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Aug. 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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No, I was not kidding.
The mayor of Denver has actually suggested that the cops not enforce marijuana law next week in Denver during the Democrat convention.
And they wonder why we laugh at these people.
As I say, why stop there?
There's all other kinds of smut law that you could relax.
The Democrats are in town.
Greetings and welcome.
They sit here and they write the material for us each and every day.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Nice to have you with us.
Speaking of Denver, I got this headline here.
Getting poor to use toilets, a major health condom.
Another story about Denver and the convention.
More than 1 billion people worldwide, this would include Barack Obama's half-brother, the long-lost brother, George Byongyong, Hussein Obama, have no toilet.
More than 1 billion people worldwide, including Obama's long-lost half-brother, have no toilet and defecate outside, while some have to be shamed into changing their habits when presented with conveniences, the conference was told.
Humanitarian organizations have for decades tried various ways, be it new systems, pumps, subsidies, getting people in developing countries to stop defecating outdoors due to the serious health risks concerned.
Wait, I thought it was plumbing that was causing pollution.
For many extremely poor people who are given toilets by aid groups, it becomes the most precious item they own.
Therefore, they use it as a religious shrine or a place to store firewood, according to international development consultant Kamal Karr.
What's becoming quite apparent is that the way you actually have an impact on health, development, and poverty alleviation is when people adopt certain behaviors.
And Clarissa Brocklehurst, the head of UNICEF's water, environment, and sanitation program.
In recent years, experts have found that the best method has been to shame people into using some form of toilets, even the most primitive sort, to confine excrement.
There's a whole new meaning here to bowing before porcelain gods, doesn't it?
Yes, it's just a matter of getting them to understand that what is a long-established habit is in fact harmful and that you can do something about it, said Brocklehurst, one of 2,500 experts meeting in Stockholm to discuss water and sanitation issues at World Water Week.
Yeah, now imagine this.
Imagine this.
You go up to, imagine when Colleen Brocklehurst, Clarissa, sorry.
Clarissa Brocklehurst, imagine when she's three or four years old, five years old.
Her parents say, hey, little Clarissa, what do you want to do when you grow up?
Well, I want to study people.
Defecate outside, Mom.
Well, that's just wonderful, little Clarissa.
Where are you going to do this?
Stockholm, Mom.
We're going to study it in Stockholm.
I've been reading about it.
Oh, that's wonderful, Clarissa.
What a great humanitarian thought.
How did you come across this at age five?
What makes somebody want to do this?
And there are 2,500 people.
Can you imagine the convention these people have?
Can you imagine the speeches?
Can you imagine the slideshows?
Can you imagine the pictures, the videos, the computer models?
My lord.
And one of the people that fits in his group is Obama's half-brother because he lives in a nine-by-six shack with no plumbing.
By the way, how many homes did Jay Rockefeller have?
How many homes did John Teresa Kynes Harry Kerry have?
How many homes did Nancy Pelosi have?
How many homes does Harry Reed Landeal have?
How many homes did John Corzine, the governor of New Jersey, have?
See, these questions are never asked by the libs.
Doesn't Al Gore have a bunch of houses too?
How many houses does Al Gore have?
We can play this game if they want to.
How many homes does Howard Dean have?
How expensive are all these people's homes?
How expensive are Jay Rockefeller's homes?
How expensive are Corzine's homes?
How expensive are Howard Dean's houses?
Howard Dean's wife is in New York.
He used to live in Vermont.
Now he lives in the D.C. area.
How many homes does Howard Dean have?
And who bought them, by the way?
Who bought these homes?
There's something so phony about a candidate like Obama flying around on the best jets, asking billionaires and millionaires in San Francisco to support his campaign, having almost everything he has handed to him, attacking the McCain's for the assets they've accumulated over the years.
It's a perfectly predictable, understandable thing for a bunch of little whiny socialists to do.
See, the real Obama's coming out now, folks.
All of this mythology is starting to fade away.
There's panic all over them.
Do you want to read ABC's The Note today?
ABC's The Note is a compilation of all the stories on radio and TV the past 24 hours chronicling the panic that exists inside the Democrat Party.
So the real Obama's coming out now, and that's good.
We all saw McCain joke about that $5 million figure being rich at Rick Warren's place.
And Obama's using that now against McCain.
Predictable, absolutely predictable behavior.
Nothing, nothing at all, ladies and gentlemen, is surprising, new, unique about Obama.
Now, as you know, the Messiah has been all over the world ripping the United States, even criticizing his own country.
We're not what we once were.
We're not meeting our potential.
We're just in bad shape.
And they're going to have all this parade of real, real people, victim after victim after victim at their convention.
Obama tells little seven-year-old girls who ask him why he wants to be president because the country's not what it once was.
He goes up with Tim Tim, the eyebrow guy, Tim Kaine at Chester, Virginia today.
And I swear, folks, there was an outdoor town hall made.
It looked like they had let the cast of one flew over the cuckoo's nest out of the asylum for the day.
And Obama starts out trying to talk about how great America is and how great Americans are.
And he can do it for about 25 seconds and then he reverted.
And I got to thinking, he's this global citizen of the world, right?
Why doesn't Obama design a world flag?
I saw this.
I was watching television a couple days ago.
The American track and field winners at the Olympics, have you seen it?
They're wrapping themselves in the American flag, literally wrapping themselves in the American flag.
Now, that is obnoxious.
That is typical, jingoistic, nationalistic patriotism on display at a world citizen event.
And furthermore, having these athletes shroud themselves in the American flag is confusing our public school students.
Why not get a world flag?
That would be the cool thing to do, to proclaim yourself a citizen of the world.
Because when you think of all of America's imperfections, how could an American athlete in good conscience accept an American flag and then wear it?
I mean, I can see some of the other countries' athletes wearing their flags because they have had to rise above America's oppressive policies under George Bush.
You know, we make up 3% of the world's population, use 25% of the world's energy.
I actually hope that figure is low, by the way, folks.
I think Americans should be using closer to 35% of the world's energy because we do more.
In fact, we ought to be using 50% of the world's energy because we do more with it than any other nation on earth for all people in the world.
Other than these people who don't have toilets, but Clarissa Brocklehurst taking care of that with 2,499 other of her friends in Stockholm.
But, you know, public school students, they are watching these games.
And after everything these young skulls full of mush have been taught in our public schools regarding our country's deeply flawed and shameful past, this flag stuff and this apparent, all these displays of national pride got to be confusing to the little students and their skulls full of mush.
Every time there's another American medal winner, kids see nothing but healthy, happy achievers wrapping themselves in a piece of fabric that symbolizes our greed, imperialism, and arrogance.
By the way, 3% of the world's population is winning a majority of Olympic medals.
Is that fair?
3% of the world's population winning a majority of Olympic medals.
How is that fair?
Anyway, you know, according to Obama and the Democrats, and you'll see it at their convention next week, country sucks.
Everyone needs to know that, and the Olympics are doing nothing to make this point.
The Olympics are creating a false impression of this country.
The Olympics are making us look great.
Hardworking, high-achievers, lovable, laughing, charismatic people are on our Olympic team.
This has got to be embarrassing to Obama, given his view of the United States.
From the Wall Street Journal, I kid you not.
Headline, San Francisco ponders, could bike lanes cause pollution.
City backpedals on a cycling plan after Mr. Anderson goes to court.
That would be Mr. Rob Anderson.
65-year-old local Gadfly has stymied cycling support efforts by arguing that urban bicycle boosting could actually be bad for the environment.
That's put the brakes on everything from new bike lanes to bike racks, while the city works on an environmental impact report on new bike lanes.
This gets even crazier.
I've got a little bit more of it when we come back after this.
Don't go away.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's a true story.
San Francisco is having trouble authorizing new bike lanes because they might cause pollution.
And the guy in charge of this or being blamed for it is Rob Anderson.
He's 65 years old, and he says that urban bicycle boosting could actually be bad for the environment, which has put the brakes on everything from new bike lanes to bike racks because the city now is working on an environmental impact report.
We're the ones keeping emissions from the air, shouted Leah Shahum, executive director of the 10,000-strong San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.
Mr. Anderson disagrees.
Cars always will vastly outnumber bikesy reasons.
So allotting more street space to cyclists will just cause more traffic jams, more idling, and more pollution.
Anderson says the city's been blinded by political correctness.
It's an attempt by the anti-car fanatics to screw up our traffic on behalf of the bicycle fantasy.
Now, I think this guy has a point.
I'm telling you, this guy has a point.
I have personal experience with this.
Let me ask, how many of you people live in a neighborhood where on Saturday or Sunday morning there can be 150 to 400 bicyclists, cyclists, on your 30-mile-an-hour street occupying your lane, and you can't go around them because the trail of them is too long and it might hit somebody coming at you.
And you got to get off and hit a side street and then try to outrun them, breaking the speed limit on another road that's parallel to the one you're on.
How many times did they?
And I, you know, I have always, I have always had a bugaboo about bicyclists and pedestrians getting the right away.
You want to know one of the reasons New York traffic's as bad as it is?
Because pedestrians.
The bicyclists there, cool.
They can weave in and out of the traffic.
They don't stop anything.
Those guys are daredevils.
But the pedestrians, I know there's nothing going to do about it, but my gosh, can't make a left turn, can't make a right turn.
And if you try to make a right turn to the pedestrians, someone will knock your window out or try.
You roll down the window and say, hey, I'm just trying to get to work.
Make way.
The street is for my car.
Doofus.
That's how you have to treat them in New York.
They respect that.
They shout back at you, but they respect you.
And who's next on this program?
This is Roger in San Diego.
Roger, thanks for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Mucho Dittos from America's Finest Sanctuary City.
Thank you, sir, very much.
You sound very proud.
I am very proud.
Say, Rush, I was thinking to myself, you and I are the same age, and I've been watching all the Democratic and Republican conventions for all these years.
Back in 1964, weren't the Democrats promising to get us out of all these horrible problems?
And haven't the promises continued for the last 44 years?
Well, how come we're not in better shape today than we should be?
Well, see, actually, we are.
This is the point.
Obama, you sound like Obama.
Well, I agree with you.
They haven't fixed anything.
We've had to overcome their efforts.
We've had to overcome their efforts to fix things.
They have made things worse for certain people.
Oh, I agree with you.
They have made things worse for their own voters.
By definition, that's what Democrats do, is make things worse for their own voters and then blame Republicans for it.
Well, I don't know what we can do this time except vote our conscience.
Well, it's not that hard, Roger.
It really isn't.
We cannot let Obama and the people on his team anywhere near the Oval Office.
Just can't have that happen.
Appreciate the call.
Thanks so much.
This is Patrick in Nashville.
You're next, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
John McCain will pick a pro-life VP.
He will not disrespect you, and I can tell you why.
You remember back in February when you, Hannity, and Levin so thoroughly got your CO Jones handed to you on a platter by McCain, and he made all three of you out to be the biggest boobs on the radio.
He wants to throw you a little bone now and kind of make up for that.
I don't remember McCain doing this back in February.
Well, you don't remember all of conservative talk radio ganging up on him, trash-talking him, trying to bring him down.
And despite all of that, he's the nominee of the party.
I thought you said that he trashed us.
I misunderstood you.
I'm not even sure I understand the point of this.
Well, I just kind of wants to make up for castrating all of conservative talk radio back then the way he did.
What do you mean?
Castrated all of conservatives.
We're still here.
He didn't castrate anybody.
Oh, don't give me his code.
He didn't castrate us.
You get away using that kind of language anyway.
You think this is a Democrat convention?
You were trying your best to bring him down, and despite all of that, he's the nominee, and he made you, Hannity, Levin, Beck, and Coulter made all of you out to be the biggest boobs on the radio.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
You need to harness communication.
What you're saying is that despite our best efforts to castrate McCain, he castrated us and showed us to be a bunch of boobs.
He didn't say we were a bunch of boobs.
And now the magnanimous McCain is going to throw us a bone by picking a pro-life running mate.
Your characterization of what happened last February is off the charts.
There was nothing personal ever about any of this.
And this is an ain't beadbag.
It's politics.
You forget that McCain and Huckabee were teaming up as often as they could to try to sandbag Mitt Romney.
So these are the things that happen in American politics.
So anyway, you're finding some oddballs today.
I'm telling you, I have to be honest with you, Sturdley.
You're finding some real oddballs.
I needed an IQ of half what I have to be able to follow that.
Don't give me any excuses.
Just don't give me those lugheads anymore.
Hi.
Welcome back.
Rushlin Boss serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
This is unbelievable.
This is a salon.com.
Headline, does air conditioning make people vote Republican?
I blame air conditioning for the decline of the labor movement and for decimating the Midwest population.
Mostly I blame it for the election of George W. Bush by Edward McClelland.
When I moved into my apartment in May, the first thing I did was tear out the air conditioners.
I don't need air conditioning.
My front window's 50 yards in Lake Michigan, and as any Chicago weather person will tell you, it's cooler by the lake.
I can't afford it either.
Three window units can add serious dollars to one's monthly electric bill, but those aren't the real reasons I got rid of the AC.
Air conditioning offends my sense of northern pride.
They have a saying in Maine, if you can't stand the winters, you don't deserve the summers.
But the air conditioner allows Arizonians, Arizonans to enjoy a cool, lake-like breeze in the comfort of their living rooms without ever having to buy snow tires.
This goes on and on and on.
Let's start with the Bush dynasty.
Here's a little history.
In 1924, my grandmother was born, small town of St. Petersburg, Florida.
The state had 1 million people and six electoral votes.
It was the least populous southern state, a marginally habitable peninsula of humid swamps, hard-packed beaches, alligators, rum smugglers, and seminoles.
As a girl, my grandmother kept cool by swimming and propping open her windows.
As an 84-year-old woman, she lives in a panhandle, keeps cool with an air conditioner.
When I was young, I never had air conditioning, so I don't think I missed it, she said.
I went to the beach a lot.
I went on Christmas Day.
Now I couldn't live here without it.
A lot of people tell me they wouldn't live here without air conditioning.
By a lot of people, she means 15 million.
That's how big the state's grown in my grandmother's lifetime.
Florida now wields 27 electoral votes.
Do some math.
A state with six electoral votes is far less likely to screw up a presidential election.
Air conditioning.
These people on the left are losing their minds, looking for any excuse they can to explain their losing elections left and right, other than blame their own ideas and policies.
By the way, I've been mentioning all day long in the last two or three days about the panic that has set in over the Obama campaign.
David Rodham Gergen writing at Anderson Cooper's blog on CNN, Obama in need of a game changer.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is this?
Why does a Messiah need a game changer?
What this is all about is Gergen doesn't say in this piece that Obama's in charge of the success of his campaign.
Obama needs somebody to save him.
Obama's not strong enough on his own to get this done.
He needs a game changer.
He needs the right vice presidential pick.
He needs something.
I mean, this is amazing.
The liberals are freaked out now.
He is so weak.
I mean, they are advising him on how to appear to be something he's not, which is strong, confident, without a teleprompter.
And now here's Joe Klein in Time magazine.
Where's Obama's passion?
When Joe Klein has to take over your campaign for the presidency, you are in problem.
Here's Carla Manucci, Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle.
Bad news should wake up Obama, experts say.
It's not panic time yet, but some Democrats watching Obama say his campaign should have gotten a wake-up call this week, not only from his appearance with McCain at the Saddlesaw Church, but from a major poll suggesting he no longer leads his GOP opponent.
And Carla goes out here and quotes George Lakoff, Rhymes With, who talks about how perfect McCain was at the Saddlesaur Church and how horrible Obama was.
And Obama needs to wake up.
And then from the Washington Prowler today at the American Spectator website, according to several Democrat political consultants, presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama spent part of his Hawaiian vacation working on weaning himself from a heavy dependence on teleprompters.
Even in what our staged as town hall events for Obama, remarks are scripted or formatted into bullet points that scroll on teleprompter screens.
Obama has had several embarrassing events where the teleprompter either malfunctioned or the screens were not fully visible and he chews, he freezes up.
One political consultant who's worked with Obama said he just he locks down.
He can't get the words out.
For such a fine speaker, it's really quite remarkable that he's had issues.
He's not a fine speaker.
He's a fine reader.
I think talking about chickens coming home to roost, buyer's remorse, and here from MediaNews.com, Leon Panetta.
This is Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Leon Panetta says Obama needs to be more forceful to beat McCain.
Time to put some more meat on the bones.
Meanwhile, Obama's campaign is the one that's going negative out there.
And of course, the drive-by circle the wagons.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
McCain's going negative.
Going negative isn't working.
Oh, no.
Another blown August for Democrats.
It's almost predictable.
Here's Raj and Houston.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Ditto's Rush from a 20-year listener and a first-time caller.
Thank you very much, sir.
Rush, I just wanted to give you a perspective, my perspective on this horrible country.
Yeah.
I got here with $12 in my pocket.
That's about how much Obama's half-brother has in a year.
Well, I had it all at one time.
A high school dropout from India.
I cleaned latrines.
I dug ditches, planted trees.
At the age of 50, after my second successful business, I retired and started to do what I really wanted to do, and that's become a sculptor and an artist.
And it took you till you were 50 to start to realize that.
I mean, that was like a hobby for you.
Yes, sir.
And, you know, being what many would consider a man of color in this country, I can tell you, having listened to you, there has never been a day I can say anyone discriminated against me for that.
I would not tolerate becoming a victim.
I would not allow anybody to treat me differently or as if I was not as good as anybody else.
And finally, Rush, I found out why I'm a Republican.
I have three air conditioning units in my house.
I drive a Yukon XL and I have two homes, I hate to admit.
You drive a Yukon XL?
Yes, sir.
That's big.
Well, you know, I'm an artist.
I've got to go all over the country to different shows, all my bronzes around.
Well, I don't know why you'd be afraid to admit that.
You don't need to be afraid to admit that you drive a Yukon XL.
Oh, I love that gas-guzzling monstrosity that I have.
And, you know, Rush, I'd like to make you an offer.
I hear you being generous with people all the time.
I've never heard anyone being generous with you.
I would like to offer at no cost at all to you to do a bronze bust of you.
Really?
Where do I have to go?
All you have to do is have your staff send me some photographs, and I can talk to them and tell them exactly what I would like.
Is that right?
Absolutely, sir.
Is that right?
Well, you know, I've always held back on the bronze bust, you know, because they only do that for people who have passed away, right?
Not necessarily, sir.
I just did a bronze of General Walter Boomer.
He led our Marine forces in the 91 war.
I did another for another Army general.
I've also done a full-sized, but not a life-size, but a full-size figure of General Chuck Yeager, who has actually signed his name in the bronze.
Interesting.
I always thought that those busts done officially were done to commemorate the passing of the great individual being busted.
No, not quite, sir.
There's very few people who have actually had the honor of having a bust while they were speaking.
Well, that's awesome.
I'll tell you what, I'm going to put you on hold, and Mr. Snerdley will get contact data from you.
Thank you, Rush, and God bless you for what you do.
Thank you, Raj.
I appreciate it.
Nice to have you here.
You know, he touches on a point.
I've had this story from the AP here today at the top of one of the stacks, and I haven't found a proper transition to it.
His call is, I think, suffices as a means of getting to it.
It is one, two, three, four pages long.
It is an AP story about from Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech to Barack Obama's acceptance speech, A Dream Realized?
This is four pages of how nothing has changed.
This is four pages of how rotten this country is to America's blacks.
This is four pages of how Dr. King would be disappointed.
And he would be, by the way.
This, unknowingly, by Todd Lewin, who wrote this, unknowingly, this is four pages of an indictment of the Democrat Party, liberalism, and the American Civil Rights Coalition.
Because they have gotten everything they wanted.
They wanted a business based on race discrimination.
They got it.
That means there can never be an end to discrimination as far as their charges and allegations are concerned, because then they're out of business.
We have seen, since the days of Dr. King's speech, the federal welfare system destroy much of the black family by replacing the father.
We have seen all of these public housing projects built by concerned and caring liberals.
Take a look at them.
They go in a state of disrepair.
Go to some neighborhoods.
You can go back to parts of New York City and Harlem, where years ago the neighborhoods were clean and pristine and everything was fine and dandy and now not so in some places.
While the rest of the country has been an upward tick.
And how much concerted effort has there been aimed at poor black people by government agencies and programs to help them?
It's too much to count.
It's too much to tabulate.
And so after all of this and all this compassion and all of this money and all of this work to try to bring about the vision of Dr. King, AP tells us after 40 years or more, nothing's changed.
Not even if Obama ends up as his party's nominee, nothing's changed.
45th anniversary of the civil rights leader's most memorable speech coincides with the day when another African American, Barack Obama, makes an historic speech of his own accepting the Democrat Party's nomination for president.
Is the convention's timing merely, as Obama's critics might suggest, political choreography at its shiniest?
One more seamlessly staged performance by a rock star candidate?
Maybe.
And yet, it's also fitting, for if King inspired Americans to confront bigotry or at least dream of a more perfect union, a candidate with Obama's profile surely seems part of that dream's fulfillment.
If the U.S. has entered a truly post-racial era, why do some real estate agents still steer whites away from integrated neighborhoods?
Why are qualified black couples turned down without explanation for an apartment rental?
Why does the naming of a black chief executive of a leading corporation still raise eyebrows?
Joseph Lowry, 86, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King, said, everything's changed and nothing has changed.
So despite progress where it has happened, they deny it.
Where steps backward have taken place, they blame the institution of America for it.
It's just, it's just, it's amazing.
And you get a call from a guy like Raj, who comes here with 12 bucks. in his pocket and starts and succeeds at two businesses and retires at age 50.
And yet, a certain percentage of this country is told they can't do that because they're going to be discriminated against.
Nothing's changed.
I got to take a quick time out here because I'm long.
We'll be back after this.
And the second AP story underneath this four-page monstrosity and insulting piece of absolute garbage is this.
25 things you might not know about Obama.
Well, isn't this quaint?
So now they figure we don't know enough about Barry.
Barry's got to get himself more familiar.
I thought this was already handled with the Messiah stuff, but apparently the panic has set in.
25 things you might not know about Obama.
His high school basketball nickname in Hawaii was Obama, and he favored a left-hand double pump shot.
He has two Grammy Awards for recording his best-selling books.
His mother's name was Stanley Ann Dunham.
Her father, Stanley, wanted a boy.
His mother and father, Barack Obama Sr., met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii when Barack Obama Sr. was still married to another woman.
Oh, I had to add that.
They didn't put that in there.
Sorry.
His father, a goatherder as a child, was a member of the Luo tribe and came from a village in Kenya.
As a child in Indonesia, he was introduced to snake meat and roasted grasshopper.
His stepfather, Lolo Sotoro, presented him with a pet monkey, Tata.
So we got Desmond Tutu.
We got Obama with Tata.
During his community agitated organizing days, this is number 13.
Some residents in Chicago dubbed him Babyface because of his youthful looks.
Oh, be still my beating heart.
And number 21.
His office wall has a framed original program from the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech.
Obama will accept the Democrat presidential nomination on the 45th anniversary of that address.
Oh man, oh man, oh man, folks.
By the way, Michael Bloomberg and the wind turbines, he's finally pulled out of the house.
He realized it's stupid.
And I told you yesterday I had this story about how they put a bunch of men in Oregon and the people are going nuts.
And this is, you people are going to look out for this because this is happening wherever these wind turbines are going in.
People who live relatively close to them having their health affected, low frequency noise and vibrations from wind turbines can have an effect on the inner ear, triggering headaches, difficulty sleeping, tinnitus ringing in the ears is what that is.
Learning and mood disorders, panic attacks, irritability, disruption of equilibrium, concentration and memory, and childhood behavior problems.
All of this is affecting residents near wind farms in Boardman, Oregon.
And they say that smoking is bad.
I mean, these wind farms are worse than that.
Say, folks, have you wondered, if you've been paying attention to the campaigns, why are we hearing nothing about health care from either of the candidates?
The whole subject of healthcare has gone off the radar.
I will explain why tomorrow, Open Line Friday.
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