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August 25, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, I asked for Joe Biden.
I pleaded with the Messiah, the Lord Barack Obama the most merciful, to give me Joe Biden.
And he came through in a botched text message announcement.
Supposed to come at 3 a.m. on Saturday.
I don't know where to start.
I do not know where to start today, folks.
I really don't.
Pelosi on Meet the Press said the Catholic Church is unsure when life begins.
I mean, it's just, I mean, you can't even categorize this, how stupid it is.
There's not an English word made to describe the lack of energy in the brain of Nancy Pelosi.
Stupid doesn't cut it.
Silly doesn't cut it.
She doesn't know that natural gas is a fossil fuel.
The Democrats are trying to put out fires between the Obamas and the Clintons.
Bill is all upset over his assigned speech topic.
He wants to talk about his great record, his great economy, and contrast that with Bush's, and they want him to talk about something else.
After picking Biden at 3 in the morning, and by the way, these text message people did not get their messages first.
The media found out about it about 40 minutes before the text message went out.
But what kind of thinking is it to make this announcement at 3 o'clock in the morning?
I mean, I know what the, it's supposed to be who, I'm ready at 3 a.m.
I'm ready to make a decision at 3 a.m.
I mean, that's what this is, but that's defensive.
That was silly.
It was like you're trying to hide the pick.
And then the CNN went out there, breathlessly did a poll Saturday and Sunday after Biden had been announced.
And guess what?
Obama lost ground.
He and McCain, now tied 47-47 in a CNN poll.
We learn from none other than the New York Times that Biden's son is a lobbyist and is involved in business dealings overseen by his father, Joel, in terms of passing legislation or authoring and supporting legislation favorable to his kid.
On Saturday morning, we had a story in the New York Times.
I have to laugh at this too.
On Saturday morning, we had a story from the New York Times about how, damn it, every year we hear politicians say that we're going to get the big money out of politics or get the special interests out of it.
And then they talked about how much money was going to be spent just at Invesco Field at Mile High on Thursday night for Obama's big acceptance speech and how all the corporate suites are going for millions of dollars and Obama's going to be up there rubbing elbows before and after.
And I just, I got to thinking, how does this happen?
You know, it's part of a media template that every year we're going to get rid of big money and that every year we're going to get rid of the special interests.
And we never do.
It's never ever going to happen.
Either party, money is the mother's milk of politics.
It just, it flabbergasts me to see the same old wizards of smart and the drive-by media continue to report every four years something that's never going to change and then write all complaining.
I mean, this story was sort of complaining about Obama and his, there's nothing new here in terms of change.
And of course, with the selection of Biden, there is this is Biden's been in the Senate longer than McCain's been in the Senate.
Change?
We all know what this pick was about.
This pick is about two things.
This pick is about, well, it's actually about three.
It's about the failed intern trip to Europe.
It's about the fact that Obama demonstrated he has no clue on foreign policy, and they need to give him some substance, some gravitas on foreign policy.
So they've done this with Biden, which how do you pick a guy?
How do you pick a guy who didn't get 1% in Iowa in two different presidential runs?
And how do you say it's a good pick?
And how do you not pick Mrs. Clinton who got all those votes and could certainly shore up areas that Obama is weak?
I know why they don't pick the Clintons because, well, you know, Obama likes, we know why they didn't pick the Clintons.
But so much of this, you know, I thought for sure when I asked them to give me Biden that they'd see that as a sign, don't do it, don't do it.
Limbo's prepared.
Don't do it.
But they came through.
And then I don't know if you saw their speech on Saturday afternoon, their coming out party where Obama introduced Biden as the next president, and Biden started making fun of his wife's education and then said he was just joking.
They used the term Scranton, Pennsylvania five times between them.
Did you see that?
Now, you know why?
You know why?
Because he was born.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
He hadn't lived in Scranton, Pennsylvania 55 years.
But if you go back to the Democrat primaries because of Operation Chaos, Obama lost Pennsylvania by 10 points with six weeks to campaign there with no major primary.
He loses it by 10 points, and Scranton is typical of the areas in Pennsylvania that Obama lost.
So they think, they think that getting O'Biden is that Biden from Pennsylvania, from Scranton is going to somehow get the Pennsylvania vote.
This is a stretch and it's a reach.
I mean, it's, folks, it's breathtaking here.
The, the, the, uh, the, the, Tim Kaine.
Tim Kaine said today, I think this morning on Fox, get out your maps.
Tim Kaine, the eyebrow, Governor of Virginia, said that, well, you know, Delaware borders Virginia, and that'll help Obama, the Virginia vote.
Well, it doesn't, it's nowhere near Virginia.
It borders New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Maryland, but it does not, you know, it's part of the Delmarva Peninsula, but it doesn't border Virginia.
And Governor Virginia said it did.
And then we've got Ben Affleck.
Now, Ben Affleck's going to the convention along with a lot of other celebrities.
And his PR guy said, hey, you know, I know celebrities showing up at these things.
It's kind of a strange thing.
It really is.
But the fact is, it's not our fault that Ben Affleck is more well-read and 98% smarter on foreign policy and domestic issues than the rest of us.
And I read that and I said, don't you understand that's the problem?
Affleck is a dunce, and he's 98% smarter than the rest of you people in the Democrat Party on this.
And you're looking at this as a crowning achievement.
And then Madonna, you know, with her look at me, I'm a new whore at age 50 tour, comes out and compares McCain to Hitler and Obama to Gandhi.
And the McCain camps right in there fighting back.
And then Ted Kennedy is going to show up tonight.
He's in Denver.
They're going to have a big video for him.
This night tonight's going to be, they can have Michelle my bell.
And I'm wondering, no, I'm not going to mention this.
That would be totally sexist to mention this.
I'm just not going to do it.
Is she pregnant?
She's wearing stuff that makes her look pregnant.
And I'm just wondering if she's going to announce it tonight in her speech at the Democrat convention.
Just a wild guess, ladies and gentlemen.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, we all remember that the Senate, the House, government, congressional hearings have been looking into baseball and steroids.
The reason is that they're unnatural, that they're cheating.
All these athletes using steroids to give themselves an unfair advantage over the non-cheaters.
Why are Joe Biden's hair plugs any different?
Joe Biden now has an unfair advantage in a game of politics with hair that is not where God intended it to be.
It's just so unfair to Dick Cheney, for example.
It's all the more reason for McCain to rise above all this and pick a vice president with lots of hair.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
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We'll come back and give you some details and analyze all of this stuff as best and fast as we can as this week's broadcast excellence is officially underway.
I just see something up there.
It gives me an idea.
We have our first call has been posted by Mr. Snurdley, who is in there feverishly screaming, and it's Gosette from Reno.
Gosette, hang on just a second.
We're going to get to you.
I got some audio soundbites to go first, but she's an angry Hillary supporter.
She's tired of angry liberals.
Is that what she's tired?
She doesn't like Obama, but she's not.
I mean, she's going to vote.
Well, I'll ask her all these questions.
She's tired of people being angry.
Josette, the Democrat Party's food is anger.
The Democrat Party's sustenance is anger and rage.
These people are angry.
Did you see this poor little Fox reporter get ambushed?
He went out there to talk to the recreate 68 people, and they just, I mean, they didn't physically abuse him, but they verbally, we can't play the soundbite.
I mean, nine out of every 10 words was the F-bomb.
F-bomb, Fox News, F-bomb, Fox News.
We can't play it.
It would be one giant beep if we did it.
These people are, they're filled with rage 100% of the time, and it's their sustenance, as I said.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Yesterday's CNN, late edition, Wolf Blitzer had this exchange with Barack Obama advisor Anita Dunn.
I'm going to play a little clip.
Anita, I want you to listen to what Rush Limbaugh said on Wednesday before we knew that Joe Biden was, in fact, the running mate.
Listen to what Rush Limbaugh said.
I really hope it's Biden.
We don't want to say that too loud, but I really do hope that it's Joe Biden because we've got a mountain of archival audio on Joe Biden.
A mountain of archival audio on Joe Biden.
Joe Biden's been on television, on the radio a lot over the years.
How worried are you that the McCain campaign, the Republicans, are now going to throw back at you all of the stuff, a lot of the comments that Joe Biden made over the years?
Well, you know, Wolf, I think that Rush Limbaugh doesn't need a lot of help from our campaign coming up with material for his show.
He makes it up, but we don't give it to him.
Let me tell you something, Anita.
You guys are giving me problems.
I'm on information overload today.
I've got more than I can squeeze in.
I don't know what to do first.
I can't decide which of what you people are doing is most newsworthy in terms of incompetence and foolishness and outrageousness.
I'm really, I'm sort of, I'm in a paralysis mode here, trying to figure it all out.
Make it up.
You people have been writing my script here.
I'm sorry.
Your candidate has been writing my script here for about six months.
Make it up.
Let's go to the audio soundbites, Anita, and let's listen to this.
This is September 1988 on the campaign trail.
This is on C-SPAN.
It's an exchange between a man identified only as Frank and Biden.
And Frank asks Biden the question: what law school did you attend, and where did you place in that class?
And the other question is.
I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect.
I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship.
In the first year in law school, I decided I didn't want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school, and in fact, ended up in the top half of my class.
I won the international moot court competition.
I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year.
I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits, only needed 123 credits.
And I'd be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you'd like, Frank.
And it turns out that when you do some research, you find out that half of what Biden said there is not true, and he had to later go back and revise his remarks.
This is the year that he openly plagiarized Neil Kinnock, Lord Kinnock, the great labor leader from Great Britain.
Here's more archival audio on Joe Biden for you, Anita.
This is July 23rd, 2007, Charleston, South Carolina, during a YouTube debate.
Viewer Jared Townsend said, Good evening, America.
My name is Jared Townsend.
I'm from Michigan.
To all the candidates, tell me your position on gun control as myself and other Americans really want to know if our babies are safe.
This is my baby purchased under the 1994 gun ban.
Please tell me your views.
Thank you.
Anderson Cooper says, Senator Biden, are you going to be able to keep his babies safe?
If that's his baby, he needs help.
I don't know that he's mentally qualified to own that gun.
I'm the guy that originally wrote the assault weapons ban.
Look, we should be working with law enforcement right now to make sure that we protect people against people who don't are not capable of knowing what to do with a gun because they're either mentally imbalanced and/or because they have a criminal record.
So he just insulted the guy on the YouTube question by basically saying he's insane and doesn't have the right to own a gun.
Here is something a little bit more serious.
This is Meet the Press on September 9th of 2007.
Tim Russert says to Joe Biden, General Petraeus said in a letter to his troops, My sense is that we have achieved tactical momentum and wrested the initiative from our enemies in a number of areas of Iraq.
We are, in short, a long way from the goal line, but we do have the ball.
We're driving down the field.
Is that what you expect him to say tomorrow?
He's dead flat wrong.
The fact of the matter is that there is that this idea of the security gains we made have had no impact on the underlying sectarian dynamic.
None.
None whatsoever.
Can anybody envision a central government made up of Sunni Shi and Kurds that's going to gain the trust and respect of 27 million Iraqis?
There have been some tactical gains, but they have no ultimate bearing at this point on the prospect of there being a political settlement in Iraq that would allow American troops to come home without leaving chaos behind.
There you have it.
Joe Biden, once again, proudly wrong on Petraeus, proudly wrong on the surge.
And remember, this is the guy that's been brought aboard the ticket to shore the ticket up on foreign policy.
Joe Biden was one of the many Democrats back in 2007 who had invested in the defeat of the U.S. military and the United States of America in Iraq.
Now, I don't know if you've seen it or not, but there is a deal.
The Iraqis are now saying there is a deal to get all of our troops out of there by 2011.
Precisely what Biden said couldn't happen and wouldn't happen has happened.
And he's just wrong.
It's, you know, as the entitlement to be wrong here, everybody is entitled to make mistakes here and there.
But this was more than just being wrong.
This was hoping for defeat.
This was hoping that everything would fall apart.
And this is the motivation that carried this view held by the Democrat Party throughout 2007 regarding the surge is profound.
And the American people are going to find out about it.
If they weren't paying it, you know, here's something interesting that's happening with the drive-bys.
The drive-bys are frustrated.
One thing I want you to believe me, if you haven't believed me on anything else, this party in Denver is in trouble and they know it and they do not understand it.
And the drive-bys are in trouble.
They know it.
And they are puzzled as well.
They know that their guy's going to have to have a 10 to 15-point lead going into election day the last week.
And if he doesn't, he's toast.
They know that they're tied after picking Biden.
They are frustrated because they think that they succeeded in turning public opinion against the war in Iraq.
And the drive-bys are now trying to turn the public's opinion toward Obama, and they've been doing so for a year.
Now, they can't figure out how come we were able to turn public opinion against the war, but we're not able to do the same thing on Obama.
Well, I'll tell you.
I'll give you two good reasons why.
Number one, public opinion on the war was never what the Democrats and the drive-bys portrayed it to be.
Public opinion on the war was never to lose it.
Americans don't like losing.
We don't want to go out of there in humiliation.
What the American people wanted was to kick butt and win and come home.
They were impatient with the pace of things.
The American people did not want to lose.
The drive-bys thought they had convinced the American people that victory was all that was possible.
So let's defeat rather, let's declare it and get out of there.
The second thing is, in terms of why they're unable to turn people on Obama, is that they weren't able to turn him on Iraq.
They've been living an illusion.
The illusion is that all they have to do is give this in-the-tank support for Obama, and the American people are going to follow along.
But the problem is, the American people know more than the drive-by media gives them credit for.
The drive-by media and the Democrats have, as their central characteristic, besides anger, a condescending arrogance that assumes everybody other than them is stupid, uninformed, uneducated, and unsophisticated.
And as they continue to view the electorate this way and the entire American population this way, they are going to forever continue to be surprised at what the American people do.
The American people have full knowledge of who Obama is.
The American people saw him on parade.
You drive-bys have put him out there for everybody to see, and it's quite understandable.
It's not hard to figure out Barack Obama.
He has insulted the very voters that he needs when he goes to these elite fundraisers.
They know all this.
They know the trouble they've put themselves in, both with their nominee and their vice presidential nominee, but they are incapable of doing what's necessary to fix this or to solve the problem.
Wait, you hear what Biden said about the Marines in Oditha?
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have behind this, the golden EIB microphone here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I just checked the email.
A guy said, Rush, you're falling for the ropodope.
You're spending all your time here on Biden when the subject is Obama.
And Obama would love for you to start talking about Biden and not him.
My friends, do not start thinking this thing to the point that you get too smart by half.
There's no question.
This is a 150% ultra-leftist ticket.
And it is topped and it is led by a community agitator leftist from the wards of Chicago.
There has been an attempt to make him respectable with the addition of an inside war.
Oh, by the way, this is another thing I don't believe.
Who was it that said this?
It was, oh, it was Linda Douglas, who used to work at ABC and NBC, and she was a hack for Democrats then, but she left the news business and went to the Obama campaign.
But it was a lateral move because they're one and the same.
I mean, even Fast Eddie Rendell at a forum yesterday afternoon pointed out that MSNBC is in the tank for Obama, and it's embarrassing to him.
He's a Hillary guy.
Lou Dobbs on CNN said, my colleagues are in the tank for Obama.
So Linda Douglas leaves ABC, CNBC, NBC, wherever she was, and goes to the Obama campaign, but she hadn't left the news business.
The news business is running Obama's campaign, and vice versa.
But you know what she said to counter the criticism that Obama chose an inside Washington guy, a Washington insider when his campaign is for change?
I mean, even the New York Times realizes that's blown.
They're saying, forget the lofty rhetoric on Thursday night, pal.
You got to come out with something specific.
You can't go change Hope Future with a guy who's been in the Senate five years longer than McCain.
So she said, well, he's not a Washington insider.
Get this now.
This is the spin.
Linda Douglas said he's not a Washington insider.
Joe Biden goes home every night to his family in Delaware, takes the train home.
He's not of Washington.
Really?
So you have to live there.
You have to go to dinner there.
You have to pow around at the bars and the cocktail parties in order to be of Washington.
What you do as a senator for 30 some odd plus years when that's all you've done, there's nobody near the Democrat ticket that's run a business, that's met a payroll, that's done anything but be in government and see to it that it's as big and as powerful and as intrusive in people's lives as possible.
I mean, this is you could, they're going to introduce Barry.
By the way, they're saying at their convention that the purpose is to introduce Obama to Americans.
Now, I know what they're thinking.
They're thinking it's time to introduce Obama because this is when most of America starts listening and paying attention to politics.
But drive-bys, you've already introduced him.
You introduced him in Berlin.
You introduced him in Baghdad.
You introduced him in your newspapers and on your air for the past year.
It has to the point that people are now sick of Obama.
To the point now people are sick of this Messiah business.
To the point people are tired of this.
They really get in pan.
This backlash, who told you?
Who told you it's going to be a backlash on this foreign trip?
It was I, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, maha-rushy.
And there's going to be another one after this convention because this convention is going to go so over the top and overboard.
Everybody at this convention is going to be presented as a Messiah.
And Obama is going to be the last Messiah that is going to be presented.
Now, before we go back to more archival audio from Biden and your phone calls, here's this.
This is from Well, darn, the website did not print out here on this, but it's a transcript of Biden in June of 2006 on Meet the Press talking about the Haditha massacre.
Now, when you hear Biden talking about this, you must keep in mind that he was totally wrong about Haditha, just like Jack Murtha was, and Biden has not apologized, nor has Murtha.
Eight of the Marines charged for that so-called massacre and the cover-up have already been exonerated.
One case is still pending.
Here's Russert.
Let me ask you a question on Iraq about Haditha, some of the other alleged atrocities.
The fact is, our government knew about that for some time.
How high up the chain, based on your information, do you think this goes?
Biden, Secretary of Defense.
Russert, what should be done about Rumsfeld?
Biden, he should be gone.
He shouldn't be in his office tomorrow morning, but I'm so tired of saying this on your show.
I've been saying this for two years.
Well, the president knew about Haditha in March.
Well, we can't get rid of the president.
He's there for two and a half more years.
There's a system of accountability.
The system of accountability is, it used to be a gentlemanly thing, as they say, when you make serious mistakes, you step forward, you acknowledge them, and you walk away.
Presidents can't and shouldn't do that.
Secretaries of defense can and should.
Well, I mean, Biden has just given us a bunch of reasons why he should step down or have stepped down over the years, make mistakes, wrong on the surge, wrong on Haditha, joining these cattle calls to put these Marines in the barracks and in the dock and court-martial them, and they're all but one exonerated.
The list doesn't stop.
We go back to Biden in 1988, 20 years ago, talking about qualifications for president.
You go back and listen to him say why he's got to be elected.
1988, we're coming out of eight years of Reagan.
And he's talking about how rotten the world thinks of us, how horrible our reputation in the world.
We need our respect back.
And it's a replay.
It's verbatim for what the Democrats have been saying for the last two years.
And he then goes on to say that you can't have a rookie in the White House.
People with experience, he's got the qualifications down, and he gave the surefire reason why Obama should not even be president back in 1988.
And he's the guy that's been picked.
And don't forget, we haven't even gotten to Pelosi yet on the Catholic Church and abortion and the fact that she doesn't realize that natural gas is a fossil fuel.
Back to the archival audio.
Where are we here?
Up to soundbite number five.
This is January 30th, 2007.
In an interview with The Observer, New York Observer, Biden said this about Obama.
I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy.
Now, when this happened, and it caused a little bit of a furor, but not much.
It didn't cause nearly as much of a furor as it would have if, say, a Republican had made this statement.
But the drive-bys, oh, you know, that's just Joe.
That's just Joe.
I mean, sometimes he's funny what comes out of his mouth sometimes.
You see, there's this double standard.
A liberal cannot be a racist, and it's impossible for a conservative not to be one.
Conservative automatically is by virtue of the DNA.
Liberals can't possibly be racists.
So there's a double standard.
Here's July 2006.
This is more Biden on the campaign trail.
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
Not much up.
Now, isn't Bobby Jendal speaking at the Republican convention?
Bobby Jendal is Indian American.
Governor Jendal, I hope you say something at your convention speech.
Hope you say something.
By the way, I'd like to make a comment here to Senator Joe Biden.
Senator Biden, my name is Bobby Jindal, and I'm Indian American.
I do not work in a 7-Eleven.
I am the governor of Louisiana.
One more Biden.
Now, we've got mountains of this stuff, folks.
This is just a little telltale here for today.
October 25th, 2007, Washington Post Editorial Board.
Question, can I ask you something on that point?
If you were to look at the educational results of schools in Iowa, you would find that they're some of the best in the country.
Washington, D.C. pays teachers substantially more, so clearly there's more to it than just we're not spent enough money.
You have to start off with what they start off with.
There's less than 1% of the population of Iowa that is African-American.
There is probably less than 4 or 5% of it that are minorities.
What is in Washington?
I think it's a vast majority.
Yeah.
So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with.
When you have children coming from dysfunctional homes, when you have children coming from homes where there's no books, where the mother from the time they're born doesn't talk to them, as opposed to the mother in Iowa who's sitting out there and talks to them, the kid starts off with a 300-word larger vocabulary at age three.
Half this education gap exists before a kid puts a foot in their first classroom.
Okay, so there's Biden claiming that black mothers do not read to their kids.
Michelle Obama, will she say tonight, Senator Biden, I'm a black mother, and I have read to my kids long before they started school.
Of course not, she won't, but these are just, we're going to get more of these kind of gaffes because he's going to be more prominent than he has ever been.
Right now, most of the impassioned audio of Biden comes from his two other campaign forays and when he has attempted to destroy the lives and careers of conservative nominees to various levels of the American bench, judiciary system.
And those questions and those comments, I mean, we've got one coming up at some point, folks, where he was given something like 20 minutes to ask questions and did not get one question asked in 20 minutes.
Started pontificating, losing his train of thought, then finding his train of thought and losing it again.
It's just hilarious stuff.
Now, also, Biden is 100% pro-choice.
There is no, I mean, you've got an infanticide nominee.
You've got a guy that's for infanticide, and you've got Biden who has a 100% approval rating from Planned Parenthood, from NAROL, the National Abortion Rights Action League, a 0% approval from National Right to Life, 0% from Sportsmen and Animals Alliance, 100% support from the Humane Society.
These are his ratings as his votes as a senator.
National Tax Limitation Committee in F grade.
Americans for Tax Reform, 10%.
National Association of Manufacturers, 0% approval.
ACLU, 100% approval.
NAALCP, 100%.
I mean, you've got just unmistakably as liberal a ticket as you had with George McGovern, if not more so, back in 1972.
This party has governed itself almost as McGovern did back in 1972 with the Vietnam War.
They've done it with Iraq.
They're repeating pages from their playbook.
It's just breathtaking.
It is breathtaking to watch this party continue to say the same things over and over for 20 years, regardless of the reality of circumstances on the ground anywhere, to nominate the same kind of people over and over that for the most part lose.
You know, the guy that was best at masking his liberalism from the American people was Clinton.
And that's because they were a duo.
Clinton had to get the vote, so he was allowed to portray himself as one of these new Democrat leadership members, a moderate Democrat that a third way, you know, above the fray of both parties, while Hillary was out there doing the dirty work of being the 100% liberal and choosing all the cabinet appointees or many of them and so forth.
But there's no way that this ticket can get away with having either one of these two guys be portrayed as anything other than a hard, hard leftist, perhaps more liberal and more anti-American in scope than any ticket the Democrat Party has put together.
One more sound bite and then back to the phones or to the phones we go.
For meet the press on 2007.
And this is key now because remember now, Obama.
You know, who knows what I'm going to end up calling these people before this is all said and done.
O'Biden, ObamaDon.
At any rate, remember now, the Messiah said that the most gut-wrenching choice he ever made was to not support the Vietnam War.
And of course, he never did vote for it.
He wasn't in the Senate.
Remember this as you listen to Biden here.
April 29th, meet the press, Biden talking about, see, Biden did vote for the wall.
And Biden voted to fund the wall.
See, the Democrats, for all this talk the American people wanted out of Iraq, the American people wanted us to lose, they knew damn well that wasn't the case.
They never once succeeded in defunding the operation in Iraq.
If the American people had wanted out of there on the terms of the Democrat Party and the drive-by media, then they would have demanded that war be not paid for.
So that, and this ties in a comment I made about half an hour ago.
You know, they're sitting there, they're depressed themselves, they're upset.
They can't figure out.
They were so able to turn public opinion against the war.
That's where they're wrong.
They did not do that, but they think they did.
They don't understand why they can't thus turn American people and their opinion for Obama.
So Obama, most gut-wrenching choice, deciding against the war.
Here is Biden on Saddam and WMDs.
The point is, it turned out they didn't, but everyone in the world thought he had them.
The weapons inspectors said he had them.
They cataloged them.
This was not some shany pipe dream.
This was, in fact, cataloged.
So Obama has chosen somebody who did the exact opposite of the most gut-wrenching thing he ever did.
He has picked Joe Biden, who is saying, we have no choice.
We had to take Saddam out.
We had to do it.
Now, how's this going to square with the anti-war crowd?
I mean, this pick is one of utter desperation.
They're putting the word out that he really wanted Kathleen Sebelius, but that he couldn't do that because that would make the Hillary voters angry.
So he couldn't do this.
He couldn't do that.
So they settled for Biden.
All right.
Josette, I want to thank you for waiting.
I have this at the table here, Josette Zen Reno.
Great to have you up first today on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
Well, I have been a registered Democrat for at least 30 years.
And if you had told me I'd be listening to you.
Well, you don't sound a day over 35, so I don't know how that could be.
Well, I am.
But if you had told me a year ago, I'd be listening to you.
I would have said no way.
But I have been listening to you and Sean Hannity.
And you guys have made a lot of sense.
And I'm glad I have listened.
But my point today is that they keep saying I am a Hillary supporter and was a Hillary supporter, but they keep telling us that we're angry.
Well, we're not angry.
We just don't like Barack Obama.
Well, that may be you.
But everything that we're hearing, and we have our spies out there, Josette.
We have people that are closer than the Democrats think to what's going on inside the inner circles of their party.
And there are some women who are fit to be tied.
They are angry as hell because they think this is the last chance to see a female president in their lifetimes, and they've lived to see that kind of progress and emancipation.
And they don't see what's happened here.
This unexperienced, inexperienced, good-looking, well-sounding dweeb has once come along and made the aging woman stay at the secretary desk instead of get the promotion.
And they're mad about it.
They ought to be mad about it.
I'd be mad too if I was them.
Well, I think you're right about some people.
I'm just not angry.
I just see it as I see it.
How can you stay a Democrat then if you're not angry?
Well, maybe I'm not.
Maybe I should switch tickets.
I'm thinking about being an independent next year.
But I've been watching this whole thing through and through, and I saw the first interview with Michelle O'Brien.
Wait a second.
You have to wait until next year.
The Democrats will switch from Democrats to the year.
I'm voting for John McCain this year, so I guess I have to.
That's right.
Okay.
All right.
But, I mean, I saw the first interview with Michelle Obama, and she acted like she was inconvenienced to be the first lady instead of having it be an honor.
I listened to the Reverend Wright tape, and that literally made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, and that was it for me right there.
So, if you really pay attention, he's not ready, and he's not the one.
And it doesn't have anything to do with being angry for me, it just has to do with picking the right candidate.
Whatever.
I mean, you've arrived at your decision in a rational way.
Again, more evidence that you have left the Democrat Party already, whether you know it or not.
Okay, first hours in the can.
There's lots more stuff out there, including items related to the ticket and the Democrat convention.
We're going to mix it all in with other news as well, folks.
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