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May 27, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 27, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Besides all that, folks, what is a guy?
What's a guy like Barack Obama who has invested in defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq, who has criticized the effort, who says we cannot win, who has agreed with Dingy Harry.
And wave the white flag of surrender.
What's a guy like that speaking to veterans on Memorial Day in the first place for?
It's just a show.
He has to do it because he's a presidential candidate.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh here, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
800-282-2882 is the phone number.
The uh email address is L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Mike, let me let me play 27-28 again here before we go back to the top of the sound bites.
On this assassination business, we just had a call.
It was a good call.
Guy wants to know what's wrong with it.
It's true.
Yes, it is true, but it's a little tasteless, and it's not it's it's you just don't discuss the assassination of candidates in the midst of a camp.
You just it just it's not cool.
Even though it's true, you know, let somebody like Charles Barkley say he can get away with anything.
Barkley can say anything.
Obama can say anything, but Mrs. Clinton's not going to be able to get away with this kind of stuff.
But who actually first raised the subject?
It was none other than Michelle My Bell Obama.
February 11th, 2007 on 60 Minutes.
I think she actually might have said this late last year and repeated it on camera on 60 minutes.
Regardless.
She said this.
Actually, she wasn't first.
It was it was Harry Smith who was.
Yeah, let's play 28 first.
Because January 29th, 2008, on the early show on CBS, Harry Smith is talking to Ted Kennedy.
Now we have we have bleeped Kennedy out of this because he didn't know what the hell Harry Smith was talking about.
And I'll tell you where we bleeped.
Harry Smith said, well, didn't bleep, we just we edited him out.
Uh when you see the generational change seems to be taking place before our eyes, does it make you at all fearful?
And that's when Kennedy, you know, started the usual liberal clap trap out health care and so he had no clue what Harry Smith was talking about.
And then after Harry Smith says, Is it make you at all fearful?
We edited out Kennedy's comments and put Harry Smith in.
Uh and you'll you'll be able to hear the edit now that I've told you about it.
When you see this generational change that seems to be taking place before our eyes, does it make you at all fearful?
I just I think what I was trying to say is sometimes agents of change end up being targets, as you well know.
And I that was why I was asking if you were at all fearful of that.
Asking him about the assassination of his brothers.
And Ted Kennedy had no clue that this is what so CBS, Harry Smith raises the specter of Obama being assassinated long before Mrs. Clinton ever did.
Then, on February 11, 2007 on 60 minutes, Steve Croft is talking to um Michelle My Bell Obama, along with her husband Barack.
He said, Michelle, tough question to ask.
Number of years ago, Colin Powell was thinking about running for president.
His wife Alma really didn't want him to run.
She was worried about some crazy person with a gun.
Something you think about?
I don't lose sleep over it.
Um, because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station.
You know, so you you know, you can't, you know, you you can't make decisions based on on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
We we just weren't right raised that way.
Get me started on how you were raised.
Jeremiah Wright, anybody.
Uh Barack Obama, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is simply a blank slate for the 60s radicals to paint whatever they want on his canvas.
That's what he is.
Kyle Ann Schiver writing about this in National Review online today.
Now, before I forget this, I just it's a couple comments here.
But talked about the Mars Phoenix and the stack of DVDs that's waiting for some Marsha to come along and put him in this DVD player learn about us.
No, I know it's funny, folks.
We but but you know, the people at the jet propulsion laboratory are gonna big Scoop on this thing and start digging.
They think there's water a foot, eight inches to a foot below the surface where the thing landed because there are cracks in the surface that replicate cracks at our polar regions here at land in the North Pole region of Mars, and that indicates expanding and contracting of the surface based on frozen ice below expanding and then as it melts, uh, it contracts, and they're desperately looking for signs that there was life there, and that there might be some subterranean life.
Who knows?
Somebody might see the DVD someday.
And they watch the DVD.
You know, I I just hope they didn't put Orson Wells War of the Worlds on there.
Or the movie that was made of it.
But here's some things that we have learned.
By the way, this thing's got a three-month lifespan.
Because what's going to happen is that the sun is going to go below the horizon for a long period of time and it's going to be dark up there, and uh carbon dioxide and other elements are gonna are gonna form on the solar panels and freeze, and that will thus kill the Mars Phoenix.
And they don't know if it'll come back to life once the sun re-emerges and warms up a little bit.
So it's got a hustle.
It's got a hustle out there.
It's about the size of a golf cart.
And it really, I mean, it's miraculous that the thing landed.
They even have a we have a satellite orbiting Mars that shot a picture of this thing landing with its satellite deploy, or its parachute deployed.
It is amazing.
And I saw a videotape of the excitement at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, JPL, and there was a lot of excited guys in there.
This is it's an amazing feat.
But here's some things about the Martian atmosphere.
It is only 1% as dense as Earth's atmosphere.
So the surface air pressure on Mars would be the same as if you were at 100,000 feet altitude on Earth.
You couldn't survive there without oxygen on the surface.
You would need life support systems because you know, you once we get to 15,000 feet, like climbing a mountain, you need oxygen, you need tanks.
So the atmosphere is only 1% as dense.
Get this.
The atmosphere of Mars is 95% carbon dioxide.
95% carbon dioxide makes up the Martian atmosphere.
Earth's carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, 0.38%.
Not even 4%.
0.38% of our atmosphere is carbon dioxide, 95% of Mars' atmosphere is carbon dioxide.
Now, I imagine that when I mention that figure, there are some Doomkoff environmentalist wackos who are saying, yeah, Mr. Limbaugh, yeah, the 95% carbon dioxide.
That's why there's no life on Mars.
They've killed themselves.
There used to be life on Lars, but there's no longer any life because 95, because they too did not wash for a carbon footprint.
Right?
Typical reaction.
This is the way the environmentalist wankles work, a statistic like this.
However, despite the thin atmosphere and the 95% CO2 content on Mars, Mars has 90 times as much CO2 as Earth's atmosphere.
Ninety times.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
That's because they didn't do anything in the old days to reduce their carbon footprint.
They're with life there, Mr. Limbaugh.
Everybody knows it.
Okay?
You can expect this kind of reaction.
Uh Mars Phoenix has its own weather station.
I don't know if it's powered up yet.
The expected air temperature at the landing site is minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
So, with an atmosphere that's 95% carbon dioxide, folks.
With an atmosphere that's 95% carbon dioxide, the outside air temperature is minus 100 degrees at the polar region here.
It's not even the North Pole, it's just up there in the circle.
So for you idiot global warming people who say, yes, Mr. Limbaugh, that's exactly right.
95% carbon dioxide, they kill themselves.
They did not.
This is a lithum for us, Mr. Limbaugh.
What's going to happen to us unless we take drastic action now?
Well, I'm telling you, if 95% of their atmosphere is carbon dioxide, then why the hell isn't that place boiling?
And why do we have to dig underneath the surface to find water?
Nothing should be freezing up there.
Okay, Phoenix landed near the North Pole.
When the sun goes below the horizon in a few months for winter, some of the CO2 will cool, change the dry ice, cover the landing site to a depth of about three feet, burying the Phoenix.
Who knows what'll happen after that?
So some interesting little tidbits.
Oh, and guess what?
Honest to God, folks, honest to God, they found another little storm on Saturn.
Or to Jupiter, Jupiter.
Big red spot to giant storm.
Another one's popped up.
You know what they're accrediting it to?
Climate change.
Climate change on Jupiter.
Yeah.
Climate change on Jupiter.
Exactly right.
But we're not there.
Climate change on Jupiter.
We don't know of any human activity producing CO2 on Jupiter.
But yet, this is this is why this is stuff is so disingenuous because they know that they've got enough people in this country, enough morons, who bought have bought into the whole climate change.
It is now happening in the whole universe.
Oh my God!
Oh, gee, we we've got to act.
We got it, we gotta do something like that.
When the truthful reaction, well, if it's happening on Jupiter and nobody there, what can we do about it can't be no, you couldn't they couldn't sell that sternway.
They couldn't sell that the exhaust fumes from American automobiles and their usage have finally made it to Jupiter.
I don't think they'd do that.
Back to the phones.
We go here on the Rush Limbaugh program, the EIB Network will go to Sandy, Utah.
This is Terry.
It's great to have you here, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Mr. Limbaugh, the great one.
Thank you, sir.
A very difficult call for me to make, but one that I thought was absolutely necessary.
I am the Terry from Sandy, Utah, that at the beginning of Operation Chaos called you up and chastised you and said some very, very bad things about you over the phone.
I, sir, uh would like to apologize for one major reason.
All of us people that doubted you were wrong.
Uh the Democratic Party is in absolute chaos.
They're in total disarray.
And uh the bitterness I think is going to carry through.
And we, as Republicans, I believe at this point have a chance to win.
And the maybe.
I agree with the maybe, but I must put this one thing in there.
It's the most important part.
Well, I mean, do we win if we win?
That's the my point.
Well, uh, what I wanted to say is you uh single-handedly have brought us there, and I really do believe that.
I I see this chaos in their party, and I don't think it would have happened had you not had operations.
It takes chaos.
Big man to do what you've just done.
There were many uh people like you who called and in various ways chastised me for this.
I think their fear was that this was going to revive Mrs. Clinton's campaign to the point that she would get the nomination.
Uh and it and that that would be disastrous because she could win.
And oh no, Limbaugh would be responsible.
I never doubted.
Um even if she got the nomination, she can be beat.
Well, you are certainly right, and uh there was a bit of fear there because I didn't want to have to move my family all the way to Canada, it would just wouldn't work out.
Uh I like it here in the United States too well.
Well, I'm happy that uh that you've you've seen the light on this, and you're out of purgatory.
I can't I can imagine the uh guilt that you have been living with since uh your realization here that you were wrong when chastising me, but I graciously accept it's very nice of you to call and say.
Thank you, sir.
Having listened to you since 1988, all the time.
I appreciate that, and uh my humble apologies.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate it.
Terry in Sandy, Utah.
Of course, the obvious reaction, after, of course, graciously acknowledging the apology and the uh sorted and uh similar comments.
He then said he'd been listening since 1988.
Why doubt me?
We're coming up on 20 years here on August 1st.
I think, ladies and gentlemen, I have proved myself.
Maybe not beyond doubt in all cases, but certainly I should be given the benefit of it at this point.
I think it's it's instructive that those of us on the conservative side, because of betrayals in the past, and recent betrayals.
Many conservatives are simply waiting for those that uh they respect and follow and so forth to screw up, to betray them, to fall off and fade away, creating havoc in the process.
This is something that I have yet to do and I won't do, because I'm not out for anything that would enable me or force me to have to cave and compromise on things.
Now, since we're talking about all of this, uh one of the interesting things that took place over the weekend, it was happening even before Mrs. Clinton's assassination comment on Friday afternoon.
Bill Clinton, who now for the first time clearly sees that his day in the sun as somebody that matters in the Democrat Party is seriously threatened.
So he was out there working hard, doing everything he could to persuade to convince to intimidate the Obama people to put Hillary on the ticket as his VEP.
I never could see this happening.
I I even people were saying that Russia, it may not be Hillary or Barack's choice.
The powers that be the Democrat Party in order for unity may just force him to take her.
And I could see them putting a foot down and saying no.
Can you imagine the scene at the Democrat National Convention on Thursday night where everybody in Obama's making an acceptance speech and then and Clinton, Hillary gets to deliver her acceptance speech before Obama does, and then after everybody comes out and balloons are falling, there's Obama and Michelle My Bell and Hillary and Bill, all four raised hands, locked in unity.
There's no way Obama's team is going to allow Bill Clinton on that stage at the Democrat National Convention on his night.
And there's no way that he's going to have Bill and Hillary Clinton lurking around his administration.
Whoever is behind Obama, and I believe something, some some thing, somebody, he's a, you know, the academic left.
Somebody is sponsoring the Obama candidacy, somebody has designed it, somebody has set it up.
He's the vessel for other people.
They've got somebody here who's unassailable because he's the first black presidential candidate.
So we can't talk about all these, he can't talk about his race, can't talk about his grandmother, his mother, his father, can't talk about his middle name, period name, can't talk about where he went to school, can't talk about his wife, can't talk about uh his liberalism, we can't talk about anything because that's why they've nominated this guy or gotten behind this guy, so he's he's he's insulated from the normal political criticisms.
And he's just the vessel.
This guy doesn't know diddly squat.
When he gets to the White House, if he does, somebody's gonna be in there running this show.
He's gonna get rolled by all these experienced Democrats in the Congress.
Uh and and you know, don't think that those guys are in there for unity either.
I mean, this is this is uh total quest for power.
So what happened out in Arizona over the weekend?
Well, McCain had these three guys out there, he had Romney, had Charlie Christ and Bobby Gendal.
The Prowler and the American Spectator.
Despite the hype around the memorial weekend gathering in Sedona at McCain's place, only Governor Bobby Gendal is being given serious consideration for the nomination, say McCain Insiders, with knowledge of the ongoing vetting process.
Gendal is the only one.
Seems to be general agreement that we need him to be the best governor he can be, and a leader of the Republican Party more, said a McCain campaign advisor.
McCain's gotten a good look at Romney as a competitor.
Now, this is this is a McCain advisor speaking.
Anonymity, the American Spectator.
McCain's gotten a good look at Romney as a competitor and as somebody who's running in support of his candidacy, Frankly, he doesn't tell, he can't tell the difference.
McCain, thus not impressed with Romney.
Thinks Romney's still out there running for himself.
Florida Governor Charlie Christ is not considered a serious candidate for much the same reason as Gindle, too new, and possibly a future great Republican leader down the road.
Guys like Gendal and Christ and women like Sarah Palin in Alaska.
We need them to be the next great party leaders long after McCain is gone, says a Republican National Committee political consultant.
So they're trying to develop a farm team here.
So apparently, this whole thing out in Sedona was just a show.
And it had hardly any substance to it at all.
It was just a show to try to capture some headlines.
Not a bad idea.
Back after this, stay with us.
Making the complex understandable, I erred a moment ago when comparing the U.S. atmosphere and the Martian atmosphere.
I was way high when I said the Earth's atmosphere is almost 4% CO2, because I was misreading the decimal point.
The fact is that the amount of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere is way less than one percent.
It is zero point.
It's point zero zero zero three eight.
That's, you know, one percent is zero point zero one.
I would just misreading the decimal point.
It's way less than one percent CO2 here.
95% CO2.
The Martian atmosphere.
Vice presidential running mates.
Everywhere I go, people ask me.
I sent an instant message to a friend Friday afternoon, wishing my friend and his family a happy Memorial Day weekend.
The reply I got, who is McCain gonna pick?
I wrote back, it's Memorial Day weekend.
I don't know, and I don't care.
Could you wish me a good weekend too?
I didn't say that.
So I got up today, I'm doing show prep, and I'm reading Jonathan Martin's blog at Politico.com, and he says, David Brooks at the LA T The New York Times has a piece today, and he references the fact that McCain's people pay lots of attention to David Brooks.
And Brooks, which doesn't surprise me.
Brooks' piece today is on who Obama and McCain should select.
Let me just read couple of excerpts.
Obama will need a vice president who knows the millions of ways that power is exercised and subverted in Washington.
He'll need somebody who can be a senior, authoritative presence in a cabinet that may range from Republicans Chuck Hagel to the labor leader Andy Stern.
He'll need somebody who can supervise his young reformers and build transpartisan coalitions more effectively than Obama as a senator has.
Mr. Brooks, you have just written a paragraph which more appropriately could be analyzed as why Obama should not win.
You've just said he's a neophyte, and he's gonna need somebody senior and strong to help him through the wicked ways of Washington, D.C. And now he says this about McCain.
McCain seems to be looking at business leaders like Meg Whitman, but among politicos, the shining stars would seem to be Rob Portman and Tim Polenty.
Portman is an Ohioan with the mind of a budget director and a mild temperament that is a credit to his Midwestern roots.
His resume is ideal.
He directed legislative affairs for the first president Bush.
By the way, I like Portman.
I met Rob Portman, I met his wife at a dinner at Vice President Cheney's house.
And he his wife is just great.
You don't often find that in politics.
Wife is just fabulous.
She's a hoot, and he's great.
He ran the OMB, he's been the trade representative, freshman class 1994, 54 years old.
He would be.
He would be a good choice.
In my humble opinion.
And in Tim Pollenty, uh governor of Minnesota, uh one of the GOP's leading and most likable modernizers.
So I'm comparing these two, like Jonah Jonah Goldberg NRO, National Review Online had a piece last week about who McCain ought to pick and been doing some contrast.
Jonah Goldberg would have McCain pick Sam Nunn, among other possibilities.
Oh yeah, you missed me talking about this.
Jonah Goldberg would have McCain pick Sam Nunn.
David Brooks would have Obama pick Sam Nunn, among other possibilities.
Brooks would have Obama pick Republican Chuck Hagel, among other possibilities.
And Jonah Goldberg would have McCain considered Democrats.
So I just I think it's I think it's a little humorous here.
We've got the conservative intelligentsia at uh at a crossroads here and it at cross purposes in figure so McCain ought to McCain needs to go out and get a Democrat.
Uh and Obama, of course, needs to get a Republican.
Chuck Hagel.
And then we've had the introduction of the word transpartisan.
Obama will have to make transpartisan or build transpartisan coalitions more effectively than he has in his as a senator.
It's just it is.
It's a it's it's it's a little tough sometimes uh I like all these guys, but they get in this competition to be the smartest guy in the room, you know, and uh so they're under pressure to come up with something nobody else has come up with.
So that'd be considered brilliant and unique.
It must be a lot of pressure.
Julie from uh Roseburg, Oregon, the land of granola and pine nuts, nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Good morning.
Hi.
First of all, I promise I won't be one of those silly rambling females that uh irritate you soever said this this females silly and rambling and that they irritate me.
Because I listen to you a lot and the ones that giggle and don't let you talk.
You're you know, you change, you you get irritated.
Well, I mean that's not because they're women, that's happens if they're men too.
It's just a matter of you know, politeness, but those are generally liberal leftist filibusters.
Well, they're just silly girls.
But anyway, um calling to tell you that uh I think you're being a little hard on Obama during his memorial speech.
For what?
Because he won't we tell you why.
Yeah, I'd love to hear why.
He sees dead people.
Oh, you think he really does see dead people?
You mean when he was giving the speech he actually saw dead soldiers?
Mm-hmm.
Really?
I'm just making a joke because he's a really um he's a pinhead in a good way.
But on a serious subject, Rush, can I ask you another question?
Yes, by all means.
Um reference to the fact that he's from Chicago and dead people vote.
Is is that the joke?
He's from Chicago, dead people vote so he sees a lot of dead people, why not see dead people at a memorial day speech?
Oh, I'm just referring to the movie that that um when he said he saw dead people during his speech.
What movie?
I don't know, but there was a famous movie where someone said, I see dead people.
And so I was just referring to that.
Oh, you're talking about the sixth sense with uh with Bruce Willis, the M night Schimmelon movie.
Oh, I guess so.
Yeah, yeah.
I know what it is, even if you don't, I'm host.
What was the other topic that you wanted to discuss?
Oh, the other topic is that I have heard you mention numerously that uh you have to be a good receiver.
Yes.
And I'd like you to receive something from me.
I'm not kidding.
Yeah, we're going uh oh, what is what would it be?
Uh uh Julie.
Um I have sculpted a clay art sculpture for you, and I'd like to give it to you, and I don't expect you to get it directly, but I'd like to to find out who I can send it to so you can receive it and appreciate.
Very sweet.
What is it a clay sculpture of?
Stand by on the dump button.
What is the what is a clay sculpture of?
Well, it's hard to explain.
I call them cellar dwellers, but there's no two alike, and I've made an uh extremely special, beautiful sculpture just for you.
Cellar dwellers.
Mm-hmm.
Trying to figure out how that relates to me.
You will not be able to explain it unless you see it.
And it's not vulgar, it's not evil, it's not it's just sweet.
It's just really nice.
It's beautiful.
Beautiful.
And it's it's um for all the it's repaying you for all that you have done for me.
Well, that is that is really nice.
That really is.
So, um Let me let me put you on hold, and uh Mr. Snerdley will give you a uh a shipping address.
Uh and we'll um we'll go from there, okay.
God bless you.
God bless you, Julie.
Don't hang up now.
We're just we're gonna put you on hold here, okay.
All right.
Uh Tina.
Tina in Chicago, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, Rush, after that last rambling female, I hope I have time to make my point.
Um I I called a while ago.
I don't know if you remember me, but um I called uh a while back and I ran out of time.
But this time I'm so upset with McCain, I don't know whether it's better to vote once for McCain, or I could possibly vote twice, because if I vote for Barack Obama, I'm a staunch Republican.
I've never voted anything but Republican, and I figure if I vote for Barack Obama or Hillary Quinton, either one that's one vote from the Republicans and one vote to the Democrats, because I'm so disgusted I'd rather vote for the wolf instead of the wolf in the sheep's clothing.
I mean, I I think the Republicans went the Republicans would stand up and fighting.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Did I hear you?
Did I hear you right you're gonna vote twice?
Well, yes, because I'm a Republican, I am a diehard conservative Republican, then I am taking one vote from the Republicans and I'm giving one vote to the Democrats, which essentially is two votes.
Well, I I must ask you here, Tina, what's wrong with McCain?
What do you what McCain do now to make you mad?
You know what?
He's a he's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
He's gonna allow the Republicans, he's not he's just gonna have the Republicans sit there with their jaws dropped and watch what he's doing to turn this country into a socialist little global warming whatever that he wants to do, and nobody's gonna stand up and fight.
And if we have Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, maybe these wimpy little Republicans that keep sending me uh little things in the mail to send them money, which I used to send a lot of money.
Now I send back that I'm sending absolutely nothing without a stamp stamp.
I know that Tina was rambling here, but she's got a really, really good point.
And it is something it is something to consider.
And I've I've mentioned this once before.
If you're g if it let's say it's McCain Obama.
But forget McCain Obama right now.
Let's let's say the worst case scenario is true.
Let's say that the Democrats have a seventy seat majority in the House and an eight to twelve worst-case scenario, twelve seat majority in the Senate.
Okay, even even drop it back to fifty seat majority in the House, seven seat majority in the Senate.
Does it really matter who the president is?
Like McCain has said he is going to veto every piece of legislation that has earmarks in it.
Okay, he vetoes it.
And they override it.
He can appoint the absolute most fabulous judges in the world are not gonna stand a chance.
He could he could propose tax cuts down the line, making the Bush tax cuts permanent.
Democrats can stop him.
So the the point that she's raising here is for the conservative movement now, and we believe, you know, we're conservatives first, and we believe that conservatism is the best way and maybe the only way to defend and preserve the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness.
So what's actually better?
A huge Democrat congressional and Senate majority with a McCain presidency or an Obama presidency.
In the case of a McCain presidency, where McCain is gonna have to cross the aisle and get things done with Democrats, because they are the majority.
We we could have a circumstance where the Republicans in the House and the Senate cannot oppose McCain because he's the standard bearer of the party, and you just don't go in your and when you're a Republican elected official, you just don't go against your president.
It's some of this happened during the Bush years.
Um in the last seven years of the Bush administration.
It is something to consider.
Got a quick uh take quick time out here.
Back in a second.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh on a roll.
We go to Charlotte, North Carolina.
It's Renee.
Renee, thank you for waiting, and welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
This is Renee.
I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And um, I just want I'm a first-time caller, and um I'm also a Democrat.
I am a loyal Barack Obama fan.
And I also um am a disabled vet.
Um, and I just wanted to tell you that, you know, I when I first started listening to your show and I heard you um uh this Operation Chaos stuff going on, and I used to get upset with you.
But as time went on, I sat back and I started um listening to John McCain and and I said, you know, uh and I start laughing with you all.
I said, we uh we in the Democratic Party, we really aren't gonna have to do too much at all with candidate like John McCain because he keeps flip-flopping his position like a fish out of water, and all we have to do is just sit back and rock take the nomination.
And I just got tickled at that.
So if I understand you're right, Renee, you're big Democrat, you support Obama, but you're saying no matter how much success I've had with Operation Chaos, I'm still stuck with McCain at the end of the day.
Oh my God.
That's what you're saying.
Well, you actually you you may have a point there.
Well, I started mapping instead of getting mad, and I sat back and I said, Well, let me just listen to you.
Let me tell you something.
Renee, let me tell you, you are you are getting out of you know I want to warn you here.
You don't want to get too overconfident about your guy's chance to win here, and I'll tell you why.
Why is that?
Because after Obama defeats Hillary for the Democrat nomination, he still has one opponent to go to secure that nomination, and that's McCain.
Because the presidential race, John McCain versus Barack Obama, is going to be a race for Democrat voters.
Right.
McCain McCain's gonna go out there and try to get as many Democrats as he can, and he's gonna do it with this global warming issue.
He's gonna try to out liberal Obama on global warming and a couple of other things.
He's gonna try to say to Democrats he's far more experienced than Obama, which is true.
Uh so the you you the Democrat vote is not uniformly going to go to the Democrat candidate because the Republicans have a guy who wants a lot of it.
Well, you know, I as I began to listen to John McCain and and um just listen to him talk, and I was I know he's a war hero, and he's you know, all of this, but I'm thinking that John McCain that we see today was not the John McCain of yesterday.
He's almost you know, sometimes I wonder if he's got some kind of dementia setting in, because he'll say something and then he'll tell you I never said that, and you know about the war.
No, no, no.
No, there's no need.
Renee, there's no need to do this.
I understand you're tempted to do it because your guy is such an intellectual empty suit.
So I know you you gotta fight back.
It's it's sort of like you know, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright comes up, and so you guys on on Obama's side have to go out and find some preacher who McCain's never been in his church, says some things that are misunderstood, then amplified way out of context, and then the whole point is McCain's got to distance himself from these preachers to whom his churches has never been in.
Uh, and so what they're trying to do is nullify the negative impact on Obama of Reverend Wright.
That's a nice try, but it isn't gonna work.
I'm telling you, your Obama's biggest challenge in this campaign is gonna be getting Democrat votes because that's who Senator McCain is targeting as well.
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