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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, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh 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, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Well, we continue our 20th anniversary celebration week.
I forgot to mention yesterday the, you know, I felt yesterday, if I must be honest with you, I was telling Snerdley when we left yesterday, I felt like I left half my IQ at home.
Yes, the brain didn't seem to be working as quickly and fluidly as I'm accustomed to it.
Snerdley assured me that was not detectable.
But I feel a little bit better here today, ladies and gentlemen.
I forgot to see, this is an example of 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 20th anniversary, Jed Babbin.
And I did a little interview with him on Friday, and they published a transcript of it yesterday.
Levin had just a great piece.
I guess they're having people all week write different pieces.
And we linked to it, of course, at rushlimbaugh.com.
But I forgot to mention this yesterday and to thank them.
And our buddies at WorldNet Daily are doing just all kinds of things, posting tribute pieces from all kinds of people.
And I just, I forgot to mention this yesterday.
I felt, well, I know, but they started this on Friday and through the weekend.
And I, you know, I have manners.
I'm polite.
I wanted to thank them.
And I did just, as I say, I left half my IQ at home yesterday.
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 a little frustrating.
Of course, when the staff says, no, we couldn't tell a difference.
You know how staffs are.
They suck up.
S suck up.
That's S.
And so I just, I have to, that's why I trust my instincts on all of this.
Speaking of the 20th anniversary week celebration, the 20th anniversary is coming up on Friday.
I've had a number of requests for highlights in previous shows.
And one of the most frequently received requests has been for phone calls from Mick from the High Mountains of New Mexico.
Now, we have coming up later in the week, we have 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 14 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 guess he became a regular caller, but I don't remember, did he just get in when he called?
Or was it, was it we had his number and called him?
He just got in.
He just got in.
Oh, that's right.
I forgot I sent Mick a fax machine so he could 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.
Mick.
Yes, sir.
How are you?
From the high mountains of New Mexico, sir.
How are you?
Great.
I'm glad you're there.
Besides burning up my fax machine trying to get rid of Bingham and Richardson and King, I had a message for you.
Do you still have that deer head that Ted Nugent sent you?
Yeah, it's sitting there on my TV show set.
Well, sir, I am sending.
I caused the demise of 11 coyotes, and 10 of them.
When did you do this?
Just during the recent season.
You caused the demise of 11 coyotes.
Right, I brought 11 of them back.
10 of them made a parka for my ex.
And the prime coat of all is being shipped to you to hang on one of those horns that you have of Nugent's white tail.
Moose.
So I'm going to mail it to you.
Well, that's terrific.
Well, I have.
It's a full skin.
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 your coats out of it.
Yeah, but if you don't do that, what do you do?
Frame it or do you hang it?
Oh, you just hang it on the wall.
Say, look what a man I am, you know.
I skin my own coyotes.
You scunnied out.
Well, this is tremendous.
I have never had my own coyote skin, and we will hang it on Nugent's moose with 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 Dan's Bake Sale.
And he looked pretty much exactly like what we expected him.
He looked like a cowboy.
Thin, you know, gaunt, almost with a weather-worn face and so forth.
Genuine man.
He 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 a TV show on Connecticut Public Access TV called Migs Bee on TV.
And the host was Migs Burroughs.
And he interviewed me, and he said, 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's misunderstood.
For one thing, the whole piece is a contradiction.
On the one hand, here's this song sung by a guy, songs 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.
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 he hasn't got this.
And so you put that song juxtaposed with a 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 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'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.
Connecticut Public Access TV, Migs Bee, 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.
They're living a life of misery, and they are the people that you think make up the country.
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 going to 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 shelters while they are watching your convention.
And make, in fact, make registering to vote a requirement to get into the homeless shelter.
And 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 broadcast prominently as representative of all of America because of the predatory lending practices that have led to the subprime mortgage crisis.
So this morning on the Fox News channel, 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 a co-host 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 the convention ongoings.
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 are now debating it.
The two sides are, hey, let's promote them.
Let's give them movie tickets.
Let's 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.
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 is 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 CBS Sports, who if you ever get a chance to meet him, he's exactly as you would expect he would be.
He's one of the classiest and most genuinely nice people that you would ever run into.
I tell you, I know of curity.
Well, I am a curator, in a sense, the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, curator of artifacts, curator of American cultural items.
It's a great line.
I'm telling you, I'm going to break down here before this week is out with all these things.
I think saying thank you to everybody, including all you in the audience, is just insufficient.
But I appreciate it more than you know.
By the way, a friend of mine told me last night that the Brett 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'm not seen this reported anywhere, but the reason I mention this to you is that there's a story from Rasmussen Reports.
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 Brett girl, John Edwards.
56%.
The drive-bys 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.
I mean, they just don't know about it.
21% view Edwards very favorably.
He slightly edges Senator Clinton, who is viewed at least somewhat favorably by 51%, with 27% characterizing their view of her as very favorable.
It appears that neither of these two have a ghost's chance, particularly Mrs. Clinton.
The Brett girl may still be in the running, which is stunning to me.
And if he's not VP, he's going to be in the administration someplace.
People are talking about him being attorney general.
I kid you not, Snerdly.
Kim, not kidding you not?
No.
But Tim Cain has caused a ruckus here, the governor of Virginia, 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.
It's, I don't know, to me, all this vice presidential stuff is getting interesting because A, it's traditional, but B, including from McCain's side.
But B, because the campaign is, and both sides has sort of reached one of those points in time where nothing happens that's really interesting.
It's just a repetition of previous events.
Obama is back from his intern tour.
McCain went out, stood next to the oil Derek yesterday.
He went out in Bakersfield, California, stood next to the oil deck, Derek, and then sabotaged himself by pointing out the mold that he had removed from his face.
More on McCain and oil.
And by this price of oil got down to $120 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?
$121.77 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 who wrote this?
Adam Nogurney.
Adam Nogurney is the reporter that the McCain or the Obama campaign, what did they throw him off the airplane or kicked him, 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 Nogurney the next day by putting out a talking points memo that treated Adam Nogurney of the New York Times like he was a candidate.
They went out and destroyed him and destroyed his peace.
And Adam Nogurney, the New York Times, is 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 Nogurney 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 10 points since last Friday when Obama's intern tour 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 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.
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 49-45 among likely voters.
In late June, he was behind among likely voters, 50 to 44.
Then we come to New Gurney'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 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 than 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 that 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 Nogurney 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, 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.
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 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 make 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 Mariv newspapers, well, they'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 prayer being made public.
This prayer being made public is no different than during the 50th anniversary, 60th anniversary, whatever 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 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.
Doesn't matter.
It's what it is, but that's the, 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.
This is Brett from Redwood City, California.
Great to have you here, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Good, thank you.
Hey, I just wanted to say that back in January or February, it was 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.
She's basically going, hurrah, hurrah, absolutely fantastic.
Anyways, at the same time, my son, who's about 16, 17, and I was going like, don't you see saying the same thing, hope and change, hope and change?
Anyways, you know, so she's pretty set on Obama and voting for him.
But then I talked with her the other day.
I said, are you still in with Obama?
And she goes, well, the more I see him, the more I'm not really liking him anymore.
And so will that change her vote?
I couldn't tell you, but right now, I don't think that she's liking what she sees.
Why?
What is causing her to change her opinion of the Messiah?
You know, the more I think she sees him, I think the more she's starting to realize that the guy's pretty much a sort of a 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 he was standing for in the beginning.
So the war, the wall or the shroud is sort of coming up.
Sad but true.
Well, you know, one other thing, and I know that I was supposed to keep on this topic, but I was with my aunt, who's about 91 years old the other day.
She's down in L.A., and she's a big Hillary supporter.
I said, well, since Hillary's out, are you going to vote for Obama?
She goes, heck, no, I'm not even going to vote.
And so I thought that was pretty interesting.
Well, I'm glad you called because you have provided here a nice transition into a couple of audio soundbites 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 going to be a referendum on Obama.
It really is.
And some people are going to have to vote against him.
And, well, I know that's not perfect world.
Have somebody out there you could 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 starting to be exposed to something about it doesn't seem genuine anymore.
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 Gergen on Larry King Alive last night.
Larry King said, why is this presidential race so close, David Rodham Gergen?
That's one of the great mysteries, Larry.
Today, there's a Gallup QSA Today poll among likely voters, which has McCain up by four.
We're in this highly puzzling, mysterious time.
This is increasingly a referendum about Barack Obama.
And so, and it's very much like what we saw back in 1980 when Ronald Reagan ran against Jimmy Carter.
The campaign became, is the country ready for Reagan?
And over time, in the fall, especially, Reagan convinced people he was someone they would like, and they voted for him.
And I think that that's the Obama challenge now.
Well, up until the Reagan comparison, I followed this.
David Rodham Gergen essentially echoing my sentiments that this is a referendum on Obama.
It's his to win or lose.
But Reagan in 1980 for crying out loud when 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 was not a referendum on Reagan liked or not liked.
I mean, 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 malaise, I should say us, blaming us for the malaise in which the country was floundering.
To compare Reagan to Obama in the sense, see, the Democrats love to talk about Reagan as somebody that was simply the result of slick 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, Sterling asks a good question here.
Sometimes Snerdley 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 the 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, 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-bys are 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 aspect's even more important than the drive-bys, 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 little intern tour.
McCain up by four, 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, they're 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 echoes their own love and support for him.
I was just reminded of something, folks, and I want to go back.
You might recall a couple weeks ago when the whole notion of the unfairness that Obama was being, 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, it's not surprising here.
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 parfit, of 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 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.
Then I said, there's another thing going on here, Mr. Border.
And this explains, and 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.
This senator who doesn't know diddly squat about anything, served 140 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.
They're going to be so bent out of shape if Obama loses this.
You should be prepared for that.
I am forewarning you 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 Debold machines or the Supreme Court, American people don't elect Republicans.
They erect 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 histoi.
Ladies and gentlemen, go back to 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 going to be a runaway, the presumption that this is going to be a slam dunk for the liberal Democrats, is not borne out by this nation's recent voting history.
Here is Janet from The Porch, Maine.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Janet, hello.
Hi, I'm on the porch in Maine.
On the porch.
Okay, well, you never know.
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, happy 20 years, and thank you.
Thank you very much.
Arts and Croissant crowdsiddos.
I just wanted to posit a new idea about Obama as to why he's not sweeping us all off his feet, 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.
He talks like a girl.
You ran a clip yesterday of Gloria Steinem making Jane Fonda.
Jane Fonda, yes.
I mean, 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 opining on his version of foreign policy.
It's pure psycho babble.
Obama, I'm not sure.
Well, you know, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
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've got to give this some credibility.
It would have never occurred to me that Obama's unlikable.
But 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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