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Oct. 14, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 14, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Campbell Brown, who works at CNN, has uh done a commentary.
So what if Obama were a Muslim or an Arab?
So what?
That's right, Campbell.
But what if Obama were a Mormon?
Then we'd need a media anal exam, right, Campbell?
I'm certain, Campbell, when Mitt Romney was being attacked over his religion.
You were the uh you were the first so-called journalist to stand up in his defense, right?
Rather than report how his religion could be a problem for him, you did that, didn't you, Campbell?
I mean, I'm I'm sure you wrote a piece about Romney, too.
Did maybe I'm not so sure that she did that.
And you so why Rush, why you mentioned that?
Because, ladies and gentlemen, the uh Reverend Dax, according to the New York Post, was over in France recently at a uh let's see, where was this?
Some conference over there, the it was the first world policy forum.
Now you have to understand code words from radicals like the Reverend Jackson, uh uh Minister Farrakhan and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
The Reverend Jackson said, according to the New York Post, Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades remain strong, but they're going to lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.
Now, do you know how to translate the word Zionist?
When the uh Reverend Jackson uses the term, he means Jews.
Jews who have control American policy for decades will lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.
This comes on the heels of Campbell Brown says, so what?
So what if he's an Arab or Muslim?
Does it matter?
Well, it sure mattered that Mitt Romney was a Mormon, by the way.
Can't find too many mentions of the scandal down here.
Palm Beach County, Tim Mahoney, of course, paid off the mistress, 121 grand in hush money.
The drive-by is discussed it a little bit, but said we just don't have time to get into details.
The Palm Beach Post down here, which endorsed Mahoney just last Sunday, is a little bit in a uh a tizzy over this that he's he's got some explaining to do here in order to maintain their endorsement.
His opponent, by the way, is uh is a good guy.
His name is Tom Rooney, and Rooney is running surprisingly strong down here in uh in in uh in Palm Beach County.
For this is the Mark Foley Congressional seat, and it's uh this is this has opened it up a little bit down here.
So we're gonna keep a keep a sharp eye on this.
Other things, uh, the Zogby poll today out has it as a statistical dead heat.
Obama 47.9, racist America 43.6.
That's exactly what I mean, Mr. Sturdle.
I mean, John Lewis said, and all the Democrats are saying if you don't vote Obama, you're racist, right?
So Obama's at 47.9, racist America at 43.6.
Now the Gallup poll has it a double-digit lead among registered voters.
Let's see, what is what are the numbers here on the registered?
It's about 10 points.
So uh Obama is up over racist America by ten points.
Also, have you seen all of the ugly Obama supporters?
The attacks on McCain and Palin by Obama supporters that are uh being ignored.
Friday, Vandals attack the York County Republican headquarters in South Carolina.
The Rock Hill Herald reports the culprits stole campaign signs, defaced a McCain banner, and spray painted Republican means slavery.
All over it, the Portland Tribune reports that two men were charged with felonies after making a Molotov cocktail and burning down a McCain sign.
And don't forget this, more than 30,000 felons in Florida, who by law should have been stripped of their right to vote, are registered to cast ballots on election day, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that many are faithful voters and Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one among the felons registered with the party.
So the felon vote is two to one Obama over racist America.
Now, how did 30,000 felons get on the on the voter rolls in the first place?
Can you say acorn?
I have a stack, I could do three hours on Acorn today.
They are, it is the most corrupt voter registration organization or whatever it is, community organization.
This is a group of people that is as corrupt as any group in this country has ever been.
Barack Obama is a part of it.
William Ayers is a part of it.
Jeremiah Wright is a part of it.
They are they have been bought and paid for by your tax dollars under the guise of being nonpartisan.
And yet they are urging people are going door to door in Ohio, urging people to vote as many times as possible for Obama.
They're also getting worried in the drive-by's about Sarah Palin, about whom, by the way, we'll be talking to her for a couple minutes at 1 32 this afternoon.
Sarah Palin here.
She'll be calling us from the uh from the campaign bus.
And we have uh we have about ten minutes with her this afternoon.
So just to remind you of that, that's about an hour and 20 minutes from now.
Uh Frank Patrick Healy in the uh in the New York Times, a riveting speaker waving the flag.
Here's the thing about Governor Palin, she loves America.
She really loves it.
She loves the smell of cut grass and hay, as she told Ohio voters on Sunday.
She loves Navy bases, she said in Virginia Beach yesterday morning.
She loves America's most beautiful national anthem, she told a crowd in Richmond a few hours earlier.
As the Republican vice presidential nominee for six and a half weeks now, Ms. Palin has emerged as the most electrifying speechmaker among the four politicians on the major party tickets.
But Ms. Palin's partisan zeal could repel some independent voters in closely contested states like New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
So they praise her speaking.
They praise her riveting speech.
They claim that she is the best speaker of the four, and they advise her to stop it.
Because it might offend independence.
By the way, listen to this.
If there are holes in logic, listen to this is how they describe her speech.
Speeches.
If there are holes in logic or a lack of specifics in her speeches, her audiences tend to fill the absence with gushing affection.
Now, where was this analysis of Obama earlier this year when he's out there saying nothing over and over again, better than any time anybody has ever said nothing.
If you press Obama on his plan for the economy, you'll find he doesn't know what he's talking about.
But they don't write that about him, but they write it about Sarah Palin.
Now, this business on the independence.
I mentioned the Zagby poll that shows Obama at 47.9, racist America at 43.6.
You want to hear some interesting internals from this poll.
This just folks, I cannot tell you how this irritates if this is right, if this is accurate, it makes me mad because we all knew it.
The margin of victory in this Zogby poll is coming from Obama's strength with independence.
The entire McCain campaign, from the primaries on, for the last eight years from 2000, the entire theory of the McCain campaign has to get independents and Democrats and win the election with them.
And we see, oh, and Hispanics, and he's not getting the Hispanic seat, and we see just how successful this effort to turn the Republican Party into mush has been.
The vast majority of Obama's support in the Zogby poll comes from independence.
Nobody's surprised by this because independents are not who they say they are.
And here again, the New York Times proves my brilliant theory.
If independents are offended by partisanship and really great stemwinder speeches.
If Sarah Palin's sending these independents to the Democrats, well, who the hell are the Democrats?
They're nothing but partisan hacks.
They are the most hateful partisan people in politics in America today.
And so Sarah Palin makes these riveting spellbinding speeches about her love for America, and that drives independence to the Democrats.
Sorry.
They are not independents.
They may be calling themselves independents, but they are not.
They are Democrats in waiting.
Try this.
This is from what's this newspaper, the stargazette.com.
Where did this happen?
It's a Gannette paper, Catherine something or other.
That's where it is.
Doesn't matter.
Ron Havens has a reputation for provocative Halloween displays that reflect his strong political views.
But even Havens was pretty sure his latest effort was over the top, but it didn't stop him from setting it up in plain sight.
He lives on Skyler County Route 15, just south of Odessa.
He this week set up a Halloween display featuring mannequins that look like Obama and McCain, but the Obama figure looks like he's running.
The McCain likeness is dressed in the hooded robe of a Ku Klux Klan Kleagel and is carrying a baseball bat.
Now I am sure, ladies and gentlemen, I am sure here that Ed Rollins and David Rodham Gurgan will be demanding that Obama tone down the racist nature of some of his supporters.
I am sure after they wrung their hands over all of the horrible racist and mean things that McCain supporters and Palin supporters are saying at their rallies, and that this is going to lead to traumatic things happening out there.
And it may lead to violence and danger.
I am sure that David Gergen and the estimable Ed Rollins will now call for Obama to silence his lunatics.
Speaking of which, Mike Audio Soundbite Change.
Give me time here, because we got a lot of I gotta find out where this is.
Toward the end of the bunch, go to audio soundbite number 20.
I'm not sure.
I haven't heard this yet.
I just read the transcript.
This is uh uh this morning on Scarborough Show on DNC TV, he's talking with the NBC correspondent Kelly O'Donnell about the McCain campaign, and Scarborough says, Is there anything exceptional about these McCain crowds, or is it much ado about nothing?
Well, I'm glad you're asking because we have been out on the trail with him for ten months now.
I've covered other presidential campaigns of both Democrats and Republicans.
It has not been a case of a mob sentiment.
Now, there have been times when crowds have gotten very fired up, but some of that is really about the political campaign.
We have not seen kind of rampant ugliness.
Have there been some rough patches where people have said things that are certainly causing some uneasiness?
Yes.
Has it been everywhere all the time?
All these crowds.
In my judgment, no.
Thanks a little.
That is uh Kelly O'Donnell at MSNBC, basically saying it all this hullabaloo about the danger and the over-the-top behavior at McCain Palin rallies is not actually happening.
Grab audio soundbite number one.
Would you like to hear how the drive-by's dealt with the Tim Mahoney story today?
The Mark Foley seat.
Remember now, these people went nuts.
In fact, we're going to play one and two here, Mike.
They went nuts over Foley.
They yuck it up here over the Mahoney story.
They will not give the ugly details.
Here are the co-host Willie Geist and the exchange with the political analyst Chuck Todd and Mika Zhezinski.
Want to talk about the poor folks in Palm Beach, one congressman and one sex scandal last year, and a new their new congressman and new sex scandal.
We're talking about Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney.
Mark Foley's replacement.
Apparently, we're not going to get into ugly details, having some personal problems of his own.
Something about that seat.
I guess there's something about it, and uh, there's something about being a one-term member of Congress.
Something about that seat.
There's just something about that.
We're not going to get into the details, though.
We're not going to get into the detail.
Well, we'll get into the details.
He paid a hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars to his mistress in hush money.
He sent her off to work for a firm he had relationships to.
The firm has since canned him and dissociated itself with him.
This is far worse than what Foley ever did.
But see, Foley was sending these little text messages in Washington, and Mohoney was, well, now wait, where was the affair?
Doesn't matter.
I was going to say that the affair was down here.
The big thing is that Rahmanuel was in on this.
The Democrat leadership was in on this.
This guy has asked, Mahoney has asked for the ethics committee to investigate him.
So he's asked for an investigation of himself.
And of course, Foley Pelosi said, oh yes, we're going to investigate after the election.
Because we're there, they're there in their adjourned now.
Uh the Wrangle investigation.
Now let's go back October 1st, 2006, listen to this media montage on Foley.
The resignation of Florida Congressman Mark Foley over improper emails to a teenage page.
Five weeks till the elections is the GOP in trouble.
Five weeks before the election, it seems unlikely that those Democrats will let the issue die.
This is the last thing they anticipated five weeks before the midterm elections.
The implications could be very big for the election.
I think the question now is how this affects the midterms.
The resignation of Congressman Mark Foley over those emails is heating up in an election season bonfire.
Democrats are one fifteenth of the way there.
I can't see how they could lose this season.
You begin to get a very strong wave and a sentiment out in the public to throw the bums out.
A potentially massive metastasizing scandal just five weeks before election day.
So these guys were just, they couldn't, they couldn't wait to get rid of Foley.
It's all they could talk about for five weeks, and they were talking about Macaca at the same time.
Let's go the same date, October 1, 2006.
CNN's anchor at Carroll Lynn talking to reporter uh John King about Foley questioned how's the Republican base likely to respond?
What will they make of Hastert's request for an investigation?
It is the Republican Party that presents itself as the party of family values, as the moral party in this country that is counting in a midterm election in which both parties say the most critical element in their success or failure is will their base turn out to vote.
Who is the Republican base?
Christian conservative voters who are likely to be very offended by this.
One of the big things to watch in the week ahead, conservative radio like Rush Limbaugh.
This is likely to send a domino effect across the base of the Republican Party.
Yeah, Republican Party's the sole home of morality, right?
What did what did Mahoney say in 2006 when he was campaigning for Congress?
He promised a world that is safer and more moral.
And as soon as he gets into office, bam bam, bam, wham bam, thank you, ma'am.
Here comes the affair.
Pelosi and Emmanuel know about it, start covering it up and trying to help it not harm his reelection effort.
John Harris of the Politico made a speech in New York.
I think this is New York.
Uh Watertown Daily Times.
At any rate, he predicts a massive Obama win.
Wait till you hear what a leading member of the drive-by media says about the upcoming election.
We've only scratched the surface.
Sit tight, we're being right back.
Another Sarah Palin story in the Los Angeles Times.
Excuse me, the headline here.
Sarah Palin stirs up controversy in the wink of an eye.
And they analyze her speaking prowess again.
Then they say winks are powerful, more powerful than a wave, and they are risky.
The wink is a powerful gesture, much more so than the wave, favored by most politicians because the wink generates from the ground zero of human emotions.
The face in the eyes, no less, the gateway to the soul.
It's the undecided who most matter.
Research shows that ambiguous gestures like a wink are risky on a medium such as television.
The bottom line, another story from the LA Times, Sarah Palin is angering the moderates.
Sarah Palin is running off the independence.
Do you know Reagan got independence?
Do you know how he did it?
I'm blue in the face on this.
This ought to be a Republican landslide, this election, with everything out there.
From Acorn for crying out loud, American taxpayers are paying a criminal organization to elect Barack Obama.
And we're going to send more Democrats to the House and the Senate.
That would be the equivalent of sending bigger majorities of Democrats to Congress in '94 after the House banking scandal.
We were smart enough not to do that in '94.
What the hell happened here?
They're running around trying to court independence by being whooshy, mushy moderates.
I cannot, I cannot believe how our side, well, not us, folks, not you and me, but our side's been roped in by all of this bro ha that you have to get moderates by being unoffensive.
You can't be opinionated.
They have basically sought, and they have succeeded with our political class of shutting them up.
They're afraid to say conservative things.
By the way, we have an audio soundbite here of uh montage of last night's coverage of the Tim Mahoney story on the network nightly newscasts.
Oh.
Well, I'm told there is no montage.
There were no comments on the nightly news about Tim Mahoney.
Uh this, of course, nothing like the Foley case, yet silence from the media.
Here is don't have time to play it.
We've got some audio tape here.
Telephone calls of Mahoney firing his mistress on the phone.
We have audio tapes of Mahoney telling her what life is like.
We have Mahoney intimidating her, trying to get her to shut up.
And then telling her that if she doesn't say anything, if she stays and stands mute, then he will pay her off.
We had nothing like this in the Foley scandal.
The drive-by's could not care less.
And we all know why.
Because this year it's about 465, 535 Democrats being elected.
We'll be back.
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If you want to be on the program, Rahm Emanuel knew about Tom, sorry, Tim Mahoney.
Over a year ago, the firm where Mahoney parked the woman with whom he was having affair is now suing him and has severed ties with him.
And remember in 2006, Tim Mahoney pledged a safer, more moral world as he campaigned to replace Mark Foley.
Here are some tapes, audio sound bites of Mahoney firing the mistress on the phone.
What I believe.
You're fired.
Don't tell me whether this is correct or not.
Tell me why else I'm tired.
Yeah, there is.
No, because you're fired because I said that you know I'm the judge of the jury.
Okay?
You're fired.
All's her name.
And I was glad to say if you want to keep on thinking like I'm not being fair.
Somehow this is a negotiation.
This is not a negotiation.
Okay.
You're not shouldn't negotiate with me.
It's my decision.
Okay.
And now he goes on to tell the mistress that she works.
Now, this is a kind, loving, tolerant, compassionate Democrat who pledged a safer, more moral world as he campaigned to replace Mark Foley.
You work at my pleasure.
Whatever I don't feel like you're doing his job.
The only person that matters is yet who?
Me.
Do you understand that?
And this is how life really is.
This is how it works.
You know that you're upset about something.
No, I'm not upset about something.
I'm upset because you continue to have this discussion and you continue to try to push it someplace where it's not supposed to be.
And this is uh Tim Mahoney, Congressman from uh our Congressman crying out loud, the pervert.
I got I got people.
Then I got Jonathan Martin of Politico says, what is it about Palm Beach and sex scandals?
I say, you don't know the half of it.
Saw a government budget item the other day.
The government said in some bill is it like like $500,000 to discuss and study why Eskimos still swap wives.
And I said, for half that, I'll blow the whistle on Palm Beach.
But you know, but the point of Martin's memo uh email, they all think this is funny now.
Oh, it's another sex scandal on Palm Beach.
I don't get the sense anybody said, you well, you heard the bite from MSNBC.
Well, we're not gonna get into the details of this.
Here's Mahoney telling the mistress if she doesn't do anything, he'll pay her off.
Let me tell you something else.
If I might have to say anything else, you won't be so asking.
I don't give a sh.
Okay, but if they say anything, you won't get your ass page.
I'll pay you off.
All your special.
Okay.
Call me.
You don't understand me, okay?
You keep pissing me off because every time I get you on the phone, you keep telling me I'm wrong.
Uh-huh.
Okay, guess what?
You don't have a job.
Okay, you're right.
You don't have a job.
Guess what?
How does that make you feel?
You're firing Freddy.
You're not a man enough to say it.
Can I tell you what?
Do you want to eat raid and be a man?
Why don't you say it and be a man?
You're firing me because you're trying to cover up an affair that you willingly had with me.
She also thought, by the way, that he was seeing somebody else.
So she thought that she was in some sort of triangle here.
Maybe a quadrangle because the uh the wife's involved here too.
So she he she thinks that he's seeing two other babes uh while while he's seeing her, and and the the this, but but the drive-by's don't care.
So you just heard this thoughtful, kind, gonna bring a new morality to Washington, Tim Mahoney, fire the mistress and then intimidate her.
She shuts up, she'll be paid.
And of course, the Palm Beach Post, which endorsed me, is well, you know, he really owes us an explanation on this.
Um, he's got to get this uh all straightened out.
It's just nobody's surprised here, folks.
Don't no misunderstand.
Nobody is surprised at the difference in treatment from the drive-by media to Mark Foley.
And by the way, remember something on the Foley case.
Because I I was I was not that it matters to anything now, but I was very suspicious about this when it happened.
Because I think you know, pages are, you know, they're teenagers.
And here's this guy strutting around, and he's obviously gay and he's he's giving him some kind of indication.
I think they're playing practical jokes on him.
I think they're sending these text messages and he's responding to it and so forth.
But I think I think the pledges started all that.
No excuse here for foley, but but this is uh this is clearly an instance of immorality far worse than uh than Foley.
Foley never touched one of these kids, never did anything with them, and who he got the Democrat that replaced him all in a tizzy and having an affair and now you know paying hush money, and he's been fired by the firm where he parked this woman and so forth.
They've dissociated themselves with him.
His opponent is again a guy named Tom Rooney, uh, who is just a stand-up guy.
He's just and he's actually doing pretty well in the polls up till now.
It's gonna be interesting to see how all this affects that race.
Now, John Harris.
This is from the Watertown Daily Times.
And he spoke yesterday on the election at St. Lawrence University's Eben Holden Conference Center in Canton.
Man, this story's all over the place, and I'm sorry, I didn't I I've got the print version, so I really don't know where this is, but I'm thinking, since they say it's near Canada, that is it doesn't matter where it is.
I'd just like to know so I can report fully.
John F. Harris might not have the best record for his political predictions.
It wasn't long ago he thought Hillary would be a shoe-in for the Democrat nomination.
But he sees a huge win coming for Barack Obama in November.
The political editor-in-chief spoke Monday to a group of 85 students and community members.
What a crowd the guy can draw.
Huge crowd, 85 people.
This is big.
He said, Republicans are on the verge of a route that could leave them virtually powerless in Washington.
The era of trench warfare between the parties might be over.
I'll be back by Thanksgiving if I'm wrong.
So he predicts this isn't even gonna be close.
This is a route.
The Republicans are going to have so few members of the House and Senate, they will be unable to stop anything.
In fact, there will be so few Republicans that there will be no partisanship.
There won't be enough Republicans for there to be any partisanship, which reminds me I saw a stupid story in the drive-by's yesterday, lamenting the fact of the lost opportunity in this election to have a nonpartisan straight up and down on the issues election, all because of McCain.
So I want you the reason I'm I'm telling you this, I don't care what the guy says.
This is this is this is not, and it's not that a journalist, an objective drive-by journalist is out there telling 85 people what he thinks is going to happen.
What I what I'm I'm sharing his these quotes with you, folks, because it ought to outrage you.
You are all, most of you Republicans, conservatives, and the daily disses continue.
From the fact the election's over to it's going to be a landslide, to it's going to be a bloodbath, do we may not even need to have the election?
We've got acorn running around cheating and engaging in fraud, being bought and paid for by U.S. taxpayers, supported by, promoted by, instructed by Barack Obama and William Ayers.
In some places in this, I'm I'm even wondering if we're going to have a fair election.
These people are in 30 states.
There are investigations of acorn going on in 13 states now.
I would think this would outrage people.
Acorn is a subdivision of the Democrat Party.
Even in the original rescue plan, the bailout bill, there was uh how much was it for Acorn?
A couple, there was some millions earmarked for Acorn.
And of course, somebody spotted it, raised hell about it, and they pulled it out.
The Democrats said there was never anything in there for Acorn.
We just put that in there as a throwaway.
We knew the Republicans would get mad at it, so we put it in there as a throwaway.
That's BS.
They would have taken, if they could have gotten any more money for Acorn than they've already gotten, they would have done it.
Republicans, this is according to the political editor-in-chief.
Republicans are on the verge of a route that could leave them virtually powerless.
In Washington, we are on the brink of an electoral college blowout, and there is a possibility for huge Democrat gains in the Senate, which means Barack Obama could be the most powerful president we have had since George W. Bush in the years immediately following 9-11, or LBJ in 1964.
Mr. Harris said this shows how starkly the premises of national politics have changed.
He said the Republican Party's Machiavellian style of attack politics has not struck a chord in this election, leaving McCain to shift strategies nearly weekly.
Now on this, there's one half of this that he's right about.
Okay.
The idea that the Republican Party is Machiavellian.
Good Lord.
We have the most unqualified, the most unaccomplished, the most unachieved person a major political party has ever nominated to be President of the United States.
He is 100% Machiavellian.
The entire Democrat Party is a camouflage mask.
And it's McCain being Machiavellian.
The Republicans.
He said McCain hasn't struck a chord in this election because he's trying to be Machiavelli.
So he's had to shift strategies nearly weekly.
That's not the McCain's not Machiavellian.
Here's the here's here's this is the problem.
And for any of you out there listening who are budding politicals, you want to go into campaign advisory, you're going to become campaign strategist.
Let me tell you something very quickly.
Why do you think McCain is changing his economic policy by the week?
There is an answer to this.
Why do you think every week he comes out with new economic plan, a new this plan, or a new that plan.
Why do you think every week he is reacting to what Obama's doing?
There's a simple explanation for this.
Has nothing to do with the fact that he's Machiavellian.
I will explain it when we come back.
Don't go away.
Why is Senator McCain, ladies and gentlemen, shifting strategies nearly weekly, as John Harris says.
He's been trying to win over Clinton supporters and independence.
And the way you win those people is the way you always win elections on our side.
You run as a conservative, you run on ideas, you run on policies that promote opportunity, wealth, jobs, families, local communities, education, choice, law enforcement, and national security.
You run on the rule of law, such as enforcing immigration laws.
You have to have these beliefs in order to articulate them.
And you have to have them in your bloodstream and have promoted them throughout your political career.
Otherwise, you're going to be dodging and weaving all over the place responding.
If your political career consists of thumbing your nose at conservatism and cutting deals with the left that undermine your own party.
Making nice with the media.
You find yourself without intellectual weapons and political tactics, defend off a leftist ideologue.
So you're flounder around out there.
When your media friends turn on you, as they most certainly were going to do, as they they can't stomach any Republican, no matter how he has distanced himself from his own party, you're left without the weapons to fight back.
And so you're constant, okay.
Obama said this, well, we got to respond with this.
Folks, we are gonna have to take the responsibility of this election on our own shoulders.
This election is about our future as a people.
It is about our future as a nation.
Candidates have been selected.
We have to make a choice.
We have to make a choice based on what's best for the nation.
A Republican candidate who many thinks uh gets some serious concerns about a Democrat candidate who many of us believe is dangerous that we cannot afford.
Dangerous in the sense he does not share our passion for this nation's institutions, including our economic system, where he says he wants to spread the wealth around.
Told that to a plumber.
Plumber says, Why do you want to raise my taxes?
Well, I want to spread the wealth around.
I want to make sure people behind you do well do well too.
Want to spread the wealth around.
That's Barack Obama.
And in a rare moment of a slip-up, he slipped up and was honest about what he said he was going to do.
McCain, here's an example.
McCain was out there today in Bluebell, Pennsylvania.
We have some sound bites of uh his latest economic pitch.
Current rules mandate that investors must begin to sell off their iris in 401ks when they reach age 70 and one-half years old.
Those rules should be suspended to spare senior citizens from being forced to sell their stock just as the market is hurting the most.
We will also cut the tax rate for withdrawals from tax-preferred requirement accounts to 10%.
Retirees have suffered enough.
Here is McCain saying that Obama will raise your taxes.
He's an eloquent speaker, but even he can't turn a record of supporting higher taxes into a credible promise to cut taxes.
Perhaps never in history have the American people been asked to risk so much based on so little.
You can look at the record of what he's done, or you can just go with your gut.
But either way, you're left with the same conclusion.
Senator Obama is going to raise your taxes in this economy.
Raising taxes is the surest way to turn a recession into a depression.
Senator McCain at Bluebell, Pennsylvania today, and this is a comment on Obama's spread the wealth comment to the plumber.
Plumber, concerned that Senator Obama was going to raise his taxes, asked him directly about his plan.
The response was telling.
Senator Obama explained to him that he was going to raise his taxes to quote, spread the wealth around.
My friends, my plan isn't intended to force small businesses to cut jobs to pay higher taxes so we can spread the wealth around.
My plan is intended to create jobs and increase the wealth of all Americans.
Each, according to his means, to each, according to his needs.
It's right out of the Communist Manifesto.
And here's McCain, the big finish, firing up the crowd, promising to fight.
Don't give up hope.
Be strong.
Have courage and fight.
Fight for a new direction for our country.
Fight for what's right in America.
Fight to clean up the mess of corruption, infighting, and selfishness in Washington.
Fight to get our economy out of the ditch and back in the lead.
Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.
Fight for our children's future.
Fight for justice and opportunity for all.
Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.
Stand up.
Stand up and fight.
America is worth fighting for.
Nothing is inevitable.
We never give up.
We never quit.
We never hide from history.
We make history.
Now let's go win this election and get this future movie.
And McCain had them all fired up.
It was a huge rally.
By the way, here is the Obama pure socialism comment yesterday in Toledo, Ohio, to a uh uh you know, we got time to squeeze this.
He's talking to a plumber.
It's not that I want to punish your success.
I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you that they've got a chance at success, too.
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for it.
He's got to spread the wealth around by taking yours first, back after this.
Gotta take a refreshing breather here, ladies and gentlemen, to recharge, re energize, and reorganize.
A little Barack Obama lingo there.
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