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July 1, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 1, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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Well, the left wing kook fringe of the Democrat Party is beside itself because Obama is moving to the center, seeking the votes of independence now that he has secured the Democrat Party nomination.
And a lot of people are on the left very upset about this, and I would and Snerdley sternly came in talking to me about this this morning.
Said this is all smoke screen.
He's not moving to this, he's moving to the center to make this guy is diabolical and he is full of deception.
Make no mistake, if this guy's elected, what he's going to do.
And it's it's it's patently obvious.
He's flip-flopping on everything in the drive-by reporting on his recalibration and his uh his his pure wetting, a policy pure wetting.
We have details.
On all of this coming up as the program unfolds today.
Wesley Clark not backing down, General Ashley Wilkes not backing down, and the Obama campaign, Obama, they're saying, and you heard we played the soundbites of Obama's speech yesterday in Independence, Missouri.
They are saying, the drive-by's are saying that he rebuked Wesley Clark.
He did not.
He didn't mention Wesley Clark's name.
They're saying that he rebuked Clark when he talked about how it was unseemly for somebody of McCain's military past to be criticized in any way, shape, manner, or form.
So Clark gets away with it.
Clark digs in, says even more outrageous things.
The drive-by's report that Obama has rebuked or renounced Clark when he hasn't.
And so the loop continues and the cycle continues.
The king of Saudi Arabia, the uh Saudi Arabia, the King of Dullah.
This is some tough love, folks.
He said it's just we're just gonna have to get used to this.
We're just gonna have to get used to high oil prices, and then nothing he can do about it.
He doesn't set the prices, and we're just have to get used to it.
Consumer countries have to adapt to the prices and the mechanisms of the market.
We have nothing to do with the current sharp increase in crude prices, he said, reiterating the Saudi position.
That speculation, rising demand, and the taxation of oil products in consumer countries were playing gas taxes, he thinks.
He says these countries must reduce their taxes on fuel if they want to contribute to easing the burden on ordinary consumers.
Now, the king's got a point here, but what the king, I think the king probably understands this.
The Obama campaign is thinking of doing just the exact opposite.
And there are some on our side who think it'd be a great idea to increase taxes on gasoline and other fuels as a way of limiting their use and generating money for the beloved benevolent federal government to be able to take care of even more pressing problems that it has failed to solve since the new deal, but we keep giving them more money, or they keep taking it.
But the king says, gotta get used to it.
In a truly pathetic news story, this is deeply troubling.
We have been talking recently on this program about the chickification of American culture, the feminization of American universities, the chicken of the news business.
From the Associated Press, this is a story by Melissa Dutton.
And this is about man showers.
Brian, you went to one of these just last week.
A man shower.
Man showers have become popular for pre-wedding bond.
This is pathetic.
When Jonathan Morris's daughter was planning her wedding, he thought that the groom was getting overlooked.
So he planned a guy-only man shower to welcome Brian Wigand into the family.
The party included manly snacks, manly games, manly gifts.
Seemed like there was a lot of hoopla for the ladies, not too much for the guys, said Morris of Maple Valley, Washington.
It was really fun.
It was male bonding out there.
Showers geared to grooms are a growing trend in the wedding industry, said Alana Baroni, the entertainment expert for those websites at Have you heard about this snerdly?
Have you is growing trend?
Other than Brian going to a baby shower, I've not heard of a growing trend in man show.
Of course, I don't keep up with weddings much.
Don't go to too many.
There's yeah, that's true, right?
It was a couple shower, but you still went.
It still went.
Showers geared to grooms are growing, a growing trend in the wedding industry, says a woman.
Alana Baroni.
It's another example of grooms leaving their stereotypical roles behind, she said, noting that male bridesmaids and female groomsmen are also becoming more common.
That doesn't mean they're abandoning tradition for Rob Wise, the man shower was a warm-up and not a substitute for the bachelor party.
Yeah, it was a precursor, a chance to get the guys together and let off a little steam.
Highlights of the man shower included playing football, drinking games, and uh rock band, a video game where players perform in virtual bands.
There was no, there's no stripper.
Stripper was well, if I guess the stripper's the bachelor party, but we don't hear anything about the bachelor party in this story.
We only hear about the man shower.
First and foremost, it was getting all my friends together in one place, said the groom who's from Batoneroos, Louisiana meant a lot for everybody to mingle before they got to the wedding.
Men are also recognizing that showers are a great way to get this.
This this is what did it for me in this story.
Men are also recognizing that showers are a great way to acquire tools and other necessities needed to maintain a home.
Said Abby Buford, another woman, spokeswoman for Lowe's home improvement stores, which launched an online wedding registry in 2006.
So the purpose of the man shower is to teach men how to do house cleaning.
Great way to acquire tools and other necessities needed to maintain a home.
So anyway, man showers, if you have a son who is uh who is soon to be getting married, don't be surprised if somewhere comes along and says, Yeah, we got to throw a shower for the groom, too.
In addition to the bachelor party, and note that this is an idea straight out of the female brain.
By wedding planner.
Would you do one Schnerdley if you were to get married?
We'd do it.
Here's this story I was talking about, Wesley Clark.
Obama rejects Clark comments on McCain.
He didn't.
This is a classic illustration.
Again, the Associated Press, Stephen Hurst, the writer, AP, the only drive-by news entity that remains a monopoly.
Obama, without mentioning Clark by name, said that patriotism must, if it is to mean anything, involve the willingness of sacrifice.
For those like McCain who have endured physical torment in service to our country, no further proof of such sacrifice is necessary, Obama said.
And let me also add, no one should ever devalue that service, especially for the sake of a political campaign, and that goes for supporters on both sides.
So the drive-bys hear him say that, and they put the headline, Obama rejects Clark comments.
He didn't.
He didn't mention Clark by name, but the drive-bys have now given Obama a pass on this, while Clark continues to dig in.
The latest story from Clark is he will not back down.
In a statement to reporters, Ashley Wilts repeats that McCain is a hero, but reiterates his point that McCain's service does not give him executive experience.
We have one little soundbite here I want to play before any uh official Obama criticizer, both snerdily coming up in mere moments.
But listen to this.
This is Chris Hernandez, who is uh NBC Action News Kansas City.
When we played sound bites of uh of Obama's political speech yesterday on patriotism in independence, we listened to it and it sounded like there was the usual Obama throng, correct?
Thousands and thousands of people fainting, shrieking, throwing their underwear up there, going wacko.
Not the case.
Here's the report from Kansas City's NBC affiliate last night.
There were a couple of hundred empty seats, even though Obama's staff says all 1,000 tickets were given out in just two hours Saturday, and this was a much quieter crowd than at previous Obama events.
I felt like I was at church on us.
That's right before he came out.
A member of Obama's staff tells me they didn't want to overbook and then have to turn people away, but apparently some people who got tickets Saturday didn't show up today.
The quieter atmosphere may have also been because this was considered a more serious speech, and no political leaders came out to whip up the crowd before Obama started speaking.
Well, I didn't know that that was necessary.
Political leaders whip up the crowd, political leaders usually put them to sleep.
I thought it was Obama that whipped up the crowd.
I thought it was Obama that was the Messiah.
I thought it was Obama who caused people to shriek and lose sense of their dignity and go nuts.
Two hundred empty seats.
They were giving it away all morning long in an arena that holds a place that holds 1,000 people.
So we would have never known this.
We would have never known it.
And outside of Kansas City, nobody did know it until you just heard the Kansas City NBC report just now.
That is another example of this program providing a much needed public service, doing the job the drive-by media used to do, but won't.
I.e.
tell you the truth.
Back right after this.
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We turn now, ladies and gentlemen, to the official Obama criticizer, Bo Snertley.
Mr. Snerdley.
This is Bow Snerley official Barack criticizer for the EIB network, medically certified with highly concentrated levels of slave blood.
certified to criticize and I have a statement.
Mr. Obama, since your rise on the political stage, you and your handlers have crafted an image that depicts you as unique politician.
One that can bridge the divides of our nation with your exuberant charisma, your fresh face, and your unifying outlook.
You, we were told, would transcend the old politics and usher in a new era.
The blood sport, political games of the beltway would give way to a new politic where dreams come true and hope prevails.
You would be that land, that line, sir, in the sand from the old America of bitter division to the new America with liberty, justice for all.
Yes, you can, yes, we can.
Instead, we've seen nothing new.
Your policy offerings, vague as they are, reflect standard tax spend, tax and more Democrat policies.
And your brand of politics, sir, is as swarmy, cutthroat, and sleazy as any Democrat who has ever run.
You for the attack by your minion, Wesley Clark on the war record of John McCain is just the latest.
You forgot to say diabolical.
You forgot to say diabolical.
I told you to say diabolical in there.
So call him diabolical.
And sir, it is diabolical.
No, you are diabolical, sir.
Oh brush.
Mr. Obama, you, sir, are diabolical.
Good.
That's better.
Thank you.
You, sir, have sent your minion, Wesley Clark, out with a scorched earth policy to take no prisoners, not even a genuine war hero, a genuine prisoner of war.
Sir, you lead an anti-war party that hates American victory in our present war and still shows no respect for our soldiers of past wars.
You don't represent change.
You don't represent hope.
You are not new, sir.
You are just another liberal Democrat.
And now, a translation for our EI Bra EIB brothers and sisters in the hood.
Rock.
Dig this, bro.
You know, up till now we've been kind of laying in the cut on you.
You know, let a whole lot of stuff go.
But check this out, yo.
You are trippin' or what?
Come on, money.
You gonna send out that old fool Wesley Clark to slice and dice McCain?
McCain was fighting Nom.
Yo, homie, what were you doing?
You were out chilling with the shorties, playing ball, you know, smoking a little herb.
John was in prison camp, yo, being Abu grabbed by the Viet Cong, man.
And now you send out this ain't another one nothing wanna be president, whack ass general to diss him?
What's up with that, man?
This is ill.
You ain't representing, yo.
You could talk all that patriotic stuff you want to, yo, but man, you disguise that been there, man, that did the fight.
This is the kind of game the Clintons used to run, man.
What's up with you?
Clinton was supposed to be the first black black president.
What are you trying to be, man?
The first black Clinton?
What's up with that?
Word man, you need to let it up, man.
Call your dogs back in and refresh up, yo, because this is not how you win the game.
If those punk ass Republicans had any kind of juice yo, they would fry you on this.
You know what I'm saying?
You brought ill.
This is whack.
And that concludes our statement.
That is official Obama criticizer, boast nerdly.
Uh recently I've been traveling to American cities and towns whose names would punctuate my position with names like Unity, independence.
This week my schedule include a discussion of John McCain's military record in Pansy, Ohio, my plan to effectively fight the war on terror in Bullville, New York.
Then I'll be down south to discuss my policy for Israel and Arab Alabama.
Then it's on to a round table discussion of Bill Clinton's legacy in Wiener, Arkansas.
From there I'll be heading west to talk about the press's role in my campaign in Echo, Oregon, how wind and solar energy will meet America's power needs and through the consequences of New Mexico.
And wrapping up the week, unveiling my tax policy in Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
Please join us in this campaign as we travel to interesting cities in all 57 states across this great line.
Thanks once again to the official Obama criticizer.
Bose nerdly.
Saying it as no one else can, literally and figuratively.
Now back to the audio sound bites.
Um I want to stick here for a moment with the fact that Wesley Clark will not back down while the drive-bys have given Obama the credit for having rebuked him.
No such thing has happened.
Once once again, uh just to keep in mind here, Obama fights back against questions on patriotism.
Obama rejects Clark comment on McCain.
He did not.
He'd never even mentioned Clark's name.
This is how they work.
Ladies and gentlemen, as uh as as willing accomplices.
The uh, you know, the preservial excrement hits the fan, the drive-by's know it.
Obama goes out and makes some speech, says nothing, and the drive-by headline is here rebukes.
Wesley Clark when no such thing happened.
And then even after that re so-called rebuke that didn't happen.
Wesley Clark continues to harden his position.
He said there are many important issues in this presidential election, clearly.
One of the most important issues, national security, keeping the American people safe.
In my opinion, protecting the American people is the most important duty of our next president.
I've made comments in the past about McCain's service, and I want to reiterate them in order to be crystal clear.
As I've said before, I honor his service as a prisoner of war and a Vietnam veteran.
He was a hero.
They would never dishonor the service of somebody who chose to wear the uniform of our nation.
But he doesn't have enough experience in national security because so much time was taken up as being a prisoner of war.
Here's David Axelrod on CNN this morning, a co-host Kieran Chetry, talking to Axelrod, who writes Obama's speeches.
Do you agree with the point that he made this morning?
There's a difference between military service, no matter how noble, and executive experience.
Well, certainly I do.
Look, I think General Clark didn't mean to demean in any way the service of Senator McCain.
The way it came out on Sunday was a bit unfortunate.
I'm glad he's clarified it.
Twilight Zone.
He didn't clarify anything.
He reiterated it.
And of course, these guys are trying to claim.
I mean, say what you want about McCain, but to Say that Obama has more experience, has more qualifications to serve as President of the United States than John McCain does, is a joke, and they know it.
They know he's got no experience.
We don't know what he's done for twenty years prior to being in the Senate, other than waste around in the Illinois Senate with 130 no votes and is a Chicago community organizer.
We know who his friends have been, friends that wanted to blow up America, friends that hate the country, uh people that bilk others out of real estate money.
These are his friends.
Everybody's still waiting to find out who the real Obama is.
The drive-bys know this.
And so they're they're presenting a package of Obama that is beyond his capability, beyond his experience, and beyond his ability.
And in the process, they're trying to destroy what is McCain's singular characteristic, uh, that of military service and heroism.
These people are diabolical.
Snurdley was right when I gave him the word.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Ladies are thank you.
No, no, no, no, no.
Thank you.
Thanks so much.
We are having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have another surrogate for the Obama campaign has piled on.
Senator McCain, ABC News reporting that uh Rand Bears, trusted Obama advisor, claimed yesterday that McCain's national security experience is sadly limited by his time in Vietnam as a prisoner of war.
Rand Beers was one of John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, was one of John Kerry's premier foreign policy advisors.
So what do we have here?
We have a candidate who claims to be a messiah.
Well, yeah, actually he does.
If you look at his own produced graphics, his own campaigns putting out pictures of the guy with a halo behind him in various kinds of heavenly light.
I mean, they're doing a gang-up job of creating this notion that this is a gift from heaven, that there's something truly unique and special about the guy.
But who are his hacks?
Who are these advisors of his?
They're nothing but failed liberal hacks from previous administrations or campaigns.
From Wesley Clark?
Give me a break.
Wesley Clark is a standing joke in the U.S. military.
Wesley Clark is an absolute embarrassment to people.
Wesley Clark, number one endorser of his presidential campaign, was the bloated filmmaker Michael Moore.
And do you remember Peter Jennings was talking to Wesley Clark during one of the Democrat debates in 2004 during the primaries?
And even Peter Jennings couldn't believe that Wesley Clark would not distance himself from Moore.
And he asked him about it.
Well, I appreciate Michael Moore.
First Amendment, uh Michael Moore, a brilliant American, a great movie maker, but they were doing their best to get Michael Moore out of there, and then Michael Moore ends up sitting next to Jimmy Carter at the Democrat convention.
It's the same crowd.
It's the same crowd from the Kerry campaign all the way down to various Clinton administration people that are now serving Obama, which, folks, I've I've alluded to this before, and I'm going to say it again.
Somebody's running Obama.
And I don't mean that this is a it's a it's it's something natural that happens in politics.
I'm not talking about some deep dark conspiracy where there's an Oz behind the curtain in some international capital who's sending out marching orders.
There is somebody, Soros, a moneyman, somebody in the Democrat Party, who has calculated, we did calculate that the Democrats need a candidate who is unassailable because the Democrats are so tied to the left, the fringe kook left, and the fringe cook left, liberalism wins never in national elections.
When it is open and honest about what they believe and who they are, they lose.
Another reason why Obama's tacking to the center here in a deceptive way.
So what do they do?
They come up with this guy, after he makes this speech in the convention in Boston in 2004.
They come up with this guy who sounds good, who sounds smooth, he's got a very nice deep base voice, he seems, looks harmless, uh, and he doesn't have much of a past.
And all they and they know he's also black.
They also know that because he's black, he's not going to be subjected To the usual criticism.
In fact, because he's black, he's going to get less of it.
Because there will be a lot of panic and gutlessness among critics in the Republican Party in the media, because nobody wants to be called a racist.
And all you have to do is attack some Obama policy, or even attacking his preacher.
His preacher comes out and says all these horrible rotten things for 20 years in this church, Obama's, ah, it's not the preacher I knew.
I never heard those things for 20 years.
And if you attack the preacher, you're racist.
This is exactly how it was intended to go.
If you attack the preacher, you're racist.
And you're engaging in the typical politics of the past, the politics of personal destruction.
Somebody's writing these speeches for Obama.
That is David Axelrod, we know.
And the reason I'm I'm more and more convinced that somebody's behind this.
Now, Obama may have harbored dreams of being president someday, but somebody look at the same thing happened with Reagan.
Now, don't misunderstand me on this.
Reagan had his kitchen cabinet.
There were three guys in California who kept trying to talk Reagan into doing this, running for president.
He didn't want it, he was not interested in it, but they kept after him.
Interestingly, with current campaign finance laws, that kitchen cabinet would be illegal today.
So there are other ways around this.
Somebody targeted Obama, somebody says, you're the guy.
You're the guy that we're going to have.
And they also didn't want Mrs. Clinton.
The Democrat Party, a bunch of them wanted nothing more to do with the Clintons.
So they had to do two things at once.
They had to take the Clintons out.
They were able to get about a year ago, 14 months ago, all kinds of the most glittering syrupy sweet puff pieces on Obama in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The stage was set.
They arranged for people to faint at all of these speeches that he makes.
It got to the point, who else had people fainting at speeches?
Hillary even had it happen, or Clinton did, just to keep up.
But the thing that convinces me that this is not what it appears to be is that the people running this campaign are not Obama.
If Obama were what he claims to be, messianic, brand new, hope, change...
Mike, in fact, grab that favorite commercial of ours of all these people saying they've got to vote for Obama because we need change and we need hope.
Could you have that standing by?
I'm going to need it in mere moments.
Thank you.
If Obama were this candidate of hope, then change.
If Obama were this candidate that was going to bring to the political sod a character and human being and personality that has never trod our political soil before.
And that's how they portrayed it.
This guy's new.
This guy's different.
There's never been a guy like him.
And I was hearing that.
I said, this isn't BS.
American politics is over 200 years old.
It's impossible to have somebody or something new.
Just not possible.
We've gone through every iteration of human debris and human greatness in American politics.
It's possible to go through.
I don't buy drive-by media hype.
I don't drive, I don't I don't buy pop culture, celebrity worship, or any of that stuff.
And that's exactly what we got with Obama.
So here's this new guy, Messianic.
He glows.
He has angelic heavenly light surrounding his head in his own artwork and the artwork of others.
He's going to bring things to U.S. politics in our country that have never before been seen or witnessed by a human eye.
And who do we get?
Wesley Clark?
Rand Beers.
Madeline Albright.
Jamie Gorellick.
We get the same crowd that is always running the Democrat Party and Democrat administrations.
The same bunch.
And the reason we're getting this is because Obama doesn't know.
Folks, imagine you've been in the Senate for three years.
You before before that you were in Chicago politics, you're a watch, you're walking the streets doing community outreach.
Whatever the hell that is.
We think we know.
Like walking around money, showing them the direction of the homeless shelter, or the soup kitchen, or getting them to the polls at the right time on the right day to vote for You community organizer.
Making deals with restaurants.
I know all of these things.
All these.
But you get to Washington, you spend two years in the Senator three, and two of those years you're running for president.
You're in your early 40s.
All of a sudden, you're supposed to know who you go to, who you want for Commerce Secretary, who you want for Secretary of State.
He didn't know any of that.
He can't possibly know any of that.
In fact, I've wondered about that in a lot of cases where people are elected president.
They can't possibly know all these people intimately well enough to be able to trust them in these positions.
So somebody's behind the scenes who does understand the system, lifelong Democrats, lifelong Republicans happens in both parties.
And so you figure you're gonna signal this person to be the Commerce Secretary, Secretary of the Treasury.
Somebody's running all this.
And the e and n not that that's bad, don't misunderstand.
I'm just another aspect of the deception.
This guy's not what he seems.
He is deceptive.
He is j diabolical.
He's downright mean.
What they are trying to do on with McCain here, with genuine lightweights like Wesley Clark and Rand Bears, who could not wear John McCain's jock strap, is breathtaking to behold.
Wesley Clark is going to go out and be the figurehead, the leader in discrediting John McCain's military service.
This is to me uh an example of just how diabolical Obama is.
He knows the press is going to say that he rebuked Clark when he never does.
So he gets away with his campaign being just as mean and diabolical as any other campaign's ever been while he wears the halo.
While the heavenly light shines its countenance upon Obama, and Obama transfers the countenance of the heavenly light from the mountaintop to us plebes down here who are supposed to be happy when he tells us we're not going to be able to eat as much as we want anymore, and we're not going to be able to keep our thermostats where we want them anymore.
We're not going to be able to drive SUVs anymore because the rest of the world's suffering because we're doing that.
And this is supposed to be new.
If there's anything new about it, if there's one thing new about it, it is that the Democrat Party is now officially nominated a candidate and is adopting positions which openly and honestly tell us our best days are behind us.
We are a nation in constant decline.
We deserve to be in decline.
We deserve to have our standard of living lower.
We deserve our gas prices and taxes higher because the rest of the world is upset at the way we live.
They are openly telling us that we should not look to the future as Americans as we always have with the idea of American exceptionalism, growth, improvement, prosperity, a better life for our kids than we had for ourselves.
Those days are over.
That's what's new.
And yet people are falling for it, hook, line, and sinker, as parodied in this brilliant Obama commercial.
All right, let's start back on the phones.
We'll start on the phones.
We haven't been there yet today.
A little early that we're getting to the phones.
Go to Pittsburgh, home of the Steelers.
Christy, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, hi, Raj.
It's so good to talk to you.
Thank you, I know.
Hey.
Hey, I had a question.
Well, not a question for you.
I the media's always going to give Barack Obama a pass.
That's a good one.
Yes.
That's done.
I I just don't think that John McCain should.
I mean, he questioned questioned questioned his ability to lead.
And we hear nothing.
I mean, this should this is huge for McCain.
Well, you know, were you listening yesterday, Christy?
We played the sound by the McCain's response to this.
No, it's just not unless.
Well, it's it's it's I don't I don't think I've got it on today's.
You sound really really torn here.
I am when I'm not going to be able to do that.
I can tell you exactly why you're torn.
You're torn because you love America, you support conservative values, the things that made this country great, and you don't hear any elected official defending himself or us when they are attacked.
No, very alone out there.
Nothing.
We hear nothing.
McCain's response yesterday sounded a little hurt.
It was very low key.
And he he said if that's the kind of campaign they want to run, they can run that kind of campaign, But no attack on me ever put a drop of gasoline in your tank.
He actually stole a Clinton technique, you know, in his debate with Bob Dole.
Okay.
No attack every feta hungry child.
Uh I you know, McCain is trying to stay above the fray of politics as usual.
So he wants and he should.
I I I understand that.
But it just seems like when George W. Bush ran, I mean, I got bumper sticker shirts.
I wanted him to be president.
But now I feel like the only reason to vote for McCain is because I don't want Barack Obama.
And that worries me because can a candidate win?
I don't like that.
Um yes, yes, the candidate.
I I think that this is this election, I agree with you, is going to be a referendum on Obama up or down.
People are going to vote for or against Obama.
There will be some Republicans who are loyal, but not nearly as many as the Republican Party believes, who will vote McCain simply because he's the party nominee.
That's why the McCain camps move into the center, try to pick off Democrats and independents and all the others that we've uh that we've been through.
We've been talking about qualifications, too, and I I I want to get off of this topic without saying this.
You know, we're we're we're narrowing this whole concept of qualifications based on military service.
Obama sends his surrogates out there to attack McCain.
Well, prisoner of war doesn't mean you're qualified to be president.
Uh just because you've uh been uh captured and a shot down, and if I ride the jet sofa doesn't mean anything to me, and then Obama's saying he's qualified because he got character and so forth.
You know when I look at qualification, qualifications are what they use-you know somebody has them or they don't.
Right.
So in this case, Obama does not have qualifications.
He is not qualified in this in the way I define qualifications.
That the first and foremost, he's wrong on everything.
I don't care how smart he is.
I don't care how uh how lovable he is.
I don't care about the heavenly light and the messianic uh countenance that he's wrong.
He's dangerously wrong about that.
I agree.
That to me is not qualified.
I know.
It worries me, though.
McCain, on the other hand, is right about a little.
But in terms of qualification, that you're it's another way of saying it's a it's another choice that does not have an active uh positive movement behind it.
You're voting against somebody or you're reluctantly voting for somebody.
That's right.
And that worries me.
But I'm sticking with him.
Well, I don't where you're gonna go.
No, nowhere.
There's nowhere else to go.
I'm done.
I certainly don't want to say we can't afford Obama.
I mean, in in any number we can't afford him financially.
No, he's saving the world on your dime.
My dime.
He's not saving the world.
Well, he thinks he's saving the world.
Oh, he does.
That's right.
No, but he's these people are about power.
That's all this is about.
This is this is as deceptive as anybody else in politics.
This is about power, pure and simple, and how to get it.
And the liberals know that the only way they can get it is to somehow erase from everybody's memory who they are, what they are.
So that's why Obama's tacking to the center now, coming if he's done a flip-flop here on um faith-based now supports Bush's faith-based initial.
Yes, he does.
Oh, yes.
I'll lead off the next hour with it.
He's done a he's done a couple of 180s on things that are gonna really tick off his left wing kook fringe base.
Well, I don't know what he's looking for, because I don't think he can grab the medal.
I think he better stick with his left wing.
I don't think he can't that's what they think.
Wow.
But see, the left wing, what are they gonna do?
They're gonna vote for McCain?
Right.
Right.
Well, well, no, it's not so simple.
It's much easier for the left wing to accept McCain than it is for us to accept Obama.
That's right.
And that's a sad mouthful.
Christie, I gotta go.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you.
You as well.
All right, bye-bye.
Back after this.
Well, McCain not have may not have satisfied everybody with his reaction to Wesley Clark's smear, but our old buddy Bob Dole's fire in both barrels with a statement.
We'll have that for you and much more.
Right after this top of the hour uh time out.
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