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July 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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Fox News just announced their latest poll results from opinion dynamics.
That's the bunch that does polling for Fox.
And it's Obama 41, McCain 40.
What was it?
That's in July.
What was it in June, uh, 4540, something like that?
You know, I mean, that that's margin of error or something.
In the NBC Wall Street Journal poll, it's uh it's Obama 4741.
Six points is a gaff.
You can lose six points in a gaffe.
Snerdley and I, the top of the hour break here, we're just telling each other how sick and tired we are of Obama news.
Just every Obama, Obama, Obama.
Well, he's Obama Fox uh running a little crawls.
Obama on way to make speech in Berlin.
Obama through the intersection, on way to make speech in Berlin.
Obama makes left turn on way to make speech in Berlin.
It's just it's overboard.
I think this is one of the reasons I said the snurred.
I said maybe everybody else is getting tired of it too, so we should keep it up.
Because it is, it's just as presumptuous as it can be.
Anyway, greetings, welcome back, Rush Linboy here and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address is El Rushbo at EIB net.com.
See, I'm looking for oil news I was looking for in the stack.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
The uh they've just made a discovery the Arctic has 90 billion barrels of oil as BBC.
The Arctic thought to hold some 90 billion barrels of untapped oil equal to Russia's total known reserves.
This, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
So we have Saudi level oil in shale out in the Western states.
We have Russia level oil in the Arctic.
And yet, I have news in the stack today that America's schools are thinking of cutting back to a four-day week because of energy costs.
Now there's a part of me that says, why the hell couldn't all this stuff have happened when I was a student?
The teachers uh, you know, having having uh, you know, uh crushes on students?
Where was that?
I know they're still gonna be paid for five days, but they're only gonna work four because they're gonna save energy costs.
Now, what what kind of sense does this?
The teacher's gonna be paid.
The students are gonna learn less.
You think they're gonna expand the class days, the length of the class day?
School day?
Nah.
I can't imagine the students putting up with it.
Then the inmates are running the asylum at these schools anyway.
Well, what should we do?
Should we drill or should we cut back on American education?
At uh at any rate, we've got all this oil apparently out there, and guess who just continues to stand in the way of developing it?
Oh, the uh Democrat Party.
Interesting story in the New York Times today.
Congressional Republicans and Democrats agree that high gas prices are the driving domestic political issue of the moment.
Not Iraq.
Not Afghanistan, not Obama's trip gasoline prices.
Spurring new campaign ads and maneuvering almost every day, but that's about all they can agree on when it comes to the national panic at the pump.
Democrats, the the Republicans have have issued an ultimatum.
No votes on anything until we get a vote on drilling in the Senate.
And the Democrats don't want any part of it, and there's a reason why, and the New York Times has published it.
Democrats are worried about defections in their ranks.
They're scrambling to avoid votes on expanded drilling because they might lose because there are a lot of Democrats who would vote for it.
This week, therefore, the Democrats cancel a series of Senate committee sessions that could have provided an opening for Republicans.
In the House, Democrats are increasingly bringing legislation to the floor under rules that deny Republicans the chance to counter with a drilling proposal.
Some Democrats grudgingly concede the Republicans have finally gotten a little traction on an issue after struggling for months to find their footing.
But they say it's far from enough to fundamentally alter the election landscape.
Yeah, well, that's it.
It's only July now.
And if they keep this up, I'm telling you, this is an issue that is made to order.
This this the Democrats are so vulnerable on this.
It is an issue for the Senator McCain to draw a distinct uh distinctions between himself and Obama and the Democrat Party.
Uh it's just we've sp we've spoken about it on this on this program over and over and over again, and the Democrats know it, and yet they are still being obstinate.
In fact, Mike, I want to grab the last sound bite in the roster.
It is Nancy Pelosi, it's audio soundbite number one.
And this was this morning at her daily press briefing.
This is Pelosi's answer to drilling and providing new resources, energy resources for the American uh driver.
President is sitting on 700 million barrels of oil.
We're saying, Mr. President, free our oil.
It's our oil.
It belongs to the American uh taxpayer because this is oil that we have purchased.
Believe this.
She's talking about the strategic reserve.
Trying to turn this around and blame it on the president for 700, what is it?
700 million.
700 million barrels of oil wouldn't affect the price, would not affect the supply.
It's something you could do one time.
So now the effort is to is to blame Bush.
Free our oil.
Free our oil.
It's Pelosi wants oil now, but she doesn't want to get any new supply of it.
This is for genuine emergencies.
What's in the strategic reserve?
And there isn't an emergency because there is not a uh a supply shortage.
More audio sound bites.
I mentioned this at the top of yesterday's program, but here's the actual bite.
This is yesterday in Israel.
Uh Barack Obama and a portion of his remarks.
You don't have to just look at my words.
You can look at my deeds.
Uh just this past uh this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate banking committee, which is my committee, a bill to uh call for divestment from Iran as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't uh obtain a nuclear weapon.
Only one problem.
He's not on the banking committee.
He is not on the banking committee, and they're trying to cover this, and this is a gaffe.
They're trying to cover this.
No, he was talking about a different committee.
He just he cited the wrong committee.
No, he said he was on the banking committee, which is my committee, he said.
Above and beyond that, a bill to call for divestment from Iran.
Guess whose idea this is?
This is we've been divesting in Iran.
We've been freezing Iran's assets.
We've been joining this has been going on for a couple of years, if not longer.
It's like Obama gives a speech on what's going on in the Middle East.
It's like nobody knew this before.
Like the Israelis and Palestinians don't like each other.
And they've been they've been going at it for centuries.
And of course, we're sitting listening to Obama say this.
Wow, they've been going on that long.
We didn't know.
And he gets all this credit for being brilliant and able to see things nobody else can see.
The McCain camp uh decided to um have a little fun with Obama.
This is Obama yesterday uh uh in the uh uh after visiting Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial.
This is what Obama said.
It is critical that we impart to our children, a sense of both dangers and peril that uh exists in our world, but also that they feel uh a sense that they have the power to bring about the change to ensure that all we say never again.
All right, never again the phrase never again a Holocaust, never again.
Uh McCain uh decided to say, wait a minute, how can he say this?
He didn't care about the genocide in Iraq.
And the Liberals are just up in arms at the McCain camp's campaign.
Uh uh reaction to what Obama said here.
Uh McCain's campaign uh uh questioned uh Obama's willingness to stop genocide because they had no interest in stopping it in uh in Iraq or in a number of other places.
But think about it.
Based on what we know about Obama, would he have fought Nazi Germany after the Japanese dropped the bomb on Pearl Harbor?
Wrong war.
The bomb.
The Japanese dropped the bomb, he said on Pearl Harbor.
Would Obama have done what FDR did?
They would have called it a distraction.
To be consistent.
Now they whine.
Now they whine.
This morning PMS NBC, Brian Williams interviewing Obama, and this is Obama's response to McCain's claim that he cares more about winning the election than winning the war in Iraq.
Yeah, I was disappointed by that language.
You know, John McCain and I disagree on policy.
You know, we disagreed on going into the war in Iraq.
Uh we disagreed until recently about the need to get more troops into Afghanistan.
But I've never questioned uh that he wants to make America safer.
Uh and for him to suggest that I don't.
Uh for him to suggest that somehow uh I'm less concerned about the safety of my wife and daughter uh than he is, uh, I think uh was uh was unfortunate.
Listen to all those uh in there.
That's why we did that montage.
You gotta keep that montage standing by, Mike.
You said you have that at your fingertips to be used at the uh the uh in a flash.
Good.
So all McCain said was that Obama wanted to lose the war in Iraq.
He cared more about Obama said this.
It was about the surge working.
Now that you know what you know, would you would you would you do it again?
No, no, I would never support the surge, even though it worked.
I needed, I needed something to disagree with Bush about.
We needed to change the political discussion.
McCain says, oh, so he'd rather lose a war in order to win an election.
It's a perfectly normal reaction.
A lot of people had that reaction to what Obama was saying.
And not just about Obama.
The Democrats will wreck any part of this country they have to temporarily in order to win the election.
And what do you think they're doing now by stopping any any action on drilling?
Any progress whatsoever.
They want you suffering.
They want you miserable.
Not saying they want terrorist attacks, don't misunderstand that, but they're they're doing everything they could to keep you as angry and miserable as possible, so you'll think it's all Bush's fault and vote for Obama.
So Obama starts whining, as he always does, he's just a little victim.
So on ABC's World News last night, David Wright interviewed McCain, asked him this.
Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a campaign.
That's pretty strong language.
You really think he's that craven?
Senator Obama has refused to recognize that the strategy in Iraq called the surge has succeeded.
Well, what you seem to be saying there is that it's all about personal ambition for him and not about what he honestly thinks is right for the country.
I do not believe that any objective observer can conclude that the surge did not work, and he should know better if he wants to be commander-in-chief and certainly behave differently as as far as this our presence and our strategy in Iraq.
There was a follow-up question from ABC's David Wright.
But it sometimes seems, as an outside observer, that both you guys sometimes get stuck in the past.
Senator Obama's kind of stuck in 2003, whether the war was a good idea in the first place, and you kind of seem stuck sometime in 2007, whether the surge was the right strategy.
I mean, shouldn't shouldn't this debate be about the future and where we go from here?
Oh, you're exactly right.
It's all about the future.
And the future, in my view, we have succeeded, but it's still fragile.
But the point is that we are responsible for our records.
I was right.
Senator Obama was wrong.
So therefore, I think that I have more credibility on what the future should be as opposed to Senator Obama, who, if he'd had his way, we would be very likely be involved in a wider war today.
We would have lost it if Obama had had his way.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Oh, he has started the Messiah, the Messiah has I guess we gotta gip a little bit of this.
Our microphones are there in Berlin at the Phallic Victory Tower where Obama, the Messiah, is uh speaking.
So bring it on up.
Let me thank uh Chancellor Merkel and foreign ministers Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today.
Thank you, Mayor Vovereen, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all, thanks to all of you for this extraordinary welcome.
Thank you.
Didn't think his wife.
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before.
Although tonight I speak to you not as a candidate for president.
What?
But as a citizen.
What?
A proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world.
Oh!
Oh no!
He's just a regular guy, not even a candidate today.
I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city.
Oh give me up.
The journey that led me here is improbable.
My mother was born in the heartland of America.
Yeah.
But my father grew up herding goats in Kenya.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
His father.
They like goat herders over there.
Thank you.
Cheer for goats in Germany, I mean it's progress.
Cheering for goats.
My grandfather was a cook, a white domestic servant to the British.
A slave.
At the height of the slave blood, slave blood.
My father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world that his yearning, his dream.
Yeah.
Required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West.
Oh no.
So he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America.
I hope he tells you.
Somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.
Please tell it was the Kennedy's please say that.
That is why I am here.
Please say it was the Kennedys.
And you are here because you too know that yearning.
This city, of all cities...
No, they're not knows the dream of freedom.
They're curious to see the Messiah.
That's why they're there.
They're getting drunk on beer and eating Bratwurst.
What are you talking about?
And you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and women from both of our nations came together to work and struggle and sacrifice for that better life.
Ours is a partnership that truly began 60 years ago this summer.
Sixty years ago.
On the day when the first American plane touched down at Temple Hall.
On that day, not a lot of cheering here.
Ah, there it is.
On that day, much of this continent still lay in ruin.
The rubble of this city had yet to be built into a wall.
Well, because it was Soviet shadow had swept across Eastern Europe.
That's right.
While in the West, America, Britain, and France took their stock of their losses and pondered how the world might be remade.
Can we get to the oceans coming down?
This is where the two sides met.
The inspiration on the 24th of June 1948.
The communists chose to blockade the western part of the city.
They cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in Berlin.
The size of our forces was no match for the larger Soviet army.
And yet retreat would have allowed communism to march across Europe.
Another world war could have easily begun.
It has.
And all that stood in the way was Berlin.
And that's when the airlift began.
When the largest and most unlikely rescue in the history brought food and hope to the people of the city.
I'm getting sick and tired of getting history from this guy.
We know this stuff.
We're stacked against success.
In the winter, a heavy fog filled the sky above.
And many planes were forced to turn back without dropping off the needed supplies.
What is this?
The streets where we stand were filled with hungry families who had no comfort from the cold.
They know this stuff.
But in the darkest hours.
They lived it.
Obama.
The people of Berlin kept the flame of hope burning.
The people of Berlin refused to give up.
Hope.
Hope.
And on one fall day, hundreds of thousands of Berliners killed.
came here to the Tear Garden and heard the city's mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom.
I get it.
There is only one possibility, he said.
Things change.
That's what for us to stand together.
Right.
United until this battle is won.
Hope change unity.
The people of Berlin have spoken.
Speech is over.
We have done our duty, he said, and we will keep on doing our duty.
People of the world.
Now do your duty.
People of the world.
All right.
Look at that.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
We gotta go to commercial break.
Thank goodness.
Well, if you're gonna do that, I gotta do that.
All right, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, serving humanity, ladies and gentlemen, simply by showing up.
I have to tell you something, my friends.
I listened to a little more of Obama's speech during the break.
He's out there saying that poverty and racism in Somalia breeds the terrorists of the future, which is an absolute lie.
He's just dead wrong about it.
But despite that.
Where is Obama?
Obama is in Germany.
Germany is where, ladies and gentlemen?
It is in Europe.
And we all need to be more like Europeans, right?
We we need we need to stop embarrassing the Europeans.
Well, I, as an American, and embarrassed because Democrat Party presidential nominee is over in Germany speaking English.
And he just told us that we need to all learn to speak a foreign language because it's embarrassing when we go over to their countries and don't speak their language.
And he's talking about goat herders, and that gets a big line of applause.
He should be his speech in German.
Let's listen to just a little bit more of it and see where we are at this stage.
By the way, no stutters or uhs or ands or uh because it's on a teleprompter.
Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe.
No doubt there will be differences in the future.
Yeah, but the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.
A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden.
In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more, not less.
Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice.
It is the only way, the one way to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.
Oh, my.
This bothers me.
That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.
New walls.
The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand.
The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand.
Obama the walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christians and Muslims and Jews cannot stand.
These now are the walls we must tear down.
He's he's doing Reagan, he's tearing down a whole bunch of walls now.
Walls that do not exist.
These are imaginary walls and he wants to tear them down.
This is weird.
We know we know that these walls have fallen before.
After centuries of strife, the people of Europe have formed a union of promise and prosperity.
They may hate it.
Here, at the base of a column built to mark victory in war.
They hate it.
We meet in the center of a Europe at peace.
A Hitler victory in war.
Not only have walls come down in Berlin, but they've come down in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic found a way to live together.
In the Balkans, where our Atlantic Alliance ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice.
But I'm going to pull out of Iraq.
I'm going to pull out of Iraq.
I'm disappointed in this speech.
So history reminds us that walls can be torn down.
But the task is never easy.
This is so cheap.
I'm telling you.
True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice.
They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy of peace and progress.
I uh every time I hear Democrats start talking about sacrifice, I know exactly what that means.
Increased taxes, and he's talking about raising taxes all over the world now, tearing down imaginary walls.
That that is that is just tacky.
Trying to rip off regular, tear down all these imaginary walls.
Uh anyway, well the cookie will be listening to this whole thing, and uh she will cut up audio sound bites if they are if they are deemed worthy.
I'm glad I didn't make the editorial decision to jip this whole speech.
Um I'm glad that we did this piecemeal.
Back to the phones now.
People have been waiting patiently.
We go to Northern Virginia.
This is Fred.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's a pleasure and honor to speak good uh with you today.
I come from a long line of Rush Limbaugh listeners, and we are so glad you're out there.
Appreciate that.
Um I gotta tell you, I called originally just with a light point about the uh the translation of uh the JFK speech, but in hearing uh what you were just uh broadcasting Barack Obama over there, uh it it infuriates me.
It is just unbelievable the gall that this guy has to go over there and try to channel Ronald Reagan and twist his words.
It's unbelievable.
Totally believable.
When you're dealing with somebody with this kind of ego and uh and arrogance, then we're we're talking here about the Messiah.
Oh, you you uh I and you know what?
Do not let up on that point because people need to see this guy for the fraud that he is.
I'll tell you it's what is this, by the way.
What is this?
He opens up this speech by saying he doesn't come as a candidate.
BS, that's the only reason he's there.
That's exactly right.
He says he's a citizen of the world.
Oh, that that infuriated me.
I was coming out of my chair just just begging you to please.
I want to see that passport.
Yeah, exactly right.
And besides, you made my point too, because it just really screamed out at me.
Why isn't he giving his speech in German?
Exactly right.
You know, because he just upgraded just upbraided all of us for not speaking a foreign language and and said he was embarrassed because Europeans have to learn our language to communicate with us.
That's right.
Well, tell him a thing or two from uh us regular Americans.
There are a lot of Americans that speak foreign languages.
I got a degree in German.
I lived in Germany.
I'm the vice president of the German language school in my hometown to teach um other kids and adults German.
Um ask you a question about this.
Let me ask you a quick question here because I read this this morning and I I got it from a trusted source, Ich bin ein Berliner.
Uh the source said that the Berliner in in in Germany is actually a donut, is that right?
Well, actually, you're partially correct.
Um, here's the difference.
If you say Ich bin Berliner, it means I am a citizen of the city of Berlin.
If you throw the article in there, Ich bin Ein Berliner, it actually means I am not just a donut, but a jelly donut.
Sh.
My whole I'll tell you, I mean, they've got the weight of everything they were facing, which was very serious of the day, and God bless President Kennedy for doing what he did in rescuing them.
But it had to be, and it is for a lot of people that I knew over there.
It was like a comic relief moment from all that tension to have the leader of the free world called.
Call himself a jelly donut, yeah, right.
And calling himself a jelly donut.
Well, I hope Obama oh Obama repeats it.
Look, I appreciate the call, Fred.
Take care, Rush, and keep keep doing what you're doing.
Because people need to hear more of this.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Ish being Berliner means I'm a citizen of Berlin.
Ish being an iron Berliner means I am a I am a German donut.
Not Joe, not just a donut, a jelly donut.
Uh Curtis in Muncie, Indiana, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Um, I heard something that I thought was interesting on the BBC World Service.
Uh they asked a German fellow if he was looking forward to today's speech.
Yes.
And he said that uh he had severe Obama mania.
And when they asked why he was so excited, he actually used the term political redeemer to refer to Obama.
Wow.
The political redeemer.
I I think that maybe he is getting a bump in the polls, but the polls are all in Western Europe.
I think that the Germans that's exactly right.
You know, you you well, we were chuckling about this here, but his the Germans are like at a sixty-five percent say they'd vote for him.
The only problem is they can't yet.
Yet world citizenship, world citizenship vote.
We're all citizens of the world.
Obama wants to be leader.
I got an idea.
This guy wants to be leader, so let's this speech gonna go over well.
The Germans are gonna love this.
Let's just make him president of the EU, the European Union.
He's a citizen of the world, ladies and gentlemen.
I want to see that passport.
I'd like to get one of those passports.
Well, during the uh uh windfall profits I'm out here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I was uh catching a little bit more of the Obama speech in Germany, and he's finally gotten to the uh the stump campaign speech.
He's saying, We only have this moment to fix AIDS.
We only have this moment to cure poverty.
We only have this moment to do whatever.
And what he means by this is this is my moment.
He's giving a campaign speech that he denied is a campaign speech, and he's giving it in Germany, and I have a prediction I think, depending on who sees this and how this is reported, and of course the disciples that make up the drive-by media will see to it this gets out.
This is presumptuous as it can be.
He is channeling Ronald Reagan.
We knew Ronald Reagan, Senator Obama, uh friend of ours, and you're no Ronald Reagan.
This is a cheap attempt to channel Reagan to channel JFK as well.
Uh and you're not in their league, and people are gonna realize this.
We've got a guy, not even the president yet, running over making a speech here about what we need to do in the world to fix it, and only he's the guy that can do it.
This kind of ego and arrogance and presumptuousness uh can rail people the wrong way.
Noel Shepard at Newsbusters.
By gosh, if it didn't happen again, you remember back in May when the media gushed and fawned over a huge crowd in Portland, Oregon, supposedly gathered to hear Obama.
Something like seventy-five thousand people.
What they didn't tell us was that there was a free concert given before Obama's speech.
Noel Shepherd at Newsbusters has learned that before the Obama speech today in Berlin, two popular German acts, a reggae artist Patrice and a rock band Ramon, entertained the gathering audience.
So once again, a free concert with two acts prior to the Messiah's address to the citizens of the world in Berlin.
Here's Beth in uh in New Ark, Delaware.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hi, thank you so much.
Now, Beth, let me ask you, is it Newark or New Ark?
It's New Ark.
New Ark.
Okay.
I just want just wanted to make sure.
I just thank you for not torturing us any longer by making us listen to this Obama Global Citizen Election speech.
I didn't realize there was an election out there for that.
Yeah, I d I uh I you know, I just couldn't ignore it here.
And of course, we do it in a way that no one else does.
We actually comment on it as it goes, because I realize that people like you are tuning in to hear me.
I am, and I avoid the drive-by media because I get sick and I can't take it.
Well.
I think you and your staff for that.
I appreciate it.
You're welcome.
Um earlier today you had mentioned about the man who had his minimum wage increased.
Maybe it seemed to mention that I would guess that the government's paying for his housing, his health care.
This is the guy.
Let me reflect Let me refresh people's memories on this, Beth.
There was an AP story about the minimum wage going up seventy cents today about a guy working in a car wash somewhere.
He and his fiance ha s he and his fiancee support seven children.
Family of seven, whatever it was.
He he and his fiance.
And AP found this guy to uh to uh illustrate that even though the minimum wage is going up seventy cents today, the high cost of food and gasoline is just wiping it out.
It's just it's just it's just unfair.
It's just unfortunate.
Uh good news that the wage went up, bad news that it doesn't matter.
Doesn't count, it won't help anybody.
And this guy, gee, I'd love to be able to afford a car, but I can't afford a car and I work in a car wash.
Well, I mean, he's not paying for anything else, probably.
Education, food stamps, daycare, health care, housing.
Um that little increase might really help him out a whole lot.
Uh you well, you mean he's pre if seven kids, he and his fiance.
Supporting seven kids, I mean you you're thinking of food stamps in the mix here.
Oh, I think so.
Yeah.
Well, it's true.
The the minimum wage is not intended to support a family of four, much less a family of nine.
Well, it's really to help the uh the teenagers and the people that are out of school for the summer.
I think that's the majority of the people who possibly would benefit from minimum wage.
Shh, not supposed to say that.
That's the truth.
That's the truth, and liberals call that a personal attack and they accuse you of lying.
Well, I learned that from you.
It's true.
Yes, I'm sure the vast majority of minimum wage earners are in the entry-level areas of work.
Uh teenagers.
They the majority of them are clearly not uh heads of households supporting uh families of four.
Um the uh the Messiah's sermon is over, and it I'll tell you it didn't go very long.
Uh thirty minutes.
That's nothing.
I mean, usually the os the Messiah just getting warmed up.
Uh but uh it's this was pretty this if if that was it, I mean I was pretty lackluster to me from what we heard.
And I'm trying to be objective in analyzing this, folks.
Um it was boring.
It was offensive, in fact, and uh at at parts of the beginning.
John in uh in O'Cala, Florida, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
Uh before I get to my point, I gotta chide you on one thing, though.
Earlier you said Joe Lieberman was the only Democrat who could have given a JFK-like speech, but he's uh he's uh an independent, isn't he?
My gosh, you're right.
You know, I just did this uh two mistakes in one day.
That never happens.
I'm I uh I've been caught twice here today.
I said the N-word had never been used on Fox, and Robert Byrd did indeed use it.
Uh and you're right, uh Democrat is uh Lieberman's an independent.
I'm this is embarrassing.
Yeah, but Senator Obama is uh is wrong a lot more than you are, and the point that I want to make is he's been talking about the uh Sunni awakening, uh being r responsible for for most of the success over in Iraq.
And what is ignoring or forgotten, or maybe just afraid to acknowledge, is that General Petraeus was the one who originally started uh converting the the uh tribal leaders over to our side.
And that's how he got recognized uh for his success doing that, and and probably led to his being named the commander.
Right, because he wrote the manual on uh uh counterinsurgency uh practices and procedures dealing with uh urban type uh conflict warfare and this yeah, that's precisely wrote the manual and wrote the book on it, and it's I'm glad you reminded me of that because that's exactly right.
Yeah, I think.
Look at Obama's Obama's clueless on this.
I re I don't think he really knows much of what he's talking about.
He's he just he's not a thinker, he's repeating what he's been told, and he's sticking to his guns on the surge here because he's gotta he's gotta uh prove his fealty to his side of the aisle on this, and this is where these guys don't get it.
You know, when the when the American people start listening about their country at war in the U.S. military, they really do drop politics.
The uh American people don't want their military to lose.
And they don't want people talking about the incompetence of their military.
And the American people really don't like hearing about what a bunch of racists, murderers, and thugs, uh, the U.S. military is.
Uh I I you know Democrats again, they're putting a cart way in front of the horse here on assuming these big massive uh victories in the House and Senate.
And uh and and Obama's already started on his transition.
By the way, I got that story of the stack, already working on his transition to the uh to the Oval Office.
It's a little premature to do that.
Back in just a moment, my friend.
Well, I guess we're kind of we're gonna close the circle here.
Uh Obama goes over to uh Iraq and Afghanistan, pimping George W. Bush's ride, and shows up in Berlin today for the big speech, pimping Ronald Reagan, tearing down the wall.
We have an hour to go.
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