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Jan. 29, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 29, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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How about this headline?
This is from the Now Gang New York.
The New York State chapter of the NAGs, Psychological Gang Bang of Hillary is proof we need a woman president.
That's the headline in a no press release.
Psychological gangbang of Hillary is proof we need a woman president in the New York State chapter of the NAGS.
It's by Marcia Pappas, who is the NAG New York State president.
We've all witnessed scenarios where on the playground, little girls are being taunted by little boys, while both girls and boys stand idle, afraid to speak up or even cheering.
Or in the workplace, males tease young and older female coworkers, make obscene gestures, inappropriate comments, laughing and expecting, often correctly, that everybody will join in.
Then there was that movie where Jodi Foster portrayed the true story of a woman who was gang raped in a bar while others looked on and encouraged.
The realization, still others pretend the rape didn't happen.
In short, gang raping of women is commonplace in our culture, both physically and metaphorically.
And this past week, we witnessed just such a gang rape involving men who are afraid of a powerful woman.
Hillary Clinton, in her quest for her presidential nomination, has in fact endured infantile taunting and wildly inappropriate commentary.
Indeed, we have witnessed almost comical attacks by the brick girl, who in turn sided with Barack Obama as both snickered at Clinton's breakdown, which consisted of a very short, dewy-eyed moment.
Now, John Kerry, who should certainly know better after his own swift boating, has joined the Playground Gang.
Now, this is from January 11th.
The NAGS New York State put this press release out, Psychological Gangbang of Hillary, proof we need a woman president.
This is after everybody piled on her because she cried when she was asked by that voter, how do you do it?
How do you do your everyday?
And Mrs. Clinton had a little tear.
It's just so hard.
But I care so much about my country.
Now, the national nags, by the way, the New York State NAGs also put out a press release really creaming Senator Kennedy for endorsing Barack Obama.
The same bunch, ladies and gentlemen, that referred to the psychological gangbang of Hillary, put out a New York State NAGS put out a statement yesterday condemning Senator Kennedy.
Now, the national nags sort of distance themselves, a little cooler heads at the national nag level.
Here's a statement from the NAG president Kim Gandy.
National Association of Gals, by the way, is what we don't like now.
The NAGAN is old hat.
They're the NAGS.
National Association of Gals.
Kim Gandy is the prexi.
The NAGS has enormous respect and admiration for Senator Kennedy for decades.
Senator Kennedy's been a friend of the NAGS and a leader and fighter for women's civil and reproductive rights.
His record shows that.
Though the NAGS Political Action Committee has proudly endorsed Senator Clinton for president, we respect Senator Kennedy's endorsement.
We continue to encourage women everywhere to express their opinions and exercise their right to vote.
So he had one renegade chapter of the NAGS in New York State went out there, got a little hysterical.
And I use that word on purpose because I, ladies and gentlemen, I happen to know that when you call all you have to do, if you, guys, any of you want a divorce out there or you want to break up with a girlfriend, just say, you're unstable.
Stop getting hysterical and they go ballistic.
So I'm calling the NAGS New York State chapter hysterical.
You have one little chapter of the NAGS got hysterical out there.
And the national NAGs had to come in and put some closure to this.
I think for those of you in the New York State NAGs, you're all upset here about Senator Kennedy's endorsement.
I think you need to just take Bill Clinton's advice and then put some ice on it.
You know, this is what happens out there.
You deal with the Clintons, you deal with the Kennedys, and put some ice on it.
For those of you in Riolinda, that's what Bill Clinton allegedly said to Juanita Broderick after the alleged rape.
And he's walking out the door, and she says that he said to her, watch, put some ice on that, babe.
Because her lip was, I think, I think musted up.
Al Sharpton, the Reverend Sharpton has told Bill Clinton to shut up.
ABC News Rick Klein reports that the Reverend Sharpton on Monday weighed in on the raging debate inside the Democrat Party over President Clinton's advocacy on behalf of his wife's campaign.
Sharpton weighed in with two choice words for Bill Clinton, shut up on the view.
Sharpton said that voters are hearing race charges, race-tinged rhetoric in the Democrat primary campaign, and he called on the former president to cease.
He said, I think it's time for him to just be quiet.
I think it's time for him to stop.
As one of the most outspoken people in America, there's a time to shut up, and I think that time has come.
With a badge of honor, he says, as one of the most outspoken people in America, there's a time to shut up, and I think the time has come.
And the politico today, Washington Libs lead backlash against Bill.
It's striking.
This is John Harris writing.
It's striking how many people around town seem to be loving this.
But it shouldn't really be surprising.
The ferocity of anti-Clinton sentiments heard around Washington in recent days, as even some former Clinton White House aides say they're enjoying the Kennedy endorsement and the implicit rebuke of the Clintons, has reached levels that haven't been seen for seven years.
Clinton's pardons in the closing hours of his presidency prompted a similar backlash.
The toxic relationship between the Clintons and Washington is always one of the main paradoxes of the Clinton administration and one of its main missions.
Come on.
I don't understand.
You guys in the drive-bys have got to give me a major break on this.
How long it took Ted Kennedy to tell you what the Clintons are?
Who are the journalists here?
The toxic relationship between Washington and the Clintons?
Give me a break.
There's no toxic relationship.
If anybody has a down-on-a-knees relationship and it's the press down on the knees, there's no toxic relationship.
It took Ted Kennedy to give you guys the cover to go out and tell the truth about the Clintons once and for all.
This is just dissent.
You guys in the press are going to have to do better than this.
But I know why you won't.
Because at the end of the day, when she gets a nomination, you're going to be back in love with the Clintons.
You're going to be back in love with them.
You're going to be supporting them.
You're going to be doing everything you can to get them elected.
Try this little quote here.
In some moods, the Clintons also like to imagine that they are victims of Eastern snobbery against Arkansas.
John Harris says there's probably a whiff of truth to that.
But they're from New York.
Now they haven't been to Arkansas and who knows how long.
But nearly everybody in Washington is from somewhere else.
And Arkansas roots hardly hurt Clinton's mentor, William Fulbright of the Washington elite.
From Washington's perspective, to judge by the most common criticism heard over the years, and again in recent days, the problem is not that Bill Clinton is Bubba, but that he is Eddie Haskell.
Smug, smarmy, self-absorbed.
Eddie Haskell would be concerned at this.
This is the second time Eddie Haskell has been denigrated by being associated with Bill Clinton.
Eddie Haskell has called into this show before.
And Eddie Haskell has made it a point to say the actor that played Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver has called this program because he's been denigrated before being associated with Clinton.
And he's called in here to say he's not a lib.
I think he was a California Highway Patrol officer, a chippy.
Not sure which.
Once again, Eddie Haskell takes it on the chin being compared to Bill Clinton.
A brief time out here.
We will look.
We'll continue right.
I know, Snerdling, all this is unbelievable, but the strained relationship between the press and the Clintons in Washington.
Golly.
Hey, welcome back.
We go to the audio.
No, let's go to the phones.
Let's go to the phones.
We got an audio sombre coming up here.
Let's see.
Yes.
We'll get to it in order.
Senator Kennedy was on the CBS early show today.
Did you hear about this?
And he, Harry Smith.
Harry Smith actually asked him about the possibility of Osama be assassinated.
I didn't use the word.
What?
Obama.
What did I say, Osama?
I'm just parroting Senator Kennedy.
Obama, sorry, Obama would be assassinated.
And Kathleen Willey has a piece at WorldNetDaily.com.
Dear Senator Obama, today I sent an email, I saw an email sent out to your donors in which your wife states, what we didn't expect, at least not from our fellow Democrats, are the win-at-all-cost tactics we've seen recently.
We didn't expect misleading accusations that willfully distort Barack's record.
Don't be naive, writes Kathleen Willey.
When those fellow Democrats include Hillary Clinton, be ready to expect anything.
My advice, turn the tables on Hillary and her media minions by telling the truth about yourself and about her.
You'll find that Hillary's operatives excel at accessing what you might think are private records, like tax files, not just yours, but your friends and associates.
Don't think for a minute she won't stoop so low.
The Clintons have a long history of trying to intimidate opponents by first invading their personal records and then releasing the information via their media enablers, naturally spun to reflect poorly on the person being attacked, while Bill and Hillary stand there with who me looks on their faces.
Hillary claims that her experience makes her the best qualified candidate.
Well, I've had plenty of experience with Hillary and Bill Clinton's qualifications as the nation's most ruthless political tag team, and I can't imagine a worse scenario for the nation or the world than letting those two loose in the White House again, which leads my last piece of advice, Mr. Obama.
Do not let Hillary define you.
Kathleen Willey at WorldNetDaily.com.
Now, here's Jody, Lake Orion, Michigan.
Thank you for waiting.
It's great to have you here on the program.
Thanks, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Hey, I just had a comment about what you were saying about the election in Florida and some of the independents possibly voting Republican and voting for McCain.
Here in Michigan, we had an open primary, you know, so anybody could vote anything.
All you had to do was come in and claim a ballot style, we were calling it.
Right.
And I found it interesting, and I wanted to know what you thought, that even though Republicans, Democrats, Independents, everybody could vote Republican and vote for McCain if they wanted to, he still lost by a pretty wide margin to Mitt Romney.
Yeah, and that was the pollsters had that race all wrong.
Zogby had McCain winning that one by nine.
You know, I mean, a lot of independents could have, you know, that was their chance to vote for McCain if they really thought he was a big unifier.
Especially relevant in that is that there was no Democrat primary.
Exactly.
I mean, Hillary was the only one on the ballot here, so it wasn't like they were taking any votes away.
No, no, Mike Gravelle was on the ballot.
Let's not disrespect a great Democrat.
I'm sorry.
Mike Gravelle was on the ballot.
He was the only one that gets any press.
That's the race, by the way.
That's the election.
70% of black Democrats in Michigan showed up to vote uncommitted.
Uncommitted.
So your point is that even in an open primary state where independents and Democrats could cross over, vote for a Republican, that McCain did not get a majority of them.
Exactly.
And he actually lost by a pretty wide margin to Mitt Romney.
Right.
Don't know if we can extrapolate that because McCain has won a majority of independents, for example, New Hampshire, which is a northeastern liberal state now.
What about South Carolina?
I'm having a memory block on how he did with independence there, but I think it was pretty strong with it.
Look at that, that's McCain's strong suit.
His strong suit's not Republican voters.
And that's why this is very curious that people who are not registered Republicans are being allowed to show up today at polling places in Florida, at least two that we know of, and get all agitated.
Well, I want to vote.
Okay, well, you've got to declare a party.
And so they declare a party on the spot.
Can I tell you one other thing I find interesting?
Yeah.
I was a poll worker here in Michigan.
And I found it was very interesting.
There was so much talk on the media about how people were so outraged that they were going to have to show ID to vote.
And what we found was people were much more outraged about the fact that they had to declare a ballot style.
Everybody was completely prepared to show ID.
There were no problems with it.
Nobody complained about it at all.
There were a lot of complaints about having to choose a ballot style.
Why?
Why would people complain about having to choose a ballot state?
By ballot style, you mean Republican, Democrat, or independent.
Why would they be upset about that?
Because then they can't vote in private.
And, you know, I don't know.
They have to say, gee, I'm a Democrat or I'm a Republican, and everybody has to know it.
I don't know.
I wasn't ashamed.
Well, everybody doesn't know it.
Just the poll workers know it.
Well, I guess.
No, it does end up in the voter registration files, doesn't it?
Yeah, we had to record it.
Yeah.
As they voted, we had to record it.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I just, I do not understand why that would irritate people.
Of all things to get irritated about when you go vote, to have to declare a style?
I don't know.
All I can think is secrecy.
I don't know.
Well, they could throw the secrecy out if it didn't care about the ID business as much.
No, like I said, I think I'd say.
The only thing that explains this, Jody, is that Democrats don't want people to know they're Democrats.
Well, exactly.
That's what my thought is.
Well, why didn't you say that?
Well, I kind of, I kind of thought you'd just get it.
Sorry.
Well, you've got to remember sometimes my hearing makes me miss some of what people say.
Did she say that, Dawn?
She did say it.
Yeah, Dawn's backing you up.
You did say it, and I mean.
Thanks.
Hold on, thanks.
I apologize.
I missed you saying that.
I was probably immersed in my own thoughts here, trying to understand this because it, you know, until I realized that Democrats would be embarrassed to admit that they're Democrats, I couldn't figure out why there would be such anger over Walter.
Well, I wouldn't say there was anger.
It was just a definite, you know, discomfort.
I don't know.
Well, no, no, that makes more sense.
I have to admit I'm a Democrat.
Oh, geez.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I see.
All right.
Well, hey, that's interesting feedback, Jody.
I'm glad you called.
All right.
Thanks much.
We've got to go anyway.
Great timing there.
Quick timeout here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Net.
We'll be right back.
More of your phone calls and audio soundbites straight ahead.
We are back cutting edge societal evolution and rush limboy.
Yesterday, when we had the split in the Democrat Party between the Kennedy factions for Obama, endorsing Obama and Hillary left wandering, it's like the Hatfields and the McCoy's.
Democrat dynasties clash, as Obama claims, JFK is mantle.
And it was especially fitting as an analogy, as a comparison, as you know, because in the Democrat Party, what's going on right now is an uncivil war, and it's all based on race.
This party is at war with itself over race.
And, of course, the Hatfields and McCoy's started, their little rivalry started in the Civil War.
The Hatfield-McCoy feud, 1878 to 1891, is an account of American lore that has become a metaphor for bitterly feuding rival parties in general.
It involved two warring families of the West Virginia, Kentucky backcountry along the Tug Fork River off the Big Sandy River.
So the Hatfields and McCoy's a great way to analogize what's going on with the Democrats today.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Last night on PBS, the Tavis Smiley show.
And by the way, this AC, I told you so.
Yesterday I mentioned that Hillary's firewall is going to go out and be getting the Hispanic votes, and she's going to play the race card again.
She's going to say, look, you Hispanics, you need to vote for me because look what happened in South Carolina.
All those blacks are hanging in together for Obama.
So apparently, excuse me, Obama is going to use Ted Kennedy, Mr. Amnesty, to go after Hispanic voters that Hillary is targeting next in the Democrat uncivil war.
Tavis Smiley says to Senator Kennedy, look, the argument that Hillary Clinton's been making, experience, Barack Obama, not much, not even a full-term as senator.
So how did you rank and how did you rate experience in making your choice?
Well, I think he has the experience and the judgment, for example.
And I've worked with him on the floor of the United States Senate on the immigration reform.
Barack Obama was there trying to hammer out a responsible immigration bill that would deal with the challenges that we face, but also would have the kind of respect for the Hispanic community that I think that we needed.
Yeah, so there's exactly what I said yesterday.
Exactly what I said, that they're going to go out.
Hillary's going to go out and use the firewall of the Hispanic vote.
And so Senator Kennedy is now going to go out and combat Mrs. Clinton for Obama on the Hispanic vote.
By the way, let's go to Soundbite 12.
This is Al Sharpton telling Bill Clinton it's time to shut up.
This is on the view yesterday.
The co-host Sherry Shepard said, you know, we're hearing so much about race from Hillary and Bill Clinton Obama.
And then she adds this.
Do you think race is going to play an important part in this?
The question is, is race in terms of solutions going to play a part?
I think that we are hearing race charges, race-tinged rhetoric.
No one knows how you're going to close the race gap in employment, the race gap in health care.
And, you know, I've agreed and disagreed when President Clinton was president.
I think that it's time for him to just be quiet.
I think it's time for him to stop as one of the most outspoken people in America.
There's a time to shut up.
And I think that time has come.
You have to love this.
It ain't going to mean anything at the end of the day, but you still have to love this to see this happening.
John in Jacksonville, Florida.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
I enjoy listening to you.
I look forward to it every day.
Appreciate that.
Thank you, sir.
I would like to tell you that we're getting, you know, I'm a Jacksonville, Florida voter, and I got close to a dozen of these recorded phone calls from various candidates.
And one I got was very, very disturbing.
It made me angry.
It turned out to be from the John McCain campaign.
And it was almost a minute long, and it just absolutely ripped Governor Romney over the idea of gun control and the Second Amendment.
And I knew that wasn't true, but they made it sound like Governor Romney himself was going to come take my guns away from me.
And it counts how John McCain is a military leader.
And I certainly appreciate his record as a war hero, a Navy veteran.
I'm a Navy veteran, but so is Jimmy Carter, a Navy veteran.
That does not qualify him.
It does not guarantee that he would be a strong military leader.
So it concerns me that he's leveling these kind of charges.
These robocalls that are going around, I guess they work.
I try to imagine myself getting one of these things.
And if I did, I just hang up.
The computer starts talking to me.
I hang up.
But, you know, we all have to remember that there are a lot of people that don't live and breathe this stuff each and every day.
And they answer the phone and they're happy somebody's calling them.
Well, I know it's the political season, and my wife and I would look at the phone ringing saying, here comes another one.
And I just was listening to see who it was from.
I got him.
Well, tell me about some of the others because I've heard some of the worst examples of these robocalls.
Are McCain making phone calls, his campaign making phone calls, accusing Romney as against or for abortion?
Is he pro-choice and all that?
Have you gotten that call?
No, I didn't get that one.
I did get an actual human ask me about Huckabee, but I told him that I was a Mitt Romney supporter.
Others are just focusing on different issues.
There was, gosh, I'm drawing a blank on them now.
Well, they must not have made much of an impact, except the one did on gun control.
That one, obviously, you remember.
Absolutely.
It was nasty.
And it seemed to me to be way over the top.
And it fits well with your assertion that we're looking in an echo of Hillary Clinton when we see Senator McCain.
Wait just a second.
That's not me.
I mean, I would love to claim credit for that.
That's George Will today.
Oh, yes.
George Will today says that McCain is an echo of the Clintons.
Well, you pointed it out, and George Will's a brilliant man.
I enjoy listening to him, too, and reading him.
But I just wanted to point that out.
I'm glad you did.
I'm glad you called.
Robo Calls in Jacksonville.
John, I appreciate it.
Go to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Ben, you're next.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
I want to start by giving my conservative credentials here.
I'm self-employed, Southern, Christian, top 1%, voted Republican all my life.
I'm definitely a conservative, so please don't mistake that.
Technically, right now, I'm a Romney supporter, but I have become cool with the idea of supporting McCain if he gets the nomination.
Wait, Would you become cool?
You mean you're down with it if McCain gets a nomination, then you'll support him?
That's right.
If McCain gets a nomination, I will support him.
I was originally a Thompson supporter.
Right, My brother is a blogger at Red State named Absentee.
And he's been pushing McCain on me like crazy.
Now, he's conservative, and one of the things...
Wait a second, wait a second.
I can't have that.
Campaign finance reform will not allow representatives of the McCain campaign to actually campaign on this program because representatives of the Romney campaign cannot legally respond.
Oh, okay.
Well, this is what this is.
Can I tell you what it is that he is pushing on me as far as?
Yes, I'm eagerly awaiting this.
Okay.
Well, he says that he disagrees with McCain Feingold.
That's fine.
He disagrees with some of his immigration policies.
That's fine.
I know.
A lot of McCain people are overlooking the reasons to oppose him.
That's fine.
And I agree with you.
There's better people out there.
No, just tell me what is this he's like.
What's the reason why he's cooling down for the struggle with McCain on the ticket?
Just tell me that.
Four years in office.
That's it.
All he's going to do is not worry about whether or not the Congress likes him, whether or not anybody else likes him.
He's going to cut pork.
He's going to cut spending.
He's going to, you know, upset a few people.
But he's going to clean house, have a VP that's going to be.
Wait a minute.
Wait, just a minute.
Where's this four-year stuff coming from?
This is what everybody's been telling me.
Everybody's been telling me that McCain only intends on running for one term.
He said he apparently has confirmed this more than once, that he will only run for one term, which is making people at the places where I go in the circles I run in talk more about who his VP is going to be than him.
So you get him to get in office, you get him to clean house a little bit.
He maybe upset some people, but at least he cuts spending.
Now the VP is in a good position president.
I've not heard this.
I've not heard if McCain's telling everybody, how come it hasn't leaked?
I don't know.
But he's only going to spend four years in the White House.
You know, let me tell you what to tell your blogger buddy.
Okay.
If that's actually true, if he's got people believing this, then you better tell them we're looking at a lame duck after the midterm elections in 2010.
How is that?
Look at Bush.
When you're the second term president and you can't run again, and you say you're not going to run again in this case, you're a lame duck.
People forget about you.
Everybody starts running for president themselves.
There's a difference, which is, let's say he's got a VP like Costa, Or even Romney, which I'm not saying that that would happen, but a VP that's got some major conservative credentials.
Wouldn't you say that those four years are going to be leading up to that person's campaign to be president for eight years, if McCain's only going to go four?
I still haven't heard this.
I think I've heard rumors of this, and I've heard the rumors, you know, the McCain camp wants to slap him down.
There's no candidate that wants people to know he's only going to be there for four years.
Well, except that somebody like McCain, who claims to be very, you know, one with his convictions of whatnot, he's somebody who's against, or he's for term limits, is he not?
Like, he claims to be four-term limits.
Right.
Now, how long has he been there?
What is this?
He's for term limits.
He's ripping the private sector.
Don't get me mad here because I'm trying to maintain an even keel.
He's for term limits, and yet he's sitting out there talking about how people in the private sector don't have the qualifications to be in government.
How long has he been?
Has he term-limited himself?
Then, boy, you better scratch it because you too.
You're running a campaign, and you're in violation of my bill.
And if you don't scratch it, you'll pay.
Hey, guess what?
We have the audio of one of the robocall I've heard about from the McCain campaign to voters in Florida, which smears Romney as being pro-choice and for abortion on demand.
We are preparing it even now.
We'll have it for you probably at the top of the next hour.
Karen in Morgan Hill, California.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you?
Fine.
I finally get to talk to the real you.
Actually, I did talk to you before about the education issue, and it was at the end of the hour.
So we'll skip that one for now.
I did find a flaw.
You said that the biggest problem with businesses is employees.
And that is, in fact, not true.
The biggest problem with businesses is that they know how to get the employees to work, but their arms are tied because the government is always supporting the employee and these idiotic rights they have instead of letting business owners handle the employees the way they need to.
All right.
All right.
I understand.
I was speaking in a different context than you are, and I appreciate what you're saying.
Let me reset the table here.
The context that we were discussing was that McCain was suggesting that Romney, because he has extensive private sector experience economically, he's not qualified because you can't do those kinds of things in the private sector as you can in government.
Or you can't do them in government as you do in the private sector.
Correct.
And one of the arguments is that you can leverage people.
You can leverage them with salary.
You can threaten them.
You can fine them.
You can get them to do whatever you want to do when you want them to do it.
Until they go to the EEOC and complain about it.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But McCain was saying, it doesn't work that way in a bureaucracy.
You have to know how to manage these things.
Can't argue.
And you can't do it.
Somebody doesn't know how it works.
You're not going to get anything done.
Nothing gets done anyway.
Right.
Well, see, and I wear your Rush Limbaugh shirt that I got.
And my deal with you is I'm going to take that risk in California where that's not a popular shirt to wear.
I will take that.
Oh, don't be silly.
These more people love me out there than you would pay for.
Well, I do.
I listen every day.
And my parents are listening right now because I want to make my point that since these Democrats listen to you and these liberals do listen to you, they need to know the EOC is what's killing businesses.
I don't want to go to work.
I don't trust my employees anymore because they coddle them.
And they tell them, if you get fired because you're doing a poor job, come here and we're going to strong arm the businesses.
It's exhausting.
It is exhausting.
Look, I think I made that point in discussing all this.
I did say that the big, like Senator McCain doesn't understand the private sector.
He's never been in it.
He doesn't understand the obstacles placed in front of entrepreneurs.
He doesn't understand the obstacles placed in front of private sector businesses.
And among them, I listed the EEOC and the EPA and any number of federal regulations.
But that's all true.
When I made my original statement that the biggest problems you have in business are people, I really didn't mean, I didn't mean that.
I mean, people have problems.
We all have problems.
And managers of people have to deal with people in the midst of their problems and so forth that somehow might impact productivity.
You got jealousy of one employee doesn't like another.
You got a little backstabbing going on in there.
It's just for people who run businesses.
What I've said, the biggest problem is not the machinery in the back.
The biggest problem is not your fleet of vehicles.
The biggest problem is not, it's people, and because your business is people.
And this is not a criticism.
It's just something that I was actually trying to say that people who have worked in the private sector and who have succeeded wildly are very capable of managing and motivating people because the biggest problems you have are people oriented.
And if you can deal with the problems people have and still keep them productive, then you're good.
And of course, nobody in the I would say Senator McCain is 180 degrees out of phase.
There is a reason that senators do not get elected to the White House.
The last one was Senator Kennedy in 1960.
That just doesn't happen.
And it's because they eventually implode on the campaign trail.
They have the biggest egos.
There is only 100 of these senators.
They all think they should be president.
And they run around.
And when they want something done, they do get it done in their office.
Okay, schlub A, I want you to read that, and I want you to tell me what my questions before the committee are going to be.
Schlub B, I want you to do it.
And these people run around and do it, and they end up, these senators end up almost as little dictators.
So exactly what Senator McCain is saying about Romney or anybody in the private sector is 180 degrees wrong.
In the private sector, you have to delegate and you have to trust the people you're delegating to, and you can't be worried about who gets the credit for what's happening.
Senators want every bit of credit for everything that does happen and no blame for things that don't go right.
And so they have their own little fiefdoms up.
There's a reason these guys and senators, women don't get elected straight to the presidency.
There's always an exception to rule, but it's been 47 years since it happened.
Governors, on the other hand, have had to delegate.
They've run organizations, and Romney especially has run businesses.
We'll be back, David.
It appears, ladies and gentlemen, drive-bys quote me accurately on this, that the Robert Birds have come home to roost for the Democrats.
A brief time out here.
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