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June 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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And don't forget, Snerdley, don't forget, and the rest of you in the uh wonderful and large audience here, the EIB network, it was uh Wesley Clark who tried to get me thrown off Armed Forces Radio.
Remember this.
Greetings and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh from the the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Not only did Ashley Wilkes want me off of Armed Forces Radio.
This this notion that he's out there as an independent contractor is uh is is silly.
He's the go-to guy for the Libs.
He's the go-to general when they want to harm a veteran or advance a liberal cause with the military.
That's how they use him.
As they have used him yesterday on the unface the nation.
Wesley Clark advanced high up the ranks in the military thanks to Bill Clinton.
He wasn't a standout in any way.
There is nothing that uh recommends Wesley Clark over any other general in terms of being able to uh bring credibility and accountability to assessing others' performance of the uh of the same job.
He's just he's another one of these Clinton generals, and they're all over the place.
So what happens is that Clark smears McCain, and Obama says that he is the patriot.
What we are looking at is liberalism on display.
Now we have one, two, three, four, one, two, three.
Got four Obama bites from his speech in Independence, Missouri earlier today from last hour, followed by McCain's response.
But to set those up, I want you to go back and listen to Wesley Clark from yesterday on the uh on Meet the Press.
First question from Bob Schefer to General Clark is how in the world can you say that McCain is untested and untried, General?
Because in the matters of national security policy making, 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.
Do you want to take the risk?
What about your reputation?
How do we handle it publicly?
He hasn't made those calls.
Well, General.
Scheefer then said, I have to say that Barack Obama's not had any of those experiences either, nor is he ridden in a fighter plane and got 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.
So let's go to Obama today.
By the way, you you uh if you listen to Clark ripping McCain, you could also substitute the names Bill or Hillary Clinton for anything that uh he said about McCain.
I mean, this this is this is just a point being made.
They dragged this guy out as a supposed credible general, but he's the liberal's go-to general for ripping anybody in the military who has any kind of heroism or success.
And then Obama follows it up by one day with remarks like this in his speech in Independence, Missouri, on patriotism.
I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign.
And I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine.
Wait a minute, whose patriotism has been questioned here?
Whose qualifications have been questioned here?
What's what's happening here, folks?
Very simple, an effort to devalue McCain's military experience and hero status, and then to raise up Obama's patriotic position by redefining what patriotism is.
Here's more of Obama from just a moment ago in Missouri.
When we argue about patriotism, we're arguing about who we are as a country, and more importantly, who we should be.
But surely we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism.
Then what?
Then why the hell do you feel it necessary to go to independence, Missouri and talk about it?
Then why the hell do you have such difficulty in deciding whether or not to wear the American flag lapel pen?
One party obviously has a track record that deserves to be examined.
We all know which party that is.
And this is why this party is constantly defending itself on this.
Let's be honest, uh, folks.
Patriotism is equated with supporting the military when the U.S. is at war.
Which political party the last three years has done its best to secure defeat of its country and the U.S. military at war.
Democrat Party.
One party has a track record that deserved to be examined when it comes to patriotism, and that's, and they know it.
They know they're weak on national security, which is why they gave us Kerry last election, they thought he would overcome it, uh-huh, which is why they're now trying to devalue McCain's hero status and his war service.
And it's why they send their candidate out to independence, Missouri to do a defensive speech on patriotism because they know.
Here's another from Obama.
Of course, precisely because America isn't perfect, precisely because our ideals constantly demand more from us.
Patriotism can never be defined as loyalty to any particular leader or government or policy.
As Mark Twain, that greatest of American satirists and proud son of Missouri once wrote.
And your government when it deserves it.
That's what patriotism is.
Wait a second.
Wait, wait, he just contradicted himself here.
Patriotism can never be defined as loyalty to any particular leader or government or policy.
And then he quotes Mark Twain, patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
This is a huge contradiction.
Which political party is it that is suggesting to us that terrorists deserve constitutional rights?
The same constitutional rights accorded United States citizens.
We don't have the right to spy on terrorists.
Which party is it that wants us to sue phone companies that allow terrorists to be spied on?
Which party is it that's doing his level best to discredit any intelligence gathering technique that is used in order to improve this nation's security?
No wonder they feel defensive about this.
Which party was it that would saying the surge would never work?
Which party was it that claimed the surge wouldn't work?
Which party was it whose supporters supporters ran a full page New York Times ad on General Betrayus?
Which party was it?
Whose members accused Petraeus of lying before he had opened his mouth?
Which party has as a member a man who avoided voting on the move on.org resolution in the Senate?
Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
Remember the vote on condemning the uh the move on.org?
Guess who did not vote?
He was there.
He didn't vote.
It was Barack Obama.
Which party has accused troops of murder and rape?
The Democrat Party.
Which party has members that have accused Club Gitmo uh operatives of torture and being like Pol Pot's regime and the people that ran the Soviet gulags?
That would be Dick Durbin and the Democrat Party.
Which political party has tried to kill and they've failed, but which political party has tried to kill war spending bills with poison pills and uh and other techniques be the Democrat Party.
So no wonder they feel defensive about patriotism.
Here's our final Obama soundbite from his speech in independence.
Surely we can arrive at a definition of patriotism that, however rough and Imperfect captures the best of America's common spirit.
What would such a definition look like?
Okay, so now not only are we being lectured to on patriotism by Obama, we're being told that only he can redefine it.
He's going to redefine patriotism for us.
What he says after this doesn't matter.
We don't need the Messiah to redefine patriotism for it.
We know it and we see it, and we know it when we don't see it.
And we see it plain as day when we don't see it.
So he wants to redefine it.
They want to wipe out any status that McCain enjoys as a war hero or a uh servant to his country.
The next bite we've got to take a break after this.
Uh McCain's in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
And uh here I I think this is uh uh McCain's response to uh Wesley Clark saying that being shot down over Vietnam does not qualify you to be president.
I think that that kind of thing is unnecessary.
I'm proud of my record of service, and I have plenty of friends and leaders who will attest to that.
But the important thing is, and if that's the kind of campaign that Senator Obama and his surrogates and his uh supporters want to gauge, uh I understand that.
But it doesn't reduce the price of a gallon of gas by one penny.
It doesn't achieve our energy independence any make it come any closer.
It doesn't help an American stay in their home who are in risk of losing it today, and it certainly doesn't do anything to address the challenges that Americans have in keeping their jobs, their homes and supporting their families.
What the hell is this?
This is the Clinton response.
That's right, Limbaugh.
And and your side's learning my techniques pretty well.
Hey, how you like when your side sounds like I do, Limbo?
About a guy really just love how it must make you mad.
That's right.
You remember when I said no attack ever fed a hungry child with Bob Dole, try to talk about my lack of character?
No.
Here's here's your boy McCain out there.
McCain's out there saying, hey, hey, can challenge me all my wise.
They can they can tell me I'm not qualified to be president, but that doesn't put one more drop of fuel in your gas tank.
Did he sound a little hurt there?
I'm not sure.
Anyway, he thinks this kind of campaigning is uh is unnecessary.
So we'll take a break, we'll come back.
Your phone calls are next here on the EIB network.
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Back to the phones.
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We'll start with Michael in Naperville, Illinois.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, uh, real quick.
Uh uh You know, I'm curious about this uh General Clark saying this stuff about John McCain.
In his twenties, John McCain was serving his country.
He got shot down and was in a prisoner of war camp for five years.
Barack Obama in his twenties, by his own words, was uh sitting around smoking pot and uh doing uh cocaine, snorting cocaine.
I mean, this this guy served his country why Barack Obama was trying to find his racial identity during his twenties by the and John McCain was serving his country.
I'm curious about this.
No, you're not.
You're you you're you're not curious at all.
You're trying to make a blistering point, which you've done very well.
I'm furious, not curious.
Oh, sorry, okay, then you ought to be furious about it.
I'm curious.
I mean, you know, I mean, did this guy was sitting around doing nothing why John McCain was in in the service.
He's still what what else has he done since?
What did seriously?
What has he done?
He's organized communities in Chicago.
We all know what that means.
What's he done?
He's Senator in Illinois, bailed out of 130 votes.
What's he done since he's been in the United States?
What's he done?
What's he accomplished?
He's a smooth, he's a smooth talker, and he makes people feel good.
You know what, Rush?
I think if a lot of people would have known about this drug use and this Reverend Wright stuff, he would have never been elected senator here.
Frankly, no one ever brought it up during during the campaign.
Well, you can't go back and relive that.
And besides the Clintons gave it their best shot in uh in New Hampshire.
remember Bill Shaheen running the Clinton campaign.
Said not only was he using drugs, he might have been selling them.
They tried everything.
It didn't work.
Well, what is one what is it one of what is one of the guys from the news media going to ask him if he ever did sell drugs?
You know the chances are slim and none and slim left town.
There's there come on, you know better.
The drive-by's that in the media are are are devoted to cleaning this guy up to allow him his pirouettes on policy to allow his policy recalibrations.
They're doing everything they can to sanitize the guy, and they're furthering all these uh Barama Obama camp notions that McCain really isn't that big a hero.
They might have shot at innocent civilians.
Might have done a propaganda movie.
He might have been turned by the North Vietnamese.
He might actually be a traitor, is where they're headed with this.
And of course the drive-bys will react, wow, what an interesting take.
Why, we've never thought of that.
We've always bought the hook line and sinker bit that McCain was a big hero, but maybe maybe these left-wing bloggers have a point.
Of course, they don't have to come to a conclusion.
They can just start doing their investigative pieces.
So this is all about ripping McCain's hero status apart so that he doesn't have that advantage over Obama, then redefining patriotism so that Obama's lack of it in terms of uh supporting the U.S. military and so forth is canceled out.
Uh by the way, something else.
You know, and I don't like talking about myself much on this program, but one of the things that Obama said in this speech is something that the Clintons have invented uh back in the sixties.
And that is that dissent equals patriotism.
And you've all heard this.
Why, this country was founded on dissent.
Why we were dissenting against the king, why we refused the high taxes, why we were dis Yeah, we were dissenting against tyranny.
Liberals are dissenting against liberty.
When they dissent, it's against freedom.
So here's Obama defining patriotism as dissent, as protest.
And yet, wasn't that long ago that the Messiah was down here in Florida?
Where was he in Florida?
Was it Jacksonville?
Was it uh Orlando?
Where was it?
Tampa.
Uh it doesn't matter where it was.
Might have been mine, it doesn't matter where it was.
And he had called me a xenophobe and then lied about my position on illegal immigrants.
Mentioned me and Lou Dobbs.
Oh, so we dissent against amnesty for illegals.
And we get attacked, not praised as patriots in the Obama world.
Never forget, when liberals start defining patriotism, folks, the definition equals whatever they support.
And whatever they oppose is not patriotic.
And that's why Obama did the speech today.
He went up there to redefine it.
And basically it's whatever he believes.
Here's uh what is this banger?
Dancer?
What's danger?
Because somebody named Danger on the phone.
Danger from uh from uh Perry, Georgia.
Yes, sir, Perry, Georgia.
How do you have the name Danger?
Uh my parents were hippies.
But first I've got to say that Rush is one of my top ten all-time favorite guy names.
Hell, thanks so much.
That's very cool.
Yes, I I'm pretty cool.
I like to think anyway.
What's your middle name, Danger?
Um Michelle.
Danger Michelle.
Okay.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Parents were hippies.
They don't like it when I tell them that tell people that.
Are they still hippies?
No, sir.
Okay, good.
Well, anyways, first off, I should say I'm a twenty-three-year-old punk rock conservative, so I've got it rough with my friends.
But I wanted to comment on what General Wesley Clark said.
How can how can he say that McCain wasn't tried and tested?
He certainly was.
He was a prisoner of war.
He came as close to making the ultimate sacrifice for his nation that one can make and still live to talk about it.
I mean, that's if that's not a patriot, I don't know what is.
Do you think it's a qualification, however?
A qualification?
I think so.
To be president, yeah.
Absolutely.
To to think enough of your country that you're gonna go out there and risk your life to fight for its name?
Absolutely.
Well, I would agree with you when you add the uh the uh sum total of McCain's political resume.
Now we can disagree with uh you know with his policies on certain things.
But then we can compare it to Obama's.
Well, you compare it to Obama.
That's right.
There is no resume.
Yeah, because that's the point.
Your punk rock friends like Obama.
Oh, they most certainly do, and I get I get it rough from them.
I think I bet they don't even know why they like him.
I'll bet I'll bet you it's just they makes him feel good or he speaks well, or he's young or what something like that, or it's nothing of substance.
And they like him because of MTV.
VH1.
Obama is evidently he's in he's been seen.
Yeah.
It hits like Obama.
But I mean Danger, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Never, never ever have had a caller named Danger that was so innocent and harmless.
I want to go back to McCain's response to Wesley Clark.
He was at the uh National Association of uh wait, you know, come on, we'll get the wrong bite.
He was this is today he's in Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
And he was uh it was responding to Wesley Clark's attacks on Sunday on Face the Nation, in which Clark said, hey, he never ordered any bombing.
He never been a boss of anything in the military, never a squadron leader in combat, none of that.
He ended up dropping bombs on people, getting shot down.
Well, that's no qualification to be president.
He responded to it.
After you listen to this, I have a question.
I think that that kind of thing is unnecessary.
I'm proud of my record of service, and I have plenty of friends and leaders who will attest to that.
But the important thing is, and if that's the kind of campaign that Senator Obama and his surrogates and his uh supporters want to gauge, uh I understand that.
But it doesn't reduce the price of a gallon of gas by one penny.
It doesn't achieve our energy independence any make it come any closer.
It doesn't help an American stay in their home who are in risk of losing it today, and it certainly doesn't do anything to address the challenges that Americans have in keeping their jobs, their homes and supporting their families.
Okay.
Quick question.
And it's important to me.
I mean, you have you're John McCain, and you have just heard you you've just you've your whole risen for existence.
The whole foundation on which you seek the presidency has just been said to be irrelevant.
The Obama campaign has sends somebody out there to say, getting shot down, big deal.
Prisoner of war, big deal.
Doesn't qualify anybody.
John Kerry's more qualified than McCain ever was.
I mean, he's never ordered anybody into combat.
He's never had to take risks.
Uh he's never had to bomb people and didn't know we're down there.
You're McCain, you hear that and you go out and you respond to it this way.
I think that kind of thing is unnecessary.
I'm proud of my service.
I have plenty of friends and leaders who will attest to that.
If they want to run that kind of campaign, I understand it, but it doesn't and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Does McCain sound hurt?
Do you sound like his feelings are hurting that bite?
You think so?
I think he so I I uh well, I'm not sure.
I th I think I'm proud of my record of service.
I have plenty of friends and leaders who will attest to that.
Because here's the thing.
If he is hurt by it, wrong attitude to have, number one.
Number two, if he is hurt, he's surprised by it.
And if he's surprised by this kind of attack, that's not good.
If he really believes, if he still believes that somehow he can make this campaign an honorable campaign on the issues as he wants it.
Then he's he's gonna have some problem.
These these people are out for his scalp.
These people are out for his they'll cut his throat.
There's nothing honorable about what they're doing.
Certainly nothing honorable about the last two days.
The way they've spoken about about McCain.
I just want I just wanted to ask you if you thought this response was what you would expect or what you would hope for.
I mean, isn't it?
Isn't it true, ladies and gentlemen, that we on the right, under constant attack and assault, don't have leaders that give a rat's rear end and don't respond to it and don't take it to them in return.
Now I understand there's a it's a fine line here when you respond to something like you can sound very defensive and you can found you can sound if you take it personally, and if your response is anger based on you you've been heard personally, that's not the way to do it, but there is a way to respond to this stuff.
That's right.
You clean your opponent's clock with this.
You talk about the phoniness.
You talk what I just said.
We don't need lectures from Mr. Obama on patriotism.
We don't need failed generals commenting on my war service.
There's any number of ways to do it here.
Just test my two cents, folks, and I'm just talk show guy, you know, no big deal.
Theodore Baltimore, Maryland, nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
This is good evening.
I'm good, good afternoon.
I'm I'm respecting the service of both Mr. McCain and three-star general uh Mr. Clark.
I think they uh both served honorably.
I wouldn't consider Mr. Clark failed.
And I do think that once I listened to it, Mr. McCain sounded weak.
Mr. Clark, and even speeches by the late Ronald Reagan sound more forceful.
If the uh attitude displayed by Mr. McCain in answering this uh statement back is what we should expect from him in the White House, I think we'd be in trouble.
Now, in reference to qualifications, you're right, Mr. Obama wasn't in the service.
Uh, but I think he's very measured.
I like the way he takes the time to talk about what he wants to do, his plans.
I think his plans and his signing of the uh and his support of the veterans bill, which Mr. McCain was against, I think that shows he is supportive of the troops.
I like his ideas on taxes.
That support of that veterans bill was to cover the fact that he has actively sought the defeat of U.S. troops in Iraq.
Well, you know, uh let me explain something, Mr. Uh Mr. Limbaugh.
Anybody who says that you support the defeat of troops, I wouldn't say that's treason.
I would say that's absolutely outrageous coming from the mouth of those who didn't choose to serve.
I'm a only son, my mother was blind, I got out on an honorable discharge in hardship conditions.
I didn't have to serve.
Am I a hero?
No, I'm a man who did my job.
But anybody who tells me that they can read somebody else's mind, that's wrong.
Mr. McCain nor Mr. Obama want the death or the defeat of our troops.
And I would like you to retract that if you wouldn't because you're wrong.
Mr. Theodore, I am not going to retract it, because it is true.
Mr. Theodore, you've also said you've come up with something that the left in this country has been trying since I first became aware of it in the mid-80s, and that is if I didn't serve, then I'm not allowed to comment.
But it's a funny thing.
Everybody who disagrees with you, you call them names.
Everybody I know it's a political campaign.
That's another liberal cliche started on the website.
What are you calling names?
I live.
You know what it is?
I do satire.
I make fun of the left, and they can't handle it.
We're supposed to sit around and be made fun of and laughed at all the time.
Funny, I can take that, but they can't.
Everybody can take sarcasm if they're adults.
But I heard you all knock.
I heard you knock Mr. McCain for a whole year when his campaign was down.
Now you're being hypocritical and you're coming around and supporting a guy.
And I look at qualifications, I look at I look at qualifications and I look at abilities.
Mr. McCain out of 900 people was fifth from the bottom of his class in Annapolis.
Now that should tell you something about whether he's competent or not.
This is about the third time he's run for president.
One maybe he'll get it right, but I don't think so.
But I think the question a man all of these, you know, you you you I don't know where to start with you.
I was criticized criticizing McCain all last year, and now all of a sudden I'm supporting him.
Yes.
Yes.
I heard all of the people on radio, particularly right ring radio, his campaign was dead, and because he's a part of the immigration and the open borders bill.
You know what?
You should call a McCain campaign, and you say, guess what?
I am Mr. Theodore.
I just spoke with Mr. Limbaugh, and he's supporting your campaign, and they will laugh at you, and they will hang up the phone on you thinking you are a kook.
But tell me something.
Of course, I am going to defend anybody with McCain's military record who is attacked by people who cannot hold a candle to it.
I don't this is not about politics or ideology here, Mr. Theodore.
But let me explain something.
I was diverted from Vietnam.
When my mother got in hold got a hold of my uh recruiter, he called from politicians.
My orders were changed to Germany.
I was a personal I was a grunt, but I was a personnel specialist.
But the first thing they handed me when I went to Germany was my rifle because I had field maneuvers and I went on alert a couple of times.
What's this got to do with me?
Does does my service make me a hero?
Does my service make me a hero?
In somebody's mind it might.
You know, heroes get defined in many different ways.
Whether you volunteered or not, if you did it, you joined the armed service.
I th I think that there are a lot of people who have exhibited heroic acts and and deeds and have achieved this kind of status.
But you know, you you you call me uh uh turncoat supporting McCain.
You're an Obama hack.
You're just a full-fledged one hundred percent Obama hack.
So Obama has tried See what happened here on this show today, Mr. Theodore, is that Obama tried to get away with redefining, and we respect your hackery, by the way, because you're uh we're talking to you.
You know, I re I respect any hack.
You respect any uh military I respect any hack.
And your hackery I have demonstrated monumental respect for.
But what happened here?
Obama goes out, tries to redefine patriotism, tries to blunt McCain's hero status and his qualifications at the same time, erasing a McCain's strength when Obama might have trouble finding Annapolis, might have trouble finding West Point, unless they put him in an SUV and took him there.
And I don't let Obama get away with this, and so the Obama hacks like you, Mr. Theodore, have to call here and try to set the uh the uh record straight.
Um well, that's true.
Um if if ask next time you talk to Obama, Mr. Theodore, ask him in which of the fifty-seven states that he's campaigned in that he said you'll find uh the military academy and the U.S. Naval Academy.
We'll be right back after this.
I'm still trying to figure out what Mr. Theodore was so uh defensive about because nobody attacked Mr. Theodore's military record except Mr. Theodore.
Mr. Theodore gave us his military records.
You think that qualifies me for a hero?
Only Mr. Theodore downgraded his military service.
But Mr. Theodore's hacks, whom we respect, are out there trying to destroy McCain's service.
Left and right.
Uh the Bobby Gindle, you know, been a little bit of a tight squeeze down there in Louisiana because in the campaign for governor, he vowed he promised, he swore there would not be a legislative pay raise.
Legislators did what legislators do, they voted themselves a pay raise.
A big one.
And not full-time.
They have other jobs.
Louisiana.
Gendl's a gee, huh?
I mean, I don't want to veto that.
These guys need the money, I need them working with me.
But pressure was mounted, and he had a decision to make.
Do I remain true to my campaign promise?
Or do I deal pragmatically with the realities on the ground here that the legislators make sixteen grand a year and they need a little raise?
He vetoed it today.
At a press conference announcing his the good and good for Bobby Gendal, uh announcing his line item vetoes in the supplemental spending bill today, Governor Gendal announced that he had vetoed the legislative pay raise bill that would more than double the legislators' pay.
He said, I have opposed this pay raise at every turn and from the very beginning.
A doubling of legislative pay is clearly excessive.
It takes effect prior to the next election, which I believe is bad policy.
This bill would also have set up a system to give legislators automatic pay raise in the future without additional legislative votes.
That's a lack of accountability that we cannot accept.
So Bobby Gendal.
Did it right, and did the right thing.
Vetoed the pay raise.
They're gonna love him even more in Louisiana.
Because no matter how little legislators get paid, everybody's for their guy getting okay, but not anybody else's.
So congratulations to Governor Gendal.
This is Jack in Cincinnati.
You're up next, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
It's uh it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I if uh if the McCain camp uh doesn't make a joke out of uh General Clark's comments about uh Obama's uh strong points as being character and judgment, they they've missed the vote uh because those are his major flaws.
And uh of course the the uh Democrat strategist like to take and and go to the issues in that, but without character and integrity, uh anything that's discussed in that is a moot point.
So uh they they need to.
What specifically, Jack, are we talking about here?
Are we talking about the uh Reverend J. Wright?
Well, we're talking about all of his uh his uh associations and his judgment.
Okay, like with a with a with a with a real estate fraud artist, a scam artist.
All of his guy who wanted to blow up the Pentagon.
Right.
Uh and the Reverend J. Wright, who uh hates America and is a is a blatant racist.
And Obama says, Yeah, these are not the people I've known.
Uh I've known J. Ray for twenty years and knowing that.
So you're you're making a great point.
When uh when Ashley Wilkes, who is a hack, starts talking in disguise as a general, starts talking about Obama's character and qualifications.
This is uh but I'll guarantee you, McCain's not gonna say a thing about that because it wouldn't be honorable.
Right, right.
Republican Party is as our official Obama criticizer said the other day, the Republicans are afraid of even calling darkness or nighttime dark.
And that they're so afraid of any criticism being uh reacted to as racism that uh and the historical nature of the Obama campaign.
But let's not forget about the historical nature of the Obama campaign.
Don't forget the Southern Christian leadership guy.
He's not authentic.
He's not the first slave-blood black to seek the White House.
His wife is, but he's not.
And the guy said this just to give the race industry in America a reason to exist after Obama's election to the White House to the presidency if if he is.
Uh anyway, excellent point, Jack.
Uh, and this is the like Jack's out there saying, if if McCain doesn't respond to this, I mean, of all things, the one area where Obama is totally assailable is his character.
If McCain does a res Jack said he's gotta respond to this.
I mean, this is this is this this is a hanging curveball.
Jack.
Don't expect it.
I I uh maybe a surrogate.
A far-removed surrogate will.
But it will not come from the McCain campaign.
I know if they if if some of them, if somebody too close to the McCain campaign were to say something about Obama's character, then the first thing, and the next thing you know that uh McCain to be out there denouncing the guy, saying this is not what his campaign is all about, blah, blah, blah.
Jeff in Cold Springs, Colorado.
Nice to have you, sir.
One minute.
Hi, sir.
Uh loyal listener Diddle's from Colorado Springs.
Appreciate that.
I've got a question for you since I only have a minute.
Um over the weekend I heard something about Seymour Hirsch mentioning that uh report that he had former military intelligence and congressional sources reporting on a covert operation.
400 million dollars going into Iran to destabilize the government.
Today on Good Morning America, they linked that, that's that story, to an attempt to go get Osama bin Laden finally within about seven months, tied nicely to right around the election time.
So my question to you is I just smell something here.
What what are your your comments on this?
I hope Seymour Hirsch is right.
I hope Seymour Hirsch is ready.
He hadn't been right in a long time.
Yeah.
But I uh seriously, uh Jeff, I hope to hell we've got operatives inside Iran trying to destabilize the place.
Uh if we don't, then you know CIA is not what it used to be.
I hope we do.
I hope we got guys planting all kinds of laser-guided missiles here for the Okay, gotta get out of here quick, folks.
Uh, about to hit the heart break here for the end of the top of the hour.
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