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This, ladies and gentlemen, is a very, very sad day for Bill Clinton.
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What a night in Philadelphia it was last night.
The first time I have ever seen brotherly love in Philadelphia, and it was directed at me.
And of course, I then gave it back to the audience.
What an absolutely fun night.
You'll be hearing shortly some audio sound bites from the 90 minutes I spent with about 2,700 people at Philadelphia's Academy of Music.
Maybe the nicest theater auditorium I have ever spoken in.
It's a close run-up, you know, with the Chicago Theater.
It was just beautiful, and the crowd was fantastic last night.
And you'll hear all about it as the program unfolds.
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Do you realize what a sad day this is for Bill Clinton?
Nobel Committee has decided.
Number one.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared in two equal parts between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC,
and Albert Arnold L. Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
So the Nobel Committee here has officially rendered themselves a pure 100% joke.
Man-made climate change is not about man except harming man while saving, quote-unquote, the environment.
But more on that in a moment.
You have to know, folks, that Bill Clinton today is fuming.
You know damn well that he's probably abusing interns today out of anger.
He goes out, he raises hundreds of millions of dollars for tsunami and Katrina relief.
He holds his yearly billionaires club meeting.
He has his own climate change initiative.
And this major domo of his, Albert Arnold Algore, wins the award for a movie about himself that a British judge has ruled has at least nine defects.
Major errors, lies, assumptions that are incorrect.
Now, if you're Bill Clinton, this has to tick you off.
He's the guy supposed to get away with lies.
He's the guy supposed to receive awards for lying so well.
Al Gore has just trumped him.
So now Al Gore will join Yasser Arafat among the list of Noble Nobel Peace laureates.
By the way, folks, I have no animus for having not won.
They can't ever take my nomination away from me.
It will never happen.
Something I will.
Just being nominated is enough.
A lot of people have said, Rush, you need to demand a recount.
I've thought about demanding a recount.
I've gone back and forth on this.
Well, you know, Gore lobbied for this.
I've thought about filing an official protest, ladies and gentlemen.
I was extremely concerned about the unethical lobbying behind the scenes.
I was considering launching an investigation demanding a recount.
But then I thought, why do this?
Had I won the Nobel Peace Prize, what I would have done is awarded it to either the Bush administration for successfully disarming the nuclear program in North Korea and working diligently to do the same thing in Iran, or I would have awarded it to General Petraeus and the United States military.
If there has ever been an engine for peace in the world, it is the United States military.
So I don't have the chance to redirect the Nobel Peace Prize to proper recipients.
So in this case, I call on Al Gore to do it.
I call on Albert Arnold Al Gore to redirect his Nobel Peace Prize to genuine agents of peace.
The idea that he shares this with some UN committee is doubly laughable.
Al Gore should be sharing this with the media, if anyone, and some Hollywood producers.
You got a feel for Bill Clinton.
I mean, Clinton's the guy that wanted a Nobel Peace Prize and Al Gore gets one.
Clinton wanted to scoop up millions and millions and millions of dollars and get rich.
And Al Gore, Albert Arnold Al Gore got more money than the Clintons have.
Clinton wants Hillary in the White House.
And now Al Gore is the subject of a draft Al movement and the drive-bys are so excited.
Audio soundbite number three.
They're all panting now that Albert Arnold Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize that he might run for president.
A big morning for Al Gore, this announcement coming from Oslo, Norway, just hours ago.
Gore and a UN panel won the Nobel Peace Prize.
There is a grassroots movement to get him to run for the White House, so will he bite?
Yeah, they're saying it's his duty to run.
Let's turn to the big news this morning about the Nobel Peace Prize.
It is exciting for former Vice President Al Gore.
And a big morning for Al Gore.
Pretty good year for him.
And as for running for president, it will only intensify the calls.
The political impact from this award received by Al Gore to decide to step in, run for president.
Former Vice President Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
And many now who think he should run for president.
Yeah, that'd be great.
Breaking news this morning.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, and the winner is former Vice President Al Gore.
And this is a comeback story.
Wow, Al Gore now in the history books.
Fascinating.
Never know in such a wide open race.
Draft Al Gore?
Will he run?
You noticed how every one of those people pronounces his name Al Gore?
Guess where that started, ladies and gentlemen?
Right here on the EIB network.
So there's a draft Al Gore movement.
The Clintons arguably cost Al Gore the presidency.
They upstaged his own presidential run with Hillary's Senate run.
They sucked up a whole bunch of oxygen, a whole bunch of money, and of course a lot of media attention.
He got more votes than Clinton ever did, but the Clintons stole a Democrat Party leadership from Al Gore.
Al Gore should have been the leader of the Democratic Party, but no, the Clintons stole it, and they still have it.
So will he settle the score?
You realize he's already settled two scores.
Clinton was desperate for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Al Gore got it.
Both Clintons hell-bent on getting rich.
Al Gore made more than both of them combined.
I mean, I read somewhere that between Google and Apple that Al Gore's worth over 90 million.
Now, the Clintons haven't gotten there yet that we know about.
I'm thinking Norman Chu here.
I don't know why.
So anyway, that's the way the Nobel Peace Prize shapes up.
We could get serious about it and talk about what a joke the Nobel Committee has become.
And perhaps we will as the program unfolds.
You know, the climate crisis, here's what Gore is saying.
If I get serious here for just a sec, climate crisis, he says, not a political issue.
It's a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.
That's what he said in accepting the award.
Not true.
It is 100% political.
For a person steeped deep in the qualification culture, which the qualification culture is, my two degrees mean I am smart.
Al Gore has conferred upon himself the biggest ticket punch of his life in the Nobel Prize.
Nothing says I'm smart quite like an award from a bunch of socialist Swedes in the community that Al Gore runs around in.
Much the same way as the Nobel Prize gave credence to Jimmy Carter's anti-Semitism and Yasser Arafat's peace campaign, Al Gore now has that same credibility for the religion of global warming.
If, in my mind, in a fair and honest world, the recipient of this award, well, the reason for this award being awarded, man-made global warming should debunk it because the Nobel Committee has lost all credibility long before they gave this award to Al Gore of the United Nations.
Sadly, this will probably, in the minds of the ignorant and those who pay scant attention, will probably lend credence to the whole phony hoax that is man-made global warming.
We'll just have to see.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue.
Lots coming up on the program today.
Sit tight.
By the way, folks, stand by for a special announcement on this program.
In a little over an hour, 1:33 Eastern Time, we will be making a special announcement that you won't want to miss.
Also, during the course of the program, I'll be sharing some anecdotes from last night in Philadelphia.
But I have to tell you, I want to thank all the people at WPHT.
They just put on a great show last night.
Very, very well done, very professionally done.
Our affiliate down to a 1210 big talker.
But the audience, those of you in Philadelphia that were in the audience last night, and I don't, this is hard to say because I don't want anybody in previous audiences to be offended or misunderstand, but that when I was introduced and strutted out on stage with my full confidence and arrogance on display, I mean, I got the, Mr. Stergley, this might have been one of the largest and most sustained and loudest standing ovations.
It would not stop.
And of course, I only egged him on once.
And I just, I was, almost brought me to tears.
And I've never been to Philadelphia to speak or anything like this before.
And his theater was just so gorgeous.
And the crowd was just rabid.
There were some libs, and I knew there were some libs in the audience because I got a little heads up.
And I told them when I started, I said, some of you may not last a whole evening, but I guarantee you, if you leave early, you will not forget this.
And they started trickling out after about an hour.
You know, one every five minutes or something, four or five of them finally left.
We'll wave goodbye to them each time they left.
They didn't turn around and wave back.
But it was just, the audience was just fantastic.
And I had somebody tell me afterwards, yeah, they just wanted to thank you for hanging tough on a phony soldier bit.
And I, well, if that's what it was, I appreciate it.
We will have some audio soundbites.
In fact, one of the aspects of the major announcement coming up in a little over an hour from now on this program will feature a little clip from last night's Rush to Excellence tour in Philadelphia.
Now, there is an important news item today, and I want to discuss it, but I run the risk of losing my temper doing so because it makes me angry.
You know, I choose to discuss the news rationally, ladies and gentlemen, not emotionally.
This is going to be very difficult to go through and not be emotional because I don't want to lose my cool.
And I don't want to run the risk of offending you with profanity or tossing around words like treachery or treason.
Briefly, the story, the mindless, the vicious story is about the Democrats in Congress and their latest scheme to secure defeat in Iraq and in the war on terror.
And in the process of securing defeat, they are attempting to screw up our attempts to pacify the Middle East.
At this very moment in time, at this period of international sensitivity, the left in this country is obsessed with denouncing Turkey for genocide against the Armenians 100 odd years ago.
Why now?
Similar resolutions were passed in 1975 and 1984.
Why now?
Turkey is allowing the passage of much of our supplies and overflights into Iraq.
Why now?
Turkey can either help stabilize or destabilize the Kurdish area in northern Iraq.
Why are they doing this now?
The president and eight former secretaries of state are asking, they are pleading with Congress to stop this.
I'm starting to lose my cool on this.
This is a, this is, this is obvious.
I keep asking the question, why?
This is their way to secure defeat and stop the war.
If they can't stop the war themselves with their own votes, with their own lack of guts to defund the effort in Iraq, they will trash one of our best and most needed allies, as close to we're going to get as a moderate Muslim regime that is an ally to the United States of America, without whose help we could not be securing victory in Iraq.
These people in the Democrat Party on Capitol Hill continue to explore and discover new depths of plain depravity.
What the hell business is it of theirs to be declaring this now when there have already been two resolutions about the same thing that have passed in previous years.
Turkey, a key supply route to U.S. troops in Iraq, has recalled its ambassador to Washington.
Did so yesterday.
It has warned of serious repercussions if Congress labels the killing of Armenians by Turks 100 years ago as genocide.
This has been ordered after a House committee endorsed the genocide measure.
The summons of the ambassador for consultations was a further sign of the deteriorating relations between two longtime allies and the potential for new turmoil in an already troubled region, which is just now beginning to show some amazing success.
The Sunnis and the Shia are joining together and they are rejecting al-Qaeda.
I say this next purposefully and intentionally.
I mentioned this on many occasions previous.
The one thing politically that the Democrat Party cannot afford because of positions it has previously taken is victory in Iraq.
They cannot allow that to happen because they own defeat.
And they have already pronounced the war over.
They have already said we can't win.
They have done their best to secure that in the minds of as many people as possible, including our brave and courageous uniformed personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As you and I both know, they have done everything they can to engage in efforts to demoralize them, to impugn them, to criticize them.
And now, unable to force votes or not with the courage to defund it, they now take this step, purposely attempting to split an ally away from their country, the United States of America, so as to see to it that the Bush administration does not secure a positive result in Iraq when we are on the verge of securing that nation with a victory.
Oh, that presents its own problems, as I mentioned yesterday with the help of J.R. Dunn from the American Thinker.
But this is unconscionable.
It is difficult for me, ladies and gentlemen, to catalog all of these destructive efforts that the Democrat Party, the leadership in both houses of Congress have engaged in and put one at the top as worse than any of the others.
I don't know how I draw comparisons between their attempts at impugning military personnel, attempt to secure defeat, calling our troops murderers, rapists, and thugs, false accusations, not apologizing for it, or now this, forcing the Turks to withdraw their ambassador to the United States because they want to pass a resolution condemning Turkey for a slaughter of Armenians, genocide, 100 years ago.
It is nothing but pure politics.
They are trying to anger the Turks.
They want the Turkish government to withdraw the ambassador.
They want a split in the Allies here.
They want Turkey to not allow us to use their state, their country, to get supplies and other equipment into Iraq so as to hamper the effort.
If anybody ever had any doubts that the Democrats are about defeat and losing for their country and for their military, this story ought to leave zero doubt.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Folks, as you know, our microphones are everywhere.
We have secret, exclusive audio of Albert Arnold Al Gore practicing his acceptance speech, winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
It's not exactly how it sounded, but that was Al Gore rehearsing, practicing his acceptance speech, winning a Nobel Peace Prize.
A little bit about something I brought up in Philadelphia last night was health care.
And I've talked about it in a similar vein on this program.
But I had the occasion recently to meet with another liberal, a liberal chick.
And this liberal chick had his book on self-reliance.
And she's reading passages too.
And I said, I've been thinking to myself, what is a liberal doing with a book on self-reliance?
So I'm thinking, she can't be as liberal as she thinks.
And truly, she is moving, even though she doesn't know it.
How could she not be and being with me for a couple of hours?
At any rate, after she read me these couple passages on self-reliance, I said, let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question.
Where does self-reliance apply in the debate in this country over health care?
What do you mean?
I said, well, why is it, and I asked the audience of Philadelphia this last night, I said, why is it that of all the needs in life, all of the needs, not wants, all of the needs that we have in this country, how is it that we're close to 50% of the American people who think it's somebody else's job to provide it for them?
They're self-reliant when it comes to buying their homes, they're self-reliant when it comes to buying their cars, self-reliant when it comes to buying their lawnmowers, self-reliant when it comes to buying their televisions, self-reliant when it comes to buying hotel rooms, self-reliant when it comes to buying food, self-reliance when it comes to buying hardware supplies.
Why is it that so many Americans now think that health care and insurance is something they don't have to be self-reliant about?
Does this trouble you?
The answer I got was, well, you know, I really think we ought to provide health coverage for the poor because they're overtaxing emergency rooms and that's raising the price to everybody.
I said, don't give me that.
Answer the question.
Just answer the question.
You're going full bore here on self-reliance.
This is good.
Tell me why self-reliance gets thrown out the window when it comes to health care.
I'll tell you why.
It's politics.
For years and years and years, Democrats and liberals have been telling people that health care is a constitutional right, that the government is supposed to provide it.
And I said, the reason they do this is because they want to control it and they want to have as many people as possible dependent on them for the control they want over people.
And of course, this is where the conversation started to break down, but at least I made the point, which leads me to the next story here in the stack of stuff.
A Rasmussen poll.
I have said we are approaching mob rule once we get to the point that, say, 55% of the American people think that other people, that health care should be free, paid for by everybody else, that we're nearing mob rule.
How are we going to stop that?
Rasmussen poll.
Half of Americans support the notion of providing health care for free to all Americans, even though, listen to this now, even though they expect it'll reduce the overall quality of care, increase the overall cost, and increase their personal costs.
What a bunch of lame brains if this is true.
And Erasmus and people are not cranks.
How do you go from providing health care for free to expecting your personal costs will go up?
How can your personal costs go up if it's free?
Besides that, they say they'll go for it even if it will reduce the overall quality of care and increase the cost.
However, the support for free health care breaks down, falls dramatically if the plan requires everybody with insurance to change their coverage and join a program administered by the government.
There is a silver lining in this dark cloud.
That's consistent with a large body of research suggesting strong resistance to any proposal requiring people to switch from the current health insurance.
Folks, let me clue you in about something.
You may not have a choice if Mrs. Clinton gets her way.
And I point you back to this S-CHIP thing.
This S-CHIP thing no longer about kids.
It's about putting more and more people under a federal program.
And Mrs. Clinton has said if her new health care plan is indoctrinated the way she wants or introduced, she's going to let people keep their individual insurance, but she's also going to have government programs too.
And she's also said you might have to have a job.
Well, you have to get a job interview.
You'll have to have health insurance.
Well, if you can't afford it, you go to the government and get it.
That's how you go get a job.
The point is that with the government competing with the private sector, the private sector is going to take it on the chin and people are going to feel the need to leave because prices are going to continue to rise and so forth because the government's going to affect supply and demand being involved in the mix.
And down the road, the objective is to force the private sector out on its own, make them just give up.
As in businesses saying, like the automakers, we can't survive if $2,000 of every car is priced for health care.
And we can't continue to pay people that are no longer working for us.
And the government comes, well, we'll take over your health care for you.
Government says that, and the company's good.
These CEOs, not dumb when it comes to their bottom line.
Well, let the government take it over.
And so this is how it's going to happen.
It won't happen immediately.
It's a stealth program.
Look at the old Soviets, folks, they were very patient.
They never had goals to get something done five years, 10 years, 100 years, whatever it took.
You know, the old dialectic, take two steps forward.
If you have to go one step back, now and then you do it, but you keep making progress.
They don't do things in four-year increments, eight-year increments.
The liberals have been at this for a long time, and they're going to keep at it.
And so this is one of the stealth techniques that they're going to employ.
Former Vice President Walter Mondo, the 84 Democrat presidential nominee, planning to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
That's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
A loser endorses Mrs. Clinton.
It's a fait accompli.
I've got a list of headlines today.
Associated Press and Reuters.
No, it's like this.
It's about three inches long.
It's no mention of any other candidate but Hillary Clinton.
Hillary this, Hillary that.
No mention of Barack Obama, the Magic Negro.
No mention of, hell, I've even the Brett girl.
Oh, by the way, by the way, I brought this out.
I haven't talked about this on the radio, I don't think.
And I mentioned it last night in Philadelphia.
The National Inquirer has got this story out there that the Brett girl's having an affair.
Yeah, and the media is not touching it.
The media is not touching the story.
The Brett girl, they've got a picture.
The Inquirer story doesn't have it, but some left-wing blogs are really trying to push this into the mainstream media.
And I told the audience of Philadelphia last night.
I don't know, the Brett girl's denying it.
Brett girl's out there denying it.
I said, why?
This is a resume enhancement for Democrats.
I kid you not, especially for the Brett girl.
You are called a Brett girl for a reason.
If the word leaked out that he's actually having an affair, I know his wife's got cancer and so forth.
We're talking Democrats here.
We're talking Democrats as a resume.
Anyway, he's denying it all.
The interesting thing about it is, guess who owns the Inquirer?
Guess who's the new owner of the Inquirer?
Roger Altman, the first Treasury Secretary for Bill Clinton.
The Clintons are buying up the tabloids.
So they are.
So Ron Burkle, one of Clinton's buddies, are trying to buy up all the tabloids.
Well, you've got to control the intern news somehow.
Plus, you can smear your opponents if you own the publication.
Anyway, let's go to the phones.
Doug in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, you're up first today on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rod?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
I was at the Rushed Excellence tour last night, and I have to tell you, I had the pleasure and honor of meeting President and Mrs. Reagan some years ago, and I heard two of his speeches in person.
Hers last night was the best I have heard since.
You absolutely hit a grand slam home run, knocked it completely out of the park.
Well, you've made my day.
I appreciate it.
You know, I walked out of there thinking the same thing.
I was feeding off the energy of the audience.
I mean, I could tell by the way the audience reaction was that was going on.
I felt good last night.
I felt in a good mood and so forth.
Only had five drinks before I went out.
I'm just kidding.
I can't say these things anymore with all these watchdogs out there.
No, it was, you guys were fabulous in the audience.
Where were you sitting?
I was in the first balcony just to your right, about two sections back.
I wasn't very far from you.
Well, it's a beautiful auditorium, and I really appreciate your kind words.
It's very nice of you to say.
It was great to hear you, Rush, and keep up the work because you are the biggest thorn in the liberal side.
I just love listening to you.
I've listened since right after the first Gulf War, and, you know, you're the best thing I've heard since Reagan.
Well, now you're really making my day.
Well, I'll tell you, let me tell you one other thing.
If Ronald Reagan hadn't converted me from the other side, you definitely would have.
Well, again, I thank you.
I thank you.
And I'm sure you're speaking for millions.
Sorry, folks.
I know.
I just couldn't leave it.
Look, it's Friday.
I didn't get back until 2 o'clock.
I went out and had dinner last night, and I didn't get back here until 2 o'clock in the morning, and then I didn't go to bed then.
So it's one of these giddy days.
I should have warned people at the outset, but I was too eager to talk about the Nobel Peace Prize.
By the way, HR, I forgot to mention this to you last night.
I don't know if any of Congressman Waxman's investigators were in attendance at the Rush to Excellence tour in Philadelphia last night.
I'm going to assume that they weren't since the event sold out so long ago.
So please send a tape and a transcript of last night's performance at the Philadelphia Academy of Music to Congressman Waxman's office and to just label it Waxman Investigators Garva's office and so forth.
Yeah, Saturday delivery.
Send out a little CD and also put just an electronic version of transcript on the same CD.
You know, you don't have to send pages.
Let them print their own paper up there.
Costs them a lot less than it costs us.
Here's Dean in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I'm a public speaking professor here, and I would like some tips from you for my students.
How do you do it three hours every day?
Well, you're talking about the radio program?
Well, you're not speaking from a script.
You're able to do it extemporaneously.
So, yeah, the radio program.
Well, I also do my live appearances that way.
I just have a little outline.
I went 90 minutes last night, and I had five lines written on the outline to, I think maybe six to remind me just of areas I wanted to cover.
I think there's no substitute for experience, but the thing that enables this to happen is passion.
It is passion that leads me to want to know as much as I can about what I'm talking about and lack of fear to tell people what I think.
And that leads to confidence.
So I come in here every day confident, not afraid of what I'm going to say, and not afraid that I don't know what I'm going to talk about.
And I never have the fear that, gee, what am I going to mention today?
Because I always prepare.
So I've been doing this a long, long, long, long time.
By the way, I do read things, like I'll quote from a news story or something, but I don't, I know what you mean.
I do not write monologues.
Right.
Excellent.
You bet.
Does that help?
Yes.
My lectures tomorrow.
Your lecture is tomorrow.
Okay, well, then the three keys are preparation, passion, confidence, lack of fear.
Great.
I've got it.
Thank you.
You bet.
The professors are calling me.
I'm the one without the degree.
Robert in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you, sir, and Major Dittos from Gorbuquerkeek, New Mexico.
I'm a long-time listener, first-time caller, Armenian-American, and I could not agree with you more how poor the timing is.
Poor?
That's not the word for it.
This is purposeful.
There have already been two resolutions passed on this.
The most recent one, 1984.
This is gratuitous.
The timing of this is not accidental.
It's not unfortunate.
And this, by the way, this has nothing to do with respecting Armenians.
It's already been done.
This is strictly to embarrass the Turkish government and to cause them to split with us as an ally.
I just, it's beyond me to, with polite language, express my irritation and anger over this.
Absolutely.
And I shared the same sentiment, and I just wanted to pass that on to you and the whole conservative part of America.
Well, let me ask you.
I mean, you're of Armenian descent.
You ask yourself before you thought about this, what is this?
What's going on now that would require this kind of resolution?
Exactly.
I think to myself of how proud I am to be an Armenian American.
But in the same breath, I am just blown away by how low the Democrats have to stoop.
Exactly right.
Well, learn them, love them.
Learn them and live.
This is who they are.
And one of the great things about their telling us all in plain language, they're not hiding behind as many masks or as much camouflage anymore.
This can only be of assistance and be helpful.
I just, you know, it's hard, really, as I just said to this guy, it's difficult for me to stay polite in discussing this.
I have a lot of Armenian friends, and this is pandering.
This is pure pandering, and it is insulting, and they are being used.
Our old buddy Scott Ott, who does the Scrappleface website, I'm going to have to paraphrase.
He said what the Republicans, in his own way, he said, the Republicans are going to offer a resolution condemning the Roman Empire for the death, destruction, and genocide during their reign.
The bloodletting.
It makes as much sense as this does.
Who's next?
Where are we going next?
Andrew in Mount Lake Terrace, Washington.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How's it going?
Good, fine.
Thank you.
I was calling today to talk about Congressman Ron Paul.
And I think that he is probably one of the more conservative candidates running for president.
And I think that you should talk about him more on your radio show.
I should talk about Ron Paul more?
Yes.
Okay.
Well, it's Openline Friday, so we will.
I'll take that under advisement.
You're a Ron Paul acolyte?
Well, I'm a 17 or 18-year-old now in Valley Terrace, Washington, and I've been following the 2008 election.
Right.
And, I don't know, I think that he's, sorry, I seem a little nervous.
It's my first time calling you.
I understand that.
I've been a first-time caller too many years ago.
I know how nervous it is.
Let me, we don't have much time here to talk about Ron Paul because the time is dwindling.
Let's see.
Seven seconds, six.
What can I say?
Ron Paul, Republican candidate for president, Ron Paul.
All right, folks, the first hour in the can.
Special announcement coming up in just a little over a half hour.
You don't want to miss it.
It's going to be loaded with fun and excitement.
Plus, more of your phone calls coming up for the next two hours here on Open Line Friday.