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March 3, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 3, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Hi, how are you?
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For those of you expecting to see the dittocam today, we don't have it on.
It's working fine, but we don't have it on.
As I am, it's getting worse to the stupid flu.
You know, January, February, if I leave, if I travel someplace, I get sick.
I'm getting mad about it.
I only went up to Georgia yesterday.
It's not like I went all the way up to New York where this stuff is floating around in the air all over the place.
It makes me mad.
I'm fit to be tied with it.
Anyway, I said, get Kleenex all over the place here.
This is just, it's not a conducive day for you to be seeing what's going on in the studio.
Just listen to it and everything will be fine.
We've got audio soundbites coming up, plus your phone calls.
Again, at 800-282-2882.
Now, the founder of the prestigious Institute on Media and Politics at Harvard, this is the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
The founder of that revered institution is Walter Shorenstein.
He's a prominent San Francisco-based real estate developer.
Huge, huge Lib.
He's a Democrat fundraiser, longtime supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he has written a memo to Democrat Party superdelegates and other activists criticizing media coverage of the Democrat presidential campaign.
He is upset over the complaints or the perceived press bias in favor of Barack Obama.
In his memo, Shorenstein concurred with the Clinton campaign's assessment.
He says, I'm absolutely outraged with the media coverage of the presidential campaign.
AP, by the way, got hold of a copy of this.
This is the most important election in my long lifetime.
And to quote one of my favorite movies, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
He's talking about the movie Network.
There's too much on the line for the media to ignore important issues while they obsess about Hillary's hairdo or Barack's baritone, Shorenstein continued.
Is it in the country's best interests that voters receive far more information about Hillary's laugh than Obama's legislative record?
Is it good for our nation that more attention is paid to the differences in their speaking style than their health care plans?
Hey, Walter, your big problem, buddy, is that there isn't that much of a difference between them policy-wise.
And so these are the only distinctions that people can make.
And Walter, I'm going to tell you something else.
She just isn't cutting it when it comes to the public speaking stuff.
And this little thing called charisma.
You know, Nurse Ratchet didn't have any charisma either.
And the media is not given that to Obama.
He's got it.
But I'll tell you, Walter, your problem, here is Lib complaining to fellow libs to drive-by media.
And hey, Walter, I'll tell you another thing, old buddy, old pal.
What's doing you in here is all of the years of affirmative action and quotas and two different systems on how to treat people based on their skin color.
You have asked, along with your buddies, that minorities be given a little help, maybe a step or two up the ladder.
Certainly we can't be critical of them because that will make people racist.
Everything you libs have advocated for all these years is coming home to roost in this campaign.
And what we're coming down to here is fascinating to watch.
We have one aspect of Democrat liberal politics, which is feminism, and it's up against the racial coalitions of the Democrat Party.
And you know what the Democrats are finding out?
It's going to laugh at this too.
I can't laugh because I have a coughing spasm, but just know, folks, I want to laugh right now.
And this is why I think what Gloria Steinemo upset, it's frankly much easier, more fashionable, and less harmful to be sexist than it is racist.
And this is what's showing through in the campaign, Walter, old buddy O'Pal.
Don't you love this?
The guy who endowed the Kennedy School, well, the Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics.
Upset, where do you think these media people have gone to learn how to do this?
Places like Walter Shorenstein's big place up at Harvard.
This is exactly what I'm talking about here by keeping Hillary in this.
Now you've got liberals beating up on liberals about press coverage.
Whoa, love this.
By the way, Walter, old buddy old pal, how come we never heard from you on press coverage and bias when your buddies from Harvard and the Shorenstein Center and everybody else that drive by media was trying to destroy George Bush for the last five years?
How come when it involves Republicans, there's no such thing as press bias, Walter, old buddy old pal?
I mean, it's plenty of example.
I mean, I don't want to talk about myself because people know I don't like doing that.
But Walter, I mean, I've never complained about it.
I deal with it when it happens to me.
I understand it.
The difference is, Walter, your guys didn't make me, so they can't destroy me.
They can try, and they have, but I didn't hear you pipe up about how unfair it was and how biased and how important all of this stuff.
Now, when his babe, when his candidate, Hillary, can't keep up on her own, got more stories in the stack.
Everybody's at fault in that campaign but her.
Mark Penn.
Who the hell else is involved?
You know, the usual suspects.
She continues to escape any blame, any blame for it.
And so to see these guys now start complaining, Hillary's people complaining about media coverage.
Oh, you got to love it, folks.
You just have to eat it up.
Now, moving on to audio soundbites, we're back to number three, Mike.
We're going to switch gears here because we've got to talk about, in the interest of fairness, since we're talking about Mr. Shorenstein, a liberal Democrat.
We're going to switch to talk about McCain now, which means if we're going to go to the soundbites, it means talking about me.
Sadly.
This is late edition with Wolf Blitzer yesterday.
Gloria Borger had this to say about Senator McCain.
Talking to some Republicans this week who were saying to me, look, conservative talk radio is killing us in this campaign, and we have to figure out a way for John McCain to make peace with conservative talk radio, because if they continue at the decibel they're continuing at with Rush Limbaugh, et cetera, they're worried that it's really going to hurt them.
They know they might pick up some independent voters in a general election as a result, but they're worried about consolidating their base right now, and this is a problem for them.
It's just stunning.
In the first place, there's no bashing of McCain going on by talk radio.
It's the other way around.
Bill Cunningham goes out there, does the, does the warm-up for McCain, mentions Obama's middle name, and what happens?
McCain's out there ripping into Cunningham, and a lot of people in conservative talk radio took it personally as though he meant it for them, too.
I didn't, but a lot of people did.
But, Mr. Sterdley, help me out here.
Have we been?
I mean, I will admit that during the primary season, before it was all over, we were on McCain's case pretty well.
But have we been on McCain's case here?
What a I've talked about.
Look at my McCain stack.
He's got three stories in it.
McCain's not in the news, folks.
The whole story is a Democrat side.
And, you know, one of the stories in my McCain stack is how he had a barbecue for the media yesterday in Sedona.
He loves the media.
He loves to grill hamburgers or ribs or whatever to have the drive-bys out there.
That's one of the stories, but we haven't been on McCain's case.
This is an outdated comment.
And if they are worried about conservative talk radio, maybe they're maybe it's maybe well, it just doesn't make any sense.
They're the ones out there ripping conservative talk radio.
Do they, Gloria?
Excuse me, folks.
Do you people in the drive-bys have no idea how all this got started?
Go read the New York Times today.
They finally got around pointing out how McCain's not been consistently conservative, switching a lot of positions, flip-flopping around, and not flip-flopping.
It has been the wrong side of some things.
We did that back during the primaries, Gloria.
Now the New York Times is doing it.
Elizabeth Bue Miller, I'm sure you know her.
You guys hang around at coffee clatches together.
Anyway, folks, brief, well, no, let's go.
Let's do two more in this cycle because they fit together.
Also, late edition.
Well, Wolf must have had one hell of a show yesterday because most of our soundbites so far have come from Wolf Blitz's show.
Blitzer says to Charlie Chris, the governor of Florida, what worries you the most about John McCain in terms of electability?
Not being able to bring in that Rush Limbaugh conservative radio talk show wing of the Republican conservative base.
That's not a concern of mine.
It really isn't.
I mean, you know, this is a conservative guy.
This is a reasonable man.
He is the right guy at the right time for our country, regardless of party.
Yeah, they're not worried about, well, who's Gloria Borger talking to?
Because she says that they are concerned.
Now, Britt Hume decided to throw his two cents in on this.
During the Roundtable Fox News Sunday, Crystal and Hume are talking about McCain.
And Bill Crystal says, well, the reason he's a stronger candidate than a lot of other Republicans would be is he's a little bit heterodox.
He's got his own views.
He shouldn't back off on that.
I think actually.
If the conservatives don't want a President Obama or a President Clinton, they ought to get off McCain's back and let him campaign as whatever he wants to and campaign from the center.
Who among us is stopping McCain from doing anything?
Nobody can stop him.
I have, on the record, said, ladies and gentlemen, he shouldn't call.
He shouldn't call us.
He shouldn't ask what we want.
That's not who he is.
He's got to be who he is.
Who in the world?
Who are they talking about?
I mean, I'm missing something, Mr. Sternly.
Who in the world is telling McCain how to campaign?
I mean, if this is what criticism of McCain is being interpreted as, I wouldn't, I wouldn't.
The only thing I've said about McCain is I really wish if you're going to go get moderates and independents, you bring them in as conservatives, not liberals.
I don't want a whole bunch of socialist liberals as socialist liberals coming over to the Republican Party.
But who knows, folks?
Anyway, this has become such a template and such a narrative that the drive-bys can't let go of it.
Even when we have, even when we have let it go, they can't let it.
What about Hillary Obama?
What do you talk about?
Oh.
Oh, that's right.
That says Snurdley has a good point.
When I talk about Hillary and trying to keep her alive, the drive-bys love me.
And they all want me on their shows.
That's just true.
I was going to be on one tonight.
I had to turn it down because I can't.
I'm going to go home.
I'm going to go to bed.
But talk about McCain.
Get on my case here.
No different than the way it's always meant.
That this narrative of theirs, this is a great way to illustrate.
They have this narrative that conservative talk radio is beating up and being real mean to McCain, and that hasn't been the case.
I don't think ever.
What just political criticisms?
Anyway, I got to go.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Get some of your phone calls in after this.
So the same template on the conservative side continues as well.
On the Democrat liberal media side, the drive-by side, what we have is Limbaugh still pummeling McCain.
McCain wants to get Limbaugh and his team on his team.
What's he going to have to do while McCain's out ripping the talk show host?
Then we have Britt Hume.
Of all people, I'm a little stunned by this.
Maybe it's because I'm sick.
I'm stunned.
Britt Hume saying that conservatives need to get off of McCain's back.
Does anybody ever ask moderates to get off anybody's back or liberal Republicans to get off anybody's back?
This is absurd.
It's almost obnoxious.
Yeah, the conservatives need to get off McCain's back and let him campaign the way he wants to bring those moderates in.
So the Republican template is we conservatives should just shut up.
We should not participate in the process.
Just get behind a Republican nominee, push him over the finish line, because it can't happen without us.
Need to get behind, push him over the finish line.
Then the next four years, we'll read about what a bunch of Neanderthals we are.
Screw it.
Tony San Antonio, you're next to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yes.
Yeah.
Hi, Tony.
Are you there?
Yes, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
I just wanted to make a point, Rush, on something you said a long time ago, way before any of the candidates were even running, when it was being whispered that Hillary was going to run.
You said not to worry.
You told us not to worry.
You said that people would come out in droves to vote against her.
And I kind of think that's what's happening right now.
Everybody that, well, I didn't expect to be Democrats coming out to vote against.
I thought that would be in a general.
Yeah, nobody did.
Nobody knew that Democrats were going to come out this strong against Hillary.
And I think that, you know, a big part of them voting for Obama are really voting against Hillary.
So kind of, you know, I think there are a lot of factors.
And that clearly is one.
The Clintons have been laboring under, I guess, I think they've been laboring under all kinds of misconceptions.
One of them is that the country loves them and is desperate to have them back.
The second one is the Democrats really, really love them and really want them back.
The third is that the country really, really loves Bill.
It wants him back.
And the fourth thing is that the Democrat Party really, really, really loves Bill and wants him back.
And they thought that this was just going to be a cakewalk.
It's obvious that they did because they weren't prepared for anything after Super Tuesday.
They didn't have any organization on the ground in any of these states.
They had to ramp that up on the fly.
So She's an unlikable person or personality, and the drive-bys did do stories on that.
You know, the drive-bys, you remember back a year, year and a half ago, the drive-bys were doing all these stories about how she's done, and they were trying to advise her on how to get nicer and how to change her image.
That's what it was about back then.
Yes, she did a likability tour.
She's doing a likability tour out there.
Just all of it's been too little too late, and none of it's been consistent.
I had some of the guys in the golf course yesterday tell me, I don't see how Hillary's still in a race.
You hear her whining and moaning to debate on Tuesday.
come she's always asked the first question why am I always I said you guys are misunderstanding that That was done on purpose.
That's an appeal to women.
Hillary's trying to make women think that she's being bullied by everybody else in this race, from Russert to Brian Williams to Obama.
And then that's what that was about.
It didn't work.
I mean, it did come across as childish and immature.
But it tells you what Hillary thinks of women.
It worked once up there in New Hampshire.
The Democrats are famous.
Playbook is only so long.
They have to keep recycling all the plays, recycling all the pages.
Jenna in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Hi, and welcome to the program.
Jenna, are you there?
We have.
Jenna, I'm here.
Hi, welcome, son.
Nice to have you here.
We having problems with our phone system in there today?
Yeah, okay.
Jenna, I'm sorry about that.
Apparently, we got a phone problem.
That's okay.
I can hear you.
Yeah, but I couldn't hear you.
Uh-oh.
And when you weren't there, it made me look like an idiot, which makes me want to get mad at Snirdley for making me look like an idiot.
It wasn't you that made me look like an idiot because you didn't hear me either.
It's probably Brian's fault when we get down to the end of the day.
But what was it, Jenna, that you called about?
Well, I was a little distressed over the weekend when I saw that you were pushing the, not that you're telling anyone what to do, but suggesting perhaps that we try to keep Hillary Clinton in the race.
And it just disturbs me to think that she would even have a chance of getting the Democratic nomination.
I just, I can't stand the thought of it.
I think it's dangerous.
I know there are a lot of people out there because these Clintons are like cockroaches, you know, that the last thing standing after a nuclear blast.
Nothing gets rid of them.
No, no, people have that innate fear.
Wouldn't you love to cream Hillary, though?
I would love it to be done in the primary.
I know you want it done as soon as possible.
Well, the reason being is if she were to secure the nomination, I wouldn't put it past the dirty dealings of the Clintons for her to wrangle her way into the White House, which is just unthinkable.
Well, why are you so afraid of her?
Look at how ineptly she's campaigning against Obama.
Why is Obama running rings around her?
Well, she likes.
By the way, why is Obama thinkable?
You know, you people.
Jenna, hang on here.
I don't mean to call you you people.
Chalk it up to being sick.
I'll be back with you in a second.
It's too bad because Jenna is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Her name's not Jenna.
It's Gina.
Gina, be back to here in just a second.
What the hell did I just see?
The UN Security Council's meeting to put more sanctions on Iran for nuclear activity?
Well, now, wait just a minute here, folks.
I thought the NIE said that they gave it up.
I thought that the National Intelligence, well, don't just say the lives.
The drive-bys did too.
The drive-bys went to try to destroy the Iraq mission over it.
They tried to destroy the Bush administration.
A lot of people believe the NIA.
Even though we found out who wrote the thing, a bunch of saboteurs.
But, well, they were.
You know, you get sick here.
You got to be really careful what you say.
The discipline.
Because When you're sick, folks, there's not a whole lot you care about.
I mean, that just isn't.
All you want to do is just get better.
When I get sick, I turn into a little kid.
I just become as childish as a little kid.
So, okay, the next thing: did you see these houses have been blown up out there in Seattle by the Earth Liberation Front?
This is serious.
These are not just fires.
These are explosions.
They've a bunch of these houses, well-to-do houses.
Yes, there are well-to-do liberals, and some of them just lost their homes to an extremist left-wing group.
Environmentalist wackos.
The peaceful, the tolerant, the kind, the sweet, the understanding.
Earth Liberation Front's blown up all these houses.
And they've, I don't know, are they claiming credit for it, or did they leave a they believe it's them, but did they leave some kind of a calling card around?
Isn't there something to indicate it's Elf in one of these houses?
Anyway, back to Gina in GoPort, Mississippi.
You have called to chide me about trying to keep Hillary Clinton alive, right?
Not so much chide you.
It just makes me nervous.
Well, do you understand why I'm doing this?
Yes, sir.
I do.
So, Tubb, I want you to tell me why, if I want to make sure that you've understood, that you've heard what I have said, you get it.
Yes, you would like this to happen to continue the squabbling between the Democrats themselves.
Let them tear each other apart rather than leave it on McCain, who we aren't certain that he has the guts to take on Obama.
Well, question of guts.
Well, not guts, but I just think the Republican Party, as a general rule, is not going to be ripping into Obama for all of the usual defensive and fear-based reasons.
Politically correct reasons.
Oh, yeah, and more.
But don't forget there's another part of my, you know, another method here to my so-called madness.
I do want to beat these people.
I do want to win.
And if Obama were to wrap this up early, what is so, you know, Hillary is so unthinkable.
I think you used the word, right?
Oh, yes.
Well, what is so thinkable about Obama?
There is nothing palatable about socialism.
Nothing at all.
Well.
Let me tell you something.
We've got a head start beating Hillary because half the country already hates her.
I don't think we're going to be able to gin up those kind of negative numbers on Obama.
Well, that's a good point.
I mean, the idea that a lot of people think Obama will be unbeatable.
Deb, I've heard that.
I am not one of them.
By the way, I don't buy into all this conventional wisdom that comes out 10 months, nine months before an election.
There's too many factors that we don't know things that are going to happen both events, news-wise, things in the campaign and so forth.
But I think Hillary, we've seen a dry run here.
We've seen a blue plan on how to wipe her out.
Obama's done it.
The thing that's going to change is that if she were to be the nominee, the press is going to fall in love with her again.
Right now, the press, you know, they're giving her a little dusting up.
But you have to understand, this is what everybody's going to have to understand.
Once the Democrats have a nominee, and I don't care how bad the fight is, I don't care how long it takes, once they have a nominee, our nominee is going to be trashed, despised, ripped to shreds by the drive-by media.
You can make book on that.
I don't care who the nominee is.
It will happen.
Make no mistake.
Gina, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
This is Deborah in Houston.
Deborah, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
I just wanted to let you know that, first off, you're my husband's nemesis.
Husband's nemesis.
Yes, sir.
I would trade a lifetime of grief dished out by him to spend one three-hour evening smoking cigars and talking with you in the more cerebral pursuit.
Oh, wow.
I wanted to tell you I'm a Texas voter.
I voted in the Texas primaries last Thursday.
I've tried to get in touch with you over the last three weeks, but we've been really busy at work and just haven't been able to listen to you.
And I had this theory, and I wanted to bounce it off of you.
And Friday night, my theory was confirmed when I listened to Laura Ingram on O'Reilly.
Found out I went and voted in the primaries for Hillary Clinton, which absolutely, Rush, it was.
I could look at it.
It would be like Ronald Reagan voting for Gorbachev.
I understand this.
I was a very courageous thing that you did.
And Rush, you know what's really what really just tickles the tar out of me is that I knew to do this.
This was my strategery.
And my husband kept telling me, oh, you're crazy.
You're crazy.
Don't waste it.
Don't do that.
But I can't vote for McCain in the primary.
I'll vote in the general for McCain, but I just can't vote in the primary for him.
And so I voted for Hillbill Clinton.
And just want to let you know that.
So you took my advice, Deborah, and you pimped yourself for your money.
I pimped myself, Rush, but I didn't take your advice because I did it before you came out on Friday night.
Oh, you did it Thursday before.
That's right.
Oh, wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second here, Deborah.
I may be sick, but the mind is not totally cloudy.
I've been on this strategy for a week and a half.
Well, Rush, I haven't been able to listen to you because of stuff at work, and it was just a theory.
How convenient.
You know, I just kept bouncing it off people, and they kept telling me I was crazy.
And then Friday night, I rejoiced because Maha Rushi told me exactly what I should have done, and I did it without even being asked.
So you know your instincts.
Yes, sir.
Well, it's all these years of education.
Trust your instincts.
Absolutely.
Well, you're very kind.
I'm glad you called.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Rush.
By the way, Deborah, do you spell your name D-E-B-R-A, or is there an O and an H in there?
B-R-A.
B-R-A.
Yes, sir.
D-E-B-R-A.
D-E-B-R-A.
Congratulations, Snurgly.
Got somebody's name right today.
Okay, Deb.
I can't laugh.
Have a good one, okay?
Rush.
Bye-bye.
Dorothy in Sandusky, Ohio.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Dittos to you.
Thank you.
Longtime listeners.
Sorry you're under the weather.
Hope you feel better real soon.
So do I.
I just wanted to let you know that my husband and I are registered Republicans, but tomorrow we're going to go over there and become Democrats for one day and vote for Hillary.
Now, are there any in the midst here of what might be a hacking call for?
Are there any conservative Republicans on the down ballot tomorrow that you might want to vote for?
Not that I think of right off the top of my head.
We're going to go ahead with McCain.
He's not our favorite idea, but the idea of either Hillary or Barack being president just makes my teeth curl.
I couldn't stand the thought of having either one of them in office.
So I hope this works out.
And I agree that I think a lot of Obama's votes are really votes against Hillary more than they are for him.
So I hope that proves to be the case in the election.
Why do you think that?
You're the second caller today that said that.
What is it about Democrats that don't like Hillary?
I really don't know.
Being a Republican, I don't know why anybody ever liked the Hillary Club.
No, but I mean, you've got Obama.
I mean, I can give you reasons why Obama's followers are followers.
I can tell you why.
It doesn't have a thing to do with what he believes.
It doesn't have a thing to do with what his policies are.
I can list him.
He speaks well.
He's mesmerizing.
He's charismatic.
And he's making people think they don't have to do anything for themselves in the future.
He's going to do it for them.
That Obama represents everything they want for themselves, and he's going to come.
Hillary can't pull any of that off.
I think people might be making a mistake here.
I'm sure there's some anti-Hillary vote in the Democrat Party, but I think the people that are voting for Obama right now are doing so with a pretty strong emotional attachment to him.
Yeah, I do too, and I think they're very far off base.
I think he would be an absolute disaster because I think he's probably not stupid, but he has said a lot of dumb things in his speeches and promises and so on.
He's not stupid.
He's not stupid, but he is inexperienced, but he's a liberal.
And that's all any of us need to do.
Do you know what?
Obama's out there saying that he's going to get some Republicans to put in his cabinet.
And I said, well, now that's interesting.
Who's he talking about?
Chuck Hagel.
Now he's going to get Chuck Hagel, one of McCain's best buddies, and put him in the Secretary of Defense or some such thing.
Now, that's, I mean, Hagel's a Republican.
But do you see what this is about?
This is about blunting McCain's appeal to the moderates and so forth and so on, which I don't know if it's going to have any impact this far out in the election, just mentioning this, because we don't know what Obama will really do, but going out there and naming these kinds of Republicans, frankly, we'd be happy to get rid of them, wouldn't we?
Hi, welcome back, Rushlin Boy.
Talent on loan from God.
Let me give you another example of how Obama is doing things.
And I don't know if you talk this up to incompetent or just risky.
And I first read about this, by the way.
Ed Morrissey alerted me to this.
He's left his own blog, Captain Quarters.
He went over to Michelle Malkin's site, Hot Air.
So I was reading Ed Morrissey.
This is now on the Fox news website.
It's also at rightonthererite.com.
Everybody's got this now.
And, you know, Obama is saying that he showed excellent judgment and brilliance for opposing the Iraq war.
Obama was not in the Senate when the vote on the Iraq war took place.
He was campaigning.
And so he continues to refer to his decision as very informed and very educated because he had the sense, even campaign, to vote against it.
He also, in a recent appearance, said that Jay Rockefeller, who is head of the intelligence committee, also voted against the war.
Well, the use of fourth authorization, use of force authorization, which was in October of 2002.
You all remember this?
This is when the Democrats sensed that the American people really, you know, just a little over a year after 9-11.
And get the midterm elections.
And the Democrats are going bonkers and wacko.
And they asked for another debate on the use of force in Iraq to get on the record as supporting it.
And, of course, Bush was more than happy to comply because this meant in October that the Democrats stopped talking about their issues, kitchen table back pocket issues, excuse me, going into the midterm elections.
So anyway, Rockefeller did not vote against it.
He voted for it.
He voted with a stirring speech.
And he talked in great detail about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
Now, Obama is out there describing how he was on the same page as Jay Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, by the way, was not even the chair of the committee at the time.
He voted in favor of the war authorization.
You remember who was chairman at the time, Senate Intelligence Committee?
It was Bob Graham of Florida.
And he voted against the resolution.
But Obama didn't mention Graham's name in his passage or on his website.
He's talking about Hillary here.
She didn't read the National Intelligence Estimates.
Jay Rockefeller read it, but she didn't read it.
I don't know what all that experience got her because I have enough experience to know that if you have a national intelligence estimate and the chairman of the National Senate Intelligence Committee says you should read this, this is why I'm voting against the war, that you should probably read it.
I don't know how much experience you need for that.
Well, he cited, excuse me, folks.
He cited Jay Rockefeller in error.
And now Hillary is going to try to turn this around and hammer Obama with this.
See, he's got the law.
He didn't have to vote on this.
So he can run around and say, I was the one that was reasonable.
I was the one that had the brains.
I was the one.
I certainly had enough experience to realize how bad this was.
He didn't have to make a vote.
Didn't have to vote.
We're dealing here with another Bill Clinton in so many ways.
And we know how that went.
Tammy in Shawnee, Kansas.
Nice to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
I'd like to let you know that we're generational listeners here in Shawnee, Kansas.
My folks listen.
I listen.
And now my 18-year-old son, Lynn, that's exactly right.
Hey, listen, I just feel like as Americans, we need to put this through the filter of these people are interviewing for the presidential seat of the United States of America, the most powerful nation in the world.
And this Barack Obama is not qualified.
He's handed us a blank piece of paper for a resume.
And our finest companies here in the United States wouldn't even consider this guy.
He has no qualifications.
Well, but see, that's the thing.
You're exactly right.
But it doesn't matter, does it?
To his supporters.
See, he's not the educated choice.
He's the liberal choice.
Well, he's got to be stopped.
You're doing the right thing.
But people need to wake up and understand he is not qualified.
It doesn't matter.
This is what I'm trying right now.
Look, I'm telling you, you know, Obama can talk about the future, and the Clintons can talk about the past.
I stand up for the right now.
I'm big on the right now.
Somebody's got to be for right now, and that's me.
Hey, listen, my 12-year-old daughter, her statement last week was, who cares what the guy's middle name is? looks like Curious George.
Don't let me laugh.
I can't laugh.
The point I was going to make to you is you're going to have to be very careful how you try to disabuse.
You don't have to disabuse Republicans of Obama, Tammy.
Republicans already, everybody's on the same page with you about Obama.
There may be some so-called Republicans, but trust me, the people are going to have to be separated from Obama are those people you see in his rallies and the people in these polls.
And those people are not attached to him because of his intelligence.
They're not attached to him because of his experience.
They're not attached to him because of anything to do with his record.
They're attached to him like the faithful are attached to a religion.
They can't prove it.
I never heard of Curious George until that caller.
I don't care how old Curious George, I never heard of Curious George.
I had no idea what she was talking about.
Now they tell me Curious George is a monkey.
Well, whoop-dee-doo.
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