Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Another C.
I told you so right off the top of the bat, Mr. Snerdley.
Right off, well, it was what I was talking about yesterday.
All the feminists, all the babes on TV, when Hillary starts losing, are all of a sudden going to say, wait a minute, what happened to us?
Even the ones that support Obama?
What happened to us?
This experienced woman who gave up everything for all these years is being beaten by an inexperienced black guy.
It's happened.
It's in the Boston Globe today.
Anyway, greetings, folks, great to have you with us here.
Rush Limbaugh.
I mean, Show Prep preparing and consolidating going on even as the program starts today.
Great to have you.
Wisconsin primary on tap today.
We have learned that Mrs. Clinton, this is another C, I told you so.
We have learned that Mrs. Clinton is actually trying to steal Barack Obama's pledged delegates.
And guess what, folks?
There's nothing in Democrat Party convention rules to stop her.
I'm telling you, even if he wins, she's going to get the nomination when all this is said and done.
And of course, it's not helping out there what Michelle Obama is out saying.
For the first time in her life, she is proud of her country.
She's almost starting to sound as unhinged as Bill Clinton is on some things.
Oh, man.
We're just loaded today.
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And the email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com, found an interesting quote from Friedrich Nietzsche about hope.
Would you like to listen to this quote from Friedrich Nietzsche?
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Is that not profound?
That is a profundity.
Hope is, just passing this on because you have all heard my riffs on hope and how it serves a function now and then, but it never accomplishes anything.
It's worse than that, according to Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Well, you sit around, you hope for things and nothing happens, and you get tormented over the fact nothing happens.
You sit around and hope and you end up fainting at political speeches.
I mean, at least if you're going to faint, do it at a rock concert, do it at Donnie Osmond concert or a Michael Jackson concert.
If you're going to faint, throw some browser underwear first up at the politician.
You know, get some action behind all this.
Let's go back to the archive, the audio soundbites.
This program yesterday, I said this.
What if she actually loses?
What if that happens?
And I was thinking, well, all of these women on TV, wherever they are, even those who may not particularly be for her now, I wouldn't be surprised if that happens, that all of a sudden there becomes a similarity in the coverage.
A woman lost.
In 2008, this country is still so sexist that it will refuse to elect a woman.
I can just see them all getting a little miffed, even though those women that were not for her, I can see them jumping in on this too.
And I see things like, I can't believe this country, they would actually support an inexperienced black guy over a competent, experienced woman.
Said that yesterday on this program.
Now, we've added some EQ there, ladies and gentlemen, to make it distinguishable from a live broadcast from the Boston Globe Today.
And by the way, this written by Susan Mulligan, I think is her name, obviously a female reporter at.
And the headline of the story, Clinton's struggle vexes feminists.
Do I know these people or do I know them?
As Hillary Clinton struggles to regain her momentum in the presidential race, frustrated feminists are looking at what they see as the ultimate glass ceiling.
A female candidate with a hyper-substantive career is now threatened with losing the nomination to a man whose charismatic style and powerful rhetoric are trumping her decades of experience.
Folks, it's almost like I set this up.
I say this yesterday that Susan Mulligan Babe writes this story for the Boston Globe, and it is almost verbatim the point that I made yesterday.
And mine was just a, it came in, I think, at the one of the two o'clock hour is a half-hearted little conclusion of some thoughts that I had while watching television.
It didn't even require sitting down and studiously examining all these events.
It's just an instinct that I had.
Wow.
So it's already happening out there.
By the way, Fidel Castro has stepped down, may even be dead for all we know, but he will not run for president again or not serve it.
This is sort of like when Saddam got 97% of the vote, the drive-by is here celebrated.
The drive-bys, he won't seek another term.
The drive-by is the liberals, they're just, oh, they're beside themselves.
This is such a maximum leader, such a compassionate, wonderful man.
How can this possibly be?
And many people wonder why, and I'm sure many of you do too.
What is it about these thugs, these totalitarian dictators that liberals so love?
And it's many things, but among them, they envy their total maximum power, not what they do with it.
They envy that they have it.
And then they tell themselves that the use of this power by dictators and thugs is for good.
And then they cite, say, the Cuban healthcare system.
Speaking of that, you know, if Hillary does somehow manage to lose the Democrat presidential nomination, she could always go run in Cuba because Castro does not have a wife.
If Castro had a wife to take over, it'd be a different situation, but he doesn't.
Hell, if she wins the presidency, she might make Cuba the 51st state anyway, but they've already got health care down there, world's best.
You know, something she wouldn't have to tackle.
But the federal government, John Negroponte today, said, no, don't think the embargo is going to end.
There's no end to this embargo.
It isn't going to happen.
Here is Michelle Obama.
This is yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin at a Barack Obama campaign event, a portion of her remarks.
What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback.
It is making a comeback.
And let me tell you something.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.
And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.
And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
And just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.
I've seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it's made me proud.
Now, this, folks, is unhinged.
I mean, I've heard some female commentators today say, I totally understand what she's talking about.
She's black.
She's African American.
See, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.
She and her husband are in the upper 1% of wage earners in this country.
Where did she go to school?
Where does she went to?
They go to Harvard, Yale, or whatever.
They went to private schools.
They are millionaires.
They live in the suburbs.
I don't think he marched at Selma.
I don't think he got beat upside the head.
I don't think Bull Connor turned a fire hose on him.
I don't think dogs were unleashed on Barack Obama.
She, Mrs. Obama, did not experience any of the 1950s segregation.
To say something like that and to get a complete pass, people acting as though this is something unique and revelatory, that this is some special couple that for the first time in her life, did she not feel proud about the Berlin Wall coming down?
Has she not felt proud about the way we came together after 9-11?
It is unbelievable to me.
And this goes to the root, I think, of some of the things we discuss here frequently.
And that is people taking this country for granted, not having any understanding what it took to get this country where it is.
Here are two relatively young people who grew up after a road had been paved for them.
They have nothing in the world to be miserable about.
He is running for the presidency of the United States.
He ran for the Senate and made it.
They have nothing in the world to be miserable or unhappy about or embarrassed about when it comes to this country.
It is just outrageous for this kind of thing to be stated.
The sad thing is it's going to resonate with a lot of people because over the years, many Americans have been told from grade school on up how unfair, how unjust, how racist, how sexist, how bigoted this country is.
How in the world, look at Oprah Winfrey.
How in the world does Oprah not make her proud?
Oprah's success?
How can Oprah, the movies, the TV show, how can that not make her proud?
Oprah's a black woman, as is Michelle Obama.
You know, I and then, by the way, there's something else I had in the stack yesterday.
I didn't have a chance to get to it.
So I saved it for today.
And it has to do with the fact that she said that Obama, her husband.
Yes.
Here it is.
Only Barack Obama can fix America's soul.
Only Barack Obama can fix America's broken soul.
Now, can you imagine?
Michelle Mulkin had a great reaction to this.
Can you imagine if Huckabee or if Mitt Romney or if any Republican president, if McCain, any Republican presidential candidate came out and said, America's soul is broken and only Huckabee can fix it or only McCain can, there would be an outcry from the separationist of church and state crowd.
And of course, the soul, whether you people want to admit this or not, is a religious concept in many ways.
And in most ways.
So now we're getting religion mixed into all of this from Barack Obama.
His wife says the first time in her life, she has been proud of this country.
Doesn't it just grate on you that liberals in general are not proud of their country, period?
Doesn't it grate on you that they're embarrassed, that they hate the country, that they dislike it?
And now she comes out with this kind of comment, and all these people sitting around hoping for whatever are swooning and fainting.
A quick timeout here.
We got to go to our commercial break, but we'll continue right after this, folks.
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As you know, Bill Clinton on the campaign trail, he is not happy at all, ladies and gentlemen.
What's happening to his wife from Barack Obama and his wife?
Barry Obama, the world is at your feet.
Wonder how you'll manage running without knees.
It is heating up the Wisconsin primary today, 74 delegates on tap for the Democrats.
Superdelegates are being paid by both Barry Obama and Mrs. Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton going after Obama's pledged delegates, and there's nothing to stop her.
The pledge delegates do not and are not required to vote for any particular candidate on the first ballot.
They are all up for grabs.
It's like I've been saying, ladies and gentlemen, if you've it's almost like these primaries don't really count, the pledge candidates are not pledged, and that's Democrat Party rules.
It's not something the Clintons are finagling.
It's Democrat Party rules.
That's why the superdelegates are there because Democrats never trust voters, even their own, to do the right thing.
So the superdelegates are there to mediate and to send the party in the direction the party poo-bahs want it to go.
Now, there is an Arkansas Times journalist.
His name is Max Brantley.
Max Brantley, one of Hillary's biggest and most important supporters in Arkansas.
He'd known her forever.
And he has a little piece here at the Arkansas Times blog.
And the title of his post is It's Over.
And when he says it's over for Hillary, when Max Brantley says it, it has impact.
He writes, I'd be happy to be wrong for a variety of reasons.
I would prefer Hillary Clinton to be the Democrat presidential nominee, but it ain't going to happen.
She's going to get clobbered in Wisconsin today.
She might run ahead, even win the popular vote in Texas, but the delegate count will be close, probably pro-Obama.
The media talk, the popular mood, the times, they all work for Obama.
And finally, there's been the Clinton campaign.
Fighting seriously today about Obama's borrowing of rhetoric from a friend is a sign of desperation.
Obama's derivative, so is everybody.
And Bill Clinton, I mean, who knew? Has proved to be a negative.
The media megaphone can't be underestimated.
Some of it's crazy, some of it's unfair, but so is life.
Obama will win the nomination.
Polls today say he will beat McCain everywhere in every key state and nationally.
Those same polls said the same thing about Hillary Clinton's short dominance a few months ago.
And he closes by writing for the record.
So big-time journalists in Arkansas knows Clinton well, biggest, most important media supporter, says it is over for her.
One thing, one caveat.
Mr. Brantley here makes my point about polls.
Some months ago, the polls said that Hillary was inevitable and it was over and it was just a matter of time.
All we had to do was let the calendar click by be over.
And the same thing was said about Rudy Giuliani.
And I remember people getting all hot to trot about polls last March and April and May.
And I kept trying to tell people that they don't mean anything yet.
I mean, really, we haven't even gotten to the first primary in Kaukai State.
They don't mean anything.
Even now, I mean, we've got a little bit more under the belt.
The delegate count is in Obama's favor.
Clearly, the polls have a little bit more relevance today than they would have had nine months ago.
But there's a lot of things that you have to factor in here that polls do not measure.
And that is the inner workings of the Democrat Party and how Mrs. Clinton is attempting to wrest delegates away from Obama.
And by the way, I'm sure he's trying to do the same thing.
I don't want to make this sound like it's one-sided, but I just don't want anybody to think here that this is a senior prom election or a class president election where they're voting and they're counting the votes and whoever gets the most delegates is going to win.
Not in this party, not in this race, not with the Clintons involved.
Hey, man, a living legend, a way of life.
Learn it.
Love it.
Live it.
And we add to that list a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a national treasure, and, of course, I've also been dubbed a prophet by others on this pro.
Why are you frowning?
Are you upset with people on the phones?
Okay, Snerdley's upset with what's on the phone.
Well, let me look and see what's on the phone.
I don't see anything up there that particularly should be upsetting to you.
What am I missing?
What line are you talking about?
Okay.
Well, let's go see.
I mean, you're upset with it.
Let's find out what's on the phones.
I mean, I was going to talk about Hillary Clinton bagging a duck when she was first lady in Arkansas to try to get white male voters, but we'll put that off for a minute.
John in Salt Lake City, we'll start with you on the phones.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
A pleasure to be with you today, Rush.
Thank you.
My question for you today is, how long do you think this firmer Obama can last?
Do you think they can sustain that religious fanaticism all the way through November?
No.
No, in fact, the drive-by is already starting to poke holes in it and tear it down.
I've got a whole stack on that that I was going to get to today.
They're starting now to say, he's not even writing his speeches.
You know who he's writing his speeches?
Oh, yeah.
Ted Sorensen.
Theodore Sorensen is a primary advisor, not the actual speechwriter, but he's a primary advisor, wrote speeches for JFK.
His speechwriter is 26 years old.
But the drive-by is already starting to take some shots here now at some of this messianic aura that surrounds itself, the halo effect, if you will, over the head of Barack Obama.
But it's not just that.
You know, I've always believed that the American people do not have that deep an emotional reservoir to begin with.
I always use this as the example.
I will never forget, it was the 80s, I was in Sacramento.
And at the time, the leftists in this country and around the world were all fed up with F.W. de Klerk, who was the grand poobah, the head Afrikaans of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela was in jail, and we're going to let him out of jail.
And so the divestment in South Africa move began, and every university and every company was urged to divest from South Africa.
And it was never ending.
It went on for months.
And after a while, I got sick and tired of hearing about it.
And so did a lot of other people.
And I warned the advocates, if you keep this up, people don't have the ability to feel angry or sad or sorry at the level you need them to be to accomplish this.
Their emotional reservoirs run dry and they fill up with some new issue or some new cause for concern.
And this kind of messianic approach that Obama's taking is going to have to be replaced with some specifics at some point if he does get the nomination.
And then once you start debating with Senator McCain, and the media is going to change its focus as well as time goes on.
So no, it's, I mean, he's going to have his supporters that'll still have this attachment to him.
And you're going to have supporters who won't care what he says as long as he says hope and change, every other word.
But in terms of having this, well, no other better word for it than messianic.
That can't be sustained from now to November.
Do you think Hillary's done at this point?
Oh, no.
No.
It may look like it on paper, and she may be done, but she's not done.
These are the Clintons.
Remember, this is my phrase.
Even if he wins a nomination, she's going to be the nominee.
Meaning they'll fix this at the convention.
She's not going to get out of this.
She may lose Wisconsin.
She's a couple of points ahead, maybe three points ahead or four in both Texas and where else did I say Ohio.
She's down by four and a half in the real clear politics rolling average in Wisconsin.
But if she now, even James Carville is saying that if she loses Texas and Ohio, she's toast and she's done.
That, I mean, there may be some numbers here that might prove to be insurmountable.
But remember, none of these delegates are pledged.
And this is nothing new.
This has always been the case.
It's just it's never mattered in the Democrat Party because they've always had their nominee by February or March.
But remember, as I so pointed out yesterday, 1968, and that's memorable for a number of events, of course, the Chicago riots.
Also in 1968, Hubert Humphrey was a Democrat nominee.
He didn't win one primary, folks.
Now, I know it's a little different circumstance today than it was then, but 40 years ago, the Democrat nominee did not win a single primary.
Walter F. Mondahl in 1984 stole pledged delegates to Gary Hart.
Stole them.
And Walter F. Mondal ended up being the nominee.
And I have a theory about this.
I went to that convention.
I was at the Democrat convention in San Francisco.
It was my first ever political convention and was doing a morning show in Kansas City.
So we had to, I don't know, we had to go on the air, what was it?
Four in the morning.
We were getting up at two.
Actually, we were staying up all night, sleeping during the day because we had to go to the convention.
And I remember going to a reception at, I think it was the Mark Hopkins.
That's where I met Gephardt for the first time.
And there was a man from Sykeston, Missouri, a good family friend, a big Democrat.
Forget his name now.
He was there as a delegate.
He was a honcho of the party.
And I walked in and he saw me and I didn't see me.
He came up and said, hello.
So, what are you doing here?
I said, well, I'm working this for a radio station in Kansas City.
I said, what do you think your odds are here?
Now, they had chosen Mondo by this time.
He said, you spot me.
I'll never forget this.
You spot me 100 electoral votes and we can win this.
I said, spot you 100 electoral votes.
He said, yeah, I know, I know, I know.
They knew that they were going to lose so big.
They knew we were going to lose.
And I actually think they didn't mind nominating Mondo because it was Mondal's turn after Jimmy Carter.
Mondole had been an old war horse.
Time to get him out of the way when they had no chance of winning anyway.
Sort of like us in 1996 and perhaps other years.
I think that's what happened.
But Mondoll, before all this happened, actually out there stealing delegates from Gary Hart.
And once Hart was found on a boat over on Bimini, the Moton the Monkey business boat, that was, and that was really close to home because Gary Hart's wife was the sister of Martha Keyes, who was a prominent state legislator, a congressional member from the state of Kansas at the time.
It's all incestuous, folks.
It is just incestuous out there.
So it's too early to say that Mrs. Clinton's out of this.
With all due respect to Max Brantley at the Arkansas Times, he's looking at the numbers.
And according to the numbers, she's toast doesn't have a prayer, but it's the Clintons.
This is the only reason they're alive.
This is the only reason that they're living.
This is this whole nomination is the sum total of every Christmas morning in their lives with themselves as Santa Claus.
So this is going to be juicy.
It's going to be fun.
And you got Obama's wife out there saying, for the first time in my life, first time in my life, I'm happy and proud to be an American.
That is so repugnant.
Do you know even McCain has let his wife Cindy go to the microphone on this?
Cindy McCain is saying, well, I know you heard the comments yesterday.
How many of you are proud of your country?
We're all proud of our country.
But that's the interesting thing.
There are so many people in this country who aren't.
They are leftists.
They are what?
Would I go to a Democrat convention today?
I wouldn't go to a Republican convention today.
You kidding me?
I wouldn't go to either one.
But it was fun.
And I also went to the Houston convention, Republican convention in 1992.
And when, yeah, when, wait a second, I went to the Republican convention in 84, too, when Ronaldus Magnus was being re-nominated.
That was in Dallas.
Wait a second.
Yeah, that was in Dallas.
Oh, yeah.
I'll never forget.
Oh, I'll never forget that.
I went to the Texas Schoolbook Depository, did a report from up there, yeah.
Where it's where I met George Will down in the bowels below the convention hole.
And then the Astrodome in 92 was where the Republican convention was there.
And that was the, nope, no, the last convention I was at was the Clinton convention, 92 in New York, Madison Square Garden, because that's where the, you know, the broadcast facilities were right there.
Well, that's where we sent Lobianco out with the grape Kool-Aid as the Democrat delegates were walking.
We thought we were going to smoke Clinton.
We thought this was the easy, this, this, there's this hay seat from Arkansas that they've nominated.
That was a we found the C-SPAN cameras buried in the shrubbery outside the garden and put Lobianco in front of them with a sign, a sandwich board, grape Kool-Aid for Democrat delegates, and they all had a big time with it.
But that's the last one that I have that I've been to.
Let me quick call Roy in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Roy, thanks for waiting.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you.
It's unthinkable to me that Michelle Obama would not have reason to be proud of her country.
But Rush Limbaugh, you can't live in a world without hope, friend.
I'd love to hear your definition of hope.
Well, I've gone through a riff on hope before.
You probably.
I heard it when you opened it up.
I'm sorry, but this.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about.
That was quoting Friedrich Nietzsche.
Would you mind quoting that again, please, sir?
Let me see.
Which stack did I put it at the bottom of?
I don't want to have to paraphrase the thing.
Bear with me here.
Yes, sir.
A lot going on here at the EIB.
Here it is.
Friedrich Nietzsche, hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Man, that's a foolish statement.
And to hear you say it's profound, as smart as you are, it blows me out of order.
You can't live in a world without hope.
I don't think that.
Well, that may be, but what did hope ever do?
What did hope ever accomplish?
What did you?
Hope got me through for 52 years.
That's what hope the public can't change.
You can say what you want to do.
You may think it did.
You may think that.
No, it did.
It didn't.
It absolutely did.
When you're hoping, you're sitting around hoping.
You're not doing that.
No, There is no action.
There is no action associated with hope.
You're confusing hope and desire.
No, you're confusing them, my friend.
No, and I have to say that.
No, I'm not.
No, I'm not.
I am a great man, a very smart man.
I am not.
I know this stuff.
Roy, can you hang on?
I got to take a commercial break.
I seriously want to talk about this with you first.
Sure.
Okay.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Nice to have you.
We are once again discussing the definition of hope with Roy from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Roy, before I want you to explain your version of it, I want to explain Friedrich Schnitz's quote to you and what he means by this.
You're still there?
I'm listening, sir.
All right.
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Now, what I interpret his meaning to be, and I think he's right, is that when you hope, it means things are unsettled.
You're unhappy, you're dissatisfied, you're not content.
You hope or something.
It's got a perverted meaning of hope, my friend.
When I hope I've done all that possible and I'm waiting on the imposter.
Please, let me.
Look, I'm not even trying to be contentious with you.
I want you to understand what this means as I think it.
And you're free to tell me how you interpret it because this is important.
Because there's a presidential campaign being run on this, Roy.
I'm aware, sir.
All right.
Well, it is my hope here that I am able to change your mind about this.
I just heard you say it's your hope.
I'm glad you got some hope.
Yeah, I do too.
Roy, I have a very subtle sense of humor.
Now, let me just finish this one sentence here.
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man, meaning unhappy, dissatisfied, not content, miserable, whatever, depressed.
And you hope.
You sit around, you hope something is going to change.
But your torment continues because hope isn't going to change anything.
Okay, okay.
Your subtle sense of humor I didn't catch.
But let me tell you, it's not humorous to me.
And I'm glad you have it.
That's why I've been listening to you for 10 years.
And I will continue to.
But for a man as masterful with words as you are to let somebody steal this word of hope, which is a biblical term, which is going to abide forever because it's written in the Bible that it's going to abide, you're letting them have this term, man.
I want to hear a solid, sure definition from Rush Limbaugh because Rush Limbaugh knows what hope is.
Hope's not some dummy sitting around here waiting for something to happen, not doing nothing.
It's after you've done everything you can do, you've done the possible.
Now you're waiting on God to do the impossible, and He'll do it.
And that's what hope is.
That's according to a biblical term, not some whacked-out nothing.
Now, wait a second.
Now you've brought something brand new into the mix here.
And you have shown me something.
You have reached me in a way that few have on the subject of hope.
You just said that hope is what follows the full expenditure of effort and desire.
Absolutely.
And when that has not succeeded, you hope for God to thank you.
All right.
Now, do you not find it interesting that the appeal that Barack Obama has is also based on a messianic, god-like ability to deliver miracles?
I may find it interesting, but I find it just as foolish as it is interesting.
And anybody that's nuts enough and dumb enough to follow it, man, they're not hoping.
You're letting him steal your word, right?
I'm stealing nobody's word.
We agree on.
You're letting Barack Obama steal your word when you know more about the word than he knows.
Wait a minute.
I thought you were angry at me at the beginning of this call.
I'm not angry at nobody.
I'm angry at sin and the devil for trying to steal a word that belongs to the true people.
And the true people know what hope means, my friend.
Hope is not sitting around doing nothing.
Hope is you've done the possible.
Now you wait for God to do the impossible.
All right, well, that's what I mean.
You've entered something new here.
We're not talking about the term hope in a religious sense, and most people don't.
Well, that's where it comes from.
It comes from, and that's where Barack Obama's appeal is at.
And you just said it because he's messianic or Christ-like.
And that's why he's duping people.
And you know more about this than he knows about it.
Well, of course.
Of course I did.
The whole Obama campaign is a fraud.
Is that what you want me to say?
Sir, I want you to speak like Rush Limbaugh, and I'm glad to hear you say you got hope because I knew you had it.
You'd have never got to where you were without it.
All right.
All right.
Well, we've got to take a break.
It's sad, folks, that we have to earn a living on this program, but we do.
Back in a second.
More of this on the other side of the break, folks.