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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 it for 25, but you just put it in there right after number 24.
All right.
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Even though, even though 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 Mrs. Clinton after a comment made by the Brett girl that nobody's talking about here.
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 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, oil companies.
Too much influence from Washington lobbyists.
And so the question I think that 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 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, unfortunately, 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 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 $10 billion 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 from these industries.
Prior to that, she had said you're going to take $35 billion away from big oil, from ExxonMobil.
Well, I don't want, I don't know, she's going to take the $10 billion for the government.
Well, she might take it for her campaign.
That's a good question.
I'm going to take $10 billion.
By the way, I mentioned at the top of the program, folks, that some of our colleagues at National Review Online, National Review Online, actually praising Mrs. Clinton's performance last night.
And I have to tell you, when I read those posts this morning on their blog at the corner, I was just shocked.
I really was shocked by it.
had just the exact opposite take.
And I'm not the only one.
Roger Simon today at the Politico headline of his story, Obama Edwards Attack, Clinton Bombs Debate, 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.
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 Saliza, Washington Post, she did struggle toward the end of the debate and 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 Yepson, 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 good night.
She was torched in these reviews.
She was more torched in these reviews.
These reviews are withering, and they are blistering far more than the attacks that she got from her opponents up on stage.
However, 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, implying she's never asked about it.
She's a senator from New York and never been asked about the question.
I just railed against this guy.
I said, 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 talk about it.
So last night it came up.
It was Tim Russert who rose to the occasion.
Now, here is a sad fact.
Even though many in the drive-bys are categorizing the debate last night as a series of withering attacks on Mrs. Clinton by her opponents, 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, woppling liberals who have no intention of opening up and being who they are and telling us what they really think, even when the frontrunner stumbles head over heels a number of times right on the same stage, they're sharing with her.
Amazing.
Just amazing.
Not one of them.
These people are not even competitors.
You would think that there would be some competitive fire.
You're running for president.
I know Mrs. Clinton is the de facto nominee, but 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 get to those in due course, but if people wish to weigh in, and we go to Johns Island in South Carolina, this is Frank.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're up next.
Hey, Steeler Ditto's from a native Pittsburgher.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, my comment is, is I don't understand lumping Bush in with the failure of the immigration bill.
Wasn't he on the side of Clinton and Lindsey Graham and all those guys?
That is an interesting point.
Mrs. Clinton did say in one of these answers in the debate that we should have passed the immigration bill, but George Bush was declared president by the Supreme Court and everything was out of whack.
Yeah, it was not a good night for her last.
But of course, look, the bottom line is it doesn't matter if 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 it, I don't, I don't know how many people actually watch this, and I doubt that this was a significant enough audience to have maybe do her some damage in the general election, but we're taking care of that now on this program.
And I still, I just 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.
It just, they're all pathetic.
You boil it all down.
Philip, in what is this?
What glasses on?
Sonoya, Georgia or California.
I can't tell.
Sonoia, Georgia.
Sonoya, Georgia.
Thanks for the call, sir.
Hey, I just got a comment about 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.
She's surprised at how much money everybody's been making?
Yeah, last night in the comment, she brought up 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 assumed that, but it sounded like she was making reference to everyone on the stage.
Wow.
You didn't hear that comment?
No, I didn't hear that.
Well, I was multitask.
I was doing a lot of things last night.
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 going to have to get a transcript because I didn't hear that.
All I can think here is that she and her husband are both bragging about how much money they're making.
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 had made.
I'm sorry, I can't remember the exact comment off the top of my head.
I just thought I had to call Lynn and make a reference.
Well, we'll find out about it because I'm, 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 talking about.
Bill 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 have 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 think if she does that, she's basically risking our national security.
No question about it.
But she said that 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 raid of the Lackawanna 6 when 300 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 and Iraq risking their lives, I would think that they'd be so 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 an interesting take on the whole reaction to letting all the illegals in New York State get driver's license because you're right, 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 that sort of thing.
Just don't forget, please do not forget what this is all about.
And you have to understand 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 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 with Mrs. Clinton and the, and they were talking about taxes.
Tim Russert says Charlie Wrangell is a strong supporter of your campaign.
He wants to repeal the alternative minimum tax, but he also wants to have a 4% surtax on a single $150,000 income or $200,000 married couple.
You went to Harlem with your husband, with Charlie Wrangell.
Former president said, quote, Charlie Wrangell 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 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 $1,000 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.
This is just, folks, I'm sitting here, and I don't, 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 she gets elected or Edwards, this is what they're all going to do.
They're all going to raise taxes on everybody.
And for her, but she can't come out and side with Wrangell on this.
I don't know all the details.
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.
Would 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?
You can't fool me.
Folks, you know it and I know it.
The whole Whitewater thing, you go back to the 80s, liberal Democrats in the 80s, we were roaring.
The Reagan economy was just going boom big time.
And Liberal Democrats, I remember it as though it were yesterday.
They had the opinion that anybody that was very wealthy or that had 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, folks, is not classy.
A man, a living legend, a prophet, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, something they can never take away from me.
General, all-around 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 intensified during the third quarter.
3.9% growth, the best in one and a half years.
Heading into the holiday season, the federal oh, I was stunned.
The experts were shocked.
Experts were totally stunned.
And the Fed is expecting the announcement of a meeting at something at 2.15 this afternoon when they expected it.
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 shoot up.
Marilyn in 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, sorry, communications between you and him cannot be released for way into the future?
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, they're being released slowly but surely.
Well, we have these sound bites.
And I think that 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 audio soundbite number 13.
And Brian Williams said, Rudy Giuliani 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'd 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 35 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 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.
Turn the page on George Bush and Dick Cheney.
My experience of 35 years, advocate for children and families, reform healthcare reform in Arkansas, education reform, blah, blah, blah.
You know, I'll tell you something, Marilyn.
There's a piece today in a Washington Post blog, and 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, and 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 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 its significance.
They empty words of their significance.
They're trying to empty our institutions of the significance.
You noticed in that, she said, why it's perverse the way the Republicans are attacking me.
No, she is 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.
And by the way, 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 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 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, the National Archives are moving as fast as they can against 20 million documents.
Well, your husband said specifically the communications between you and him are verbatim until 2012.
By the way, presidents have that right.
I mean, they can do that.
And she's right, a lot of presidents have done it.
But Russert's question is nevertheless still a good one.
Wait a minute, though.
You're touting your experience when you ask him to lift the ban 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 decision.
She's a victim.
She can't 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'm not mine to make.
I can't do it.
Shooting daggers at Russert 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 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 in government, participate in their government again, rebuild trust in our government.
This was a hanging curveball, and this was 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 it.
But these people aren't serious.
They raise their hands for an opportunity to be called on by the teacher.
Obama raised his hand.
Oh, Mr. Obama, your hand is up.
This is, well, you do miss Al Sharpton these moments.
At least he'd run in there.
But he, you know, he'd see me comment about himself and get a laugh.
He wouldn't go after either.
These people aren't even serious about it.
I don't think it's worth even watching another one of these Democrat debates because 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.
Drudge has it posted here on his website.
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 belligerent.
That's what they say.
He was belligerent.
Withering, scathing, brutal, ganging up on her.
Belligerent?
Don't think that, I don't think Russert's got belligerence in him.
Yeah, Al-Qaeda's belligerent.
I mean, that's belligerent.
Al Sharpton is belligerent.
The Reverend Jacks, hmm, belligerent.
Besides, any of these documents, folks, I have to tell you, why does Hillary, why is she worried about them being released?
Sandy Bergler go get them first before anybody else saw them 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.
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 going to really try to keep to my points here why Hillary is the wrong woman.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
I think that, you know, how everything with these guys have been a machine.
I used to live in Northwest Louisiana, and I caught the Bill and Hillary Act.
Now I live in New York, and they trailed me after then.
They just run everything so perfectly.
They've got so many people from the press they've hired into the campaign.
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.
I just think, I really believe that at some point, it's just going to start exploding in her face.
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 one way you can.
Yeah.
And that's if the drive-bys help you.
Well, they do the shilling for her.
There's no media out there, really, save yours and a few others, such as Fox.
Yeah, let's go ahead and say that.
You know, because it's all – they are basically doing the Democrat Party's work.
They're propaganda pieces.
Well, I understand that.
But what you're saying, you're saying here that you think that the press is going to eventually go full bore into her and that this intricate Clinton Inc., this war room that keeps everything hidden, all the controversy just runs as a well-oiled machine, it's going to blow up in their faces.
And the only way that can happen is if the drive-bys decide they're going to 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 there were entrees by Edwards.
There was entrees last night by Obama.
They could have gone for the juggler.
They backed off.
They self-pedaled it.
I don't know what their problem is.
Are they playing for second fiddle?
Who knows?
But maybe if Obama- Well, there is a lot of that.
I think they're playing Second Fiddle, but I don't think they want it real bad.
That's part of what playing Second Fiddle.
But they're not competent anyway.
I mean, they're not presidential.
Nobody on that stage is presidential.
Hillary looks presidential by default.
Right.
And I don't even think she looks presidential, but she's got this aura of inevitability about her.
But, you know, it's wishful thinking to think that the Clinton Inc. war room is going to blow up on them and that the lid's going to come off.
They're going to be unable to contain the damage.
Well, that's going to have to happen soon because once she's the nominee and once the Republicans have a nominee, the drive-bys are going to be on a search and destroy mission of the Republican nominee, and that will go hand in hand with protecting and keeping the lid on this explosion you seem to think is going to happen at Clinton War Room.
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 polls, if he does, you don't think it's going to happen?
No.
Well, you know, unfortunately, I think you're right.
And I don't like to think in terms of you being right in that regard.
About everything else you have.
When do you want to see Obama?
You hope he comes alive and then what?
No, it would just be nice, 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 stuck at about 20% out there, which the DC is reporting to us.
You are perceptive, but you don't know it.
This is why you need me to explain to you how perceptive you are.
Let's take your points.
Your primary point was that the Clinton War Room lid is going to 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 late 80s.
And it hadn't blown up on him.
And it's got, if you say just law of averages, it has to.
The only way it can happen is if the press deserts him.
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 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 bombed from stage 10 or 12 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.
Then 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 going to 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 ride.
You watch?
That's the way it's going to be.
Dennis Kucenich, presidential candidate, Democrat, said he saw a UFO, has questioned President Bush's mental health in the light of comments he made about a nuclear Iran precipitating World War III.
That's just rich, isn't it?
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