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	Greetings.
	Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
	Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphone at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the distinguished, highly respected Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	I'm just hearing from Roll Call magazine that Dingy Harry and the Democrats have now booted Joe Lieberman from the Democrat Party lunches, the weekly caucus lunch, and the chairman's luncheons, where all these policies are formulated.
	Biden is gone.
	Not Biden, Lieberman is gone.
	800-282-2882, if you'd like to be on the program.
	Once again, ladies and gentlemen, all his 30 lawyers and opposition research people, investigators, so forth, are in Alaska digging for dirt on Sarah Palin.
	The way they do this is they just hanging around at bars all over Alaska, big wads of cash, offering anybody money for stories.
	We just have to remind everybody here that no personal attack ever lowered the price of gasoline or added a point to the gross domestic product.
	And this is going to get dirty because the Democrats are desperate.
	Willie Brown is right.
	They're on defense.
	They didn't expect to be here.
	They have been blindsided.
	Every one of their shibboleths has come back to bite them.
	The first woman vice president will likely be a Republican.
	This is not going the way they all had it planned.
	It's blown up on them.
	And they only know one thing in circumstances like this, and that is search and destroy.
	Clear the playing field.
	That's what is ahead.
	By the way, our buddies at RedState.com posted something very interesting.
	The Washington Post has a story today talking about how Governor Palin just ran up incredible, luxurious expenses as governor.
	A couple excerpts.
	Palin billed the state for most expenses allowed by law, including per diem, when she stayed in her own home.
	Her duty station was the state capital of Juneau.
	She didn't bill the state for other expenses when she could have done so lawfully as per diems for her children and see spent a lot less money on expenses than did her predecessor.
	So no matter how they go after her, they find nothing.
	They find just the exact opposite of what they believe they read on these kook fringe blogs.
	She spent 80% less.
	Her expenses were 80% lower than her predecessors.
	And the Washington Post trying to make a big stink out of this.
	Also, from a blog at cbsnews.com, Ryan Corcero was Joe Biden referring to Sarah Palin, a mother of a child with Down syndrome, when he made this comment.
	Quote, I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy because there's joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect.
	Well, guess what, folks?
	If you care about it, why don't you support stem cell research?
	Biden received a thunderous ovation when he made the remark at a town hall meeting in Columbia, Missouri, this morning.
	This is a clash of policies.
	Well, when they asked if this could be interpreted as being about Palin, Biden's press secretary, David Wade issued a statement, said, this is a clash of policies, not a clash of personalities.
	We have heard not a dime's worth of difference between the McCain-Palin ticket and the Bush administration on medical breakthroughs that millions of parents and doctors believe could save lives and transform the quality of life for countless Americans.
	So this is how this is how I don't think Bush has stopped stem cell research.
	Bush is the only president that's authorized stem cell research.
	But beyond that, there are all kinds of progress being made.
	Is all kinds of progress being made on other stem cells other than embryonic?
	It's another example of how the drive-bys of the Democrats are stuck in a narrative, stuck in a template, and news that contradicts what they believe doesn't even reach them.
	Or if it does, they ignore it because it doesn't fit the template.
	Now, while I was gone, ladies and gentlemen, a couple interesting things happened.
	The Washington Times reporting on Sunday that the Messiah, the Lord, Barack Obama, the most merciful, was in St. Louis when he outlined his, is outlining his Christianity, but accidentally said, my Muslim faith.
	The three words immediately corrected were during an exchange with George Stepanopoulos.
	We probably have it here in the soundbite roster.
	I got it.
	Oh, it's cut 10 here.
	Let's listen.
	This is, let me find it so I can read along here on the okay.
	Question from Stephanopoulos.
	The McCain campaigns never suggested that you have Muslim connections.
	McCain said that that's wrong.
	Well, look, listen, you and I both know that the minute that Governor Palin was forced to talk about her daughter, I immediately said, that's off limits.
	John McCain said the same thing about a question of your faith.
	And what was the first thing that the McCain campaign went out and did?
	They said, look, these liberal blogs that support Obama are out there attacking Governor Palin.
	Let's not play games.
	What I was suggesting, you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith, and you're absolutely right that that is not my Christian faith.
	Now, you know, slip of the tongue, Barry Obama, president.
	However, something more hilarious than even that.
	Steve Gilbert at the sweetnesslight.com yesterday sent out a story.
	Muamar Qaddafi says Barack Obama is a Muslim, and there's video of this.
	I can't listen to video on computers because I can't hear it.
	But fortunately, there's a transcript here.
	These are excerpts of a public address delivered by Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi marking the anniversary of the U.S. air raid on Libya.
	This is from June 11th of this year.
	It has been proven that there is no democracy in the U.S. Rather, it is a dictatorship no different than the dictatorships of Hitler, Napoleon, Mussolini, Gingis Khan, Alexander the Great, and the rest of the tyrants.
	In the crazy days of Reagan, sorry, in the days of crazy Reagan, the American president issued a presidential order to launch a war against Libya, for example, a presidential order to besiege Libya, a presidential order to boycott Libya, and so on.
	Is this a democracy or a dictatorship?
	There are elections in America now.
	This is Qaddafi still speaking.
	Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia.
	His name is Obama.
	All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man.
	They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success.
	And they may have even been involved in legitimate contributions to enable him to win the American presidency.
	But we were taken by surprise when our African Kenyan brother, who is an American national, made statements that shocked all his supporters in the Arab world in Africa and in the Islamic world.
	We hope that this is merely an election clearance sale, as they say in Egypt.
	In other words, merely an election lie.
	As you know, this is the farce of elections.
	A person lies and lies to people.
	Joseph said, I will vote for him.
	And afterwards, when they say to him, you promised this and that, he says, no, this was just, you know, election propaganda.
	This is the farce of democracy for you.
	He says, this was propaganda, and you thought I was being serious.
	I was fooling you to get your votes.
	Allah willing, it'll turn out that this was merely election propaganda.
	Obama said he would turn Jerusalem into the eternal capital of the Israelis.
	This indicates that our brother Obama is ignorant of international politics and not familiar with the Middle East conflict.
	I am suppressing an allergy-related sneeze, ladies and gentlemen.
	So Obama now has Moammer Qaddafi out there saying, yeah, he's a Muslim, a black brother from the origins of Kenya and so forth, lying about Jerusalem.
	Toward the end of his remarks, Gaddafi said, the thing we fear most is that the black man suffers from an inferiority complex.
	This is dangerous.
	If our brother Obama feels that because he is black, he doesn't have the right to rule America, that'd be a disaster.
	Because such a feeling would make him behave whiter than the white and go to an extreme in his persecution and degradation of the blacks.
	We still hope that this black man will take pride in his African and Islamic identity and in his faith and that he will know that he has rights in America, that he will change America from evil to good, and that America will establish relations that will serve it well with other peoples, especially the Arabs.
	Muammar Qaddafi.
	You know, if I were Obama, I'd get hold of these blogs.
	I'd call up all these people at Qaddafi.
	I'd call every one of my supporters, say, will you shut up until after the election?
	I don't need this kind of stuff.
	Not just the Qaddafis of the world that Jeremiah writes.
	His blog, this Kook fringe blog people, his biggest problem, aside from himself, is his supporters, who they are and what they say.
	I don't, but I don't think it bothers him.
	It's like the Democrats weren't bothered when Mahmoud Ahmadinezad basically used their campaign talking points about Bush.
	They weren't bothered when, what's his name, Bin Laden, would put out a tape that repeated Democrat Harry Reid Pelosi talking points.
	They weren't embarrassed by this.
	One more audio soundbite from Obama.
	Now, I mentioned the fact in the last hour, this guy, he says he's for charter schools now.
	Time magazine has an Obama to embrace charter schools.
	What is this?
	Obama moving to the right?
	This is Republican stuff.
	I guess this Republican stuff sells pretty well, doesn't it?
	It says right here in Time Magazine, normally charter schools are more popular with Republicans than with Democrats.
	And that's Gaddafi's right.
	He doesn't mean this.
	He's not going to throw the teachers' unions under the bus.
	He's just saying this stuff because he knows he's in trouble.
	Just like he says he's going to delay tax increases on the rich until after the recession's over.
	Well, there's a tantamount admission that tax increases will slow down the economy.
	He's just saying this stuff because he has to.
	And then he said this.
	Stephanopoulos says, you know, one of our viewers wrote in and asked, did you ever consider joining the armed forces to protect and serve our country?
	And if not, why?
	You know, I actually did.
	When?
	You know, I had to sign up for selective service when I graduated from high school.
	And I was growing up in Hawaii.
	And I have friends whose parents were in the military.
	There are a lot of Army military bases there.
	And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and honorable option.
	But keep in mind, I graduated in 1979.
	The Vietnam War had come to an end.
	We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point.
	And so it's not an option that I ever decided to pursue.
	No.
	Yeah, since there was no war, he wasn't going to join.
	He only thought it would be noble and ennobling if there was a war going on.
	Since there wasn't a war going on, there's nothing ennobling about the military.
	Now, who's going to buy this croc?
	What kind of idiots does he think we are?
	This is celebrity.
	But once again, he's moving right.
	He says all these things.
	This is like Hillary.
	Yeah, I walked in there.
	I tried to join the Marines, but they didn't want me.
	They told me to go to the dogs, which is the Army.
	Of course, I can understand how she could misunderstand that.
	By the way, a couple things here about Obama.
	He said he graduated in 1979.
	There wasn't really anything going on in 1979.
	The Vietnam War was over, so there was no reason to be noble and join the ennobling profession of the military.
	But in 1979, ladies and gentlemen, U.S. hostages were being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by the Ayatollah Ruava Khomeini.
	And Jimmy Carter was president, the president emeritus of the Democrat Party, planning a bunch of secret rescue missions that, of course, failed miserably.
	So there was something going on in 1979.
	It just didn't strike Obama's fancy.
	And by the way, about Qaddafi, praising our black Kenyan American with Muslim roots and so forth, I'm reminded by my friend Andy McCarthy at National Review that it was Obama himself who started this Hussein business.
	He said, let's see, Brett Stevens actually had it in a Wall Street Journal column yesterday.
	Who said this?
	Well, I think if you've got a guy named Barack Hussein Obama, that's pretty good contrast to George W. Bush.
	Who said that?
	Muamar Gaddafi, Ayman al-Zawahiri, or Mahmoud Akhmadinezad.
	Answer none of the above.
	Well, I think if you've got a guy named Barack Hussein Obama, that's pretty good contrast to George W. Bush.
	That was stated by Barack Obama.
	Sometime before his middle name slipped into the realm of the unmentionable, it was supposed to be a selling point of his candidacy.
	Obama told Tavis Smiley on PBS on October 18th of 2007, not quite a year ago, well, I think if you've got a guy named Barack Hussein Obama, that's pretty good contrast to George W. Bush.
	If you believe it, we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world.
	And I think my supporters believe it.
	I am the messenger who can deliver that message.
	So he thinks, he thought back on PBS in October of last year that his middle name would be a great symbol to repair our standing in the world.
	This was a nod and a wink to the Muslims.
	I mean, let's not couch it for anything other than it.
	And now he doesn't like it.
	Now, now we can't say Barack Hussein Obama without people having a commiption fit.
	But it was Barry who started it.
	Folks, before we go to the phones here, we're going to do that very quickly.
	I have to ask a question.
	The federal government now runs a mortgage industry, right?
	The federal government is now the mortgage industry.
	The federal government bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
	Let me give you a stark truth.
	The fact that Freddie Mae, Frannie Mae, whatever they are, were ever private sector entities is a joke because the federal government always had partial ownership.
	These were private sector entities with federal government involvement.
	Well, right there, when they admit that, they admit that they do not have a private sector entity.
	Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae have always been government entities.
	But here's the thing.
	Here's the thing.
	The people who destroyed the housing market, the people who destroyed the mortgage industry are now running it.
	And everybody's going, yee!
	All right, all right.
	The socialists around the world are just beside themselves.
	World stock markets through the roof over the news that the U.S. government's taking over the mortgage industry.
	Look at, nothing we can do about it now, but I'm going to tell you, it's just, it's typical.
	They blow it, they botch it, they screw it all up, they end up running it.
	And everybody applauds.
	The people who destroy things end up taking them over and running them.
	This arrangement, the private sector arrangement with Freddie Mae, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae having partial government involvement was designed to specifically prevent what happened.
	We're going to get the federal government involved here in a mortgage business.
	We're going to have these two private sector entities, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but we're going to have our hands in there, the federal government says, to make sure things go right, make sure the mortgage industry stays on the up and up.
	And lo and behold, the very thing they told us they were doing to save and protect and keep this mortgage industry above board is what destroyed it.
	And the truth be known, these two things have just been little playthings of the Democrats.
	Remember when we discovered that one of these two, I think it was Fannie Mae, had donated, contributed over a million dollars to the Reverend Zach's monochrome coalition.
	And who the hell knows who else got money?
	But these were just political playthings of the Democrat Party and the liberal entrenched bureaucracy, passing out money, contributions to various Democrats and so forth.
	It's just, I don't know, strike.
	And anybody paying the price for the failure?
	Is anybody paying the price for the failure of these two institutions?
	Other than us, other than the taxpayers?
	Any management being prosecuted here?
	Any politicians forced to resign?
	Any mortgage is going to fail?
	Anybody, they're going to try to kinlay somebody here?
	Are they going to try to do to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac people that did the WorldCom?
	Hmm, hmm?
	No.
	They want to give these people $9 million severance packages on their way out the door.
	Okay, let's go to the phones.
	People have been patiently waiting.
	We're going to start in Brooklyn.
	This is Cheryl.
	It's great to have you on the program, Cheryl.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you?
	Just fine.
	Very quickly, I'm really surprised that you seem to be shocked to learn that the Emperor Obama has no post.
	I mean, you mentioned early on about him stammering his way and making through speeches, through interviews lately, and making all these very strange comments.
	But he's always been that way from the very beginning.
	He's never been able to speak extemporaneously.
	He only shines when he has a script in front of him or a teleprompter.
	He has never said, during the Democratic debates, he never said one thing that was eloquent or intellectually brilliant.
	Never.
	We've all been just snookered.
	Well, those of you who have been snookered.
	This is true.
	Now, you're being a little hard on me here because I've thought for a long time that the guy is not what they have presented him as, and that is a brilliant, independent thinker.
	I don't think, I think that he is a sponge.
	I think he has learned well and he can recite what he's been taught, but he's not a thinker.
	He doesn't come up with original ideas.
	He recites a bunch of talking points and bilge and drivel that his professors and Jeremiah Wright and all these people have hammered into him all of his life.
	You know, during those debates, you have to understand, liberals have a different definition of IQ.
	They call it EQ, and that's the emotional quotient.
	And it doesn't matter how smart, because they already think that they're smarter than everybody else.
	They never worry that their candidate is an actual dunce.
	It's not possible in their minds.
	So they have this EQ, the emotional quotient, which they calculate is how capable is he of reaching out and touching and feeling people's pain.
	Well, Clinton had a high EQ.
	Oprah has a high EQ, and Obama has a high EQ.
	But I agree with you.
	I'm watching these debates, and the guy's saying nothing, but he said it better than anybody else ever did, which is why people thought he was smart.
	No, Rush, listen, let me tell you why they thought he was smart.
	Because he was an African-American.
	I'm an African-American, okay?
	He was an African-American, and so the liberal media wanted you to think that, oh, here he is.
	He's black.
	He went to Harvard.
	He must be smart.
	Let's not take the time.
	Let's not take the time to actually analyze anything that he's saying.
	If we simply do that, then gee, wiz, we might be racist.
	Exactly.
	He's black and he went to Harvard.
	They're brilliant.
	But I'm so sick of this until I don't know what to do.
	I really am.
	Thank God for Sarah Palin.
	And one of the things that's really illuminating the true Barack Obama right now is that she is so diametrically opposite to what he is.
	She is someone who can speak off the cup because she does believe in what she says because she does know what she says.
	That's exactly right.
	Every time, every time Joe Biden thinks about Sarah Palin, he wets his pants because he's got this big debate coming up October 2nd.
	You know, O'Biden is out there saying, no, I'm not worried about this.
	You ever debated Barbara McCulske?
	I have.
	You ever debated Olympia Snow?
	I have.
	You ever debated somebody's female Senate?
	I have.
	I'm not worried about debate.
	Now, he is too.
	He is tremendously worried.
	And Obama, this is why I said earlier, Obama, they have to run an ad to respond to specific charges from the McCain campaign because Obama cannot take to the stump and refute it.
	Well, I think, you know, global warming.
	It's not just a bunch of tree hugger liberal stuff.
	You know what I mean?
	But I'm not going to take that anymore.
	He's stumbling and bumbling because that is who he is, essentially.
	You know, he looked good.
	He sounded good.
	So jupiter.
	This is the liberal Democrats final time.
	I mean, listen, for a white liberal Democrat, and I know them intimately because I live in their natural habitat of New York, okay?
	So for them, for them.
	That's a great way to put it.
	The natural habitat.
	Cheryl, I love that.
	The natural habitat.
	When are you going to move out of Brooklyn?
	Now, listen, I live in a beautiful area of Brooklyn, but I have actually had whites say to me, How dare you be a conservative Republican?
	I've actually had them say that to me, to which I've responded, and they said, you know, all these years we've worked so hard, you know, for your rights, and here you are.
	How dare you be a conservative Republican?
	And I said, well, Jee Liz, I didn't realize you were working to give me the right to think the way you want me to think.
	I am an independent thinker.
	I make my own decisions.
	If I see someone who's not going to be able to do that.
	Exactly right.
	They are the Stepford people.
	They're the ones who are programmed.
	They're walking in lockstep.
	Well, you're great, Cheryl.
	I hope we hear from you more as the election approaches, the election season goes on.
	Thanks very much.
	This is Scott in Daytona Beach, Florida.
	You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hello.
	Hey, Rush.
	Hey, Scott.
	Mega World's Most Famous Beach Dittos to you.
	Thank you, sir.
	Hey, I just wanted to talk about how the liberal tactics are backfiring on themselves.
	You know, for a long time, we've been having to put up with their victim-style politics where they march these victims out, get all appalled when we question what those victims say.
	But here they are doing the same thing.
	They're giving them a great big vat of a taste of their own medicine.
	Here's Sarah Powell.
	They keep attacking and attacking and attacking.
	And in so doing, without even thinking about it, they are offending huge groups of people that they rely on to get elected.
	You know, this is actually a very shrewd of you, and they are in the process.
	Even though Sarah Palin has no victim-type behavior at all in her life, they're turning her into a sympathetic character in certain people's eyes.
	And it's not just because you don't hit the girl, it's because it is so obvious what this is.
	This is not true investigative journalism trying to find out who this woman is so we can all know.
	They know, the American people know that there is a search and destroy mission underway.
	And it's just like Clarence Thomas, just like Robert Bork, the Democrat Party and the drive-bys have joined forces to take this woman out.
	Jonathan Martin writing in the Politico just about an hour ago, the leaders of a women's political organization that launched earlier this year to support Hillary Clinton, speaking out against the way they say or what they say are examples of media sexism towards Sarah Palin and urging members to tell the press corps to back off.
	Women Count is the name of the group.
	It was co-founded by top Hillary fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell posted a lengthy item on their blog decrying questions over whether Palin can, as a mother of five, juggle her family responsibilities and still be vice president.
	This backlash is happening all over the country and it's happening to all kinds of people.
	The backlash coming from various Obama factions and Democrat independent camps.
	And you saw what happened at the Republican convention when Palin started criticizing the media.
	What did the delegates start shouting?
	NBC, NBC, NBC.
	And I don't know.
	You might have seen, I saw they took a camera shot of Bob Schieffer of CBS News when the crowd was shouting NBC, NBA, and he was smiling.
	The NBC people are not smiling over this.
	The NBC people are not happy about it.
	You've heard about the demotions of Chris Matthews and Olberdork.
	By the way, Olberdork's out there now saying he asked for the demotion and he led the demotion.
	And if that's true, Matthews got thrown under the bus as an innocent bystander.
	But that's not what happened.
	I can pretty much tell you, I don't know.
	Well, I mean, I know because I know this industry.
	I think what happened is it brokoff and Brian Williams went to Steve Capis or hire and said, look, these guys are killing us over here at the network.
	No, you're embarrassing us.
	I mean, got a convention shouting NBC, NBC, when media unfairness is talked about.
	They didn't shout CBS, didn't shout ABC.
	They didn't shout media.
	They shouted NBC.
	So keep those people over there in the zoo, but make sure it's a zoo and that they don't get over here because this is the party of the party.
	Well, yeah, the party.
	The company of Brokov, the company of Tim Russert, of John Chancellor, Brinkley, Huntley.
	I mean, it's just been destroyed here by true nutcases.
	Now, poor old Chris Matthews.
	I know he's in a tank, and I know he gets tingling things up his legs when he sees Obama and so forth.
	But this poor guy's got a respectable Sunday morning show.
	Well, it's syndicated.
	It's a syndicated Sunday morning show.
	He tapes it on Fridays.
	Well, compared to MSNBC, it's respectable.
	I mean, it's a whole different format.
	He has a whole different behavioral pattern.
	But really, the only guy that's given this network any image problem is Oberdork.
	Poor Chris, I mean, he just got thrown under the bus.
	These two guys have been thrown off election anchor coverage.
	Now, this is also, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, they're still going to be there doing analysis.
	It's just they're not going to be anchoring.
	People, NBC, think it's a big difference.
	Once you bring them in to analyze it, they will let them launch, but don't have them launch from the anchor chair and so forth.
	But whoever, well, I know who it is, the top dog over at MSNBC has, I think, been reined in here.
	I mean, this guy's name is Phil Griffin, and they've obviously made a business decision to go hard left, blog left, let the Daily Cause write the scripts and so forth and so on just to distinguish themselves.
	And they can talk about how their ratings are up and so forth, but they're still in dead last place, and everybody else's ratings are up more.
	I mean, they're in dead last place every time there's a political event, and yet they're over there celebrating.
	I have never seen in my days in media, and I've been in this business since I was 16, minus five years when I worked for the Kansas City Royals.
	I have never seen, ladies and gentlemen, the tolerance of mediocrity and failure that is permitted in media today.
	And we in media define our success many ways: ratings, revenue, all kinds of ways.
	There is no way that MSNBC can define itself as a success unless you want to say they make more people mad with genuine, irrational, insane stupidity every night than any network ever has.
	If that's the record you want, then they've achieved that.
	But in no circumstance, even if you start talking about cable audiences as niche, meaning we're going for a small segment, but we want all of that segment, they can't even claim that.
	They can't even claim that.
	Because there are more freaks, more lunatics, more nuts, more absolute ignoramuses in the Democrat Party that are watching MSNBC at night.
	We know that by how many of them vote.
	I've never seen the degree of failure that is tolerated and then promoted as success in media today in my life.
	There is a day where a network would be sold or a staff would be totally broomed and management would be brought in new.
	But these people think they're on some kind of a huge role.
	They're in fourth place.
	They're staying in fourth place.
	Everybody else is growing faster than they are.
	Well, look at our demo, Rush, screw your demo.
	Okay, you've got 1% of a 2% demo.
	Yippee!
	Nobody's watching.
	And despite the fact that nobody's watching, NBC still thinks their image is getting hurt because they live in their own little world.
	And it probably was to the extent, you know, Broca and these guys go on MSNBC and have to treat these lunatics as though they are serious political analysts and so forth.
	Never seen anything like it.
	I have never seen this kind.
	It's not just at DNC TV.
	There's a lot of people.
	I've never seen this degree of failure, sub-par performance, tolerated.
	Much less promoted as success.
	We will be back.
	Back to the phones, Middleburg, Ohio.
	This is Todd.
	Great to have you here, sir.
	Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Well, thank you, Rush.
	This is awesome to be able to talk to you.
	I have mega demos from Army Dad from the front lines of the McCain Palin rally in Lebanon, Ohio.
	Just came from the rally, and it was just off the hook.
	Everyone was just stoked the whole time.
	And they're talking about Jewel here, drill now, talking about we can win in Iraq, which is just so important to me.
	And then when he goes up and says he's going to shake up Washington, I mean, you believe him.
	You look at him, and it's like, yeah, all these years, maybe some Republicans have been sort of like, you know, what's he doing in Washington?
	But when you get, when you see him up on the stand there and he's saying, hey, we're going to go shake up Washington, you just believe it.
	You know, you know, he's going to go in there and he's going to make some changes.
	And that's just awesome.
	Let me ask you a question about that.
	And in the process, ask everybody in the audience about this.
	You bought it.
	Here's McCain talking about he and Palin are going to go shake up Washington.
	McCain's been in Washington 30 years.
	His party has been in charge of Washington for many of the last eight years.
	From the White House to the House, they lost the House in 2006.
	They've gone back and forth on the Senate.
	How hard a sell do you think it was?
	Or maybe I guess it wasn't because you believed it.
	But this is, to me, represents sort of a challenge McCain has because he can shake up Washington, but he's a member of the party that kind of botched Washington.
	Now, Joe is a maverick.
	He is a renegade.
	He has run against his party.
	That's probably how he's going to finesse this if he's asked about it at some point.
	Well, you know, when you're in Washington, you have these, you have to make compromises and you have to be on, you know, you have to make decisions on what you have in front of you as well.
	I think what it is is these years when Republicans haven't maybe been totally in line with what he's doing, maybe there were things going on that he was doing everything he could to get as far as he could in a conservative way.
	Either way about it, there's no question that even on the Republican side, things need to be shaked up.
	These earmarks need to go.
	You know, Todd, I'm glad you went to this thing.
	You sound genuinely excited about it, but you are demonstrating.
	Another great thing, by the way, do not take this the wrong way.
	This is not criticism.
	This guy, Todd from Middleburg, Ohio, probably represents a whole lot of you in this country and in this audience.
	And that is the selection of Sarah Palin has totally changed your outlook on McCain.
	You now are willing to give McCain the benefit of the doubt.
	Whereas prior to this, when it came to rock-ribbed conservatives, it was hold your nose and pray.
	Now, and it's not just because he made the choice, not because he had the foresight and the guts to make the choice, but she's out there actually saying some great things about him in ways that people haven't and the way he will not talk about himself.
	One other thing before we go to the break.
	I'm not trying to be cynical.
	I'm trying to be realistic.
	I'm 57 years old.
	I've been paying attention to presidential elections since I was nine.
	That was Kennedy Nixon in 1960.
	Every year, every four years, every presidential race, I don't care who it is, I'm going to shake up Washington.
	We're going to get in there.
	We're going to get some outsiders in there and we're going to rip the place apart.
	It never happens.
	Well, it did happen with Reagan.
	What needs to happen, and then, you know, Washington, of course, needs to be shaken up, but it is what it is.
	It's a political town and it's big.
	And what needs to happen is we just need somebody rock-rib conservative running the place, willing to take on the entrenched liberal bureaucrats in all of these agencies all over town, from CIA to state or wherever.
	Yeah, I'm all for shaking up Washington, but not in how it's presented in a political campaign.
	I want to shake up Washington by getting as many liberals out of there as possible.
	John Folger did Credence, Clearwater Revival, Green River.

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