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July 7, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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I'm still stunned.
The TV networks are still doing coverage of Obama's dinky cheap little airplane, the MD-80, having to divert from Chicago.
They have it, by the way, they had to cancel his appearance in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Messiah, also known as Obama, will not be able to make it.
I'm sure they're going to be tears galore.
He had to divert to St. Louis, had a pitch control problem on this thing.
You know what?
The Google guys have a bigger airplane than Obama's gotten.
They at least fly around a 767.
They bought a 767 from Qantas, and they outfitted it.
Who knows what they got in there, but they do.
And, you know, McCain's even flying around a little stubby 737.
And I'm looking at pictures.
I don't see the American flag on Obama's plane.
That's an oversight.
Somebody forgot to put the American flag on the Messiah's airplane.
I mean, beginning the good old days.
And Bush, I mean, George Bush flew around a Boeing 757.
This thing is just, it's a toy.
You know, it's like a little model.
New York Times is not happy, by the way, with Obama and his incompetence, his positions on Iraq.
What is there at a new and not improved is what it's called.
This is their July 4th lead editorial.
Senator Barack Obama stirred his legions of supporters and raised our hopes, promising to change the old order of things.
Now there seems to be a new Obama on the hustings.
First, he broke his promise to try to keep both major parties within public financing limits for the general election.
The new Obama has abandoned his vow to filibuster an electronic wiretapping bill if it includes an immunity clause for telecommunications companies that amounts to a sanctioned cover-up of President Bush's unlawful eavesdropping after 9-11.
The Barack Obama of the primary season used to brag that he would stand before interest groups and tell them tough truths.
The new Obama tells evangelical Christians that he wants to expand Bush's policy of funneling public money for social spending to religious-based organizations, a policy that violates the separation of church and state and turns a government function into a charitable donation.
Obama endorsed the Supreme Court's decision to overturn D.C.'s gun control law.
We knew he ascribed to the anti-gun control group's misreading of the Constitution, but he was distressing, it was distressing to see him declare that the court provided a guide to reasonable regulations enacted by local communities to help keep their streets safe.
We were equally distressed by Obama's criticism of the Supreme Court's barring the death penalty for crimes that do not involve murder.
And we are not shocked when a candidate moves to the center for the general election.
But Mr. Obama's shifts are striking because he was the candidate who proposed to change the face of politics.
The man of passionate convictions who did not play old political games.
I can't believe these people, New York Times, fell for any of this.
I know what is wrong with this picture.
The 4th of July, Independence Day, the New York Times writing about the Messiah as new and not improved.
And they say they rip, they rip, get this.
You think conservatism is cracking up?
The lead editorial in the New York Times on July 4th rips Obama a new one.
I just gave you the highlights.
They basically just destroyed his whole image of Messiah and change agent and all that.
And the same weekend, the New York Times Sunday magazine runs a piece about me saying, look out, Limbaugh just getting warmed up.
If you thought the last 20 years for something, wait till you hear the next eight.
Now, what's wrong with that picture?
I'm surprised that they didn't criticize his cheap airplane, too.
That's the one thing they left out of this.
But I guess maybe they hadn't seen it.
There's this hilarious story also in the New York Times about the status of the Democrat Convention in Denver coming up.
Oh, Obama struggles to thread needle on Iraq.
This is from the French news agency.
You know, this business, you would think that this guy, his campaign, would come up with a consistent lie by now.
At least, if you're going to lie about it, come up with a consistent lie you can stick with.
But they're boomeranging all over the place.
Now, this piece, actually, I'm sorry, this is the Denver Post.
The New York Times has one as well.
Pepsi Center getting makeover for Democrat National Committee.
Folks, wait till you hear this.
The Pepsi Center hands over the keys to construction teams for the Democrat National Convention.
They did so at 8 o'clock this morning.
And the on-the-ground multi-million dollar race to transform the arena into a convention hall by August 25th begins today.
Standing inside the Pepsi Center not long after Denver won the bid, the facility's general manager, Dave Jillette, waved his hand at the vast space in something like awe or maybe fear.
This transformation is going to be enormous.
For the past two weeks, Dave Gillette has been overseeing a wholesale clearance of equipment and furnishings from the building's retail stores, all of its storage levels, the locker rooms for the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche.
There are weights up there that are bigger than you or I, Joe Jillette said.
I mean, they're cleaning out all of the luxury suites because that's where the TV wise men's booths will be.
So they're taking down ceilings.
They're putting up walls.
They're ripping this whole building apart.
It's details like this that mesmerize him.
The Pepsi Center is already outfitted with 576 miles of phone lines, computer lines, and high-speed cable, but that's not enough.
The Democrat Convention's needs, due in part to security, create a system so massive it exceeds the Pepsi Centers.
So the contractors of the Democrat National Convention will overlay all those cables with their own Quest has donated several million dollars worth of telecommunications equipment to outfit the convention hall and the media city that will go up outside it with approximately 3,000 data lines, 2,500 voice-grade circuits.
Based on past conventions, Quest estimates a project will require 160 miles of copper and coaxial cable in and around the Pepsi Center and more than a dozen miles of fiber optic.
Xcel Energy donating the extra transformers needed to electrify the thousands of computers, cameras, microphones.
Several other high-tech firms are donating goods and services.
Many of the 95 suites are going to be torn apart and restocked and furnished for the wise men on TV.
Now, the Pepsi Center has its own lighting.
Are you thinking carbon footprint here?
Good, good.
Well, Quest, yeah, they donate to the Republicans too.
It goes back and forth.
This is the snirdly.
Don't tell me you're shocked that corporate entities would pay protection racket money to either party.
Anyway, although the Pepsi Center has its own lighting, good enough for professional sports and top-name entertainment acts, the Democrats are bringing their own lights.
They will bring so many lights and speakers, as many as 300,000 pounds worth of lights and speakers, the ceiling will have to be reinforced to hold them.
It's kind of like a house party at your house that you're not hosting, said Gillette.
Leasing the Pepsi Center for the seven weeks of construction, the week of the convention, and the remaining two weeks of reconstruction means $6.5 million for the Kronke Arena Company, which owns the arena.
Kronke, by the way, is a Republican, and he's in the Walmart family.
So the Democrats are paying Walmart.
I'm not kidding you.
Kronke's owner is Stan Kronke.
He is allowed exclusive access to one of the skyboxes for his own use, even though he's a staunch Democrat, a Republican, rather.
So he's married to Sam Walton's brother's daughter.
And they live, I think, in Columbia, Missouri.
Megabooks.
So the Democrats are paying this guy $6.5 million for all of this stuff going on.
Now, but here's the point.
What is the carbon footprint of this?
This is the party that's telling us to change our light bulbs.
This is the party telling us to turn off our lights and to raise or lower our thermostats.
This is the party that wants to take us back to the Stone Age.
But you see the hypocrisy for their own event.
They're bringing in so much junk, it might have been more efficient just to build their own arena rather than to go in there and tear this one apart and then have to rebuild it after they leave for the upcoming basketball and hockey season.
And all that copper?
How much energy to mine all that copper?
And how about transporting all this stuff?
You can put this stuff on Obama's little airplane.
I guarantee you, none of this stuff would fit on his airplane.
You've got to pick this over the road with diesel prices, what they are now.
All this wasted fuel, transportation.
Anyway, that's the Democrats, and that's their big-time convention.
The Times story is about delays and rising costs for the convention, raising worries for Democrats.
This story was so bad that Howard Dean actually put out a press release reacting to it.
All that coming up, but I'm going to get to your phone calls after this.
Stay with us.
Now, all the excuses are pouring in.
The email, hey, Rush, this is not really Obama's plane.
This is just an imitation.
His real plane's being worked on.
His real plane's getting some maintenance.
This is just a loaner.
It's an interim airplane.
Well, they didn't tell me what his real campaign plane is.
What people don't understand, I mean, if this is Obama's plane, MD-80 is a little dinky thing.
And with the Obama campaign, the way liberals are, they're, oh, he's flying around a small little plane called less carbon footprint, burning less gasoline.
Wow, who really cares about the environment, Obama?
This thing is so old, it burns more fuel than half the jets that are larger than it is.
I mean, you know, the original Lear 35s, I mean, the 25s, I mean, these are the first real corporate jet.
I mean, just the tiny little things.
But they burned as much fuel taxiing as they did at altitude.
Those engines were that inefficient, even when they were not revved.
I mean, it was pretty close.
It's not the same amount.
But I remember being stuck behind one during a weather delay at Teterboro, and it was going on and on and on.
And this one guy shut down one of his engines.
And I told the pie, I said, that's a bad sign.
If this guy in front of us shutting down an engine, that means we've got a long delay.
No, no, no, no.
He's going to save gas.
If he doesn't shut one of those engines down, he's going to have to go back and fill up before he can take off to wherever he's headed.
All right, back to the phones.
Grand Rapids, Tim, you're up first today.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
You bet.
My question for you is why more Republicans aren't standing on the mountaintop screaming about all the yellow cake that we successfully removed from Iraq.
This goes a lot deeper than that.
It appears Joe Wilson was wrong when he went to Niger.
It appears Barack Obama was wrong in his reasoning behind voting against the war in Iraq.
And it appears that this does, if not exonerating the Bush administration, certainly goes a long way to at least dismissing a lot of the reports that have been coming out about how he lied to go to Iraq.
Right.
There's a simple answer for this that's not satisfying.
But one of the reasons that Republicans aren't standing up and shouting from the mountaintops is that the White House isn't.
And the White House happens to be leading the Republican Party.
The White House, the White House didn't, you know, when there were chemicals and other weapons of mass destruction found, they didn't want a big deal made of it.
And back then, now, this was just a rumor.
Back then, one of the explanations was that we didn't want to announce it.
The White House didn't want to make a big deal out of it because some of the weapons of mass destruction had been spirited out of there by the Russians, and we were trying to normalize or improve our diplomatic relations with the Russians.
As for this yellow cake, now correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I think these 550 pounds of yellow cake are from Gulf War I back in the early 90s.
Now, that's still big news, and the stuff's out of there.
It's either in Canada or it's on its way to Canada.
But it proves that Saddam was trying to nuke up.
You're exactly right.
Now, yellow cake by itself is worthless.
You need centrifuges, but he was trying to buy those, too.
Joe Wilson was proclaimed a liar by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The number of people in the Senate and in the media said that Wilson's report from Niger actually confirmed what Saddam was doing.
That whole Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame thing with the yellow cake and the leaking of his wife's name, that was one of the biggest travesties of American legal system, and it was a giant, giant media hoax.
Because Joe Wilson was carrying the water for Bush lied, people died.
They didn't care about the truth of it.
And today they're not going to care about it.
That's over.
It's old news.
The war in Iraq is being won.
The surge is working.
They're not talking about that.
I'll tell you where this kind of stuff that you want to hear, that we all want to hear, needs to come from is the McCain campaign down.
Exactly.
That's where it needs to come from.
And it's deafening.
It almost seems like he's not trying to win the way he's campaigning.
This goes right to Barack Obama's credibility on key issues and his inexperience is showing through that he didn't know what he was talking about, and McCain is silent.
And I can understand why George Bush is silent.
He's never been one to answer to his critics, but McCain is actually supposed to be trying to win.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have a different theory here about McCain and all this, which maybe no, no.
Okay, I'll explain it very briefly.
You know, we jokingly call Obama the Messiah, and I actually think that that's how he thinks of himself.
Campaign pictures always have him in a halo of light.
But I think there's a part of Senator McCain that is similar to that, that he thinks the power of his being there, the power of his existence, coupled with everybody, in his mind, the fact that everybody knows his story that leads to valor and honor and integrity.
I think he expects a lot of that to carry the day.
I think Senator McCain might be running around thinking that America loves him just as much as they did three or four years ago when he was on hardball every night playing the Maverick role.
So it's a, you know, I don't want to get into psychology.
I'm not a shrink, but I think people's attitudes are interesting to me because their attitudes can lead you to discover motivation.
Now, clearly, Obama has no experience.
He's got limited experience.
He's incompetent.
Things that he has said about crucial national issues are dead wrong.
He doesn't understand the economy.
Now, it's still early.
I hope that the Republicans are loading both barrels to go after this at the appropriate time.
And there's no time like the present when Obama's here trying to shift his image with all these moves to the center.
And they're just phony fake moves.
He's still going to be the leftist that he actually espoused during the primaries.
So it's a frustrating thing.
The war in Iraq is demonstrably now a success.
The Democrat Party, you know, I was at dinner with some people last night, and they always bring up politics when we talk.
And I got to talk, I don't understand, like I said last Wednesday before I get out of here, I just don't understand how the Democrats have a chance.
In a sane political environment, they ought not be able to carry, but two states, maybe three, New York, Massachusetts, and California.
Because there are just as many kooks in those three states as there are anybody else.
But everything they've done, they've botched.
They are actively promoting the decline of America.
They are actively promoting economic disaster.
They are actively promoting and sought to secure defeat of the United States military in Iraq and throughout the war on terror.
They have impugned the reputations and intentions of the U.S. military and armed services personnel all over the world.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
They have done, they've made it very clear that they wish the Constitution were not in their way.
In a sane political world, which we don't live in, of course, they wouldn't stand a chance.
They would be a laughingstock.
They would be a joke.
And they would be in the process of rebuilding themselves.
I erred, ladies and gentlemen, when I err, I like to correct it, ASEP.
I said there were 550 pounds of yellow cake.
Uranium is tons.
It was 550 metric tons of yellow cake that we found in Iraq and spirited out of there.
Okay, Thomas in Huron, Ohio, you're on the EIB network.
Your big showbiz break.
Make it count.
Okay, this is Thomas.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
Yes.
There's so much silence there.
I know where the next flip-flop, or as you call it, huge error in judgment is going to occur with Mr. Obama.
And that is that somebody, let's say, or some group like, let's say, a labor union is going to whisper into Mr. Obama's ear that says, hey, Mr. Obama, you know that if you drill domestically, that you will create hundreds of thousands of good-paying U.S. jobs.
Yeah, that's even before a drop is discovered.
That's right.
You know, the 10 years prior to its, supposed 10 years or to its to fruition, have all these jobs out here.
And I'll tell you how he's going to do it.
He's going to all of a sudden have an epiphany around August, okay?
And he is going to say, you know, I think that the economy is in such a bad shape that we have to consider domestic drilling but with an environmentally sensitive...
Well, now, I'm not agreeing with you on this, but the one thing that he'll say, we need to drill smarter.
This is like the Democrats saying we need to conduct the foreign policy smarter.
We need to be smarter about it.
So we need to drill for oil smarter.
But I have a tough time thinking he's going to do it.
They're so dug in on this.
You think so?
Oh, the whole dude.
I really do.
I hope they stay dug in on it.
The Democrat Party is so dug in on this.
They've got so many constituents.
Look at who's running this no-drill oil bid, the environmentalist wackos who are running the man-made global warming hoax, which owns the Democrat Party for crying out.
If they cave on that, I don't care how they cave on it.
If Obama starts moderating or, shall we say, recalibrating his position on drilling.
I mean, just in the sense of the real world, it'd be a great thing.
Oh, yeah, it would be.
Because, you know, you're talking about a billion dollars a day that we're sending out overseas.
It could be onshore paying state and federal taxes, you know, not only through wages, but also through taxation.
Okay, let me ask you a question, Thomas.
Obama is out there, the Messiah.
And by the way, I need to also correct one other thing.
Messiahs do not move laterally.
They do not move to the center.
Messiahs move to the higher ground.
Oh, yeah.
But at any rate, Obama, the Messiah, has made it clear.
I mean, this is in the Nexus database.
If we start drilling today, that's not going to produce any gasoline tomorrow.
He's made it plain that this is not the solution.
He's got all other kinds of solutions, all based on conservation and all based on a like alternatives, which also won't be here tomorrow.
Whenever they're actually creating famines.
Yeah.
They're exactly right.
They are phantoms.
And so the whole notion of him, I mean, this is, I'd like to hear how he recalibrates this.
Well, I'm just saying, you know, there's 60% of the population, voting population right now believes that we should drill domestically.
And the Democratic Party is taking the, whether you call that the iron plate or boilerplate approach to it, that they're not going to give in on it.
You know, and I just can't see.
You know, I'm starting to see article after article after article in all the media, even the mainstream media, that this is going to have to happen.
You know, I would love to see it if for no other reason than the guillotine that would be the New York Times editorial the next day.
Yeah.
And then the super delegates are getting gay.
And by the way, how do you think the Clintons feel all of a sudden?
Here's Obama abandoning everything from his primary.
He's using the Hillary campaign.
He's taking over the Hillary campaign.
And the Clintons are out there.
They have to be fuming.
And some of these super delegates are going, what?
What?
If he does this, I know that he refined, no pun intended, he refined his position on Iraq.
I mean, he had made it plain he's going to get out of there immediately.
That was part of his primary campaign.
Now he's refined that view, but then he's gone back.
He said, I don't understand, why do people focus on every little word I say?
All I said was, I'm going to consult with the generals.
All I said was, I'm going to get the story of the troops on the ground, the situation on the ground.
This would be bigger than that.
This drilling thing, I don't think people understand just how dug in the Democrat Party is.
Look, the Democrats were never going to lose in Iraq.
I don't care what kind of refinement Obama has made.
I predicted over a year ago that before the presidential campaign was over, that he would make it plain that he's not getting out of Iraq and not going to saddle themselves with defeat.
This move was predictable.
But I don't see them changing their mind on drilling.
They own the alternative fuel industry, they think.
And it's all about the money.
You know, they hate big oil.
All of a sudden, now they're going to hate, they're going to turn over the dreaded and hated big oil.
They hate pollution.
It's a footprint that creates global war.
This would be, if he does that, here's what he could do.
Here's what he could do.
I got it.
I got it.
McCain is out there saying that he'll drill everywhere but and war because and war is pristine.
Now somebody needs to take Senator McCain up there and show him that it is nothing, it just looks like Mars or the moon with an atmosphere.
Nothing pristine about it.
There's nothing to preserve.
What?
Oh, yeah.
Take McCain.
Take McCain up there.
Staff say you could take him.
Somebody in his campaign needs to take him.
But anyway, he's for drilling off the continental shelf and so forth, but he's against and war.
So Obama could maintain his opposition to drilling offshore because McCain's got that handled.
And then Obama could come out for drilling in NWAR and refine his position just a little, saying that he's now realized that NWAR would be improved with oil gushing out of it, the jobs that would be created.
Folks, if this happens, and anything's possible in a presidential campaign.
But if old Thomas here is right, if Obama does a 180 on drilling oil, if the Democrats do that, that's, well, it would be dangerous because, you know, half the country or 30% of the voters in the country are going to fall for it.
It'll just make our job here even more challenging.
To Oakville, Missouri, this is Faith.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I think that everything that you've said so far on the radio has been a waste of our time to listen to and your time to talk about.
When?
Today or the whole time I've been on?
Just today.
Just today.
Well, the last couple weeks.
That's really insulting.
That is really insulting.
It's been a waste of your time to listen to.
Wouldn't you like to know why?
Yeah, I'd love to hear why.
Well, because I think for the most part, all you're doing is preaching to the choir and chewing the fat over what inevitably seems is going to happen, which is the election of Obama.
It's not making it any more likely that McCain could win because it's going to take something really powerful and noticeable for McCain to win at this point.
And I've heard an idea suggested on your program a couple of times before, which I think would be worth doing because what have we got to lose at this point?
And you have, you know, not been in favor of it whenever it's been brought up.
And I don't know why.
What is it?
It is getting somebody likable and whatever, like Dennis Miller or Laura Ingram or somebody like that that is whatever.
And putting like 30-second information educational spots on TV during prime time.
I've never heard of this idea.
Oh, well, I've heard it on your show.
Well, you've not heard it from me because this is the first time I've heard it.
And I don't care what other people want to do if they want to go out and put these charismatic figures on TV in 30-second spots.
Why wouldn't you want to do it?
Because I work on the radio.
Well, that's not a good enough reason.
You know, I am not.
Here we go again.
It's not a good enough reason.
You have wounded me to the heart.
You have wounded me to the heart.
Who has more charisma than I do?
Who reaches more people than it?
Why in the world are you sitting here and telling me that what I have done the past two weeks has been a total waste of your time and my time?
Is it not a waste of your time to call here and tell me I've been wasting your time?
Rush, you're preaching to the choir.
That's my point.
You're not reaching the people who need to hear it.
Madam.
And since you watched all seven segments of John Adams over the weekend, I just can't believe you can sit there and say, well, I don't, this is what I do.
I only do radio.
When you saw the sacrifices and the things that he never dreamed he would have to do to get this country off the ground, and it's just not a good enough excuse to say, well, this is what I do, and I'm not going to do anything else when you have more capability of doing other things than anybody else in this country, and you know it.
I'm not saying you have to do it all by yourself.
I'm saying other conservatives who have the money and the clout and everything could band together and put these spots on TV and educate the other side who are not listening to you right now.
Yes, they are.
That's the point.
This program is not preaching to the choir.
And if you scoured the internet, if you spent any time at the news sites, the mainstream drive-by news sites or the blogs or whatever, you would find out that they're listening and they're taking notes.
Well, a lot of people aren't doing that.
I had a garage sale at my house.
This is anecdotal evidence.
I had a garage sale at my house recently.
And when it was slow, I started talking about the election with some people.
And I said, well, I'm going to vote for McCain, but I'm not happy with his position on immigration.
And a lady said, oh, do we have an immigration problem?
There are plenty of people, Rush, who just do not mention.
That woman, whoever asked you that question, is not only not listening to me, she's not listening to anything else in the news.
But she's watching primetime TV.
Well, okay, she's watching entertainment programs like Bachelorette or Bachelor or what have you.
Well, I don't want to look at, I'm not McCain's campaign manager.
Never have been.
Not my job to get McCain elected.
I mean, and I've said this from the get-go.
That's his job.
And I'm not going to let you or anybody else blame me when this all blows up if it does.
Anyway, I've got a brief.
I'm looking at the clock here, figuring if I can move on.
I've got to take a break here.
Faith, thanks for the wonderful call.
A brief timeout.
We'll be back.
You know, what I was going to say when I decided I didn't quite have the time to say it, that last caller, Faith, where was she from?
Oakville, Missouri.
I was beginning to wonder if she was a plant or not because she sounded a little bit like a liberal, wants everybody else to do the heavy lifting.
You know, I mean, she's got her community.
She could have proselytized at the garage sale.
We have statistical evidence, audience makeup of this program.
30% of the people that listen to this program disagree with me, and they listen every day.
And I am a force multiplier.
The people who do agree are out there shouting it from the mountaintops and persuading themselves, too.
I'm not the McCain campaign chairman.
Thank the Lord.
By the way, speaking of McCain, here is what?
No, Snerdley, you're misunderstanding.
He thinks I've just delivered an insult.
I couldn't be McCain's campaign chairman because my ideas are not his.
There wouldn't be enough common ground.
That's all.
And I'm not a politician campaign chairman anyway.
At any rate, here is, I did not say, just stop that.
Just stop that.
See, now they're thinking the reason you're getting hassled like this, Rush, my staff, loving, devoted staff, the reason you're getting hassled is because you elected Bush.
And they say, well, if you elected Bush, why don't you go out and elect McCain?
Well, this is one of these rare moments where just trust me on this and believe me, folks, it's better I don't answer that.
Because then I'll really hear from you.
It's just.
It's just better that I don't answer that.
Here's McCain's new ad.
Well, actually, no, it's a Republican National Committee ad, and it's about Obama.
Record gas prices, a climate in crisis.
John McCain says solve it now with a balanced plan.
Alternative energy, conservation, suspending the gas tax, and more production here at home.
He's pushing his own party to face climate change.
But Barack Obama, for conservation, but he just says no to lower gas taxes.
No to nuclear, no to more production, no new solutions.
Barack Obama, just the party line.
So that's the Republican ad.
Now, some of you might like it because it does characterize Obama properly and does sort of cement Obama here in the no oil drilling camp.
I mean, but McCain is pushing his own party to face climate change.
See, this is such a golden opportunity.
There is such a great chance to contrast who we are with the Democrats on this one issue, climate change, global warming, whatever you want to call it.
And this ad probably got it right.
Most Republicans don't believe what McCain believes on this, so McCain's trying to push us to believe it.
Here's Richard in Oxnard, California.
Great that you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Afternoon Rush.
Yes.
I'm looking at Obama as the next black president.
He would be a third term for Bill Clinton.
He's very Clinton-esque in his attempt to have both sides of every issue to avoid criticism from the left or the right.
Both sides.
Obama's got at least five sides to some issues.
Yeah.
He's a mini-faceted, isn't he?
Well, but you know, the official Obama criticizer here on this program, Bo Snerdley, last week in the most recent installment of the official Obama criticizer, I think summed it up very well.
Obama is the first black Clinton.
There you go.
That's exactly right.
So, and in a way, I marvel at these two campaigns, the Clinton campaign and the Obama campaign, but remember they both have something in common.
And that is a slavish and devoted drive-by media, which for the most part, the New York Times lead editorial notwithstanding, for the most part, make it possible for people like the Messiah or Bill Clinton to wander all over the playing field, changing positions left and right, and not calling them on it.
And that's one of the things that Obama knows that he's going to be able to get away with and why he continues to pull it off and do it.
A reporter asked Alex Rodriguez yesterday, Alex, you're in such great shape all the time.
You always eat the right thing.
What's the most dangerous food that you've ever eaten?
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