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July 7, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, You tell them, I'm not dealing with this anymore.
If they keep it up, I'm just going to buy it and shut them down.
You tell them that.
I can't believe this right as we start the program again.
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So, 550 pounds of yellow cake ferreted out of Iraq on the way to Canada.
This yellow cake, from what I understand, was found during Gulf War I.
And I guess the left's position now is going to be, we had no business going to Iraq.
We should have left that yellow cake with Saddam Hussein and his 21, 22, whatever it was, billion-dollar fraud known as the oil for food program.
Jack Murthy, last Thursday, last week in Pittsburgh on KDKA television, admitted that the surge is working, but he lied when he said that only three of the 18 benchmarks for the Iraqi government have been met.
It's more like 15.
We have Obama.
And by the way, folks on this flip-flop business, let's not use the word flip-flop.
I don't think that's going to, I don't think it's going to persuade anybody.
It worked with Kerry because Kerry was such an idiot.
I mean, his flip-flops were just, they were funny.
I voted for it before I voted against it.
You got to remember one thing about these flip-flops, and I'm going to stop using the term here in just a second.
Most people are not really paying close attention right now to all this, despite what might be record levels of attention.
Those of us who are involved in this on a day-to-day basis, you know, we are absorbed and we are detail-oriented and we know Obama upwards and forwards and backwards and hindwards and all that.
But by the time most people start tuning in, nobody, his centrist positions, his so-called flip-flops, are actually going to be the things about him that they know.
So we have to portray this guy as inexperienced, far-leftist, despite what he's saying about moving to the center.
You know what I find most irritating about this?
All these moves to the center here, be it abortion, be it Iraq.
And by the way, did I not tell you a year ago, I hate doing see I Told You Sos, folks, is it sounds like I've got a big ego, and I don't have a big ego.
I mean, my ego is, I mean, it's totally 100% in check.
But I told you a year ago that the Democrats, there's not one of these candidates running for the White House that if they win, are going to pull us out of Iraq if it means we lose.
They are not going to saddle themselves with a military defeat.
Mark my words, and I said that the far left fringe kooks that define the left wing of the Democrat Party today are going to be outraged when this happens.
And they're going to say things like, hey, you know, Bush was not honest with us.
He didn't tell us everything going on.
And now we find out what's going on.
It would be a mistake to pull out now.
There was no way this was ever going to happen.
And in fact, Obama now suggesting that he would be pragmatic about this and talk to the commanders.
I knew it.
This is just common sense.
I don't care how anti-America some of their fringe is.
They, as a political party, are not going to saddle themselves with defeat.
They might be happy to try to claim victory on this.
And if they, because there's a story in the U, the BBC or UK Telegraph or something I have here in the Snack, it's all coming up about the amazing success that is taking place over there.
The word victory is being used consistently in much of the foreign media.
But here's what bugs me most about these so-called flip-flops.
Every national election, every one of them, the liberal Democrats know full well they cannot win.
Can you imagine how Hillary Clinton feels today?
Obama is now campaigning like Hillary was in the remaining primaries after Texas and after Ohio.
Obama has now totally taken her campaign.
It just seized it.
She was going after the white working class that was very much upset and disabused of the whole notion of Obama.
So now he's moving in that direction.
They do this because they know that far left wingism will not win national elections.
They may lie to themselves and say that conservatism is cracking up.
They may lie to themselves and say that the era of Reagan or the era of conservatism is over and that we're ready to usher in a new far-left agenda.
They're going to do that if they win, but they're not going to campaign on it because it loses.
Now, here's what's frustrating.
All of these people on our side of the aisle from our so-called media intelligentsia and a number of the country club blue-blood Republicans, the Rockefeller bunch, they think they can't win as conservatives.
They think the Republican Party cannot triumph with a conservative identity.
So they go moving left.
They move to the Democrats and they move to independents and they try to come up with all these policy shifts that de-emphasize the Republican Party base, try to attract the Democrat Party base and get the favorable treatment from the media.
In the meanwhile, what are the Democrats doing?
The Democrats are moving in our direction.
Obama is moving right.
Now, they may say he stopped his move right in the middle and in the center, but when he starts flip-flopping on victory in Iraq, when he starts flip-flopping on abortion, when he starts doing a number of these things, gun control, you tell me conservatism, this is maddening.
This is maddening.
So what could happen here is that as we head into August and we get to the Democrat National Convention and Obama starts giving his speech, and if he keeps this stuff up, he may end up sounding just as quote-unquote conservative on many things as McCain does.
And you couple that with his mantra for change and so forth, it may be attractive.
It's going to be a, the Republican Party is going to have a big job to portray Obama as he really is.
He is the Messiah, also known as Senator Obama.
He's not Senator Obama, also known as the Messiah.
He's the Messiah, also known as Obama.
Did you get your internet connection fixed yet?
You haven't?
Can't believe this.
Four days, four days to get it working.
What'd you do?
Take all four days off like I did?
Can't believe this.
Well, get a new computer in there then.
It's just Dawn's computer.
Get a new one.
It's probably bugged anyway after that New York Times reporter was here.
So get a.
Seriously, folks, I'm, you know, working all weekend, even though I was not behind the golden EIB microphone.
I'm watching all the stuff Obama's doing and saying, and he's embraced the flag.
He's holding the flag now.
I chilled.
I got my share of chilling out, but I also paid attention because I have a responsibility to my country here.
And I, you know what I did in the fourth?
I watched all seven installments of John Adams that ran on HBO.
And I'll tell you, that last episode when I got there again, when John Adams dies, I just lost it.
I could feel my face reddening, my eyes tearing up.
And there's so many things about this.
David McCullough was behind this.
That's why it was as accurate as it was.
But if you've spent any time watching that, you know that this country's royaled politics of today are no different than what it was back then.
I mean, back then, there was the huge, huge disagreement about all kinds of things.
Alexander Hamilton wanted to start the Department of Treasury.
And George Washington, I mean, was watching Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson go at it like Charlie Wrangell goes at it with anybody else, or just John Conyers.
I mean, it was just nothing's new is the point.
Obama's not new.
The Messiah is not new.
Conflict isn't new.
Partisanship isn't new.
People trying to seek power and rethink things and reshape things in their own.
Not new.
I mean, this was happening during the founding.
Washington, after four years, said to hell with this.
I'm out of here.
When he was inaugurated, he was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
He was the greatest hero.
He was the greatest.
Four years later, he was dog excrement.
As far as the press was concerned, he said, hell with this.
You know, I did my time.
I'm heading out of here.
It's no different.
In fact, some of the press back then was even worse than it is today in terms of the nature of the personal political attacks on people mounted by the drive-by media.
Obama from the Los Angeles Times on July the 5th, this little blurb here.
He's not president yet, but Barack Obama has already given some thought to White House decor.
Asked at a town hall meeting in Fargo, North Dakota, about any decorating plans for the Lincoln bedroom, Obama described a visit to the White House after he became a U.S. Senator.
Yeah, you have all these mementos of Abraham Lincoln, but you have this flat-screen TV in there, Obama said to the crowd.
I thought to myself, now, who stays in the Lincoln bedroom and watches Sports Center?
You got your clicker.
It just didn't seem to me to be appropriate, so I might take out the TV in the Lincoln bedroom.
He said, you should read when you're in the Lincoln bedroom.
Reread the Gettysburg Address.
Don't watch television.
This, there's a, there's a, I went also, I read a speech, it dovetails with this, that Abraham Lincoln gave during a pre-debate with Stephen Douglas on the meaning of the Declaration of Independence.
And it is just brilliant.
And he described this attitude of Obama's, you must, we're going to make you do service to your country.
We're going to make you do this.
You must do that.
You must stop driving your car for this or you must stop changing your car.
You must change your car, whatever.
Lincoln said, that's the attitude of kings.
That's the attitude of kings and tyrants.
Nobody's capable of doing the right thing on their own.
They're just a bunch of little victims who give them what they need to stay mollified and happy.
We're going to make them do things they wouldn't otherwise do because they're not good people.
And he was accusing Stephen Douglas of this by leaving certain people out of the tenant from the Declaration that Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men are created equal.
Douglas, no, they're not.
The Germans are not included here.
We are a country of English people who came here.
The Germans don't count.
The Swedes don't count.
They don't get the same protections.
That was Douglas's position.
And Lincoln said, it's impossible.
The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence is just the exact opposite.
And the whole point was, to me, when I was reading this, you know, they say the Messiah, also known as Obama, transcends politics.
He transcends nothing.
He's not new.
He's not unique.
There's nothing special about him in terms of, oh, gee, we've never had this kind of countenance or presence among us in American politics.
Lincoln didn't transcend anything.
The Declaration of Independence does not get transcended.
You can't transcend it.
But they want to transcend the Constitution.
They want to transcend the Declaration.
Anyway, it was a great piece.
This business is about flat-screen TV in the Lincoln bedroom.
As you people may remember, I, El Rushboe, have been in the Lincoln bedroom.
And it is, but I wonder if Obama even knows what the Lincoln bedroom was.
When Lincoln was in the White House, that was his office.
And it's upstairs on the second floor in the residence.
And right across the hall is what's called the Queen's Room.
It's another bedroom, but it was an office.
And that's where Lincoln and his buds ran the Civil War.
It was not a bedroom.
I don't think there was a West Wing then.
I don't think there was an East Wing then.
And I wonder if Obama even knows this.
Now, when I was there, there wasn't a flat panel in there, but there was a television.
And I didn't turn it on to watch it.
I was too busy calling my mom saying, hey, guess where I am?
You won't believe it.
She didn't believe me.
So I called her again with a White House switchboard placing the call.
But it's like a hotel room.
You set the alarm.
You get a wake-up call, and the White House steward comes and bring you coffee and newspapers in the morning.
It's just down the hall from the main living area.
It's a long distance, but it's on the second floor of the residence.
I think a TV out there.
Who watches?
I bet there have been tons of people in there, predominantly in the Clinton administration, watching more than ESPN on that TV.
I bet they brought in their own tapes.
I bet they brought in their own DVDs, if you get my drift.
Second, a quick question for Obama.
Obama, how long does it take, the Messiah, also known as Obama, how long does it take to read the living, breathing Constitution in the Lincoln bedroom?
How long does it take to read the Gettysburg Address while in the Lincoln bedroom?
How long does it take to read the Declaration of Independence while in the Lincoln bedroom?
Do you see where the Messiah, also known as Obama, is pondering a major address at the Brandenburg Gate, the spot that once marked the Berlin Wall?
Obama going to go over there.
He's going to go to the Brandenburg Gate where the Berlin Wall once stood.
I'm wondering what side he'll be on.
On what side will Obama make?
Just kidding, folks.
But I do have a serious question.
If he is going, if the Messiah, also known as Obama, is going to go to the site of the Berlin Wall and make a speech, where is he scheduling the Sermon on the Mount?
Or if he's going to give a Sermon on the Mount?
And if so, when?
Yes, I saw it, Mr. Sturdley.
I don't understand it.
Obama's plane, his campaign plane, was on the way from Chicago down to North Carolina for campaign appearance, and they had a detour to St. Louis because they had a problem in there.
They couldn't control the pitch of the airplane, the elevation of the nose.
So they had to touch down for maintenance fix.
And I was watching this next time.
He gets off the airplane.
He's on a cheap MD-80.
The campaign plane, it's an MD.
I wouldn't be caught dead on one of those.
Regardless, and his campaign planes, an MD-80, nothing against Midwest Airlines, but it's like it's like it's like flying in a sardine can.
I don't know how old these things are, but gee whiz, I mean, that's that was disappointing.
And it's not even an Obama logo on the side of the thing.
Anyway, back to, let's go to the audio soundbites.
I want to add some things to this so-called flip-flop business of Obama.
Let's go back on March 19th, 2008, this year.
Fayetteville, North Carolina, at a campaign event.
Here is what Obama said: In order to end this war responsibly, I will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq.
We can responsibly remove one to two combat brigades each month.
If we start with the number of brigades we have in Iraq today, we can remove all of them in 16 months.
Right.
16 months is going to get everybody out of there, start immediately when he's inaugurated.
Said that back March 19th in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
I knew this was a lie.
I knew this wasn't the, they're not going to pull these people out of there immediately.
They're not going to secure themselves with defeat.
No Democrat.
Hillary wouldn't do it either.
Then last Thursday in Fargo, North Dakota.
When I go to Iraq and I have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground, I'm sure I'll have more information and we'll continue to refine my policies.
Contain continue to refine my policies.
I guess these are policy pirouettes.
I guess these are recalibrations.
But people did not react to this.
Well, his Koop fringe base does not like this.
So he had to go out there and do a second reference to this.
And he's out there not only wearing the American flag lapel pin, he's out there clutching a flag as he makes these speeches.
Here is John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam from Face the Nation yesterday.
Bob Schieffer said, So is this a change in policy?
Some in the McCain campaign go so far as to say it's a flip-flop, Senator Kerry.
Explain this for us.
Barack Obama has a plan for ending the war.
John McCain has a plan for continuing the war.
And he has said so very clearly dozens and dozens of times.
What the McCain campaign is trying to do is take the normal statement of anybody smart enough to be president of the United States and ready to be president who says he'll refine, may refine tactically what you might decide to do over the course of that withdrawal and how you protect American troops and how you, in fact, get the Iraqi army to stand up faster.
But it is no change whatsoever in his fundamental determination to end the war.
I can't take these people seriously.
Yes, it is, Senator Kerry.
He now wants to win the war.
He wanted McCain doesn't want to continue this thing either.
But I mean, here's Mr. Flip-Flop himself, John Keeper defending.
I thought Obama had all these new things that nobody had ever done before.
Thank you.
Welcome back, Rushlin Baugh.
That's me, America's real anchor man, truth detector, doctor of democracy.
Poor old DNC TV up there, some core supporters questioning whether Obama's shifting policies.
That's the point.
He is not shifting policies.
He is shifting statements.
He is a leftist.
He is going to remain a leftist.
He is going to grow the government as fast and as large as he can.
All of this, all these new positions and so forth.
You people on the left ought to just cool down.
Just chill out.
If I were you, I'd be asking a different question.
Why does Obama hate the environment?
Flying around on a junk airplane burns a whole lot of fuel, not efficient at all, cramming all oppressed people in there in sardine-like conditions.
And I got nothing against the MD-80, but I wouldn't be on one.
I just, I mean, it's of all the planes out there.
And by the way, speaking of all of this, we keep hearing about in California, you know what they're going to make you do?
They're going to make you put a sticker or there's going to be some requirement that on your car, the car you drive has to have a score in terms of how much pollution it's causing and how much global warming it's causing and how much destruction to the climate it's causing.
In the meanwhile, Big Sir is half gone.
We've got fires out there.
You will look at the carbon footprint that these fires are causing.
And I don't hear one complaint from the environmentalist blackos.
I don't hear one complaint from the global warming fools led by Al Gore.
I do not hear it.
There's a much bigger carbon footprint with these fires going on than people driving their automobiles around.
I can imagine what their reaction would be.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
You're exactly right, but the difference is those fires are natural.
Those fires were tharted by lightning.
And because of that, Mr. Limbaugh.
This is the voice of the new castrophe, by the way.
We can't stop that, Mr. Limbaugh.
Those are natural, but cars are man-made.
The fires are not man-made, Mr. Limbaugh.
Man-made things destroying the planet.
That would be their reaction to this.
Another question.
Why is John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam?
Why is he dumping all over his buddy, John McCain, a man that Senator Kerry, who served in Vietnam, considered making his vice presidential candidate back in 2004?
Also on Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer talking to the haughty John Kerry.
I remember back in 2004, you were thinking seriously about adding McCain to your ticket.
Now you're being very hard, it seems to me.
This is not the first time you've said that McCain didn't understand the lessons of 9-11.
You've said he didn't understand the Middle East.
What's happened here?
Has John McCain changed or have you changed?
John McCain has changed in profound and fundamental ways that I find personally really surprising and frankly upsetting.
It is not the John McCain as the senator who defined himself, quote, as a maverick, though questionable.
This is a different John McCain.
This is not the Senator John McCain.
This is nomination John McCain.
This is want to be president John McCain.
And the result is that John McCain has flip-flopped on more issues than I was even ever accused possibly of thinking about.
I mean, this is extraordinary what he's done.
He's changed on taxes.
He's now in favor of the Bush tax cut.
If you like the Bush economy, if you like the Bush tax cut and what it's done to our economy, making wealthier people wealthier and the average middle class struggle harder, then John McCain's going to give you a third term of George Bush and Karl Rose.
This is this.
I don't know.
I just have to laugh at these people.
I don't even feel like parsing this.
It's just difficult to...
I mean, John Kerry?
Loser?
All of these Democrats that lose end up rising to the top of their chart, their depth chart.
It just is a resume enhancement because they become victims.
They have been victims of the evil Republican machine.
They were denied what was rightfully theirs.
And such they are to be honored as great soldiers who've gone down in a great fight, trying to improve America while getting savaged and lied about by the evil Republicans.
Right.
Just another incompetent United States Senator, John Kerry, who wrote the definition.
I mean, if you look up the term flip-flop anywhere, you're going to see this giant picture of Lurch standing there because he's the guy that popularized.
Now, listen to this.
This last Wednesday, this is on CNN's Election Center.
This happened after we left the broadcast complex.
CNN correspondent Michael Ware talking about Obama.
Michael Ware is a guy that had the one-day fling with Laura Logan of CBS.
And one thing I'd like to hear from Senator Obama.
It's fine to have this notion to pull the troops.
I mean, who isn't tired?
Who doesn't want the troops to come?
I want to hear Senator Obama say he's prepared to pull those troops out while listing all the costs to American power, interests, and status, not to mention the slaughter that almost certainly will follow.
Then he can say that he's ready to pull the troops out.
Let's hear him say he knows what it's really going to cost.
That's right.
You heard it.
A CNN reporter had an affair with Laura Logan of CBS, wanting to know from Obama, hey, you understand what's going to happen here if we pull out?
I want to hear from you, sir.
But he's not going to pull out.
That's what this is all about.
I think what's happening, just to sum all this up, what's happening here is that Obama is now campaigning like Hillary Clinton.
He has basically taken charge of her campaign in the remaining months when she was still trying to, during the Operation Chaos phase.
He's basically campaigning like Hillary.
These reports that he has moved to the center are infuriating because he hasn't moved anywhere.
He is talking center, but he's not going to govern center if he wins.
But again, the Democrats have to do this in order to win amidst all the arguments that conservatism has seen its better days, that the era of Reagan is over and all of this.
What are the Democrats showing once again that in order to win national elections, they have to be more like us?
And what are we doing this time around?
For some damn fool reason, we're campaigning like we think we have to be more like them.
So we have a meeting here in the center going on as we stand now between Obama and McCain.
And on some things, you know, this is a little bit of a stretch.
Obama, just by virtue of what he's saying, may end up occupying a position or two further to the right than McCain.
Now, the flip-flop, calling Obama a flip-flopper is not going to be enough to win on.
It's just not.
It's going to be better over the course of the next weeks and months to proclaim and describe his inexperience and his incompetence and to say that these flip-flops are really just the result of incompetence and experience, which are leading him to make goofs, which are leading him to lie, which are leading him to flounder around.
All of these flip-flops have got to be referred to as the result of inexperience.
He just doesn't know what he's doing.
When he's off a prepared speech, when he's off the prompter, when he's on his own, when he doesn't have some campaign aid, be it Soros or governor or Mayor Daly or whoever, axle rod in the earpiece, then he's off the beaten path.
And as such, he's on his own.
And so this has to be chalked up to inexperience.
And how little experience does he have?
Sherry Jacobis, who is a brilliant woman.
She's a Republican strategist.
She lives in Washington.
She's worked on Capitol Hill.
Posted a little blurb.
It says, just how much Senate experience does Obama have in terms of actual work days?
Not much.
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States Senator to the time he announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee, he logged.
How many days do you think in the Senate, Snerdley?
Never mind.
Snerdley's arguing with a caller.
I guess I'm never going to be able to change that.
People are who they are.
I don't understand it.
It's not worth the time to argue with him, but he gets hell-bent on it.
I've suspended him.
I've done all kinds of things.
People are who they are.
They haven't going to change.
How many days, now that you're looking at me, how many days' experience from the time he was inaugurated to Senate, sworn in, until he announced his presidential exploratory committee, how many actual days of work experience in the Senate for Barack Obama?
She don't believe you.
Educated guess 100 fits, 143.
Snerdley thinks he's me in there now.
After 143 days of experience in the Senate, he believed he was ready to be commander-in-chief.
He believed he was ready to be leader of the free world and to fill the shoes of Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and Ronaldus Magnus.
143 days.
Sherry Jacoba says, I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that.
In contrast, McCain's 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service, including all those days in captivity and the Hanoi Hilton, now seemed more impressive than ever.
So there you go, 143 days.
So this is the key.
All of these so-called flip-flops, all these changes in position, they are due to his inexperience, his inexperience, and his incompetence lead him to make goofs, to lie, to flounder around.
I think if people see Obama as dangerously incompetent and floundering, it might lessen his appeal.
Calling him a flip-flopper, you know, been there, done that with John Kerry.
He owns that.
As I say, you look at Kerry, you see a sandal.
You know, flip-flop.
Birkenstocker, no.
No, I'm talking about beach flip-flop.
You just see it when you look at his face, either that or lurch.
So you can't tag that to Obama.
It's got to be incompetence.
It's got to be inexperience.
I think what bothers me most, now look, now Fox is showing everybody what an MD-80 is.
It's just a cheap little, I cannot believe that Obama is on it.
I mean, he's got a choice.
He could charter whatever kind of airplane he wants for his campaign plane.
Anyway, here's what bothers me, and that is his view of the public.
Obama thinks that the people in this country are truly stupid and susceptible to the most cynical kind of campaign.
As Lincoln said, as Abraham Lincoln said, Obama's attitude is the attitude of kings.
It is the attitude of rulers, not leaders.
No, Snerdley, Lincoln didn't say it about Obama.
He said it about Stephen Douglas.
But it's be back in a second.
As I was saying, and welcome back, by the way, Rush Lindbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
The thing about Obama that bothers me the most, including with his incompetence and inexperience that he has, he's like all liberals.
He has a condescending attitude toward the people of the country.
People are genuinely stupid and susceptible to a cynical campaign like his.
Thinks they're going to buy everything he says because he's the Messiah.
He uses a variety of strategeries.
He tears down the country to justify his change message, then claims his change message is new when we know it's nothing but more and bigger government.
He brings up race when he thinks it'll help him.
He denounces the use of race when he thinks it'll help him.
He talks center.
He talks to the right so he can claim multiple positions on certain tough issues.
And the purpose of that is to never allow himself to be tied down or pinned down in a one position.
And that's what you get when you have a fabricated candidate.
He is a prefab candidate.
I'm telling you, somebody has designed this candidacy.
They have plugged him into it because they thought he'd fit the mold in a lot of ways.
And so we've got a prefab candidacy and a prefab campaign.
Mark my words.
And we do with most liberals.
The last thing we get from these people when it comes down to the crunch time of winning an election, the last thing we get is genuine.
We get genuine during their primaries.
That's when we find out who they really are.
But then they have to close that book because they know they can't win.
Jesse Helms died on the 4th of July, the very day that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson passed away.
And of course, with the media, like here's the AP, Jesse Helms, polarizer, not a compromiser.
Jesse Helms, a polarizer, not a compromiser.
Ted Kennedy, a polarizer?
Ted Kennedy doesn't compromise.
Chuck Schumer doesn't compromise.
And of course, in every story about Jesse Helms, whether you agreed with him or not, it says, whether you agreed with him or not, Jesse Helms was XYZ.
So Jesse Helms died on July the 4th, the same day as John Adams, whether you agreed with him or not.
The same day as Thomas Jefferson, whether you agreed with him or not.
But Jesse Helms, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, these three Americans had something more in common than the date that they left us, left us, and that is they believed in things.
And they said what they believed, and then they stood for what they believed.
None of this moving to the center stuff.
None of this nuance stuff.
None of this, on the other hand, or but how did we, the United States of America, get from the likes of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, I'd throw Jesse Helms in there, to the likes of John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, the haughty John Kerry.
How in the world do we get from Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington, Adams, Helms, Reagan, to John Kerry to Chuck Schumer to Dick Durbin?
For what it's worth, no matter what you think of Ted Kennedy, you know what he thinks.
I don't know what your attitude about Ted Kennedy is, but Ted Kennedy's in that gang.
It doesn't change their minds and does the waffle.
I mean, he's, you know, full well, if you are nominated to the Supreme Court by a Republican, you know full well that Ted Kennedy's coming at you with both barrels.
But of course, Ted Kennedy is a great compromiser.
They're already writing about it.
One of the greatest compromisers, the liberal lion.
Jesse Helms is a polarizer.
Don't take it personally, folks.
That's what they think about all conservatives.
The conservatives are polarizing.
That's why they love McCain in Maverick.
Because he was always, he was compromising.
And he was selling out his own side in the process.
Back when he was a senator, of course.
Quick timeout here, folks.
I'm sorry, I meant to get some phone calls in this segment, and I didn't because I had these important things to say.
The syllables were on the tip of the tongue, and I had to come out before I could do anything else.
Now that's finished, so we'll get to phone calls very quickly in the next hour.
Please be patient.
Yeah, I might play it once just for the fun of it.
I was thinking of a you know, just a temporal theme song here for Obama's incompetent, foolish pandering here: Stuck in the Middle With You by Staylor's Wheel.
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, stuck in the middle.
The problem is that the clowns and the jokers are the ones in the middle.
So if we play that song about Obama, we're calling ourselves jokes and lifting him.
So it won't work.
It was a nice try.
Fertile mind on fire here today, folks.
Brief timeout.
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