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Sept. 5, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Look at this.
Look at this right here in the New York Times.
The headlines says it all.
Obama camp turns to Clinton to counter Palin.
Clinton campaign says, I don't think we can save you.
I got campaigning and fundraising to do for Senate candidates.
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I was on Greta Van Sustrin at Fox last night, right just after midnight.
She's been asking me all week, and I finally relented, and I appeared.
It was really good.
We've got the audio and video.
I was on the phone, but basically we got the audio posted at rushlimbaugh.com.
But once I told her, I said, you know, the conventional wisdom here is never right, Greta.
And I won't be surprised if somewhere down the road, it's the Obama camp that decides they need a new vice presidential running mate.
You really think, you really think that they would just drop bites?
No, it won't happen that way.
It won't.
There'd be some tragic emergency that pops up, some such thing as that.
I mean, everywhere you look, this guy, he needs Hillary to help him out.
This is in the New York Times that Obama Camp turns to Clinton to counter Palin.
Says here that Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democrat women, meaning the nags.
Obama is going to go out and beg the nags to bail him out, including Oprah.
Have you heard about this?
Oprah does not want Sarah Palin on her show.
Half of Oprah's staff does want Sarah Palin on the show, but Oprah doesn't want because she's conflicted.
Okay, the black guy or the girl.
She's in the cank tank for Obama, of course, but she refused to have Clarence Thomas on during the period of time after his book came out.
You know, this is, I don't care what she does.
I just think the blue maw ought to be off the Oprah rose as well.
By the way, her mother is being sued.
She's $156,000 in unpaid bills, clothing bills or something.
Oprah Winfrey's mom got until September to respond to the lawsuit?
What is it about these rich liberals that they let their parents sit around and wallow in the mire?
Or their half-brothers.
By the way, I got a new slogan for Pizza Hut.
The new Kenyan pizza.
Put a pizza in your hut.
So you've got Obama's brother living on $12 a year over in a hut in Kenya.
Oprah's mom, $156,000 unpaid clothing bills, now in the middle of a lawsuit.
And both these two are wealthy liberal elitists.
As I said, I don't care what Oprah does, but I think the Blue Maw ought to be off her roses too.
This woman, she's a businesswoman.
She's out there supposedly trying to empower women through her show and so forth.
And that's all BS, just like all of feminism is BS.
So now Obama's got to go out there and get the nags to try to count, and that's really going to work.
That's fallen right into our hands.
I mean, this is a rope-a-dope times, too, to bring the nags out there to campaign against Sarah Palin.
Hillary, they want Hillary to come to Florida on Monday.
It says here, Obama was dispatching Senator Hillary Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates, i.e., NAGs, to Battleground State.
By the way, NAGS, for those of you who knew, National Association of Gals.
Don't misunderstand.
We're not making any other comment.
We just think the National Organization for Women is bogus.
They're not an organization for women.
How many members they got now?
125,000?
They never have had more than 250.
They never have spoken for the whole female population, nor his OPRA.
So I just call them the NAGS, National Association of Gals.
So Obama's going to dispatch Hillary.
Nobody dispatches Hillary.
So Hillary's sitting in Chappaqua, you know, looking at the security cameras, the spy cameras, see where Bill's been.
All of a sudden, gets a phone call from the Obama campaign.
We're dispatching you to Florida.
I'm not going to Florida.
There's a hurricane coming in down there, and I'm not going to be it.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign event in Florida, she is going to go for her first for Obama, will serve as a counterpoint to the searing attacks and the fresh burst of energy that Ms. Palin, it's Mrs. Palin, New York Times, injected into the maiden name is Heath, into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday with McCain-Palin team courting undecided female voters.
Hey, you know, who wrote this?
Patrick Healy Jeff Zelini.
You two guys got to understand this.
Sarah Palin McCain courted us guys, too.
Sarah Palin is courting Americans.
You know, we on the right, we don't groupify everybody.
We don't do this identity politics stuff.
I'll tell you what, I knew Sarah Palin was talking straight to me when she was giving her speech.
She was talking to Americans.
Now, let's go to the second page of this story.
Advisors to Mrs. Clinton said that she stood ready to help the Obama-Biden ticket, but they urged the campaign not to overestimate the impact Mrs. Clinton could have.
So the Clinton campaign has told Obama, don't think we can save you, buddy.
Don't count on us.
Clinton campaign advisors noted that she had other commitments this fall like these, campaigning and raising money for Senate candidates.
Sorry, Obama.
I may not be able to squeeze you in here.
I got to raise money for myself and for Senate candidates.
Said the Clinton trip had been in the works before Ms. Palin was named their running maid.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, I'm buying that.
So they're worried out there in Obama land.
Told you yesterday, a lot to fear, and they know it.
Third day of the GOP Republican, by the way, she outdrew Obama, 40 million to 38 million in audience.
Ras Musson has a poll result out today.
She is more popular than Biden, Obama, and McCain right now with the American people.
The third day of the Republican convention also attracted more Hispanic viewers than the third day of the Democrat convention, 1.4 million Hispanic viewers for the Republicans, 1.2 million for the Democrats, even though Univision and Telemundo did not carry the Palin speech.
The two big Hispanic TV networks in the country broomed the payments, but didn't carry the speech, and she still outdrew Hispanics, according to TV ratings.
Now, why didn't they carry it?
Why didn't Telemundo and Univision carry it?
I mean, I know they're liberal, but this is stunning, especially since, ladies and gentlemen, since our party went so far to propose an amnesty bill to show them how much we love them.
And the purpose of the amnesty bill and the purpose of granting automatic citizenship to all these illegals was to get their support and to get their votes.
And they didn't even come.
I thought this was supposed to work just the outside.
I thought if we had to reach out programs from our elites in the conservative media and some in our elected ranks, that the Hispanics are going to love us.
I mean, Lindsey Gramnesty was going to attract all these Hispanics out there.
A very important point.
Oh, by the way, just before the program came on, McCain, or rather, Obama is in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
I'm telling you, they must think Pennsylvania is the state here.
They better not take their eyes off Colorado either because that's a swing state.
But they're really having, he horribly performed horribly in Pennsylvania in the primaries, thanks to Operation Chaos.
So they're going in there trying to woo voters.
But he just said the most incredible thing.
Telemundo's owned by NBC.
Could have easily gotten the feed from them.
Aha, that explains it all.
It was owned by NBC.
You know, last night I had, let me finish with this Obama thing.
He had up there talking at a town meeting, and he said during the Clinton presidency, average family income went up $75,000.
Now, that's just, that's not, that is not possible.
A, it didn't happen.
But B, if average family income went up $75,000, then everybody in this country is rich and subject to an Obama tax increase.
Now, this is a blatant lie.
Average family, 75,000, do you know what the mean income?
I think the average income is $59,900 now.
And the mean is a little bit lower than that, but just blatant lying out there.
I hope he keeps...
Anyway, I had some friends over to watch the football game last night.
Jim Nance of CBS Sports came up and Lance Barrow.
Lance Barrow is in the truck.
Lance Barrow cuts the game.
Lance Barrow is the producer, decides what you see, does all the CBS major golf tournaments, all their golf tournaments, the lead football game of every week.
And they came up.
And we, of course, were watching games as NBC.
And we just stuck with NBC for the first bit of election coverage.
And Brian Williams, of course, setting the stage while all the raucous support was going on, waiting for McCain to come out.
And I mean, it didn't take two minutes for McCain to start his speech.
And there's one or two lone protesters up there.
And bam, there went the NBC cameras.
So I started switching around.
I wanted to find if the other networks were, if it was feed or if the networks had their own cameras and some were choosing to show it or not.
And I didn't have time to circle both or all the networks.
I don't know if Fox cut away to show the protesters.
They might have because the audience was all looking away, see what was going on.
I think.
Now, I just heard this today.
I'm going to have to try to confirm this, but I think somebody told me in an email, which is always risky, somebody I know, but it's still always risky because you never know where friends get stuff.
But I was told that the one or two people that got in there last night from Code Pink, they were given passes by MSNBC.
And you reminded me of that when you told me that NBC owns Telemundo.
So at any rate, I can't confirm that.
I probably should not have mentioned it, but I did, and we can't take it back.
And it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
Anyway, all right, brief timeout.
We'll come back.
Unemployment numbers, 6.1% today, up.
What are we, we lost something at 84,000 jobs?
Big time, 84,000.
I've got some comments about this.
We have to put this into proper perspective.
We'll be back right after this.
Preliminary television ratings from last night.
This will be the overnights.
The Nationals will be tabulating that at in later.
But according to the overnights, McCain's TV ratings last night were higher than Obama's final night in front of the styrofoam Greek columns at Invesco Field at Mile High.
Mr. Snerdley just asked me, he said, you're going to talk about your analysis of the McCain speech last night like you did on Greta?
I said, yes.
Of course I am because McCain's speech was last night in IML Rushbo, and I comment on things like that.
We'll get to it here in just a second.
But I want to deal with these economic numbers first.
Ladies and gentlemen, the unemployment rate's now up to 6.1%.
We've lost a whopping 84,000 jobs last month.
And of course, CNBC is going nuts here with the doom and gloom.
They love this.
Creates audience.
Newsletter, financial newsletter guys love this kind of crisis, increase their subscription rates.
Robert B. Rice, was on CNBC this morning claiming American consumers are wiped out.
They love this.
They love you suffering.
They love you in pain.
They want you in bad shape.
And they want you blaming Bush and Republicans.
Okay, 84,000 jobs last month.
It seems to me, just from my memory, off the top of my head, that most of those would probably be journalists and people that work for the drive-by media.
Because all last month, I kept hearing about all these layoffs at the Chicago Tribune Company, at the New York Times Company, at all these, the USA Today, 3,000 people are going to lay off.
Remember that?
I would lay a dollar to a donut here that most of the 84,000 jobs lost are in the media to which we say, cool.
Not because people are suffering.
I don't care about that.
They're interested in that.
It's because the drive-by's ranks are shrinking and getting smaller, and nobody's paying any attention to them.
And so that's why their circulation is down, their ad rates are down, their viewership is down, and all that.
Now, I want to ask you a question about these national unemployment figures because nobody else will.
Aside from the drive-by media layoffs, where are most of these figures coming from?
These lost jobs.
Where do you think most of these lost jobs are coming from?
The highest levels of unemployment.
Do you think they might be in blue states run by Democrat governors and Democrat mayors like Michigan?
Do you think a lot of them might be in Michigan?
We're talking now above and beyond those in the drive-bys that were laid off.
These blue states with their blue cities and their liberal Democrat governors and mayors, they raise taxes like hell in these states, i.e. Michigan.
And then they say, look at all the unemployed.
It's Bush's fault.
Oh, it's horrible.
We're in bad shape.
Look what Bush is doing to us.
And how about this question, ladies and gentlemen?
The liberals, which is, this is not a stated part of their platform.
And if you pay attention to them, you know this is exactly what they want to do.
They want to destroy the private sector.
And when they succeed in severely damaging it, as in Michigan, then what do they do?
They turn around, they blame the private sector and those who support the private sector.
So liberals create economic circumstances that require businesses to lay people off, and then they blame capitalism for failing in those circumstances.
When the economy is strong, and I think, ladies, and this is a brilliant profundity that I'm about to share with you here.
When the economy is strong, liberals want to grow government.
When the economy is weak, liberals want to grow government.
There is no business cycle in government.
There is just growth.
Have you ever stopped to think of it that way?
We expect normal ups and downs and cycles in the private sector.
And when we get the down cycles, which are part of life, oh no, and it's panic.
Capitalism's a failure.
Government never has these cycles.
Government never lays people off.
Government never does it.
It does nothing but grow, produces nothing, raises taxes, be it state, be it federal.
So there's no business cycle in government.
It's just growth, which means never-ending transfers of wealth from the private sector to government.
By the way, this golden opportunity here for McCain to challenge Obama to agree in lowering the corporate tax rate as a way of dealing with this.
He ought to be out there on the stump right now with these figures and going on offense and say, we're going to lower the corporate tax rate.
Obama wants to raise the corporate tax rate.
We lower the corporate tax rate.
We give more money for businesses to invest in people, might not have to lay people off.
Makes all the sense in the world.
This election, I look at it, I'd say this is a massive opportunity to bury the elitists in the drive-by media in the Democrat Party and on the left.
Look at this.
Republicans thought they were dead.
They could not have been more wrong.
We're looking at significant opportunity here.
The media has overplayed its hand.
MSNBC is, they've got a death wish.
They literally have a death wish.
I hope they succeed.
The New York Times has a death wish.
The New York Times is losing money like it's a sieve.
Us Weekly has a death wish.
Oprah has a death wish.
These people are all acting against their own interests while trying to promote the interests of Obama.
And it's killing them, and it's not going to help him.
I hope they keep it up.
Gosh, if the Republicans just understood what a fabulous opportunity is in front of them, drill here, drill now is a winner for all Republicans.
And McCain was strong on that last night.
Not going to just drive down prices and defund enemies.
It will create millions of new jobs.
And he described that in perfect inspirational detail last night.
We're not victims of the drive-by media.
Look at your success.
Look at Sarah Palin's success.
Look at my success.
Then you can overlook at Reagan's success.
The drive-by media can be overcome.
We don't have to be imprisoned by it or victimized by it.
The media can be taken down because they've opened themselves up to a full frontal attack.
And make no mistake, we're not just running against Obama.
We're running against the media.
We're running against the entire Washington governing class.
Pelosi and Dingy Harry have delivered historically low disapproval ratings.
Obama right now is vulnerable, wants to send Hillary all over the place as a faux vice presidential running mate.
Obama favors high gas prices.
Obama favors infanticide.
Attack, attack, attack.
Obama's on the defensive now over his community organizing, opening a window into that.
And when we open the window, we're going to find Acorn.
And we're going to find Obama teaching people how to be radicals and how to register multiple times to vote, typical Chicago thug politics.
This is a great time.
If old General Limbaugh here will be followed by the Republican Party, this is just a tremendous, tremendous opportunity.
Okay, I'll tell you what I thought about McCain's speech.
Primary part of it anyway.
When we come back after this, we'll get to your phone calls fairly quickly.
Talent on loan from a God.
All right, the Fox people on the graphic side made a goof.
Obama did not say at his town meeting in Scranton, Pennsylvania, that average income went up $75,000 a year during Clinton.
He said $7,500.
When Bill Clinton was president, the average family income went up $7,500.
Since George Bush has been in office, the average family income has gone down $2,000.
And I don't think either number are true.
Either number is true.
But anyway, that's what he's out there saying.
And he's saying it from the defensive, ladies and gentlemen.
Obama has been disobombated.
I mean, he's in unfamiliar territory.
You know, when you are a messiah, when you have a messianic attitude about yourself, nobody's supposed to criticize you.
Nobody's supposed to doubt you.
Nobody's even really supposed to oppose you.
That's blasphemy.
And Obama's lost the aura that he had three months ago.
Karl Rove said last night on Fox, he's been studying the young vote, the 1834 vote.
Obama's down 20, 25%.
Because Obama is no longer what he was today.
He's now just become a traditional, identifiable, left-wing party hack.
Now, Mr. Snerdley, wanted me to repeat for you what I said on Greta's show at midnight last night on Fox in analyzing the McCain speech.
I did not have high expectations.
McCain's not a great orator.
So I wasn't expecting.
I was hoping they could do something to keep the momentum from the previous night going, but they didn't.
Thank God the moderates that spoke last night were on during the football game.
We, you know, the three of us are watching this, and during commercial breaks, we'd switch around.
And I saw Lindsey Graham just, God love him.
And the crowd was talking to itself.
The same thing with Tom Ridge.
Gee, thank goodness these guys are on now, doesn't it?
Nothing against him, but I mean, in terms of a show and so forth, there was a little tepid little applause.
And it was a blessing.
As far as Senator McCain's speech, he is who he is.
I only got mad one time.
I really only got mad one time when he said, well, I mean, let me, I can't, I keep getting confused here on the specifics.
Yeah, he said, I understand who I work for.
I don't work for a party.
Almost.
Well, I did.
I shouted at the TV.
Can I tell you what I shouted?
It's clean.
I said, then, why are you a Republican?
Why, why, why?
First time I have ever seen, first time I've ever seen a party nominee rip his own party.
But that's who McCain is.
Some people think Russia had to do it.
Bush isn't popular.
Republican party isn't popular.
And I came to the same conclusion.
What's happened to this convention?
This is Sarah Palin's party.
It's Sarah Palin's future.
Sarah Palin is the conservative movement.
Sarah Palin is the one who unified the party, unified the convention.
She'll keep that up.
She's the reason there's energy.
We know that.
Everybody knows the McCain camp knows it.
So she's free to do what she's going to do, free to say what she's going to say, which frees McCain up to be who he is, to go out there and pursue his precious moderates and so forth.
So everything's fine because we're getting genuine.
I mean, nobody's acting in ways that they aren't.
And it's insanity, folks, to expect somebody who's 73 years old to all of a sudden change and be somebody they're not going to be.
So don't get frustrated over it.
I got emails, Russia's like somebody who threw a wet blanket on a fire and they're like, yeah, I know, but it wasn't.
Believe me, McCain's audience is higher.
McCain was authentic.
You may not like some of the things he said, but he was authentic.
When he went off prompter and started talking about his experience in that prison cell, that was just, that led to the big crescendo ending that just, that finally got the energy of this place back.
And it ended on a bright note.
It really did.
And I'll tell you this.
There are a lot of points that you could make about McCain's speech.
We got the theme, and the theme was consistent throughout this convention, no matter who the speaker was.
Country first.
I'll fight for you.
They kept that theme going, and it resonated.
Now, one of the points that could be discussed about this is this beautiful explanation of the theme of his campaign, country first.
And as I said last night on Greta, I said, this is a trap.
This could have been a bit of a trap.
But only because Obama has not had the same life experiences of McCain.
The differences in life experiences were laid bare last night.
Obama doesn't have a thimble full of life experience that he wants to share with us.
This whole convention gave us rich, full American lives of meaning, confidence, accomplishment, achievement from both our nominees, McCain and Palin.
And when McCain's theme, you know, they let out excerpts of the speech before he gives the speech.
It's a traditional.
And when his theme of country first became known, this was the brilliant trap.
This was the brilliant trap that they said.
When the theme of country first became known, some of Obama's team said it was a slam.
They walked right into the quicksand because they think everything's about them.
And Obama eventually got trapped personally too.
He thought McCain was attacking his patriotism.
He was out there last night talking to reporters saying that.
A self-centered guy.
This was on full display to me last night.
Obama, he's a typical Messiah, young guy who really has had a pretty cushy, easy life compared to McCain.
He's a typical baby boomer, and though he's not, he's a typical boomer in the sense that everything revolves around him.
Everything's about him.
He didn't stop for one second to think that John McCain wasn't even thinking about Obama last night.
Obama was describing himself to the nation, or McCain was.
McCain was telling us who he is.
And the contrast was so stark that old little Barry thought he was being attacked again.
It was fabulous.
This whole McCain speech, it had a story arc to it when the whole thing unfolded.
It was about the journey of a man who started out as a me first, totally focused on himself, young guy like Obama, but he was being honest about, he said this before.
This was not, I mean, you can say it was to contrast himself with Obama, but you don't have to try to do that.
When you're John McCain, the contrast is self-evident.
stark.
So he starts out as a me first hotshot fighter pilot, thought he was smarter, better, and tougher than anybody else, and then he learned how insignificant he is.
He learned how insignificant he was, and it was those five and a half years in the prison that insignificance slapped him upside the head and when he really began to appreciate and love what his country was all about.
He changed while he was a prisoner of war.
He evolved.
He went to the Hanoi Hilton as a McCain first pilot.
He came out as an American first man.
And I don't care how he delivered it.
And I don't care, the performance aspect might have been low.
But the words were penetrating and they were from the heart and they were from the soul.
And I guarantee you, they penetrated a lot of people.
And it's something that just by virtue of fact, they contrast with McCain's story as told by him with Obama and a story of himself he cannot tell, contrasted with Obama's selfish orientation, thinking everything that is about him.
McCain said for him that it started when he refused to go home before more senior prisoners, when they offered him up as a PR ploy because his dad was an admiral.
So when he refused to play the game, he said, that's when they broke me.
Now, forgive me for being ignorant on this.
I didn't know he broke.
I thought he held tough for five and a half years.
He admitted last night they broke him.
He went back to his hut afterwards, broken, ashamed, and humbled, and that's when his fellow prisoners inspired him to save his life, he said.
They fed him because he couldn't feed himself.
He was no longer McCain first after that.
He was an American first, the result of his experiences.
He was humbled.
He evolved.
Life was changed forever.
Now it's country first.
And it's not a slogan with him.
Sometimes the way he puts country first infuriates us, but he puts country first.
Obama made the typical predictable, we're going to snare you in our little trap here, Barry.
He made the mistake of a young, immature, and arrogant man, like McCain might have done before his experiences in the war.
Obama thought country first was about him.
Now, I can understand it because I understand the personality type of Barack Obama.
There they go.
They're telling you about pay chase a man.
I'm Barack Obama.
It tells you about paper.
Why does he think that?
Because, let me ask you this.
Why does he have to go to VFW conventions and tell them and assure them he loves the country?
There must be some doubt.
There must be some problem he's got here.
Could it be that he goes to Berlin and criticizes the United States?
Could it be that when a seven-year-old little girl asks him, why do you want to be president, he criticizes his own country?
Could it be he knows damn well he doesn't like the country as it is?
Saul Olinski didn't like it.
Jeremiah Wright didn't like it.
Bill Ayers didn't like it.
They still don't like it.
And that's who mentored this guy.
So of course he's on the defense because he was nailed even when he wasn't being talked about.
He should have shut up.
He should have not said a word.
I think he also goofed up going on O'Reilly last night and calling a press conference after you.
Remember how they just tarred McCain?
It would be a sign of such disrespect if he named his running mate before Obama gave his acceptance speech.
And there's Obama last night.
We know who this guy is.
This whole McCain acceptance speech wasn't even directed at Obama except when McCain lavished him with praise.
But it does help to bring the differences of these two guys into focus.
And when Obama's people, after they got wind of what McCain was going to say, when Obama's people accused McCain of calling Obama's patriotism into question using that theme, they proved that Obama's personal journey isn't complete.
He hasn't done anything.
He's done diddly squat, really.
He's forced now to defend community agitation.
Taut Law.
Taut Law.
Ta Law.
Where?
University of Chicago Law School.
Taul Law.
What did you teach?
We haven't heard many of your students come up and say how much they loved you.
Still sees himself as first.
Not a fatal flaw.
McCain found it through important life experience.
You can grow beyond that, but I don't think Obama thinks he needs to grow.
See, I think Obama thinks he's where I think Obama's it in his mind and in the eyes of his supporters.
Well, he's it.
So it was pretty powerful to me last night, a lot of ways, frustrating in some others.
I'm sure it was frustrating to you in obvious ways.
The performance was not what you were hoping for.
But again, expectations should have managed that.
It was the words, the sincerity, the genuineness, the authenticity last night.
The contrast is just stark, both of our candidates versus these nothing but traditional political hacks on the left.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
El Rushball on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Still a lot of confusion about just exactly what Barack Obama did as a Saul Alinsky agitator organizing the community in Chicago.
Well, from his own mouth, his own words, Barack Obama.
Now, we know that he was an Alinsky guy.
And as an Alinsky guy in the community organizing game, what you do is organize protests and debates and rabble-rousing and so forth.
Was he organizing for the ROTC, for example?
Was he organizing for the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts?
Was he organizing for the Salvation Army or Red Cross contributions?
What was he organizing?
What were the results of his efforts?
Did he actually go in and do things himself, or was he telling other people what to do?
I mean, how did he demand that other people do these things, yet he spent time in a community organizing?
What were the results and how were they measured?
He said he had a whole lot of people employed because of the steel mill closings there.
Well, what did he do?
Where are they now?
After 19 months of him running for president, why can't we get some straight answers from this guy about what he did in his life and with whom?
Sarah Palin, by the way, in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, continuing to do to Senator Obama what the Reverend Jackson suggested a few months ago.
Just last night, Senator Obama finally broke and brought himself to admit what all the rest of us have known for quite some time, and that's thanks to the skill and valor of our troops.
The surge in Iraq has succeeded.
Senator Obama said that the surge, quote, succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.
I think, said Senator Obama, that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated.
I guess when you turn out to be profoundly wrong on a vital national security issue, maybe it's comforting to pretend that everyone else was wrong, too.
This woman is dynamite.
This woman, you're just hammering this poor little man child.
This woman is smart.
This is what an analogy.
It succeeded behind anybody's wildest.
No, why?
See, this is where Obama's dead wrong.
If it succeeded beyond everybody's wildest dreams, why plan it?
It succeeded as planned, Obama.
It succeeded as planned.
It was beyond your wildest dreams.
I'll tell you something else.
He still said, after all this, that he would have opposed it.
So he's still gathering.
He's still gathering the little nuts and those acorns that make up the loony left of his base, folks.
Oprah's made official.
She's not going to have Sarah Palin on.
Says she doesn't want her show to become a platform for candidates.
Ha ha!
Says she'd be happy to have her on after the campaign's over.
This is good.
We don't want Sarah Palin being turned into some pop culture celebrity icon.
It's good news.
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