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May 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, that's cool.
Well, we'll then do 8, 9, 10, and 11.
That's so that's where we're going to start with out there.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
What a day.
Hell's a popping out there, ladies and gentlemen, and we are going to chronicle it all for you.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882.
And the email address is Lrushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
Senator McCain today made a speech.
A uh uh I watched, uh watched the build-up to this speech on the Fox News channel, and they were just they were they were taught us to do the landmark groundbreaking, I mean all these superlatives to describe what this speech is going to be.
It's gonna be a four-year retrospective.
McCain's gonna jump forward at 2013, you know, look back in the past tense and talk about all that's been accomplished in his first term.
And they were just going bonkers over there.
How exciting this is gonna be groundbreaking and so forth.
And I watched it, and we have some audio sound bites from it.
You be the judge.
Now the speech, and this is important, speech was delivered to the Columbus Metropolitan Club.
Now, do you know what the Columbus Metropolitan Club is, snurgly?
You know, you want to know because I looked at it.
The Columbus Metropolitan Club is like NPR Live.
This is from their website.
The Columbus Metropolitan Club is like NPR Live, like the office water cooler, the neighborhood coffee shop, the sports bar during a big game, the kitchen table at supper time.
It's where we look forward to seeing our family and friends to share important news.
They go on describe themselves.
Uh they uh they then they then say that um they're they're well, they're nonpartisan.
They stake their 32 reputation, 32-year reputation on and I'm I'm not ripping these, but don't misunderstand here now.
I'm not this is not, I'm just telling you who they are.
Those of you in Columbus here, don't you know don't don't start having a fit.
I'm just alerting the audience.
You know who the uh Columbus Metro Club is.
I'm just alerting the nation here.
The Columbus Metropolitan Club stakes its 32-year uh reputation on being balanced, nonpartisan, diverse, and open to all perspectives throughout our programming year.
So it's important for you to understand that because of the way we're going to present the McCain speech to you today.
So that'll come up here in uh in just in just a few moments.
And again, not being critical of the Columbus Metropolitan Club.
They want to make it clear here, they don't stand for anything.
Whatever you want to talk about when you go in there is fine with them.
Sports bar, water cooler, NPR Live, fine with them.
Not being critical.
This'll this all become clear to you and become relevant afterwards.
The big news today is that George Bush is over in Israel.
And in a speech at the Knesset, he made a speech, he made some comments about how talking to tyrants is not the way to defeat them.
Magic words are not gonna convince your enemies to all of a sudden realize they are wrong.
He said this is appeasement.
The Obama campaign is erupting.
They all think it's about them.
Puff Dashel went for him, what is ballistic.
On on Fox today on the phone, I think the call was cut.
I think I think the puffster was actually spitting and might have shorted out his phone.
Didn't he got the the haughty John Kerry on the phone to talk about this?
Howard Dean has said that McCain should denounce Bush's remarks from Israel.
Nancy Pelosi says Bush's comments are beneath the dignity of the office.
Um it and here's what Bush said this morning in Jerusalem.
A portion of his remarks, this is a limbaugh echo, by the way.
This this is the kind of language that he should have been using about Democrats for all these years.
Listen.
Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals.
As if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.
We've heard this foolish delusion before.
As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939.
An American senator declared, Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.
We have an obligation to call this what it is.
The false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
We cut the applause there in the interest of time.
If he'd been saying this about the Democrats the last four years, last six years, geez, can you imagine the different uh playing field we might have if it had been consistent with this?
Uh of course he's right, and I watched this too, and he looked authoritative.
The president looked more authoritative than McCain does.
He looked more authoritative than uh than Obama does.
Now let's listen to the conniption fit that the Democrats had.
Here is Puff Dashel on the Fox News channel reacting.
I'm shocked, and I'm actually very, very saddened by what the president has done.
This is an unprecedented political attack.
He doesn't have to use names to know exactly what he's trying to do.
We've never seen a president do that before.
The most important thing, however, is to underscore the extraordinary failure of this administration when it comes to Iraq.
They're a lot more influential than they were eight years ago.
Their nuclear program has expanded.
And so the very failures that he's been unable to address are the ones now he's trying to blame others for.
This is something that uh we're ready for.
We're going to engage in this debate, but it's really too bad.
Uh at this point to celebrate that the 60th anniversary of Israel this way is uncalled for, and it's uh it's very, very s disappointing.
Translation, home run, Bush, grand slam, Democrats all just see.
This is the thing.
The Obama campaign is they're they're back now to being um uh re treating uh Obama and demanding that he be treated as a messiah.
And of course, the Messiahs can't be criticized.
Now, this is an unprecedented attack.
It's totally unprecedented.
How d how dare he?
When in fact Obama has said exactly this.
This is exactly what he's going to do.
Uh the nuclear program in Iran has been expanded.
Yes, that's what the pufster said.
It said it now, he didn't say it.
He said Iran's nuclear program has been expanded.
Now, what's interesting about that is that it was just what, a year and a half ago that Puff Dash and all these other guys were citing the national intelligence report that was entirely politicized, said that they weren't doing anything with nukes.
That we were all wrong about this.
And it was a bunch of State Department people, anti-Bush, trying to inject themselves into policy and stop Bush policy and dealing with Iran dead in its tracks.
Anyway, that's a side issue.
Uh the puffster is just beside himself here because the truth, this is, you know, a vicious attack.
Puffs, I'm I'm I'm I'm uh very concerned, Tim.
Shocked, very, very saddened.
Uh unprecedented political attack.
Unprecedented political attack for crying out everything the president said is true.
And that's the point.
You attack Democrats, it is an attack.
Now let's go to MSNBC.
Shortly after Puff Dashel appeared on um on Fox, the anchor at InfoBabe the Sweetie at at uh MSNB.
Well, if Obama can call him sweetie, I can.
And then he acted, and he whoosed out, then he apologized.
He wissed out for calling a reporter sweetie.
Actually, I did get reprimanded for calling a co-anchor deer once when I was in Kansas City, but I was thinking D E E R when I said it.
But I did get reproductive.
I had to go to coaching training at a sensitivity coaching sessions with the program director.
At any rate, uh back now to MSNBC and the sweetie anchor Monica Novotney talking to the haughty John Kerry.
She said Obama has said that he would meet with heads of state from countries like Cuba, Iran, North Korea.
Clinton says that she would reach out through other diplomatic channels.
She wouldn't want to dignify the presidential office with such a meeting.
Do you agree with Senator Obama on this point?
Ronald Reagan, who called the Soviet Union the evil empire, Sat down with Gorbachev and got a deal on nuclear weapons.
The world is safer when you engage with people.
Barack Obama is not talking about some silly sit-down, lighthearted meeting with a leader of a country that we disagree with vehemently, like Iran or others.
He's talking about how you engage them in a way that constructively moves the world forward.
And he is willing to have his administration do that.
I agree with that policy.
Yes, I think it's important to engage.
This is incredible.
Go get the latest loser.
Make him put your foreign policy spokesman.
What is John Kerry known for, other than having served in Vietnam, and that is the global test.
Go out and get permission.
We'll have comments on this in just a second.
He then added this to uh MSNBC sweetie Monica Novotny.
This is a disgraceful statement by the president.
It really is.
He ought to apologize to the American people for going to Israel and using the Knesset in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of a state and a people that we all support and that we're all proud of, and using it for politics.
Politics, he was recounting history.
Anyway, we'll have some comments here on this whole notion of meeting with foreign leaders.
Uh Obama has said.
You mean the Democrats?
It's just May.
I I don't know if anything you do now, this is they could be stepping in it.
They they they might well be stepping in it.
They've got they've got a really flawed candidate.
This is the thing.
Obama is a flawed candidate, and they know it, and that's why all of these people they they rise up and try to shield him from any of this criticism.
Uh as though he is a messiah, and the criticism is racist, unprecedented attack, uh, and and and so forth.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out here.
We'll come back lots straight ahead here on the EIB network.
Stay with us.
Gotcha.
Gotcha.
You're all wondering what's going on here.
Okay.
What is what is what is going on here, ladies and gentlemen.
The Democrat Party is trying to create a false issue.
Bush with an unprecedented political attack on foreign soil from foreign soil.
Uh create a false issue.
They are trying to immunize Obama from criticism on his pathetic ignorance on uh on foreign policy.
So what do they do?
They send Kerry out to talk.
Who lost the presidency?
They send Tom Dashell out to talk, who lost his Senate seat.
By the way, did Howard Dean or any of these other people demand that Jimmy Carter apologize for any of the so-called political attacks on his own country and on Israel that he has made in his international travels?
Of course not.
They are just upset because somebody got the truth out about Obama and what he intends to do.
By the way, there's a piece today by Mark Shepard, the American Thinker.com.
Actually, it's from yesterday.
It was in yesterday's stack.
And here is a quote from Obama.
It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, yeah, this is a guy who spent time in the Muslim world.
He has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and his call for talks with people.
So he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush.
And that's something they're hopeful about.
I think that's a perfectly legitimate perception, as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security.
Now, Obama himself is admitting that Arabs, that terrorists, Islamo fascist enemies might want to talk to him because he's worldly.
He spent time in the Muslim world, and his middle name is Hussein, and he's called for talks with people.
So when you hear this quote, I mean, there's a lot in this quote to uh trouble you and to bother you.
But when, you know, we had this discussion yesterday on Obama and his full-fledged ignorance on the Great Depression and what caused it, and uh his his belief that we're very close to a depression in the housing market today, Which is frankly embarrassingly ignorant and absurd.
So I take it from this quote that Barack Obama thinks that diehard jihadists are going to be amenable to him and his diplomatic entriaties because of his middle name.
They're going to be comfortable with him because of his middle name is Hussein.
We're going to have a guy in a white house named Hussein.
We can't say it now.
We can't use his name.
But he can.
When we use his name, it's racism.
And it is criticism.
And is it it is just it's it's below the pale.
It's an unprecedented personal attack, a political attack, and these things we can't do.
Now let's talk a little bit here about Kerry, John Kerry saying that Reagan sat down and talked with Gorby and got a deal.
You know, that is such a distortion of what happened.
Let's talk about the first time they met was in uh I think Reykjavik.
They met on in Iceland.
They met there on neutral soil, and Gorbachev, you know, was g he thought he was just he's gonna roll Reagan right over, and because he believed all the publicity Reagan was just an idiot, and Reagan, you know, offered Gorbachev, you get yours get rid of yours, I'll get rid of mine.
Gorbachev wouldn't do it.
Reagan said when he got no deal, walked out and went home.
Then they met later in Washington, and that's where the Gorbasm was born was when when when when Gorbachev arrived, and all of official elite Washingtons had a gorbasm over the fact that the guy was in town to save Reagan from pushing the nuclear button.
Reagan sat down, he talked with Gorby about both countries scrapping nuclear weapons, but it was under the umbrella of, okay, pal, I put missiles in Europe.
Europeans went along with me, you have an evil empire.
I'm gonna bury your butt with the strategic defense initiative and anything else I can think of.
We begin bombing in five minutes.
There was none of the kind of rapprochement that the haughty John Kerry and Obama have in mind.
Bush has it exactly right.
There are some people who think that simply because they're really creative, what is this exact quote here?
Some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.
This is a uh a sentiment born of arrogance, uh hubris and even a god complex, if I may be so upfront and honest in uh in mentioning it in that regard.
So what what are we left with here?
We are left with once again the illustration that the Democrats have only losers to support their flawed candidate.
They've got to send Puff Dasho out, they gotta send the haughty John Kerry out.
They are doing everything they can to shield Obama from any attack because they need to shield his incompetence.
I have fought all along, even to this primary process since uh the 22nd of February when Obama stopped winning things and Hillary did.
You know, all this, you know, here here we got we got the endorsement from uh what the Brett girl yesterday?
Now that's really big too.
The Brett girl had what, 13 delegates or 19 delegates?
The Brett girl who didn't run for re-election North Carolina because he knew he couldn't win his own state, the guy who did not help John Kerry carried North Carolina when he was the vice presidential running mate in 2004, and this is somehow some sort of big deal.
I mean, losers.
Rise to the top.
Losing enhances your resume and makes you a victim of the ether mean Republicans.
And when the Republicans beaten you, it's somehow cheating, and therefore you understand the evil represented by Republicans, therefore you, as a loser in the Democrat Party, are qualified to explain to people how rotten and evil the Republicans are.
Hence Dashel, loser.
Hence the haughty John Kerry, loser.
And now the Breck girl.
And over the weekend, there are rumblings.
There is a buzz of that Al Gore will endorse Obama.
They are not as enthusiastic about this guy as they would have all of us believe.
We will be right back.
We're gonna go to the phones.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, uh, before we get to the McCain speech at the Columbus Metropolitan Club this morning, uh, that was highly touted.
It was eagerly anticipated.
Uh they embargoed the speech prior to uh its delivery, although the AP did get some uh advanced copies of it, and this led to I mean, there you the excitement in some of the drive-by media about this speech.
I mean, I was gosh, I hate this position.
I hate being in this position.
I was expecting some rip roaring barn burner, man, it's gonna revolutionize politics.
Moving on to the phones we go uh Keith in Orlando, Florida.
You're first.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Nice to have you here.
Thanks, Russ.
How are you doing, man?
Very good there.
Hey, listen, you know, I I I'm listening to what you're saying about uh about Barack Obama's position, which uh he's been he's been saying the same thing completely, you know, you're completely right.
Uh and and for the first time in a very long time, and probably maybe only time, uh, I've agreed 100% with what President Bush is saying.
Uh, you know, you can't go over to T and Crumpets and expect to to uh snooze these people like uh you're in, you know, $2,000 shoes on uh Wall Street and act like uh they're gonna they're gonna deal with you like you're uh uh business lunch, okay?
And and and I just sickens me to death.
I'm a this may sound like an oxymoron, but I'm a conservative Democrat.
Okay, my parents were Democrats, I came up as a Democrat, but we are very conservative people because we came up in a time where you know they have not, and you did what you had to do, and you're not gonna be able to do that.
Let me ask you a question.
I always I I have to ask you a question.
Why didn't if you very conservative said very conservative Democrats?
Why do you excuse me, all these years, why'd you stay in the Democrat Party?
Because when I was growing up, in where I was growing up in South Florida, you know, there were conservative Democrats who had their principles, and I it sickens me when I hear about all these other people in the Democratic Party who have no principles, which is wrong.
That's not the way I was raised.
Now, like I said, it may sound like a an oxymoron to some.
They do have principles.
They do have principles or a philosophy.
Let's put it that way.
They have a guiding philosophy.
And that guiding philosophy includes you losing a little liberty at a time.
It includes raising your taxes, it includes government and government regulations expanding.
It includes their assumption that you're an incompetent boob and you can't handle yourself because they don't want you to be able to handle yourself because they want you to become dependent.
They are oriented towards socialism, and in addition to that, uh I I think it would be appropriate to point out that the contingent of Americans, whatever percentage it is, that dislikes or hates America is found on the left.
And if those people vote, they will vote in the Democrat Party.
These people are about changing and altering the institutions and traditions which have been the foundation and and the defining uh elements of American greatness.
They have these principles, and they just have to keep them hidden.
And that's why, you know, Obama does go out and see.
When you're when you're a Messiah, I like to look at the psychology of these people.
When you're Messiah, people are treating you as a messiah.
Uh whatever you say is profound.
Everything you say is a profundity.
It is not to be questioned.
Because you're special.
You're new, you're unique.
There has never been any anyone like you.
And so whatever you say, nobody's to question it.
Nobody's to disagree with it.
Nobody is even to reference it.
You're just supposed to believe it.
So when Barack Hussein, Obama, runs around and says he's gonna talk with all these leaders, because talking is good.
He expects no retort, no reply, no reaction, no criticism, because he's a Messiah.
And believe me, I think he buys into this too.
I think that's how he views himself.
He's above all this.
All this this usual politics stuff.
Don't you realize how special I am?
I'm Barack Obama.
I got the answers.
And now his party knows how pathetically inexperienced and inept he is.
And so the effort is underway to shield him from any of this criticism.
What did I do?
I've got a found a little story today on Lucianne's website of perusing there.
Uh, and it it's yes.
Uh Lucian.com, Bloomberg News.
Obama may be targeted by charges he's soft on crime.
Is that news?
Talking about something that might happen.
Obama may be targeted by charges that he's soft on crime.
You notice that every legitimate strategy employed by Republicans is reported as sinister.
It's as if the drive-by media who are in the tank for Obama are countering Republican campaign tactics even before they're launched.
And they are, and the purpose for this is to protect and to shield Obama.
Meanwhile, we have waitily We have McCain out there with his speech today, decrying partisanship.
Uh he doesn't know what he's in for.
Anyway, they they they know that they've got an inept guy and they can't do anything about it.
And so they got to shield him from as much criticism as possible.
Uh moving on, Forbes in Dallas.
Your night uh nice to hold on.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Thank you, sir.
You have a good day.
Um it's a pleasure to be able to talk to you.
Thank you.
Um I've been listening to you since 2001.
Um, all the information I have about America and the policy the political scene is is from you, from listening to you.
I wouldn't explain how I get to get on to you, but it was I came in 2002.
Still 2009, I'm born in the in that same year I was able to get onto your program.
Now, my comment now, I find that recently you you have been very biased, and um I'm losing some of the respect I've gained for you.
In terms of Obama, I think um your analysis of him is is unfair.
In my I've been listening to him and I feel like Wait a second.
Wait, let me let me let me stop here.
First off, you say I'm very biased, and now that that's that's causing you to lose some respect.
Right that you had for me.
Yes.
Uh my analysis of Obama is unfair, such as Yes, that is what we're getting to.
I feel that he's more um conservative than he's liberal.
Um the reason I'm saying so is that um, you can't be serious.
You cannot be.
Give me a minute.
You remember one of the debates when he was when he when he started to um to to to c um quote um Regan to make some reference to Reagan and um his party was done when um Hillary was onto him.
I feel that he cannot because he's he has he has been treading a very, very thin line, a fine line.
One line between black and white, another line between conservative and liberal views, and because he's in the because he's in um he's in his democratic party.
Hello?
I'm just saying, I'm sitting here and I'm listening to you in incredulity.
I'm wondering how in the world this happens.
How in the world do you think the most liberal voting senator in the United States Senate the last three years is walking a fine line between being a liberal and a conservative?
Yeah, when you're quoting it.
What he said about Reagan was nothing in an adulation of Reagan's policies.
He was talking about Reagan's skills as a communicator and a leader, but he made a point to disavow everything Reagan stood for.
Yes, because he had to do it because of that thin line that he's marching.
He has to walk up to very thin line.
And uh listen to me.
Yeah, yeah.
This is I'm sorry, this doesn't wash with me.
This this is a way to excuse everything Obama says.
Well, he, you know, he he he has to walk a very thin line.
He he had he had to distance himself from Reagan in order to get votes of the Democrats.
What you're telling us he's not authentic.
He's not authentic.
He's saying what he has to say to whoever has to hear it.
And in the meantime, I'm the bad guy.
I am the one who is biased.
When it is Obama who we really don't know anything about.
I will be celebrating my 20th year behind the golden EIB microphone and weekly.
This program is heard by 21 million different people.
I am more known, more widely known, more well known, more understood than Barack Obama is.
And yet you think I'm the one that's biased, And he has to walk the thin line.
What you're seeing, what you interpret as Obama walking the thin line is Obama trying to keep from as many people as possible who he really is.
Graham, let me have line four real quick.
Need to go to line four.
This is um Lee in is it Hazlet, Michigan.
Hi Lee, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Good morning.
I have two things I'd like to talk to you about really quick.
One is just really quick about Bush about getting bashed about what he supposedly who he was referring to with uh Obama.
He was referring to every damn liberal in the world that's run a country and dealt with tyranny.
And these guys are want to run around and take it personally.
He was talking about socialists.
He was talking about liberals, he was talking about Neville Chamberlain, he was talking about Americans who have this view.
He was talking about a whole bunch of people.
He was talking about Yeah, he was also talking about the stupid idiot peanut farmer who made the stupid ass uh I'm sorry.
Jimmy Carter.
Yes.
Carter.
I mean, nobody even on the news has made reference to that, and that just recently happened.
But that that's how I wanted to defend Bush.
My other point, I listened to McCain this morning.
Now don't divulge any of the contents of this people.
I have special plans for this speech.
Okay.
But let me just tell you.
I am extremely extremely disappointed.
Uh about what?
Um the direction that you had predicted if this person or any of the three get impress it I don't know what to do.
I have three grandsons that are coming up in age pretty soon.
And I fear for the legacy that our that we're gonna leave these kids.
Not just my kids, everybody, because everyone needs to sit and take notes.
The conservative core group we where are we?
Where what has happened?
Well I'm sick of it.
I am so sick of this.
And I need to tell you, Brush, I have not always been a conservative.
I have grew up in the 60s, went to Woodside.
I'll be 60 actually this month.
And I was a Democrat, voted a Democrat for all my life, and this is this is the really true four years ago.
Another man came into my life who was a born a conservative, basically, I think.
He turned me on to what the direction is.
I just recently got a copy of the Constitution from the Heritage Foundation and reread it the other night.
And I was in tears.
I'm literally in tears about where we've lost our way.
I look to you for leadership.
I wish everybody else would get the clue of what you're really all about.
Oh, they do.
That's why I'm that's why I am uh made out to be an enemy and the most dangerous man in America.
They all know that's that's why the constant attacks uh and the attempt at discreditation from people on the left.
But look, I understand your emotion, and a lot of people feel it.
A lot of people are terribly worried.
Uh and it's a call to arms.
I mean, if if if if a lot of people begin to feel this way, the question is what is not to give up.
I will tell you when it's time to give up.
I will tell you when it's a lost cause.
I will tell you when there's no hope left.
And we are nowhere near that point here.
Uh keep keep your radio on for the next hour at least.
Second or third, we get into this McCain stuff.
Uh and and I'll we'll we'll try to make sense of some of this.
But uh and then some of the stuff in the next hour I want to warn you is gonna make you even angrier.
It's going to depress you.
It is going to infuriate you even more than you already are.
I'm just warning you.
Some of the stuff of the hour that you're going to hear is just you're going to scratch your head.
You can say, How?
You read the Constitution and ask yourself, how in the world did this happen?
How do we get here?
Wait till you hear the next hour.
And you're going to say, gee, whips.
Sometimes people have to hit rock bottom before they bounce up.
But hang in there.
I appreciate the sentiment.
I appreciate your um your thoughts.
I'm glad you called.
Thanks much.
And welcome to the uh to the audience.
We're honored to have you in it.
Now, before I finish this hour while we're on Obama, I found something fascinating in an ash in the uh New Republic.
By a guy named Sin Q. Henderson.
And I think that's how you pronounce a TV writer.
He's working on a book about Abraham Lincoln.
He's black.
C-I-N-Q-U-E.
Uh Sin Q, Sin Q. Well, some people might say Sinke.
You know, but it's Sin Q uh Henderson.
He is a black man who supports Hillary.
Explains why, very cogently here.
But what you'll hear here when when black people go off on Obama, they really go off on a guy.
Wait till you wait till you hear this.
90% of black Democrats support Barack Obama.
So that might leave an observer wondering what the hell's up with the other 10%.
Are they stupid?
They hate their own race.
They not understand the historical import of the moment.
I can shed some insight on this anomaly.
In gatherings of black people, I'm invariably the only one for the Dragon Lady.
I'll do my best to explain how those of us in the ever-shrinking minority of a minority came to our position.
But before going any further, let me disclose my predispositions.
I disliked Obama instantly.
I never believed the central premises of his autobiography or his campaign.
He is fueled by precisely the same brand of personal ambition as Bill Clinton.
But where Clinton is damned as slick willy, Obama is hailed as a post-racial messiah.
Do I believe it Obama had this whole yes we can deal plan from age sixteen?
No, I would respond.
I think he began plotting it at age twenty-two.
The predisposition, of course, doesn't help me in making the case against Obama, especially not with black people.
Believe me, there's a strong case to be made out that he isn't such a virtuous mediator of race, and it's this skepticism about Obama's racial posturing that has led us, the 10%, into dissent.
Then he goes on and writes a couple of things.
So much of the educated white people's love for Barack Obama depends on educated white people's complete ignorance of and distance from the rest of us black people.
Barack is the black person they want the rest of us to be, half white.
And loving or racially transcendent, as the press loves to call him.
And since picking a candidate makes you allies with his other supporters, why would I want to be allies with educated whites whose glorification of Barack Obama depends in large part on their implicit denigration of the rest of us?
Why do black people love Obama?
In large part is because of the dark-skinned woman on his arm.
Black people, especially black women, are nuts for Michelle.
Had Barack married a white woman, his candidacy would have never gotten off the ground with black people.
And would whites really be so into him if he hadn't had a white mother?
Based on U.S. political history, you would have to conclude not a chance.
My suspicion is that people are ultimately comfortable with Obama because a member of his family looks like them.
And if you think about it, that's not terribly transcendent.
It's worth remembering the majority of blacks still think O.J. Simpson is innocent.
Sin Q Henderson, the new republic.
This is just about half of it.
Highlights.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be back after this.
How about the woman from Michigan?
You see what's happening out there?
That was a Reagan Democrat.
That was a Democrat that Reagan won over to vote Republican.
And they're now beside themselves, questioning themselves.
What do they do?
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