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March 4, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 4, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Well, there's high praise.
There's high praise.
If I can only establish that it's somehow deserved.
Hi, Mark Davis, joining you from Dallas-Fort Worth.
Let us get back into your calls and let's do it here in just a couple of minutes.
I always like to open each hour with just a little premise that we might add, a little bit of a topical layer that we might add.
Let's cover a phenomenon that I know you are familiar with.
Maybe you are involved in it.
I'm being very cryptic here.
Because I want to back into this somewhat gingerly because I don't want to offend because many of you do what I'm about to describe here with every good intent.
But you're killing us.
So let's just go right to it.
I'm talking about the 500 things you'll probably get in your email inbox.
Most of them you will simply forward to 5,000 other people because it told you to.
Always love that.
But it basically has to do with the notion of Barack Obama closet Muslim.
And I'm not just talking about the middle name stuff, which, you know, you can dwell on all you want if you think making him sound more foreign is creepy.
That's, you know, whatever, whatever, whatever.
But these efforts to take a look at his Muslim dad and his upbringing and fashion from that a bold assertion that he is lying in wait to establish an al-Qaeda cell in the Oval Office, okay?
If you are getting, well, you can't do anything about what you get, but if you are forwarding those, I'm here to tell you you are helping to elect him president of the United States.
Here's how.
Nothing helps a guy more on the campaign trail.
Nothing helps a political candidate more than being able to claim the moral high ground of being unfairly impugned.
There is a long and valid and good list.
Rush will help you formulate it of reasons to fear an Obama presidency.
From his radical liberalism to his thin resume to his desire to sit down for mint tea with global tyrants.
There is a long and valid list of reasons why an Obama presidency is to be avoided.
We must focus on that because the degree to which we allow our side, conservative side, Republican side, whatever you want to call it, if we are perceived as being in bed with these dunderheaded emails, you know, I called the Trinity United Church of Christ and told them I was a Muslim and asked if I could join.
And they said, yeah, proof that Obama is a Muslim.
I mean, please, you are killing us with this stuff.
Now, there is a way you can even walk this line responsibly.
Even a blind pig stumbles across an acorn every once in a while.
So let me tell you about a sentence that I crafted in my own head yesterday.
If on some horrible future day America is attacked again and Barack Obama is president and it turns out that we just need to take violent military action against a Muslim country because it simply seems to be called for,
would his finger hover above the button with hesitancy because he has just some wistful nostalgia or some catch in his throat about his Muslim dad and the portion of his roots,
meager though that portion may be, that is Islamic, would he hesitate to do what an American president needs to do while we are at war with radical Islam?
That is an absolutely valid question.
It is not valid to be walking around like a bunch of dorks, you know, say like Inspector Clouzo saying, I found it.
I found the evidence.
He's a Muslim.
I called, you know, I mean, just, you know, no more bad Peter Sellers.
You know what I mean?
Just stop it.
Stop it.
It's just not going to work because it doesn't deserve to work.
You know, so again, you're killing us.
And if you're thinking, well, you know, talk show boy is not right about that.
I'm going to go ahead and forward this thing to 745 people.
Okay.
Hope you feel better.
Knock yourselves out.
You are helping to elect him.
Because if a storyline takes shape that poor Barack Obama is being maligned by a bunch of pointy-headed conservatives who are trying to portray him as a closet Muslim, then there will be voters who are flipping a coin.
They go, I don't know, Obama, McCain, I don't know.
Maybe some of those moderate Democrats, maybe some of those crossover voters that McCain might otherwise earn who'll say, you know what, that poor Obama guy, I'm going to stick it to those morons who tried to smear him without basis, and I'm going to go ahead and vote for him.
So stop it.
There are plenty of reasons to fear the Obama presidency.
I'll help you with some of them in this last hour of my fill-in experience.
Rush will help you every day of every week between now and November 4th, if indeed that's what needs to happen.
So this is just my little voice in the wilderness saying, you know, just in general, one of my bugaboos is forwarding every dumb thing you get in your email.
The George Carlin, I am a bad American.
George Carlin didn't write it.
The Andy Rooney rant about something.
Andy Rooney didn't say it.
The Paul Harvey something or other about something.
Paul Harvey didn't do it.
The Robin Williams peace plan.
It ain't Robin Williams.
It's just not.
There are people in their underwear in the basement cranking this stuff out all the time, all the time, attaching famous people's names to it.
Now, listen, some of them are true.
The Charlie Daniels thing about Guantanamo is Charlie Daniels.
I love Charlie Daniels.
You will too after you read his little blog about Guantanamo.
That's why I guess my favorite one there, a few of these is Snopes.com, S-N-O-P-E-S.
Snopes.com.
A woman named Barbara Mickelson has that going, and it's just wonderful people.
They're heroes to me.
If you get anything in your email box and you're thinking, hey, wait a minute, did this really happen?
Then go to Snopes, okay?
Snopes.com, S-N-O-P-E-S.
Let me give you one that's a bonus as we prepare to go back to your calls here.
I haven't seen this on Snopes, but this one is famous.
And I hate to explode this one for you, but I just, you know, want to help you out where you're not forwarding stuff that's false.
Have you seen the oh, so famous quote from Abraham Lincoln?
Where Lincoln, I don't have it right in front of me, but you'll recognize it, where Lincoln ostensibly says, any member of Congress who seeks to speak ill of soldiers in wartime or who says anything to adversely affect the morale of our fighting forces should be taken out and shot or hanged or deported or something like that.
Just some horrible set of circumstances for members of Congress who speak ill of a war in progress.
Well, it's a lovely sentence, except for one small problem.
Abraham Lincoln never said it.
So I know we're all really hopped up and we all just want to do whatever we can.
You get something in the internet that says, what?
Obama's a space alien.
Forward it to everybody.
Shh.
Shh.
Just calm down.
Everything will be fine.
Check out the validity of everything you get.
Be a responsible warrior.
Be a responsible carrier of the baton that will hopefully lead to a McCain presidency, more conservative judges, winning the war.
And as we go to calls here, I'll just say one thing to those of you who are still stumbling over your ability to vote for McCain.
If you're thinking, I can't do it.
He's not conservative enough.
I'm going to stay home.
Please don't do that to the troops.
Please don't do that to the troops.
Don't help give them Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton as a commander-in-chief.
Get over it.
Get over.
I was going to say, get over it now, but actually, you got 35 weeks to get over it.
I hope that's plenty of time.
Don't do that.
Don't let your little political tantrum, and listen, it's my political tantrum too.
I was a Romney guy.
Hey, got to do what you got to do.
And what we've got to do is prevent the ascendancy of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to the Oval Office.
Please don't do that to the troops and don't do it to the Constitution.
Now, I know this sounds really highfalutin now.
My, I'm invoking the Constitution.
You know, does he really mean it?
Yeah, I do.
Because you know what?
With Alito and Roberts, who are there with Antonin Scalia and one of my heroes of my lifetime, Clarence Thomas, you know, we're starting to get some rulings that actually honor the Constitution again.
We're going to overturn Roe v. Wade here, man.
We're going to do it.
We're going to do it.
Don't derail that.
Okay.
Don't.
Don't let your little fit of peak over the fact that your guy isn't the Republican nominee mess up what could happen in the remaining years of this decade.
We could win the war and we could help honor the Constitution with more justices that take the court in the proper direction.
John McCain will do those things.
Now, maybe he's not as ardent on the border as I'd like.
Maybe he is a fan of the campaign finance reform that truly is a rape of free speech.
Well, you know what?
When's the last time I batted a thousand with a president?
Came close with Reagan, but Reagan didn't shrink the size of government enough for me.
Still love him.
President Bush drives me crazy on the borders, supported campaign finance reform.
But I'll thank God every day of my life that President Bush was elected, not once, but twice, because he's kept my family safe.
For seven years, he's done it.
And I will always honor and thank him for that.
This was the year I was going to get greedy.
And I did get greedy.
And I said this for much of the last year in my own show here in Texas.
I said, you know what?
I love the president, support the president, disagree with him on some things.
Here we come, 2008.
Here's the year where I'm going to get a guy who will win the war and who'll be tough on the borders.
Give us the right kind of justices.
Get rid of this campaign finance nonsense.
Here we go, baby.
I'm ready.
Of course, one problem: Duncan Hunter did not get enough votes.
So we're all in certain degrees of coping.
And there's just my view on how to navigate those waters.
Thank you very much.
Tip your waitresses.
Let's take a break and come back and get into the vastly, vastly more interesting landscape of your calls.
1-800-282-2882-1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
It is quite the honor, and there's about 43 minutes of it left.
So let's make the most of it when we go to your calls next on the EIB.
It's the EIB Network, the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your company today.
We're about to hop back to your calls.
30 seconds.
Just want to share something with you.
A little thing I like to call, come on, ride with me, Rangers.
It's the Barack Obama Inconsistency Patrol.
Here's our first destination.
Barack Obama has said in San Antonio just yesterday that he understands why Israel does not recognize Hamas or have any desire to speak with Hamas.
Why?
Quote, you can't negotiate with somebody who does not recognize the right of a country to exist.
So I understand why Israel does not meet with Hamas.
All right.
What's the first thing that jumps out at you from this quote?
Is it the memory we all have fresh in our heads of Barack Obama beating George W. Bush around the head and shoulders rhetorically for refusing to sit down and talk with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the modern-day Hitler whose head hits the pillow every night dreaming of the violent eradication of Israel?
So Bush is to be pilloried for not talking to Ahmadinejad, yet Obama understands why Israel doesn't talk to Hamas.
Okay.
Join us again soon for another trail ride on the Barack Obama Inconsistency Patrol.
All righty, let us ride in the direction of more of your calls.
Let's go to New York City.
Ernie, Mark Davis, filling in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB.
Great to have you.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Ernie.
Hey, Ernie, this is the part where you start talking.
Or the part where we say see you.
All right, well, that accrues to the benefit of George in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Whoa, no, has Ernie, hang on a second.
Mark, I'm here.
Hi, Ernie.
He's just screaming, please, please.
These chances don't happen much in a lifetime.
All right.
It's nice to have you, sir.
Thanks.
Mark, a bigger picture question for you.
In November, regardless who wins, they're going to run into the buzzsaw of professional politicians in Congress, both parties, who are largely out of touch with America.
So you mentioned the Constitution before, and we're supposed to be governed by the people, for the people, of the people.
And that's just not going to happen.
And we see the consequences.
So I was wondering what you think, and if you know what Rush thinks of term limits.
We have them for presidents.
Why don't we have them for Congress?
Right.
I wouldn't speak for Rush.
I'm not sure.
Let me tell you about me because this is term limits are a wonderful topic, a fun topic, because people who are plenty conservative can agree.
Actually, they're conservatives and liberals on both sides of this issue.
All I can do is tell you about me.
If we had term limits, that would be fine.
If we decide we want them, that's fine.
Because you're right about government of, by, and for the people.
And I sadly reached the conclusion that once we get people who are incumbents, that we become like glazed zombies and we just continue to elect and re-elect and re-elect the same scoundrels.
I mean, what will 90 out of 100 people do?
They will criticize Congress.
Then what will 90 of 100 people do?
Go vote again for their congressman.
Because it's like, well, my guy's okay.
All of y'all are the ones who have it wrong.
I am at my heart, at my root, a marketplace guy.
And here's where that guides me.
If someone wants his congressman for two or 12 or 50 years, they should have that right.
I don't ever want government telling me I can't vote for my guy anymore.
My congressman happens to be Michael Burgess, Republican, 26th District of Texas.
As far as I'm concerned, he can be my congressman for the next century, should we live that long?
I love this man.
So for some artificial, arbitrary thing to come up in 12 years that says, nope, he's got to go, need another guy, I just can't sit down next to that.
I understand term limits.
I absolutely understand the vigor that comes from people who want them.
People want them for a good reason.
And if we had them tomorrow, it's not like I'm going to lose sleep.
There are benefits to it.
But ultimately, what I'd really want is no term limits, but an electorate that really does throw people out when it looks like they deserve it.
So that would be my thought.
Does that make sense?
Mark, I wish it would happen, but as you just said, people just keep voting repetitively over and over.
I know I'm probably dreaming, and I should know better about human nature than to ever think that would happen.
But the question is put to me, can I approve of an arbitrary limit where a law simply says I can't have my congressman anymore?
And I just can't go there.
So that makes me, you know, I don't know if that puts me out of step with a lot of America.
I don't know.
I think the term limits mania is kind of wearing off.
I think it hit its apex about 12, 15 years ago.
It may rear its head again.
And if we get to the point where the marketplace wants term limits, well, then I'll have to figure out what I think about that.
All right, appreciate it, sir.
Let us go to Charlottesville, Virginia.
George, hey, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
Welcome.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my call, Mark.
Sure.
So first, a comment on Barack Obama.
If he has, if there's any chance in this universe that he holds any nostalgia whatsoever for the Muslim religion, then America cannot afford to have him as president.
Well, he's not going to telegraph that to us.
That'll just be left in the land of our speculation.
I understand that completely.
But the reason I called, I was just pondering this.
If Texans, Republican Texans, go out and vote for Hillary, those voters, I believe, would come from John McCain, in which case that allows Mr. Huckabee to win a lot more delegates in the state of Texas.
Except that I don't think they'd come from McCain.
The people who really, really like McCain are going to vote for McCain.
If anybody's going to cross over and vote for Hillary, it's going to be the disgruntled Huckabee voter who says, well, nothing I can do for my guy that I can share.
In an attempt to sway the election, not to vote for her.
No, no, no, I know what you mean, but it's the same kind of, I think it's sort of the good soldier conservative who's probably more likely to be a Huckabee voter who says, all right, there's nothing I can do for my guy.
Let me go keep the Democrat chaos going.
Let me go follow what Rush said and let me go vote for Hillary.
I don't think the McCain voter is going to go vote for Hillary.
I don't think.
You may be right.
That's just speculation on your part and mine.
So much appreciate you.
Thank you a lot.
All right, we got a half hour to go.
Let's fill it with your calls and a couple of other nuggets of perceived wisdom from me.
And let's do some more calls at 1-800-282-2882 when we come back.
I'm Mark Davis in Texas filling in for Rush.
Home stretch half hour.
Thanks, Rush.
Get better.
Be back tomorrow, man.
Please, please, please.
America needs you.
It has been an honor to sort of shape this Texas and Ohio Tuesday, but hopefully Rush will be well and able to slice and dice the actual numbers and chronicle the events that a huge night tonight will yield here on the Rush Limbaugh program for today, March 4th.
We are sort of talking about what we want to have happen, what we think will happen, and that's sprouted out in some wonderful various other directions on sort of our finger on the pulse of politics today.
Here is a place, speaking of politics this year, here's a place I'll be visiting, at least in the metro area sense, first week of September, as the Republicans gather to anoint presumably John McCain, who will clasp hands with somebody as a running mate.
We'll get into some of that speculation here in just a moment as well.
But just north of Minneapolis, you find Fridley, Minnesota.
Hi, Todd, Mark Davis.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Mark.
How are you doing today?
I'm good.
Thank you.
Good.
I just basically have a couple of comments.
One is on a lady that called and said she couldn't vote for Hillary because of a woman.
Me myself, I am a very right-wing conservative Republican.
And my opinion is, you know, the woman, the black man issue.
And I have problem with it is, well, I mean, my comment is, I would not vote for Hillary, not because she's a woman, but because I don't think she has the experience.
Two.
Wow.
I would not.
Okay, but let's take them one by one.
Let's take them one by one.
You don't think she has the experience.
She's a two-term senator.
She was in the White House, I know, first lady, but, you know, there in the suburbs of power for eight years.
Were you a fan of, I mean, George W. Bush ascended to the presidency with, one could argue, less experience.
I just don't feel safe with Hillary as her leadership.
Now, I'm not saying she's not a good leader, as a woman.
She is.
I just don't feel safe that she could hold the position.
Okay, well, then let's get straight with each other.
It's not an experience problem with Hillary.
It is that you don't trust her instincts.
Right.
Well, then there you go.
Because take somebody whose instincts you trust, and I think you'd probably be willing to vote for somebody who'd been a senator for less time than she has.
Just looking to arrive at some clarity there.
Okay, keep going.
Keep going.
Okay.
And as far as Obama, I wouldn't vote for him, not because he's black, just because I don't think he's got the leadership experience, even though he has got a lot of experience in doing a lot of things, just as far as presidency.
So, I mean, as far as the woman, the black man thing, that has nothing to do with it.
I would vote for Condoleezza Rice in a heartbeat, and she is a black woman.
And because she's got experience, she's got the eyes and the ears of leaders around the world.
She's a smart woman.
And so it's the black, and I hear this from a lot of people where I work, which is very Democratic.
I get a lot of gut for that.
And my opinion is, and I'm trying to get people to understand, it's not a race or a sexist thing.
It's an experience thing.
Well, let me ask, okay, your love for experience is documented.
In our remaining minute or so, can I ask you about the, because I'm intrigued by Condi Rice.
Sounds like you're ready to vote for her tomorrow.
Here's the difference.
I wonder about her on a number of issues, and I would love to hear her answers on a bunch of things that we know nothing about.
Presuming that things like gun control, abortion, tax cutting, you know, 14 other things I could mention, campaign finance reform.
We don't know diddly about Condi Rice's opinions on this.
So it's just you're just so enamored of her foreign policy experience and so taken with her as a person, which I am too, that you're just like, you know, let's hope that those are all okay.
I'm ready to vote for her.
Well, the reason why I would vote for her is because America is no longer just America.
It's now becoming more of a worldly country where we have to include other countries.
And she's aware of the other countries and their policies that we're going to have to live as neighbors.
Okay.
Wow.
Okay.
Okay.
Todd, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Okay.
Wow.
It is a big world out there.
We do have to live in that world.
I would hope that Condi Rice or any American president is not all caught up in the necessity of being liked by the rest of the world.
When we run our foreign policy based on how highly we are thought of in the coffee shops of Paris or the markets of Munich, we are dead.
And this may sound a little weird, or you may pump your fists in the air at my wisdom, but I wear it as a badge of honor that much of the world hates us.
If we were to do nothing, if we were just isolationists, then the rest of the world would be ambivalent about us.
Yeah, America, whatever.
That's good.
The reason they hate us is they will always hate those who try to change things.
They hated Abraham Lincoln.
They hate George W. Bush.
They hated Reagan.
He tried to take an evil, he tried to take an unacceptable situation and do the near impossible.
Change it.
And what we are about right now as a country is nothing less than the reformation of the radical Muslim world.
You bet we're hated.
That scares the living daylights out of a whole lot of other people who would just assume we do nothing.
Why disturb the hornet's nest?
You're only going to disturb the hornets.
Yeah.
The alternative is to let the hornets continue to live and sting us when they wish.
I'm very proud of this analogy, by the way.
But there's nothing I love more than when Barack Obama or somebody says, well, there was no such thing as al-Qaeda in Iraq until George W. Bush and John McCain decided to invade.
No kidding, sir.
No kidding.
We have drawn them off sides.
We have smoked them out.
We are at war with them in a battle of civilizations.
And I thank God that we are because the alternative is to have done nothing.
Just sit there, don't disturb the hornet's nest, and let them attack us whenever they wish.
Nope.
Don't want any part of that.
We are in Binghamton, New York.
Bill, Mark Davis, filling in for us.
It's a pleasure to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Mark.
Nice job this afternoon.
Well, you're very kind.
Thanks.
I would be classified as a Reagan Democrat, and I'm having a whole lot of fun just sitting back and watching the Democrats at the national level snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I just wonder if a scenario might be that if Hillary won like three out of four at ease today and got close enough to be able to bring in the electoral, the super delegates, you know, and the machine come together and push Barack out and just have the Republicans sit back until a convention and then roll out Colin Powell in the second spot.
Oh, God.
Well, have the African Americans would be highly alienated by Mrs. Clinton.
Well, okay, what does, let's examine.
Always got to go through sort of a series of questions.
What does Colin Powell as a vice president do for John McCain that he doesn't know?
How does he help John McCain?
Well, I think it would reassure some of the American population that John, you know, he does have a couple of years on him.
And I don't think anyone can, whether you agree with Colin Powell's politics right down the line, he certainly couldn't be, you know, ridiculed or anything for not having the experience.
Well, you're totally right.
But other than having worn the uniform, which is great, so did John McCain.
And other than not being 90, which is a really good thing for any McCain running mate, Colin Powell is a disaster waiting to happen, ideologically.
Pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-affirmative action.
Boy, I just can't ride that train, man.
I can't do it.
I'm not sure if it either.
I just think it'd be kind of the perfect storm for the Democrats in almost a sure-win situation a year ago.
Maybe.
I appreciate it, Bill.
I got to scoot here.
Time is short.
Okay.
I don't know if we're listening.
If we're hungering for a black guy, so God, the identity politics are everywhere.
We really need a black guy.
Listen, I love the idea.
The idea of McCain with an African-American running mate.
Hello.
Somebody called J.C. Watts, somebody called the former Oklahoma congressman who is just revered, revered in conservative America.
God, I would take that any day of the week, and then we could start to talk history ourselves.
Because I tell you this, I envy the Democratic Party their stranglehold on history.
I'm the American in me, if I put ideology aside, as if that's ever possible.
But if I do, and just look at this on its face, I, as an American, am excited about the notion of the first woman president or the first black president, just not either of these people.
You know, and whenever that comes, you know, and if God forbid it is President Obama or President Clinton, you know, I'll be figuring out how to navigate the next four years.
But there will be a part of me that says, wow, look at us, isn't that something?
You know, history being made is always kind of a compelling and interesting thing.
So I envy the Democrats that a little bit.
And that's not me saying that John McCain should absolutely run with a woman or absolutely run with an African-American.
But if he wanted to, I think that'd be kind of cool.
I think that'd be delightful.
I also love anything that happens.
That's why I love Clarence Thomas so much.
Anybody that shows not just black America, but shows America that radical liberalism is not required of black folks.
Because if J.C. Watts did run as John McCain's running mate, look out.
He would be the most hated man in black America.
He would be a sellout.
He'd be an Uncle Tom.
He'd be an Oreo.
And because he would put the big lie to something that black leaders have tried to jam down your throat for eons, and that is that it is almost a part of pigment to be radically liberal.
You are not, in fact, truly black unless you are radically liberal.
May God bless the black conservatives of America, all 300 of you.
I'm teasing.
All 7% of you or whatever, who prove that that's untrue every day.
I am big, a big, big, big fan of yours.
All righty, we're all big fans of Rush.
Hope he's back tomorrow.
We've got another couple of segments, so let's get her done.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis, filling in for Rush, and we'll be right back.
Appropriate tune for a political day.
Everybody wants to rule the world.
Everybody wants to win the Texas and Ohio primary, too.
Here's a guy I chatted with who's really interested in Hillary winning.
It's because he's married to her.
Spoke with President Clinton about 8 o'clock this morning, got some tape of that, figured I'd share it with you.
When we were finished talking about how confident he is about her, blah, blah, blah.
That's all good and lovely.
I just had to ask about how it would look with a Hillary and Bill in the White House.
Either get our first black president, our first woman president.
If we get the first woman president, I know you get this all along the trail, so let me just give it to you as our final question.
The first male presidential spouse.
You have a great line about what do we call it.
The Scottish people want to call it the first latte.
And I don't know what we'll call it.
And I know you've said, oh, you'll do whatever she wants you to do.
And that's great.
But surely you'll want to have some input, especially on foreign policy.
You have been president.
And what shape do you see that input taking?
And the legacy question comes to mind, too.
Would you view her presidency as a proper adjunct, a proper addendum to yours?
Well, first, let me say I believe that she's elected and the Congress passes her plans for creating millions of new jobs through a commitment to energy independence and clean energy and their health care and education proposals.
I think the economy will produce more new jobs and more broadly shared prosperity in her term than it did when I had the privilege of serving as president.
I think they'll have more prosperity.
So I think she will have her own legacy.
In terms of what I would do, I would expect that we would continue to talk about everything just like we have since the first day we met.
And I would be willing to do anything I could to help on any front around the world or around the corner as long as it did not undermine the imperative of building a strong team.
A president succeeds in the end by not only having great personal qualities, but by putting together a strong team.
And you need a strong vice president, a strong secretary of state, strong secretary of the treasury.
Nobody wants to undermine that.
But if I can help in any way on any specific missions, I will do that.
And I will do everything I can to give the best advice I can, but I'm not going to bigfoot anybody on the team that's important.
I think that she has shown repeatedly in her career in the Senate an astonishing ability to make good decisions and pull people together, and she'll do great.
And if I can help, I'm there.
And I'd be honored to do that.
Mr. President, thanks so much.
Politics are what they are, but the talk show hosted me.
Hope you guys are around for a long time in subform.
Thank you.
Appreciate it a lot, sir.
Take care.
Bye-bye.
Around in some form, just not elected office.
So anyway, that was fun.
Let me get this last break in right now.
That'll come back and give us room for a call or two to wrap it up.
I'm Mark Davis, been filling in for Rush.
It has been more than fun, and we'll be right back.
Precious few minutes remain, so let's make the most of them.
I'm Mark Davis, been filling in for Rush.
Get well, Rush.
We need you back tomorrow.
Let me pull the curtain back.
You know what happens when you fill in a limbo show?
You get to enjoy the company and good humor of people like Chief of Staff Kit Carson, the Josh Bolton of this operation, broadcast engineer Mike Mamone, master call screener Greg Chapin, and of course, the infamous, the legendary Bo Snerdley official program observer.
Love to all you guys.
All right, we are in New York City.
Daniel, Mark Davis, thanks for calling the Rush for Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis.
It's nice to have you.
Yes, thank you.
I'm going to get right to the point.
I am a career military officer.
I'm getting ready to go back to Iraq for my third tour now.
And I has always been conservative, but I am going to be voting for Barack Obama.
And I can explain to you very simply why.
You will need to.
What?
You will need to, because it makes no sense.
As a military person, I can fight an enemy that I am aware of, that I know their position.
There's nothing that Barack Obama supports that I agree with pretty much.
Okay.
But I know where he stands.
With John McCain, I have no idea where he stands.
You do on the war.
You do on the war, sir.
As surely as you know, Barack Obama will surrender in this war that you purportedly seek to go back and fight.
Are you nuts?
But the problem is this.
This is national security.
He's selling himself as a national security proponent that he's strong on national security.
And yet, if I'm fighting a war in Iraq and I can't trust that my borders back here are secure, then what's going to stop the people from going around me and coming into my country?
I have no confidence that this man.
Okay, so since you disagree with him on domestic borders, which I do too, so I'm with you on that.
Let's examine the logic here of voting for a commander-in-chief that you now seek to serve under who will absolutely surrender in the midst of the war effort that you want to be a part of.
Sir, that's convoluted.
But I know the issue is I know where he stands.
I can trust that when he says I am against this position on the war, then that's what he means.
But with John McCain, I can't trust that because I hear him say, I'm against, you know, I'm for campaign finance reform, but I'm not going to make myself part of that.
I'm for national security, but I'm not going to enforce the borders.
Daniel, I share, I really do.
I share a lot of your thoughts about Senator McCain, but I'll be doggone if I were to wear the proud uniform that you wear, and I honor your service and thank God for you.
But this whole notion of devil you know versus devil you don't know, just it's still the devil.
And Barack Obama will lose this war and maybe get you killed, and I want better for you.
God bless our country and our troops, and God bless you, Rush.
Get well.
Get back tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'm Mark Davis.
Been a pleasure to fill in from WBAP in Dallas, Fort Worth.
You all have a great rest of the day.
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