these high expectations are not going to be met if all we try to do is conserve energy with these light bulbs and these hybrids and so forth.
	It isn't the answer.
	More supply is drilling it, refining it, and hopefully our own supply.
	And it's there.
	We just don't have the will to go get it either.
	Back in a sec, folks.
	Stay with us.
	All right.
	This is one of those times where if your young children are listening with you, and if you yourself are offended by discussions of an intimate nature, I'm going to count down from five.
	When I get to one, I'm going to do the story.
	And if you're still listening when I get to one, then you and you and you are offended, you complain.
	Nobody's going to listen to your complaint because you have been warned.
	Five, four, three, two, one.
	The Japanese love technology so much that now even sex toys are on the cutting edge.
	The G-pod.
	You heard about this, Mr. Snerdley?
	The G-Pod, a phallic-shaped vibrator, is designed to respond automatically to sounds picked up by an accompanying hand set, which can plug into anything from a telephone to a music player to a television.
	The G-Pod, referred to as the iVibrator, takes its name and description from iPod, iPhone, but Apple has no affiliation with it.
	The G-Pod retails $243, was one of a number of toys that went on public view this week at Japan's first ever Sex Toy Expo in suburban Tokyo.
	Yes, you can use it in many ways.
	For example, hooking it up to your mobile phone.
	One of the ideas is you can use it here in Tokyo when your boyfriend in New York is talking to you on the phone.
	I knew you were wondering, some of you people, what do you want to hook it up to an audio source?
	I was waiting for the end of the story, too.
	Wow, Snerdly, you're looking jazzed in there.
	He's batting his eyes around.
	He's very excited.
	Celia in Northridge, California, I'm glad you called and waited.
	Welcome to Openline Friday.
	I'm so glad to talk to you.
	My uncle turned me on to you probably 15 years ago, and I'm finally calling for the first time and getting through.
	Thank you very much.
	Wonderful day.
	I wanted to say I have 12 points.
	I know it sounds like a lot, but I'll make them very short about why I think this one candidate who's there lurking in the scenes and nobody seems to recognize him, the perfect guy who's not a clone of Reagan, but I think he's a good guy.
	Let me guess, let me guess, let me guess, let it guess, let me guess, let it guess, let me guess.
	Duncan Hunter.
	Of course.
	No, I don't hear you promote him that much either.
	Is it you just don't think he has a chance at all?
	No, that's too soon.
	I'm not promoting anybody.
	You've got to know that.
	Well, okay.
	I hear you say that, geez, it looks like the Democrats are going to win.
	I mean, they will if we keep these top three or two guys in the focus.
	Can I rattle off the reasons why I think he's the best?
	By all means.
	Okay.
	First, he's strong on defense.
	He's right on target there.
	He's a military guy himself, which is a rarity these days.
	He's a Vietnam vet.
	His sons are in the military, or his one son, anyway, has served two terms, I believe, in Iraq, and he's in Afghanistan now.
	He's strongly pro-life.
	He's actually done some legislation on this.
	He's not just talking a good name.
	Right, right, right.
	He's strong on the border, for sure.
	He says he will have that border closed in six months, and I believe he will.
	He has that can-do attitude.
	He's strong on China, which nobody's really talking about, how they're cheating on the patents and all this different stuff.
	He's willing to take that on, and I think he has the answers.
	You know, something.
	Isn't Duncan Hunter's wife's name Celia?
	I don't know.
	I've never even met the guy, but he looked kind of cute last night.
	I saw him on Fox.
	I think it was with Sean.
	I like Duncan.
	I have great admiration for Duncan Hunter.
	And his personal life is great.
	He's been married to the same woman for a long time.
	I don't know what her name is, but he's got strong family values.
	He will fight for the marriage amendment and the intangibles, like they talk about in tennis.
	He's got poise.
	He's got intelligence.
	He's knowledgeable on all these different issues.
	He's moral.
	He's got that, as I said, that can-do attitude.
	He's positive.
	He will do the right thing, not just the popular thing.
	I hope he can break out.
	I don't mean to be rude.
	I want to go on to one more call here before we have to go, but I want to tell you this.
	There's a story I didn't get to it today, the drive-bys talking about McCain's implosion and so forth.
	And the drive-bys are saying, you know, it probably is a good thing.
	We've reached a threshold in this country now.
	Military men are being rejected by the voters.
	John Kerry, McCain, so forth and so on.
	Put that, we'll talk about it next week.
	Here's Denise in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.
	Nice to have you on Open Line Friday.
	Hi, I'm glad to talk to you, Mr. Limbaugh.
	Thank you.
	I'm a law graduate from the University of Missouri, and I was fortunate enough to meet your grandfather years and years ago at one of the alumni dinners.
	So that was a real privilege for me.
	And I'm currently back at the University of Missouri.
	I'm pursuing a Ph.D. in family studies.
	And I wanted to let the public know that the students I've seen, the young kids and everything, they're not as liberal as the Democrats are portraying.
	I think we still have some hope out there.
	Well, go to the J school and you'll change your mind.
	Well, we can only do what we have around us.
	So I just have some hope, and I'm happy to see that.
	And I'm also wanting you to know that, you know, I get tired of the Democrats portraying that they think they're going to have an easy vote for educated women to vote for Hillary, because that's just not the case.
	No, the educated women are going for Obama, according to polls.
	It's the dumb and poor women that are flocking to Hillary.
	Before you go, I've got a quick question for you.
	You are a lawyer.
	You graduated from the University of Missouri Law School, which most of my family did as well.
	Right.
	Now, you said you're getting a Ph.D. in family studies.
	Yes, it's a.
	How are you going to use the law degree with family studies?
	Are you abandoning the law degree?
	Well, I'm kind of using both.
	I'm going to be working on developing, helping to develop the program that we have divorcing parents attend to better co-parent.
	It's not working right now.
	Have everybody ending up back in court fighting over everything, and I think if we could develop the program better, that maybe we could get parents to work together better.
	So that's my goal.
	I guess after all the years out in law doing, I just did nothing but divorce law, I got tired of seeing so many families just totally torn apart and ending up back in court repeatedly.
	And of course, our system sees the results.
	We've got kids in juvenile and everything.
	So that's my goal: to put some of my lawyers to good use.
	Congratulations, Denise.
	I wish you success in that.
	Solution might be to just convince them to stay married.
	Yeah.
	Back in just a second, folks.
	Want to get a hold of some of those iVibrators, folks, and give them away here on the air like we did the iPhones.
	Can you imagine hooking up one of my podcasts to your iVibrator?
	We could blow your mind.
	See you Monday, folks.

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