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Sept. 4, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I did not want that to end last night.
I did not want Sarah Palin's speech to end.
I didn't want the night to end.
I did not want, I didn't want Rudy to stop.
What a night.
Folks, we have a future beyond November here.
Regardless what happens, you realize what happened.
This party has been unified.
The convention has been unified on the basis of conservatism.
Properly executed, brilliantly articulated.
What a night it was.
Greetings and welcome.
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Believe me, Barack Obama has a lot to fear today, and he knows it.
Now, I have been joking half-heartedly, half seriously, in the recent days that down the road, it is going to be the Obama campaign that maybe determines they need a change in the number two slot on their ticket.
You know, the drive-bys all this week were talking about how long would Sarah Palin last.
We got the answer.
But I'll tell you, last night, Anderson Cooper, 360 on CNN, speculating to his guests, asking them, maybe should have, should have Obama chosen Hillary.
Drive-bys are in panic.
The Democrat Party is in panic.
The American left is in panic.
They again have been trapped in their own clichés of who conservatives are, conservative women are.
They do not know what hit them.
They do not know how to respond to this.
They're going to respond as they always do incorrectly.
They're going to be mean-spirited.
They're going to be vicious.
They're going to put out lies.
They're going to continue to try to destroy this woman and her family as they best know how.
It is going to backfire on them.
Gloria Steinem.
Gloria Steinem in the LA Times today has a column.
In it, she trashes the choice of Sarah because she says, and I think Sarah, it works as a one name.
We all knew who we're talking about when we say Sarah.
But she trashes Sarah Palin because she's only got, what, one-tenth or some of the chromosomes of Hillary Clinton.
And then as a disqualifier of Sarah Palin, Gloria Steinem writes in the LA, who's now 74 years old, and if there is ever a woman who is out of touch and who no longer represents American women in much of anything, or a majority of American women, it's Gloria Steinem.
And she says, look, proof that this is a bad pick is that Rush Limbaugh has been touting her all summer, which means that apparently they've got focus group data.
It says the mention of my name to feminist women just sends them through the roof.
It's a badge of honor, ladies and gentlemen.
But I'll tell you something.
There's so much to say about this last night.
But the great thing about it is that convention, I know a lot of people were worried.
In fact, let's put something out there.
Let's be very honest about something.
You and I together, you know it.
I know it.
We've talked about it.
You've called here.
We have been concerned.
A lot of people have had a feeling of hopelessness because in the McCain campaign, we didn't see our values and ideas and therefore how to win, triumph, and represented.
And therefore, we've been worried about the country.
We have been deadly, seriously worried about the future of the country.
This lady has turned it all around.
And I'm here to tell you today that John McCain, from now on on this program regarding this choice, will be known as John McBrilliant.
This was a brilliant choice on the part of Senator McCain, and he let that convention get turned loose last night.
He let Rudy fire both barrels.
He let Huckabee fire both barrels.
He let Romney fire both barrels.
And he let Sarah Palin fire both barrels.
And by the way, you know something?
Whoever wrote the speech last night, I'm doing a lot of follow-up after the speech, and the speechwriter, some guy named Scully, I don't know if he put his name out or somebody else floated it.
The Democrats are doing everything they can to discredit Sarah Palin because, well, somebody else wrote the speech.
Somebody else wrote somebody from the Bush campaign, somebody named Scully.
Well, I don't care who wrote the speech.
The speech was about her life.
A speechwriter cannot make that up.
A speechwriter cannot tell that.
I don't know how many of you know this, but the teleprompter got all screwed up last night in her speech.
Have you heard about that?
Whoever was running the teleprompter did not stop it during the applause lines.
It kept rolling.
She was doing that speech from memory over half of it.
So don't talk to me about speechwriters.
If we're going to talk about speechwriters, let's talk about Obama's speechwriters, as in Karl Marx, as in Jeremiah Wright, as in Bill Ayers.
You want to talk about speechwriters?
We know that Obama cannot do what she pulled off last night.
If he loses the prompter, it's a crisis.
It's an emergency.
And it also happened to Rudy.
The teleprompter operator kept going during the applause lines.
They had it to just, I just, these things happen.
And I was watching.
I said, something's not right here.
She's looking down at the podium a lot, and I'm thinking maybe she doesn't like prompters.
Maybe she's just doing this speech from notes.
Whatever the case, this whole notion about the speechwriter being responsible for this is just another attempt to take away from her.
Speechwriters ought to shut up.
Speechwriters ought to realize that the words that they write, and it's a collaborative effort with the speechwriting shop, it is the person that delivers the speech that pulls it off and so forth.
And this is a great warning.
It seems like everybody wants to get on the act.
You got somebody like this that comes along, Sarah Palin, a once-in-a-lifetime politician that I think is genuinely you can say this about.
And everybody wants to get in the act.
Oh, yeah, I helped.
Oh, yeah, I did a little bit of that.
I did a little bit.
Everybody wants some credit, get in on the act and so forth instead of realizing what is at stake here.
But this whole notion of hopelessness that a lot of people have called and written me about was just broomed last night.
This lady has turned it all around.
We are much more upbeat this week.
We have been since last weekend because we see beyond November with a lot of hope.
She is just fabulous.
I just, I had such an upbeat.
I was laughing myself silly during this speech.
I was laughing myself silly during Rudy.
I mean, Rudy and Palin, what do we have up there?
We had good cheer.
We had people having a good time.
We had people who were getting in some huge digs with smiles on their faces.
In fact, Joe Biden is all over the board today.
He says, first he didn't see it.
Then he said he only saw half of it.
The one guy in this country we know who saw all of it and has probably watched it three times is Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, this is from the ABC News blog.
Matthew Jaffe is reporting that some might have expected Biden to come out swinging, but this morning, Biden threw some more punches at the sexist press than at his vice presidential counterpart.
I think this stuff about how she can be a governor and vice president, raise three kids.
Come on, whoever those folks are don't know any strong women.
Joe, they are your supporters.
They are your supporters and voters and Obama's supporters that are leveling these insults.
I was also impressed with what I didn't hear, Biden said.
I didn't hear a word mentioned about the middle class or health care or about how people are going to fill up their gas tanks.
You didn't?
Here is a woman who has led the way on energy production and energy.
And she talked all about, these guys are just beside themselves.
And then Biden said this about her zingers.
They're good, funny lines.
I got to admit, I'm glad they weren't about me, you know?
I mean, I'm sitting there thinking, whoa, look at that zinger.
So Biden says, boy, I'm glad they zinged Obama and not me.
And he's out there saying this stuff.
But they did.
They zinged with humor and they cut right to it.
Listen, here's a great illustration.
And we're going to go through the Palin speech in a little more order, but I wanted to pull one out.
Oh, I keep thinking of the thing.
She sold the state jet.
I put it on eBay.
I put it on eBay.
I put the state jet on eBay.
And then that family sitting there watching the little seven-year-old Piper moistening her lips or her fingers and patting down the hair of the infant of the baby.
It was just, heart was going crazy.
Mind was going nuts.
It was just what we've been longing for.
I think this is as excited as I have seen the conservative base since 1994, 1993, 1990.
It's been 14 years.
And John McBrilliant pulls this off with the gutsy choice of Sarah Palin.
Here's a little sound bite where Governor Palin rips into Dingy Harry.
Harry Reid, the majority of the current do-nothing Senate.
He not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.
He said, quote, I can't stand John McCain.
Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we've chosen the right man.
Yeah, Murdoch, Murdoch, Merlin.
Clearly, what the majority leader was driving at is that he can't stand up to John McCain.
And that is only one more reason to take the Maverick out of the Senate, put him in the White House.
You know what else is one of the great lines last night?
There's only one man on this ticket that's actually ever fought for you.
I loved that line.
I thought that was just, she had them all.
The whole speech, there wasn't anything.
There wasn't any point in time where it was down, where we lost attention, where she lost rhythm.
And I'll tell you something, folks, I don't know, those of you who have never spoken with a prompter, and if you come to depend on it, and if you've got a prompter operator that's not paying attention, and if the prompter operator doesn't stop, you're kind of dead.
But there's another factor here, too.
And that is this was her first coming out party in such a large audience, we are told.
She had to adapt to the audience applause lines, not being sustained and so forth.
You don't know how hard it is to maintain the rhythm of your speech when it's interrupted a lot.
And she pulled that off flawlessly.
Flying colors in a room that big.
I'm telling you, folks, you don't know how good this was.
And you think it's excellent.
You think it was great.
You don't know how good it was.
The Obama camp is in fear.
They sent, I got it here.
They sent out a fundraising letter last night that is totally on the defense.
This convention, two nights of it, have put us on offense, which is where you have to be in situations like this.
They've actually put out a fundraising note defending what a community organizer does because of the zinger that she delivered last night.
Okay, so here she has just zinged Dingy Harry.
Last night on CNN, panel discussion, a co-host Campbell Brown says this about Palin's remark about Dingy Harry.
Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a statement describing her speech tonight.
And listen to the wording of this because it's really important.
He says, shrill and sarcastic political attacks may fire up the Republican base.
They don't change the fact that a McCain-Palin administration would mean four more years of failed Bush-Cheney policies.
The catchword there is shrill.
I rarely, if ever, hear the word shrill used to apply to a man with regard to an attack or style of attack.
It's usually applied to women.
And if they, Democrats, are seen as treating her in a condescending way, then it mutes and it will totally backfire any attack she makes and allow her to be even they're starting to get it even at CNN.
Even though Campbell Brown was in the chorus of ripping her earlier, but now they're starting to get this.
So then Blitzer, Blitzer double checks with his reporter to make sure that Dingy was actually referring to Palin.
It's clear, Dana, that the statement was referring to what Sarah Palin said, not the men that we were speaking earlier.
Is that right?
Correct.
Yeah.
So Wolf was hoping against hope here that Dingy was not talking about Palin, but he said a double check there with his reporter.
And the forehead lost it last night.
The beds were flying.
I think they're going to need to call in the men in the little white suits, the paddy wagon for the MSNBC crowd.
And they're going to need shrinks.
They're just out of it.
They can't figure out what happened.
They're sitting there dazed and dazzled, trying to figure out how to carry on in a normal way, realizing they can't pull it off.
The forehead just went nuts.
I think we have to be careful of the right-wing politically correct police editing our language.
There are some words that are off-limits, like the B-word, which was used against Hillary Clinton frequently on this and other networks.
And I think that was outrageous and sexist.
Still defending Hillary.
There's the forehead, the B-word on CNN.
Who was it?
I don't even remember who used the word.
Anyway, we got to take a timeout here.
We'll come back.
We'll get started with all the rest of this, plus your phone calls in just a minute.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, the doctor of democracy and truth detector, all combined as one harmless, lovable little fuzzbull.
I just got a note from the operations director of our affiliate station in Detroit, WJR.
They have had to sadly preempt the radio program today because it's a sadly historic day in Detroit.
The Obama-endorsed mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, has agreed to a plea agreement which will end his term as mayor, send him to jail for 120 days, and put him on five years probation and more.
And they are discussing this exclusively in Detroit today.
I wanted to mention this because all is not lost for Kwame Kilpatrick.
After he serves his jail time, he could move to Washington and most likely be elected mayor there if he wants to.
So Kwame Kilpatrick, the Obama-endorsed mayor, he's thwa in Detroit.
Watching Fox News this morning, before we get into the Palin speech in detail here, as you know, there's this Us Weekly magazine piece out that is just despicable.
It is a hit piece.
It's filled with lies and innuendo.
Jan Wenner is the publisher.
He's a huge Obama endorser.
What they're banking on is that millions of people will see this cover and just read the headline, not the details of the story, at supermarket checkout counters.
It is a blatant attempt to destroy Palin and her family.
And it just is a despicable piece, but it's tabloid trash that has been promoted by the drive-by media.
On the other side of this, the National Inquirer, which has roots to the Clinton people via Roger Altman, is running all these halo pieces on Obama and Michelle.
What Ron Wenner is trying to do is destroy McCain and Palin for Obama, and Altman and the Inquirer people are trying to destroy Palin for Hillary.
If you look at who owns these two publications, you can see very clearly what is going on.
Megan Kelly today, late this morning on Fox, just destroyed the editor of Us Weekly, guy named senior editor Bradley Jacobs.
Her first question.
So the problem a lot of folks have about this, and I have to tell you, we've gotten tons of email over this, that headline in and of itself will start with this.
It sounds like an attack.
Babies, lies, and scandal.
What are the lies?
Actually, if you read the story, you will see it's actually very measured.
It's a very easy story.
I read the story.
What are the lies?
Actually, the lies that we point out are some of the liberal bloggers who were speculating that the daughter had given birth and that there was a cover up there.
We were one of the few magazines that actually did call to task those liberal bloggers for the news stories over the weekend.
Really?
Is that what you think you did, you idiot?
You called the liberal bloggers to task on the cover.
You have babies, lies, and scandal with a picture of Sarah Palin, and you think people are going to connect your lies to the liberal bloggers.
Megan Kelly wasn't buying any of it.
Bradley, do you think the cover in any way suggests to the viewer who's looking at your magazine while standing there in the grocery store that the lies are lies about Sarah Palin by her attackers?
I don't think we can talk about all that here.
We've gotten a lot of press today, but a lot of people haven't read this story.
You may disagree with that.
But it is a fairly, it's a very balanced story.
We interview strategists on both sides.
We interview Sarah Palin's deputy.
Yes.
Okay, you say, first of all, you point out her husband, Todd's DUI arrest.
Do you point out that that DUI arrest came 22 years ago in 1986?
Of course.
The DUI arrested everywhere.
No, you don't.
You don't, Bradley.
That's not in there.
She kept going.
You mentioned so-called Troopergate talking about, and I'm quoting from your article.
She's under investigation for dismissing an official who refused to fire her sister's state trooper ex-husband.
Do you point out the allegations that that trooper she allegedly wanted fired tasered his own stepson, who was only 10, and made death threats against Sarah Palin's father?
Do you mention that in the article?
We didn't have time to get into everything that you've mentioned.
What an idiot.
What did Megan Kelly strip this guy totally nude and rendered him a total fraud as a journalist, a senior editor, and at the same time exposed that magazine as nothing more than a hack hatchet job arm of Jan Winner's publication Empire?
Just it's amazing.
And all of this, you know, what they're counting on is that millions of women, millions of people at the grocery store checkout line while they're waiting will see that cover and compare it to other covers they've seen of the Obamas and conclude that Sarah Palin and her family are some sort of hayseed hick, trailer trash from further in the deep south than you can find in NASCAR Stadium.
Track.
And I just tell you, the truth will out here and the very present Sarah Palin, she owned that stage last night.
She's a natural.
Everybody's saying a star was born.
Yeah, it was.
I saw it Friday and Dayton.
I didn't have any doubts about that speech last night.
I couldn't wait for it because I knew that that place was barely going to be able to keep the roof on.
But they're going to keep trying this sort of stuff.
Her reality is going to swamp all of this.
By the way, folks, coming up in the program later today, I have a, I responded to a friend last night and emailed us some questions.
And I don't normally spend as much time writing in a response as I did this.
And it actually came out pretty well.
And it'll translate into a monologue and explain just why Sarah Palin works.
And that's coming up.
I want to share that with you.
But, and we've got all these audio soundbites to do, but since most of you saw this last night, we'll review those later.
I want to get to your reactions.
And the reaction from the Obama people today is just to die for.
Here's Barbara in Los Angeles.
You're next.
I'm glad you called.
Rush, I am so excited to talk to you.
It was so funny.
This morning, Axelrod comes out with Sarah's speech was devoid of substance.
There is not one thing that comes out of Barack Winbag Obama's mouth that has any substance.
And the entire Obama campaign is devoid of substance.
By design, they have to be devoid of substance because he is.
Well, the other thing that I thought was very interesting last night was all of these Democratic nutballs come out and says her speech was written by somebody else.
Barack Obama can't order a happy meal without having Axelrod or somebody else on his staff writing something for him.
That is exactly right.
Axel Rod is the speechwriter.
Axelrod is the primary speechwriter in the Obama campaign.
Look at this is all because last night was so effective.
The night before was so effective.
These people are back on their heels.
They're on defense.
They have not been here the whole campaign.
They have been running around with their own aura of coronation.
It's just a matter of time.
We are the chosen ones.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Sarah Palin is the one we have been waiting for, and that's real.
Now, you bring up Axelrod.
I have two things I want to share with you on that regard.
Here's a story about the Axelrod business.
He's campaign manager, one of the campaign managers for Obama.
And the story says, Barack Obama's camp unloading on Sarah Palin after Palin described herself as a pit bull and then tore into Obama in a tough convention speech.
Axelrod speaking to reporters aboard Obama's campaign plane.
I just loved it, by the way, when she nailed him on his own phony presidential seal.
The styrofoam columns that have been shipped back to the back lot.
Yes, mama.
Anyway, here's Axelrod.
There was a one thing Sarah Palin said about Obama or what he's proposing that's true.
Wrong, Axelrod.
Nobody lied about your candidate last night.
Nobody lied.
Axelrod defended Obama against one of Palin's most biting lines when she ridiculed a favorite part of Obama's resume, saying, I guess small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except you have actual responsibilities.
I knew that was going to get him, and it did.
Axelrod said they can demean service in the community, but I think most people appreciate it.
Most people don't know what the hell it is.
Most people don't know what the hell a community organizer is, and Obama certainly is hellhead.
Most people think of a community organizer as an agitator like Al Sharpton or the Reverend Jackson leading protests.
All I know is that the people that were depending on Obama and his community organizing efforts are probably still in the same condition they were in when Obama was there, probably still in the community, having not elevated themselves whatsoever.
Like the schools, the schools in Chicago, their kids are boycotting schools in Chicago because they're rotten.
The very community organizing schools that Obama was supposedly in charge of.
That was a subject of our morning update today.
He then accused, well, he said he's proud of those three years that he spent as a young person working in those communities.
What did he do there?
What are we supposed to just bend down in Sala Van Go?
Okay, Mr. Messiah, you worked in the community.
That was her point last night.
She has actually worked in a community and made it better.
Obama can't tell us what he did.
Then Axelrod accused Palin of trying to, quote, ignore his work as a constitutional lawyer, as a professor at the University of Chicago, his eight years in the legislature, his years in the United States Senate.
Obama himself rarely mentions his time spent in academia or at Harvard Law.
And why is that?
In their own video that they put together to introduce Obama, they left all kinds of things out of his life.
They left out Harvard.
They left out his career as a constitutional lawyer.
They didn't talk about what he taught as a law school professor.
All kinds of holes.
I wonder why that is.
I wonder why they left all that information out of Barack Obama's life history.
Victor Davis Hanson today, by the way, a great piece posted at townhall.com.
He said, the reason the people of this country are so often angry and upset is that everybody running for political office is a lawyer.
And we're tired of it.
John Edwards is a lawyer.
John Kerry is a lawyer.
You name him.
Reagan was not a lawyer.
But Bill Clinton was a lawyer.
Obama's a lawyer.
Biden's a lawyer.
And what kind of language do you get with lawyers?
You get legalese.
You get double speak.
You get political correctness.
Sarah Palin's not a lawyer.
And we got real last night.
I think Victor Davis Hanson has a great point.
Now let's move on to David Fluff.
David Pluff is another campaign associate of the Messiah.
And I'll tell you, Sarah Palin is not only comfortable in her own skin, she is obviously comfortable underneath Obama's skin because she got under his skin last night.
She got under Biden's skin.
They're all in a state of panic.
Obama's campaign defending community organizers, they have been trapped again into defending something that can't be explained.
Here's the fundraising letter that Fluff sent out.
Dear friend, I wasn't planning on sending you something tonight, but if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.
No, Mr. Pluff, it doesn't demand a response.
Your problem is you didn't vet the guy at the top of your ticket.
The Democrat Party needs a legitimate candidate.
You can talk all you want about Obama, or rather McCain not vetting Palin.
The Democrats did not vet Obama.
I saw John McCain's attack ad, negative cynical politicians and all that squad of people.
They lied about Obama and Biden and they attacked you for being part of this campaign.
What lies?
What lies?
How about specifying the lie?
What lies did she tell?
What lies did Rudy Giuliani tell?
By the way, Mr. Pluff, Sarah Palin's not an attack squad.
As she said, she's a pit bull with lipstick.
But worst of all, continues this fundraising letter, and this deserves to be noted, they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.
What?
Insulted the idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political.
She is the epitome of ordinary.
Her narrative is that she is an ordinary American.
Did you miss that?
They didn't miss any of this.
They're trying to miscast it.
They're trying, they got it.
They got it.
They understand that she is what they can never be.
They understand that Sarah Palin is what no Democrat woman can ever pull off.
No Democrat male politician can ever pull off what she pulled off last night.
Our people were more excited in that convention hall when she came out last night than at any night during the Democrat convention, including Obama's.
And nobody's going to say that, but I will.
The energy in that place was uncontainable.
It was palpable.
With Obama, there wasn't a theme.
There wasn't anything to get cited about except him.
And he was nothing new at the time he went out.
Do you guys, the Obamacare, you miss the fact that she is an ordinary American who has done extraordinary things.
She relates to more of your precious Democrat voters than any of your politicians could ever hope to.
And that's what they know, and that's what frightens them.
She trumpeted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process, not elites.
She's not an elite.
She's not a lawyer.
She's not from the Ivy League.
I love seeing these people tripped up like this.
And then the fundraising letter continues: You know, that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together.
Yeah, like what?
Make a donation.
Be careful what you ask for because I think the donations to Michaelin Palin or McCain Palin are going to be through the roof.
And then here we go to the PAs.
Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Obama's experience as a community organizer on the south side of Chicago more than 20 years ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.
He worked with people who lost jobs.
Really?
What was his work with people who lost jobs?
What were his results with people who lost jobs?
You are an idiot, Mr. Pluff, for bringing this up.
Community organizer is now a national joke.
We have been treating it as a national joke on this program ever since it became one of your stellar talking points.
Last night, community organizer was made a national joke.
Keep bringing it up.
Keep trying to defend it.
Keep trying to explain it.
Keep saying, 20 years ago, working with people fired from a steel plant, Obama's qualified.
What did he do for them?
Where are they now?
Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.
Okay, so we got a great new definition of what community organizing is about.
Ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.
Well, then, who is the community organizer interfacing with?
If the out-of-work people talk to the community organizer, who does he then go to to fix the problem?
In Obama's case, I'll guarantee, is another lawyer, or it was Bill Harris or Jeremiah Wright, or maybe some state or national congressman.
But I mean, this, you talk about out-of-touch.
Ordinary people run for city councils and become mayors.
Ordinary people do not become community organizers.
That's why it's so rare.
How many of you in your town, if you wanted to become a community organizer, where would you go to apply?
To whom would you give your resume?
What would be your qualifications if you sought to be a community organizer?
You got to be a community.
Don't give me social programs.
Don't give me meals on wheels.
Those are handled by other people.
Don't give me all this stuff.
It's a homeless shelter.
Not community organization.
The hell is it?
How many of you people in your town know where to go to apply for that job?
How many of you in your town know a community organizer?
And how many of you have known a community organizer who went on to something big and great?
Not that they haven't, but how many of you know of one?
Well, yeah, okay, Al Sharpton organized a community with Tawana Brawley.
I mean, what are we talking about here?
We're talking about an Obama campaign that has been rocked back on its heels.
They are in deep trouble.
They have a lot to fear today.
They know it, and they are feeling the fear.
Hi, welcome back.
A lot of people sending me an email.
Rush, she's the new Reagan.
No, there is no new Reagan.
She's Sarah Palin.
She got a little populism in her, folks.
We're not looking at Miss Perfection here.
We're looking at just somebody that's real and refreshing and genuine, honest, and is one of us.
And let's not make it more than it is yet.
There's a long way to go here, and the enthusiasm that they have built tonight and last night and the previous night, hope they can maintain it tonight, come out of this convention with everybody as energized tonight and tomorrow as they are at this point.
Now, here is Sarah Palin's comment on the community organizer resume of Obama.
I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.
I guess a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.
I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they're listening and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.
Awesome.
Awesome.
We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
It just makes me so happy.
I feel like I'm listening to Republicans react to the Democrat convention in 1984.
And this Democrat convention of 2008 is almost identical to that San Francisco convention in terms of the sheer radicalness of the nominee, of the attendees, the delegates, and so forth.
Now, here's Gibbs.
This is Robert Gibbs, an Obama advisor, last night on Larry King Alive.
Let me tell you a little bit about what Barack Obama did when he moved to Chicago.
He went into neighborhoods that have been decimated by steel plants that have been closed and helped those guys get job training and get jobs and get back up on their feet.
That's what Barack Obama's done with his life.
And I think that's an experience that we'll put up against the governor of Alaska, the senator from Arizona, or quite frankly, anybody else in this race.
You want to do a contest on the creation of jobs, Sarah Palin?
How many jobs he's created?
How many jobs Obama created?
Or McCain?
Let me tell you what Obama did.
Let's just pull back the veil, shall we?
We all know that what Obama did as a community organizer in Chicago.
He worked for Acorn.
You know what Acorn is?
It's an ultra-radical, left-wing, fraudulent voter registration operation that is caught routinely, frequently cheating, registering illegals, registering people multiple times.
They've been the victim of lawsuits.
That's who Obama worked for.
That's what Obama worked.
That's Chicago thug politics as described by Bill Clinton.
And that's what he was doing in the community.
He was learning from the bottom-up gutter Democrat Party politics.
And they talk about him as a community organizer as a way to mask that.
Here is Sarah Palin and the future of American politics, as I would describe it.
We were so blessed in April.
Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trigg.
You know, from the inside, no family ever seems typical, and that's how it is with us.
Our family has the same ups and downs as any other, the same challenges and the same joys.
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge.
And children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.
To the families of special needs, to the families of special needs children all across this country, I have a message for you.
For years, you've sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters.
And I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House.
That's a home run, folks.
That is a missile seeking dead aim in the hearts of every American family.
And it hit the target.
We'll be back.
So a lot of people are wondering, what does all this mean for Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton?
Ladies and gentlemen, who is it that knows the Clintons as well as they know themselves?
It is I, L. Rushbo.
I'll tell you what all this means for the Clintons when we come back.
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