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All right.
Here's my question.
Will the American people succumb to one of the most demagogic politicians of our modern times?
That would be Barack Obama.
I mean, we consider ourselves educated, sophisticated.
We consider ourselves stewards of one of the oldest democracies in the world.
Is this all it takes to undermine it?
A bunch of pap, a bunch of meaningless nothing platitudes?
Is this all it takes to turn our military, economy, our courts over to a recent community activist?
Barack Obama, is this all it takes?
You have to understand here, ladies and gentlemen, that the Democrats have been vying, focusing, desiring this kind of reaction from the American people for 50 years.
As much of nothing as they will accept, the Democrats will offer.
As much misery, tumult, and chaos as they can promote, the Democrats will promote.
To create this sense of panic, discontent, unsettledness, misery in as many Americans as possible.
They have done this with their willing accomplices in the drive-by media every day.
A barrage of pessimism, fatalism, doom, destruction, hopelessness, all of these things in the greatest country in the history of man and woman.
Is this all it's going to take?
A rookie to come along and undermine the greatness of this country?
It's a question every one of us needs to ask ourselves.
Back to the audio soundbites.
As you know, the Clintons have been putting pressure on PMS NBC, otherwise known as DNC-TV.
Chris Matthews had to apologize.
Schuster was suspended.
Looks like the pressure applied by the Clintons finally has paid off.
Let's go back to Matthews complaining about it just the other day.
This is from February 15th, 590.
I just don't think the kneecapping has worked.
I think her press relations are lousy.
I think if all you do is intimidate and punish and claim you'll get even relentlessly, people, all kinds of politicians, and have been for all fairness depressed.
Human reaction to intimidation is, screw you.
Talking about Hillary Clinton there.
Now, Chris, I don't know where you've been since 1992.
What do you think these people do?
All of a sudden, it's aimed at you and it's new.
It's never happened before.
This is how they have dealt with political opponents since they've been in the politics business.
Last night on DNC TV, Matthews did Hillary's bidding.
Grilling Obama supporter, Texas State Senator Kirk Watson, to name one Obama accomplishment.
I am.
Yes, I am.
Well, name some of his legislative accomplishments.
No, Senator, I want you to name some of Barack Obama's legislative accomplishments tonight, if you can.
Well, you know, what I will talk about is more about what he's offering to the American.
No, no, what does he accomplish, sir?
You say you support him.
Sir, you have to give me his accomplishments.
You've supported him for president.
You're on national television.
Name his legislative accomplishments, Barack Obama, sir.
Well, I'm not going to be able to name you specifically items of legislative accomplishments.
Can you name anything he's accomplished as a congressman?
I'm not going to be able to do that tonight.
There aren't any, which is why poor old Kirk Watson there, Democrat Texas camp dudes, a state senator.
And to me, he can't name any because there aren't any.
And he tried to say, it isn't what it's about, Chris.
Early in the bite, he said, oh, no, no, what I want to talk about is more about what he's offering the American people, which is change and hope.
Somebody down the road, you know, I want to warn you people about this too.
Somebody down the road is going to have to start criticizing Obama on the Republican side.
And I don't know that there's anybody out there but me that's going to be willing to do it.
And when I start, I want you to look out.
I want you to look out for how the cable news networks handle it, taking any comments out of context, imagining my motivation for the criticism.
Because there's a palpable fear out there to criticize this guy.
They're palpable because of the race business.
Purely and simply because of the race angle.
And because he's got this Pied Piper-like hold.
You know, what I find, one of the things I find amusing is the drive-bys and liberals think that my audience is a bunch of mind-numb robots.
If you want to see a nation full of mind-numb robots, Lemmings ready to go off the cliff, just look at any Obama rally.
And you are looking, you're looking at the vacant.
You are looking, you want to talk about people with holes in their head, or you can maybe say their open-mindedness to be diplomatic.
You're looking at them at an Obama rally.
Rush, now you're criticizing his people, not him.
No, this is not criticism.
I am analyzing and I am splaining.
I'm telling you who they are.
They don't care what he's saying.
I think if you look at that speech last night, look at that crowd, you know, snurdly, everybody going bonkers over the speech.
You look at that audience, they have any idea what he said.
They don't have a clue.
They have a clue what he said.
They're like, Kirk Watson, it doesn't matter what his specific achievements are.
All right.
Now, here's Hillary.
Next soundbite is Hillary in New York City.
This is this morning at Hunter College.
And she uses the segment that you just heard as a talking point this morning.
This is becoming more apparent every day.
My good friend, Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones from Ohio, represented me on one of the TV programs in the last day or two.
Some of you may have seen her.
And she was on against someone representing my opponent.
And for the first time, actually, the host asked the representative, my opponent, to name one accomplishment.
That is all we're asking for.
We're asking to compare our records.
Yeah.
Well, Matthews is doing your bidding all of a sudden after you kneecapped him.
And David Schuster name one.
So obviously, this comes from Clinton, Inc., and you notice how pliable the drive-bys are in carrying forward the Clinton strategy.
Just name one accomplishment.
What the Clintons don't understand is it's not about that right now with Barry's people.
It's not about accomplishing anything or having accomplished anything.
It's about feeling good.
It's about mattering.
It's about feeling proud of yourself for not having had to do anything but support somebody or show up at a rally.
It's not about his accomplishments.
They don't care.
This guy could have come off a sheep farm six months ago and be saying these things and the same thing would be happening.
It's not about the fact he was a community organizer.
It's not about his experience or lack thereof.
It's not about the fact that he's a U.S. Senator.
It's not about that at all.
It's about he's for hope, he's changed.
You know, all of these ephemeral things.
One more Mrs. Clinton soundbite from her speech last year.
This is in Youngstown, Ohio.
And last, I think the Nurse Ratchet personality was in full bloom.
This is the speech they cut away from, by the way, when Obama started.
I want to talk to you about the choice you have in this election and why that choice matters.
It is about picking a president who relies not just on words, but on work, on hard work to get America back to work.
That's our goal.
You know, when I think about what we're really comparing in this election, you know, we can't just have speeches.
We've got to have solutions.
And we need those solutions for America.
We've got to get America back in the solutions business.
Because while words matter, the best words in the world aren't enough unless you match them with action.
Now, match these people up side by side.
There's Mrs. Clinton and Obama goes, it's not even, it's not even, it's not even close.
Folks, this woman, how long ago was it, Mr. Sterdley, I said this?
She can't do anything right.
Six months, last six months, she can't do anything right.
Cookie, search our transcript archives, find out when the first time I did.
I don't care what it is, she can't do anything right.
She hadn't done anything right when she's first lady, Arkansas.
She didn't do anything right handling of bimbo eruptions, a Paula Jones case, Monica Lewis.
Cannot do anything, cannot, cannot run a campaign against a rookie community organizer.
You know, it's serious time here for the Clintons.
It isn't over.
But I think they need to seriously consider getting back to what got them there.
You know, you've heard the old saw that you dance with the one that brung you.
I think, and I know you people are going to think I'm being really over the top here, but they're misusing Bill Clinton.
Have him out there in a camp.
That's a guaranteed loser, too.
Look at history.
People he goes out there campaigns for, he ends up hurting.
Clinton needs to be caught having an affair.
Preferably the younger the better.
Needs to get caught.
She's the most cheated on woman in the world, and that's why she's in this place in the first place because the sympathy needs to have somebody start feeling sorry for her again rather than looking at her as an incompetent nurse ratchet.
So Mrs. Clinton's out there said, we want to know his accomplishments.
We want to know what Barry's done.
Mrs. Clinton, what have you done?
How long has this campaign featured the line, I've been fighting for X for 35 years?
Mrs. Clinton, you and your husband were in the White House for eight years.
You are complaining about the same things needing to be done today that you complained about in 1992 in that campaign, meaning you didn't do anything.
Now, he can turn it right around on you, Mrs. What did you do?
I fought for children.
I've been fighting for children all my life.
Well, where are the children that you helped?
Haven't seen them come forward here.
Say, Mrs. Clinton straightened my life out.
Hillary Clinton is the one who made me who I am today.
Where are the women that she's helped?
She's one to be talking about.
Wait, will you hear this ad?
Look at the audio to Mrs. Clinton's latest commercial.
This is she claims that she's worked the night shift, too.
You pour coffee, fix hair, and work the night shift at the local hospital.
You're often overworked, underpaid, and sometimes overlooked.
But not by everyone.
One candidate has put forth an American family agenda to make things easier for everyone who works so hard.
Universal health care, increased daycare, and help with elder care.
She understands.
She's worked the night shift, too.
Yeah, and they have a picture of her at night in an office.
She wants to compare her with actually working a shift at a hospital.
A graveyard shift at a factory?
Yes, she does.
That's what she's trying to do here.
Would somebody tell me what a federal government family agenda is?
My friends, I myself have no immediate family on purpose and by design.
But if I did, the last thing in the world I would want is to have to go to some government center to find out how I'm supposed to do it or where I'm supposed to go for here or where I'm supposed to go for that.
I don't know about you, but my mom and dad did a pretty decent job raising my brother and I.
And without all of this garbage, elder care, senior care, child care, animal care, veterinarian care, 12 weeks paid time off from where none of that.
And I'll bet it was the case for a lot of your families, too.
And if somebody had told you along the way that you did have to go to some government place, the family agenda would be taken care of, it would have revolted you.
The woman cannot do anything right.
She just cannot and has never been able to demonstrate that she has been able to do anything right.
It's so patently, brazenly honest, losing to a rookie, community organizer.
Rookie, nothing wrong with community organizers, but I mean, it's not the route most people take to get to the White House.
This is Rick in Kansas City, Missouri.
Rick, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey, Rush.
I don't know if you remember me.
I had called in a few weeks ago and ended up getting cut off.
That must have been a reason for that.
Well, it came to a hard break, and it was back when there was still hope.
But I got through a few weeks later.
The reason I called in is I actually wanted to agree with Mr. Eagleberger, who had to be able to do it.
You can't be serious.
You cannot be serious about this.
Rush, I've been a big fan for about 17 years.
17 years ago, I decided to quit drugs, and I was working for a pastor friend from the church.
And at the lunch break, he said, you want to listen to some Rush?
And I looked at him, I said, you listen to Rush?
I thought he was talking about the band.
And, you know, I thought in many ways you completed my transformation as I shifted from a maggot-infested, long-haired, dope-smoking hippie and became a conservative.
But what I want to say is that I agree with Mr. Eagleberger in that I don't believe, I don't believe that you or even Ronald Reagan necessarily represent conservatism.
And you have to acknowledge the fact that there's a few different ways to define conservatism.
And from my perspective, when I listened to you, you know, the question that I had asked when I called a few weeks ago is, I said, what is the primary, most important defining issue to you, whether it be the abortion issue or the fiscal issue?
And I've come to be convinced that you, Rush, are a blue-blood conservatism, conservative.
I remember you now.
Yes.
If I remember correctly, if somebody is not pro-life, anti-abortion first and foremost, then they can't be a conservative.
Because if that is squandered, then none of the rest matters.
Well, what I would say to you is from your perspective.
No, is that what you said?
I said that basically I disagreed with you because you said because Huckabee didn't have a perfect track record on taxes, he's a liberal.
And I was calling to say, Rush, if someone is conservative on foreign policy, conservative on foreign policy, he's inexperienced on foreign policy.
Look at, is Huckabee still a bugaboo with you?
No, not at all.
Is it because I didn't support Huckabee?
Means to you, I'm not a conservative.
No, what bothered me was that to you, the defining issue is the tax issue above everything else.
And here's my question.
No, don't think that was the case at all.
But if you were to ask me today what's the defining issue of conservatism, I wouldn't give you just one.
Right, but Rush, we've been forced to choose.
That's reality.
We've been forced to decide what our priorities are.
And as a result, it's over.
It's over.
It's over, and we have chosen somebody.
Done.
Fini, got to move on.
It's Senator McCain.
None of us are happy, but hey, well, listen, I agree with you.
We have to get behind the guy because we have to get our eyes on the judges.
I haven't said that yet either.
Well, we have to.
We have to fix our eyes on the judges.
Well, then we don't.
You know what?
All you concerned, you were, I got to say, Eagle Burger and all these other guys.
Now, look, I'm glad you're out there, Rick, and I'm really honored to be a part in your life improving.
I really am.
But Eagle Burger and all these guys, now you, I'm going to tell you something, everybody attacking me is not going to win anybody any votes.
Anybody attacking me is not going to move us forward.
The Eagle Burger can sit out there and he can say whatever he wants and get it wrong about me and so forth, and so can any of these other people that are doing it.
It's Hillary or Obama gang that represent the political enemy here.
Somehow I have become it, along with several of my colleagues here in Talk Radio, that that's misplaced energy.
All we want is, like I told Eagle, I'll play this bite again for those of you that have missed it.
We come back from the break and see what Rick in Kansas City is talking about.
Nobody here has appointed themselves the leader of the conservative movement.
Nobody here has.
There are a whole bunch of people in Washington trying to convince you they are the leader of the conservative movement.
It ain't happening here.
We just want to win, and we know we aren't going to win with liberals in our party trying to beat liberals in the Democrat Party on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limbaugh, as usual, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair, as we meet and surpass, meet and succeed all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Let's go to Cleveland where we have El Haji on the phone.
Hello, El Haji.
Nice to have you with us.
How are you doing, Laws?
Very well, sir.
I like you also.
I listened to you.
This is the first time I've called.
I'm trying to make a comment about what are you talking about, Obama, like the way you're trying to point to his emptiness.
You know, that's what I'm responding.
This guy laid all his plan, and everybody here in Cleveland, or most of the people I talk to, they accept it.
They love it.
You know, El Haji.
El Haji, I see this.
You are misunderstanding me, El Haji.
I am not saying that Obama is empty.
He is a full-fledged socialist.
I'm saying his speeches are filled with nothing until last night where he got specific about his economic socialism.
I'm saying the people in those crowds that he's drawing don't care what he's saying, El Haji.
Okay, I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, but Ross, you have to remember, you know, I came to this country.
I've been here for 14 years.
I listened to George Bush.
He used to say.
Where did you come here from?
Where did you immigrate?
I'm originally from West Africa, Senegal.
Senegal.
Yes.
And, you know, I love this country.
You can tell if you know Senegal, because we are a Democratic country supporting U.S. 891 Gulf War.
You know.
But George Bush used to say, let me get to this point.
He used to say, Democrat is going to raise your taxes.
If you remember when John Kerry was running, they're going to raise your taxes.
He's never Pacific.
How are they going to raise it?
Now Obama is coming to be more Pacific than Kerry.
He says, if you make less than $75,000.
That's why he's making the case.
He's connecting, he's communicating directly to the people.
You know, no Republican can be.
El Haji, sir, there's a little problem here in that Obama said in his speech that people who make $50,000 a year need the tax cuts, and they're going to be given even more tax cuts.
I mean, the fact of the matter is that people who make less than $50,000 a year are paying less than, I think, 5%, 3% of the entire income tax burden in this country today.
They're pretty soon.
They're going to be no tax paid if you earn under $50,000 a year.
And that happened, by the way, with George W. Bush.
Okay.
Well, you know, you can argue that I was going to be a long discussion.
But another point I want to make is this.
Because I told whoever take my call, I'm going to vote for Obama for so many reasons.
But don't you think, do you remember how many years we've been saying, let's help Africa about malaria, about AIDS?
Nothing gets done yet.
Why don't we try to put him on charge and see?
You know, if you care about, you know.
El Haji, you know, this, you're really scaring me.
No, I'm just.
No, no, no.
You are really scaring me.
And that's why I asked you where you were from.
I thought your accent was sub-Saharan Africa.
Yeah, I'm from.
Do you know where President Bush is this week?
I know.
He's in Tanzania.
He's in Rwanda.
I appreciate that.
Do you know the kinds of reception?
Do you know the love, the devotion, the ceremonies the people of Africa are throwing for President Bush when he arrives in each of these countries?
And do you know why?
Why?
Because he's done more for Africa than any American president ever has, particularly on malaria, particularly on AIDS.
I mean, even these left-wing rockers like Bob Geldof of the boomtown rats, who's done live aid and all these things to raise money, is saying Bush, Bush, Bush.
And Geldof is flying along with Bush on Air Force One.
Now, what in the world?
See, this is what bothers me about you, Obama supporters.
Obama hadn't said a word about AIDS in Africa that I can recall, and you've already has, but it's not out there prominently.
I mean, you've got to be following Obama like a supporter.
But the point is, you are a blank canvas El Haji.
And you can make him be whatever you want him to be.
That's the purpose of the nothingness.
And so now you've got him saving Africa after he saves America when President Bush has been in the process of doing more for Africa than anybody else.
No, You don't hear me.
Yes, Ross, you don't hear me say anything when it comes to Africa.
You don't hear me say anything against George Bush.
He do well.
He came to Senegal where I'm originally from two years ago.
I respect that when he do for Africa.
But I'm saying, I say all these years.
I'm not talking about the George Booth years.
I'm talking about since I was even a kid.
You know, you heard the commercial, everything say, let's help Africa.
Nothing's done because what happened is you don't put the help on the right hand.
You always put it in the government who are in charge over there and they're part of it.
You know?
Amen, bro.
Amen.
I agree with you 100%.
In fact, I think the best thing could happen for Africa is to have the aid cut off for like five years because they have become.
But two things have happened.
And you're right.
The money that has been given in previous years by this country and UNICEF and all the other worldwide organizations, all the money, all the time, all the caring, all the compassion to save Africa.
And it's still this place that's miserable, we're told.
It's going to hell in a handbasket.
Why don't we do something forever?
Rock stars are resurrecting their careers on saving Africa.
And yet, it's sort of like the poor in this country.
We've thrown everything.
We've given them the kitchen sink after throwing it at them.
We've given them everything.
We've still got the poor.
And we still have the disadvantaged.
At some point, you got to get the money into the hands of the people who are going to use it for investment and growth, not welfare.
And you have to take it out of the hands of these desperate warlord thug dictators in these countries are getting their hands on it.
People like Mugabe in the former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
Africa has become a worldwide welfare state with the welfare recipients primarily made up of the thug dictators running some of these countries and oppressing their people.
There is no reason in the world today why the vast majority of the third world is in one continent.
There is no reason for it whatsoever.
But I'll tell you who you can blame, El Haji.
Guess who's preventing development there?
Our good old American environmentalists, our leftists who prefer squalor to advancement, to running water, to electricity, because that requires fossil fuel for Mithril Limbaugh, and that's destroying the planet.
And so people in Africa have to live in pigsties because they're not allowed to develop the country by Americans and liberals all over the world who are standing in their way.
George Bush has gone over there and he has said, we got new rules.
We're going to continue to give you the aid.
You've got to show something for it.
And he's being celebrated upon his arrival.
Drive-by media here cannot understand it.
But the people of Africa do.
They understand what's happened with his presidency in that regard.
But the idea here that Barack Obama is the magic elixir that you can assign to any problem and it automatically gets fixed.
You know, the thing that worries me in a situation like that, when you have people of a cult, nothing ever does have to get fixed.
It's sort of like liberals and their good intentions.
That's all that matters.
All you have to do is, I want that problem solved, Mr. Limbaugh.
I can't bear to see people.
Okay, well, good.
We'll spend some money on that.
Good.
And they think the problem's solved.
And their good intentions got it done.
So you can throw onto the canvas the blank canvas that is Barack Obama, any problem, and you can be, you make him the solution to it.
And whether it gets solved or not, you think he's great because you've made him into what he is, not him.
And that's the appeal here.
Look, El Haji, nice to have you on the program.
I'm glad you called.
I have to move on.
Kathy in Minersville, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad.
Is that right?
Yeah, Minersville.
Nice to have you here.
Hi.
Hi.
Rush.
I was told to get right to the point, so I will.
And the point is that Hillary was dead in the water before she even threw her hat into the ring.
That's like a mafia term.
Are you sure you want to stick with that dead in the water?
Well, no, no, it's the truth.
It's the truth.
Because, first of all, not just because she's not as likable as Obama, but because she is a woman.
And from time immemorial, woman has been the cause of all of the falls and ills of mankind, going back to when Eve tempted Adam.
And, of course, when he had the opportunity to say, I own up to it, I did it.
He blamed his gift from God, the woman.
And, of course, we know about Zeus creating Pandora.
And the only thing left after she dispersed all the ills onto the world was the little gift in the bottom of the box, which was hope.
So anybody, whether it be Obama or whoever, you know, running against her, has to use this idea, this concept of hope, because it seems to be the only thing that would stand up against the ills brought upon society.
And of course, you could even blame Hillary to a degree for Bill's dalliances.
Maybe she was too much of a man for him to handle.
I don't know, but certainly he...
Where are we headed here, Kathy?
We're on an interesting track here.
I see a little fork coming up here in the road.
Well, the thing is, you know.
No, wait a minute.
No, no, no, no.
Don't lose your train of thought here.
But you seem to be saying that she had no chance because she's a woman.
Absolutely.
Simply because women have been responsible for most of the ills that have broken out on the planet, and it is they who pay the price.
Right.
You believe that.
You believe that.
Are you being facetious?
I'm trying to figure out very clever here.
Well, actually, you know.
I know you don't really believe that women are responsible for all the tumult in the case.
Of course not.
Of course not.
But there are those, you know, of limited understanding who, whether or not they vocalize that, believe it.
Whether or not they articulate that, they believe it.
Wait a minute.
It's deep-seated within them.
Wait a minute.
Getting even more provocative.
You are fabulous.
Who do you mean when you say those of limited understanding?
Well, I'm talking about the masses that are easily swayed by an ambiguous or esoteric term like hope, something not tangible that you can actually put your hand on or hold in your hand or say, okay, here is, you know, here's hope.
Look at it.
No, This is a clever evasion, but I am also good.
So you weren't talking about hope here.
We were talking about the limited understanding of people who believe that women are the source of our cultural problems.
Right.
Who are those people?
Wow.
Those are not the people.
I mean, the Obama crowd running around there all caught up in hope does not believe that women are responsible for all the problems in the world.
Okay.
Well, their name is Legion, if I have to number them.
And they don't necessarily just live in Stepford, but everywhere, including women themselves.
You know, it's got like this victim mentality that a lot of women have.
That, okay, we're to blame, so let's just keep our mouth shut.
Or, you know, let's just not exercise our right to vote.
Okay, so you let's get to the chase here because I've got to go to a break.
You think simply because of her gender that Mrs. Clinton didn't have a chance because there are enough people of limited understanding in this country who aren't going to give power to a woman no matter what because of various traditional, religious, whatever beliefs they hold.
Sure.
And they may not want to own up to it, but that's, you know, that's it in a nutshell.
Where do these people live?
What where is there a region that they congregate together?
Or are they all over the place?
Oh, I'd say they're all over the place.
There's probably a lot of them.
A lot of them probably in the Bible Belt.
And that's where I thought we were headed.
Well, basically, because they would have to say that.
If they agree with what's in the written word, they would have to say.
If they're followers and they believe, they would have to say, well, yes, Eve was the cause of all the ills coming upon mankind.
And if they're not, and if they believe in things like mythology, then they're going to say, well, yeah, when she opened that box, envy, cruelty, disease, despair, hate, old age, and lies came out.
People believe in astrology and psychics, this sort of thing.
They're out there too.
Well, sure, they are.
Okay, okay.
Look, I appreciate it.
I see what you mean now.
I wish I could continue this.
But I got to take a profit center timeout here.
Kathy, thanks very much.
You're very good.
You're really, really good.
Very, very dangerously good.
Still reviewing the comments of Kathy from Minersville, Pennsylvania.
You know, I've always thought that in a civilized world that it was women who really ran things.
Women who have the ultimate power over things.
They're the ones that say no.
You know, I'm talking about civilized relationships, civilized society.
I mean, they may not be president yet or anything like that, but believe me, we all know this to be true.
But one thing, Kathy, in Minersville, Pennsylvania, to all of the, and some of you might be offended by what Kathy said, because basically, she said that those of you who think Eve blew it believe that women aren't going to be in power no matter what, because Eve blew it, and that's.
Those are Democrats.
Those are Democrats that are blaming Hillary for taking a bite out of the apple.
Those are Democrats doing this.
And when you say that Hillary never had a chance with a whole lot of people, it's Democrats right now that are voting for or against Hillary.
So what are we saying about these Democrats if the reason they're voting against her is because she never had a prayer in the first place, simply because she's a woman?
Evelyn in Grand Rapids Michigan, great to have you with us hello, hello.
A little different analysis of that problem.
I think we need to look to the schools for ill-preparing voters and citizens to be discerning.
Being a good citizen is a noble and a high calling and it is its duties are taken so lightly.
I believe that in the school, I think there are probably one in 2,000 people who understand that the legitimate, The legitimate function of civil government is to protect us.
It isn't to provide for us.
And then while it's protecting us, it's not protecting us from our ignorance or our carelessness or our laziness, but from the marauders.
It's to protect you, Rush, from me or from any marauder anywhere.
I couldn't agree more, but all that went out the window with FDR.
And the Democrat, you're right.
That kind of stuff is not taught.
Empty vessels are prepared in public school today.
And they are prepared, but with conflict resolution.
And we make sure that their esteem is not harmed and so forth.
And so after a number of years of this, somebody comes out speaking like Obama, an empty vessel speechmaker, whose speeches are empty.
It's kind of made to order.
But look at, I couldn't agree with you more.
Not only is that kind of education not taught, critical thinking isn't taught even in universities.
They've all become indoctrination centers.
Time is flying.
It's already Wednesday.
And we're already two-thirds of the way through here.