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Dec. 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 14, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What?
I don't believe I I don't I don't believe it for a minute.
No, no, no.
Don't fall.
It's conventional wisdom yet again.
I know it looks bad for her, but I got people asking me here, folks, if I think it's really the end for Hillary.
I mean, it.
Drudge has a headline, is it the end?
Howard Feynman has a be look.
Folks, these people are Clintons, they got so many political lives you can't count them until I see the house fall on her and a body in the casket.
She is not dead.
There's an old soap opera rule that the Clintons are soap operas.
The villain never dies.
It's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I can't believe it's already Friday.
We've been jam-packed all week.
This has been intense.
We haven't had a moment's rest here at the EIB network.
Well, we hardly ever do, but normally this time of year.
Uh it's pretty slow.
There's not a whole lot happening out there, but it's just the opposite.
Here we are already at Friday.
It's great to have you with us.
When we go to the phones, you own the show.
One of the greatest career risks known to ever be taken by a major media figure in the United States of America, turning over the content portion of the program to lovable, adorable, and highly appreciated, but nevertheless, rank amateurs.
I am the highly trained broadcast specialist.
The rules are Monday through Thursday.
We talk about only those things I care about, unless somebody sneaks by, Mr. Snerdley.
But on Friday, when we go to the phones, you can bring up whatever you want.
You can whine, moan, complain, ask a question.
Here's the telephone number, 800 282-2882.
The email address rush at oh, sorry, new email address.
Uh L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
We introduced this new email address last Sunday.
So it's uh L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Nancy Pelosi.
Yes, yes, I got all the Democrat debates.
We got so much stuff here today that it's gonna be, I mean, this is this is not going to be your usual open line Friday.
Well, it might be just a depends on how it uh it evolved.
Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans today or yesterday, saying they want the Iraq war to drag on, they're ignoring the public's priorities.
They like this war.
They want this war to continue, said Pelosi.
Uh Madam Speaker, you of all the great competence in the House of Representatives.
Let me tell you what we want.
When I say we, I mean the American people.
We want to win.
We want victory.
We don't put timelines on it.
We're in the process of winning.
The surge is working, and once again you attempt to undermine the very progress that you have sought to impede from the get-go.
If you're gonna run around, Miss Pelosi and you're gonna say Republicans like the war, then can we also assume that Democrats like killing babies?
Put that in whatever it is you smoke, Miss Pelosi, and have uh have fun with it.
Look, I know the answer to this, folks, but speaking of Miss Pelosi and nevertheless, why is the war no longer on the front pages or leading the broadcast news?
I mean, we know the answer, but is it not still a disgrace?
The libs are never ever held to account.
Not for those uh efforts of theirs to lose the war, not for their disastrous entitlement and welfare policies, not for their monopoly control of public education.
Uh never.
They are never held to account.
Here's some of the headlines you're gonna be looking at today.
Oprah getting backlash from some fans for Obama support.
Uh had this in the stack yesterday, didn't have a chance to get to it.
Uh simple resolution in the United States Congress uh to simply recognize the importance of Christmas.
A rather meaningless resolution, it says here, recognizing the importance of Christmas.
Nine Democrats voted against it.
Not Rachel, did you hear that?
Nine Democrats, Dawn's not here today, couldn't handle the intensity, had to get out.
She got her new car.
She got her new Buick Enclave.
Um what was it?
It was Wednesday.
And she just I'm driving the car today.
Rachel's coming in.
So Rachel's here.
Do you got to pay attention in there, Rich?
Rachel's big global warming buff.
You still believe Al Gore.
Good.
We're making progress.
So anyway, they had a they had a vote to honor Ramadan uh a little earlier back in November in the House.
Unanimous support for that.
Nine Democrats vote against a resolution recognizing the importance of Christmas.
All libs.
It is Christmas is a national holiday.
Forget the religious aspects of it for a moment.
It's a natural uh national holiday.
Got an email note from a friend today saying, Have you seen the Metro section of New York Times?
I said, No.
The last time I read the Metro section of the New York Times is when I saw it in the bottom of a birdcage.
There's this headline school recess gets gentler, and the adults are dismayed.
This really isn't new story.
It's just, I guess, happening now in the Northeast in Connecticut and other places where recess has been turned into just, you know, a bunch of puff.
We will discuss this.
Uh because I had a little small little argument with my friend who sent me this.
Yeah, this is just a result of the chicken of country.
Uh no, it's not.
I don't agree that the tickification of the country is all right, then it's the feminization of the country and the fact that too many men have been emasculated.
We'll talk about it.
Call for rethink in obesity fight.
Uh this is interesting, but more than that is the follow-up story.
What if bad fat isn't so bad?
Bottom line, it has never, ever been proven that saturated fat causes clogged arteries or heart problems.
It has never been proven, and yet everybody lives uh tries to order their lives uh by virtue of this myth.
The uh Republicans thinking about doing another debate in Iowa because the one this week was such a disaster.
More blacks are leaning toward Barack Obama.
Uh see, when are we gonna does hits just keep on?
I'd predict another earthquake for San Francisco.
It's imminent.
You know, I remember five or six years ago where I grew up in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, there is the new Madrid fault, and it's it's every bit as uh precarious and dangerous and lurking out there as the San Andreas.
And I don't know if you remember this, Mr. Snerdley, but five or six years ago, they have this some scientist, some you know the university I almost flunked out of.
Um predicted.
It gets its imminent's gonna have people running around in panic mode buying supplies to deal with the earth because nothing happened.
It still hasn't happened.
We got an imminent prediction for a uh earthquake in the uh in the West.
Economy's holding up.
Reports find, damn it.
Uh I add that word to the drive-by headline.
The House has again passed a uh another bill to ban the CI's use, CIA's use of harsh interrogation tactics, meaningless.
Isn't going to go anywhere.
It's an empty gesture uh designed to keep the nuts and a lunatics in their fringe base uh satisfied.
Plus, we have all the events that happened in the Democrat debate yesterday, and there is I mean uh there is genuine trouble with Mrs. Clinton and for her because the typical Clinton behavioral mode is not working.
The drive-by's are not going along with it anymore.
They're they're that at least for now.
Uh and these apologies, like when I apologized for um to the the the supposedly I, by the way, I want to see where she actually said to Obama, I'm sorry.
We always press speaks uh spokesman out there saying, Mrs. Clinton is apologizing the tri mach at Reagan National on the way to uh uh Iowa debate.
Well, I want to see if she actually said I'm sorry if she said I'm sorry, my campaign's not gonna ever do this again.
In the meantime, when they say they're never gonna do it again, they mentioned the word cocaine.
One of his uh one of one of uh Hillary's advisors is on television last night saying, There's allegations of cocaine use.
Uh, well, uh so there it's a non-apology apology.
And Mrs. Clinton just today, in an interview in Iowa, alluded to the fact that there are huge surprises in Obama's past, and that people will be stunned when they learn what they are.
This was classic.
Not a pretty moment in the debate.
Well, depends on your view of pretty.
Obama was asked by this dreadful debate moderator.
Did you see her, Rachel?
Carolyn Washburn?
Whoa.
Man, I mean, I've I've seen type and tight in my life before, but this Takes the cake.
Just take the cake.
Obama was asked about former Clintonistas on his advisory staff.
It's audio soundbite number eight, Mike.
Here's Carolyn Washburn.
He says, Senator Obama, you have Bill Clinton's former National Security Advisor, State Department policy director, Navy Secretary, among others advising you with relatively little foreign policy experience of your own.
How will you rely on so many Clinton advisors and still deliver the kind of break from the past that you're promising voters?
Does anybody doubt this is a setup and planted question?
I, for one, do not.
This is a short bite.
It goes 15 seconds.
Obama starts out, and Hillary's, you know, she interrupts, and then they'll hear the cackle in there.
But this, he just, I mean, this is like an egg hitting her square between the eyes when she thought that her planted question was going to destroy the guy.
So again, how will you rely on so many Clinton advisors and still deliver the kind of break from the past that you're promising voters?
Well, the uh you know, I am hear that.
Well, Hillary, I'm looking forward to you advising me as well.
Oh, yes, Rado Radio, right on.
In that moment, much of the remaining air inevitable, the flawless inevitable campaign, just came out of the tires.
Now, I think people have missed the main point on this, and that's why I am here, of course, to provide the main point.
Oh, by the way, the steroid thing.
I've had a chance to look at this, this baseball steroid thing, and I've got some updated thoughts on this too.
That'll be part of the program as it unfolds today.
But the question asked by this odd and scary newspaper woman was purposely designed to underline the Hillary claim of Obama's inexperience versus hers by citing all those former Clinton advisors Obama has on his staff.
Now, my question is, why the hell are they not with her?
What do they know that we don't know?
Why did they go with him?
Why did they jump the Hillary ship?
But in addition to that brilliant and unique observation, which is not really brilliant because it's so obvious, but nobody else has come up with it.
It is obvious he's got a bunch of former Hillary advisors on his staff, and nobody thinks to say, why did they leave her?
The question, in my mind, was completely planted by the Clinton camp, and that it backfired is just another show of the desperation Hillary is in right now.
And on top of a very bad, horrible day, she has been bested by this young inexperienced guy who they are attacking behind the scenes as a potential possible drug dealer.
He's the first legit black presidential Democrat candidate, and the Democrats and liberals are attacking this guy's a drug dealer as an experience.
While Mrs. Clinton's down in Selma trying to sound like a black, and Andrew Young's out there saying Bill Clinton's been with more black women than Obama has, and that's somehow a resume enhancement for Democrats and blacks.
Obama's comeback was great.
Hillary shut up.
He was finally able to shut her up.
And that is the story.
He shut her up.
And he could have said even more, you know, well, when I wonder why I have so many of your former staffers advising me now.
Mrs. Clinton.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back.
Got to take a break here at EIB Profit Center Timeout.
Sit tight, broadcast excellence with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, continues right after this.
Don't sweat it, folks.
We've got the audio of Mark Penn on television last night, dropping the cocaine line on uh Barack Obama.
Uh just got this audio soundbite.
I have not heard it.
I've got the transcript of it here.
I'm in stunned disbelief.
I actually was praised on the view today.
Uh let's just listen to us.
Joy Behar and uh Sherry Shepard and uh whoopy Goldberg, and here's the exchange.
Well, who gave me the best advice?
Rush Limbaugh.
Yes, imagine that.
What'd he say?
He said to me when I was fired from the radio.
He said, Whatever you do now, Joy, be bold.
That's what he said.
He had to tell you that.
Yeah, I guess he was for.
And I was bold against him, and he said that I give him credit for that.
Well, we like Rush.
Rush is interesting.
He has some interesting stuff to say.
Not all the time, but sometimes.
That's Whoopi Goldberg.
Something's not right here.
I know it's Christmas.
Kwanzaa.
Hanukkah.
Ramadan.
Uh these things happen and you can't make sense of them.
Uh, you take it for what it is.
I look, I want to address this uh uh one more time here, folks.
People have um well have been commenting to me all morning in the email asking me, uh, you really believe it's the end for Hillary?
Do you really believe this?
We've got all kinds of story, flood of campaign operatives causes worry.
Oh, Obama surprises.
We got a the Democratic chief in Wyoming saying Clinton would hurt the party if she's the nominee.
Howard Feynman, the surprising falls and unexpected gains ahead of Iowa's caucuses.
Uh he starts out by saying Hillary Clinton's campaign's teetering on the brink, no matter what the meaningless national horse race numbers say, the notion that she has a post-Iowa firewall to New Hampshire is a fantasy.
She's in danger of losing all four early contests, including Nevada and South Carolina, probably to Obama, who is now in momentum terms the Democrat front runner.
Now, I know they didn't plan for this, and uh this is this is this is a shock and a surprise to everybody.
Mrs. Clinton uh is is uh her whole candidacy, I think it's you know, this inevitability is off the roads.
Inevitable candidate cannot lose.
Not once, certainly not twice, and certainly not four times.
In addition to that, and I I I want to I want to make this point again.
If you want to trace the beginning of her problem, you can go back to the beginning, you have to go back to me.
Uh on a Tuesday, I read a res I read a report New York News Day about Hillary's uh tough um uh position on New York driver's licenses for illegal aliens, that it was a nuclear issue, that she really hadn't sending about it.
And I shout to the reporter, well, well then ask her.
Don't just sit there and say it's a nuclear issue for ask her about it.
You're a reporter.
That night in a Democrat debate on PMS NBC, Russert, ask her about it, and she flubbed it.
She flubbed it big time.
And it was after that that she brought on Bill.
And when Bill gets away and trying to help you, you don't succeed.
Ask Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, ask Gray Davis, ask the Democrat that run for governor in Hawaii or ran for governor in Hawaii against Linda Lingle.
It's a giant myth that the country loves the Clintons.
There's some pockets of the Democrat Party that do, but it's a huge, huge myth that these people are national icons and hero.
They're soap opera characters.
Their lives are a soap opera.
He's not he's not looked at even today as a political statesman with a great president to recommend his wife to be president.
He's a soap opera figure.
Andrew Young.
He's been with more black women than Obama.
This is this is a soap opera.
And you know, the Clintons have not got Bill Clinton didn't get a majority of votes in either of his two presidential elections, 43% in 92, 49% in 96.
Uh, everybody's living under these giant myths at the same time.
They are soap opera figures.
And they play for keeps.
And all this talk about Hillary's uh, you know, perhaps past the point of no return.
They've got so many political lives, she does especially, that it'd be it would be silly here to start assuming uh this this far out, where I think we're what are we two or three weeks from the Hawkeye Cookies, January 3rd.
Three weeks from the Hawkeye Coke, and and until I see the house fall on her.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's a reference to the Wizard of Oz, when the house finally fell on a bad witch.
Until I see the house fall on her and those legs curl up underneath the house, and The body in the casket.
She is not dead.
She is not finished.
Don't forget, folks, there's an old soap opera rule, and she's soap opera figure along with her husband.
And that is till you actually see the body, the person's not dead.
And in soap operas, villains don't die.
Villains don't get written out.
Good guys get written out.
There's no question she's in trouble.
Whether or not it keeps up is uh is another matter, and it uh it probably will.
Uh E.J. Dion Jr. today acting as Democrat Party advisor, not a columnist.
Plan B for Pelosi and Reed.
Plan B, aren't we up to plan X?
By now, they've had 60 resolutions in Iraq and they've all bombed out.
They haven't succeeded at doing anything.
He's all easily the political aspect.
That's where you've got to focus on Iraq.
Let me do the Iraqi government is more cohesive and functional than the Democrat Party is today.
It's open line Friday.
We are having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have lots of audio sound bites in a juicy coming up.
And the political news is not just to the shocking political news, not confined just to the Democrat Party.
In Florida, a Rasmussen Paul Huckabee has wrested the lead from Rudy Giuliani.
It's now Huck Rudy owned Florida.
Huckabee 27%, Mitt Romney 23%, and Giuliani 19% now.
This from uh Rasmussen.
As you know, it's Christmas time, ladies and gentlemen, and even the Clintons celebrate Christmas.
Our buddy, the famous white comedian Paul Shanklin.
And the Hillary Nutcracker playing now through January 3rd in Iowa.
I want to listen to soundbite.
Cookie tells me that there was a uh a pronunciation faux paw in this is Contessa Brewer at PMS NBC reporting, this is yesterday, reporting about a new poll of Iowa Democrats.
The latest MSNBC McClatchy poll of Iowa Democrats shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a statistical dead heat.
Whoa!
She did say it.
She did play that again.
The latest MSNBC McClatchy poll of Iowa Democrats shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a statistical dead heat.
This program influences so much that we never even know about, and it's such a joy.
It is such a thrill.
It's like everybody calls Al Gore Al Gore, not Al Gore.
Play it one more time out there, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
The latest MSNBC McClatchy poll of Iowa Democrats shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a statistical dead heat.
Keep that one around today.
We're going to find uses for that.
All right.
Open line Friday to the phones.
This is Ron in Atlanta.
You're up first today.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Sir, it's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
Um Megadidos from Transplanted Yankee.
Um Did anybody else notice how often that Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Transplanted what?
Yankee.
I live down in Atlanta, grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.
Oh, Yankee.
Yankee.
I thought you were saying Indian or Inky.
No.
Transplanted Yankee.
Okay.
Uh, did anybody else notice how often that obnoxious moderator cackled and laughed at uh at the Republican or I'm sorry, at the Democrats.
But yet at the Republicans, all she did was continually interrupt them and tell them their time was up when she left the uh Democrats on a 30-second question, oftentimes go into 40 and 90 seconds of the time.
I think everybody notices this stuff by now.
I I I really do.
I hope they do.
They do.
You can trust me.
Thank you, sir.
Don't doubt me.
Take care.
Trust me on this.
Thank you.
Rick in Phoenix, open line Friday.
Your next.
Hello.
Make it do those, Russ.
Thank you.
From the land of the sun.
I got a question for you.
Yes.
Let's assume Hillary does not get the nomination, which I hope she doesn't.
Who's going to fall for divorce first?
Her or Bill, because she doesn't need him, and he doesn't really want her.
So that's just I just want to want to get your opinion on that.
What do you mean who's going to fall first?
No, file for divorce.
Oh, file first.
Yeah, I think that's a good idea.
File for divorce.
Either one needs the other after that.
I thought you were going to ask me who will be blamed, her or Bill.
Well, I mean, like Dickie goes along, you know.
I mean, she's going to blame Bill, so you know she doesn't need him anymore.
Uh I you know, I frankly haven't I haven't given any thought to that because uh we're not at that stage yet, and I I have uh have evolved a theory not too long ago, and that is to try to not tell myself stories, particularly in in the context of serious analysis.
Because frankly, what happens after if she loses?
If she loses, I really don't care.
She'll stay in the Senate.
Uh I don't think she'll try another presidential bid uh down the road.
But but let's let's cross that uh bridge when we when we get to it.
In a question of who would file divorce first.
Uh these people need each other, folks.
Business, career, politics, they need each other.
In fact, I'm gonna tell you this room.
I'm gonna tell you people a little story.
I have never repeated this.
I've never told anybody this.
This goes back to 1995.
And I got a phone call from uh I can't I I will not mention the name, but I got a phone call from a very prominent media baron.
So I want to have dinner with you.
Oh, cool.
I'd never met this man.
So I went and had dinner.
You know what I think he said to me.
This couple, this Clinton, she's gonna divorce him.
She can't stay with him no more of this.
She just can't.
This might have been '96 or something, forget which.
Now I thought about this after dinner.
I went home and said, now this is awfully weird.
And I I never I never re reported and re and retold the story, never told the story, period, uh, certainly not on the air.
This is the first time.
And of course, they didn't get divorced.
I actually think what it was as I look back on it.
I think I think a bunch of people wanted me to go on the air the next day and announce a big exclusive scoop, something that I had that I would then be immediately tarred and feathered and discredited for.
Uh and uh and it didn't work.
So I didn't repeat it.
Uh I'm not that easy.
I'm not a journalist.
I need at least ten sources before I go with anything, not just one.
All right, George in Vacaville, California.
You're next.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello, Megan Diddes Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I was wanting to ask you a question on what do you think Fred Thompson's electability is.
Well, i i he's electable.
Can he win based on where he is in the primaries right now is another thing.
He got a late start.
Uh he's had he had that great performance in the uh debate on Tuesday, but everybody said it was the most boring debate in the world.
I don't think too many people saw it, so the Republicans are thinking of actually doing another debate uh the week after Christmas between New Year's.
Yeah, because this is the last debate before the Iowa caucus.
Well, it may not be.
It may not, they may be there may be another one.
He's got a lot of he's got a lot of ground to uh to catch up.
But I would caution everybody, you know, I keep I keep saying this.
These polls are interesting to track, and they show right now that Huckabee's made this big move.
But it's easy for people in a poll to say anything.
Uh I I really try to discount uh polls like this that that that fluctuate, go back and forth.
Uh because when people get in the privacy of either the Hawkeye Cockyeye or the voting booth, you never know what they're really, really going to do.
And we're not anywhere near the finish line yet, really.
Uh and so these polls, in the in the in the strict sense, are meaningless.
They may be giving us an accurate indication.
We don't know.
And we won't know until the votes uh are taken.
So I just I'm content to sit back and watch all this stuff fall out, take shape, and try to make some sense of it.
Uh George, I appreciate the phone call, a brief time out here.
We'll be back and continue on the EIB network.
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Let's uh everybody wants to play the what if game, and I really don't like what ifs because you can't you can't know.
I mean, you it's it's it's crazy to start telling yourself stories, uh, particularly solutions and answers that you have no idea about.
But we'll play it because everybody wants, well, what happens if Hillary loses, Rats, when they see Lou, what are Billy here, what are Billy Gunn and Hillary gonna do?
Don't rule out the possibility of third party.
Don't rule it out.
Look at you don't know, folks, if you are poo-pooing me on this, you do not know how they think they are destined for this.
You do not know how focused, singularly both of them are on this.
It is the only thing that they see when they look out the windshield.
They will not be denied this.
This is a generational thing.
This is the last gasp of the sixties anti-war left to get their hands on direct control of the upper echelons of leadership in this country.
And if she thinks that uh Obama's gonna be a weak national candidate, especially, you don't I'll tell you what, if Obama and Huckabee, if Obama and Huckabee are the nominees, I will make this not a prediction.
But don't be surprised if you see Hillary Michael Bloomberg on a third party ticket.
Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of Nueva Ork.
I frankly, you know, we we keep hearing about all the discord in the Republican Party.
We keep all the nobody satisfied with their candidates.
It doesn't look like there's a whole lot of satisfaction with the Democrat candidates either.
Why why is there no talk of a third party liberal candidate?
If the Dibbs are so if they're if they're so unhappy and split, why not another candidate as an independent liberal?
This is how they try to beat us.
We should encourage it.
An honest socialist anti-war third party candidate.
the media is, Ron Paul, or whoever it might be.
Why rule this out on the Democrat side?
Either Brenda in Cadillac, Michigan.
Hi, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Russ.
Hey.
How are you?
Couldn't be better.
Good to talk to you.
Listen to you for a long time.
Happy to finally get through.
I appreciate that.
Um I have a couple of things.
You know, you're very subdued.
Most people tell me what an honor it is and how excited they are, how nervous they are, and you're just I mean, you're all business.
I like that.
Get in, get it, and get out.
Well, that's kind of what I was told to do.
So yeah, but how many people do what they're told to do?
Well, I guess I'm a very compliant person.
I'll bet you're not.
Oh, little Dino.
Um I mean that in a complimentary way, too.
Well, thank you.
But you're not a pushover.
Right.
That's right.
That's right.
I'm not.
Um I have a comment about Hillary.
Yeah.
Um it seems like her latest mantra against Obama, she's kind of mocking him about his theme of hope.
You know, that well, it takes more than hope to to lead a country and I saw that bite.
You know, it is that that it takes more than hope.
It takes experience.
I've been fighting for she her answer is as vacuous as his.
Well, what's really hilarious about that comment that mocking the whole hope thing is that when Clinton, when Bill Clinton ran his first campaign, he ran on the little platform that he was the man from Hope.
That's right.
So you know, if you by the way, so's Huckabee.
Yeah.
Yeah, he says if the governor from Hope, Arkansas.
Exactly right.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, you know, the the um I think we've got this, these two sound bites.
Let's go ahead.
Uh Brenda, I'm gonna play these for people who may not uh because I want them to know what you're uh talking about.
But you're right, that is it is kind of ironic, but yeah, the the Clintons are having a lot of things called on them that they don't expect to be called on.
Uh and I think you know something else becoming uh patently obvious to people, and that is the Hillary presidency.
There's nothing change about it.
The Hillary presidency is is a we're going back in time to the nineties.
We're going backwards.
That's what she keeps talking about under the guise of change.
She was asked about the Bill Shaheen comment.
This is this morning in Johnson.
She held a press conference, asked about the Bill Shaheen comment made about candidate Obama, and here's what she said.
Number three, we're staying in order here.
It cleared, it was not authorized, it was in no way condoned, I didn't know about it, and he stepped down.
On January 20th, 2009, I'm going to have to start dealing with two wars, ending one as quickly as I possibly can, and trying to salvage the other.
I'm gonna have to deal with the way we've alienated the rest of the world, all the people calling Leonard, they call me.
What is going on in America?
What are you gonna do to repair the damage?
We're gonna have to keep faith with the American people, get this economy working for everybody, begin to reverse the inequity that President Bush has enshrined in our tax policy, and then take on the big challenges.
This is a big job with a lot of big challenges.
I'm up for it, and that's why I'm making my case, and others are making their cases, and I want to keep focused on what I intend to do as president.
So she's uh she's back to heaven.
We don't have the bites right now that I was uh that I was uh thinking about I saw them on uh on television today, uh that that Brenda in Cadillac Michigan was talking about.
That just it was her answer was entirely uh vacuous.
Um she said, Well, we need something more than hope.
And then she went on to just be vacant, intellectually vacant about her experience and how she can forge change and so forth.
Um she went on to say in this press appearance today that she is vetted.
Uh and then listen.
I have said for months in this campaign.
I am vetted, I am tested.
The Republicans will go after whomever we nominate.
I think all of you know that.
Every single one of you know that.
And I've been dealing with their incoming fire for sixteen years, and I'm still here.
And I think that voters uh should take that into account because I've been through those fires, and I have emerged and not just survived, but thrived, much to their amazement and dismay.
So I think that's a very strong factor in favor of my being the candidate for Democrats to nominate.
I apologize to Senator Obama yesterday.
Yeah, Rebra.
She had to get that in, and I'll tell you why.
She didn't mention specifics in this interview this morning.
Uh, but she drew a cros a contrast with uh uh unnamed rivals with Shaheen's claim uh that unexplored elements of Obama's candidacy will make him an easy Republican target.
She said, I've been tested, I have been vetted, there are no surprises, there's not gonna be anybody saying I didn't think of that.
My goodness, what's that gonna mean?
She's aiming right at Obama.
She is letting it be known that there are surprises, that she's got surprises for Obama, even at and then yet that's why she threw in here that I've apologized to uh Senator Obama uh yesterday.
So the same tactics continue.
Uh just uh uh even the non-apology apology uh continues.
But she's all over the board here, and not this this is not persuasive stuff.
This is not substantive in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And see, this is another thing they got to think about in the Democratic side.
If she does get the nomination, she cannot go for the rest of the year, because it will happen early in February.
She can't hide for ten months without getting specific on things.
She's gonna have to move beyond platitudes, and the more she shows up in public and the more she speaks, there's a corresponding drop in her numbers.
Fast as three hours in media first is over.
Soon to be taken by armored courier to the warehouse housing artifacts of future limbaugh broadcast museum.
Two more hours are straight ahead.
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