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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, 45, 40, something like that?
You know, I mean, that's margin of error or something.
In the NBC, Wall Street Journal poll, it's Obama 47, 41.
Six points is a gaffe.
You can lose six points in a gaffe.
Snerdley and I, at the top of the hour break here, we're just telling each other how sick and tired we are of Obama news.
Just Obama, Obama, Obama.
That believes Obama, Fox 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 to Snerdley, 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 Limbaugh here and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 800-282-2882.
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Let's see.
I'm looking for oil news.
I was looking for it in the stack.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
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, you know, having crushes on students?
Where was that?
I know they're still going to be paid for five days, but they're only going to work four because they're going to save energy costs.
Now, what kind of sense does this?
The teacher's going to be paid.
The students are going to learn less.
You think they're going to expand the class days, the length of the class day, school day?
Nah.
I can't imagine the students putting up with it.
The inmates are running the asylum at these schools anyway.
What should we do?
Should we drill or should we cut back on American education?
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 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 Republicans have issued an ultimatum.
No votes on anything till we get a vote on drilling in the Senate.
And the Democrats don't want any part of it.
And there's a red.
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, it's only July now.
And if they keep this up, I'm telling you, this is an issue that is made to order.
The Democrats are so vulnerable on this.
It is an issue for the Senator McCain to draw distinctions between himself and Obama and the Democratic Party.
It's just, we've spoken about it 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 soundbite 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 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 taxpayer because this is oil that we have purchased.
Believe this?
He's talking about the strategic reserve.
Trying to turn this around and blame it on the president for 700 million.
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 blame Bush.
Free our oil.
Free our oil.
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 supply shortage.
More audio soundbites.
I mentioned this at the top of yesterday's program, but here's the actual bite.
This is yesterday in Israel.
Barack Obama and a portion of his remarks.
You don't have to just look at my words.
You can look at my deeds.
Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't 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?
We've been divesting in Iran.
We've been freezing Iran's assets.
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 going at it for centuries.
And of course, we're listening to Obama say this.
Wow.
It's 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 decided to have a little fun with Obama.
This is Obama yesterday 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 the dangers and peril that exists in our world, but also that they feel a sense that they have the power to bring about the changes they're made to ensure that all these say never again.
All right, never again the phrase never again, a Holocaust, never again.
McCain decided to say, wait a minute, how could he say this?
He didn't care about the genocide in Iraq.
And the liberals are just up in arms at the McCain camps campaign, reaction to what Obama said here.
McCain's campaign questioned Obama's willingness to stop genocide because they had no interest in stopping it 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, PMSNBC, 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.
We disagreed until recently about the need to get more troops into Afghanistan.
But I've never questioned that he wants to make America safer.
And for him to suggest that I don't, for him to suggest that somehow I'm less concerned about the safety of my wife and daughter than he is, I think was unfortunate.
Listen to all those us in there.
That's why we did that montage.
You've got to keep that montage standing by, Mike.
You said you have that at your fingertips to be used 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 do it again?
No, no, I would never support the surge, even though it worked.
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 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 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.
But 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 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.
Shouldn't this debate be about the future and where we go from here?
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 had had his way, we would 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 got to jip a little bit of this.
Our microphones are there in Berlin at the Phalloc Victory Tower where Obama, the Messiah, is speaking.
So bring it on up.
Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Ministers Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today.
Thank you, Mayor Vovarik, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all, thanks to all of you for this extraordinary welcome.
Didn't thank 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!
You're 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.
It's here for goats in Germany.
I mean, that's progress.
Cheering for goats.
My father, my grandfather, was a cook, a 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, 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 him somebody somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.
Please tell it was the Kennedys.
Please say it.
That is why I am here.
Please say it was a Kennedys.
And you are here because you too know that yearner.
This city, of all cities, 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 breadwurst.
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.
60 years ago.
On the day when the first American plane touched down at Tempelhof.
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 the 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 Sydney.
They cut off food and supplies to more than 2 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.
It's a sad thing.
Where the last war had ended, 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.
I'm getting the 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.
It's 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 came here to the Tiergarten and heard the city's mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom.
I get it.
There's only one possibility, he said.
Things changed.
That's why.
For us to stand together, 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.
Hope, change unity.
People of the world, now do your duty.
People of the world.
Look at her.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
We got to go to commercial break.
Thank goodness.
Well, if you're going to do that, I got to 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 need to stop embarrassing the Europeans.
Well, I, as an American, am 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 making this 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 up 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 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.
We know.
Yes, what do 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 hate it.
Here, at the base of a column built to mark victory in war, 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.
And in South Africa, I'm going to push it.
I'm going to defeat an apartheid.
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've heard enough.
We can catch this later.
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 is just tacky.
Trying to rip off Reagan or tear down all these imaginary walls.
Anyway, well, the cookie will be listening to this whole thing, and she will cut up audio soundbites if they are deemed worthy.
I'm glad I didn't make the editorial decision to jip this whole speech.
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 with you today.
I come from a long line of Rush Limbaugh listeners.
Thank you.
We are so glad you're out there.
Appreciate that.
I got to tell you, I called originally just with a light point about the translation of the JFK speech, but in hearing what you were just broadcasting, Barack Obama, over there, 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 arrogance, we're talking here about the Messiah.
Oh, 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.
What is this, by the way?
What is this?
He opens up this speech by saying he doesn't come as a candidate.
B.S.
That's the only reason he's there.
That's exactly right.
He says he's a citizen of the world.
Oh, that infuriated me.
I was coming out of my chair 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.
Because he just upbraided all of us for not speaking a foreign language 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 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 other kids and adults German.
Let me ask you a question about this.
Let me ask you a quick question here because I read this this morning and I got it from a trusted source, Ich bin ein Berliner.
The source said that the Berliner in Germany is actually a donut.
Is that right?
Well, actually, you're partially correct.
A Berliner, 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.
Shit.
What are the Germans have fun with?
Well, 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 and calling himself a jelly donut.
Well, I hope Obama repeats it.
Look, I appreciate the call, Fred.
Take care, Rush, and keep doing what you're doing.
Thank you because people need to hear more of this.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Ish bien Berliner means I'm a citizen of Berlin.
Ish bien ein Berliner means I am a German donut, not just a donut, a jelly donut.
Curtis in Muncie, Indiana, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
I heard something that I thought was interesting on the BBC World Service.
They asked a German fellow if he was looking forward to today's speech.
Yes.
And he said that 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 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, we're chuckling about this here, but the Germans are like at a 65% 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 after this speech is going to go over well.
The Germans are going to 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 Windfall Prophets I'm out here, ladies and gentlemen, I was catching a little bit more of the Obama speech in Germany, and he's finally gotten to 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, a friend of ours, and you know Ronald Reagan.
This is a cheap attempt to channel Reagan, to channel JFK as well.
And you're not in their league, and people are going to 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 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 75,000 people.
What they didn't tell us was that there was a free concert given before Obama's speech.
Noel Shepard 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 Newark, Delaware.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thank you so much.
Now, Beth, let me ask you, is it Newark or Newark?
It's Newark.
New Ark.
Okay, I 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 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.
No.
I thank you and your staff for that.
I appreciate it.
You're welcome.
Earlier today, you had mentioned about the man who had his minimum wage increased.
They didn't seem to mention that I would guess that the government's paying for his housing, his health care.
This is the guy.
Let me refresh.
Let me refresh people's memories on this, Beth.
There was an AP story about the minimum wage going up 70 cents today about a guy working in a car wash somewhere.
He and his fiancé and his fiancée support seven children, a family of seven, whatever it was.
He and his fiancée.
And AP found this guy to illustrate that even though the minimum wage is going up 70 cents today, the high cost of food and gasoline is just wiping it out.
It's just unfair.
It's just unfortunate.
Good news that the wage went up, bad news that it doesn't matter.
It 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.
That little increase might really help him out a whole lot.
Yeah, well, you mean seven kids, he and his fiancé supporting seven kids?
I mean, you're thinking there are food stamps in the mix here.
Well, I think so.
Yeah.
Well, it's true.
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 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.
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've learned that from you.
That's true.
Because I'm sure the vast majority of minimum wage earners are in the entry-level areas of work, teenagers.
The majority of them are clearly not heads of households supporting families of four.
The Messiah's sermon is over, and I'll tell you, didn't go very long.
30 minutes.
That's nothing.
I mean, usually the Messiah just getting warmed up.
But 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.
It was boring.
It was offensive, in fact, at parts of the beginning.
John in Ocala, Florida, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
Before I get to my point, I've got to 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 an independent, isn't he?
My gosh, you're right.
You know, two mistakes in one day.
That never happens.
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.
And you're right, the Democrat is Lieberman's an independent.
This is embarrassing.
Yeah, but Senator Obama is wrong a lot more than you are.
And the point that I want to make is he's been talking about the Sunni Awakening being responsible for most of the success over in Iraq.
And what he's ignoring or forgotten, or maybe just afraid to acknowledge, is that General Petraeus was the one who originally started converting the tribal leaders over to our side.
And that's how he got recognized for his success doing that, and probably led to his being named the commander.
Right.
Because he wrote the manual on counterinsurgency practices and procedures dealing with urban type conflict warfare.
And this, yeah, that's precisely.
He wrote the manual and wrote the book on it.
And I'm glad you reminded me of that because that's exactly right.
Yeah, Obama's clueless on this.
I don't think he really knows much of what he's talking about.
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 got to 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 American people start listening about their country at war and the U.S. military, they really do drop politics.
The 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 the U.S. military is.
Democrats, they're putting a cart way in front of the horse here on assuming these big, massive victories in the House and Senate.
And Obama's already started on his transition, by the way, that story of the stack, already working on his transition to the Oval Office.
It's a little premature to do that.
Back in just a moment, my friend.
Well, I guess we're going to close the circle here.
Obama goes over to 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.
Sit tight.
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