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Aug. 27, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 27, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Did you see this in the Wall Street Journal today?
Check this headline.
Obama to highlight tax cuts for middle class in speech.
Waylo Clinton hears about this before his speech tonight.
And I don't like this guy stealing my ideas and make me talk about things that were big failures in my administration.
I'm going to nail this guy.
I'm going to nail this guy.
He's never going to know what hit him.
Ladies and gentlemen, last time, the last time the loser at a convention was more popular than the winner was last night.
Greetings, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Yours for three hours straight ahead.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Prior to last night, the last time the loser was more popular than the winner was 1976 and Ronaldus Magnus and Gerald Ford at the Republican convention in Kansas City.
Not one night of this convention has been believable.
Not one night of it.
The best speaker so far, you get Hillary Yoke gave a good speech, but it was, you know, when it was over, it was over, and the convention was not rallied to anything.
The convention was not rallied to her.
The convention was not rallied to Obama.
The keynote guy last night, Mark Warner.
What is all this talk about him being a vice president?
He looks like a mortician.
He looks like an undertaker, and the place looked like a wake last night when he was at all these people murmuring.
Nobody was listening to their keynoter.
I tell you, folks, I should have taken the week off.
What do you say?
Oh, I know.
We're going to get Hillary.
I love you.
I love you.
Bill's, I love you.
While Hillary is dissing him and disconnecting.
You know what she did last year?
She de-linked herself from Clinton.
I'm a proud American.
I'm a proud this.
I'm a proud son.
I'm a proud daughter.
I'm a proud whatever.
Never said she's a proud wife.
You know, everybody picked up and didn't even refer to him as my husband, the president.
She talked about the great economy of President Clinton.
He's up there faking the tears and the quivering lower lip.
I love you.
It reminded me, you know, when Clinton was on the leash, when he was president, she'd be sitting up there like Nurse Ratchet in the State of the Union speeches up there in the audience gallery.
And he'd turn to her.
He did this at two State of the Union speeches.
He turned, looked, I honor you.
This is right after news came out about some other babe.
I honor you.
And she sat there that coldest, steely smile on her face.
So she decoupled last night.
I mean, she's Hillary Rodham again.
He wasn't on stage with her.
It was Chelsea up there.
She said nothing to recommend Obama.
If you go back and look at what she has said during the primary, she doesn't think he can win.
Clinton doesn't think he can win.
She thinks that all he's got to his resume is a speech in 2004.
I mean, the criticism of McCain was even tepid.
The criticism of Bush was even tepid.
And for the record, let it be noted, ladies and gentlemen, that at the anti-war, America Sucks Democrat convention, Hillary Clinton devoted one line to the war in Iraq.
One line.
The protesters gathered outside are an embarrassment.
There are so few, and they're causing no trouble.
We haven't had one tear gas bomb thrown by the cops yet.
We haven't had one car set on fire.
The whole thing is an embarrassment.
These aren't the Democrats that we've been told that they are.
And that the anti-war crowd, every time these people have tried to gin up an anti-war protest, even through the thick of the Iraq war, it never amounted to much.
So much mythology.
That's what, you know, I commented on this a little bit yesterday in the striking and really, really out of this world third hour yesterday.
We just, all of us, we get caught up in all this never-ending, breaking 24-7 news cycle that the Democrats are this giant juggernaut, and they're just going to steamroll all over us, poor conservatives and Republicans, and turn this country into communist Marxist Russia.
And the fact is, they're barely going to find their way to the airport from the convention hall in Denver.
There's a mythology that they represent the majority of opinion in this country and they do not.
And it's such this convention, such an opportunity for the McCain camp.
And I have to tell you something.
The McCain camp is running great ads and they're coming out quick and they're funny.
They are humorous.
Do you happen to see CNN last night, by the way?
They found a black female delegate who says her life is ruined because Hillary Clinton didn't get the nomination.
A black female Democrat.
I don't know.
I've looked at the transcript.
I haven't.
I just saw the video.
I didn't see it.
I had the sound down.
The closed captioning was and all that.
So I looked into it this morning.
But the best speech of the night of the convention so far has been that Wacko governor from Montana with the string tie, what's his name?
No, it's not Strickland.
Ted Strickland's from this is, I don't know what the guy's name.
But even he tell you how absurd this bunch is.
And by the way, this got a huge applause line.
He said, Barack Obama understands that the most important barrel of oil is the one you don't use.
Thank you.
Schweitzer is his name?
Governor Schweitzer?
Brian Schweitzer, is that what it is from Montana?
Barack Obama understands that the most important barrel of oil is the one that you do not use.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I hear now that they're having second thoughts.
Some of the Obama people, not Obama himself, but some of the Obama people are having second thoughts about this charade tomorrow night at Mile High.
People not liking the way this is looking.
And I got a, you know, I got a note from a friend of mine who is Jewish and informed me of some things I didn't know that Jewish people do not like fiery charismatic speakers speaking before tens of thousands at night with lights shining on them.
A Jewish friend of me of mine told me this and says, nobody's going to ever comment on this, but it's going to have a profound effect if it looks, if it, if it looks like it reminds people of something in areas of the country where Jewish people live, that it's not going to, it's not, it's not going to be helpful, shall we say, to the Obama, sorry, the Messiah.
Now, you have probably heard, maybe you have seen pictures of the set that Obama will address the nation on tomorrow night.
It is a Greek temple.
It is a mock-up of a Greek temple like the Parthenon.
Now, when I saw that, so there's got to be a reason for this.
These kinds of decisions to build this thing, this is not just somebody's idea that just like a brainstorm idea that happened.
There is a reason behind this.
I wanted to look up the I wanted to look up the whole idea of the behind, you know, with the role of the temple.
Here is what I found.
Greek temples were built to honor and glorify the patron deity.
They were built as the god's house on earth and usually held a cult statue featuring a god.
Most religious buildings today are intended for congregational worship where groups of people get together on a regular basis, celebrate their God, and receive spiritual comfort.
Ancient Greek temples were rarely used this way.
They were meant to serve as homes for the individual god or goddess who protected and sustained the community.
I can't believe they are doing this.
They are cementing this whole Messiah notion.
It was the needs of the gods that were most important.
They controlled the forces of nature, the sun and rain, which nourished their crops and the winds which drove their ships.
I mean, this could be Al Gore speaking.
And the ocean level.
Oh, yeah, the gods are certainly in charge of the level of the oceans, the seas rising and falling.
Although generally benevolent, the gods could be quite capricious and were liable to turn against the community.
So it was in everyone's interest to make sure that they should feel completely at home in their temple, the gods.
Their houses were the finest, equipped with a staff of servants to look after their every need.
They received daily offerings of food and drink along with a proper share of the harvest and the profits of any trading or military activity.
This is the image behind Obama tomorrow night at Infesco Field at Mile High.
Now, I know that this is a Greek temple, but it will, to a lot of people, also look like a Roman temple.
And you all know what happened at one time in the Roman temple.
Could it be that tomorrow night on Barack Obama's Greek temple, somebody named Clinton will succeed in stabbing the Messiah in the back.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here on the fastest weekend meeting.
We're already at Wednesday.
Actually, to me, this seems like it ought to be Friday.
The pace and the lack of substance of this convention, I mean, it's funny, but it's not like it's funny to watch.
It doesn't speed by.
This is an arduous task to watch this, but hey, it's what I signed up for, and I'm committed to it.
One other thing about Mrs. Clinton, everybody's talking about, I've got, there are three places in the drive-bys today that they're trying to totally misrepresent Hillary's speech.
Anybody who watched that speech last night knew it was all about her.
It was about delinking herself from Obama and from her husband.
It was not an endorsement of Obama.
It did not do anything to get that convention rallied behind Obama.
Yet, the New York Times, I think, a Boston Globe, maybe the L.A. Times, two of those three, have written stories about how this was the most unifying speech, perhaps in convention history, the most rousing endorsement of a nominee by a loser that we've seen.
It's just, it's unbelievable wishful thinking on the part of these drive-bys trying to create for their audiences an image opposite of what we actually saw last night.
I'll give you an example.
Any of you people think that what Hillary did was a full-fledged, total endorsement of Obama and his leadership capabilities and his experience and all that?
You know that the McCain camp is running an ad with her talking about how Hillary says McCain is far more ready to lead, far more qualified than Obama is.
It's an ad that features something she said during the primaries.
So McCain's running this ad, which basically says Hillary endorses him.
She could have said last night that this ad that John McCain's running is misrepresentative.
I do not believe that John McCain would be a better president than Barack Obama.
On and on and on.
She didn't even discuss it last night.
She didn't even bring it up.
If she were really on the warpath for Obama, that would have found its way into her speech because she can't let it stand out there that McCain is running an ad of audio with Hillary endorsing him.
Yeah, she said this.
Basically, what we're left with is Obama, and she left it out.
You have to hand it to her, folks.
It was a real omission.
So anybody thinks that Mrs. Clinton did this rousing rah-rah for Obama, you don't know the Clintons, and you don't know how to listen to a speech.
By the way, the Obama camp is getting tired of Nancy Pelosi.
They have asked her to shut up.
This is from the American Spectator Day.
The Obama campaign has asked Speaker to House Pelosi to shut her mouth, but in as nice a way as they possibly can.
That isn't to say they aren't mad about her recent activities.
It's like, thanks, Madam Speaker.
You've done quite enough.
Now please move along, says one Obama advisor.
And all this because Pelosi's big mouth has ensnared Obama in Catholic abortion issues, and she didn't take direction.
She is back after she's been denounced by high-ranking archbishops of the Catholic Church.
She stands by her comments on Sunday.
She stands by them.
I have remember the glory days of the Democrat Party when they had, they might have been liberals and they might have been Democrats, but they were formidable.
They were smart.
This party is led by a big bunch of fools.
Pelosi?
Harry Reid?
Howard Dean?
47% of Democrat women say Hillary should be on the ticket.
This is from the Ras Musson Reports website.
Nearly half of Democrat women, 47%, say Obama should have chosen Hillary for his running mate instead of Biden.
As the former first lady prepares to speak tonight at the Democrat, this is news from yesterday.
39% disagree.
From Gallup, conservative Democrats are peeling away from Obama.
Obama has been struggling to maintain his Democrat base thus far in August.
And according to weekly averages of Gallup poll daily tracking, the problem seems to be with conservative Democrats.
Within the Democrat Party, Obama's losses are primarily evident among the relatively small group that describes its political views as conservative.
The 63% of conservative Democrats supporting Obama over McCain is the lowest Obama has earned since he clinched the Democrat nomination in June.
Small number, eh?
Who are these conservative Democrats, by the way?
Conservative Democrats, they used to call these Reagan Democrats.
And they're out there.
We've had a couple call us in the last couple of weeks.
Maybe three or four of them have called us, and they've expressed similar sentiments.
These are the people, if they're pulling away from Obama, where are they going?
They're going to McCain.
And this is Another problem.
I just, I sit here, you know, I really marvel at how cleverly the drive-by media convinces everybody in this country that the Republicans essentially are a finished party.
They're really so small and so out of touch, and it's finished.
And the Democrats are this giant juggernaut, loved by the American people almost as the American people love their gods.
And it just isn't the case.
And the Democrat drive-by media, very upset about this convention.
They still worry that there is no theme to this convention, that there is no message.
The forehead still has his doubts.
This is last night on CNN.
The most important thing is for Democrats to have a clear, simple narrative.
And David noted accurately that we now have a long litany.
Every Republican who walked out of their convention in 2004 said, Bush is strong and Kerry is weak.
That was it.
Will Democrats walk out of this convention and say, I don't want four more years of Bush McCain.
And here's David Rodham Gergen also concerned.
I don't know what they're doing up there.
Right now, we're just sort of drifting around.
You know, we've got an hour and a half almost before, it's a little over two hours before Hillary Clinton speaks.
They've got to get some more fire back into this.
They cannot let these precious hours slip by.
They've got to tighten this up and get this baby moving.
Don't you just love hearing this?
Let's just keep going.
Here's De D De Myers.
This was on MSNBC last night with Chris Matthews, who said, you think negative politics or positive politics are most powerful in winning elections?
I do think this convention and this party and the Obama campaign have to define the choice.
And I think that hasn't happened yet in this convention.
We're in the middle of the second night.
We better get to it.
See how when they all get together and they try to actually put on this united front, the truth, the truth is revealed.
The truth is exposed.
The myth that is presented of the Democrat Party day in and day out is destroyed because Democrats eventually get ensnared by their own policies.
For example, affirmative action.
They came up with the idea.
Fine.
Who does it screw?
Hillary.
Here is James Carville continuing to be unhappy.
I couldn't help but thinking that people watching this, this is what a major league fastball looks like.
Now you've seen one.
I mean, and you just, there's skill sets and skill levels in politics like anything else.
And you saw a lot of pitching so far in this thing.
And then you saw one of those.
Where did that ball end up?
And this was, I was, you know, it had a lot to do with the moment, the emotion and everything.
But the delivery was almost like she didn't stumble on a line or a word.
What you saw tonight, and I'm not saying this because I'm a Clinton person.
This is a major league fastball, unlike anything we've seen.
Well, that's not even true, but at least he was happy that something went right about the convention.
I guess you could say her speech was good compared to other Hillary speeches and compared to what else is going on at this convention.
But in terms of accomplishing things for the Democrat Party, it didn't do too much.
Quick timeout.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
You know what the drive-bys are obsessing about all morning?
The drive-bys are obsessing on what will Clinton say tonight?
Some unity, unity they've got going.
What will Bill Clinton say?
And then I was watching the most amazing thing.
Here we have Mike Allen from the Politico.
He was guesting on Fox this morning.
And I think it was Chris Wallace.
Somebody said, well, what's going on with Clinton?
Mike Allen says, he just wants to be sucked up to.
If they would just suck up to Bill Clinton, everything would be fine.
I'm like, oh my gosh, we're listening to somebody talk about a former president of the United States acting like an immature child wanting to be sucked up to.
Isn't it interesting how all during the 90s you and I understood who Bill and Hillary were?
And now all of a sudden the Democrats, and including in the media, now finally realizing it too.
My only question is, did they really know it themselves back then but didn't care because they wanted the power just as they don't care who or what Obama is.
If they think he can win, that's all they care about because power is their objective.
Fast Eddie Rendell last night, Fox news channel Hannity and Colms Colm said, Governor Rendell in the Washington Post, you compared Obama to Adlai Stevenson.
Was that a proper quote?
Was that what you meant?
Adlai Stevenson, in my judgment, was the greatest living Democrat in my lifetime.
I think Barack Obama should also be a great president because he is smart, because he doesn't give easy answers, because he doesn't pander, because he thinks things through.
He has a vision for this country that doesn't necessarily translate on the campaign trail, but he's going to be a great president.
If anybody out there loved Adlai Stevenson as much as I do, work your heart out for Barack Obama.
My gosh, for a guy that represents Change, Hope, and Future, they're going back to find Democrat losers to compare Obama to.
Adlai Stevenson?
I mean, this, some of you people may not have ever heard the name.
We're talking the 50s here.
We're talking the 50s, and he was this erudite elitist.
He was a snob.
They thought he was inevitable.
He couldn't lose.
And he got smoked.
And here's Rendell, who we know is a Hillary supporter.
Here is Rendell telling the largest cable news network audience last night, oh yeah, guy reminds me of Stevenson.
Obama's trying to compare himself with JFK.
Martin Luther King, Fast Eddie comes out.
Nope, nope, Adlai Stevenson.
Doesn't translate well on the campaign trail, but when do you see him govern?
How do we know?
Stevenson never governed.
This is just too much.
You know, Fast Eddie, why didn't you go ahead and compare him to McGovern and Mondale and Dukakis while you were at it?
Throw Adlai Stevenson.
Love this.
I just love this.
Let's go to the phones.
Temecula, California.
Brittany is up first today.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call.
I want you to know that my parents watched you on television, bought your books, and now it's my turn to watch you via Ditto Cam.
So thank you and Dittos to you, Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Brittany.
I just want to say, so I rushed home from school yesterday to make sure I didn't miss Hillary speak in her little orange suit.
Wait, You rushed home from school.
How old are you?
19.
19?
Yes.
So you're in first year college?
Actually, well, I'm getting my AA in administration of justice and looking at maybe political science, criminal justice kind of degree.
So working on that.
But yeah, really exciting stuff in Rush.
I got to tell you that I've got such a love for politics because of you, because of everybody in talk radio.
And if it wasn't for you guys, I think I wouldn't be where I was today.
And I got to tell you, I got so much stuff going on for me that I hope one day you can get involved with.
Well, you know, you make it sound very attractive.
Well, thank you.
Well, like, example, I mean, I have a book coming out in October, November.
That's what we're looking at.
And I actually messaged you about it, so hopefully you'll eventually get to that message.
But it should be good.
It's a collage of comments from the youth around America.
So hopefully everybody can get their stuff in.
I do want to talk about Hillary's speech last night.
Yes.
And I want to talk about, because when I saw it, knowing the Clintons, I understood that the speech was a bunch of BS, you know.
But as I was watching it, I realized that her speechwriter is fantastic.
And she articulated it so well that if I hadn't paid attention and me being a youth and paying it, I mean, I really would have sunken in to what she was trying to sell me.
And I loved, I loved how for the last eight minutes of her speech, she said, I did this and I did health care.
And then she went and said, this is why I'm choosing Obama, which really made me laugh.
And my mom said, she's getting ready to run again.
You know, she's getting people hyped for her.
Yeah, but here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
You've passed a test that I was going to give you.
Oh.
Well, because I was going to ask you, okay, what do you remember of it?
You thought it was a great speech.
You've just told me what you heard in the last eight minutes.
The problem with the last eight minutes, when she's listing all of her accomplishments, her supposed accomplishments are at the top of the agenda of things wrong in America that the Democrats need to fix, they think.
She hasn't fixed anything.
Now, just taken within the confines of the speech, yeah, of course it was a good speech as well.
She's getting better and better at that all the time.
And she plays the victim role very well.
And she was in that mode last night.
And she was there to show this convention that they chose the wrong nominee, chose the wrong candidate.
And she was happy to do that.
She was energized.
This was, the way the Clinton mind works, this was payback.
I agree.
I totally agree.
And I loved, I was watching, I was paying really close attention to Michelle Obama's expression.
And she kept the same expression on her face the whole time because I was comparing speeches in my head.
And I really wasn't impressed with Michelle Obama's speech.
No offense to her.
I just, I don't, I didn't get anything out of it.
And the women crying in the audience really started to tick me off because I didn't see what they were seeing.
But again, I think Hillary's speech, just something about it was so alluring that I think she was totally confident.
And I think I like that.
And I would never, I mean.
How could she not be?
Everybody that had preceded her was just one foot in the grave in terms of energy level.
She had to know that on her worst night she would give the best speech up to that point that had been given at this convention.
I'm not trying to take anything away from her, Brittany, by any stretch of the imagination, but it was all the point.
You're talking about she articulated it well and she delivered it well and she had good energy level.
But for the purpose that the Democrats were hoping for did not happen.
There was no unifying message.
There was no, I want all of you to get out there and get Barack Obama elected.
He's far more qualified.
There was none of that.
So it all depends on how you define the speech.
And in this case, for her purposes, you'd have to say it was good.
You talk about Michelle Obama, by the way, in her speech.
I watched Michelle Obama watching Hillary.
Did you guys see that?
Did you catch a couple of the screenshots?
Michelle Obama had a frozen smile on her face.
You just know that they were waiting there.
Oh, God, I hope, I hope, I hope that it doesn't do something really bad.
I hope, oh, please.
And they're going to be doing the same thing tonight.
And it's going to be even worse when Clinton gets up there.
By the way, my friends, I was not the only one to observe that Michelle Obama's speech was actually not the real Michelle Obama, that she threw feminism away.
She tried to make herself out to be June Cleaver And Mrs. Partridge, all for the express purpose of trying to make white people like her and her husband, which we thought that had already been accomplished.
He's the Messiah.
Richard Cohen, Washington Post blog, the transparent purpose of Michelle Obama's speech, its kitschy effort to reassure, gave Michelle Obama a glaze of insincerity.
In the post-speech commentary, many of the TP types, schooled now in empathy and not objectivity, gave her high marks for what she did, but what she had really done, she had done earlier in her life.
Last night, she gave the standard log cabin speech expected of nearly all American public figures, born poor, raised in faith, et cetera, et cetera, with narrow mention of race.
It was a speech designed to reassure, but it didn't do that at all.
Politics can sometimes be ugly.
In this case, we witnessed how a dynamic woman with a razor-sharp intellect had for the moment been lobotomized.
Richard Cohen, Washington Post, they lobotomized Michelle for her speech.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Let's play the video or the audio here of the angry black female delegate to the Democrat Convention who in tears just expresses her total dissatisfaction with the Messiah.
Suzanne Malvo sought her out on the convention floor joining us here.
Obviously, very strong Clinton supporters.
Tell me, by the way, this woman's name is Ann Price Mills.
Tell me, why is this so important to you?
And what does this moment mean to you?
Hillary Clinton proved to me tonight that she would have made her excellent president.
She was presidential tonight.
She's evidence that women would come so far.
And to let gender be a hindrance, to let a phenomenal, an intelligent, a powerful, a moving, a motivating person not move us into the next generation, not move us into the future that we deserve, not move us into the green economy that we deserve, not be able to address the concerns that we deserve.
And now everybody just wants us to simply shift.
You just saw it yourselves.
You saw it yourself.
You know that was a presidential speech.
You know it.
Ann Price Mills pleading with Suzanne Malvo of CNN to see it the way the delegates see it.
You saw.
But here is the Susan Malvo then says, well, will you vote for her when you cast your votes later in the week?
I was elected to come here as a delegate for Clinton.
I will vote for Clinton.
Now, you asked me about my personal vote in November.
Obama has two months.
Experience speaks to me.
I ask everybody all the time, I say, would you take somebody straight out of Harvard, even if they had the education, and put them as a CEO in the company?
Experience count.
I don't care what anybody told you.
And his resume is just...
This is a black female delegate to the Democrat National Convention who has not bought any of the hype that is Obama.
She sounds like a reasonable, responsible Republican voter, other than her support for Hillary.
Would you take somebody from Harvard right out of Harvard and put them as CEO?
Now, the sad thing to note, ladies and gentlemen, sad thing to note and to warn you of, this woman went on television.
She went on CNN.
She said what she said for many seconds.
Close-up shot of this woman.
The Obama people know who she is now.
You wait until they come for her.
You wait.
You just, this, you won't be seeing any more of Ann Price Mills.
She'll be around.
You will not be hearing her or seeing her.
Not on drive-by networks.
Mike Cell Call, Washington, D.C., welcome to the program, sir.
Yes, I heard a speech, Bill Clinton yesterday, where he spoke to me.
He said that you're going to be faced with the choice of candidates in elections where you could choose a candidate who agrees with you on everything but won't be able to pass anything in Washington, D.C., or a candidate who you agree with half of the time and will be able to pass half of the things that you want in Washington, D.C.
And it was plain that he was speaking of Obama and McCain to me.
There's no question.
We've got that audio soundbite here.
This is the day.
He's undercutting Obama on the day of his wife's speech.
This was at an international affairs forum in Denver.
Suppose, for example, you're a voter and you have candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that person can deliver on anything.
Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver.
For whom will you vote?
This is the kind of question that I predict, and this has nothing to do with what's going on now.
Oh, of course not.
No, no, no, nothing to do with what's going on now.
That's why I brought it up in the first place.
It had nothing to do with now.
The guy, you might say, we just can't help himself, Rush.
That's probably true, too, but this is strategic.
This was done on purpose.
Look, folks, it's very, very simple.
Lest we forget who the Clintons are, power running the show.
Remember, this was going to be hers.
I mean, even seven months ago, they still hadn't really accepted the notion Obama was going to pull this off.
This was theirs.
This was hers last night.
That was to be her night.
I mean, this convention, and that was supposed to be on Thursday night of this.
And it's there, not there.
And he's got nothing to do now.
She gets to go back to the Senate.
They are not going away.
I've heard somebody saying the era of Clinton is over.
At least the Obamas have vanquished.
Oh, the era of Clinton is not over.
Obama wins.
The era of Clinton has got a big, big obstacle in its way.
And therein lies the easily ascertainable truth about the Clintons in this election.
If Obama wins, the era of Clinton is in big trouble.
If Obama loses, Hillary is automatically the presumptive nominee in 2012.
Now, what do you think the Clintons are going to spend the next two months doing?
I'm not talking about it right now.
I'm not talking about what's going on here.
I just, you know, I'm just giving you a hypothetical.
Ann in Malvern, Pennsylvania, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
Hi.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'm a longtime listener and first-time caller.
And my question is: don't you think a woman VP for McCain would really help him win?
Well, I have seen today that Kay Bailey Hutchison is moving up the McCain list.
But you know, these like MSNBC today said that the short list is Tim Polini, Rudy, Lieberman, and Tom Ridge.
Now, there are a bunch of different factions in the McCain camp leaking their preferences.
Because two weeks ago, MSNBC was reporting that it was practically Romney and it was sewn up and it was done.
And as for a woman, why?
Why do you think that's the case?
Because of the Hillary supporters.
I mean, that's half the population who might feel, you know, not listened to.
A quarter.
I was saying half of them are young.
Yeah, I'm looking at the clock.
I don't have the time on it.
What about the governor of Alaska?
A lot of people like her.
A lot of people like her.
I got no problem with the gender aspect of this.
Different analysis.
By the way, Mike Huckabee wanted to come on the program to correct something I said, so he's going to be up next when we come back from the top of the hour.
Just wanted to remind you of that.
Sit tight.
Coming right back here.
Okay, first hours in the can on the way over to the museum housing artifacts for the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
We'll be back right after this.
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