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Oct. 30, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 30, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh man, you just you just know how much the drive-by's love this headline Caribbean storm kills 20 people.
Finally, we've got death.
We've got devastation, we've got pestilence.
We've got a tropical storm out there, folks.
Yes!
Media excited!
Hurricane experts excited, except the 11 o'clock update came out and they've weakened the storm.
It's 45 miles an hour now.
The winds track moves further east, will miss the United States.
Damn it.
Greetings and welcome, Rush Linboy, the EIB network, broadcast excellence, all yours, three straight hours.
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It really is funny.
It really is laughable.
I got up today, I got in here, started doing diligent show prep work, and I, of course, checked out the hurricane, a tropical storm.
What is it, Noel?
Yeah.
And uh they're forecasting 12-foot waves for us on the beach uh tomorrow, they say, and maybe uh uh 40 mile an hour wind, gusts, and so forth.
And then it all turned to the further to the east.
We've had we've we've had 65.
I remember the first year I was down here, 1997 in October, we had five days of sustained 60 mile-an-hour winds on the beach.
You had to wear goggles if you went out there.
Clear as a bell.
The seas were not twelve feet.
Uh shame it isn't gonna hit us because we could all use the rain here.
But uh it's just it's just it just nothing's working out for the drive-bys on this hurricane disaster front, uh, nor for the hurricane people.
Halloween's coming down.
Your kids go out trick-or-treating.
Uh I'm fortunate.
Uh I don't answer the door.
Nobody can get to my door uh on Halloween.
But there's a fascinating story here in the Washington Post.
By the way, do you know what the ugliest Halloween costume voted on by the American people is this year, including Democrats, Hillary Clinton.
The ugliest Halloween you didn't see that.
The ugliest Halloween costume uh would be Hillary Clinton.
Washington Post, preteens trading ferry ones for fishnets.
Halloween trend toward racy getups vexes parents.
This is a Washington Post story, and it's it's all about the way little girls, pre-teenage girls are dressing up to go out trick-or-treating.
And let me share with you this line.
Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.
In the Washington Post, we're talking about pre-teenage girls.
No one does scary costumes anymore, Megan said.
Blame that on the teen movie Mean Girls, she said, quoting a line from the movie.
Halloween's a one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut, no other girls can say anything about it.
And they worry about standards declining in the uh in the pop culture.
By the way, I got a quick note from our official climatologist today, Roy Spencer, about the lack of hurricanes.
He said, You know, this the lag of hurricanes rush is not good.
One of the great things about hurricanes is they are that hurricanes are nature's way of getting rid of excess heat.
And without enough hurricanes, the world's oceans will heat up even more, and that'll cause supercanes down the road.
So these two years where we've bought a lot of goodwill with no big hurricanes anywhere near the United States.
Well, the way it the way it happens is these things are powerful storms, and it's called the churn, and they churn the deeper water, which is cooler and bring that to the surface.
And that dissipates the heat that is uh on the surface, the sea surface temperatures of the water.
Uh, and so it's it's it's nature's way of getting rid of excess heat.
We haven't done that.
Uh, and so it could it could lead to super hurricanes on down the road.
Uh more on the California fires.
Actually, it's not so much the fires, it's an amazing story today in the San Francisco Chronicle by these two guys, uh, Mateer and Ross.
And it's all about political jockey that heated up as the wildfires raged.
And here's the thing that's fascinating about this.
Just gonna read to you from the column.
You know, when Bush flew out to California, flew out there to look around, walk around with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Bush invited Senator Diane Feinstein to join him on Air Force One during his trip.
It may not have been coincidence that less than 24 hours earlier, Feinstein played a pivotal role in allowing Judge Leslie Southwick, a target of liberal groups, to be confirmed to an appeals court when she voted to block a filibuster and support the president's nomination.
With a 740 a.m.
Thursday departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Feinstein found herself seated in the rear of the plane with a handful of Southern California congressional representatives.
After a breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausage, and French toast, Bush popped back for what the Senator described as a frank two-hour conversation mostly about foreign policy.
Quote Feinstein, I found the discussion extraordinarily positive.
I came away with a very different view about the president.
As for the president's performance on the ground, it was a wonderful thing to see, to be candid, Feinstein said.
I saw a warm, caring human being.
How long has Bush been around as the president?
Six years.
Almost seven now.
And Diane Feinstein is just figuring out that Bush is a nice guy.
After six years, she has a totally different view of him.
I'll tell you why this interests me.
It interests me because the same thing happens to me.
You know, when I run, I tell you I run into like to spend some time with these libs and just shoot the bull about things and generally screw up their world by giving them a worldview that they've never considered before.
And they're all amazed.
You're such a nice guy.
I mean, you're really funny, too.
You're just it is their preconceptions.
It's the cliched stereotype that they have of conservatives, racist, sexist, bigot, hope in Bush's case, stupid cowboy.
So after seven years, Diane Feinstein's figured out that Bush is on the ball on foreign policy, extraordinarily positive discussion about foreign policy, uh, very different view about him.
Uh it was a wonderful thing to see the president on the ground of California.
Saw a warm, caring human being.
It's almost, I mean, we like hearing it, of course, but it's almost insulting that the assumption would be the exact opposite.
Uh, a couple of stories.
David Brooks has a column today, and I don't, you know, I actually like seeing it because talked about it yesterday.
We talk about it a lot on this program.
It's talking about the happiness gap.
Uh, the happiness gap, and that is the gap between the people are happy and are not happy.
Uh, and he points out that most people, 82% of the people in the country are very satisfied with their lives, and they're very satisfied with their future.
But they think everybody else is going to go to hell in a handbasket.
So they're not happy.
I mean, they're they they temper their own happiness with it and so forth.
Uh, this is, of course, a theme and a phenomenon that I, as your host, have pointed out for decades.
Well, yeah, almost two decades on this program.
I first noticed it in actual polling data back in 1992.
During the presidential campaign on Clinton and Gore, Carville running around the economy stupid.
They were claiming as the worst economy in the last 50 years.
We're in a little itty bitty little recession.
And it wasn't the worst economy in the last 50 years, it wasn't a bad economy at all.
They went out and talked to people about it.
Well, I'm doing pretty well, but the news is the economy's in bad shape.
I'm worried about my neighbors.
That's where this all started.
So the happiness gap is uh is something that David Brooks explored.
More detail on that in a moment.
But here we have a positive story.
This is from Memphis, the Memphis Biz Journal.
FedEx expects record holiday volume.
Now, how many times already, starting back in September, did we see the obligatory drive-by media stories about how retailers are very, very concerned about the upcoming holidays.
Every year we get these stories.
The retailers where they make the vast majority of their yearly income are worried about the economy and its effect on the Christmas season, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Every year get the obligatory story.
FedEx busiest day this year expected to be December 17th, when the package shipper expects to break its all-time volume record.
About 11.3 million packages are expected to move through the FedEx Express and FedEx ground global networks on December 17th, compared to a seven million Packages on an average day.
Fred Smith, the chairman, president, founder, creator, architect, CEO of FedEx, said in a statement that while overall economic growth is slowed, there are several indicators for a healthy holiday season.
Now, this is not the national drive-by media.
This is the Memphis Biz Journal, which of course is where uh FedEx is headquartered.
I got a note last night from a friend.
Friend had just read an LA Times story.
The LA Times story was uh about Barack Obama.
And the writer of the story, and many of the people interviewed in the story were having a tough time understanding why Barack's doing horrible in the polls, but is such a superstar raising money and uh appears to be such a superstar in person.
And so this person asked you, what's your take on this?
Because I know you are the expert on this kind of thing.
You can explain this.
And so this is really simple.
Barack Obama, and but have you noticed we had a big Democrat debate tonight, folks, and Joe Biden's out there saying, you know what, I'm sick and tired of this campaign being about money.
Of course you are when you don't have any.
When you don't have any money, you have to make it about something else.
Anyway, uh the the I wrote back and I said, Barack Obama, who, by the way, that you know, the drive-by is the latest quest for the drive-by's.
Will Obama take off the gloves?
Will Obama try to gain ground by decking Mrs. Clinton tonight at the Democrat debate on PMS NBC.
They're all obsessed with it.
Everyone, I don't care where you go, whatever network, will Obama take off the gloves?
Too late to take off the gloves.
And it doesn't appear that he's got the oomph uh to do it anyway, because he's all tied up in having this new tone, this new way, this getting rid of all this negative partisanship, so to go negative and partisan would be a problem.
Anyway, here's here's here's how to explain why Barack Obama is nowhere in the polls raising a lot of money, uh, and apparently as a rock star on stage.
That I'm not sure that that's true, but uh that's the image.
It really boils down to something very simple: all hype and no substance.
If you if you look, Barack Obama's actually said a bunch of stupid things.
Like he would invade Pakistan, whether they asked us to or not to go get bin Laden.
Um and then he you know he'd meet with the world's tyrants uh to find out what it is in the Oval Office to find out why they hate us.
Barack Obama is a classic illustration of something.
The media have made Obama who he is.
Remember all those incessant, never-ending puff pieces, Time magazine, Washington Post, New York Times six, seven months ago.
That was done to create an obstacle for Mrs. Clinton.
Uh she's the inevitable candidate.
So they had to put somebody out there and then build them way up to make it look like Mrs. Clinton could win a fight, that she could overcome some obstacle rather than just sail through as the inevitable candidate.
We were all sitting here, so what the hell is this about?
He's been in Senate less than two years.
He's written two memoirs.
He's not old enough to have written one.
I mean, what what what what's the reason for this is pure, pure media puff piecery.
It was uh pure hype, no substance whatsoever.
All buzz, exactly, all buzz, and there's a lesson here, folks.
Barack Obama needs to be very careful.
Because when the media make you, they can destroy you.
When you are the result of media buzz and not substance and not achievement and not accomplishment, and yet the media is building you up to be something larger than you've achieved on your own, they can destroy you too.
And he'd better be careful.
So I'll say the same thing with John Stewart and his Colbert guy.
I mean, these guys have audiences of maybe a million people each, and yet they've got all this buzz, they're huge, this and if the media ever turns on either of these guys, they're finished.
Why do you think Imus was able to be taken out?
Imus was able to be taken out because for the last ten years he really didn't have any ratings to speak of.
He was the product of media buzz because all of his media buddies were guests.
And there was a lot of talk.
When the media turned on Imus and his liberal buddies went for the tall grass, what was there to save him?
When you when you it's like live by the sword, die by the sword, live with the buzz, die by the buzz.
And this is what this is the risk that Obama's running into.
Why the media has not been able to destroy Clarence Thomas?
Um it is it it is why they've not been able to destroy a lot of people that they like me that they haven't made.
Uh All that having been said, though, not one vote has been cast here.
And I remember at this time in 2003, the Hillary Clinton of that period was was Howard Dean.
Remember that?
And uh and and John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, uh was borrowing money from his wife to stay in the campaign.
Now the difference is Dean didn't have a war room that destroys enemies like the Clintons do.
Uh and uh and anyone gets in their way, there are some similarities.
But the point is that not one vote's been cast yet.
Uh anyway, uh Hillary's negatives are pretty high.
There's we've got an interesting stack on the politics side today, so we'll take a break here.
We'll come back get into all of that right after this.
Sit tight, don't go anywhere.
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Here's a story.
Now, this is from Jim Garrity.
Actually, it's got a it's got a long uh thread to it, but uh it's it's from the Town Hall.com blog, and it's about the pollster Scott Rasmussen.
And he just shared this fascinating observation in an interview.
When you average the head-to-head matchups with Hillary Clinton versus any of the Republicans, she is always getting 46 to 49 percent against any of them, including Ron Paul.
In a head-to-head matchup against Ron Paul, Mrs. Clinton gets 46 to 49 percent.
Uh when we when we polled her against Ron Paul, she got 48% of the vote.
Uh when we polled on Ron Paul among people who knew who Ron Paul is, she got 48% of the vote.
Uh Paul got 38% of the vote against her.
Now, she you might interpret this two ways.
One is she needs a third party candidate out there, but here's the other way to look at this.
All of these articles, uh here, let me before I get to the analysis, let me set it up with one more thing.
The election of 2004, where after Kerry won the nomination, uh for more than 60 days, Carrie and Bush remained quite close to each other.
Um and and then the the Swiftboat thing started and Bush started to pull away.
Now the thrust of the articles here uh is that Hillary gets a set percentage no matter who her Republican opponent is, anywhere from 46 to 49 percent.
Now, those are the numbers, the way I look at this, 46 to 49 percent against any Republican, those are the numbers of an unpopular incumbent headed for defeat.
She is viewed already as the status quo choice people know her.
They've already made up their mind on her.
Now, of course, the election isn't next week, and a lot of things can change, but these aren't numbers, aren't uh, they're not promising for her, and this is something that you know when you got 46 to 49 percent negatives to go along with, you only get 46 to 49 percent of the vote against any of the Republicans in the field.
The point is she can't say she's an agent of change.
Everybody knows who she is.
She's the status quo, it's almost like she's an incumbent.
Because the she's portrayed herself that way, as well as the uh the drive-by medias have done the same.
Now, here's a story from uh the caucus blog.
Uh Democrat target in Tuesday's debate.
This is all about Hillary being the target.
And unless Barack Obama finally gets tough with the Gila Monster, as he has been promising.
Uh but he won't.
He's just he's just auditioning for VEEP, is the uh is the question.
I've got some questions ought to be asked for the Democrats that will never be asked.
We've got Tim Russert and uh who else?
Uh Brian Williams are doing the moderating on the uh on the big debate tonight.
But these are reasonable questions that could be asked, but never will.
Uh candidate X, Mrs. Clinton, what is your plan to blame George Bush for everything during your four years in office?
Uh Senator Edwards, what will you do?
Will Republicans do what Democrats did?
Go overseas and criticize everything you do, say, or plan to do.
Uh who else is Senator Obama.
The tax cut sorry, the tax rate cuts actually increased tax revenues.
What did you learn from this?
And Mrs. Clinton, when you are president, what will you do to reduce presidential power as you have promised?
And then to Senator Biden, Senator Biden, if you're elected president, how will you cope with Jimmy Carter out there?
And there's any number of other questions.
Rudy Giuliani uh says that uh two of the Democrat candidates will change their minds again about the Iraq war and agree that it was the right decision.
This uh victory will do that to you.
And victory is within our grasp over there.
It's a town hall meeting in New Hampshire.
Uh uh, it's I think a Democrat's gonna change their minds about it again.
Uh, because victory will do that to you.
If you turn around this this thing becomes inalterably uh successful, there will be a couple of Democrats as presidential candidates, not a senators who will all of a sudden turn around and uh change their minds as a good thing to do.
Back in a sec.
All right, before we continue, a brief pause here.
Programming note.
Look, you liberals can take it somewhere else today, snarkly getting swamped with phone calls from liberals who want to ask me how I can defend Bush.
He hasn't gotten bin Laden yet.
Look, you guys, we know when your pre-programmed phone spams start, and we're not interested here.
I'm not gonna be distracted, I'm not gonna defend any this to you.
We're winning in Iraq, and you just can't handle it.
And I'm not gonna waste time arguing with you.
We move forward here on the EIB network.
Plus, I'm worried about my IQ.
The more I talk to you liberals, the greater the risk I will lose some.
I got plenty of IQ to lose, but uh and still remain superior, but I don't want to lose any.
One of you here the president today, little uh little press conference.
What is in the Rose Garden, he's the it had a message for Congress.
Congress is not getting its work done.
The House of Representatives has wasted valuable time on a constant stream of investigations, and the Senate has wasted valuable time on an endless series of failed votes to pull our troops out of Iraq.
Yes!
And yet there's important work to be done on behalf of the American people.
Maybe.
They have not been able to send a single annual appropriations bill to my desk.
And that's the worst record for a Congress in 20 years.
They've proposed tax increases in the farm bill, the energy bill, the small business bill, and of course the S-Chip bill.
They haven't seen a bill they could not solve without shoving a tax hike into it.
Oh, Mama!
He really took it to them today, and he's right.
The drive-by is filled with stories today about how the Congress is a mess, not getting anything done.
Voters' views of Pelosi Congress have dimmed.
Pelosi finesse's tax message of wrangle.
New Congress at war over everything.
Now, this is a lame duck president, who they think is an idiot.
And he's running rings around them now.
Uh, and he's right.
They haven't sent up a single appropriations.
But they're doing this on purpose.
I also think, by the way, that they're really not that disappointed about the S chip veto.
Uh in fact, they may have engineered it.
Because they want to use this as a campaign tool in 2008.
They want to go out and say, hey, we were all for expanding the churrin and health care, but the president's evil Republicans voted against it.
But they don't live in their media monopoly anymore, folks, and they're not going to get away with it.
Uh however, there is a piece of legislation that is simmering out there in the Congress, and it's the new energy bill, and it is a disaster.
And this is what Dingy Harry and Pelosi are working on now.
Numerous reports are reaching us here at the EIB network that Dingy Harry and Pelosi are both pushing hard to get something done on energy given high oil prices and the need to get more done so as to not be branded as a do-nothing Congress heading into an election year.
Now the energy bills that uh they are proposing are of course rooted in high regulation, a bunch of new regulations and new taxes.
And there's a whole bunch of stories here that I have linked to uh for this update report to you.
Uh the politico, in fact, is reporting it.
Democrats are working in secret to get an energy bill loaded with regulation and taxes to get that done.
Uh This is in the story about uh new Congress at war over everything.
Uh not mentioned much in here, but the story is about Pelosi's lack of leadership.
But here's a quote and a pull quote from the story.
The energy bill might be the turning point, with both sides desperate for a legislative achievement.
Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have displayed rare, if quiet cooperation on the issue.
Uh both Bush and Pelosi are attracted to the idea of providing new incentives to spur the development and use of alternative fuels and a mix of spending and tax cuts to limit environmental damage.
Let's go to the Senate side, dingy Harry late yesterday on the Senate floor.
Here's a portion of his remarks.
Last night, temperatures fell in many parts of the East Coast, and frankly, even in the West Coast, it's been getting cold all over America then.
This meant this morning here in the D.C. area for the first time this year.
People had to reach into their closets for scarfs, heavier suits, even coats for the first time this season.
I don't believe Nevada that are really cold.
We've had freezing temperatures in the alien alcohol already this year.
As the temperature falls all over the country, we begin to think about the cost of heating our homes for the winter.
You don't cost it risen steadily during the seven years of the Bush administration, and we've become even more dependent on fossil fuel.
This morning, our thoughts had to turn toward the cold months ahead.
I'll tell you the truth of the dirty little truth is it hasn't we haven't even gotten to fall yet.
I was in New York for five or six days in a row, it's 6570, one day 80 degrees.
Here it is, what is it, October 30th?
It's about time.
People in Washington and Northeast had to grab a little coat or a jacket.
It's a little late.
It's a little late.
It's it's kind of crazy to be going to a football game in late October in New York or Washington, D.C. in shirt sleeves.
But before we analyze this further, you remember what he said here last night.
Temperatures fell in many parts of the East Coast.
And frankly, even on the West Coast, it's been getting cold.
But just last week, ladies and gentlemen.
One reason that we have the fires burning in Southern California is global warming.
One reason the Colorado basin is going dry is because of global warming.
You said that the reason the fires are burning in California is global warming.
no i think it is right i didn't say that reason fires are burning in seven california uh...
uh...
I just love this.
This guy is so discombobulated.
This whole but this I'll tell you what, this this energy bill that he's he's hyping here with the first soundbite that we played.
Uh this is this is this just not typical of the way liberals go out.
Everybody's a victim.
It's gonna be cold out there.
And some people have to put on coats and hats.
It it reminded us of the cold weather that's coming and the rising energy costs, and we got to do something about it.
And so uh they're pushing this big energy bill to try to get something done.
And of course, you know the inertia for this has captured even a bunch of Republicans in terms of this whole alternative fuel business, which is why not I'm not sure just how accurate the political is.
I'm not being critical here, but uh they say there that Bush and Pelosi have displayed rare if quiet cooperation on the uh on this upcoming energy bill.
This is just a heads up, folks.
Uh that it's coming.
Dingy Harry's sound bites here are an indication, his first sound bite is an indication uh that this is the setup for tax increases and more regulation to get a new energy bill and so forth.
And the president's right, everything they want to do has in it a huge tax increase.
Um I want to play this sound right again.
This this is the most this is just hilarious.
Now you've heard it.
When you listen to this, I want you to remember it's October 30th.
It is fall.
It is autumn.
It is the leaves are turning.
They are falling off of the trees.
The days are getting shorter.
We're gonna go off daylight saving time Saturday night.
It's November this weekend.
It'll be November in two days.
It's supposed to be getting a little chilly.
Last night, temperatures fell in many parts of the East Coast, and frankly, even in the West Coast, it's been getting cold all over America.
Then this meant this morning here in the D.C. area for the first time this year.
People had to reach into their closets for scarfs, heavier suits, even coats for the first time this season.
There are parts of Nevada that are really cold.
Stop the thing.
You know, folks, does this guy not sound like a heat would be a great replacement for Mr. Rogers?
He is explaining this.
He's explaining what happens during the autumnal season change, as though you would explain it to a bunch of five-year-olds.
As the temperature falls all over the country, we begin to think about the cost of heating our homes for the winter.
The cost that's risen steadily during the seven years of the Bush administration.
And we've become even more dependent on fossil fuel.
This morning, our thoughts had to turn toward the cold months ahead.
Yeah.
Thoughts a lot of people are hoping so.
A lot of people are burning up and uncomfortably warm when it shouldn't be so much this time of year.
Well, here's how you have to understand these people, folks.
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, all these people.
Who are they?
They are children of the sixties.
And they are still acting like children.
Children of the sixties.
This, you know what this is?
This is the world's first sit-in Congress.
This is the world's first protest con Congress.
They haven't governed.
They haven't done diddly squat.
They just protest.
We've got a bunch of radical protesters that have taken over the Democrat majority in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
The only thing they accomplish is getting press coverage for all the stunts that they pull.
I'm sorry about that.
They do spend a lot of time telling us how much they say they're going to accomplish, but they haven't accomplished anything.
Just like the anti-war crowd this time hasn't accomplished anything.
They haven't gotten us out of a rock.
The Democrats haven't gotten us out of a rock.
Democrats haven't done diddly squat.
It's the 60s anti-war protest gang that's finally in Congress, and they're just sitting in.
It's a giant sit in giant protest.
Oh, they do know how to write letters.
Uh they know how to write letters that raise gobs of money for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, but as for governing.
Um, you heard what the president said.
Play it again.
Audio soundbite number four.
This is the best description of the sit-in Congress, the 60s protest Congress.
Don't do anything but protest.
Congress is not getting its work done.
The House of Representatives has wasted valuable time on a constant stream of investigations, and the Senate has wasted valuable time on an endless series of failed votes to pull our troops out of Iraq.
And yet there's important work to be done on behalf of the American people.
They have not been able to send a single annual appropriations bill to my desk.
And that's the worst record for a Congress in 20 years.
They proposed tax increases in the farm bill, the energy bill, the small business bill, and of course the S chip bill.
They haven't seen a bill they could not solve without shoving a tax hike into it.
That's just awesome.
I was lighting a cigar here, which I want to finish, so let's go to commercial break.
Hi, welcome back.
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Fox News.com, British Marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal, and then they killed it.
The team from Bangor University in Wales was dredging the waters north of Iceland as part of routine research when the unfortunate specimen belonging to the clam species, uh commonly known as the ocean quahog was hauled up from waters two hundred and fifty feet deep.
Only after researchers cut through its shell, which made it more of an X clam, and counted its growth rings, did they realize how old it had been?
It was between 405 and 410 years old.
The ocean quahog.
Another clam of the same species had been verified at 220 years old.
A third may have lived 374 years, but the most recent clam was the oldest one yet.
Its death is an unfortunate aspect of this work, uh, but we hoped it would deserve lots of information, derive lots of information from it, said postdoctoral scientist Al Wanamaker.
Here's his quote.
For our work, it's a bonus.
But it wasn't good for this particular animal.
No kidding.
Indianapolis, James, hello, and welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Good, sir.
Thanks much.
I only have a second, but my comment is if Hillary Clinton's elected president, I think everybody's worried about ideology and not personality.
She's going to have the chance to be the only woman president of the United States.
And we don't remember weakness.
More armed conflicts with her at the helm than we ever will with the Republicans.
Uh we don't remember weakness.
What are you saying?
That she's going to be sending the military all over the place?
Absolutely.
History remembers conquerors.
It doesn't remember peacemakers.
And I think the Democrats look at the city.
Now wait a second.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Would you call Winston Churchill a conqueror or FDR FDR a conqueror?
Well, they defeated an enemy.
They defeated an enemy, but I mean the conquerors, it was Hitler trying to conquer Europe.
We weren't trying to conquer.
We were trying to liberate.
But this is still, nevertheless, it's an interesting theory that Mrs. Clinton as a girl will have to uh prove that she's not a girl, that she will be willing to uh use the military and send it all over the place.
I think she might deploy the military quite a bit.
My guess is it'd be more like uh Clinton, her husband did for Meals on Wheels programs, 15,000 feet, uh, you know, this this kind of stuff.
Uh it's hard to say because it's it's uh it's impossible to uh predict the future, but you do sound concerned about this, sir.
Well, you know, Margaret Thatcher's not remembered for being a nice lady, but she did go to war over a couple of rocks off of Argentina.
Well, but you know, Margaret Thatcher's not remembered for what?
What do you mean?
You said Margaret Thatcher's not remembered for.
I mean, uh people my age group, 38 and whatever, remember that Margaret Thatcher took England to war over the Falklands.
You know, I I think Hillary's going to be remembered as the woman president who didn't take anything off the world.
You know, it's really it really, really bothers me uh when Margaret Thatcher, a true statesman, woman, a genuinely solid and brilliant person is compared to Hillary Clinton.
Oh, me too.
Pardon?
I don't get me wrong, I'm a pro-Republican.
You just did it.
I was in a good mood, and you sickened me.
Well, I'm sorry, sir.
But you know, given, you know, I'm a I'm a police officer.
I worked the street for 14 years.
Yeah.
And one of the traits that I think most big cops in big cities get as we can look at somebody and tell before it happens whether or not they're gonna fight.
And when I look at Hillary Clinton, um, she is uh and the biggest irony of this is her party thinks she's gonna be the the bringer of peace, and I think she's gonna be the hardware of doom.
And for no other reason.
I understand what you're saying.
Now I finally understand what you're saying.
What you're saying is the woman is a witch.
You're saying a woman is Nurse Ratchet, and we know how Nurse Ratchet behaved with the mental patients in that institution.
Uh and she look at she's the architect of the Clinton war room.
She's got a lot of experience, 35 years of experience destroying her husband's political opponents, primarily the bimbos that erupted or were about to erupt.
So I can see where you're thinking this.
But uh here's the thing when you compare Hillary to uh to Margaret Thatcher.
Margaret Thatcher was called the Iron Lady long before uh she invaded the Falklands.
Uh Margaret Thatcher was resolute.
Margaret Thatcher was not a mystery.
Margaret Thatcher did not speak in platitudes.
Margaret Thatcher did not speak on cliches and endless phrases.
Mrs. Clinton does just the opposite.
We don't get one thing solid.
We don't know, based on what she says about herself, who she really is.
We think we know who she is, and that she is trying to hide those aspects of her Of her personality.
But uh I can see um where you might think that Mrs. Clinton would, in fact, want to be a uh conqueror.
And I think she would conquer or try to conquer the red states in this country first.
You know, that guy might have had a point out there.
Remember how the Clintons were all upset after the 9-11 attacks?
That uh it hadn't happened on their watch.
Clinton supporters had said this: uh, missing the opportunity for a great legacy.
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