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March 18, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hiya, folks, and welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network, excellence in broadcasting.
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I think Democrats have to ask themselves a question.
By the way, Hillary Clinton, I I guarantee you today, in Florida they said they're not going to redo the vote.
Michigan says today they're probably not going to redo theirs.
Then you got this Obama speech today, and without it was this speech was typical Obama in in in in many ways.
The reaction to it was, wow, how well he spoke.
So Hillary sitting in her hotel room or wherever she was watching this thing, and she's uh she's saying, Oh my melting.
I'm melting.
You know, the house is just about to fall on her here.
I'm sure that's what she uh thinks.
But here's the question.
After watching this speech today, uh, and I've got many comments about it, obviously, as many people do and will.
The Democrats have to ask themselves a question today.
Do they really want the presidential campaign?
Do they really want the um campaign to be about race?
Because Barack Obama has made it now about race.
He has essentially, in not disavowing and distancing himself from Jeremiah Wright, who, by the way, uh, I think the under the correct way to understand Jeremiah Wright and the way people are reacting to him is not in a racial manner.
This is a man who hates a country.
Jeremiah Wright is a hate monger.
He hates America.
It is patently obvious Barack Obama sought to excuse that today in ways that uh I found a little bit troubling.
Blamed it on his generation.
Well, he grew up in the 50s and 60s, and that's what America was then.
Well, there were a lot of blacks who grew up in the 50s and 60s who have not become Jeremiah Wright.
Uh just because you grew up in the 50s and 60s does not entitle you uh to hate uh the country and not try to move forward on it and build a ministry around it.
Uh essentially a political movement disguised as a ministry based on the hatred of America.
I don't see when I watch tapes of uh of Reverend Wright's speeches, I don't see the congregation upset about it, as him applauding and doing all kinds of things.
Uh uh Obama made it plain today, folks, that the future of America rests on one thing, and that's racial division being healed.
And which would be great if it if it would happen.
Those of us, uh my age, my generation have been hoping and praying to get rid of race as a as a dividing issue and as an identity issue in politics and our culture for as long as I've been an adult thinking and caring about these things.
But there's an entire race industry on the left that will not allow that to happen.
And you know the kind of people I'm talking about.
It has become very profitable for them.
There's a lot of wealth to be generated in the race business.
So it the the um you know, the idea that America began as imperfect and now only Obama can make it perfect.
Uh, with it well, not only him, but that his candidacy is uh is about that.
Uh he said at the beginning of his speech, he said, we we need to perfect the Union because it it was it was left imperfect at the time of the declaration of independence in the Constitution.
Uh and he said that we all want to move in the same direction.
Well, we don't want to move in the same direction.
I mean, this is the and you have to listen to this, I think, and read between the lines.
Of course, we want to move in the same direction.
The prosperity and health.
Uh this the debate that liberals and conservatives have had uh over what kind of country we want to be has never changed.
It's just how do we get there?
And Obama laid it out pretty well today how he wants to get there.
He is an ultra-liberal.
He's he's he's he sees soup line America.
He in every group of people, while he while he at the same time he's talking about ending the racial divide, he still shows us how Democrats see people, the white woman who can't bust the glass ceiling.
Uh the the black this, the Hispanic immigrant there.
He sees everybody as members of groups while decrying victimology, basically promoted it in his speech today.
Uh and in my in my estimation, at least the way the way I heard it, uh the the real interesting part of the speech to me was how this how this relates to his character uh and judgment, particularly in dealing with Reverend Wright.
And I don't think he solved that question.
I think he answered that question for a lot of people.
And despite the speech being flowery and fabulous and well delivered and so forth, um I mean, if you've watched any TV commentators since the speech ended, you've heard that they are all gushing about it.
So, I mean, it is what it is, as far as that's concerned.
The superdelegates, the Democrat Party are going to have to ask themselves, do they want this presidential campaign to be about race?
Is that what they want the Democrat Party presidential campaign to be about?
But what was interesting here was that um uh we did get a little bit more insight into his views, which are pretty filled up with class envy and class warfare, and a great misunderstanding of basic economics, uh which I've always noted about about Obama's uh remarks.
But this business, we we we all want to move in the same direction.
Yeah, we all want freedom.
We all want liberty, although I don't hear Democrats talk about it too much.
We all want opportunity for our kids.
We all want a growing, expanding economy.
The argument we have is how do you get there?
And the argument is very simply put, or the distinguishing aspects of the argument are liberals want to use government based on a contempt and a lack of understanding and uh confidence that average Americans can overcome things in life.
Conservatives like us believe that if you if you just trust people, the inherent goodness and decency of people will come to the forefront if you don't tamper with their freedom, if you don't tamper with their liberty, if you understand what our founding fathers understood, that our freedom and liberty comes from our maker, from our creator.
We are all endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
My view of the Democrat Party is today that those are under assault.
We know that life is under assault.
We know that liberty is under assault.
Don't make me give you all the examples.
You got it, just this is something that's not even arguable.
When we're talking about banning certain kind of light bulbs, talking about how you can use your property, talking about all these examples.
Liberty is under assault at the leadership level of the Democrat Party.
Pursuit of happiness, they're not happy.
They don't want anybody to be happy.
They are miserable.
They look out across America and they see misery, and they enjoy it.
These are people who are happily miserable, if you've heard that.
So all three of the basic tenets of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence are under assault by the American left today.
Now, how can they say we all want to move in the same direction when that is where they come?
I don't care if it's Hillary, I don't care if it's Barack Obama, I don't care if it's John Edwards.
I don't care who it is.
Al Gore, they are all the same.
Life is under attack.
Liberty is under attack, because they don't trust people with liberty.
They don't trust voters to do the right thing.
They don't trust you to drive the right car.
They don't trust you to have the right kind of uh anything.
And of course, the pursuit of happiness, why there's an all-out assault on happiness.
Nobody has a right to be happy in America today when there's so much misery elsewhere.
Um we, on the other hand, believe that liberty is part of our creation.
Freedom, the natural yearning to be free is part of our creation, is what has distinguished this a country in 220 years from all other populations of human beings in the history of this planet.
There are reasons why we were not our DNA is no different than anybody else's on the planet, but how is it that we have come to be this awesome and for good superpower?
How has it happened?
It has happened because of our founding documents.
It is ha it has happened because of an inherent understanding that our freedom and ambition, who we are as human beings, is part of our creation.
Uh Ben Stein has a uh a new movie on he brought it by my house the Friday afternoon to uh screen it for me.
It's called Expelled.
It is damn it's powerful.
It is just it is fabulous.
And here's the premise of his movie.
The premise is that Darwinism has taken root, uh, taken taken root R-O-O-T, taken hold uh at every major intellectual Institution around the world in Western societies, in Great Britain, uh to the United States, uh you name it.
Darwinism, of course, does not permit for the existence of a supreme being, a higher power, or a god.
His interviews with some of the professors who espouse Darwinism are literally shocking.
You would, the condescension and the arrogance these people have.
Uh they will readily admit that Darwinism and evolution does not explain how life began, but that and one of these professors said, well, it might have been that a um uh uh uh a hyperintelligence from another planet came here and started our race.
This from some professor eating UK, I forget where it was, um, but can't be God.
It can't be these people are so threatened by the existence of God, they are so th they will not permit intelligent design to be discussed.
Professors have been fired, blackballed and prevented from working, who have deigned to try to combine the whole concept of evolution with intelligent design.
Just Ben Stein's new movie is gonna open a thousand screens pretty soon.
It's not out there yet.
It's called expelled, but the point of it is that these people on the left are just scared to death of God.
It threatens everything.
We, on the other hand, recognize that our greatness, who we are, our potential, our ambition, our desire, comes from God, and as part of our creation, this natural yearning to be free and to practice liberty, and that is how we think this country came to be great, and is how we think this country will continue to be great and to grow, and that's not Barack Obama.
He doesn't believe that.
By evidence of this speech today, we are an imperfect country, and by definition, I guess we are.
By any measure, and our future and our prosperity and our opportunity, our life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, um, is threatened by people who hold beliefs, such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Liberal Democrats, because they don't believe in the power of the individual.
They have contempt for the power of the individual.
They believe in the power of the state.
They believe in the power of the state with they in control them in control.
So it's it, yeah, yeah.
Uh we all want the same things.
We all want to move in the same direction.
Well, we all want the same things, Barack.
We don't want to move in the same direction.
I don't want to go in the direction you want to go to get where you want to get.
I don't want you to get where you want to go in a political sense.
So, up until today, Barack Obama had transcended race.
Mr. Sturdley's point from yesterday.
Up until today, Barack Obama was who he was, not because of race.
I mean, Geraldine Ferraro got fired, canned, whatever for saying so.
He was able to transcend race.
He was able to ascend frontrunner status, ascend to front runner status, uh, not on the basis of race, but on other things.
Now, uh, he is, he and has become the candidate of race.
And it was so unnecessary because what everybody was concerned about with his preacher was not race, but hate and hate for America.
And Mr. Obama's refusal in twenty years to find it repugnant enough to distance himself from it.
Meanwhile, we've had to sit around, while this guy gets excused today.
Well, we're asked to understand, based on fifty years of hundred years, 221 years of original sin.
We are told that Trent Lott can't make a joke about Strom Thurman and stay as the Senate majority, he's gone.
Need I give you all these examples of attacks that have been made on conservatives over slightest little things that don't even get into the same ballpark where the Reverend Jeremiah Wright lives.
A quick timeout, a little long here.
Continue after this.
Don't go away.
I know, I know, Brian.
I know the music's playing arriving show prep.
It never stops here.
We're back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity on the EIB network.
Uh, one thing that Barack Obama has to recognize, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of us do too.
Is I'm sick and tired of guilt.
I'm sick and tired of forced guilt brought on by the race business on the left.
What we have to understand here, and what we constantly quote unquote preach on this program, the great strides we are making, the great progress we have made in all of this.
Reverend Wright sees none of it because he doesn't want to see any of it because to him it isn't about race.
It is about hate.
Reverend Wright may believe in the Constitution and a declaration of independence, but where on the left do we see anybody talking about life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness as distinctive human things that we are fortunate enough to have endowed in our or endowed in our founding documents.
What Senator Obama must realize.
He is not the agent of racial healing.
He is the product of it.
He is the we have, for the first time in American history, a black man who is the likely nominee of his party to run for president of the United States.
Somehow, this is going to be turned and convoluted and contorted into some sort of misrepresentation of what it really is.
Senator Obama is not the agent of racial healing.
He is the product of it.
Too many people are going to look at him as the agent of it.
I saw enough evidence on cable networks this morning following the speech to now know exactly what is meant by White Guilt.
But Shelby Steele, who has a great piece today, by the way, in the Wall Street Journal about this, as you know, he's written a book called White Guilt.
And I thought it was one of the greatest books I've ever read, and I've interviewed him in the Limbaugh letter about it.
And he makes a great point in his uh in his piece today in the Wall Street Journal, the Obama Bargain.
How does one, this Shelby Steele is a black man, ladies and gentlemen.
And he's about Reverend Wright's age.
Well, he may be a ten, I think Shelby Steele, 60, I'm guessing Reverend Wright, late 60s, but certainly close enough to say that they are not from two different generations, and yet Reverend Wright stuck forever in his hatred for America, and Shelby Steele is just the opposite.
Obama would be better served to have role models such as Shelby Steele than Reverend Wright.
So asks today, Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal, how to turn one's blackness to advantage.
The answer is that one bargains.
Bargaining is a mask that blacks can wear in the American mainstream, one that enables them to put whites at their ease.
Pages are stuck together.
Bear with me here.
This mask diffuses the anxiety that goes along with being white in a multicultural society.
Bargainers make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America's history of racism on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer's race against him.
And whites love this bargain.
They feel affection for the bargainer because it gives them racial innocence in a society where whites live under constant threat of being stigmatized as racist.
So the bargainer presents himself as an opportunity for whites to experience racial innocence.
And he says that is the essence of Barack Obama, which, by the way, is now gone.
In this campaign, Barack Obama stripped away the mask today and made it plain that his candidacy is about race.
And let's not forget where he gave the speech.
He gave it in Philadelphia.
This is still presidential politics going on here.
Some of you might think that this was a forerunner of inauguration speech, or I've even heard somebody say it was the most important racial speeches Martin Luther King.
That's a bunch of bunk.
That's just white.
This was a political speech in the state where the next primary Is being held where Barack Obama is running ads on radio stations, urging Republicans to cross over and register and vote for him.
To counter our Operation Chaos, where we have asked Republicans to do the same thing, cross over and vote for Hillary.
In the end, right, Shelby Steele, Barack Obama's candidacy is not qualitatively different from Al Sharpton's or Jesse Jackson's.
Those two were not bargainers, they were confrontationalists.
And when you confront, you lose.
Like these more irascible of his forebearers, Mr. Obama's run at the presidency is based more on the manipulation of white guilt than on substance.
Amen.
Shelby Steele writing today in the Wall Street Journal.
Barack Obama presidency's campaign is based more on the manipulation of white guilt than on any substance.
That nails it.
Mr. Snerdley tells me the number of you calling have not seen the speech.
Nor did you give a chance to hear the speech.
I've got some bites coming up.
I'll get to those here very quickly, and then we'll get to your phone calls.
But I want to uh want to go back to Shelby Steele just to show you the brilliance of this man.
He says, how does one turn one's blackness to advantage?
He says, Well, the answer to that one is one bargains.
Bargaining is a mask that blacks can wear in the American mainstream, one that enables them to put whites at their ease.
This mask diffuses the anxiety that goes along with being white in a multiracial society.
So what bargainers like Obama do, they make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America's history of racism on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer's race against him.
And yet in the end, Barack Obama's candidacy is not qualitatively different from Al Sharpton's or Jesse Jackson's, meaning on the issues, meaning on liberalism, meaning on their view of government, but what the what they would do with power.
Qualitatively, there's hardly the difference between Jackson or Sharpton or Obama.
I mean, for example, like both of them, Obama's run at the presidency is based more on the manipulation of white guilt than on substance.
But Sharpton and Jackson were challengers, not bargainers.
They intimidated whites and demanded in the name of justice that they be brought forward.
Mr. Obama flatters whites, grants them racial innocence, and hopes to ascend on their back or the back of their gratitude.
Two sides of the same coin.
Barack makes whites feel good.
Jack and Sharpton did not.
But his association with Reverend Wright now threatens this.
The association with Reverend Wright has demasked Obama, and now the speech today has taken him away from this transcendent on race position to a candidate of race.
Now, to show you that Shelby Steele knows what he is talking about.
Judith Klinghofer at PoliticalMavens.com went back and found a little passage from Barack Obama's book, Autobiography.
On pages 94 and 95, he describes an effective tactic to deal with white people.
It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned.
People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.
They were more than satisfied.
They were relieved, such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.
Two things about this passage.
A, Shelby Steele is exactly what he's talking about.
Obama is spelling out his own definition of bargaining.
He also is telling, he tells us exactly why he knows that people are not happy with Reverend Wright, because he's angry all the time.
And it has to be asked, Obama is the agent of unity and change.
Everybody around him seems so mad that they could spit.
From his wife to his preacher to any number of people.
So no sudden moves.
That's that's how that's how you get along.
How you talk to white people.
Don't make any sudden moves on them.
It's a tactic.
It's a tactic.
He describes it as a tactic, not a character trait, a tactic.
If Obama's a cunning Tactician in a race war of his imagination.
Then the audacious tactic he has chosen to move the battle lines is hope.
He has rejected rage as a tactic.
Now we think this is authentic.
People are saying I've never heard a more authentic Barack Obama than today.
He's tactics, tactics, liberal folks, and they do tactics.
You know, I can imagine you have you're probably listening to commentators talk about this, and you're not hearing anything from me that even approximates what you heard from commentators earlier today who had watched the speech.
I understand that I'm a week ahead of everybody on this stuff, and the reason, and I'm not, I'm not trying to be funny.
I'm I don't watch this stuff with emotion.
I don't swoon.
I don't put the hopes of the planet or the country in one man.
I'm not sitting around waiting for a Messiah in the form of a human being to become the next president.
I'm not doing that.
I don't I never have.
So I don't look at this with emotion.
I don't swoon.
Study it.
And I what I see here is exactly what I'm sharing with you.
He is not the agent of racial hearing.
He is the product of racial healing.
Now, um let's let's grab a couple sound bites just to get started here.
Um here's the leadoff.
This is uh this basically the beginning of the speech.
Farmers and scholars, statesmen and patriots who had traveled across the ocean to escape tyranny and persecution, finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
The document they produced was eventually signed, but ultimately unfinished.
It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery.
So that set the tone for what was to come, and and much of this, uh, folks, was was to establish a baseline uh whereby the hate-filled rantings of Reverend Wright could be understood.
Not agreed to, not accepted, but understood.
We must understand the rage.
Remember, we've all my life I've been told you can understand the rage of this various liberal group that's upset about something on a particular day.
Well, you have to understand the rage, Rush.
You have to understand their rage.
Why do I have to understand their rage when it's not justified?
We're not living 200 years ago.
We're not living 150 years ago, although there are people who want us to.
He finally got to um Reverend Wright, and he admits that he sat in the pews and heard the Reverend Wright's spewings.
I have already condemned in unequivocal terms the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy and in some cases pain.
For some, nagging questions remain.
Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy?
Top to tape.
Fierce critic, my sizable rear end.
Yeah, it's a little larger than it was a year ago.
I've got to work on it.
But this was not fierce criticism.
This was hatred.
There's a big difference in criticism and hatred, and Reverend J. Wright was immersed in hatred.
Here's the rest of them.
I mean, I I when I heard that, fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy.
I said, Give cut me some slack here.
Of course.
Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in the church?
Yes.
Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views?
Absolutely.
Just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagree.
Right.
No, no, no, no, no, no, Senator Obama.
Here we go.
Here go with the moral equivalents.
Other pastors are not like this.
Everybody's pastor's not like this.
Everybody's pastor does not run around and make a career out of building an empire on a hatred of the country in which the empire's taking place.
And if there are preachers who anger their flock, guess what?
They are.
Look at this clown, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is basically trying to say in the last couple of weeks the resurrection Couldn't have happened, the star David couldn't have done it.
People were outraged, and they said so.
Some might have even left the flock.
Guarantee you, your preacher goes off anybody in the audience, your preacher goes off on one of these wacko tangents, and you are not just gonna sit there and chalk it up to uh fierce criticism of American domestic and foreign policy.
You might engage the preacher and say, what the hell are you doing?
You can't you can't be saying stuff like this, but to just oh, yeah, we've the moral equivalence argument.
All your preachers do this.
Why are you singling out mine?
Now, here is the perfunctory denunciation of uh Reverend Wright.
Uh listen to this.
The remarks that have caused this recent fire storm weren't simply controversial.
They weren't simply a religious leader's efforts to speak out against perceived injustice.
Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country.
A view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America.
A view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.
Okay, so he chronicles there.
This is the perfunctory denunciation.
I didn't want to comment on this.
I know the previous bite he says he was there when he heard Wright make all these things, and I know up till yesterday or today he said he didn't hear them in the that's that people will get to that later after they stop swooning on the emotion of all this.
That's you know that that's gonna get to the character and honesty of all this.
Just let this stuff fall out and play as it does.
Uh okay, so here's the perfunctory denunciation of of uh Reverend J. Wright, and then it was followed by this.
Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety.
The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence, and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love, and yes, the bitterness and biases that make up the black experience in America.
And this helps explain perhaps my relationship with Reverend Wright.
As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me.
I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.
I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother.
A woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who pass her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
These people are part of me, and they are part of America.
This country that I love.
Now, I realize to many people...
That penetrated.
That got some people's hearts, right?
Um my big problem with this is once again.
Barack Obama is saying we have no choice in being who we are.
Okay, so he has to trash his grandmother for being a racist.
It's part of who he is.
No, it's not.
Just because she's who she was does not mean he's who he is.
This notion that we have very little choice in becoming who we are is a direct liberal technique to make as many people victims as possible.
Don't you understand that when you have no choice about being who you are?
Obama just told us he's the product of this racist, that racist, this hatred, this hatred, and he's trying to tell us he knows so much hatred and so much racial bias and so much segregation that he's the guy to fix it.
When he is the agent, not the agent of it of the healing, he's the product of healing that is already taking place without him.
Rodney King could have given this speech, by the way, he did once in six words.
Can't we all get along?
Now, I'm a fierce individualist, and some of you may be thinking, Rush, can't you let some of this be perceived as good?
Yeah, I'm already conceded that for the vast majority of people who watch this, it is gonna be perceived as great.
Second only to Dr. King.
But this business uh can't disown Reverend Wright any more than he could disown the black community.
Reverend Wright is not the black community.
God help us.
I happen to know Reverend Wright is not the black community.
And Obama is not his grandmother.
We we all want to start talking about.
Don't you understand that all of us, especially those of us in our 50s, a little older.
We start talking about our grandparents and great-grandparents.
It's a ticket.
It is a ruse to get us to admit that we are all racists because we can't do anything about whom we came from, genetically or otherwise.
It's absurd and it's dangerous, and I'm urging you not to fall for this.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
I'll tell you what I think's happening here, folks.
I'm gonna be on guard for this.
I weft I think Barack Obama's trying to put America on defensive once again.
He's trying to put America on defense.
Original sin, it's back full full-fledged.
No progress has been made.
None whatsoever.
We have got, we have got start working on this.
He's the guy to do it now.
Uh if anybody needs a lecture on race relations, it's not the people of this country, it is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
If somebody needs a lecture on this country and on hate, and it's it's it's horrible effects on people.
It's not the people of this country, it is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright who needs that lecture.
Now you gotta hear this.
Barack Obama blamed Reaganism and me for racism in America today.
A similar anger exists within segments of the white community.
Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company, but they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation.
Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan coalition.
Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral apps.
Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.
And that was only the second time in the speech he got any applause.
Reagan and Limbaugh, he the Reagan administration resulted from racism.
And who were the racists?
Well, Reagan Democrats, a white Southerners who hated blacks, hated affirmative action.
They voted for Reagan.
Never mind, and by the way, Barack Obama did admit something.
Very, very casually admitted it that welfare policies have had a big role in destroying the black family.
But I don't hear him wanting to change them.
And then, of course, talk show hosts.
Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequal this tells me that Senator Obama has never really listened to this program.
The twenty years that he has been spending listening to Reverend Wright could have better been spent listening to this program.
Because you know what this program has been about for twenty years?
Not separatism, not segregation, not racism, not bigotry.
This program is about greatness.
This program is about greatness of the country.
This program is about the greatness of the people who make this country work.
This program is about effort.
Program is about achievement.
Program is about how everybody has obstacles placed in front of them as human beings, living with other human beings, and has to overcome them.
Some do it without whining, some do it without becoming victims.
Those are the people who listen to this program.
This program has sought to inspire and to motivate.
This program has seen all the faults and problems of this country, and we've done our best here to address them and fix them within the confines of individual behavior, leading to a better society.
Here's something for you people think about.
Barack helped himself today with the nomination, or did he hurt himself today with the Democrat Party?
And remember now the Democrat Party's got a lot of white racist plantation type guys in it.
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