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April 14, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
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I have to tell you a quick little story.
Thursday night last week.
And I had a bunch of friends arrive on Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday, and I had uh whole fifteen people here through about one o'clock yesterday afternoon, and it was just just a hoot, people from all over the country.
And but Thursday night I had to leave them because I had fly to New York for the annual Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation uh annual dinner and ball.
And it was uh there were three people that received awards uh that night.
Well, two people uh Secretary of State James Baker, uh I was at his table, and Senator Lieberman, who uh received an award I have received from this group called the Johnny Mike Mike Spann Award, the Semper Fidelis Award.
And uh the the commandant of the Marine Corps was there.
It was really just the Marine Corps band, it was patriotic, I mean your blood was tingling while uh well at the event is in the ballroom of the Waldorf Hysterio Hotel.
And uh Senator Lieberman in his uh went over to his table, he was sitting with Roger Ailes of the Fox News Channel, and I went over and I said hello to uh to Senator Lieberman.
Uh and uh we we talked about Bill Buckley a little bit and and the connection that both of us had to him.
And uh they they gave me uh uh they already given me an award, they they'd given me the brass balls award last November uh for fighting dingy Harry on the Harry Reed Smear Letter and raising 4.2 million dollars for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, Dick Tarickian uh were the master of ceremonies, replete in his camouflage tuxedo.
Uh mentioned there was six hundred people in the ballroom, and he told the story uh of how the uh the whole thing came about.
He called me up to um accept some thanks, and I expect I gave the details of the of the whole event, because I don't know how many of the 600 people in the crowd were fully aware of it.
And then I sat down, I said brevity is a soul of witness, spent about ten minutes up there, went back and sat down.
Senator Lieberman was the last speaker of the night receiving the Johnny Man's Johnny Mike Spann Award.
And he um it was funny as he could be.
He said, he said one really nice thing.
He said uh after he said, perhaps the greatest thing that the United States Senate had done all last year was take action that generated four point two million dollars for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
And he was the only Democrat who did not sign it.
He's an independent now, but he was the only non-Republican who did not sign the Harry Reid smear letter.
And I had mentioned that in my brief remarks, and and I uh he thanked me for pointing out to the crowd he had not signed it, and he said, and I got I got a little embarrassed by this.
He said, with that act, Mr. Limbaugh proved that his heart is even larger than his voice, which is already massively powerful.
And then he said, Can you believe what an odd political season we are in?
Here I am, Joel Lieberman, now an independent, receiving an award from the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation and trying to convince Rush Limbaugh to support the Republican candidate for president.
And Susan Baker, James Baker's wife, jabbed me in the shoulder and said, Yeah, yeah.
That was a it was a it was a fabulous line.
Here I am trying to convince Rush Limbaugh to support the Republican.
He said, What a what a political year this is.
So on my way, I had to leave early because I had to fly back down to down home here to get back with my guests.
I mean, I there were there was maybe five or ten minutes more to go when I left, but I had to get out of there, and I stopped by Senator Lieberman's table again, and I I thanked him.
And he said, Well, we we need to stay in touch.
I absolutely love to.
I love the last time I saw him was at the um 50th anniversary party in Washington for National Review.
He was at Bill Buckley's table because Buckley was the reason Lieberman got elected.
Uh We all hated Lowell Wiker, this is a rhino Republican, liberal Republican, and uh Buckley started BuckPack, a political action committee to get Lieberman elected, and it uh it succeeded.
So it was a really uh just a great night, great cause, and genuine patriotism in that room.
Absolute genuine patriotism.
It was uh there were some real war heroes in that room, and they were introduced and their stories were told, and it was, as I mentioned uh in my little time at the podium, it was a it's uh it was a true honor to be in that room uh with with those guys, with those people.
And I uh I'll I'll tell you what I said when I when I closed, I thanked uh Tarickian and Pete Haas, Jim Kalstrom, they're they're one of the many founders of M. Clef.
Uh and they they I we out of Turikian's house back in 1995 when they're putting the whole idea together, lives in Rockville Center, and uh they had me out there to talking about the whole thing, and and I pledged my support to them at that point in 1995, and I thank them for giving me the opportunity to be part of it, because it is it is just 100% passed through.
Everything donated goes to the children of Marines killed in action, and in many cases, law enforcement uh agents, children of them who are killed in action, the same thing from other services.
Uh it's an honor to be part of that organization, and I was happy to be there that night, and I wanted to mention this publicly.
We have now found the soundbite that our caller was referring to earlier, in which James Carville on Meet the Press yesterday admits that the Democrats would love to win the presidency without these white hick hayseed type voters.
I know he's not sociologist in charge, but uh he didn't have his kind of history right.
He needs to have a better history and about understanding.
I think and I think Bob is right, he's gonna have a chance in the debate, and he's gonna have a chance to kind of re-explain himself here.
But this statement was really off in terms of its accuracy and understanding who, quote, these people are.
There's a large segment of the Democratic Party that would like to win an election without these kind of white working class voters.
And we need a substantial...
No, you don't think folks I want to win with those votes.
Right.
Uh these in so now there's even an argument about that.
Carvo says there's a there's a large segment of Democrat Party would like to win an election without these kind of white working class voting.
I submit to you that they're probably the kind of people Barack Obama spoke to in San Francisco on April 6th.
Just like I'll bet you, I'll bet you the story.
I tell you this constantly, but let me let me expand on it by setting it up again.
I've been to several dinner parties in New York early on in the early mid-90s, and I've had these elite Republicans come up to me, sort of jab me in the chest.
So, what are you gonna do about the Christians?
And what do you mean?
Well, it's an embarrassment to be in these people that are pro-life, they're killing the party.
We're never going to win anything.
Well, they're never gonna win anything.
You just won two landslides in the eighties.
You just won the House of Representatives.
What do you mean you can't win?
Well, it's an embarrassment.
It's embarrassment.
We're just they're elitists.
I don't care what party they belong, they're elitists.
And so Obama's out there talking to the same group, same type of group.
They're they're liberals, but they're not crazy about these Democrat white, what did he what did he call them?
These uh white working class voters.
But there's a lot of elite Democrats who are embarrassed too to have some of the party regulars paraded on TV.
The c the kind of people that if you waive a hundred dollar bill in a trailer park, what you'd come up with, yes, as Mr. Carville described Paula Jones.
So I think I think elites are elites.
They do not make the country work, and they would just as soon not be confronted with the kind of people who do make the country work.
We'll be back, my friends.
Stay with us.
All right, back to the phones here in just a second.
But first, from the American Spectator today, uh the prowler column.
Michelle Obama believes that she is her husband's best advocate, but some of Senator Obama's inner circle believe that uh should he win the Democrat nomination, they will have to repackage and redirect Mrs. Obama for the general election.
This, according to one Obama donor who has voiced her concerns about the misses.
You look at what she says about America and some of the policies she thinks Obama would put in place and you just cringe, uh, says the donor in the fundraiser.
Much of what she says wouldn't fly in most of the country.
And it even sounds like some of the things Hillary was saying 16 years ago are on the campaign trail today.
The latest example has got them bothered, was we told you about this last week, Miss Obama's appearance in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where she said to a group of mothers, if we don't wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership for how we want this country to work, then we won't get universal health care.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, somebody is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that somebody else can have more.
The comment reminded some of the remarks Hillary made back in 2004 at a private San Francisco fundraiser for Barbara Boxer, where she warned the gathered wealthy, we're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Now, two things.
Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, they're all the same.
They're liberals.
And what's going on here is again something that it's frustrating more Americans don't recognize.
The Democrat Party doing everything it can to cover up who they really are.
Okay, we got to shut up Michelle Obama.
We got to repackage her.
We gotta shut her up for the general.
She's gonna kill us.
Why?
By being honest.
You Democrats, you think you're gonna get killed by being honest?
You're right.
So they have to run around, they have to try to muzzle her, but the problem is gonna be her.
Mrs. Obama, who has refused much advice in the campaign trail about her speaking style and comments, often departs from scripted talking points and believes her styles in line with her husband's.
That's probably right, said one Democrat consultant who has worked with Obama's campaign, but we've had them thinking about what happens next during the Denver Convention and after.
The scrutiny will be heightened, and a lot of her stuff isn't gonna play in Peoria.
Is that not amazing?
Just everything we learn, we know.
We're not learning, at least on this program, we're not learning anything new about these people.
They are just now, because of Operation Chaos being forced to confront who they are in public, and is being made plainly visible and viewable by by viewable by one and all.
By the way, before we go back to the phones, a quick warning to you parents out there.
I just want to put you on notice.
This is National Environmental Education Week.
It is a time to actively engage kindergarten through twelfth grade students and teachers in an inspired week of environmental learning before Earth Day on April 22nd.
The event is organized by the National Environmental Education Foundation, a group chartered by Congress in 1990 to advance environmental knowledge and action.
Our ultimate goal is to activate environmentally responsible behavior in the general public, the group says in its website.
The theme of this year's environmental education week is carbon footprints.
The lessons and activities are designed to infuse environmental education, read that propaganda into everyday learning.
Students can compare their carbon footprints with students from other schools.
Boys versus girls can compare their carbon footprints and more.
The National Environmental Education Foundation is offering an online student carbon calculator to help kids figure out how much carbon dioxide they are emitting in the following categories.
Travel, what you eat, home, what you use, and what you throw away.
So you parents.
After the El Gore movie, it was the polar bears.
Your kids came home and say, Mommy, mommy, mommy, we're killing the polyberry.
Stop.
It's global warming, mommy.
I started school, it's parents want the kid to shut up, so they.
Now, here's the second thing is Now, uh carbon footprint.
Hey, I got an idea.
Why don't you ask them to calculate their stupid carbon footprint by virtue of what they exhale and compare their exhalations to what they eat.
I mean, and then your kids are going to come come home, folks, and they're going to tell you that uh they and you are killing the planet.
That's the objective.
They're gonna come.
Mommy, mommy, we learned about carbon footprints today at school.
And we're destroying the plant.
We gotta come back on what we eat, mommy.
We gotta come back.
We gotta come back on all this.
It's horrible, Mama.
That's exactly what this is designed to do.
The only bright spot is that most of these kids can't read, and so they won't be able to use the carbon calculator on the website, but still, they're gonna remember what they're told.
By the way, Al Gore, let me find this in the global warming stack.
Al Gore has admitted that he has a financial interest in advancing global warming.
Here it is.
It's from Noel Shepherd and the boys at uh at Newsbusters.
Oh, French news agency on April uh April 10th.
Scientists take drugs to boost brains.
Twenty percent of scientists admit to using performance-enhancing prescription drugs for non-medical reasons.
According to a survey by Britain's top science journal, the overwhelming majority of these med-taking brainiac said they indulged in order to improve concentration.
Sixty percent said they did so on a daily or weekly basis.
The uh the drugs are Ritalin.
Scientists are taking Ritalin, the ADD drug.
Uh they are taking uh provigil, am I pronouncing it right?
Provigil, provigil, prescribed to treat sleep disorders.
Uh, also effective against general fatigue and jet lag.
And I don't know what the third one is here, but scientists admit they're druggies.
Ritalin.
And they come up with a consensus then after that.
They're able to more sharply focus.
Al Gore admits financial stake in advancing global warming hysteria.
On March 1st, speaking at the TED conference, Moderate California, Gore admitted to having a stake in a number of green investments that he recommended attendees put money in.
Rather than subprime carbon assets like tar sands and shale oil.
This occurred as pictures of such products appeared on the screen with names of the companies involved.
Gore said there's a lot of great investments you can make if you're investing in tar sands or shale oil, then you have a portfolio crammed with subprime carbon assets.
And it's based on an old model.
Junkies find veins in their toes when the ones in their arms and legs collapse, developing tar sands and coal shales the equivalent.
Here are just a few of the investments I personally think make sense.
I have a stake in these, so I'll have a disclaimer there.
And as he spoke, pictures of electric cars, windmills, and solar panels appeared in multiple slides on the screen with company names at the bottom, such as a mirrors, that's biofuels, ultra biofuels, bloom energy,
solid oxide fuel cells, mascoma, cellulosic biofuels, uh great point energy, catalytic gasification, uh meosol, which is solar cells, and GEM battery operated cars, is it is admitting he's got a financial stake in all these things and encouraging people to invest in the same things he's investing in.
While poor people are starting and rioting because of food shortages.
Uh exactly right.
Uh let's see what uh biodegradable this is the global warming stack is just overflowing.
Like, are wind farm turbines making people sick?
Some say yes.
Noise pollution.
Another unintended consequence from King City, Missouri, two brothers-in-law, a country road in Northwest Missouri, a fist fight.
Surely it's happened before, but never over wind energy.
Last year, 400 foot-tall wind turbines were erected near King City, some less than 2,000 feet from Charlie Porter's house.
Soon the sounds from the blades swooshing through the air and other noise were driving Porter and his family crazy.
The sound gets in your head.
It's like a saw, you can't get rid of it.
Porter said some people compare it to a train that never arrived.
And at the heart of the dispute now is just how healthy is the noise from wind turbines.
How can such idiots be so dominant?
People have been patiently waiting, and I got I got some great audio sound bites, Operation Chaos I want to squeeze in here too.
Uh Bob in Erie, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Uh from Erie, which right now is being inundated by Ted Kennedy, uh surrogate for Obama.
Uh he's in town speaking several places.
Uh by the way, you know where Obama is not going to speak himself?
Uh I don't know.
Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
Well, that's Obama is studiously avoiding black neighborhoods in Philadelphia in an outreach effort to the white vote.
Okay.
Uh first of all, I'm a lifelong Democrat, uh conservative Reagan voting uh member of the Chaos Army, and was visited by uh a delegate or a uh person from the Killery camp over the weekend at my house.
I'm uh what's called a super voter around here because I vote twice a year in primaries and in the fall, so I'm on a special list, uh hot list they call it.
So somebody from Hill Hillary's campaign came to your house?
Yes, yes, they're in the neighborhood, and they did not go to every house, but they rang my doorbell, and she said, Well, who are you voting for?
And I said, Well, Hillary.
And boy, she was ecstatic.
And I said, Where are you from?
She said, Buffalo.
She wasn't from Pennsylvania.
Buffalo, New York.
I says, Okay.
And she says, Well, why are you voting for Hillary?
I said, Operation Chaos.
And she looked at me and I said, I'm also a Reagan conservative.
And she had a little clipboard there when she was sorry to ask me questions.
I said, Lady, just do me a favor.
Operation Chaos.
That's all you need to know.
Yeah.
And I says, I'll vote for her in a spring, but then I'll hold my nose in the fall and vote for McCain.
She did not know.
I said, Do you want me to spell it for you so you can write it on your clipboard?
And she just stood there and she did not know what to say.
But she no but she wrote it down.
Yeah, she at the bottom of the thing.
I said, and make sure you turn that in.
I said, Don't go tearing it up and throwing it out in the street and being a literary.
Great story.
Yeah, and like I said, NRA, life member, just about.
Uh belong to all kinds of outdoor clubs, gun gun rack in the back, pick-up truck, the whole nine yards, flag in the front, everything.
Why are you Democrat?
Uh, it's more fun.
I like you.
Okay, well, thank you.
No, it's uh I have more fun arguing with people than they say, Well, geez, you sound like a Republican.
I said, No, I give to him, but I said no.
I'll I'll keep my my Democrat uh voting uh record.
I says, because then I can have more fun.
So that's the way I do it.
But Chaos is my middle name right now.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thanks.
Thanks for the call.
Very good, sir.
That's uh let's use this to go to the audio sound bites here at the top of the list.
This is this morning in Louisville.
Uh 84 WHAS, the morning host Tony Cruz interviewed Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.
And Tony Cruz said, Hey, apparently thousands have either switched, I guess switched political affiliation, notably from Republican to Democrat or from independent to Democrat to vote between Hillary and Barack.
But there may be a problem now, I'm reading.
There is a problem.
Kentucky has a law that not a lot of people remember, uh, because it only affects a few people.
But if you switch your party affiliation after the first of the year, you can't vote in your new primary, uh new partisan primary, and then because you've switched, you can't vote in your old primary.
Uh and so you're locked out.
But for new registrants, the rule doesn't apply.
So if you're you're not in the books, you've just moved to Kentucky.
Uh you can go ahead and choose whatever party you want or no party.
Uh and then you can vote accordingly.
And about over 9,000 people have shut themselves out of the primary.
But now this is not Operation Chaos, because this is you had to switch parties before the end of the year.
Well, it might be Operation Chaos.
It might be Operation Chaos, people didn't know about it.
So the um uh an obscure Kentucky law looks if if you're if you're no, you'd have to If you register for the first time, you can live there for thirty years and never registered.
If you registered for the first time, cool.
If you change your party affiliation and you're already registered, you've got to do that before the end of the year.
So 9,000 Operation Chaos operatives may be wiped out here because of the obscure Kentucky law.
So Tony Cruz, the host then says, well, you have any guess as to how many people just simply are voting because they may not vote Republican, in other words, but they were voting because they really don't want either Obama or Clinton on the ticket.
Is there any idea about that?
Most folks, I think vote for who the best candidate is, because at the end of the day, the person that comes out of the primary can win and can represent you, and that's really what you ought to do.
But Rush Limbaugh has his Operation Chaos.
Yeah.
Uh where he's been encouraging folks, Republicans to switch, or if you're allowed to vote in some primaries where they're open to go in and vote for Hillary Clinton.
Although the irony is in Kentucky, she polls a lot better than Barack Obama.
So but uh that's the Secretary of State Trey Grayson um on uh 84 WHAS in Louisville uh today.
Operation Chaos voters may get the shaft uh in uh in Kentucky.
Then yesterday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, uh Hillary Clinton held a press conference, unidentified reporter said when you were walking up and down the street in your short conversations, what are people saying to you?
Any any issues that they say, like we need you to address X?
There was a man over on the street back there who said he uh was a Rush Limbaugh Republican who was voting for me because he's 46 years old and doesn't have any health insurance, and we have to get health insurance.
Do you believe this?
This is a this is a well, let's it's hard to believe Mrs. Clinton any of these people when they tell the truth.
However, let's give her the benefit of the doubt.
Let's say that she's telling the truth.
This is a brilliant Operation Chaos operative.
This is brilliant.
You've got Mrs. Clinton thinking all these people have changing over because they like her and because they want health care.
I guarantee you that if there is a Rush limbaugh Republican voting for Hillary, there's no such thing.
There's no such thing as a Republican, a Rush Limbaugh, a Republican want to go vote for Hillary for health care.
That's just not possible.
So we probably have a brilliant operative here approaching her about this.
It's an old sandbag routine.
You you make her think that uh she's got this genuine support here.
Uh now, everybody in Pennsylvania is trying to figure out if the rush effect, Operation Chaos, has caused crossovers or simply the attractiveness of the Democrat candidates is responsible here.
Um sorry, drive-by's, but it's not the candidates.
I'll just tell you, but uh this is uh Philadelphia TV, WPBI Inside Story.
I think it's TV.
Uh inside story attorney Christine Flowers and an unidentified female host have this exchange about me, the commanding officer, Operation Chaos.
You know, there are two things.
One, the rush effect, which people are saying uh may or may not actually have a Rush Limbaugh saying, okay, Republicans, go to the Democrats, have a voice, have an effect on the Democratic primary.
Take the weaker candidates so we can beat them with John McCain is the theory.
The other one is when you're talking about people who are new registrants who aren't uh Republicans who are going from Republican to Democrat, maybe some of them are actually attracted to the fact that they are uh of the candidates, the cult of personality here.
You have a female candidate, the first legitimate female presidential candidate, the first legitimate African American candidate.
Maybe it's not that they're so attracted to the the fundamental principles of the party, but they're actually theory of characters.
Attracted to the characters.
So again, the uh maybe the voters are just stupid.
I mean, why don't why don't you go all the way here and analyze the voters?
But nevertheless, the drive by media now doing everything he can to uh uh understand the uh limbaugh effect, Operation Chaos, and to proclaim it uh irrelevant.
All right, let's see who's next.
John in uh Mineral, Virginia, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, Russ, it's an honor.
Thank you so much.
This is uh great birthday present for me.
Thank you, sir.
Um my concern is like I expressed earlier with uh I'm I'm sick of the the Candidates that we have all together.
I do believe that what we need is a candidate that will protect America.
And all this fighting amongst ourselves internally is destroying us.
And I just, you know, I'm from a small town.
I've served my country.
I drive a four-wheel drive.
I drive a Harley.
In it's just life in general.
Let me ask you a question.
Are you saying that Obama's right, that you're bitter and that you're clinging to your guns and your church because you're mad that government's not doing enough for you?
No, I'm not.
I am saying it because I'm a true blooded American that stands up for his rights, that a country that I protected, that I am not bitter about anything.
I can take care of myself.
I don't need the government doing that for me.
I don't need that.
But you are fed up at government because you're fed up because or you're fed up at something because you think of all the bickering that's going on internally.
Oh, yeah, I think you know, if we could wipe the slate clean and start over, I think it'd be awesome.
How do we do that?
Just kick them all out.
I'm looking at it.
Oh, I see, I see.
But yeah, term limit them all.
Exactly.
All right, this is this proves my point.
To the extent that he's got any bitterness, he's bitter at government.
He's not waiting for government to do something.
It's not that government's forgotten him.
It's a government won't leave him alone.
Back to the phones quickly to Spencer, Iowa.
This is Chris.
It's great to have you here.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks, Russ.
Here, just a second.
I have to set down my gun and my cross, and I can talk to you.
Okay.
Thanks for taking my call.
Um, I wanted to tell you why I'm bitter in small town America.
Um Friday night, my husband got a call and got a nice raise, not huge, but this morning I checked my online banking, and we have that too in small town America.
And uh government took 40% of the raise that my husband got.
So that's what makes me bitter about.
See, this is I I I I uh this doesn't surprise me.
Uh you but but people think Obama's trying to portray you as a racist.
You're bitter because there are black people in your neighborhood, bitter because he's illegal immigrants coming in, and you're bitter because he because he because the gays are running around your town trying to get in your church, and you're and you're bitter because people don't look like you make you mad, and you're bitter because your government's not helping.
That's right.
And the bottom line is you're bitter because the government's taking too much from you.
That's right.
And uh, you know, like I said, it wasn't a huge race, but it was nice, and I have five kids, and you know, it's disappointing to see that much money coming out of what my husband earned.
Amen.
Amen.
Forty percent of your husband's raise is gone in taxes.
Mm-hmm.
I did the math.
You sure you know how to do math?
You live in a small town.
Well, with public education, I'm not sure, but I I think I got it right.
Well, Chris, hang in.
Believe me, it can only get better.
And you know what?
It's great here.
So Barack Obama can't ruin my day.
There you go.
That's the spirit of the people in flyover country that I know and that I love.
Jimmy Carter has made news.
This was ABC's This Week with George Steffi Stephanopoulos.
Stephanopoulos said, uh, President Carter, you're gonna be the highest ranking American ever to meet with the president of Hamas, or the leader of the head terrorist of Hamas.
His group is labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the State Department advised against the meeting.
Why are you doing it anyway?
As a matter of fact, uh, I've been meeting with Hamas leaders for years, if as a matter of fact, ten years ago after Arafat was first elected president of uh the PLO and the Palestinians.
Uh, we were monitoring that election, and I met with Hamas afterwards.
There's no doubt, but in anyone's mind that if uh Israel is ever going to find peace with justice uh concerning the relationship with their next door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be uh included in the process.
Now everybody's running around trying to explain this.
Uh everybody w what in the world is going on with Jimmy Aziz Carter and his diabolic meeting with Hamas.
And you know, some people say it's because he loaths Israel, and other people are saying that he uh he wants to be Jimmy of Arabia.
He's got this megalomoniacal concept here that he can bring all these warring factions together.
Other people say that he is he's acting like Bill Clinton and trying to try to build a legacy.
I have a simpler explanation to explain Jimmy Aziz Carter.
I think he's suffering Stockholm syndrome.
I'm serious.
I think this needs to be looked at.
Carter was virtually held hostage for the last year of his presidency.
I went to ask yahoo.com for a reasonable explanation of the Stockholm syndrome.
This is what I found.
Captives begin to identify with their captors initially as a defense mechanism out of fear of violence.
Small acts of kindness with a captor are magnified since finding perspective in a hostage situation is by definition impossible.
Rescue attempts are also seen as a threat, since it's likely the captive would be injured during such attempts.
Now it is important to note that these symptoms occur under tremendous emotional and often physical duress.
The behavior is considered a common survival strategy for victims of interpersonal abuse, and has been observed in battered spouses, abused children, prisoners of war, concentration camp survivors, and now former presidents of the United States.
But this explains it as well as anything else.
He's lost his mind.
So Jimmy Aziz Carter, by the way, he weighed in also on what to do with the superdelegates, and he said he's not going to endorse until the convention, which we love, operation chaos.
Stephanopoulos said, Speaker Pelosi has said the superdelegates, uh, President Carter should not overturn the will of the people, uh, that that's not what they're supposed to do, and that they should basically vote for and not overturn the winner of the pledge delegates.
Do you agree with that standard?
I think that any superdelegate who wishes to deviate from that uh opinion should be perfectly free to do so.
Now, my hometown, my county, my state went overwhelmingly for Obama.
But if I decided later on to support Mrs. Clinton, I would feel free to do so.
But I think it would be a very serious mistake for the Democratic Party.
If, for instance, I'm not anticipating what's going to happen with the next uh contest, I think about a dozen of them.
If a candidate had uh the majority of popular votes, the majority of delegates, and the majority of states, all three for the superdelegates to vote uh contrary to that, I think it would be very difficult to explain.
It might be, but why you know, this is the thing I keep coming back to is superdelegates.
If you're going to say that they have to follow the will of the pledge delegates, then why have them?
The whole point of the pledged delegates is to prevent the party from nominating another McGovern.
Maybe another Jimmy Carter.
Uh if if if you take that away from them, then the superdelegates don't matter.
Why have this?
So, even, you know, when Obama can sit there in San Francisco and say that small town America is made up a bunch of angry gun-toting, cross-bearing bigots who don't like people who don't look like them and are only mad because the government's forgotten them.
What can you say about the Democrat Party's view of its own voters?
They don't have enough trust in the intelligence of their own voters to elect the nominee, so they've got these superdelegates to save the day in case regular Democrat voters botch the process.
According to an exclusive in a drudge report, McCain has confided to his inner circle Hillary may yet be the Democrat nominee, and that he would rather face Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama.
More on that tomorrow after everybody denies it.
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