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July 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 25, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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Okay, a couple of Obama bites here as he uh started his press conference today with uh with Sarkozy.
Here's a portion of uh the Messiah's opening statement.
The American people greatly appreciate uh President Sarkozy's uh uh approach to the relationship between our two countries.
When he came as president now to speak, uh he was treated like a rock star.
Everybody loved him.
Uh and uh I think it was after that that uh everybody decided to call French fries French fries again.
Now that's kind of snarky.
I mean, what what we never stop calling them French fries?
But you know the here's here's this is this is a little thing, and this is perhaps something that uh most people wouldn't care about, but uh it's only because I have knowledge.
He he references the fact that Sarkozy was treated like a rock star.
Does anybody remember why?
Sarkozy loved us.
Sarkozy was a conservative.
Sarkozy came off and came over here and thanked the United States and thanked us for saving their rear end in World War II.
He spoke of our greatness.
Sarkozy came over.
Cookie get some of these bites.
He came over and spoke of American exceptionalism, and I commented at the time.
Wouldn't it be great if an American political candidate spoke this way about his own country?
The way Nicholas Sarkozy came over and spoke about the United States.
That's why he was loved.
The people of this country do not hate their country.
They're not embarrassed of their country.
They're not in any way down on it.
They know we're not perfect and we never will be.
We're a damn sight better than practically any place else you could live on this planet.
Well, except the Democrats, of course.
The Democrats do have great problems in the country, which we discussed at great length yesterday.
But it's, you know, yeah, he was treated like a rock star.
Chirac was not liked here.
The French tried to sabotage us in the war on terror at the United Nations.
Not just Chirac, but the Ariudite, sophisticated, oh, the drive by's loved him, Dominique de Villepin.
Remember him.
So Sarkozy comes over and he's sounding like Ronald Reagan.
And yeah, he was a rock star.
You might learn from this, Obama.
Then during the QA, unidentified reporters said, How would you go about this differently than George Bush?
I mean, uh first of all, just remind everybody that uh I'm not uh I'm not the president.
Stop the tape.
Now, how about that?
I know a lot of people are gonna say, now there's a little humility.
A little humility.
He finally no, it's not what this was.
He's looking out in the audience of the drive-by, as his disciples.
I want to remind you, I'm not the president of the United States.
Meaning everybody thinks he already is.
The drive-by's are putting him forth as inevitable as the president.
So this is this is not humility.
It sounds like it, but it's not.
This is but cue that back to the top, uh, Mike.
This is Obama basically keeping the whole concept of his inevitable presidency alive.
Here it is again in Toto.
Let me uh first of all, just remind everybody that uh I'm not uh I'm not the president.
I am a United States Senator.
Uh I am a candidate for president.
But there's a wonderful tradition uh in the United States that's not always observed, but I think is a is a good one, uh, Which is uh that uh you don't uh spend time criticizing a sitting president when you're overseas.
Uh what?
Because I think that we have one president at a time.
Oh and it's very important that our foreign policy is presented in one voice.
Really?
What I can say affirmatively is that uh a an effective uh U.S. foreign policy will be based on uh our ability not only to project power uh but also to listen and to build consensus.
Pure drivel, pure psycho babble.
But I want to go back here to um it's a wonderful tradition in the United States, not always observed.
It's a good one.
That is you don't spend time criticizing a sitting president when you're overseas.
What did he do yesterday?
Sir, you did not use Bush's name yesterday, but we all damn well knew who you were talking about and what you meant.
Who the hell has been accused of committing torture, sir, if not Bush and Cheney.
Who the hell has been accused of creating this riff to the Europeans and they don't like us?
Bush, we all knew who you were talking about.
You didn't use his name.
By the way, I think something else, ladies and gentlemen, based on the powers of my uh my observation.
We only have one president at a time.
It's very important our foreign policy presented in one voice.
Somebody has reprimanded the Messiah.
David Rodham Gergen on CNN earlier this week, those are his exact words.
We only have one president at a time.
It's very important our foreign policy is presented in one voice.
He violated this himself when he came out of the meeting with Petraeus.
He disclosed the contents.
That set the drive-bys that didn't go on a trip, still back in uh the United States, a little concerned.
I'm sure that somebody got hold of campaign and said you stop him from doing this.
So he's again, he's a learner.
They tell him what to say.
I'm not exaggerating this, and he can say it.
Something else that was interesting today, as you know, one of our all-time favorite irrelevant diplomats, Richard Holbrook, who is last uh in 04 was angling to be part of Carey's administration, now has got his tongue on the pavement, salivating, trying to become part of the Obama administration.
He was on uh Scarborough's show today on uh MS National Barack Channel.
And he repeatedly, over and over, said that Obama's reception in Europe shows that Europe isn't anti-American, it's just anti-Bush.
So all of a sudden, somebody who is close to the Obama campaign and wants to be even closer is a little defensive here about this crowd yesterday and how it reacted, because I think they've I think they've seen some polling data, and I think they're seeing that this trip isn't doing him any good.
And I think what they're afraid of seeing is that these pro-Obama pictures from Europe might be interpreted by Americans as Obama siding with the Europeans against his own country, and they would be right if they thought that, because he trashed his own country yesterday, accused his country of being a leading torturer, for example, and our imperfections.
And so here he is being praised by all of these Europeans and all these European newspapers.
And Holbrook's out there saying, wait, wait, no, no, no, no.
You you misunderstand, you misunderstand.
Europe is not anti-American.
They did they just they're just anti-Bush.
Because they know at the Obama campaign, they can read their polling day, they can read Gallup, they can read all that's going on.
They know full well here that after you go out and start criticizing your own country as a leading torturer and start listing its imperfections or talking about its imperfections.
And then you guys did cheering wildly by Europeans.
Believe me, There are a lot of voters Obama needs that might look at that and see him more aligned with Europeans than he is with his own country, and you couldn't blame him because I got that same impression myself yesterday.
All right, let's go to the phones, promised, and here we go.
We'll start in uh Avum Ave Maria, Florida.
This is uh this is Andy, thank you, sir, for waiting.
I appreciate your patience.
You're up first.
Mega Jave Maria and Army veteran dittoes, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I'm a bit nervous.
I can't believe I actually got through.
Um been trying to for over 13 years.
Well, congratulations, sir.
Um I just went over to grab lunch earlier, and uh unfortunately I caught a CNN broadcast.
They were uh reporting that 85% of the French polled would vote Obama over McCain if they could.
Yeah.
Well, uh well, I'm glad it's not up to them.
My question is, who actually came up with this poll?
And I'd also like to comment that it's uh a good reason uh not to vote for Obama in my opinion.
These these are the kind of things that the Obama people better be very careful about this.
I know that the Obama people probably aren't doing this, but the drive-by's are the drive-by-s, don't forget the drive-bys are part of history.
They want to make history.
This is more about the drive-bys this campaign is than it is about Obama.
It's about him a lot, but it's about them too.
Hell, 70% of the Germans that they polled said they would vote for Obama.
But it doesn't mean anything because they can't vote in America for our presidential candidates.
They can't participate in our race.
So this is look at this is so it's so I know, says who it's so obvious.
And how transparent is this effort that the drive-bys are making?
And I'll tell you the umbrella under which all these polls fall is that it America sucks.
The Europeans know better about what to do than we do.
That's exactly all this means, and I'm telling you, there are the the American people, the ones that matter here, are not stupid.
This does not escape them.
The drive-bys think that they're, you know, their buddies in New York and DC and Los Angeles will be impressed and moved by this, but Obama's already got those voters.
But you go out into the heartland into Blue State America, and you go out and tell them, hey, the French want Obama by 80%, you know what they'll say?
The French.
Not that they don't like the French, but you stay out of our affairs.
And you don't try to tell us how stupid we are by telling us how smart the Europeans are.
If the Europeans are so great, how come we keep surpassing them all the time?
How come we have to defend them?
How come they don't produce anything anymore?
How come they have record unemployment rates?
How come their wages are stagnant?
If the Europeans are so damn great, and that's the way they see it.
So I think there's there's a there's a backlash going on.
I mentioned this to Snurdley to break the top of the iron.
He's all he's depressed today.
He's you're getting sucked in by the pictures.
Snurdly's getting sucked into the pictures.
And I don't think people are going to get sucked in by the pictures.
And I know the people in this audience are not going to get sucked into the pictures.
He's slumping in his chair back there.
I said, I said, I think I think he's going to lose this early.
I think I think this boomerang is is happening much faster.
People are tired of Obama.
They're tired of seeing him on television all the time.
They're tired of the sycophantic slavish disciple-like covering.
Oh no.
Oh no, hope you're right.
Just total defeatism in there where Snurdley was.
What is your problem?
He said, McCain, I mean.
I said snurly, don't worry about that.
You've got to remember this is I've told you a month ago this election is not about Obama versus McCain.
This is going to be a referendum on Barack Obama.
And that ain't good because the Democrats wanted this to be a referendum on George W. Bush, and they wanted to tie McCain to George W. Bush.
The problem is Bush isn't hated.
They think he's hated, but he's not hated.
He's unpopular, but he's not hated, and he's not a factor anyway, because he's leaving.
And to try to say that McCain is a continuation of Bush, you know, that that's a stretch.
It's going to come down to whether or not the people of this country want Barack Hussein Obama to be president of the United States, and whether they want Michelle My Bell Obama to be the first lady of the United States.
It's going to come down to that.
Do they want Jeremiah Wright walking in and out of the Oval Office now and then?
They want Bill Ayers being close.
Bill Ayers going to state dinners.
They want Lewis Farrakhan finally getting into the white.
These are the kind of things that uh the real people, real voters, are going to be thinking about, and it isn't going to be all this hype and pap and PR that the drive bys are putting.
Let me tell you, Snerdly, the way you ought to look if these pictures, all week long, if these pictures were so powerful, how come Obama's losing ground in the polls?
If the drive-bys were so what has McCain done to gain any ground?
What has he done?
He's shut up is what he's done.
He's out of the news.
It always helps.
Same thing with Mrs. Clinton.
The more she spoke, the bigger problems that she had.
McCain's been out of the news.
Obama's in the news, who's going up and who's going down.
To referendum on Obama.
The drive-bys have got to be beside themselves.
They have never invested in a candidate like this.
Never.
I don't care.
Not in our lifetimes.
I don't I wasn't alive to see what they did with FDR.
Maybe JFK.
Maybe JFK.
But even that, they had to count some obscure and uh um phantom votes in West Virginia and Chicago to bring that off.
And there wasn't a Rush Limbaugh show back then, because I was only nine years old.
I was nothing but a star of the future back then.
With all of this, the slavish disciple sycophantic behavior, not reporting one negative about Obama, portraying him as something unique and never before seen in all of humanity.
And he's losing ground.
If the drive-bys had that much impact, this race would be over, he'd be over 60%.
Which, by the way, you go back to 19 uh eighty-four.
Mondel was up big over Reagan at this point.
Carey was up big over Bush at this point in 2004.
Obama is not big over McCain anywhere.
Another reason why I counsel, don't be afraid of the drive-bys.
I know they have impact.
I know they do.
The AP especially.
You gotta really look out for that bunch.
The AP is the real last remaining vestige of the drive-by monopoly.
The other guys have been busted up.
But I'm telling you, they don't have the impact.
They don't they're not kingmakers.
They can't do it.
This is b it's being demonstrated.
You just gotta be confident folks, understand this.
It's right out in front of your face.
You see how hard my job is.
Even my staff, I go in there at the one o'clock break and snurdly slouching in defeat.
No, no, not defeat.
That's a bit too strong.
You just the end of the week, I think you just you just got taken over the pictures.
Take it over the pictures, and there aren't any pictures of McCain.
And well, I know there are pictures of getting off the plane with one reporter and one cameraman.
I know.
Uh all right, Sarah in Louisville, Kentucky.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Russ.
Happy Friday.
Thank you very much.
I wanted to call and inform you and maybe some of your viewers who don't have kids, how hypocritical the Disney Corporation is with regards to global warming.
Um they have these green segments on now.
You know, they've got Tigger saving water.
They've got Dora the Explorer as a mermaid getting trapped in a garbage bar, you know, and this morning they had a new one on with Handy Manny, who is a character that fixes things around town, who was just beside himself because he could not fix fix the blackout that the town was having.
So the message for this one was to conserve electricity.
And I don't know what they're teaching the kids, but we're watching television, you know, we need electricity to watch the television.
So are they saying it's okay to, you know, turn out the lights?
You know, you can leave on the TV as long as you turn out the lights.
You know, that's some of the examples that I have.
I'm glad you noticed this out there, Sarah, because this is you know, it'd be difficult to peg when this started, but uh have you ever heard of the Captain Planet TV series?
I've heard of it, yeah.
Ted Turner.
Ted Turner started Captain Planet.
It was it was all about the militant environmentalists blaming corporate Americans.
These these cartoons, of course, targeted for young little crumb crunchers and skulls full of mush out there.
Oh, yeah.
And and it was designed to get them hating corporations and blaming corporations for destroying uh their pets and their animals and making it impossible to breathe, they're gonna die soon and all this sort of stuff.
So there's a rich tradition of the left uh attempting to poison the minds of the youths of America with absolute BS and lies.
Well, and I I mean I grew up scared to death we were gonna run out of water just from you know what the teachers were telling me and things like that, but it's just scary that it's gone you know beyond the academia and the teachers, you know, onto the television now where there's so many kids, you know, watching, and and not only that, we just got back from a trip from Florida and they had an attraction at Disney World called The Land, and it it was basically uh a film that that was showing the right way and the true way to live was the tribal way.
You know, they had all these anti building.
I'm waiting.
I'm waiting for the uh ride at Disneyland, Disney World, where they're out on an island and global warming causes the uh sea level to rise and all the kids on the ride drown.
I just got a note from a uh friend that said, Hey, Snerdley's not the only one that's depressed.
Friend said, I got I got I have this image.
I can't get this image out of my mind.
It's based on the fact that McCain is openly said he didn't know how to use computers, he doesn't spend time on the internet.
And uh if it's Russia, I just have this image of you know, a couple of reporters taking their little tape recorders into McCain's office and saying, John, Senator McCain, this is the record button when you have something to say to us, just hit that we gotta go catch the Obama bus.
And they just leave him alone with the tape recorder and come back later and make a news story out of it.
That's the I'm telling it's gonna be a referendum on uh on Obama.
You gotta hear this.
This is a big November of of uh of two thousand seven.
And remember Obama just talked about how when Sarkozy came to United States he was a rock star.
Obama could learn a lot about this.
You want to know why Obama and Sarkozy was, you know why the American people loved Nick Sarkozy?
Now we've shortened the applause here.
For time purposes, he addressed a joint meeting of the House and Senate.
We have four bites, listen to these.
To the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who with their own hands, their intelligence and their hearts built the greatest nation in the world.
America did not say come and everything will be given to you.
Rather, she says come.
And the only limit to what you will be able to achieve will be those of your own courage, talent your boldness, and your talent.
I remember playing these bites.
I remember playing these bites back in November 2007, and just throwing my arms up in frustration.
Why can't one American presidential candidate talk like this?
Here's another one.
The America that we love throughout the world embodies this extraordinary ability to grant each and every person a second chance, another chance.
Because in America failure is never the last word.
There is always another chance.
Here in your country on this soil, both the humblest and the most illustrious citizens alike know that nothing is owed to them.
And that everything has to be earned.
is what constitutes the moral value of America.
I'll tell you, right on, right on, right on.
I'll tell you why this was so important was because Sarkozy come from a country where everybody, more and more people, not everybody, more and more people feeling entitled.
He couldn't fire anybody, had these massive unemployment rates, Socialism was this was killing the place.
And and uh he was celebrating and heralding America for what it was and what it's always been.
You don't again, you don't find too many American politicians speaking of their country this way, certainly not Democrats.
So is any wonder Sarkozy came over and was treated like a rock star?
Here's another.
America liberated us.
And this is an eternal debt we owe America.
Every time an American soldier falls somewhere in the world.
I think of what the American army did for France.
I think of them and I am sad.
As one is saddened to lose a member of one's family.
Whoa, mm baby, oh baby, oh baby.
Here he is thanking the United States for liberating France.
Even the Democrats in the House of Representatives had to stand up and applaud that.
I don't know if Obama was there.
Final bite from Sarkozy.
We need France to be stronger.
I am determined to carry through with the reforms that my country has put off for all too long.
I will not turn back.
I will implement all of them because France has for all too long.
I have come to present to you today of France that comes out to meet America to renew d'amitié.
The covenant of friendship and alliance.
That Washington and Lafayette sealed in Yorktown.
Together.
Let us be true to their memories.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
I say this to you.
On behalf of the French people.
Long live the United States of America.
Long live France.
Long live French American friendship.
Got the applause and a standing ovation there.
That's why he was greeted here as a rock star, and again, something there for Obama to learn.
Here we have the French president coming over and praising the country, not phonally, not artificially, and not saying things that weren't true.
I these liberals have so much guilt they say one thing good about this country and they they they feel like they gotta say five things bad.
Things are not if everything isn't perfect, then everything's wrong.
By the way, an update on the John Edwards situation out in Los Angeles broken by the National Inquire.
Two interesting things here.
A hotel security guard at the Beverly Wilshire.
I'm sorry, it's the Beverly Hilton, the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Uh Hotel Security Guard told Fox News.com that he intervened this week between a man he identified as the Breck Girl and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential hopeful after what they're calling a rendezvous with his mistress and love child.
The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen faced Breck girl, whom he did not immediately recognize in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning about 2 30.
And it was in a literal tug of war with reporters on the other side of the door.
The Brick girl trying to keep the door closed, the reporters trying to get it open.
Man, this is a it's just hilarious to picture this.
Somehow he barricades the bathroom door, starts combing his hair, getting ready for his eventual exit, but has to call hotel security on his cell phone to come get him.
The guard at the Beverly Hilton Hotel said his face was just totally white.
When Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and his uh the babe that the inquirer says is the mother of his child, the guard said he escorted Edwards, who was not a registered guest at the hotel, by the way, out of the building after 2 a.m.
Edwards didn't say anything while he was escorted out, adding that at times the reporters on the scene were rough on him, sticking a camera in his face and shouting questions.
Anyway, okay, so and there's been a criminal complaint filed now by the reporters.
A reporter, two reporters inquire have filed a criminal complaint against Edwards because the way they were treated by the hotel.
Edwards was not a guest.
They were registered, and they were kicked out.
Well, Edwards was escorted out.
The plot thickens the Los Angeles Times has instructed its bloggers.
They are not to discuss this.
They are not to write about this.
They are not to post anything at all about the Breck Girl and the Beverly Hilton Hotel being nabbed 240 in the morning.
You heard me right.
The LA Times has been told.
Editors have told bloggers at the LA Times there will be no posts on this.
Business Week magazine.
Business Week magazine yesterday ran a story on why the drive-bys are not covering it.
Five reasons.
Business Week.
The media is telling us why they aren't covering it.
A, he's not a presidential candidate.
B, probably not high on the list of vice presidential committee is being thought of possibly for attorney general.
Um, nobody's nobody involved in thing has accused him of anything.
Uh they're coming up with all kinds of excuses.
Since when do all because since when does this stuff matter?
All these reasons not to report on it.
Why does it because it's a Democrat?
Because he's a liberal Democrat.
That's why I think the Brick Girl, this is a resume enhancement for credit.
You know how many people, if they if if this were actually confirmed, would not believe it.
And they think, wait a go, man, we didn't know you that way.
Cool.
These are enhancements in the Democrat Party.
These are resume enhancements.
Back to the audio sound bites.
This little show on MS National Barack Channel airs at nine o'clock at night.
It's uh verdict with Dan Abrams, and they played uh little little audio soundbite from America's Anchorman about Obama.
The far right media joined the chorus.
Rush Limbaugh let loose today over a line in Obama's speech where he acknowledged America hasn't always lived up to its ideals.
I'm growing weary of Democrats and their presidential candidates finding something wrong with being an American citizen.
He ripped his own country here.
He took shots at the United States of America while in Berlin speaking as a postnationalist citizen of the world.
This is just beyond the pale.
He's talking to Germans and making excuses for the United States of America, which to this day defends and protects Germany?
This is insulting.
It is demeaning.
After that sound bite on MS National Barack Channel, Dan Abrams then went to Republican strategist, Republican strategist Joe Watkins, and said, Joe, are are you upset about this speech?
It was a great speech.
I mean, the speech was well delivered.
Yeah.
I mean, the visuals are stunning.
But it's a what's the problem?
The problem is this.
Speeches like that are reserved for the commander in chief of the United States.
I think Commander in Chief of the United States would be embarrassed to give a speech like this.
Can you imagine?
That's that's in fact that's a great way to look at it.
Can you imagine a sitting president going over there and talking about how the United States has been guilty of torture and we are discriminate and we don't like people that don't look like us, and we don't like people who don't worship like can you imagine a sitting president saying those things?
Can you can you can you I'm talking before November.
I'm talking about any time in our past.
Can you imagine Bush doing it?
Can you imagine Clinton as president doing Clinton would he did go to certain places in Africa and apologize not for what he'd done before Americans long before him?
But can you imagine a sitting president giving that speech that Obama gave yesterday?
You cannot.
Now maybe in January, depending on who wins, we'd better get used to it.
Back to the phones of Hollywood.
This is Chelsea.
Chelsea, thank you for waiting.
I'm glad you called.
You're on the EIB network.
Thank you for taking my call.
First of all, I want to say thank you so much for taking this slot out because without your show, I wouldn't have been who I am today.
I want to um, if I may, talk a little bit.
Um I'm 19 years old.
Um I started off at the beginning of the year as an Obama supporter, unfortunately, and I voted for him in the primaries.
I'm registered independent.
Um, and I realized the more I spoke about and repeated what he was saying, the more people hated me.
Um the more um and it's interesting because it is in California and we're so liberal out here.
Um, but I just started sounding really ignorant and give me give me give me an example, uh Chelsea.
What would you say in repeating Obama that and who?
What what people?
Your peers or other your friends?
Um well to my parents and my my dad, he's um he's an Obama supporter, and we don't talk politics anymore because now I'm um McCain supporter.
Um, and I'm thoroughly convinced that if Obama becomes president, we're pretty much doomed.
And my question to you throughout all this, and hopefully you can answer it at the end, is what can I do?
I will do anything to gain support for McCain.
Like I fear um a little bit um about all the hype that um Obama has been getting and all of the media and all that, but then it's starting to sound and look like, and forgive me because I am young, but Britney Spears and her whole tragedy of just being in the spotlight and being so put out there, and the more she was, the more insane she became.
And um, I think you're on to something.
I I think and I I think it fan I'm I'm I'm really grateful to have your perception of this as a 19-year-old because you're imbued in the very pop culture that the Obama campaign's trying to reach.
It's it's just sickening.
You're in that demographic.
So to you this is looking like the Britney Spears show to you, minus the meltdown.
I mean, going to other like countries trying to be all sweet and and just sounding retarded.
Um everything he's saying, it just sounds uh bland, and he's basically saying nothing.
I was actually watching the verdict um last night, and uh I saw the little snippet of what they um was that his entire speech that was on the little like maybe five minutes that he spoke to everyone in Germany.
Or was it actually longer than that?
It was twenty seven minutes.
Okay, well he basically said nothing.
And um I was very disappointed and I mean I I'm not disappointed, it's more of expected now to just he sounds like when I hear him on the radio or when you guys play snippets, it's just annoying.
It's the most annoying voice I've ever heard.
And it seems like he's trying to be Mo Martin Lizard.
Now wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
No, wait a minute.
I've got a I've gotta understand a timeline here because you voted you're you're nineteen and back at the turn of the century, the beginning of the year, you were over four.
I mean, you were gung ho for this guy, and now you have done you've done more than a one eighty.
You have you have a visceral dislike.
What happened?
Well, um I I was actually at Gay Pride in Long Beach, um, and uh I I met someone on the street from Chicago who's a conservative, and um I um he was not there for pride, obviously.
Um, but he was speaking to me, and that's when I started repeating the things that um we started talking p politics because I'm a political science major and he is, but he's much older.
And I was saying, you know, change every second and how you know we need stuff we need to think about.
Yeah, because you know, need to change things so Obama won't leave us unchanged, things like that.
Yeah, and then the past is so yesterday.
Uh yes, exactly.
And he he was just like he questioned everything I said.
Okay, so wait a minute, um wait a minute now, Chelsea.
Um I'm trying to I'm trying to get a mental picture here.
You're at a gay you're a gay pride event in Long Beach.
Yes.
And a conservative, how much older than you was he?
Um, he's I think four years older than me.
Okay.
Ancient.
So you're nineteen, he's twenty-three.
He was visiting from Chicago and he was lost.
Oh, that's the next question.
I was gonna say, you said he had no pride, meaning he he is accidentally at the gay pride event where you were.
I would talk to anyone and I would cheer and do whatever.
I mean, if it's if it's about truth.
If it's not, then I obviously question myself, and that's what I'm saying.
Okay, so this answers my first question.
It was a twenty-three year old conservative from Chicago who started throwing your words and praise for Obama back at you, and you realized how stupid you sounded.
Exactly.
And I'm not that type of person.
I like you value honesty, I value integrity.
And so what I did was as a Obama supporter at that point, I wanted to go.
He was holding a uh photo shoot slash like public um thing where you could come and uh he he would answer some questions, probably two from the audience and two hundred from reporters, and I was not allowed in because I wasn't Asian, African American, or white over fifty-two.
Yeah, I heard about those.
I I heard about the way they were stacking the audience.
You know, every campaign does that.
Look at time is dwindling here.
I need to ask you a question.
You asked me earlier a moment ago what you can do to support McCain.
Yeah.
Because you're really you're really worried about your future if Obama wins.
Oh yeah, I will move out of the country.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that.
We're gonna we're gonna need people like you uh to reverse some of this is this is this is dead serious stuff.
What do you is there anything about McCain you like?
I love him.
I think he's very first of all, he's admirable.
I'm so glad I said that word right.
I mean, the things that he's been through and the fact I mean he said it himself, he would rather win and he's uh got a lot of uh rock for this.
Like he'd rather win a war than win an election.
He cares about people.
And I saw when um Obama was talking about um he was trying to explain um that comment that McCain made and um about him not caring about his daughters and his family, and I don't think he cares about the country.
I think he's all about the glamour and the glitz, and once he becomes president and he's sitting in that office, he's not gonna know what to do.
He's gonna be a good one.
Does well he doesn't know what to do now.
Somebody's running this campaign.
Somebody's writing his speeches, putting words he's he's wandering around aimlessly now as the Messiah.
Look, Chelsea, this has been fabulous.
I I wish I had more time, but uh I'm I'm I'm stuck here in the constraints of time uh with our program.
I mean I can write you an email, right?
Yeah, you can.
I've said absolutely L Rush.
I will write I will write you an email.com.
I will do it.
All right.
I'll look forward to seeing it.
Okay, thank you so much.
You bet, thank you.
I was believing everything I was hearing until the last thirty seconds, and now I got uh just a few You remember when the New York Times accused McCain of having an affair?
He went out the next day and answered every question from the uh reporters.
And by the way, do we believe the New York Times or the National Inquirer?
I mean, that's a toss-up these days.
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