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Question, ladies and gentlemen.
You know, the Democrat convention is coming up on August 28th, and that is a Thursday.
Well, the convention's that week, 21st to 28th, but the big night is the 28th.
That's the night that Obama will accept his party's nomination, supposedly outside at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver.
And as you know, he has not received a bump from his trip overseas.
Quite the contrary.
It probably has hurt him.
Now, August 28th is also the 40th anniversary of the I Have a Dream speech by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Is there any doubt, ladies and gentlemen, that the Democrat Party and Obama will turn that acceptance speech into not the second coming of JFK, but rather the second coming of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
And, you know, the Democrats now and the drive-bys are doing everything they can to call McCain and Republicans racists for the ads that are being run against the Messiah, and it isn't working.
You know, I think, as I think about whether or not Obama is going to get a bump out of his convention, you know, Republican convention is going to start the next Monday.
There's not a week or two between the conventions this time.
And it's going to be fascinating.
It's going to be very interesting to see if Obama gets the traditional bump out of the Democrat convention.
You go back in 2004, 1998, a number of years, you'll find that Democrats had 15 to 18 point leads over the Republican nominee at this point in the campaign, at this point in the summer.
And Barry doesn't have that.
Barry is either tied or a point behind, depending upon the poll that you look at.
What if he doesn't get the bump?
And I don't think he's going to.
I'm going to predict to you right now he's not going to get the bump.
And I'll tell you why.
It's because I think that the left has overdone it for too long.
I hope that they continue to say that every ad McCain runs is racist.
I hope they keep this up because the American people are sick and tired of it.
The American people no longer believe this country is racist at its core, discriminatory at its core.
It can't possibly be the case.
The case cannot be made that that is America in 2008.
There's just too much eyeball evidence to the contrary.
And yet they keep trying to portray this country as soup line in terms of its economics and racist in terms of its past, as though all of those circumstances are alive and current today as they were 40 years ago.
So they come out and they make this big acceptance speech and make this big D turned over to Martin Luther King Jr. on civil rights and do the we shall overcome stuff.
It ain't going to fly.
It ain't going to fly because the majority of Americans are sick of it.
Because that approach to racism basically says to Americans, you're guilty.
You haven't paid the price yet.
And you need to pay the price.
And we're never going to let you forget what you did when these Americans alive today did diddly squat.
And let's not forget that Bull Connor, fire hose and dogs in Selma, was a Democrat.
Most of the big-time segregationists were.
So it'll be interesting to see how this pans out.
I know that they are concerned in the Democrat Party over Obama's lack of His inability to now even hold a lead, much less close the deal.
And here's a post from the Huffington Post.
The headline, Obama, McCain's not running a campaign to be proud of.
This little guy is whining more and more every day.
Obama, he really is like a man-child.
He's so spoiled rotten.
Things don't go his way, and he's got to whine and moan and complain.
Obama accused McCain on Tuesday of running a campaign that McCain himself could not take pride in.
He was speaking at a town hall meeting in Youngstown, Ohio.
The Illinois Democrat fielded a question about the myth that elderly white women wouldn't support his candidacy.
From there, however, Obama pivoted into the increasingly personal and negative tone to which the general election campaign has descended.
When McCain gets up there and says, I'd rather win an election than win a war, when he says that I didn't visit the troops when I was overseas, even though every media outlet says that's just not true, it suggests that you're not trying to solve problems, Obama said.
All you're trying to do is divide people so you can win an election.
There's nothing to be proud of.
Let's have a real honest debate about policies that are going to make a difference in people's lives.
That'd be great, Obama, so accept McCain's invitations.
All these town hall meetings that you refuse to go to?
McCain's been wanting to debate the issues for a long time with you.
And you haven't done it.
And by the way, you people in drive-by's, could you grow up, you're acting like a bunch of kids, too.
He thought that, he thought that we could have had a revolutionary campaign on the issue with no negative ads, but now I thought the one.
Yeah, you knew that this campaign, I have to tell you, this campaign is the most wimpish, cissified campaign in my president, in my lifetime.
This is wissified.
Somebody says something about somebody, I denounce that, and if you throw this person under the bus, throw that person under the bus.
And somebody, somebody else's campaign says something else, and the candidate, Obama won't do it, but sends somebody out to denounce.
It's a bunch of wusses.
He really is.
And it's to say this is a negative campaign.
So all that means, all that means is that these ads that McCain is running are having an effect and having an impact.
And by the way, I think if you listen to some sound bites, you can hear a little bit more energy in McCain, which might be born of a little confidence.
Last night in Sturgis, South Dakota, 68th annual Sturgis motorcycle rally, this is what McCain said about the Messiah.
As you may know, not long ago, a couple of hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent.
I'll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day.
Any day, my friend.
And they did, and they revved up those Harleys, and it was a gigantic roar.
Then in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, after touring a label-making plant, McCain held a press conference, and here is a portion of what he said.
We need to drill here, and we need to drill now.
Senator Obama continues to oppose offshore drilling.
He continues to oppose the use of nuclear power.
Step it up.
These misguided policies would result in higher energy costs to American families and businesses and increased dependence on foreign oil.
We're not going to achieve energy independence by inflating our tires.
All right, rat out, rad out, rat out.
Now, I don't know how much you remember of yesterday's program, probably every bit of it, which is how good it was.
Have you grasped fully what the Obama, well, hello, the whole Democrat Party's effort to demonize oil is?
It is profound.
He wants to go get oil.
Now, follow this.
This is where Obama can be ill-advised by advisors and not be smart enough to understand the position they've put him in.
We can't drill for oil.
We can't drill for oil for a host of reason.
The reason we can't drill for oil is we wouldn't get any new oil for seven to 10 years, blah, blah, blah.
We also can't drill for oil because of environmental spills and mishaps and pollution and global warming and yada yada.
And plus, we got to get off of oil.
Yet, to lower the pump price of gasoline, what does Obama want to do?
He wants to go get oil from the Strategic Reserve, which would affect, if you do that, you're effectively going to eventually raise the price because you've got to replace that oil.
You've got to replace it in the Strategic Reserve.
At some point, it's going to cost more to replace it than what it costs us to put it in there.
So it's going to raise prices ultimately.
But the point is, yeah, okay, we've got to get more oil from the Strategic Reserve, but we're not going to drill for it.
Now, wait.
If more oil will affect the price of the refined products, then why the distinction between going to the Strategic Reserve and drilling?
Well, it's because drilling is bad.
Drilling is evil.
Drilling is, we're trying to get away from this, but yet it makes no sense.
Logically, it makes no sense.
This is a war on oil.
The Democrats have now demonized energy, folks.
They've demonized energy as though it's immoral, almost criminal, to supply ourselves with energy, not just to sustain ourselves, but to grow.
Here's more from McCain of Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.
I'm willing to come off the campaign trail.
I call on Senator Obama to call on Congress to come back into town and come back to work, come off their recess, come off their vacation, and address this energy challenge to America and don't leave until we do.
By the way, this vacation business, something, who was it yesterday?
I read a columnist.
It might have been an L.A. Times piece, I forget which.
They went out and talked to Bob Shrum, who has yet to win a Democrat Party presidential candidacy or a campaign that he directed.
And it was all about whether or not a candidate should take a vacation in August.
And the story said that, well, look what happened to John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, the haughty John Kerry, when he took a vacation.
He went out there windsurfing at Nantucket.
And the drive-bys, the cameras caught him, and he looked like a gee.
He looked like a genuine dork out there windsurfing.
Who windsurfs?
Went out there windsurfing and gave the Republicans an excellent opening.
Here's John Kerry flip-flopping and changing direction as often as the wind does on his windsurf board.
So I think the point of the story was advising Obama, hey, don't take a vacation.
There's too much can go wrong when you're on vacation.
Slip up, you do stupid things and so forth.
But Obama is going to take a vacation this month.
Yeah, somewhere around the 14th, maybe a little earlier, the second week of August, he's going to take a vacation.
One more.
Back to Sturgis, South Dakota, the 68th annual Sturgis motorcycle rally.
Senator McCain said this about the current energy situation in America.
Is there anybody that wants to become energy independent?
Well, I'm telling you right now, we're sending $700 billion over a year, and your Congress just went on vacation for five weeks.
Tell them to come back and get to work.
Tell them to get to work.
Yeah, come back, get to work.
But there's that $700 billion figure again.
And it bugs me.
It is misleading.
I understand why people are using it.
But it's as though we're throwing it away.
We get something back for that.
It's called oil.
What's the crime?
Sure, I'd love to have more of our own, and with any fortitude, we'll get there.
But we're sending $700 billion overseas.
We are sending, well, we're sending some of it to Canada.
We're sending some of it to Mexico.
We're sending some of it to Nigeria.
We are sending some of it to the Middle East.
We're sending some to Venezuela, but who's sending it?
That $700 billion figure being bandied about makes it sound like the U.S. government is being blackmailed or extorted.
Yeah, we're going to send $700 billion to the oil chick.
So what do we get for it?
We get oil.
It's a deal.
Anyway, quick time out here, folks.
Sit tight.
Much more straight ahead on the EIB network.
Let's see now.
Obama's campaign is unique.
Obama is a candidate unlike any other who have appeared on the American political scene.
Obama is the light.
Obama is the anointed one.
Obama is the Messiah.
Obama will unify.
Obama will bring forces to the American political structure that we have never seen, right?
So I'm watching DNC-TV here, and I'm looking at Laura DeAndrea Tyson.
And she's on there talking about oil prices.
And I find Laura DeAndrea Tyson, who was high-ranking economic official for Clinton, is an economic advisor to Barack Obama.
Wow.
That's really cool.
That's really a lot of change.
That's really something unique.
That's something we've not seen before.
You realize how many myths and outright lies there are in positioning and packaging the Obama campaign.
I found something yesterday I want to share with you, and it's $700 million, billion dollars here we're spending on oil.
Folks, I can't tell you how much it tees me off because it's being portrayed as though we're being extorted, blackmailed, we're giving money away to terrorists and so forth.
There's a website called AlphaQ, or Alpha A. Seeking Alpha is what it actually is.
And they start out quoting T-Boon Pickens.
Mark Perry is the author of this little blurb.
As imports grow and world prices rise, the amount of money we send to foreign nations every year is soaring at current oil prices.
We will send $700 billion out of the country this year alone.
That's four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.
Projected over the next 10 years, the cost will be $10 trillion, says T-Boone.
It'll be the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind.
It's no such thing.
See, may I interrupt Mr. Perry here for a second.
This is what bothers me.
T-Boone, he knows better than this.
He knows this is not a transfer of wealth.
A transfer of wealth is taxing producers, taking it away from them, and giving it to non-producers.
Transfers of wealth are things like the estate tax when the money you take from somebody doesn't redound to them in any way, shape, manner, or form.
But this purchase of oil every year from foreign sources is not a transfer of wealth.
It is an exchange of wealth.
Foreign oil producers like Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico send us their oil, and we send them green pieces of paper with dead presidents' pictures on them, known as U.S. dollars.
That imported oil thus helps fuel our economy, fuel our cars and factories, which raises our standard of living.
There's no transfer of wealth here.
T-Boon needs to be exchanged if it's smarter than this.
It's an exchange of wealth.
This $700 billion is looking at it in a total, totally incorrect way.
Oil producers in Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico, after this exchange, now have U.S. dollars, which must be spent back in the U.S. on American goods and services or invested in the U.S. financial markets, either by the oil producers or by those who buy their U.S. dollars from them.
Importing oil certainly involves a transfer, but it's not a transfer of wealth.
It's a market transaction involving the exchange of oil for currency.
It is a wealth exchange or transfer.
In T-Boon Pickens' version, it seems like wealth gets transferred overseas without any benefit to the U.S.
But oil imports, like all trade, involves mutually beneficial exchange.
Remember, trade is win-win, not win-lose like T-Boon is suggesting here.
Or it's not lo-lose or lose-lose the way the Soviets supposedly described a market exchange.
Buyers lose their money and sellers lose their goods, but the state gets rich.
Now, one dictionary definition of wealth is an abundance of valuable resources.
In that case, wouldn't T-Boone's greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind be a transfer of wealth in the form of valuable natural resources, oil, to the United States and not a transfer of wealth from the United States in the form of paper currency?
Now, we can debate the dependency aspect of this, but that's a different argument.
This figure being vandaled about $700 billion is made and it's described in such a way as to make us look helpless, as though we're being shafted, as though we are being screwed.
Yet, what we do with that oil that we buy increases lifestyles, expands opportunity, grows the United States economy, creates jobs, enables us to move around when we want to go, where we want to go, you know, within limits.
If we didn't buy it, if we didn't buy that oil, and we didn't spend the $700 billion a year, where would we be?
There'd be a lot more than 400 airplanes parked.
There'd be a lot more automobiles on the unsold portion of the used car lots.
And by the way, who's spending the $700 billion?
It also is, we're supposed to infer that the U.S. government is being held up, that the sheikhs are holding a gun to our heads, and they're making us pay this $700 billion.
They sent it on to bin Laden.
That's what they want you to believe.
But the government is not buying it all.
They buy from the Strategic Reserve.
But who do you think is buying this oil?
Hmm?
You know, you just got to love the Germans these days.
They make Obama look like an idiot.
Their courts say that it's unconstitutional to tell people they can't smoke cigarettes in bars, so that's now opened up.
And now this is being dubbed the new bulletproof bra.
This is a BBC story.
A new kind of wonder bra, which could help protect thousands of women police officers in Germany.
A bulletproof bra has just been made and designed.
It may sound like a joke, but it's a serious matter.
The policewoman who came up with the idea said normal bras can be dangerous when worn in combination with a bulletproof vest.
The impact of a bullet can push the metal and plastic bits of the bra into an officer's body.
That can cause serious injuries, said Carmen Kabat, an advisor on equal opportunities for the Hamburg, Germany Federal Police Force.
I always thought that normal bras posed a safety risk, and I wanted to change that, she said.
These new bras are very important.
They'll help all our women officers.
What do they look like, you might be asking?
Well, they look similar to sports bras.
What?
You're nodding your head.
You've heard of these?
Mm-hmm.
Well, how do you know they got no wire in them?
Well, but now what?
How do you know the bulletproof bras?
We're talking to Dawn here, who's nodding her head in total understanding.
I haven't said yet that it has no wire in it.
How did you know that it has no wire in it?
Before I mentioned sports bras, I think you know about the story.
You might even, you might, do you have one of these?
Do you okay?
They look similar to sports bras, but the new bras are white, made from cotton or polyester, and they are padded.
Well, we had no doubts about that.
They also have the word police printed at the bottom.
Crucially, though, the bras do not have any underwire or fastener made out of metal or plastic.
From now on, women cops will be allowed to pick three bras from a range of designs, varying in size and style.
These new bras represent pioneering work, said Rudger Karstens, a spokesman for the federal police there in Berlin.
It shows that the safety of our officers is a top priority.
At the end of the day, though, these are not mandatory.
It's up to each individual officer to decide whether she will go for the latest bulletproof lingerie.
A police spokesman was keen to point out that the new bras are optional.
No, no bra.
Let's just use the normal bra enough to put this thing on.
Many of them probably take this one home and use it personally, find reasons to adapt it to their personal life rather than professional life.
Finally, this is from the Chicago Sun-Times.
Now, get this headline.
It's getting harder to get into jail.
The sub-headline, standards have been raised, so fewer guards are being hired.
Listen to the open of this story.
And keep in mind that this is where Obama learned what he knows.
It's getting tougher for the dishonest, the mentally unstable, and the overweight to get hired as Cook County jail guards these days.
As a result, fewer guards are getting hired.
Until recently, would-be correctional officers only had to pass a drug test, a criminal background check, and a physical agility test that included bending over and picking up a chair.
Now, Sheriff Tom Dart requires jail guard candidates to pass lie detector and psychological tests, along with a more strenuous physical ability test that requires people under 30 to complete 37 sit-ups in a minute.
That's why it's tougher for the dishonest, the mentally unstable, and the overweight.
See this, see, what a rotten country we have.
You see how unfair and discriminatory we are.
So now the dishonest, the mentally unstable, and the overweight are being discriminated against even more in Cook County by essentially being told they cannot be guards at jail.
What's the question, Mr. Sterdley?
They're having trouble filling the jobs because of these requirements, which must mean that most of the staff is made up of the dishonest, the mentally, Whatever it was challenged, and the overweight.
That must be the majority of the roster of guards at the Cook County Jail.
Here's Anna in Lewisburg, North Carolina, as we go back to the phones.
Thank you for waiting, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Russ.
It is truly an honor to speak with you.
The reason why I'm calling, I was listening to a radio show this morning in Raleigh, and they were talking about these tire gauges that the McCain campaign is putting out.
And all they were saying was, it's disgusting.
Can you believe that they would do such a thing?
It's just despicable.
Who was saying that?
Brad and Britt in the morning.
Oh, the morning show, guys?
Yes.
And what I kept thinking about was: first of all, I like how you call Obama a man-child because his skin is so thin.
I mean, it's just driving me crazy.
But also, as Republicans, and for me, as a supporter of George Bush, for the last eight years, we have had to hear him being compared to Hitler.
All these awful, horrible things.
And they are beside themselves because of a tire gauge.
And it just amazes me.
That's not why they're beside themselves.
They're beside themselves because it's effective.
They're beside themselves because it makes the guy they are apparently for look like the doofus and the whiner that he is.
And by the way, you better be careful out there.
Anna, you start calling Obama thin-skinned, and they're going to tell you it's a racist comment because you call a black guy skinny and it's racist.
Well, you know what?
Bring it on because I am not a racist, and I am so sick and tired of that.
Amen.
It just drives me crazy.
I think most Americans are tired of it, frankly, and I think that actually should keep it up.
I hope they do continue to focus on the racial aspect.
I hope they do accuse every Republican McCain of being racist.
I hope they do because they are fed up with it.
The American people are fed up with the Jesse Jacksons and the race business and the extortion and all.
They're fed up with it.
They're fed up with being blamed for things they didn't do.
They are owed, in my opinion, the American people should be owed a debt of gratitude.
I agree.
And, you know, say what you want about George Bush, but all those horrible things that were said about that man, you never, I have never heard of one instance of him whining.
He doesn't whine about it.
He doesn't whine.
He's a true, I mean, granted, there were times I wish he would have stuck up for himself a little bit more, but he is a true leader.
And Obama, if he's going to whine every single time someone has a little bit of fun, he's never going to make it.
He won't survive.
Well, I don't think Obama does have much fun.
He hasn't hung around people who enjoy life.
He hangs around people that are enraged and angry and ticked off all the time, from his college professors on down to these terrorist buddies, radical preachers, and all this.
And I also think he takes himself so seriously that none of this is funny.
This is, I mean, for this to be funny, he would have to be funny in the sense of being laughed at.
And then you, we don't laugh at Messiahs.
You don't criticize Messiahs.
You just don't.
Anyway, Anna, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Up next is Deanna from Sydney, Ohio.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
Well, a little bit off the beaten path, but I was wondering what you thought about the whole Brett Favre situation.
Well, tell me something.
Last I heard, the head coach, McCarthy, Mike McCarthy, was to have a little meeting with the Packers quarterbacks and the team last night and then go out and have a press conference that was scheduled to start at 8:15 Central Time.
The meeting with Favre and the quarterbacks went over two hours.
They canceled a press conference.
So has Favre taken the field yet?
Is he actually out there taking the field for the Packers?
Do you know something I don't know?
I have not heard that yet.
Well, when I first heard about this, I was fascinated to watch, as I always am, the drive-bys reaction.
Now, you have to understand something about the drive of the sports drive-bys and Brett Favre.
He is the Messiah.
He is like Obama.
He can do no wrong.
Brett Favre gets media coverage unlike that which 99.9% of the people in this country, sports or otherwise, get when they are reported on.
He was idolized.
He was revered.
He was built up.
In fact, I have to think that any human being who received years and years and years of genuine idolization, idolatry, worship, and devotion, would have to be affected by it.
You'd have to have trouble letting that go.
Because you know most people, Deanna, really care what people think of them.
Sadly, it's true.
And when you've got the national sports media thinking you are the greatest, and they're out there treating you like a God, it's got to be hard when that goes away, such as when you retire.
So he announces he's coming.
And I wanted to watch the reaction of the drive-bys who had built Favre up.
Not that he didn't deserve a lot of it.
Don't misunderstand.
I've met Brett Favre.
He once wore a Rush Limbaugh tie.
They had a rush room in the Green Bay Packers locker room.
Rich Moran and Ken Rutgers of the offensive line.
This is back in the early 90s.
They started it.
And I got a great picture of Favre and the whole team in their jerseys wearing ties.
I've met him a couple.
He's a very nice guy.
But human psychology is what it is.
So I'm watching a drive-bys report on Favre coming back, and there's a genuine chorus.
Don't do it, Brett.
Don't do it.
We don't want to see you become Willie Mays.
We don't want to see you destroy your career.
You'll be one hit away.
Let us have the memories, Brett.
Let us have the memories we have of you, Brett.
Please don't come back.
Don't completely.
And I'm saying to myself, why?
The guy still wants to play.
He's still got two years left in his contract.
If he wants to come back and play, let him play.
Let him come back and try to play.
Then the Packers made it clear they had no desire for any of this to happen.
And that's when this became, I think, started to become a circus.
To tell you the truth, Deanna, and I don't think anybody in it looks particularly good right now.
The Packers had their plans all set up.
Now those plans apparently blown to smithereens.
They wanted to move on with a quarterback that's not played, he's not started a game in his career, Aaron Rodgers.
Now Favre comes in and wants to play.
They want to trade him because he'll end up with the Vikings, which is division opponent.
Right.
Now I just, and then they offer, I'm so glad to tell you what I'm glad he turned down the 20 million over 10 years to be a marketing representative because they were essentially paying him to stay down in Mississippi.
Paying him to stay home and not play.
If he would have taken that, it would have given the drive-bys a chance to say, well, maybe he's a little bit more mercenary than we thought.
Maybe he doesn't play for the love of the games.
I'm glad he didn't take that.
But at any rate, at the end of the day, Deanna, all of this is just nothing but fun because it's sports.
And sports is an escape from the humdrum of the Obamas and the McCain's and the leftists and the oil price and so forth.
Sports is there to get our minds off of it.
And so while people take it, it is a business and people take it very seriously and analyze it as such.
At the end of the day, these guys are just playing games.
They're the professionals.
We're all professionals here.
They're the best at what they do and it's fun to watch them do it.
But in terms of the impact it's going to have, you know, it can have an impact on a town's City population self-esteem, market the size of Green Bay or something, but it's going to be hard to greet Brett Favre on the bench, if that's the way this season starts, with a guy who's never started a game in the NFL winning the job.
At the end of the day, it's fun to talk about, but it's not worth getting upset about.
Do you agree?
That's great perspective.
That's why we listened to you.
Well, I appreciate that.
Deanna, thanks much.
I've got to run quick timeout.
We'll be back with more great perspectives in a moment.
Back to the phones we go.
People have been patiently waiting here all day during the incredibly busy broadcast.
And we reward them Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Dave, you're next.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Hi.
Hey, good afternoon, Rush.
Just for the sake of saying Mr. Messiah tire gauge is right, and checking the pressure in the tires is going to offset drilling offshore.
Wouldn't it be even better to do both?
Because just think of how many gallons of gasoline we could have, how it drive down the price of gasoline and a barrel of oil.
You want to combine both the drilling of new oil here in the United States, the continental shelf, plus the proper inflation of tires to double the effect of the oil that we are drilling.
Absolutely.
I think it's a brilliant idea.
I think you should, we need to pass this on to McCain campaign because Obama may be on to something.
Because if we can inflate our tires and get as much oil as we are going to get drilling, why then we can still inflate the tires properly and do the drilling and get twice the oil.
Yes, absolutely.
And the price will come down even more, and our independence will be greater.
We'll assert our independence on these people that are raping us even better.
That's it.
That's a brilliant idea, Dave.
I'm glad it was worth the time for me that you held on to pass that bit of brilliance on.
I really like it.
That's great thinking.
Thank you very much.
My pleasure was mine, sir.
I'm glad you called.
Thanks very much.
By the way, the possibility of a mistrial emerged today in the U.S. first war crimes trial at Club Gitmo after prosecutors told a judge, I'm sorry, after prosecutors said the judge gave flawed instructions to a jury of military officers in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver.
Prosecutors asked the judge to revise the instructions he gave on what constitutes a war crime to the jurors who began deliberating on Monday in the case of Yemeni prisoner Saleem Hamdan.
This is a travesty.
This is even happening.
But anyway, there's a judge screws up and the prosecution that the judge gave flawed instructions.
We've got a lot at stake down there, Snirdley.
I mean, we've got that thriving merchandise business, Club Gitmo merchandising business, and on the verge of setting the place down.
Bill in Tampa, nice that you waited as well, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Rush, mega Cold War veteran West Coast Central Florida Ditto's Day.
Thanks for speaking with you, sir.
Thank you very much.
I have one question and one suggestion.
The question is: yesterday, Barry put out that he'd like the Michigan and Florida delegates to be fully counted.
Would that make any difference having known that Hillary has not gotten rid of her health?
Well, no, it won't make any difference.
That's why I'm suggesting it.
Yeah.
And the suggestion is that we try to limit the use of calling Barack the Messiah.
There's only one Messiah in this universe, and his middle name isn't Hussein.
Maybe we could call him the chosen one.
You are the second caller who has expressed reservations about the name of the Messiah being attached to Barry Obama.
This is done, of course, with the greatest respect.
This is mocking and it is satire.
And by the way, it's being picked up on.
I doubt the McCain campaign ad, the one, the chosen one, has Moses in there parting the Red Sea and the Obama fake presidential seal rises from the seabed.
I doubt that ad would have even been made were it not for this program's accurate characterization of the way Obama thinks of himself and the way the Obama campaign for crying out loud, when you're going to give a speech in Minneapolis or St. Paul and you stand up there and you say, we're the ones that we've been waiting for and I'm going to lower a sea level of four feet.
Go.
Let's go.
Let's get started.
You actually think you can do that kind of stuff.
You have a messianic complex.
And by the way, he's not the first to suffer from one of those.
He's just the latest Democrat to suffer from it who thinks he can take it all the way to the White House.
Nancy Pelosi is telling Democrats in the House who are at risk for re-election they can go ahead and vote for drilling.