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Oct. 31, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 31, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, put it in there after number 24.
But then don't go straight into number 25.
I'll call for 25, but just put it in there right after number 24.
All right.
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Even though, even though I I told Cookie that she didn't have to go get these bites.
Her professionalism is such that she did it anyway.
So I read a transcript of the debate last night from something that was said by by Mrs. Clinton after a comment made by the Breck girl that nobody's talking about here.
Um and it would take somebody like me to notice this.
So here are the two bites in question.
Senator Clinton just said that she believes we desperately need change in this country.
And I I agree with that.
I actually think we have a system that's broken, it's rigged, it's corrupt, and it does not work for the American people.
And it's time we start telling the truth about that.
Too much influence from entrenched interests, insurance companies, drug companies, all companies, too much influence from Washington lobbyists.
And so the question I think the voters have to ask themselves is do you believe that the candidate who's raised the most money from Washington lobbyists, Democrat or Republican?
The candidate who's raised the most money from the health industry, drug companies, health insurance companies.
The candidate who's raised the most money from the defense industry, Republican or Democrat.
And the answer to all those questions is that's Senator Clinton.
Now, she didn't actually laugh last night, but she was planning.
I mean, she wanted to, because that that answer made her mad.
Or that statement by Edwards.
Here is how she replied to this.
I think we were making progress in the 1990s, and I'm very proud of the progress we're making until uh unfortunately uh the Supreme Court handed the presidency to George Bush.
And we have been living with the consequences ever since.
And I think it is time for us to step up and say, we're going to change the way Washington works.
And I've laid out very specific plans about how to do that.
I'm going to take $10 billion away from a lot of these uh industries, starting with money from the HMOs that are getting too much out of Medicare, starting with the no-bid contracts for Halliburton, starting with the defense industry that needs to be pared down and reined in.
I've been very clear about that, and I intend to implement that.
I am going to take ten billion dollars away from these industries who are contributing to her in greater amounts than they are to any other candidate, Republican or Democrat.
She's going to take 10 billion dollars from these industries.
Prior to that, she had said you could take 35 billion dollars away from uh big oil from Exxon Mobile.
Uh this this well, I don't want I don't know.
She's gonna take the 10 billion for the government.
Well, she might take it for her campaign.
That's a good question.
I'm gonna take 10 billion for those.
By the way, uh uh yeah, I mentioned at the top of the program, folks, that uh some of our uh colleagues at National Review Online, National Review Online, and actually praising Mrs. Clinton's performance last night.
And I I have to tell you, I I was when I read those uh posts this morning on their blog at the corner.
I was I was just shocked.
I really was shocked by it.
I had just the exact opposite take.
And I'm not the only one.
Uh Roger Simon today at the Politico.
Uh headline of his story, Obama Edwards Attack, Clinton Bombs debate, uh, went on to say that when Hillary Clinton gets it wrong and gets it bad, she really gets it bad.
But what's the exact quote?
When Hillary has a bad night, she really has a bad night.
It was That for two hours she dodged and weaved parsed and stonewalled.
Mark Halperin from Time Magazine, the failure of her performance was cumulative.
More defensive than usual and at times too political and too hot-tempered.
Borderline disastrous moment at the end when she gave an equivocal answer about driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in New York.
Uh George Stephanopoulos, I do believe Hillary lost last night.
Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton couldn't answer the question straight.
Howard Feynman, at the very end of the debate, she just came off like a politician who didn't want to answer the question.
Chris Salisa, Washington Post, she did struggle toward the end of the debate in a question about her support or lack of for the driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
ABC's the note.
It was almost certainly Clinton's weakest performance of the cycle.
NBC's first read, Hillary got weaker as the night went on.
The exchange over driver's licenses for illegal immigrants allowed her opponents to drive home a narrative that has begun to develop for Clinton at these debates that she never actually answers to tough questions.
David Yepsen, Des Moines Register, Hillary Clinton did not have a good night.
She turned in an uneven, sometimes waffling performance.
These are comments about Mrs. Clinton from the drive-by media, both print and broadcast.
And it wasn't a uh a good night.
She was she was torched in these reviews.
She was more torched in these reviews.
These reviews are withering, and they are blistering.
Uh far more than the attacks that she got from her opponents uh up on stage.
Uh however, uh you know, one thing I want to remind you folks, this driver's license question, and I you know, I just have to tell you, yesterday we had this AP story from this guy who said, Yeah, that issue is radioactive for her.
And he wouldn't in plank, she's never asked about it.
She's senator from New York and never never been asked about the question.
I just I just railed against this guy.
Say, how in the world can you let her pass?
Then ask her a question about if it's radioactive.
I get asked stuff that's radioactive about me.
Everybody else does.
I said it's amazing that she gets a pass when she doesn't want to talk about something, they give her a pass and they don't ask her to uh to talk about it.
So last night it came up, it was Tim Russert, um, who uh who who rose to the occasion.
Now here is a sad fact.
Even though many in the drive-by is cast are categorizing the debate last night as a series of withering attacks on Mrs. Clinton by her opponents, so that they ganged up on her, and they engaged in blistering attacks.
The bottom line is that even when she loses, she wins, because in the midst of this admittedly pathetic and weak performance, who in the hell rose up?
Who saw the opening?
Who seized it and ran in there and said, I'm the alternative?
Which Democrat stood out in the midst of Mrs. Clinton's bumbling and fumbling around.
Who was the decisive candidate?
None of them.
They are all a bunch of weak, waffling liberals who have no intention of opening up and being who they are and telling us what they really think, even when the front runner stumbles head over heels a number of times right on the same stage.
They are sharing with her.
Amazing.
Just amazing not one of them.
These people are not even competitors.
You would think that the that there would be some competitive fire.
You're running for president.
I know Mrs. Clinton is the de facto nominee, but uh the votes haven't been cast yet.
There's still time here, and fundraising is still an important thing.
And the competitive fire just didn't seem to be there in any of these people who are her opponents.
Because she was stumbling all over the place, and while they made mention of the fact that she was waffling and saying two different things in two minutes and so forth, it was like they're still afraid to move in.
Now we have to understand this is a woman who dispatches people to go steal FBI files, so who knows what she's got on these guys.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
There are other things in the news today, and we will uh get to those in due course, but people wish to weigh in.
And we go to uh John's Island in South Carolina.
This is Frank.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're up next.
Hey, Steeler Diddles from a native Pittsburgh.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, my comment is is uh I don't understand lumping Bush in with the uh failure of the immigration bill.
Wasn't he on the side of Clinton and Lindsay Graham and all those guys?
Uh that is an interesting point.
Uh Mrs. Mrs. Clinton did say in one of these answers in the debate that that we should have passed the emigration bill, but George Bush was declared president by the Supreme Court and everything was out of whack.
Uh yeah, she there was not it was not not a good night uh for her last look.
The bottom line is it doesn't matter that it wasn't a good night because nobody else had a good one either.
Nobody stood out, nobody took advantage of this.
So she gets away with bashing the Bush administration.
She gets away with bashing a whole bunch.
Now, when I say she got away with, I don't I don't know how many people actually watch this, and I doubt that this uh uh was a significant enough audience to uh have uh maybe do her some damage in the general election, but we're taking care of that now on uh on this program.
And I still I just uh made this point a minute ago, and I'm still stunned that none of these other candidates up there saw an opening and ran in and seized it and just took over that debate last night.
Uh it just they're all pathetic.
You boil it all down.
Philip in um what is this?
Well, glasses on Sanoa, Georgia or California.
I can't tell.
Sonoya, Georgia.
Sonoia, Georgia.
Thanks for the call, sir.
Hey, I just got a comment about what something Hillary said last night.
She said that she was surprised at how much money everybody's been making the past six and a half years.
And I was just wondering if Bush's economy is so horrible.
How is it she's making so much money?
Wait, I didn't hear that.
What she's surprised at how much money everybody's been making.
Yeah, last night in the comment, she brought up uh in the debate, she made a comment that she was surprised at how much money they've made the past six and a half years.
You mean she and her husband?
I I assume that, but uh it sounded like she was making reference to everyone on the stage.
Why didn't you hear that comment?
No.
I didn't hear that.
Well, I was I was uh multitask.
I was doing a lot of things last night.
Uh and I was she made a comment.
I was at the computer.
She made a comment about how much money she'd made.
Is that what you said?
Yeah.
I'm gonna have to get a transcript because I didn't I didn't hear that.
All I can think here is is that she and her husband are both bragging about how much money they're making.
Was it what was this in the context of tax increases or tax cuts or something?
No, it wasn't.
It was just talking about the economy in general, and then she made a comment about how much money she made.
I'm sorry, I can't remember the exact comment off the top of my head.
I just thought I had to call in and make a reference to that.
Well, we'll find out about it because I'm uh you know, having not heard it, I don't want to speculate on what it was that she was talking about.
I can't believe, I mean, these people have been trying to ignore the healthy robust economy we have.
I can't believe she would say something that would tend to indicate she thinks people are making a lot of money, unless she said they're making too much.
We'll just have to get it out and I'll find out what she was uh what she was talking about.
Bill in uh in Buffalo, it's great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, it's an honor to be on your program.
Thank you.
You know, personally, I'm incensed.
When I hear Hillary Clinton talk, I view her actions to be unpatriotic and frankly repulsive to the millions of Americans who are serving our country and the many tens of millions who've served in the past.
If I ever hear her say the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, it'll bring me to the point of wanting to dry heave.
This lady is not loyal to the country.
Clearly, her family has never served their nation.
You know, we're a nation of immigrants who did it the right way, and we applaud those who did.
Now she wants to take people who could be, and we don't know, who could be terrorist among those illegal aliens and give them the validation of having a driver's license, allowing them to move through our society as we can do now very freely.
And I I think if she does that, she's basically risking our national security.
No question about it.
But she said that uh she does she did say she wanted to engage Al Qaeda by being in combat with them.
Well, I hope she doesn't get what she's asking for, because we here in Western New York had remember well the rate of the Lockowana Six when three hundred FBI agents and a couple hundred more police officers raided what was a terrorist cell for reasons of national security.
We've never found out officially what they were up to.
But we know this, Rush, and you know it well.
You talk about it all the time.
We're a nation at war.
It's a borderless war.
If we have men and women right now serving in Afghanistan in Iraq, risking their lives, I would think that they'd be so uh almost ashamed to even think a U.S. Senator from the state of New York named Hillary Clinton would be so disloyal to them who are serving their country.
Yeah, I'm glad that you called.
I think that that's a uh that that's an interesting take on the whole reaction to letting all the illegals in New York State get driver's license, because you're right.
Uh especially in New York being a port of entry from across the pond from Europe and Asia and the Middle East.
Who knows how many potential terrorists are floating in the country and hanging around sleeper cells and uh that sort of thing.
Just don't forget.
Please do not forget what this is all about.
And you have to understand every democ every Democrat, every issue is about electoral politics and how it will affect them.
When they say it's for the children, it's about them.
They mask what they really want to do with all of these flowery phrases and uh pseudo statements of compassion and so forth.
The S chip program, that was not about the kids.
It's about them.
And it's about getting more and more people covered under national socialized medicine.
This illegal driver's licenses or illegal aliens getting driver's license is about voters.
It is about getting more registered Democrats in the state of New York and throughout the country.
All right, here's the soundbite that the previous caller wanted to know my thoughts on uh with uh with Mrs. Clinton and the uh and uh the they were talking about taxes.
Tim Russert says Charlie Wrangle is a strong supporter of your campaign.
He wants to repeal the alternative minimum tax, but he also wants to have a four percent surtax on a single one hundred and fifty thousand dollar income or two hundred thousand dollar married couple.
You went to Harlem with your husband with Charlie Wrangle, a former president said, quote, Charlie Wrangle wants me to pay more taxes so you can pay less, and I think that's a good idea.
Is that also your view?
I don't uh know all the details of what Charlie is recommending, but I certainly agree with the goal.
You know, we've not been asked to sacrifice anything.
We have the average American family losing a thousand dollars in income, and George Bush and his cronies can't figure out how they can give even more tax cuts to the wealthiest of Americans.
Now, I never thought Bill and I would be in that category, to be honest with you.
So it's kind of a new experience.
I think Charlie's being very courageous and moving forward.
I don't agree with all the details, but he's on the right track to say we've got to do something about the AMT.
Uh this is just this uh folks.
I'm sitting here and I don't I I I just marvel at how anybody thinks that this woman is so brilliant and smart if she's got any talent whatsoever, asides bimbo eruptions and handling that.
If she has any talent whatsoever, it is avoiding answering a question.
In this answer, she said two different things.
I don't know all the details of what Charlie's recommending, but I certainly agree with the goal.
I don't agree with all the details, which implies she knows them, but he's on the right track to say we've got to do something about the AMT.
Now the dirty little secret is this is her tax bill.
This is any Democrat's tax bill.
Whether it's whether she gets elected or Edwards, this is what they're all gonna do.
They're all gonna raise taxes on everybody.
Uh and for her, but she can't come out and and then side with Wrangle on this.
I don't know all the details, and I know what Charlie is doing, but yes, I was right.
She did have to mention that she and her husband are in the top bracket again.
And she said, I never thought we would be there.
I never thought Bill and I would be in that category, to be honest with you, so it's a new kind of experience.
Wouldn't you please?
Do you think we are idiots out here, Mrs. Clinton?
What was Whitewater all about if it wasn't about getting in the top income brackets of this country?
I you can't fool me.
Folks, you know it and I know it.
The whole Whitewater thing, you go back to the eighties, liberal Democrats in the eighties, we were roaring the Reagan economy would just go and boom big time.
And liberal Democrats, I remember it's as though it were yesterday.
They had the opinion that anybody that was very wealthy or that had uh had any kind of success in life had done it by cutting corners, getting into screwy deals, shady deals, big time deals, and that's what Whitewater was.
It was a get rich quick scheme that didn't pan out.
These two people, Bill and Hillary Clinton are obsessed with money, and the evidence is they can't stop telling us how much they've got.
That is that, folks, is not classic.
A man, a living legend, a prophet, Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Something they can never take away from me.
General all-round good guy with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter.
The fastest pace in one and a half years, according to the Commerce Department.
Surging exports, stronger consumer spending, helped counterbalance the weakening housing sector.
The gross domestic product report suggests that the economy is thus far holding up well to the strains in the housing and the credit markets, which had uh intensified during the third quarter.
Three point nine percent growth, the best in uh one and a half years heading into the holiday season, the federal Oh stunned.
Every experts were shocked.
Experts were totally stunned, and the uh the Fed is expecting an announcement of meeting at something at 2.15 this afternoon when they expected it a little less than 45 minutes from now, and the experts are expecting another quarter percent cut in the interest rates.
And if they don't get it, look for the market to go bonkers this afternoon.
If they do get it, look for it to uh shoot up.
Marilyn and Clearwater, Florida, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Marilyn here in Clearwater with a comment on how this incredibly brilliant woman had another evasion last night to Tim Russert when he said, with all your experience, Mrs. Clinton, how can the American people find that out since your husband has signed a paper to the National Archives in his presidential library that all communications between you and him cannot be released for way into the future?
Uh 2009, after she's inaugurated.
Right.
So she said, Oh, you know, Tim, there are so many papers there, and it just takes so long to go through them all, but it's all being done very carefully.
He held up the paper in his hand and he said, Mrs. Clinton, how can we find out your experience when here is your husband's signature, and they may not be released.
She just continued to say, No, well, you that they're being released slowly but surely.
Well, we have uh these sound bites.
Uh and I uh I think that you would uh you would like to hear them again with us.
Oh, I'd love to.
Well, let's listen to them.
Here's it it's uh audio soundbite number thirteen.
And uh Brian Williams said, Rudy Giuliani uh said this about you quote, I don't know Hillary's experience.
She never run a city, never run a state, never run a business.
She never met a payroll.
She'd never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people, much less even hundreds of people.
So I'm trying to figure out where the experience is here.
Senator, how do you respond to the former mayor of New York?
My experience of thirty-five years as an advocate for children and families, as a citizen activist, as someone who helped to bring educational reform and health care reform to Arkansas, bringing the children's health insurance program to fruition during the years in the White House, my time in the Senate.
I think my experience on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, in a perverse way, I think that, you know, the Republicans and their constant obsession with me demonstrates clearly that they obviously think that uh I am communicating effectively about what I will do as president.
And I am trying to do that because it matters greatly.
We've got to turn the page on George Bush and Dick Cheney.
In fact, we have to throw the whole book away.
Well, that's just meaningless platitudes.
Uh turn the page on George Bush and Dick Cheney.
My experience of 35 years, advocate for children and families, reform, uh uh healthcare reform in Arkansas, education reform, blah, blah, blah.
You know, uh, I'll tell you something, Marilyn.
Uh there's a there's a piece today uh in a Washington Post blog, and it it's perhaps her most extraordinary achievement so far has been to largely silence the negative questions about her husband and to accentuate him as a positive asset,
redefining him from a disgraced impeached philanderer who pardoned his brother, his cronies and Mark Rich on the way out the door to the statesmanlike eminence of the Democrat Party who presided over times of peace and prosperity is now ready to pass the torch to his wife.
That is what the Washington Post blog says may be her best achievement is rehabbing her husband.
Exactly.
And I think there's a second one.
She's got 35 years' experience of bimbo eruptions, and this is also part of rehabbing her husband.
She's the one that uh monitored the phone calls, she's the one that managed the bimbo eruptions and made sure the bimbos didn't erupt, and the ones that did got trashed.
Right.
And Rush, you know, the Liberals are constantly emptying everything of the of its significance.
They empty words of their significance, they're trying to empty our institutions of the significance.
It goes, she you noticed in that she said, it why it's perverse the way the Republicans are attacking me.
No, she's the perverse one.
But they always turn everything around and accuse the other people of doing exactly what they're doing.
Yeah, that's called projection.
Uh and by the way, uh the Republicans, their constant obsession with her, demonstrates one thing.
They hope she's the nominee.
They want Mrs. Clinton to be the nominee.
They assume she's going to be, and they're already running against her.
Now, here's the question that you made or referenced from Tim Russert.
And this is a this is a good one.
In terms of your experience as First Lady, in order to give the American people an opportunity to make a judgment about your experience, would you allow the National Archives to release the documents about your communications with the President, the advice you gave?
Because as you well know, President Clinton has asked the National Archives not to do anything until 2012.
Well, actually, Tim, the Archives is moving as rapidly as the Archives moves.
There's about 20 million pieces of paper there, and they are moving and they are releasing as they do their process, and I am fully in favor of that.
But there was a letter written by President Clinton specifically asking that any communication between you and the president not be uh made available to the public until 2012.
Would you lift that ban?
Well, that's not my decision to make, and I don't believe that any president or first lady ever has, but certainly we'll move as quickly as our circumstances and the processes of the National Archives permits.
These documents are at his library and massage parlor.
These are communications between Mrs. Clinton and her husband while they were in the White House.
The reason that Russert's asking, by the way, the Clinton team is livid today at Russert.
They are just livid at him.
They thought that his performance was horrible and a personal attack.
Trust me on this, folks.
But these are communications of Hillary in the White House with her husband, the president.
Russert's point, and it's a good one.
She's out there touting her experience.
Well, fine.
Let's see it.
Let's see what you did in the White House.
Well, Tim, you know, National Aircraft are moving as fast as they can.
They get 20 million documents.
Well, but your husband said specifically the communications between you and him are verboten until 2012.
By the way, presidents have that right.
I mean, that that's they can do that.
Uh and she's right.
A lot of presidents have done it, but but the Russert's question is nevertheless still good one.
Wait a minute, though.
You're touting your experience when you ask him to lift the band so that you could reveal some of these documents.
Well, that's not my decision to make, Tim.
Right.
So she has no power here.
Oh no.
She's a victim.
She's a victim of her president's decision, her husband's decisions.
She's a victim.
She can't uh do this.
The National Archives operates very slowly.
This is a woman who obviously has something to hide.
And doesn't want us to see those communications.
In the past, I think on some occasions, she's actually said, I'll talk to Bill about that.
In this instance, no, I can't.
It's a president's decision to make.
I is not mine to make.
Well, I can't do it.
Shooting daggers at Russett the whole time.
Next it was time for Obama.
Senator Obama, your hand is up.
Not releasing, I think, these records.
At the same time, Hillary, as you're making the claim that this is the basis for your experience, I think is a problem.
Part of what we have to do is invite the American people back to participate in their government again.
Part of what we need to do is rebuild trust in our government again.
And that means being open and transparent and accountable to the American people.
This is what I mean.
She gave she opened the door wide.
She threw a hanging curveball to any of these other candidates up there to knock out of the park, and all he can do is talk about this meaningless platitude of transparency in government.
Like he's going to have all of us over to the White House during the course of his presidency and show us everything in there that he's doing.
Nobody, we're not this dumb, you people.
These Democrats continue.
I get so worn out with my intelligence being insulted by these people, thinking we're just a bunch of absolute idiots.
We must have more transparency and government.
Um participate in their government again, rebuild trust uh in in our government.
This was a hanging curveball, and this is a chance to really go after Mrs. Clinton.
What are you hiding?
It's a very simple question.
Mrs. Clinton, what are you hiding?
What do you not want the people to see?
Or what does your husband not want the American people to see?
That's how you do this if you're serious about, but these people aren't serious.
They raise their hands for an opportunity to be called on by the teacher.
Obama raises hand.
Oh, Mr. Obama, your hand is up.
Uh this this is well, you do miss Al Sharpton these moments.
Please he'd run in there.
But he, you know, he he'd he may comment about himself and get a laugh.
He wouldn't go after either.
This is these people aren't even serious about it.
I don't I don't think it's worth even watching another one of these Democrat debates, because these none of these people want it.
None of them want it.
That's a hanging curveball there, folks.
Back in just a second.
All right, we're back.
Yeah, Drudge has it posted here on his website, uh Clinton Inner Circle blame unfair moderator Tim Russert.
He bordered on the unprofessional top Hillary advisor charges.
He broke debate rules and was belligerent.
This is uh belligerent.
That's what they say.
He was belligerent, withering, scathing brutal, ganging up on there.
Belligerent.
Uh don't think that uh I don't think Russert's got belligerents in him.
Uh yeah, that that's here's a Al Qaeda's belligerent.
I mean, that that that's that's belligerent.
Al Sharpton is belligerent.
The uh Reverend Jacks, hmm, uh belligerent.
Besides, in any of these documents, folks, I have to tell you, why does Hillary was she worried about them being released?
Sandy Burglar go get them first before anybody else saw him, and nobody'd ever see them, and then she can say they were released, she had no idea what happened to them.
Here is Brian in Fishkill New York.
Hi, Brian, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
My goodness, Rush.
So such an honor to be on with you, my friend.
Thank you, sir.
You say just about everything that I want to say and everybody else wants to say out there, so I'm gonna really try to keep uh to my points here why Hillary is the wrong woman.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
Um I think that you know how everything with these guys have been a machine.
I l used to live in Northwest Louisiana, and I caught the bill in Hillary Act.
Now I live in New York, and uh they trailed me after then.
Uh they just run everything so perfectly.
They got so many people from the press they've hired into the campaign.
They they keep a lid on everything.
They attack anybody that comes after them, and so we got a little steam release from the pressure cooker last night.
So I just think I really believe that at some point it's just gonna start exploding in her face.
Uh you can't have it so perfect, so under control, be so scripted for so many years, and expect people to just continue to buy into it for so long.
You know, I mean, there's got to be a lot of people.
There's one way you can.
Yeah.
And that's if the drive-by's help you.
Well, that they they do the shilling for her.
They there's no media out there really save yours and a few others, such as Fox.
Yeah, let's go ahead and say that.
Um, you know, because it's all they they are basically dealing the Democrat Party's work.
They're propaganda pieces.
Well, I understand that, but but what you're saying, you're saying here that you think that the uh the press is gonna eventually go full bore into her and and and that this this uh this intricate Clinton Inc., this war room that keeps everything hidden, all the controversy just runs as a well-oiled machine, is gonna it's gonna blow up in their faces, and the only way that can happen is if the drive-bys decide they're gonna stop covering for them.
You know, and that's true.
And here's how that may begin to happen.
And you are so right because they were entrees by Edwards, there was entrees last night by Obama.
They could have gone for the juggler, they backed off, they south pedal it.
I don't know what their problem is.
Or, you know, are they playing for second fiddle?
Who knows?
But maybe it's over.
Well, there is a lot of that.
I think they're playing second fiddle, but uh I don't think they want it real bad.
That's part of what playing second fiddle, but they're just they're not they're not competent anyway.
I mean, I've they're not they're not presidential.
Nobody on that stage is presidential, and Hillary looks presidential by default.
Right.
And he sa I I don't even think she looks presidential, but she's got this aura of inevitability about her.
But let you know, you it's wishful thinking to think that the Clinton Inc.
war room is gonna blow up on them and that the lid's gonna come off, they're gonna be unable to contain the damage.
Well, that's gonna have to happen soon because once she's the nominee, and once the Republicans have a nominee, the drive-by's are gonna be on a search and destroy mission of the Republican nominee, and that will go p hand in hand with protecting and keeping a lid on this explosion you seem to think is gonna happen at Clinton Clinton war room.
I think I think there's a possibility, you know, and that's the only thing is I think there's a possibility.
If Obama, let's say, starts to move up in the poll, if he does bump.
You don't think it's gonna happen?
No.
Well, you know, uh unfortunately I think you're right, and I I don't like to think in terms of you being right in that regard.
Uh about everything else you're okay.
Well, what do you want to want to see Obama you you hope he comes alive and then what?
No, it would just be nice, uh, first of all, for the Republicans if Hillary does get the nomination.
But it would be nice if he were to move up and make it more of a battle instead of staying uh stuck at about 20% out there, which the media is reporting to us.
You're you are perceptive, but you don't know it.
This is why you need me to explain to you how perceptive you are.
You let's let's take your points.
Your primary point was that the Clinton war room lid is gonna blow, that nothing can remain this well oiled and run this smoothly without a breakdown at some point.
It's been running this way since 1992.
Actually from the from the late 80s.
And it hadn't blown up on them.
Um and it's got you say just law of averages, it has to.
The only way it can happen is if the press deserts them.
So last night we had Russert with some pretty penetrating questions.
Hillary Inc.
is upset with him.
The others didn't jam in there and and try to make ground, but the press, this is where your perception comes in.
The press gets very bored.
The press wants excitement.
So right now they can write their reports about scathing, blistering, withering attacks.
They're writing this stuff to amuse themselves.
They want to see this just because they want some action.
It's just like the entertainment press, every year after the Academy Awards or the MTV music awards, if the F-word isn't uh bombed from stage ten or twelve times, entertainment media writes about what a boring show it was.
If there aren't a couple of political protests or streakers, then they write about what a boring show it was.
And the Democrat primaries are boring to the drive-bys that have to cover them.
So you might see in the next three months, the drive-bys try to do something to create some excitement just for themselves.
But it ain't gonna blow the lid off the Clinton war room.
The Clintons are going to do that themselves.
And when the Republicans get a nominee, Clintons get a free run.
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