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March 10, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 10, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Look at all the wonderful things that are happening out there, folks, as a result of the chaos that has been created as a result of our crossover votes in Ohio and Texas last Tuesday.
Here you've got Mrs. Clinton.
No, I'm not going to release my tax returns.
No, why should I not release my screw you?
That's for other people like Obama.
I'm not going to release my tax returns.
I've always said I'm going to, but I don't know when.
And by the way, I'm in second place.
I ought to be on the top.
I ought to be at the top of the ticket.
I'm in second place.
You know what's happening here?
There was a post at the Huffington Post today from a longtime Clinton apologist that said, I can't do it anymore.
I can't apologize to these people anymore.
The great thing here is that the Clintons are demoing for everybody exactly who they are, who they've always been.
We couldn't get this to happen in the 90s, folks.
No matter what, people weren't interested in it.
But now, in the midst of this primary, in the midst of this chaos, the Clintons are demonstrating for everybody exactly who they are, and it's irritating a lot of Democrats.
Also, I'm going to remind you something I've told you.
I don't care what the delegate math is.
We look at pledge delegates.
I don't care what happens in Florida and Michigan.
If they do it over, if they have mail-ins, I don't care.
This thing is going to the convention.
When you have people like the Clintons whose singular obsession is power, there's nothing that they think, and if they think everybody else is evil, well, then you're entitled to do anything you want to defeat evil in order to give yourself the power over the evil.
And nothing that happened last Tuesday was going to stop that.
All it's done now is create a little momentum, and this is causing these attacks back and forth.
I mean, do you think if Hillary had lost last Tuesday in Ohio and Texas, that we'd have had comments from Howard Wolfson that Obama is Ken Starr?
Obama is Ken Starr.
All right.
By the way, before we get, I've got a couple, a lot more audio sound bites.
But from a new Republic blog called The Plank, Hillary Clinton once again raising the possibility of pursuing Obama's pledged delegates.
And a blogger says that all this ensures is that the media will run a lot of stories about a dirty campaign intent on stealing the election.
Yes.
Yes.
More of it.
Given that the Clinton Knights are going to need some goodwill in July, if in fact they want to garner a delegate majority through the superdelegates, the logic of the ploy eludes the blogger, he says here.
Sounds like time for some idle speculation, says the blogger at the New Republic.
I was having lunch today with a friend who is convinced that Clinton will be the Democrat nominee.
He believes the superdelegates will decide at the end of the day they'd rather have a candidate willing to hit John McCain below the belt.
I think it's unlikely Hillary Clinton will get the nomination because of goodwill towards her on the part of the superdelegates.
That ship's already sailed.
Her best bet is probably to convince superdelegates hungry to take back the White House that she and only she will do whatever it takes to win a bitter, hard-fought election.
Thus, even if they don't damage Obama per se, running nasty ads and murmuring about going after elected delegates reinforced the message that this is who you want on your side in a knife fight.
This is the Democrat blogger thinking this is how Clintons are going to do it.
Meanwhile, we're going to sit around and be paralyzed by our integrity.
You know, Saul Dolinsky is one of Clinton's mentors.
If you go look at Saul Dolinsky Rule No. 4 on integrity, he said, kill your opponents with their own integrity.
If they say that they're going to answer every letter they get, send them 30,000.
They can't possibly answer them all.
You can say they've busted their integrity.
They've violated.
I don't think, even after the 90s, even after all the stuff we saw in the night, I don't think people understand who the Clintons are here.
I don't think they understand the absolute nature of Democrat, liberal Democrat politics.
I just don't.
I do.
I am happy to be the one person willing to win this election.
I'm happy to be the one to describe how it can happen.
By the way, the Reverend Sharpton is eyeing a lawsuit over the Florida situation, laying the groundwork for a court battle that could divide the Republican or the Democrat Party.
Yes, yes, you see.
The Reverend Al Sharpton threatening to sue the Democrat National Committee if it counts Florida's primary results in the official presidential delegates tally.
The Reverend Sharpton is traveling to Florida today to compile lists of residents.
Now, get this.
He's coming here to Florida to compile lists of residents who skipped the January contest because they thought their votes wouldn't count.
He plans to have those residents sign affidavits saying that they would be disenfranchised by the seating of the Florida delegation in the event the Democrat Party allowed that to happen.
Larry Sabato said he thinks the Reverend Sharpton's trying to say that if Obama wins the most pledged delegates and the most popular votes but loses the nomination, there will be consequences.
Hell yes, there could be consequences.
Folks, you think that the blacks in the Democrat Party are united?
You wait till the Clintons find a way to steal this from Obama?
Especially if they do it by saying she won all the big states to hell with the delegates, to hell with the popular vote?
They'll do anything.
I'm telling you, they will do anything.
And if they succeed.
Oh, folks, it's going to be interesting to see.
Now, this is from a blog entitled Talk Left.
Geralyn Merritts.
Remember her?
She's his lawyer, a criminal defense lawyer out in Denver.
She was always on during OJ, I think.
And then she was on during political things back in the 90s.
And so they get this post at her blog, talkleft.com.
Judging from the comments that Obama supporters are leaving on Talk Left, it appears there's a fundamental misunderstanding on what the candidates promised and didn't promise regarding the outcomes of the Florida and Michigan primaries.
And what I have here is the four-state pledge.
And this is what it's, that's what it was called, the four-state pledge letter, 2008, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, dated August 31st, 2007.
Now, I'm not going to read the whole letter to you here, but I'll find a way to get this.
There's a PDF file.
We can link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
But this four-state pledge letter says nothing about which delegates will count or not count in Florida or Michigan.
It says nothing about whether a state's primary will count or not.
The candidates merely pledged not to campaign in any states holding a primary or caucus before Super Tuesday, other than Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
So you see where this could go.
If the candidates did not pledge, if the letter says nothing about the delegates counting or not counting, and it says nothing about whether a state's primary will count or not, it just says in the letter, the Democrat candidates will not campaign in those states.
Well, some might say Hillary campaign in Michigan, Hillary campaign in Florida.
She might violate the rules, so forth and so on.
But it's interesting that this thing is actually wide open.
I have to take a brief timeout here, folks.
We'll do that.
Come back audio soundbites.
I'll squeeze a lot of your phone calls in as well.
Sit tight.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network at 800-282-2882.
Everybody's trying to get my attention right before I went to commercial break, pointing to the TV, and all that was on TV was commercials.
So it wasn't until I got to the break I found out what everybody was going on here.
Governor Elliot Spitzer of New York has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring.
Spitzer was huddled with his top aides early this afternoon.
He had hours early abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day.
Supposed to be making an announcement about 2:15 this afternoon from his Manhattan office.
It hasn't happened yet.
Now, Spitzer is a first-term Democrat, pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany to an end.
He's married with three kids.
And, you know, you do not, if you haven't followed this, you do not know how many people on Wall Street are, if this is true, are celebrating.
He tried to destroy so many honorable people on Wall Street as part of his carnage trail to be elected governor.
But there's one thing you have to remember now here.
Beforebody gets all hot to trot here, Governor Spitzer is a Democrat.
These things can be resume enhancements in the Democrat Party.
So the question is: will this prostitution ring story blow over, or will Spitzer himself be able to stay on top?
But think about the effect of Hillary Clinton or on Hillary Clinton.
I mean, this is one of her top supporters reminding the country about her husband.
Stop looking at that way.
What do you mean, Rush?
Clinton's not part of prostitution.
Well, I know, but I mean, there was an endless parade of babes in and out, the Oval Office and the governor's mansion in Arkansas and so forth when Clinton was in both places.
Oh, man.
Elliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring.
So we're waiting for his press conference, or not press conference, his announcement at 2:15 this afternoon, which as yet has not happened.
Spitzer gained national attention.
He served as Attorney General, relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing.
As Attorney General, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state's organized crime task force.
In one case in 2004, Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring on a Staten Island.
At the time, Spitzer said this was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multi-tiered management structure.
It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.
That's the phrase they have out there hoisted by his own petard.
So we're waiting for more information on this.
Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, let me grab a couple of phone calls here because people have been patiently waiting.
We'll go back to the phones of Mobile, Alabama.
This is Elvin.
Thank you for waiting, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
It's an honor.
That Spitzer story is a tough act to follow, but I have a question for you, Rush.
Yeah.
Who is the only candidate in this election that you have told your listeners to go out and vote for?
That would be Mrs. Clinton.
Well, no, I actually, before the Florida primary, I did suggest people vote for Mitt Romney.
Oh, I didn't hear that.
Yeah.
All I know, Rush, is that we were right on the verge of being done with the Clintons once and for all.
And to think that you might have had anything to do with keeping her candidacy alive almost drove me insane.
Well, except that that wasn't the case, Elvin.
Mrs. Clinton was not going to go away regardless of what happened last Tuesday in Ohio or Texas.
In fact, she lost delegates as a result of the votes on Tuesday of last week in Ohio and Texas.
Yes, she's still in the race.
Is she going to take it all the way to convention?
The point is that there was no way, even if Obama had swept both states in landslide proportions, there's no way she's going away.
That may be true, Rush, but that wasn't the narrative in the news.
And even her husband, Bill Clinton, said she had to win Texas and Ohio, and I believe that would have been the knockout push.
Maybe they would have stuck in there.
Look, look, look, I've been explaining this all day, Elvin, and I want to move on because the audience demands fresh stuff.
And I've been explaining this all day.
And what I've said earlier will be on the EIB network website, the RushLimbaugh.com website.
I'll tell you what, I've got a couple soundbites here that I have not played.
Listen to these, Elvin, coming up on the radio.
I was on Martha McCallum's Fox show last Wednesday at, I guess it was 10 after 5.
And the only reason I had time to do it is I was waiting for my guest to arrive from out of town for the member guest golf tournament last weekend.
So I had some time waiting for him to arrive.
So I agreed to appear.
We have two sound bites from that appearance.
McCallum said to me, first, you basically said the Democrats in the drive-by media have nominated the Republican side of the ticket.
So why isn't it okay to go after arranging the desired candidate on the other side?
What did you think today when you saw McCain standing next to the president and the president giving him his wholehearted support?
Of course.
I mean, the Republican Party is the Republican Party, and the establishment's going to hang together.
But I would call your attention to Senator McCain's acceptance speech last night where he specifically thanked Independents and Democrats for joining his campaign and helping him succeed in getting the nomination.
It's clear that in early states, in the primary season, where most of the states did not feature a majority of conservative Republicans, that it was Independents and Democrats crossing over to nominate Senator McCain and make him the Republican nominee.
And I maintain to you, Martha, that the Democrats are not doing that in order to elect McCain president.
They're trying to choose somebody they think would be easier to beat.
And so we're simply employing the same philosophy.
But McCain's made a habit here and a career out of walking across the aisle, not just reaching across, but walking across the aisle and letting Democrats write legislation with him that is not really totally conservative.
So I don't think there's any question about that.
McCallum then said, Well, look, you implored conservatives and Republicans to cross over to vote for Hillary because the GOP nomination pretty much tied up at that point, or it looked like it was going to be.
What would you ask them to do as the next stage in this game?
Well, the conservatives just have to sit around and wait and see what Senator McCain does.
If Senator McCain attempts, you know, Martha, here's what's frustrating about this.
And you and I have talked about this.
There's a Republican conservative model for landslide victory.
Ronald Reagan, 1980, Ronald Reagan, 84.
By the way, this is not called a personality.
This is about winning.
Ronald Reagan, two landslides in 80 and 84.
He had a very having no Republicans in the House, but he was able to move his agenda forward.
He was able to do it with a conservative agenda that reached out across the American public and brought people of all walks of life into the conservative movement because it's basically a principled way of living and a principled way of managing affairs.
The Republicans won the House in 1994 on a conservative agenda, and for some peculiar reason, Republicans today, the Republican establishment, wants to eschew all that and think they have to build their party by attracting Democrats and independents, which is fine if you bring them in as conservative converts.
But if you're going to bring them in as Democrats and independents and expand the Republican Party that way, then you're polluting and corrupting the party itself.
And she also went first.
She described what I was doing as Limbaugh's antics.
Limbaugh's, there is a decided strategy here.
Now, we're trying to create chaos in the Democrat Party.
Will you like to hear an example, a small example of how it's working?
Last Wednesday night on Capitol Hill, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, before a meeting of the Florida and Michigan delegations, said this about a possible revote of the Florida and Michigan primaries.
Unfortunately, Howard Dean made the wrong decision initially, and that's part of why we have to have this meeting so that we can make sure in November we're in the strongest possible position as a party to elect the next president of the United States.
We need to undo the damage that was done at the beginning of this process by the Democratic National Committee.
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, a question: Who was it?
You want to blame this on Howard Dean, but who was it that did the damage at the beginning of this process?
It was the Clintons.
The whole point of the early primaries and the Super Tuesday was to get her coronated by February 5th.
So you can trace this right back to the Clinton.
All right, a brief timeout.
Much more straight ahead, including more of you on the phone after this.
Yeah, speaking of thinking about it, what's the big deal here about Spitzer and a prostitution ring?
I mean, it's not like he was tapping his toe in a men's room or anything.
Crying out loud.
I mean, we've got to keep a sense of proportion about this, folks.
All right, back to the phone.
Steve in Sun River, Oregon.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
You know, in 1968, many Oregon Republicans switched parties to give Eugene McCarthy the primary win over Robert Kennedy.
And I don't know any of us that were jailed.
But then again, Eugene McCarthy was the media darling because he was against the Vietnam conflict.
How many of you were accused of throwing your integrity out the window when you did this?
Well, I didn't lose my integrity.
I'm trying to live by the rule book, the Constitution, as Walter Williams would call it.
I know.
This is.
I'd say these.
I'm not sure these Republicans have been calling here today actually Republicans.
I'm not sure.
They could well be saying, I am cheating and we're destroying our integrity.
We're becoming like Democrats and so forth.
But as though this has never had the naivete that these people have about what the electoral, the political process is today, the way the Democrats run it, the aggressor sets the rules in these things.
So I'm glad you called out there, Steve.
Republicans across the aisle, Oregon 68 to vote for Eugene McCarthy.
By the way, another thing on this Spitzer thing, I'm getting sick and these people on TV won't leave this alone.
Look at Fox hasn't left it.
CNBC's awaiting Spitzer statement.
MSNBC's, this is a personal matter.
It's about sex.
It's a personal matter, and it has nothing to do with the way he's governed.
Do you think prostitution rings had any impact on his driver's licenses for illegals program in New York?
I'm sorry, folks.
I don't think I'm pulling this off.
I'm just trying to use all the Clinton arguments back during the Lewinsky days.
The private matter.
It's a personal matter.
None of our business.
Everybody does it.
Everybody did it.
He's not tapping his toe in a bathroom for crying out loud in the airport and up in Fargo.
You know, so what the hell?
Carl in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Nice to have you here.
Hello.
Mega, mega dittos.
I'm sorry.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
I have been listening to you since 91.
Hey, over the weekend, I was prousing on the internet, and I found a very, very wonderful article by our Clinton favorite, Mr. Morris.
Yeah.
And I was quite shocked to hear truth come out of Mr. Morris.
And that was that Hillary needs to stop.
Mr. Morris actually just totally land-based at her in such a way that, I mean, I can't believe it actually printed on the internet.
Oh, I know.
She's not going to listen to him.
Well, I know that.
The credibility of him is gone, but the point was that there's some actual – he was actually speaking truth, the kind of truth that you speak, Rush.
You mean, is this the story that she should stop behaving the way she's behaving and treating Obama the way she's treating that story?
Oh, it's beyond that.
It's telling her to stop with this election charade of thinking she's going to get the presidency.
Well, a lot of people, you know, were there stories before Ohio and Texas who's going to tell Hillary to quit?
Who's going to tell Bill to tell Hillary that it's over?
Right.
These people never had any intention of dropping out.
I mean, for crying out loud, here she is in second place with no hope, no prayer of catching up in the elected delegates, the pledge delegates.
She's got no hope.
And she's demanding to be at the top of the ticket.
In fact, let me go to some audio soundbites on this.
Let's tell you what we're going to do here.
Grab number 28.
28.
Wait a second.
How did I end up out of order here?
28.
All right, we've got 28, 29, 30, 31.
This is Fast Eddie Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, going up against the puffster.
Tom Dasher, this is yesterday on Meet the Press.
Russert said, Fast Eddie, if in fact Barack Obama goes to the convention in Colorado in August with the most elected delegates, having won more contests and a higher popular vote, the cumulative vote, could he be denied the nomination?
Well, sure, Tim, because number one, Hillary Clinton has won states with about 260 electoral votes.
Barack Obama's won states with about 190.
And we decide the presidency not by a popular vote.
We decide it by the electoral vote.
And the traditional role of the superdelegates is to determine who's going to be our strongest candidate.
Whoa, did you hear Fast Eddie there?
Do you hear Fast Eddie?
Fast Eddie said, screw all these primaries.
It doesn't matter.
Screw the delegates.
It's a superdelegates account.
This is where Sharpton says he's going to march, by the way, if the superdelegates don't give it to Obama.
Because Fast Eddie is saying, look at, she's already, she's won 260 electoral votes.
She's won in states that she carries.
She won 260 electoral votes.
That, I guarantee you, has never been an official criteria of the Democrat National Convention or the party as to who gets the party's nomination.
Now, the superdelegates, you know, may have thought that way in the past, so forth, but it doesn't appear so.
But about these superdelegates, have you noticed, do you know, let's talk about rules here.
Do you know what the purpose of the superdelegates is?
Honest to God, folks, the purpose of the superdelegates is rooted in the Democrat Party's and liberals' total lack of trust in average people to vote right.
So the superdelegates are there to make sure that the party gets what it wants regardless of the voters do.
Now all of a sudden there's pressure on the superdelegates.
Yeah, it came after McGuire.
The superdelegates, I think, date to 1980.
I think they date to 1980 with Jimmy Carter, after Ted Kennedy, after Ted Kennedy.
I have to look it up, but I'm pretty sure my memory is accurate on this.
At any rate, so now all of a sudden, there's pressure on the superdelegates to go along with the rest of the voters, the pledge delegates.
Now I have to ask a question.
Really, just, you know, as a man of integrity and character, if the superdelegates, by definition, can vote however they want, which they can, then why all this Nazi-like pressure to make them vote in a uniform way?
I mean, what's the purpose of having superdelegates if at the time, the nutcracking time, it's not going to be superdelegates doing what they want, but they got to follow some formula that somebody puts out there?
So why have them?
I mean, it just seems to me the superdelegates should be able to vote independently and vote however they want for whatever the outcome they want, whoever, which candidate will pay them the most.
That's happening, by the way.
Superdelegates are being paid by both Obama and Clinton campaigns.
They are.
They are.
I know it's people of integrity and character.
It's hard to believe that such things would happen in America, but it is happening.
Okay, so here's Fast Eddie.
Fast Eddie says, eh, screw everything else.
She's got states here with 260 electoral votes so far.
Russert said, well, would you accept the caucus in Michigan, Fast Eddie?
No, caucuses are undemocratic.
That's another thing.
We talk about the superdelegates being undemocratic.
If you're a caucus, older people can't vote, older people who vote by absentee ballot.
There's no absentee ballots in a caucus.
Tim, if you're a shift worker, and a lot of our workers, because they're low-income workers are shift workers, you can't vote in a caucus.
So we want primaries.
That's the way we elect presidents.
We don't have caucuses to elect presidents in the fall.
Let's have a primary.
Let's decide this.
Let's hear from the Obama campaign about a revote in Florida.
Do you understand, folks, what's happening here?
The first in the nation Democrat vote is a caucus, and Fast Eddie is just saying those are irrelevant.
This is chaos.
We have got Democrats beating up on Democrats, Democrats beating up on their traditions.
He has just said, no, to hell with caucuses.
Caucuses are not Democratic.
We want, especially because that's where Obama does best.
He does best in caucuses.
By the way, Fast Eddie, I really love his fealty here to the Electoral College because his candidate, Hillary Clinton, has often said we need to abolish it after Florida 2000.
Remember that?
And after Florida 2000, they got all been out of shape.
Popular vote, popular vote, we've been screwed by the Electoral College.
Then John Kerry, 2004, why he lost the popular vote by 4 million votes, but he said, if I could have just found a way to get 55,000 votes in Ohio, I could be president.
Well, that would mean using the Electoral College, Senator Kerry.
These people are all over.
See, folks, they're going to do whatever they think they have to do to win.
Now, I'm not advocating that what they do is right or ethical, but you don't sit there and fight this with one arm tied behind your back.
And you don't have to be unethical to beat them.
I'm not suggesting anybody has done or should do anything unethical.
Now, here, Puff Daschel, who is Obama's guy, has had to sit here on Meet the Press and listen to some of this most outrageous BS from Fast Eddie.
So, Russert says, Senator Daschell, a proposal from the Clinton campaign to have new primaries in Florida and Michigan paid for by private donors.
Well, Tim, first of all, I think it'll come as a real shock to Iowa and to Nevada and to many other states that they don't have a democratic process.
I think that it's very democratic.
And we saw yesterday in Wyoming, we had a lot of seniors and older people that participate, people from all walks.
They were participating in unprecedented numbers.
So I don't concede that point at all.
What about you?
What about shift workers too?
They can't get out of their homes.
No, I think about it.
I think they can't get out of their homes.
We'll accommodate that.
Yeah, the fast Eddie.
Dashel just said in his mild-mannered way, well, Tim, first of all, I think it would come as a real shock to people in Iowa and Nevada that they're undemocratic.
The first time Dasher starts scoring a point of his own fast Eddie in there, what about the shift workers?
Okay, one more from the puffster.
Tim Russert says, Senator Daschel, would Senator Obama be willing to be vice president?
Well, Tim, it's really a rare occurrence, maybe the first time in history that the person who's running number two would offer the person who's running number one the number two position.
What Brock has said is that's way premature.
He doesn't have any interest in being vice president.
Look, Hillary Clinton was a great first lady.
Yeah.
But it would be hard for me to draw some degree of connection between being a first lady and having experience to be the commander-in-chief.
I don't think anyone can look at her experience as first lady and say, for some reason, that qualifies her to run for president of the United States.
Whoa, folks, this is delicious, delectable.
Now you got Puff Dashel, the Senate majority leader for a period of time when Hillary was in the Senate, saying her experience as first lady counts for diddly squat when it comes to being commander-in-chief.
You know, this is just, and then this first time, Tim, in history, I can remember number two offering the person who's running number one the number two position.
Tom, it's the Clintons.
You know them.
You knew this sort of stuff.
It was fine and dandy when they're screwing us.
But now that they're trying to toy around with you guys, why, this is just horrible.
And those of us, the screwies of the 90s, we love this.
Thank goodness for me.
It's obvious, folks, Elliot Spitzer waiting for this show to end to start his 215 press conference.
He's already 35 minutes late.
Hillary can help here.
Mrs. Clinton can be of major assistance.
You've got lots of experience.
Bimbo eruptions.
She does, and you don't know where this is coming from.
Maybe one of the babes in the prostitution ring talked and he's got no choice here.
I mean, you never know.
But she could go after the prostitutes for charging too much money, seducing men for a profit, suggesting that Spitzer was just doing the right thing, trying to take their profits like a good Democrat liberal would.
Hillary can then advise Spitzer's wife how to play this.
I mean, she's got, in this case, she's got experience on how to handle something like this.
She's invaluable.
She also can give him really heads-up advice on going after these sex-crazed prosecutors, so forth and so on.
I mean, time it's all over, Spitzer could be the VP number.
You never know.
I mean, we're just have to wait and see now.
This story, this is just off the press.
Actually, it's about an hour ago.
Just found it from The Hill, Capitol Hill newspaper.
The headline says it all.
Clinton Camp.
I can't keep a straight face doing this.
Clinton Camp says Obama must pass national security threshold to be vice president.
Now, folks, this is not just chutzpah.
This is a strategy.
The Clintons are going to start now talking of themselves, speaking of themselves, they and members of their campaign as though they are the nominee, as though she's going to be the nominee.
That's what's happening here.
Obama is going to be positioned in Clinton campaign press releases and conversations as a potential vice president.
Senior advisors to Senator Hillary Clinton on Monday sought to reconcile the camp's assertion that Senator Obama has not passed the commander-in-chief test with the Clintons' hints in recent days that the New York senator would tap Obama as a running mate.
Howard Wolfson said during a conference call, reporters that Clinton would not pick a running mate who has not met the national security threshold.
This is just great.
This is just fabulous.
Now, in the 90s, when they did this, the press marveled.
Didn't they?
Let's just see how they handled this one.
Wolfson repeated Clinton's weekend assertion that picking Obama is not something she would rule out at this point.
She's number two, and she didn't have a prayer of winning this nomination with pledge delegates.
But Wolfson also repeated that Obama's not ready to be commander-in-chief, a key requirement to being Clinton's running mate.
This is more than chutzpah, folks.
This is when you have everybody's testicles in a lockbox.
This is just, I love this.
Everybody's now seeing this.
All right, now, the Obama campaign may be illustrating that Hillary's right.
Last Wednesday on PMS NBC, Tucker Carlson spoke with Obama campaign advisor Susan Rice and the competing red phone TV ads.
And Carlson, excuse me, asking Rice.
When I start laughing, I get coughing uncontrollably.
She starts saying, well, wait a minute.
He starts saying, look at Susan, this is outrageous.
Isn't it?
This is just incredible here.
And here's her answer.
This is Obama's senior advisor's answer.
He hasn't.
And he hasn't claimed that he's been in a position to have to answer the phone at 3 o'clock in the morning in a crisis situation.
That's the difference between the two of them.
Hillary Clinton hasn't had to answer the phone at 3 o'clock in the morning.
And yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready.
They're both not ready to have that 3 a.m. phone call.
The question is, and what Barack Obama raised, is when that phone call is received for each of them for the first time, who's going to make the right judgment?
Who is going to make the right decision?
Obama's campaign advisor says neither Obama or Hillary are ready for that phone call, which redounds to the benefit of who?
McCain.
I'm having trouble making heads or tails out of this because so much going on.
It looks like on a police report, Spitzer was client nine, Some prostitution ring.
Why are these Democrats getting phone calls at 3 in the morning?
Did Spitzer get phone calls at 3 in the morning?
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