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July 29, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 29, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings to you, Thrill Seekers, Music Lovers, Conversational.
It's all across the fruited plane, Rush Linball meeting and surpassing all audience expectations.
Every time I open my mouth.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882.
The email address L Rushmow at EIB net.com.
Well, we continue our 20th anniversary celebration week.
I forgot to mention yesterday the uh I've you know, I felt l yesterday, if I must be honest with you, I've I was telling Snerdley when we left yesterday.
I felt like I left half my IQ at home.
Uh yes yes, uh just uh brain didn't seem to be working uh as as as quickly and fluidly as I'm accustomed to it.
Snurdly assured me that was not detectable.
Uh but it feels feel a little bit better here today, uh uh ladies and gentlemen.
I forgot see this is an example of what what I mean by leaving half my intellect at home yesterday.
The people at Human Events are doing a huge, huge, nice thing, a send up on my twentieth anniversary, Jed Babin.
I did a little interview with him on Friday, and they they published a transcript of it yesterday.
Levin had just a great piece.
I guess they're having people all week write different uh different pieces.
And we we linked to it, of course, at rushlimbaugh.com, but I just I forgot to mention this yesterday and to thank them.
And and uh our buddies at WorldNet Daily are are doing just all kinds of things, posting uh uh tribute pieces from all kinds of people.
And I just I forgot to mention this yesterday.
I felt b I felt well, I know, but they started this on Friday and through the weekend, and I I uh you know, you know, I'm I have manners.
I'm polite.
Uh I wanted to thank them, and I did just as I say, I left half my IQ at home yesterday.
It's all I I I mean, I didn't feel physically bad, it just felt like the brain wasn't working.
Now I know most people that's how you are most days, but that's unusual for me.
And it was uh a little frustrating.
Of course, when the staff says, no, we couldn't tell a difference.
You know how staffs are, they suck up.
Suck up.
That's this.
And uh so I just I have to that's why I trust my instincts on all of this.
Speaking of the twentieth anniversary uh week celebration, the twentieth anniversary is coming up on Friday.
I've had a number of requests for highlights in previous shows, and one of the one of the most frequently received requests has been for phone calls from Mick from the High Mountains of New Mexico.
We have we have coming up later in the week.
We have a uh a a a whole piece on Dan's bake sale featuring Mick from the High Mountains of New Mexico.
But I asked Cookie, go into the archives and just find doesn't matter what it is, just find one today.
She found one October 28th, 1994, about fourteen years ago.
This is Mick, who is no longer with us, by the way.
Mick from the High Mountains of New Mexico, the closest thing that we've ever had to a regular caller on this program.
We haven't had one since.
And he was I he guess I guess he became a regular caller, but I don't remember did he just get in when he called, or was it was it uh we had his number and called him?
He just got in.
Just got in.
Oh, that's right.
That's I sent that's why I forgot I sent Mick a fax machine so he can fax stuff to us.
Man, the things I have forgotten.
Anyway, here's that call.
Just runs about a couple minutes, shy of two minutes here.
...of New Mexico.
Welcome back, sir.
Yes, sir.
How are you?
From the high mountains of New Mexico, sir.
How are you?
It's great.
I'm glad you're there.
Besides burning up my fax machine, trying to get rid of Benjamin Richardson and King, I had a message for you.
Do you still have that deer head that Ted Nugent sent you?
Yeah, it's uh sitting there on my uh TV show set.
Well, sir, I am sending uh caused the demise of eleven coyotes.
And ten of when did you do this?
Uh just during the recent season.
You caused the demise of eleven coyotes.
Right.
I brought uh eleven of them back.
Ten of them made a parka for my ex.
And uh the prime code of all is being shipped to you to hang on one of those horns that you have of Nugents.
Uh what I tell you.
Moose.
So I'm going to mail it to you.
Well, that's true.
Well, I have how big is it?
It's a full skin.
I'm looking at it right now.
It's hanging on the wall.
I'd say it's about four feet long.
Tail and all.
Now, what do people normally do with these things?
I mean, if you don't make it make coats out of it.
Yeah, but if you don't do that, what do you do?
Frame it or do you hang it?
No, you just hang it on the wall.
Say, look what a man I am, you know.
I skin my own coyote.
You scun it out.
Yeah.
Well, this is tremendous.
Uh uh I have never had my own coyote skin, and we will hang it on Nugent's moose with uh pride.
Thanks, Mick.
As always, it's great to hear from you.
Mick from the High Mountains of New Mexico.
We all met him for the first time at uh at Dan's Bake Sale.
And he looked, he he looked pretty much exactly like what we expected.
He looked like a cowboy.
Uh uh thin, uh uh, you know, gaunt, uh, almost with uh with a uh uh weather worn face and so forth.
Uh you know, genuine man.
It was a genuine man.
Also from 1988, I'd forgotten this.
1988, of course, the program began.
I had forgotten I did this interview on Connecticut Public Access TV.
Back then I was willing to appear anywhere to promote the program, and there was there was a TV show on Connecticut Public Access TV called Miggs B on TV, and the host was Miggs Burroughs.
And he interviewed me and he said, uh, you you have a segment called a homeless update.
You're misunderstood.
I mean, that segment's misunderstood.
Your whole point of it is misunderstood a lot.
Cut two.
Well, I knew it would be, and it's understandable that it is misunderstood.
For one thing, there's the the whole piece is a contradiction.
On the one hand, here's this song sung by a guy, uh song's recorded in the 50s, I believe, and it's by Clarence Frogman Henry, and he sings three different ways.
He sings as himself in the song.
Then he sings as a woman.
Hey Kangoo.
And then he sings as a frog.
And in all three cases, he hasn't got a home, and he hasn't got a girl, and he hasn't got a girl frog, or he hasn't got a date, or hasn't got this.
And so you you put that song juxtaposed with the picture of an actual homeless person, and it could be construed that I'm making fun of the homeless.
The thing that I try to do to set my program apart is, other than just being me, is to add music elements to it.
Music in a talk show is is something that most people aren't used to hearing, so it'll stand out.
And all I'm trying to do is grab people's attention for what I say.
And I know that they're going to be so mad hearing the song that it's going to take a while before they begin to understand the message.
But that's okay.
I I'm prepared for it to take a long time.
The bottom line is for them to get the message.
Exactly, exactly right.
However, long it takes for people to get the message.
That was October.
I don't even know what this had to be after August.
This had to be, you know, in the fall sometime, uh Connecticut Public Access TV, Migs B on TV, which takes us, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, to real-day news events.
The homeless crisis in Denver.
I want to take you back to this program in me, July 2nd of this year.
My comments on Denver's plans to deal with the homeless during the Democrat convention.
This is crazy.
The homeless are your voters.
The homeless are people that you turn to.
These they're living a life of misery, and they are the people that you think make up the country.
This is they're suffering from the Bush administration policies and all of this.
So you want to get them out of the way?
No, don't get them out of the way.
Give them some walking around money.
If you're gonna get them from flat screens, go out and get them some cigarettes.
Buy them some adult beverages so they can watch television.
Little popcorn.
And while you're at it, put some voter registration cards in the homeless shoulders while they are watching your convention.
And make, in fact, make registering to vote a requirement to get into the homeless shelter.
The Democrats are losing touch.
They used to be smarter than this.
That's exactly the homeless are their voters.
Soup line America.
These are the people the Democrats need to uh to broadcast prominently as representative of all of America because of the predatory lending practices that have led to the subprime mortgage crisis.
So yes morning on the Fox News Channel, uh America's newsroom, we have a portion of a report by Alicia Acunya about Denver's plans for the homeless during the upcoming convention, and it co hosts is Megan Kelly, says there are rumors that the city may be trying to hide the homeless during this convention.
Is that a confirmed fact?
It's actually quite a debate here.
We talked to an outreach officer who works with the homeless here, and he told us that the city is actually going to try to highlight the segment of society during the convention, not hide them.
They're going to bring in big screen TVs so that the homeless can come in and watch some of the speeches and watch and try to participate in some of uh the the convention ongoings.
Um we've also been told that there are plans for free movie tickets for the homeless.
We've heard of rumors of tickets to the zoo, tickets to the museum.
There are critics that are charging that the city really isn't trying to be nice.
Folks are saying, really, you just want to be nice to these folks.
We think you're trying to just sweep the city clean, trying to get this uglier side of life off of the streets, away from the delegates, away from the journalists, so that people don't have to see it.
So that's the debate.
They are taking my idea almost verbatim.
Almost verbatim.
They are taking my idea.
They're now debating it.
The two sides are, hey, let's promote them.
Let's give them movie tickets, give them TVs, let's let them watch the convention.
They're not going to admit they're going to give them voter registration cards.
That's going to be done on the sly.
And the other side says, Oh, we don't want them anywhere around here.
This is bad news.
It's just amazing the impact of this program all over this country.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Hey, Rush.
This is your pal Jim Nance of CBS Sports, wishing you a happy 20-year anniversary and wishing for 20 more for our sake, for our benefit.
Thank you for all the wonderful things that you bring to us in our lives on a daily basis.
All the values and virtues that we care about.
You're such a special curator for all things in this country that really matter.
And your acumen of all things Americana.
It's like no one else.
I just admire you so much, and I appreciate your friendship even more.
So congratulations, Rush.
Lost in admiration.
Thank you, Jim.
Jim Nance of uh CBS Sports, who, if you ever get a chance to meet him, uh, he's exactly as you would expect.
He would be.
He's one of the classiest and most genuinely nice people that you would uh ever uh ever run into.
I tell you the no curity.
Well, i i i I am a curator in a sense, uh, the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, uh, curator of artifacts, curator of uh American cultural uh items.
That's it's a great line.
That's I'm I'm telling you, I'm I'm gonna break down here before this week is out with all these things.
Is I just I think I uh saying thank you to everybody, including all you uh in the audience, is just insufficient.
But I appreciate it more than uh more than you know.
By the way, a friend of mine told me last night that uh the Bret girl John Edwards was spotted Sunday morning coming out of church.
He had Bill Clinton's Bible, he was wearing Ted Kennedy's neck brace.
I've not seen this reported anywhere, but the reason I mention this to you is that there's a story from Rasmussen reports.
Uh when it comes to whom voters like among Obama's possible running mates, it's all about the also ransom.
New Rasmussen Reports National Survey finds that 56% have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of the Breck girl, John Edwards.
Fifty-six percent.
The drive-by's have kept this story out of the mainstream media.
You know, the national inquirers, they've kept it out of there, and people don't know about it.
They d I mean, we've we we've they just don't know about it.
Twenty-one percent view uh uh Edwards very favorably.
He slightly edges Senator Clinton, who is viewed at least somewhat favorably by fifty-one percent, with twenty-seven percent characterizing their view of her as very favorable.
It appears that neither of these two have a ghost's chance.
Uh, particularly Mrs. Clinton, the Breggirl may still be in the running uh which is stunning to me.
And if he's not VP, he's gonna be in the administration someplace.
Uh the people are talking about him being attorney general.
I kid you not, snurdly.
Kim, not kidding you not.
No, and but Tim Kane Has caused a ruckus here, the governor of Virginia, uh uh leaking some information that he's at the top of the list.
It's all over the place.
He's gone out and talked about it now.
Uh it's it's uh I don't know.
To me, all this vice presidential stuff is getting interesting, because A, it's traditional, but B, including for McCain's side, but B, because the campaign is in both sides has sort of reached uh one of those points in time where nothing happens that's that's really interesting.
It's just a repetition of previous events.
Obama is back from his intern tour.
The uh, you know, McCain went out, stood next to the oil derrick yesterday.
He went out in Bakersfield, California stood next to the oil deck, Derek, and then and then sabotaged himself by by pointing out the mold that he had removed from his uh from his face.
More on McCain and oil, and by the price of oil got down to 120 bucks a barrel earlier today.
Let me see.
What I told you people that these prices could not be supported by the market, was it now?
1217 uh is the latest price for oil.
Barrel of oil.
Now, speaking of polls, interesting story of the New York Times yesterday.
We talked about this just a little, and it's interesting too about uh who wrote this, Adam N'Gurney.
Adam N'Gurney is the reporter that uh the McCain or the uh Obama campaign uh what they did, throw him off the airplane or kicked him uh they criticized him.
Oh, that's what it was.
He wrote a story in the New York Times about how Obama is not solving the racial divide in this country.
And they responded to Adam N'Gurney the next day by putting out a talking points memo that treated Adam Nagurney of the New York Times like he was a candidate.
They went out and destroyed him and destroyed his peace.
And Adam N'Gurney, the New York Times has miffed about this, he's very upset about it, so they could have at least called me.
I mean, I can take it.
Call me and talk to me about my story.
So Adam Nagurney yesterday, why is Obama not improving in the polls?
This has a lot of people stunned.
Now, the Daily Gallup tracking poll out of registered voters today has Obama up by eight.
But if you look at likely voters, McCain is up by four.
And McCain in Among Likely Voters has had a swing of ten points.
Uh in the well, since last Friday, uh, when you know Obama's uh intern tour uh all over the world ended, and everybody's scratching their heads because if you look at television, it is clear which campaign is dynamic and exciting and is getting all the coverage and which campaign isn't, to be polite.
And yet McCain is is uh in the in the in the Gallup USA Today poll up by four.
This was yesterday.
McCain moved from being behind by six among likely voters a month ago to a four-point lead over Obama among that group in the latest USA Today Gallup poll, McCain still trails among the broader universe of registered voters.
Uh by both measures, the race is tight.
The Friday through Sunday poll, which was mostly conducted as Obama was returning from his intern trip and released just yesterday, shows McCain now ahead 4945 among likely voters.
In late June, he was behind among likely voters, 50 to 44.
Then we come to McGurney's story.
It is a question that has hovered over Obama even as he has passed milestone after milestone.
Why is he not doing better?
It shadowed him as he struggled against Hillary Clinton.
And it shadowed him as uh as as the primaries ended, and it's back again now as he returns from an overseas intern trip that even Republicans have described as politically triumphant.
In this case, the question is why, given how sour Americans feel about President Bush and the Republican Party, about the Iraq War and the ailing economy that Bush will leave to his successor, and about the perception that Obama is running such a better campaign in McCain, the Senator from Illinois is still not doing even better in national opinion polls.
Why is that?
Most polls show Obama has a six or seven-point lead over McCain, but he rarely breaks the 50% market.
Robert Novak made this point in his piece yesterday, and No matter what, he hasn't crossed the 50% threshold.
And neither did, by the way, did Bill Clinton in either of his two presidential races.
Let's go back to this paragraph that Adam Nagorney writes.
I think this explains much of the mindset.
And the narrative template, if you will, of the drive-by media.
Why?
Given how sour Americans feel about Bush, the Republican Party, the war in Iraq, the ailing economy that Bush will leave to his successor.
Why?
With all this hatred for Bush, with all this anger at Bush, with all this anger at the Republicans, Republicans are hated with all this desire to get out of her.
Why?
Isn't Obama doing any better?
Plus, with all of our wonderful coverage, we are treating this guy like a rock star.
We're treating Obama as he is the Messiah.
We have gone over.
Could it be?
Ladies and gentlemen.
Exactly what I said to you in the early days of Obama's summer camp trip last week.
Backlash.
There's a backlash out there against Obama, backlash against the media, media not popular, the media less popular than George W. Bush, if truth be known.
Supposed to say you paid for this message.
We're back.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Some people said, Rush, it's why you felt like you left half your intellect at home.
You've got half your brain tied behind your back every day anyway.
No.
Different different things.
Half the brain tied behind the back is not the same as half the IQ being left at home.
Anyway, we're on track.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, in a wide-ranging monologue, largely ad-libbed, as most of mine are, I offered a suspicion that this whole business of Barack Obama's prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem was a ruse.
That the campaign intended for that prayer to be found and to me made public.
Well, lo and behold, from a blog called The Israeli Insider, what initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral propriety, now seems to be a case of an Israeli paper being played by the Obama campaign.
Mariv, second most popular newspaper in Israel, was roundly criticized for publishing the note that Obama left in the Western Wall, but now a Mariv spokesperson says that publication of the note was pre-approved for international publication by the campaign, leading to the conclusion that the private prayer was intentionally leaked for public consumption.
Now the Obama campaign's denying this.
And the Marie newspapers, well, we're standing by it to a certain extent.
The truth of this is not factually known, but instinctively we know what the truth is.
This is no different.
This this prayer being made public.
This prayer being made public is no different than during the 50th anniversary, 60th anniversary, whatever it is of D-Day.
Remember, our cameras captured Bill Clinton down on the beach at Normandy, where there are no stones.
There are no rocks.
And Clinton is trudging along, very solemn, very much into sorrow, lone battleship out on the horizon.
And Clinton walking along, the cameras following him from just offshore.
Wow, what do I have here?
Look at all those stones.
And he kneeled down and he made a cross out of the stones.
And there just happened to be photographers close by to take the pictures.
And of course, it's it's no different than this.
This whole thing, everything in this campaign, the Obama campaign, is a strategical pander.
Everything about it, everything about it is stagecraft.
I'm not just doesn't matter, it's what it is, but that's the uh there isn't a whole lot of substance here, as I've been saying for years and years and years.
Democrat Party liberalism, symbolism over substance.
Let's grab some phone calls here from this is Brett from uh Redwood City, California.
Great to have you here, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Good, thank you.
I just wanted to say that uh back in January or February, I was uh when Obama was giving a speech.
I remember my wife wanted to shut everything down and listen to Obama and everything that he said about hope and change.
Yeah.
She's basically going, hurrah, hurrah.
Absolutely fantastic.
Anyways, uh at the same time, my son, he's about 16, 17, and I was going like, don't you see saying the same thing, hope and change, hope and change.
Anyways, uh, you know, so she's pretty set on Obama and voting for him.
But then I talked to her with her the other day.
I said, Are you still in with Obama?
And she goes, Well, the more I see them, the more I'm not really liking them anymore.
And so will that change her vote?
I couldn't I couldn't tell you, but right now I don't think that uh she's liking what she's doing.
Why?
What what uh what is causing her to change her opinion of the Messiah?
You know, the more I think she sees him, but I think the more she's trying to realize that the guy's pretty much uh sort of fraud.
So, but she won't say it.
She doesn't want to get into detail because she's not really political.
She just liked what she he was standing for in the beginning.
Uh yeah, no, I think.
So the wall, the wall or the shroud is sort of sad but true coming up.
Sad sad but true.
Well, you know one other thing, and I know I know that uh um I was supposed to keep on this talk at topic, but I was with my aunt who's about 91 years old the other day.
Um she's down in LA, and uh she's a big Hillary supporter.
I said, Well, since Hillary's out, are you gonna vote for Obama?
She goes, Heck no, I'm not even gonna vote.
And so I thought that was pretty interesting.
Well, this take I I'm glad you called because you have provided here a nice transition into a couple of audio sound bites that I had told the broadcast engineer to stand by on.
First, yesterday, just to refresh your memory.
Here is what I said.
This is gonna be a referendum on Obama.
It really is, and and some people are gonna have to vote against him.
And well, I know that's not perfect world.
Have somebody out there you can vote for.
But this campaign, this election is going to be a referendum up or down on Obama.
It is.
And this last call, this guy's unpolitical, apolitical wife, is that they're starting to be exposed to something about it doesn't seem genuine anymore.
Just she can't put her finger on it because she's not political, just seems to be a little bit disingenuous.
The word fraud was used.
David Rodham Gurgen on Larry King Alive last night.
Larry King said, Why is this presidential race so close, David Rodham Gurgen?
That's one of the great mysteries, Larry.
Today there's a gallop USA Today poll uh among likely voters, which has McCain up by four.
We're in this highly puzzling, you know, mysterious time.
This is increasingly a referendum about uh Barack Obama.
And so and it's very much like what we saw back in 1980 when when Ronald Reagan ran against Jimmy Carter.
The campaign became are you is a country ready for Reagan?
And over time in the fall, especially Reagan convinced people he was someone they would like and they'd have voted for him.
Uh and I think that that's the Obama challenge now.
Well, I don't uh uh up until the Reagan comparison.
I uh I'm I followed this, uh David Rodham Gergen essentially echoing my sentiments that it's a referendum on Obama.
It's his to win or lose.
Uh but Reagan in 1980 for crying out loud with this country was in genuine misery.
Jimmy Carter was not liked.
In fact, the pre-election polls did not show the scope of Reagan's victory.
That was a 49-state landslide.
The drive-bys were just fooling themselves back then.
This country, this this was not a referendum on is Reagan liked or not liked.
I mean, this this was a campaign on salient issues that dealt with the specifics of this country's economics and foreign policy at the time, and Jimmy Carter had demonstrated himself to be a total failure.
He had insulted the American people, blaming them for the malay.
I should say us, blaming us for the malaise in which the country was the was was floundering.
Uh that to compare Reagan to uh Obama in in the sense or the see the the Democrats love to talk about Reagan as somebody that was simply the result of slick marketing marketing and packaging.
And Reagan was about substantive issues.
And it was about the presentation and articulation of those issues in an inspirational way.
And they have done their best to rewrite the history of that.
If there's anybody that's getting along here with slick marketing and packaging, it is none other than the Messiah, the most merciful, Lord Barack Obama, who is a total media creation.
Is the Janet in well, Snurny Snurley has a good question here.
Sometimes Snurtley actually inquires a good question.
Why is the presumption that he should be up?
Why is the presumption that Obama should be up?
Well, look who's asking the question, the drive bys.
We aren't.
The drive bys are asking the question, and a reason why they presume that he would be up is because they have been given this guy the kind of publicity he couldn't afford to buy.
Not only are they covering what he's doing, they are portraying him as acting president.
And they are saying he's qualified, and he's a statesman, and he's going to save America, and he's going to make America liked.
What they don't get is a majority of Americans don't care to have this country defined by whether or not people in other countries approve of us or not.
Particularly the Europeans.
They live in their own cocoon.
And they think that whatever they're doing is going to transfer to the same kind of adoration for Obama that they have amongst the great unwashed.
So their presumption Obama should be way up is based not only on the fact that they are going, I mean, the so in the tank, even some drive-bys are getting concerned about it.
The second reason is they're ignoring McCain.
And when they do pay attention to McCain, they try to make it as unflattering as they can.
So they figure that he ought to be well over 50%, maybe up to 60%, simply because of the assistance they are giving him.
They're out of touch.
The drive by out of touch.
This, as I told you, his campaign, the Obama campaign, as stated by that brilliant PR executive in D.C., it's about history.
It's historical.
And it's even more important, the historical aspects, even more important to the drive-by, because they want to be able to say they made it happen.
Not only are they witnessing history, the first black president, they want to be able to say they made it happen.
And they aren't making it happen.
He didn't get a bump when he got the nomination.
He didn't get a bump on his uh on his little intern tour.
McCain up by four, that just that's got him floored.
So they're not reporting the likely voter side of the poll.
They're reporting the registered voter side of the poll.
The presumption that he ought to be up is based on the fact that he is.
Well, there even I've got some stories in the stack today.
He's the story.
I mean, he's everywhere.
Everything he does, everything he says, gets reported and amplified.
They just can't, they can't figure out why this isn't translating into love and support among the people for Obama that uh echoes their own love and support for him.
I was just reminded of something, folks, and I want to go back.
You you might recall a couple weeks ago when the whole notion of the unfairness that Obama was being, or that McCain was experiencing in terms of media coverage versus Obama.
I remember getting a call from the Associated Press, David Border, and he wanted a quote from me on this, and he used 80% of what I said.
And I said, this is not surprising here.
Nothing, I mean, this is very typical.
The Democrat candidate would get far more coverage and far more favorable coverage than a Republican candidate.
Nothing untypical about this.
This is this is part of the course.
What they're trying to do is establish this guy as a statesman.
The whole point of going over there is to make him look like he uh is something he's not.
He doesn't know what he's talking about, foreign policy-wise.
This is to make him look like he's a statesman on that area.
And then I said, there's another thing going on here, Mr. Border, and this explains, and he didn't, he didn't use this quote.
But this also answers the question why the presumption that Obama should be up at 60%.
There is no question that the drive-by media, because of guilt, genuine liberalism and so forth, Have this desire for a black candidate to do well.
The senator who doesn't know diddly squat about anything, served a hundred and forty days, working days in the Senate, who has no substantive achievements that can be pointed to.
They still have to make sure this guy does well.
This is the historical aspect of this.
The historical aspect of this campaign, the first black president.
And so they want to be the ones to make it happen, whether he's qualified or not.
Because they, as liberals, rooted in the civil rights struggles of this country's past, have this burning desire for black candidates here to do well.
If if they're they're gonna be so bent out of shape if Obama loses this, uh you should be prepared for that.
I am forewarning you uh about it now.
There's another aspect of this too, and that is the arrogance of liberalism.
The arrogance of liberalism is that okay, so you have Bush that won two elections, 2000 and 2004.
Flukes.
Something went wrong.
The Debul machines or the Supreme Court, that American people don't elect Republicans, they're Democrats.
And so there's this assumption here that the birthright of Democrats is power.
And it's theirs by fiat simply because they're born and they exist.
So you couple their arrogance with the historical aspect and their desire for a black candidate for this guy to do well, and they've got to make it appear he can do well because he cannot do it on his own by pointing to his record, and you have this presumption that he ought to be way, way up in a polls.
Plus they look at McCain and they see somebody old and worn out, who's not making any waves, who's not exciting anybody, and they don't understand it.
Well, look at some recent histoire, ladies and gentlemen, go back to uh 2000.
The recent last two presidential races have been pretty close.
2000, of course, very close, came down to one state, and 2004 was not as close as 2000, and not as close as the Democrats thought, but it still came down to one state, Ohio.
This country has been pretty well polarized for quite a while.
The presumption that this is gonna be a runaway, the presumption that this is gonna be a slam dunk for the liberal Democrats is not borne out by this nation's recent voting history.
Here is Janet from uh from the porch, Maine.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Janet, hello.
Hi, I'm on I'm on the porch in Maine.
On the porch.
Okay.
Well, you never know.
There people call here with names from my home state of Missouri I never heard of.
So I just assumed there was a place there called the porch.
Oh, I mean, there's a place in Texas called the Woodlands.
Well, this is actually a porch overlooking the ocean.
Hi, um, happy twenty years, and thank you.
Thank you very much.
Arts and croissant crowd diddles.
I was just wanted to posit the a new idea about Obama as to why he's not sweeping us all off his feet, uh, off our feet, even though he was causing women to faint earlier this year.
Tell me, tell me, say it.
Say it.
He's not likable.
It's really simple.
The man is odious.
Uh, he talks like a girl.
You ran a clip yesterday of Gloria Steinem making uh Jane Fonda.
Jane Fonda, yes.
I mean, they're rat they're rather those two women are fairly interchangeable.
And making the case for women's radio, the means for women's radio.
Well, that could have been Obama opinion on our his version of foreign policy.
It's pure psychobabble.
Obama I Well, you know, I'm not a minute.
Wait a minute.
What normally I would discount any assertion that Obama is unlikable.
But when it comes to women assessing political characters' personalities, you got to give it some weight.
We got to give this some credibility.
It would have never occurred to me that Obama's unlikable.
Well, you don't doubt women on stuff like this.
I got a lot of guys telling me, it's wrong.
Obama's totally likable.
Maybe to you guys, I'm telling you, don't doubt these women.
Don't doubt them on this.
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