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June 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, how long is it going to be, folks?
How long is it going to be before Barack Obama says that's not the Wesley Clark that I've known for five or six years?
And where's Obama?
Obama's in Independence, Missouri, which is right outside Kansas City.
It's where Harry Truman is from, and he's going to make a speech on patriotism.
Why is it Democrats always have to go out and make speeches on patriotism?
Is it because there's some doubt about it?
Where they are concerned, and he's expected to discuss McCain's war record on this on this occasion of the speech on patriotism after the remarks by Ashley Wilkes.
That's our pet name for General Wesley Clark.
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I wonder what Governor Schwarzenegger thinks.
There are 1,400 wildfires out in California.
Did I read that right?
1400.
Do you know how many times lightning strikes the planet?
It's like I saw I think I saw this like a hundred times a second.
All over the planet.
Lightning is striking somewhere.
It may be it's a hundred times a minute, I'm not sure, but it's huge.
So we've got all these fires in California.
I have a picture.
I have a satellite photo.
Here it is for those of let me zoom in on this for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It's hard for me.
Have I got that lined up straight?
Because okay.
Now you uh can you see red dots in this picture or is it not tight?
But you can see all the smoke.
And you can see also you can distinguish the smoke from the cloud cover there around the middle of the states.
Uh that's that's San Francisco on down to the marine layer as they call it out of Southern California.
You see that?
Is it close enough to see the smoke?
Okay.
Zoom back out.
I wonder what Governor Schwarzenegger thinks of the carbon footprint of all these forest fires.
Can you imagine the carbon footprint?
I mean, when's the last time you saw the state look like that with automobiles driving around?
Just amazing.
1,400 fires.
They're working hard to put them out, and nobody's talking that.
I mean, that's that's folks, that's a lot of carbon that is being footprinted.
And of course, the drive-by media, folks, they are ecstatic because our record for a charitable purchase on eBay was broken over the weekend.
We got 2.1 million dollars for the Harry Reid smear letter, but Warren Buffett got 2.11 million dollars for lunch with him over the weekend on eBay, a Chinese investment fund manager, won the chance to have lunch with Warren Buffett by bidding 2.11 million in the uh in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.
I'm trying to think.
I'm not surprised at this if I'm if I'm right.
When we set the record on eBay for the smear letter against Harry Reed, was there a massive AP headline on this?
There was not, was there?
There were some incidental stories about it.
Uh, but this they've just been waiting for this both at eBay and in the drive-by media.
They're just ecstatic.
Zhao Dang Yang of the Hong Kong-based Pure Heart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening with a bid of $2,110,100.
A spokesman for the Glide Foundation, which receives all the proceeds from the auction, identified the winter Saturday.
This is this is what's this guy?
Cecil um I heard about this guy when I was when it was in Sacramento, of course, the Democrat Convention 1984.
Anyway, the Glide Memorial Church and the Gliders.
It's a it's a it's a poverty stricken area.
They help the homeless and uh and so forth.
Cecil Williams, I think is who runs the Glide Memorial Foundation, at any rate, um, make a make a big big deal out of this.
There were two stories I saw.
One story uh in, I think in an Indian newspaper, just mentioned that the uh Buffett lunch had surpassed uh the previous record high of 2.1 million dollars spent for a letter to Rush Limbaugh.
Period.
They didn't specify what kind of letter.
Now, this story does.
Previously, the most expensive charity item ever sold on eBay was a letter from Democrat senators blasting conservative, blasting conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for using the phrase phony soldiers on his program.
The letter signed by 41 senators sold for 2.1 million last October.
They don't mention anything about Harry Reed.
They just carry the notion forward that I did use the term phony so it's just it's just amazing.
But they're just ecstatic out there in the drive-by world and with uh of course in the financial world that now they can say Warren Buffett has eclipsed the record set by me on uh on eBay.
Yes, for now.
For now.
Uh let's see.
Mike, I told you going to start an audio somebody through.
I'm gonna change that here.
Uh let's let's start at the top and get some things out of the way here because these things are really just isolated incidents and don't have any uh relationship to items going to be carried forward.
CNN's American Mourning this morning, uh John Roberts talking about Democrat on Democrat vandalism.
In uh what was this in Orlando is it Orlando, Florida?
And this is of course happening to the Unity Party and the Unity candidate.
Police in Orlando, Florida, investigating the spray painting of dozens of city vehicles, some of them with racial epithets about presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
One of the vans was painted, quote, Obama smokes crack.
The vandals also apparently left business cards that disparage both Obama and Republican John McCain.
The cards voice support for Hillary Clinton.
And all about $10,000 in damage was done.
What are you saying?
There has to be women vandals out there because they're the ones that are still fit to be tied over what they think happened to Hillary.
You know, If you can you imagine I don't it's it's hard and harder and harder to find a newspaper these days because so many of them are cutting back.
Uh the Obama campaign team continues, campaign staff continues its major cutbacks.
And I was thinking about this the other day.
We we uh we saw on Friday, Mrs. Clinton standing there, and I mean it had to be the worst day of her life, as Obama gave a speech in Unity, New Hampshire, and when it was all over, they embraced.
And can you you see the the picture in the paper?
Imagine a little six or seven-year-old getting up, reading the paper with his mom and dad.
Mommy, mommy, mommy, why why did you get caught?
Why did he get caught?
Well, man hugs a woman, why get caught?
Well, wait, wait, wait.
And so Father says, you know, there's a word for it, but I think you better ask your mommy, uh, little Johnny.
And it'll uh mommy says, well, Johnny, it's called prostitution.
In this case, um, you know, we we we know the deal, we just don't know the price.
Except in this case, we know both.
We know the price, 10 million dollars.
And that's how the women are low.
The women think that Hillary has been humiliated here and has been made to look like a prostitute to get up there and do whatever she had to do to get Obama's money to pay off her uh her vendor debt, and now they're so mad they're running around vandalizing Obama cars in Orlando, Florida.
What what did it say?
Obama smokes crack.
And then, I'm sure you've heard, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Clinton has not gotten over this.
And you know, a lot of people are surprised by this.
Because a lot of people thought Clinton to be happy, you know, that he was really just going through the motions here, that he really didn't want Hillary to be elected because he didn't want to have to be tied down for four or eight years, not being able to gallivant all over the place and earn additional money.
And there were you remember this, and there were theories that Obama was benefiting from the fact that Clinton was sabotaging Hillary's campaign.
Well, apparently, he's more upset about it than she is.
He's out there saying Obama can quote kiss my ass, unquote.
Now, the punk, Terry McCaulaff was asked about this on late edition Sunday morning.
Candy Crowley was the fill-in host.
She said, You've talked to Clinton.
He said, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna call him.
What is what is all this business about my being angry and harboring resentment?
I didn't resentment.
Yeah, he was angry that these ridiculous stories were out there, and these supposed close friends of the president.
None of the close friends ever get called.
You know what happens a lot of times is people like to pretend they're close so they can tell the reporters that they're close, but you know, they're just talking.
Is he somewhat angry as I am and others at some of the treatment Hillary received from the press?
Sure, but you know that's life.
We don't talk about it anymore.
We're past that.
So he is raring to go.
I spoke to him today.
He's ready to go, he'll do whatever Senator Obama and his team uh want him to do.
What are we supposed to make of this?
I'm not buying any of this.
Now now he's he's angry at the media.
Clinton's angry at the media, and he's also angry at so many people out there claiming to be friends of Bill who aren't.
The quote was Obama can kiss his butt.
Well, didn't say Obama in in terms of going out there and helping and and so forth.
Clinton really, the bottom line with Clinton, and he's got he's right about this.
Clinton is right about this.
Why should he go stand side by side with it?
Bill Clinton is a two-term ex-president.
Whatever you want to say about his presidency, whatever you want to say about his character, he's a two-term ex-president.
Why should he go out there subordinate himself to this guy who he thinks shafted his wife, who is a rookie, who he thinks threw the race card at him?
This is what Clinton believes.
And of course, what Clinton believes is the Clinton reality, which is different from real real.
Does, well, now that the Clintons can help it snurdly, I mean.
I mean, I did we we're told that Obama's the titular head of the party, and he has moved the campaign or the DNC primary operation to Chicago.
But uh, if you think Clinton's gonna sit around, just let all this be taken away from him.
This is gonna be the most fascinating couple three months ahead of us.
Well, actually two months.
Because uh tomorrow's July 1st.
Quick timeout, we'll come back and uh review the whole Wesley Clark thing after this.
Now here we go.
I just tuned in a little bit of the Obama speech at Independence, Missouri, and he says I got a standing O on this, is that I will never question the patriotism of any of my opponents.
Who has questioned his?
And then he said, and I'm not gonna sit idly by when someone questions mine.
Now, who do who is questioning his patriotism?
There might be some French people out there for crying out, but who's doing it?
Is McCain to who of any consequence or importance is questioning Obama's patriotism?
They're questioning his experience.
I mean, if anybody wants to talk about pay, let's go how about Wesley Clark and what he said about I don't think getting shot down in a plane and qualifies anybody to be president and so forth.
I'll be interested to see if Obama distances himself from Wesley Clark or renounces or denounces Clark in this speech.
We got eagle eyes and eagle.
Why why is he doing the speech?
This is my point, Worley and the program sturdly.
Every 4th of July, some Democrat somewhere goes somewhere to talk about patriotism.
Now there it must be that there is some doubt.
If you have to go out there and do this, if you have to go give a speech on your patriotism and what it means, and we know the Democrats have spent years trying to redefine it.
Mrs. Clinton herself defined patriotism as criticizing the president.
Remember that screeching, wailing soundbite that we've had that we've used ever since a year and a half old now.
They've been trying to redefine patriotism as the abject dislike of your country, as the abject dislike of your president and the dissent and criticism of both.
That's how they've been defining patriotism.
And so they have to go out there and make speeches about patriotism.
And this is a fine time.
And here, Fourth of July is coming up on Friday, Independence Day.
This would be a fine time for somebody to run around and start talking about American exceptionalism in either party, frankly.
Uh, and reminding the American people what this country is, where it started, how it started, the founders, all of this, what happened, the miracle in Philadelphia.
We'll see if any of them do it.
Uh by the way, one thing, people have been pointing out to me in emails that on this Warren Buffett auction at eBay, said, Rush, you forgot to mention that you matched the 2.1 million that was donated to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation by Betty Casey.
That's true.
I did match it.
So my charity got 4.2 million.
I did man.
Now my money didn't go through eBay.
It went directly to the uh to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
But I thought we'd take the occasion to go back to the groove yard of forgotten favorites.
It was only last October and relive and remember briefly one of the uh highlights of last calendar year on the EIB network.
Harry Reed sings here.
That is a white comedian Paul Shanklin.
The vocal portrayal there of Senator Harry Reed.
And a takeoff on a tune the letter.
There's Obama.
He just finished saying no political party has a monopoly on patriotism.
This is the one area.
You know, where we find the Democrat Party when we look at them, we look at the leftists.
We see them always on offense.
They just are relentless.
They never stop.
But when it comes to patriotism, they are defensive.
They do have to go out and remind everybody that they are.
And now Obama's saying that no political party has a monopoly on it.
So it must mean that they've got some focus group data that suggests it's a problem.
I don't know how big a problem it's gonna be because as I predicted last year, the the the latest uh polling, and if you if you look at this, this is not horse race polling, this is polling of the American people.
The American people vastly more concerned about the economy now than they are the war in Iraq.
And I told, I I suggested to everybody last year at this time and maybe 15 months ago.
You all this talk, the Democrats trying to raise all this hell about the war in Iraq, it ain't gonna be the issue when we get to the 2008 presidential election.
It'll be the economy, it always is.
People were talking about, well, the economy is no longer an issue, Rush.
I mean, even when the economy was going good, it didn't matter to people because they expect it.
I said, You wait.
The economy is gonna be the primary issue.
I don't know what elements, but it's turned out to be the case.
Now, Wesley Clark was on Face the Nation yesterday with Bob Schiefer.
And he said he didn't think that McCain's service as a fighter pilot and prisoner of war was relevant to running the country, didn't think that it was a qualification for being the uh president of the United States.
Let's go back to July of 2004 in Boston.
This is the Democrat Convention.
And remember when uh when General Clark, Ashley Wilkes, uh was at, you know, he was he was running for president himself, and he lost out to a carry in the primaries.
But here is a portion of Wesley Clark's speech.
He spoke before Kerry was introduced by his Vietnam buddies.
War.
War.
I've been there.
So is John Kerry.
John Kerry has heard the thump of enemy mortars.
He's seen the flash of the tracers.
He's lived the values of service and sacrifice in the Navy as a prosecutor, as a senator.
He proved his physical courage under fire.
And he's proved his moral courage too.
John Kerry fought a war.
And I respect him for that.
And he came home to fight a piece.
And I respect him for that too.
John Kerry's combination of physical courage and moral values is my definition of what we need as Americans in our commander in chief.
Oh, so much here.
First off, how do you come home and fight a peace?
How do you do that?
Well, Kerry did it.
He came a he was the architect.
He was the script writer for how you come home and fight a peace.
We we get out of Vietnam and they won't let it go.
It was John Kerry throwing his medals over the White House gate.
Fake medals, he kept his real ones at home.
It was John Kerry who was uh telling lies about the Swiftboat buddies, telling lies about American combat troops in general, that they were raping and mutilating and doing all this Genghis Khan type stuff.
While America was trying to heal from all this and get over it, John Kerry was indeed fighting a peace.
We'll revisit this and then uh listen to Wesley Clark yesterday talk about McCain after this.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
During the breaks, I continue to give a little listen to Obama's patriotism speech in independence.
This is really rich.
He just finished saying he defined it.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time.
All the time.
If that's what patriotism is, he has just accused his buddies on the left of being unpatriotic.
I mean, not only do they not support the country all the time, they actively are engaged to inflict harm on this country and to, for example, in Iraq, they are enmeshed in their own defeat.
And your government when it deserves it.
So that gives them, with that little definition, uh, of course, the government deserves being criticized when it's run by George W. Bush.
So everybody's in the clear on that.
Patriotism supporting your country all the time.
Hmm.
I want to go back and air Wesley Clark from 2004 at the Democrat National Convention.
And this is shortly after, if you remember that convention, Kerry grabbed a bunch of his Vietnam buddies and got on a boat.
They were gonna what they were going to do was replicate Kerry's Vietnam experience of being in a boat and taking territory in Vietnam.
Very bravely and courageously.
So Kerry took Boston Bay.
He took the bay and he took took the area of Boston where the convention was.
Remember that sailing?
That's how he arrived at the convention hall.
Before all that happened, Wesley Clark made these comments.
War.
War.
I've been there.
So is John Kerry.
John Kerry has heard the thump of enemy mortars.
He's seen the flash of the tracers.
He's lived the values of service and sacrifice in the Navy as a prosecutor, as a senator.
He proved his physical courage under fire.
And he's proved his moral courage too.
John Kerry fought a war.
And I respect him for that.
And he came home to fight a peace.
And I respect him for that too.
John Kerry's combination of physical courage and moral values is my definition of what we need as Americans in our commander in chief.
Okay, now we talked about the concept of fighting a peace, and Kerry did.
Kerry came home and lied about American soldiers to a Senate committee.
That's how he was fighting a peace.
But do you note here's Obama out giving a speech in independence, Missouri after having been in Unity, New Hampshire?
He's now in independence, Missouri giving a speech in patriotism.
And Wesley Clark, which which Democrats seem to feel the need to prove to people that they are patriotic.
Even when nobody's charging them with being unpatriotic, they still feel the need to prove it, which is quite telling to me.
And then we have these comments from Wesley Clark four years ago, uh, in which we now remember that the Democrats nominated their version of a war hero as a means of being elected president.
This is after 9-11.
They're convinced the American people want somebody tough in the White House, and so Kerry wore the uniform and Carrie was this and that.
But then the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth came out uh with their ads, which nobody's disproven, by the way, and Carrie was toast.
But you've just heard Wesley Clark define qualifications for the presidency based on Kerry and his military service.
He lived the values of service and sacrifice in the Navy as a prosecutor, as a senator.
A lot of sacrifices, the Senate.
He proved his physical courage under fire.
He came home to fight a peace.
Physical courage, moral value, my definition of what we need as Americans in our commander-in-chief.
Now, you just heard him define presidential qualifications for Americans by using John Kerry as an example.
Let's now go to Face the Nation yesterday.
The host, Bob Schieffer, talking to Wesley Clark, said, Well, you went so far as to say that you thought McCain was, quote, and these are your words, untested and untried.
And I must say I had to read that twice because you're talking about somebody who was a prisoner of war.
He was a squadron commander of the largest squadron in the Navy.
He's been on the Senate Armed Services Committee for all these many years.
How can you say that John McCain is untested and untried, General?
Because in the matters of national security policymaking, it's a matter of understanding risk.
It's a matter of gauging your opponents, and it's a matter of being held accountable.
John McCain's never done any of that in his official positions.
That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded, it wasn't a wartime squadron.
He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall.
He hasn't seen what it's like when diplomats come in and say, I don't know whether we're going to be able to get this point through or not.
You want to take the risk?
What about your reputation?
How do we handle it publicly?
He hasn't made those calls for General.
He hasn't made those calls.
Do you believe this?
By the way, I don't for a minute believe that he's out there as an independent contractor.
This is not an idle comment on MSNBC when nobody's watching at 10 o'clock at night.
This is one of the revered Sunday morning shows.
These comments are rehearsed.
These comments are made on purpose.
Schiefer says, I have to say, Barack Obama has not had any of those experiences either.
General Clark, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.
Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.
Really.
But Barack is not.
He is not running on the fact that he has made these national security pronouncements.
He's running on his other strengths.
He's running on the strengths of character on the strengths of his communication skills, on the strengths of his judgment.
And those are qualities that we seek in our national leadership.
Now, I don't know how in the world you can sit around and tar and feather McCain as being unqualified after having been a prisoner of war for five years.
You talk about sacrifice.
He talked about Kerry's sacrifice.
You talk about bravery.
You're talking McCain went into the teeth of the dog in this war.
He stayed in the Navy for eight years after he got out of the Hanoi Hilton.
He never went to Washington and threw his medals over the White House fence.
He never bumped and decried his fellow airmen or soldiers or Marines who fought in Vietnam.
This is just this this is this is I you know I wonder if the McCain camp gets it yet, what's ahead of them.
We warned them about this, and this is not all that's happening out there.
When you when you heard Wesley Clark here in Soundbite number four, it's a matter of gauging your opponents, a matter of being held accountable.
McCain's never done any of that in his official positions.
He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall.
Let me tell you what they're heading at here.
If you go to certain left-wing blogs and websites, uh, you will find all kinds of vicious attacks on McCain, such as accusing him of war crimes for bombing civilian targets in Hanoi in the 1960s.
There are others who are accusing McCain of disloyalty during his captivity in Vietnam because they say he uh he was well he was his coerced participation in propaganda films and interviews after he had been tortured.
Uh John Aravosis at the uh something called American blog wrote a lot of people don't know that McCain made propaganda video for the uh for the enemy while he was in captivity, putting that bit of disloyalty aside.
What exactly is McCain's military experience that prepares him for being commander-in-chief?
Getting shot down, tortured, and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience, uh, this guy wrote in a blog post entitled Honesty, besides being tortured, uh honestly, besides being tortured, what did McCain do to excel in the military?
So you see, the left-wing blogs have started this.
Wesley Clark is picking up the theme, and this is there there is an echo chamber on the left too, and more and more uh these these left-wing talking points that are shouted and emitted by Obama's people in his campaign come from the dark Reaches of the kook fringe left.
So now not only is McCain not qualified just because he flew a bomber mission and got shot down over Hanoi and spent five years as a prisoner.
Well, that isn't qualified.
No, what John Kerry did is a greater qualification.
John Kerry had moral character.
John Kerry was John Kerry.
You heard Wesley.
Go back and grab cut uh cut three again here.
After you've heard Clark twice now, Rip McCain, listen to how he praises Kerry four years ago the Democrat National Convention.
War.
War.
I've been there.
So is John Kerry.
John Kerry has heard the thump of enemy mortars.
He's seen the flash of the tracers.
He's lived the values of service and sacrifice in the Navy.
As a prosecutor, as a senator.
He proved his physical courage under fire.
And he's proved his moral courage too.
John Kerry fought a war.
And I respect him for that.
And he came home to fight a peace.
And I respect him for that too.
John Kerry's combination of physical courage and moral values is my definition of what we need as Americans in our commander in chief.
Came home to fight a peace.
And again, he did that by lying about our soldiers to a Senate committee.
I Wesley Clark ought to have zero credibility with anybody.
This is nothing but a partisan political hack who himself was incompetent.
Didn't Clinton fire the guy?
He was he was the NATO general of the Bosnian War, and I think even Clinton fired the guy.
Big pretender.
And by the way, here's Obama out there with his patriotism lecture.
I keep listing little segments of this.
And frankly, I don't think we need to be lectured to on patriotism by Barack Obama.
Here's a guy trashes a country all the time.
His minister trashed the country all the time.
His friend William Ayers tried to overthrow the country.
You don't need lectures from Obama on patriotism.
Well, that was not the William Ayers I knew.
That was not the Reverend White that I knew.
All these years.
He's just, by his own definitions today, he's just thrown both these guys under the bus.
They are not patriots.
They are not American patriots.
And Obama gets away with recasting himself as often as he wants.
The drive-by media will bend over forwards and backwards and put themselves in pretzel-like positions in order to accommodate this guy's daily recalibrations so that he can be appearing to move to the non-controversial center.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
And we're back.
Let's go to two more sound bites on this, and then some brilliant commentary by me.
This is the Obama communications director, Robert Gibbs, he was on Scarborough's show today on DNC TV, and the co-host Mikha Bzhinski said, Look, we uh you know, we we heard Clark's comments.
We played them here just a minute ago and face the nation.
Is uh your campaign behind what Clark said?
No, we're not.
What I've heard every time that Barack Obama talks about John McCain, and that is he begins by thanking him for his service to his country.
We're leading into July 4th, where we are reminded of of all the sacrifices that people have made to make this country free, and we certainly honor the sacrifice and the service uh and the heroism of John McCain.
Right.
Now, uh easy to say this.
After Clark's made the big news, here's this guy on DNC TV sometime early this morning when very few people are watching.
Oh no, totally not us.
We honored McCain's have no idea how this could have happened.
Why we're minding our own business and so forth.
So then uh Bzzinski said, so let me ask you this then.
Is the campaign if the campaign's not behind this, Wes Clark making those comments, specifically those comments?
Tell us.
Obviously, those are the comments of General Clark.
They're not the comments of Barack Obama.
Again, uh Barack Obama always talks about John McCain in a setting uh by mentioning the service that he's given to this country.
You know, we're gonna give a speech later today about what patriotism means in this country.
And one of the lines that you'll hear is that nobody should question the patriotism of either of these two candidates.
Obviously, they've given of their time, they've given uh uh an incredible amount to their countries, they love both of them love their countries, and I think for anybody to suggest otherwise just doesn't make a lot of sense.
All right, let me let me tell you what's going on here.
In addition to Obama lecturing us on patriotism and redefining it, uh when look at I mean, look at just what his friends have said about this country.
Reverend Wright, Ayres tries to overthrow the country, and he's got this there well, we've been through this.
He's trying to soften his image of drive-byers are helping him here.
But what also is happening is an effort, and this is this is purposeful, and is an effort that is being aided and abetted with the drive-by media to devalue the military experience of John McCain and his hero status, and to raise up Obama's patriotic position by redefining it.
So that's a two-prunk thing.
Now, he did not mention McCain in his speech.
He just said, you know, patriotism is he's not going to challenge the patriotism of uh of any of his opponents, and he's gonna stand up for when his is challenged.
But he didn't denounce what Clark said.
But the drive-by's will say that he did, just as you heard his campaign spokesman Gibbs do so.
So make no mistake about it.
They are going after the one area they think they know that McCain trumps Obama no matter how it's played.
American hero, war hero, sacrifice, prisoner of war.
They are trying to devalue all of that while Obama redefines patriotism.
How has Obama shown his patriotism as a public man?
Has he supported our war effort?
He has not.
By his own definition, he's not supported his country.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time.
I heard him say it.
He's not done that.
Has he spent much time with the armed forces?
Depends on which armed forces, Bill Ayers or the United States military.
Obama has spent his entire career condemning much of the country, bitter clingers, guns, religion.
Not just the government, but the country, as has his wife, as have his friends.
Patriotism should not be defined as a relentless assault on the nation's traditions and customs.
But that's what they want it to be today.
Liberals want to define patriotism as being whatever they support and whatever they say, no matter how offensive and damning they are.
I mean, look, this is a guy who made a big deal out of not wearing the American flag pin lapel.
What do you mean I'm not supposed to mention that, Snerdley?
Uh look at I said at the beginning of this program, Snerdley, this is not the Limbaugh Institute for Pseudo-Conservative Studies.
This is the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We are steel-spined.
We are not going to play defense, and we're not going to cower like many of our pseudo-conservative brethren.
And we're not going to say what we say or not say what we shouldn't say in order to be liked and adored by this crowd that's trying to destroy the traditions and institutions that made the country great.
I mean, we're being lectured to on patriotism by a guy who had a problem trying to figure out when and where to wear the American flag pin for crying out loud.
And he's getting a standing ovation in a town very near where I once worked.
Independence, Missouri.
I mean, it's right there.
I mean, it's it's it's you know, uh a five iron from Royal Stadium, where I spent many a countless hour.
All of a sudden, after having problems on the flag pin, now he wears it and constantly surrounded by flags.
Patriotism must be symbolism to Obama.
On further review, General Clark, we can't find any evidence he was fired, uh, just that he was replaced after having some friction uh with Clinton and Hugh Shelton in the Kosovo Theater.
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