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August 18, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Yep, it was a disaster.
I mean it was a total disaster.
It could not have been worse.
And the thing is, everybody on Obama's side knows that it was a disaster.
That little forum they had Saturday night at Saddlesore Church or whatever it is.
I'm telling you folks, that it so much to say about this.
Here's a phone number, 800 282-2882.
Now, Rick Warren, author of the Purpose Driven Life, is a pastor.
He's a preacher.
He sold 35 million books.
He had this forum on Saturday night with both Obama and McCain.
They got basically the same questions.
Obama went first, which is something he's not used to.
You know, in the debate, you remember when Mrs. Clinton constantly complained that she got the first question, and that allowed uh Obama to go second or after her, and she was she's a little jokingly whining about it.
Obama uh drew the uh the first hour as a result of a coin flip, and it was uh it was clear, and he knew he was out of his uh uh comfort zone, given the given the audience there.
But despite that, he got several rounds of applause, but it was just a disaster in every which way you can think.
Now, a lot of people today, ladies and gentlemen, are complaining that this uh forum took place at all.
That, you know, this this business of politics going on in churches is a little diminishing.
Uh, it's it's it's it's got it it's problematic.
Well, the to the people that are saying that, I understand why they're saying it, but it's been going on for a long time.
A Democrats have been running presidential campaigns out of churches for as long as I've been alive, violating what everybody knows is uh separation of church and state because they're black churches, nobody complains about it, nobody's got the guts to.
Uh nobody uh substantively complains about it.
But that nevertheless, what you know what this thing showed like we got clearer, we got more precise answers.
We learned more about these two people on Saturday night than anything the drive-by media has told us or that they have told us within the sphere of the drive-by media.
This two hours was worth more than any presidential debate I have ever seen.
I thought Warren did a fabulous job knowing who his audience was, putting together his questions and the order in which they came, and then sticking to the format for in fact he had to ask McCain some more questions because McCain answered his questions a lot a lot more briefly and succinctly than did uh than did Obama.
It was so bad, it was so bad for Obama that the uh the the kook fringe began a drumbeat Saturday night of accusing McCain of cheating.
Now, McCain did not cheat.
McCain was driving to the event when Obama was on, and when he got there, he was put in a secure green room.
The rule was that uh the guy that went second was not allowed to hear the guy who went first's answers, and McCain didn't.
So the Obama disinformation about McCain hearing the interview, I mean it's priceless.
It is pri we've got this little man child that is being called the Messiah.
He's got this deeply ingrained sense of entitlement, and it when it doesn't go his way, it's just crying the sandbox time.
He insulted Clarence Thomas.
He uh he he he just he lied about the most gut-wrenching decision he's ever he's the most gut-wrenching decision ever made was uh vote against the Iraq War.
He didn't vote against it, he wasn't in the Senate.
And in fact, later on, a couple times he voted for funding packages for the Iraq War.
I would think that would be his most gut-wrenching uh decision, having made such a big deal of opposing it.
And we're gonna touch on all this with audio sound bites and uh expert commentary as the program unfolds today.
There's also some Olympic news.
You may figure out why the uh the ChICOM stands have only been half full.
Everybody's been asking, where's the crowd?
We've got a billion people over there.
Where's the crowd?
We have come to learn from the Times online to hope David Brooks is reading.
David Brooks wrote a piece out of there out of the Olympics of the New York Times last week talking about how wonderful the Chinese managed society and culture is.
That there is no individuality, and perhaps this is the best way to manage this as I can't.
And he's our conservative at the New York Times.
Now hope somebody shows this story, the UK Times from yesterday to him, because the reason the stands are half empty at the Olympics is because the ChICOMs have not let a whole lot of people get in there fearing protests, fearing out-of-control crowds, people they can't manage.
That's why they got their money, whether the crowd shows up or or or not.
So there's lots to do here on the on the program.
But this Obama disinformation about McCain hearing the Obama interview and Obama's answers on Saturday nights priceless.
This shows the the ugly underbelly of news and leftist politicians having been roundly destroyed in that Saturday forum because Obama's complete lack of substance and experience was impossible to conceal.
How does a guy he even caught himself when he was asked about Clarence Thomas, well, I don't think he has the right experience.
He caught himself and said he wasn't qualified at the time he was elevated to that position.
Now here's a guy who's been to Yale, a guy who's been to Holy Cross, who spent a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
He worked for Ashcroft as assistant attorney general of the state of Missouri, and Obama's what?
A street agitator with 140 days in the Senate?
And and Obama claims that Clarence Thomas is unqualified.
Obama could not shine Clarence Thomas's shoes.
He's not fit to sign uh shine Clarence Thomas's shoes.
I mean, this this was, and by the way, if you look, Catherine Lopez at National Review Online did they put together a great little piece looking at all of the cases that Thomas has decided that agree with Obama's positions on things, and all of the cases that Obama's favorite jurist, Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg, voted against Obama's uh decisions on these cases.
I mean, he's so out of his league.
The thing is, we've all known this.
We've all known he's out of his league in terms of substance, experience.
And by the way, here's another thing.
You all have heard about Clarence Thomas's life story.
Now you've heard about how he grew up in Pinpoint, Georgia, how he escaped abject poverty with a tough and demanding grandfather.
Obama's was born with a silver spoon in his mouth compared to Clarence Thomas.
Clarence Thomas has more experience living life as an American than Obama will ever understand.
And Obama's size knowing it.
New York Times yesterday, no big Democrats very worried here that Obama start getting specific about all this hope, and specific about all this change, because all this wafty rhetoric, as I said last week, is worn off.
After a while, everybody begins to demand substance.
Now there is by the back to this cheating business, there is no evidence of any kind that any cheating occurred.
The evidence, in fact, shows that uh McCain was still driving to the event that he was sequestered in the holding room when he got there.
Both candidates were informed generally beforehand of the topics in advance.
So guess what?
Yesterday morning on Meet the Press, David Gregory filling in, spoke with the correspondent Angria Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, about the Saddlesore Civic Forum.
And Gregory said, Andrea Mitchell.
There was a pretty clear contrast between Obama and McCain.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, there was the crisp, immediate, forceful response by John McCain, clearly in a comfort zone, because he was with his base, and Barack Obama taking a risk in going there, but seeing an opportunity and a much more nuanced approach.
The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because that what they're putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama.
Now, she's getting this from Obama people who are putting it on the on the on the web, but they put it on there on there privately.
So McCain has written Steve Capus, the NBC president, a letter saying, I want to sit down with his campaign hands.
I want to sit down and talk with you about them.
This is you guys just MSNBC now, you know, on your on your real news network.
And it's time we've sat down and talked about this because this is just absurd.
Uh cover up for your guys' lack of substance by accusing the other guy of cheating.
I mean, this this is just it's just too rich.
I mean, it it's just I I love it.
And McCain did so well.
I I I was I found I was watching this Saturday night, could not believe what I was hearing.
I've not heard this stuff out of McCain in a long, long time, and it was decisive, and he was not hesitant at all in any of his answers.
His his answer on when does life begin, when does it when does a when does a human being acquire human rights at the point of conception?
Bam, place stood up.
Now I'm thinking, why is he flirting with the idea of blowing all this by putting a pro-choice person on the ticket with him?
He's flirting with Lieberman, he's flirting with Tom Ridge, this is what we hear anyway, and both of them are pro-choice.
He can destroy all of the tremendous major progress he made Saturday night with the wrong vice presidential nomination.
And if it's somebody who is profoundly pro-choice, uh just it's it's gonna it's it's gonna disappoint so many people and anger a lot of people, and it's going to cause McCain to lose all of the positive ground that he picked up on Saturday night.
Now on CNN Sunday night, the anchor Rick Sanchez talked to the Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren about the forum, and they had this exchange.
Last night I heard you say that McCain would be in a cone of silence.
And then half hour into the event, I hear our guys here in our political desk announce that McCain has just arrived at the worship center.
And I'm thinking, you know, hey, if if he just arrived at the worship center, he couldn't have been in the cone of silence, right?
Yeah, well, he that's true.
He was in a cone of a uh secret service motorcade, that's exactly for sure.
So CNN carrying the water even Saturday night that McCain had cheated.
So the drive-by's again aligning themselves with the Democrat candidate.
Then they can't they kept pressing this on Sunday, on Sunday night, uh, the uh anchor Rick Sanchez talking to Rick Warren, and and the question, just out of fairness.
Look, this is CNN.
We we try to be as exact as we possibly can.
I just want it on the record.
Of course there are going to be people out there who will say, well, if he wasn't there like a half hour before the event started, well, what what would have stopped him from watching an event that was on all three channels on the radio, there's blackberries, the internet, because everything else, I guess you don't know, and I don't know whether he had the questions or not.
You know what?
First place, we asked him.
We we flat out asked him.
Did you hear any of the debate, I mean any of the discussion?
And I trust the integrity of both John McCain and Barack Obama that they said they would abide by the rules.
They knew the rules way in advance that I would not give them the questions.
I did tell them all of the themes and went through all of the themes that here's the kind of question, the themes that I'm gonna deal with.
I'm gonna probably throw out a question about economy, gonna probably throw out a question about climate change, which by the way never got to, and a number of other issues.
One thing about this, and I know a lot of people are big fans of Rick Warren, I have a lot of respect for him, but I do as as a man of the cloth, as a pastor.
I wonder how he can say so profoundly he respects the integrity of Obama given Obama's abortion stance.
Uh Obama oh, that's another thing he got caught on, by the way.
This uh this this bill that he uh he uh uh vetoed or voted against uh th three times in Chicago that would allow the killing of babies born alive, babies that uh had been through an abortion and survived, Obama said he wanted to go ahead and let those babies be killed because that was the initial intent.
And he said he voted against it because none of the legislation had any kind of protections specifically aimed at Roe versus Wade.
Well, one of the three occasions did had the specific request Obama wanted regarding Roe versus Wade, and he still voted against it.
Or for it, whichever.
He voted for killing babies.
Now, this is that his answer on abortion was i they say nuanced.
It this is not nuance.
Nuance implies brilliance and in elitism intellectual.
This wasn't nuance, this was avoidance.
Obama was avoiding everything that he had to because he knew who the audience was, and because he can't be honest about what he really thinks and believes.
Not seeking to be elected president of the United States.
It's gotten down to the point now.
I mean, look at how tough a job poor old Kathleen or uh Caroline Kennedy has.
You know, she's at the top of the list vetting Obama's VEP choices.
How difficult must it be for her to find somebody less qualified than Obama?
Every resume she's looking at makes his look like a first grade report card.
Seriously, folks, I mean, every resume she's looking at makes Obama looks like a total beginner, a neophyte.
It's got to be a problem for him.
Everybody starting to whisper that he, if he has any prayer of winning, he's got to choose Hillary.
And if he chooses Hillary, he's gonna have to have somebody taste his food every day and start his car for him every day.
I'd say he gives a bad spot here.
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Obama is getting desperate.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, as are his supporters.
His problem is that the race card, which they are desperate to use in a big way, would clearly harm him in places where he hopes to win votes.
If McCain doesn't do something stupid like pick a liberal vice president, McCain ought to be able to hold on here.
I I think the Obama thing is is uh it's amazing to watch because it is falling apart, and everybody in the Democrat Party that's got any any any uh sense at all is very much concerned about this.
The uh, you know, this this is where Chicago political tactics do not work nationwide.
I mean, here's Obama who moved to the South uh side of Chicago to practice race politics.
He ran in Illinois, where Chicago and its inner suburbs reign politically supreme these days, but now in trying to appeal to other voters, the race card becomes more problematic for Obama.
There's a interesting piece today from the uh from Pajamas Media.com, Obama and color-coded racial double talk by a guy named John Heileman.
And in a color-coded article called a color-coded campaign, Heileman doesn't just hint that racial prejudice will prevent Obama from winning the White House.
He states it directly and without equivocation.
The reason America's first black major party presumptive presidential nominee has not blown out the intractably boring and uninspiring McCain in the polls.
Given surging Democrat voter registration and voters' disenchantment with Republicans, is his skin color.
This is a lib writing this stuff.
It wouldn't have anything to do with Obama's liberal beliefs and experience or his gaffs, his inconsistencies, or anything like that.
No, no, no, of course not.
Because the country so desperately wants to vote Democrats.
I keep hearing in 2000, a country so desperately wants Democrats, and they're registering in record numbers 2004.
We heard the same thing.
Every year we hear this.
Every year they think it, which is why this year they're all asking why didn't he have this giant lead?
And now they're coming to decide and tell themselves rather than deal with with this head up, rather than deal with the flawed, fraudulent candidate they nominated.
They have to try to persuade the American people that he's being undermined by Republican and conservative racism.
Obama may want to ignore the elephant in the room, says Heileman.
But since his racist detractors are intent on blackening him, blackening him, it can't avoid it.
Instead of ignoring race, which is impossible, Obama needs to talk about race without talking about race.
This is advice from a liberal.
Heileman, talk about race without talking about race.
Isn't that what the Democrats try to do on everything?
Talk about X without really talking about it.
What kind of double talk is that?
Can the other side talk about Obama's race without talking about Obama's race?
The other side is who brings up his race all the time.
It's just, it's, it's, folks, I don't, I don't know, I'm not trying to be, you know, overly uh uh optimistic here and and uh I'm just reading the tea leaves as they exist today, and the Obama campaign is in trouble.
And this thing on Saturday night, this forum on Saturday night just focused everybody's attention on why.
And it's uh, you know, it it does it doesn't look like it's gonna improve any because he's who he Is.
And he only can be nuanced because he doesn't he doesn't have the experience, and he doesn't have the guts to be specific about what he wants to do.
He's more and more in that thing on Saturday night demonstrated something that I firmly believe.
That is he's not a thinker.
He may have a high IQ and he may have the ability to absorb a lot of things like a sponge in the brain.
And I think that's all he's done.
I think he's absorbed everything he's been taught by the people he's hung around that don't like this country, from Jeremiah Wright to William Ayres to whatever professors he's had in college, uh, to the people who hung around with while he was agitating street people in Chicago as a street organizer.
I think it's it's patently clear that he can't think on his feet.
He had a you know, Boone Pickens has gotten together with him.
You know, we I g I guess we've lost Boone Pickens, uh well-known Republican, but he had a meeting with Obama, and uh they asked Obama a question about Pickens and his wind plan and uh natural gas, and Obama did his usual uh well, and uh and uh uh well we need a uh coherent good policy, blah.
And Pickens was reportedly just smiling very awkwardly as Obama went through his answer.
It was it once again, uh to those who saw it and even reported on it, it is abundantly clear that we're dealing with an empty suit here, who poses a tremendous risk to the country.
Uh Zabigniev Zhezinski, the national security director or advisor for Jimmy Carter, expressed disappointment in Obama's original answer, blaming both Georgia and Russia for Russia's invasion of Georgia.
He said, I thought it was a little too general.
I thought it was not not of course Obama then got it right after four more attempts.
They're nervous on the Democrat side.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
By the way, uh something I noticed in this forum on on Saturday night, I watched it in high definition.
I watch everything I can in high definition.
And I can I can folks, his hair is grayer than before he went to Hawaii.
Now we've been through this with a previous Democrat candidate, Clinton, who would dye his hair to comport with the age of the audience to whom he was speaking.
Now, I don't know if Obama's gray hairs are due to the stress of the campaign or due to hair color, but but I'm telling you, it it was a it if there was something different about the shade of his hair.
Once again, the phoniness on display of the Democrat Party in general and its presidential nominee, Sunday, New York Times.
Allies ask Obama to make hope more specific.
As Obama prepares to accept the Democrat presidential nomination next week, party leaders in battleground states say the fight ahead against McCain looks tougher than they imagined, with Obama vulnerable on multiple fronts despite weeks of cross-country and overseas campaigning, and they don't add, and despite weeks of drive-by media sycophancy boosting and reporting of Obama.
And that's what really frosts them.
What really frosts them is that they have gone out of their way.
They have done more to promote this candidate at this stage of a campaign than they have ever promoted any Democrat candidate, and it ain't helping.
In fact, it's hurting.
It's all part of the backlash that I knew would happen because people don't like the drive-by media.
They're already suspicious of them.
And it's so obvious that they're not being quote unquote fair in this that people are having a negative reaction to it.
These Democrats, 15 governors, these battleground states, members of Congress, state party leaders, say Obama has yet to convert his popularity among many Americans into solutions to crucial electoral challenge.
What popularity?
They're living on myths here.
He might have at one time had this big 15, 18-point lead over McCain, but it's gone.
What popularity.
So he hadn't been able to convert the popularity among all these Americans into solutions to crucial electoral challenges.
Showing ownership of an issue like economic stewardship or national security, winning over supporters of Senator Clinton.
That's a laugh.
Supporters of Senator Clinton are lining up here to create a war zone at the Democrat National Convention next week in Denver.
And the Democrats also, they're upset that he uh uh is is minimizing his race.
He has not minimized his race and experience level as concerns for voters.
He hadn't been able to right because he can't get specific because he comes up he if somebody doesn't tell him what to say if it's not on the prompter, it's a roll of the dice as to whether or not Obama is going to be able to come up with anything.
Blunter were the words of Governor Phil Breedson, Democrat of uh Bridison of Tennessee.
Instead of giving big speeches at big stadiums, he needs to give straight up ten word answers to people at Walmart about how he would improve their lives.
So once again, we've had another issue that's been thrown into our laps.
The first was gasoline prices and energy.
It is an issue that the Republican Party could own and ride sweeping victory, and now the second issue has been handed to us, and that is the apparent and obvious incompetency of the Democrat Party's presidential nominee.
And all that goes along with that.
The incompetence is uh combined with arrogance and condescension.
He was when he was accused of lying about this uh abortion business, or was he accused of of fabricating his his uh his answer that he didn't never got the uh the issue he wanted in those three bills that permitted the killing of babies who had uh survived abortion attempts.
Eventually, and details are coming up, the Obama campaign had to admit that the critics were right.
And then the Obama camp went after the critics at being mean spirited.
So all you have to do to be mean spirited or mount of personal attack is to be honest in criticizing a liberal Democrat.
Now, let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is the one that has a lot of people simply outraged.
This is from Rack uh Rick Warren's civil forum on the presidency on Saturday night to question Senator Obama which existing Supreme Court justice would you not have nominated?
I would not have nominated uh Clarence Thomas.
Uh I don't think that he uh uh I I I don't think that he was an ex uh a strong enough jurist or legal thinker uh at the time uh for that elevation.
Setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretations of a lot of the Constitution.
Did you uh I would not nominate Justice Scalia, although I don't think there's any doubt about his intellectual brilliance uh because he and I just disagree.
All right, now two things about this.
First, did you hear him catch himself talking about Clarence Thomas's lack of ex uh uh strong enough jurist?
See, he knows he's got no experience.
He knows he can't win the experience game.
And then talk about inserting race into the campaign.
Here's a black guy, Barack Obama, saying that the black guy on the Supreme Court's an idiot.
But, you know, Scalia, he's a smart white guy, but I still don't agree with him.
So it is by the way, I am Barack Obama's 47.
Clarence Thomas was on the Supreme Court nominated Supreme Court of what, 92?
90?
91.
Well it it's a long time ago.
It's either 16 or 18 years ago.
So Obama's what?
What's 47 minus 18?
15, 24, whatever.
What did he know about about Clarence Thomas's qualifications?
He knew diddly squat.
What he knew was what he remembers hearing in college classrooms and from his political buddies about Clarence Thomas.
And they sing from the same tune.
Everybody's forgotten that Harry Reid said the almost identical thing about Clarence Thomas.
Cookie could probably dredge that up from our archives.
Harry Reeds, well, I just I just don't agree with his opinions.
I don't it just insulted Thomas's intelligence.
Almost called him illiterate, is what Harry Reid.
So it's the the standard, and it's that way of every powerful conservative.
The left has these cliched of index card answers for every individual they are asked about on the conservative side they don't like, and Obama has been taught that.
I refuse to believe that Obama has actually personally thought about it.
I don't think he thinks enough about these judges because he doesn't have enough time.
He's always thinking about himself.
His world revolves around him.
And it probably already has.
So let's examine this.
He wasn't strong enough.
He wasn't a good legal thinker.
He basically wasn't qualified.
Okay.
Catherine Jean Lopez has written a great piece, a little piece here at National Review.
What is it that Obama didn't like Justice Thomas's, or was it that Obama didn't like Justice Thomas vote on the recent child rapist case, Kennedy versus Louisiana?
No.
That couldn't be it.
Barack Obama agreed with Thomas on that decision.
Justice Ginsburg, meanwhile, a liberal favorite on the court, whom McCain listed as one of his least favorite justices during the same forum, opposed giving child rapists the death penalty.
So what's so wrong about Thomas and so right about, say, Ginsburg, Senator Obama?
Explain the logic.
And he can't, of course, and still win an election, which is why he agreed with Thomas.
And there are many other cases that she cites here where Obama agrees with decisions Thomas has made, disagrees with decisions Ginsburg has made, and yet here came the rote criticism from the memory bank in Obama's brain, not from anything he specifically and originally thinks.
The Wall Street Journal today, with a great editorial on this about Obama's not just criticizing, what Obama sought to do was demean.
Justice Thomas.
Obama took a lower road, replying first that that's a good one, then adding, I wouldn't have nominated Thomas.
I don't think he usually heard the quote.
So let's see, by the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General's office.
He had served as assistant secretary of education.
He had run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
He sat for a year in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation's second most prominent court.
Since his elevation to the High Court in 1991, he has shown himself to be a principled and scholarly jurist.
Meanwhile, Obama isn't yet four years out of the Illinois state Senate.
He has never held a hearing of note of his U.S. Senate subcommittee.
He had an unremarkable record as both a community organizer and law school lecturer.
Justice Thomas judicial credentials compare favorably to Obama's presidential resume by any measure.
And when it comes to rising from difficult circumstances, Thomas's rural Georgian upbringing makes Obama's story look like easy street, as I mentioned at the top of the program.
So he just sat down, he decided he was going to demean Clarence Thomas with this answer.
But as the journal says here, even more troubling is what Obama's answer betrays about his political habits of mind.
Asked a question he didn't expect at a rare unscripted event.
He didn't merely say he disagreed with Clarence Thomas.
He instinctively reverted to the left-wing cliche that the court's black conservative isn't up to the job while his white conservative colleagues are.
Not to mention that, before joining the court, Clarence Thomas goes to Holy Cross and then to Yale, in addition to all of these other qualifications.
And then there's Obama, state senator, along with how many used car salesmen have been state senators.
I mean it's nothing of particular distinction when compared to Clarence Thomas's record.
He's been a very junior U.S. Senator.
He didn't have a very illustrious teaching career at Chicago.
The New York Times reported, all the heavy hitter faculty folks never heard the guy utter an interesting word or write anything either when he was teaching law at the University of Chicago.
He's, I'm telling you, it's an empty suit.
But he doesn't know it.
He actually thinks he's the Messiah, and Nancy Pelosi is out there saying he is a gift from God.
We have never had a leader like this that God has given us.
So these people are all caught up in in the myth and the Messiah thing.
But then, when they start thinking about it very seriously, they know they've got a big, big problem.
Because they've nominated a guy who can't win, who will not be able to survive intact with uh st you know, rave reviews upcoming presidential debates.
I've always thought this was going to be an election that was a referendum up or down on Obama, and I am more convinced of that than ever today.
Back in just a second.
Here's the Harry Reed bite, just to illustrate uh that that what comes out of Obama's mouth is is is dogma.
It's it's just it's just the standard operating procedure.
It's from the handbook.
Clarence Thomas's name comes up.
This is what Democrats say.
This is from the December 5th, 2007 uh episode of Meet the Press.
What?
Oh, sorry, my copy says 2007.
Okay, so your copy is it was 2004.
This is Harry Reid and from December 5th of 2004 on Meet the Press.
This is what Dingy Harry said.
I I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court.
I think that his uh opinions are poorly written.
I don't I just I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice.
But he hadn't read any of his opinions.
But it is uh it's just insulting.
It's demeaning, and this is the this simply because he's black Republican.
He's black.
They've never said anything about Scalia's intelligence other than it's extraordinary.
Or John Roberts' intelligence, it's extraordinary, or Alito.
They just wrong, you know, on the Constitution, don't you know?
But Thomas, he just dumb because he's a black Republican or conservative or what they think is a black conservative.
So their answers are wrote, and I'm telling you, this is a microcosm for most of what Obama says.
It's what he's been taught by the blame America first crowd that he's hung around with all of his life.
Now, this next two bites, actually, the next bite is amazing.
Here is, we're going to number 33.
This is Obama answering the question from Rick Warren.
What's the most significant?
Let me let me ask it this way.
What's the most gut-wrenching decision you ever had to make, and how did you process that to come to that decision?
The opposition to the war in Iraq was uh as tough a decision as I've had to make.
Um, not only because there were political consequences, but also because uh Saddam Hussein was a real bad person.
Uh and there was no doubt that he meant America ill.
So I I agonize over that.
And I think that uh questions of war and peace generally uh are so profound.
Uh all those questions surrounding the war have been very difficult for me.
He didn't even vote it.
He wasn't even in the Senate at the time of this gut-wrenching decision.
Furthermore, when he did get to the Senate, he voted a couple times for funding for this war that he so hated.
And I'll tell you the Clintons were watching this Saturday night and some of these other Democrats that were in the primaries earlier, and they were throwing things at their television sets because they had to vote on the war, and they all voted for it.
Because back then, everybody knew the American people were for it, and these people are pandering, so they voted for it.
And then in the ensuing months, you'll recall from John Kerry, who voted for it before he voted against it, to Biden to Hillary to all these people.
Hillary's the only one who did not apologize for her vote.
She tried to say a couple times she was misled, but that didn't fly.
So but she stuck with it because she knew that in order to be elected president after getting the Democrat nomination, if she did, she was gonna have to have a strong backbone on national security.
Obama got a free ride.
He never voted on it, and he was able to isolate the position as the only Democrat in the primaries who was opposed to the war from the get-go when he never had the responsibility of voting for it because he wasn't even in the U.S. Senate.
A bold-faced lie.
Now, what does this tell us?
This tells us, ladies and gentlemen, he believes the lies he tells himself.
He got himself believing that what he thought when he wasn't in the Senate was important, in terms of how his thought would impact the outcome of events nationwide.
He was just in the Illinois Senate.
He was not even in the United States Senate.
He never cast a vote on the prospect of going to war only to fund it for a couple times.
Here's what Senator McCain said to the same question.
It was long ago in a prison camp in North Vietnam.
My father was a high-ranking admiral.
Uh The Vietnamese came and said that I could uh leave prison early.
And we had a code of conduct that said you only leave by order of capture.
I also had a dear and beloved friend named Alvarez, who had been shot down and captured a couple of years before me.
But I wasn't in good physical shape.
In fact, I was in rather bad physical shape.
And um so I said no.
Now, in interest of full disclosure, I'm very happy.
I didn't know the war was gonna last for another three years or so.
But I said no, and I'll never forget uh sitting in my last answer, and the high-ranking officer offered it, slammed the door, and the and the interrogator said, go back to your cell.
It's gonna be very tough on you now.
And uh it was.
One of the things that became clear in the uh forum on Saturday night was how much more of a life McCain has lived than Obama.
I mean w without you know being cognizant here of McCain's political opinions, decisions, votes, and the life that he has lived, and not just because of his age difference with Obama, the life that he has lived dwarfs Obama's, which has basically been a silver spoon life of not a whole lot of substance.
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