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Oct. 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 15, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Alaska glaciers grew this year.
Thanks to colder weather.
Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska.
Then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.
Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chilly temperatures in June, July, and August.
In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound, said Bruce Mulnia of the U.S. Geological Survey on the Juneau ice field.
There was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July at Bering Glacier, a landslide I'm studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free till early August.
In general, the weather this summer was the worst, meaning the coldest I have seen in the last twenty years.
How can that be, ladies and gentlemen, with global warming?
The bank bailout that was announced recently.
$250 billion U.S. government is going to take ownership in ownership stake in some banks.
The New York Times today has a fascinating story about how this went down.
The chief executives of the nine largest banks in America trooped into a gilded conference room yesterday afternoon or Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Treasury Department to their astonishment.
Get this, if this is true, since the New York Times, and I just I anything I see in this paper, I I doubt.
But this is what they report, to the astonishment of the chief execs of the nine largest banks.
They were each handed a one-page document that said they agreed to sell shares to the government.
And then the Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, said they must sign it before they left.
The chairman of JP Morgan Chase, Jamie Diamond, was receptive, saying he thought the deal looked pretty good once he ran the numbers through his head.
The chairman of Wells Fargo protested strongly that unlike his New York rivals, his bank was not in trouble because of investments in exotic mortgages, and he didn't need a bailout.
According to people briefed on the meeting, but by 630, all nine chief executives had signed setting in motion the largest government intervention in the American banking system since the depression, and retreating from the rescue plan Paulson had fought so hard to get through Congress only two weeks ago.
Now the Wells Fargo CEO objected that his bank, which is in San Francisco, had avoided the mortgage uh mortgage-related woes of Wall Street banks.
He said the investment could come at the expense of his shareholders, meaning the government's investment in his bank.
He is also said to have expressed concern about restrictions on executive compensation at banks that receive capital injections.
If he steps down from Wells Fargo after completing a planned takeover of Wacovia, he would be entitled to retirement benefits worth about 43 million and 140 million dollars in accumulated stock and options, according to James Rita and associates.
The executive pay consulting firm pay experts say the new treasury limits would probably not affect this guy's exit package, but he had won it.
He didn't want the bailout, didn't need it, banks not in trouble, they had not invested in the some primes, but the Treasury Secretary gave these guys a one-page document and said you got you're not getting out of here till you sign it today.
It sounds like a Michael Corleone meeting.
It really, well, the Treasury Secretary, by virtue of the bailout bill, is singularly in charge of insuring the welfare of American citizens.
From the Washington Post today headlined smaller banks resist federal cash infusions.
They don't want the money either.
Community banking executives around the country responded with anger to the Bush administration's strategy of investing $250 billion in financial firms, saying they don't need the money.
They resent the intrusion, and they feel it's unfair to rescue companies from their own mistakes.
At Evergreen Federal Bank in Grants Pass, Oregon, the chief executive Brady Adams said he has more than 2,000 loans outstanding.
Only three borrowers are behind on their payments.
We don't need a bailout.
And if other banks had run their banks like we ran ours, they wouldn't have needed a bailout either.
The opposition suggested that the government may have to continue to press banks to participate in the plan.
The first 125 billion be divided among nine of the largest U.S. banks, which were forced to accept the investment to help destigmatize the program in the eyes of other institutions.
Federal regulators said they did expect some banks to volunteer, though none stepped forward yesterday, but they added they would not rely on volunteers.
Treasury will set standards for deciding which banks can be helped, and the regulatory agencies will triage the banks that they oversee.
The institutions faring best and worst will not receive investments.
Now, in return for its investments in these banks, Treasury will receive preferred shares of bank stock that pay five percent interest for up to five years.
After that, if the companies haven't repaid the government's initial investment, the interest rate goes up to 9%.
The government decided not to impose an explicit requirement that banks use their taxpayer dollars to uh increase lending.
It sounded like a lot of these little banks didn't want any part of this.
I just saw with the top of the hour that American Airlines has ordered eight billion dollars of the new Boeing Dreamliner jet.
Something like 40 of them.
Eight billion dollars.
Now, one thing I know is that American Airlines does not have eight billion dollars.
There's not an airline company out there that has eight billion.
Now, obviously, they never did have they're gonna have to finance this.
They're gonna have to borrow this.
Where are they gonna get the money?
If there's no credit out there, if there's no lending going on, where's American Airlines going to get eight billion dollars to buy some number, 40, I think it was, of the new Boeing jet liner.
Now, I'm glad they're doing it.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm asking rhetorical question.
If there's no money to be borrowed because there's no money to be lent, where in the hell are they going to come up with it?
Well, obviously they are going to come up.
They obviously made a deal.
And the deal satisfies Boeing.
I mean, Boeing is going to get paid on the basis of the debt that American Airlines is taking on.
I mentioned earlier in the program, Alabama's 5th district, uh, congressional district Democrat candidate Parker Griffith.
What he thinks the real problem with America is we have audio.
This is from September 15th.
I think America's race and I think that uh we have nothing to fear from radical Islam.
We have nothing to fear from any other religion.
We, in fact, are strong on our own beliefs.
I don't fear radical Islam.
He said, this is again, this is uh Parker Griffith, Democrat candidate, Alabama fifth.
I think America's greatest enemy is America and its imperialism.
Does it strike you strange that so many Democrats love to run down this country campaigning for office?
Obama does it.
They love to run down this country.
They love to portray this country as the problem in the world, campaigning for office.
I'm dumbfounded these people think that they're going to win doing this.
I doubt that he would say it in New York.
I doubt that he would say it at the World Trade Center.
He has to say it in um Sheffield, Alabama.
Gloria Borger was on CNN's election center last night, the host Campbell Brown.
Where do things stand, Gloria?
Is um is Sarah Palin hurting rather than helping the McCain campaign?
Well, she certainly isn't bringing along Hillary Clinton supporters.
Anybody who thought that she was going to bring along Hillary Clinton's supporters was not looking at Sarah Palin's record and Hillary Clinton's record.
She is bringing along white men who like her a lot.
And uh she's rallying the base.
But is she bringing along those independent voters?
Absolutely not.
Now, the very moment Gloria Borger was saying this on CNN New York across town, Sarah Pelo was raising over half million dollars from Hillary Clinton supporters at the Grand Hyatt Hotel down at Grand Central Station.
And don't forget the internals of the Rasmussen poll today.
Oh, wait a minute.
Internals of the Zogby poll today, Obama has lost ground in independence.
So Gloria Borger flapping her gums, apparently not knowing what she's talking about.
This morning on the Today Show on NBC, we have a montage here of some Savannah Guthrie.
I guess that's an NBC reporter it.
Savannah Guthrie's report on Sarah Palin.
You're gonna hear voices of parents of Down syndrome children in this report.
Nearly everywhere Sarah Palin goes these days, she's encountering people who aren't necessarily there for the politics.
I can't put it in words.
My daughter is nine, and to have somebody like this supporting us, it does move our entire family.
Families of children with down syndrome, children like Trig, have been flocking to Palin rallies.
They come to shake her hand, grab a hug, or snap a picture.
Drawn there, they say, because her story is theirs too.
Sometimes you see the politicians and you don't think they have struggles like the rest of us, but she does.
She has a unique situation.
Last week, Halen stopped to talk to us about what's become a phenomenon on the trail.
We have an automatic bond there where we can just look at each other in the eyes and say, I know, and you know we're all in this together.
Do you feel a heightened sense of responsibility now that you're in this position?
I sure do.
And I won't let these people down.
Part of the reason that I'm doing this is for my own child who has special needs.
Is it emotional for you to see these?
Very emotional, very emotional, yeah.
This is one reason why the drive-by's and the Democrats despise Sarah Palin.
And one of the reasons that they are deathly afraid of her, she is connecting with people on a human level on an issue that liberals despise the survival of Down syndrome children.
And they feel the press and the Democrats feel powerless to destroy her.
She is connecting with people on the issue of life.
And that just sends the American left for Fruit Loops back in a second.
And we'll get to your phone calls.
I'll get back to them in just a second.
But first, Michelle my Belle Obama.
They obviously let her out of the closet and they remove the duct tape.
She's out there, nevertheless, under the radar in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at a campaign event.
Here's a portion of what she said.
Every second between now and election day counts.
And we're focusing pretty intensely on early voting, making sure that people are registered and that they understand that they can vote early and avoid long lines and take their time with their ballots.
We don't want anybody to miss this opportunity.
Vote early.
And then if you vote early, you also have some extra time to be a little neighborly and help your neighbors on election day.
That's what we really want you to do.
We want you working the polls on election day.
We are going to make as easy as possible for everyone, regardless of who you're going to vote for.
Well, now, isn't this interesting?
Michelle Obama, while her husband is backing away from Acorn, Michelle Obama is out there doing everything she can to convince people to go vote early.
This early voting is is you know the main thing that's wrong with early voting.
Aside from the fraud, and aside from the potential for all kinds of cheating, the main thing wrong with early voting is that things change.
Things can change in the last three weeks before an election.
Things can change in the last two weeks before an election.
And remember, some of this early voting is not absentee.
I'm not talking about absentee voting.
I'm talking about the phenomenon of early voting.
This is another acorn ploy that's designed to gum up the works.
And here's Michelle out there advocating it.
Another thing that strikes me about her her her tone here.
Uh we want you to go out and be a little neighborly and help your neighbors on Election Day, it is obvious that these people on the Democrat side from Acorn to Michelle think their voters are so stupid that they don't know how to register themselves.
They don't know how to get to the polling place on election day.
They don't even have the knowledge that election day is election day.
So people in the neighborhood have to be neighborly and run around and say, hey, did you go vote today?
And then after you go vote, let's go monitor the polls.
What is it with this?
Acorn out there, well, we're uh we're just trying to register the poor, or what makes the poor stupid?
And we're just uh we're just trying to register the uh the indigent.
What makes them stupid?
Well, we're just out there, you know, we want people to be neighborly on election day.
What people to run around and get them to the Anybody doesn't know it's an election day, stay home.
Anyone that does not know that election day is election day, stay home.
Here's Obama, by the way.
He's in Toledo while uh what's her face, uh Michelle is in Fort Wayne, and he was talking to reporters yesterday, said this.
They're not advising our campaign.
We've got the best uh voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation uh in politics right now, and uh you know we don't need Acorn's help.
We don't need Acorn's help.
He's backing away from Acorn.
We don't need so he's thrown Acorn under the bus.
Is there any room left under Obama's bus?
Look at all the people he's thrown under that bus.
Anyway, he's just trying to distance himself from them here.
He's got the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now.
Let me ask you a question.
If he's got the best voter registration turnout volunteer operation, how the hell is his number one aid group, Acorn being investigated in 15 states?
If he's got the best operation, the best we keep hearing about this this great grassroots operation he's got.
And you would think that he would have a very damn good grassroots operation in Ohio.
How come during that little special window they had between September 29th and October 6th?
Where you could vote early, where now the Secretary of State's been told to the Sixth Circuit, you better identify every one of those voters as legit, every one of those registered voters is legit.
You've got till Friday to do it.
How come the turnout was so small compared to what they all said the turnout would be?
They were expecting thousands and thousands of thousands to show up in that little six-day window to vote early in Ohio, and a relative few did.
Now is this just a sandbag?
Is the Obama campaign sandbagging everybody?
It's and to make everybody think they don't have this kind of organization.
He also, this is in Toledo yesterday, downplaying his relationship with Acorn.
My relationship to Acorn is pretty straightforward.
Uh when it's probably 13 years ago, uh, when I was still practicing law, uh I represented Acorn, and my partner in that representation was the U.S. Justice Department uh in having Illinois implement what was called the motor voter law.
That was my relationship and is my relationship to Acorn.
Really?
A lawsuit.
Fracticing lawyer represented Acorn.
That's it.
Let's go back to December 1st, 2007, Des Moines, Iowa.
Heartland Democrat Presidential Forum, Obama took questions from the moderator, Catherine Hughes, who asked if elected president would you agree in your first 100 days to meet with a delegation of representatives from these various community organizations, campaign for community values?
Could they count on you in your first 100 days to sit down with them?
Yes, but let me even say before I even get inaugurated.
During the transition, we're gonna be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda.
We're gonna be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
Thank you, everybody.
God bless you.
So he's promising an Acorn will be in the room to help set the agenda.
There are also other sound bites of Obama uh talking about Acorn in a positive way, I think, from uh back in 2006 and other things.
Yeah, you gave me what we gave him $800,000.
He saw to it that Acorn got $800,000 in federal legislation along with I think Dick Durbin, the uh other senator from Illinois.
Uh he worked with them.
He just didn't represent them in court.
He worked with them.
It's it's tough to say who taught who.
Did Acorn teach Obama?
Did Obama teach Acorn?
But it was part of his days as a community organization.
And now he's got it up on his website lying through his teeth.
He never had anything to do with him.
He clearly worried about this and Bill Ayers as well coming up in the debate tonight, the rest of the campaign.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
We're gonna go to pr Pemberton, New Jersey.
This is Rebecca.
Thank you so much for waiting, Rebecca.
Great to have you with us here.
Uh Rush, no problem.
Um I'm really stressed out, and I'm um I mean I'm calling you because I'm stressed and I'm tense and I'm really worried about the debate.
And I've been listening to you today, and I've gotten more and more hyped up about it, and uh I have my own business in South Jersey, so I've sit in my office listening, and then I started writing notes and I said I d I want to prep John McCain on the Ayers issue because I don't have confidence.
I'm worried that they're not gonna get this issue across correctly.
Which issue?
Well, a few of them when I I I I don't have any power, so I thought let me call Rush.
Maybe maybe somebody in the McCain campaign will hear him and even though I'm not as politically smart as you.
I think that the first thing Obama's gonna say is he's gonna again downplay this.
He's gonna try to diminish McCain with his arrogance, and he's gonna say you didn't bring it up in the debate and that you're desperate.
And I think that McCain has to emphasize call out the media and emphasize that citizens are coming up to him, which is true, that haven't heard about the Ayers issue, they're concerned about it, they don't know why the media has kept it quiet, and I agree with these citizens, and I'm not gonna disregard their questions, and Senator Obama, if you're gonna disregard their questions, then you don't understand how concerned these citizens are.
That's the first thing that he's gonna try to do.
Okay, well, um you have given me a profound challenge here.
Oh, I did.
You have.
Um you should join the crowd of those who seek and wish to advise the McCain campaign.
I can't tell you the number of people, just average genome people, friends of mine.
Right.
Send me notes.
I know you know how to get through.
Would you tell them to X?
So I'm just one of those many people, and I'm thinking, you know, oh, maybe I can get through and someone will listen.
Well no, we're we're frustrated we are following.
No, wait, wait, wait a second now.
Uh see, I'm trying to help you here.
You're stressed and you're tense, and I'm saying you've got to deal with reality as it is.
You start building up expectations for yourself.
Right.
And they aren't met tonight by somebody you have no control over somebody else.
You have no control over what McCain's gonna do.
You're just gonna be worse off tonight after the debate if you do that.
What I want to try to do is give you a dose of reality.
Okay.
This campaign's been going on basically when did McCain secure this?
February?
Yes.
Okay, so February through it.
I would venture to say that throughout most of that period, you've been saying, Why didn't he say this?
Why did he do this?
Why do we go there?
Yes.
Yeah, hadn't done it, has he?
No.
So what is there?
The what what is the evidence here three weeks before election that we're gonna get a one eighty?
Okay, this is what I'm thinking.
I'm thinking that maybe they're starting to listen to us, and they realize how important this airs issue is and how it they McCain has to bring it home, and the American people might not get it, and Obama is very convincing and he's very good at diminishing the things that McCain is saying.
I mean, I think if McCain just came out and said, Listen, do you think if I started off my political career in an unrepentant abortion, you know, bombers living room, would the press give me a free pass?
You know, he's gotta say, because Obama go, Oh, I was only eight.
And if I hear that, if I hear that hello going to happen.
He's he is not going to criticize the media.
Why?
Because it's a no-win.
If you're somebody running for president, you have to know that you're gonna get an anal exam to criticize the media is is considered to be you know you're th they'll say starting to cry and whine and there's there's no there's there's no upside for a candidate attacking the media.
Even even though a lot of McCain supporters would love it.
Right.
It isn't gonna happen.
Plus, he he can sit he he doesn't look at them the way you and I do.
I don't despite what they've done to him.
I'm telling you he doesn't see the media the way you and I do.
Well, you know, can he at least You know, the other thing I was thinking, please just I just want to say this one thing, okay.
Obama keeps saying he was only eight, and it's driving me crazy.
It really is.
And all I can think of is I don't care if uh John McCain should say, I don't care if I'm one or ten or fifteen, I would never be in the living room with Bill Ayers.
He would never have me in his living room.
That's like being in Timothy McVay's living room.
Yes I mean he's gotta get this across.
It's it's just driving me crazy.
And you know what else he should do, Rush?
He should call the plumber.
He should call that plumber who who was talking to McCain, and he should quote that plumber, because that plumber, he was a smart man.
You know, the one on Neil Cabuto.
And maybe you're right.
Maybe I should just give up.
No, no, no, no, no, you're misunderstanding.
I'm not I'm not saying give up.
Right.
I'm saying just don't you know, allow yourself the opportunity to be surprised.
Allow you know, don't don't don't go in with all these great expectations that are unlikely.
Right.
Go in there thinking the worst.
And you can't help you can't help but be happy at the end of the day, because it's not gonna be that bad.
Well, I'll tell you one thing.
I I want to tell you, I I've been listening to you, and and uh, you know, you've really been out there really trying to keep everybody motivated and because we've been having our ups and downs all about the city.
That's right, and that's the key for you because look uh look here's here's the here's the thing out there, Rebecca.
This is the bottom line.
This is a referendum on Obama.
You've just said it.
You know, you I know you want leadership from our candidate, but but you're gonna have to provide yourself.
How many times have I told you we are gonna have to drag this campaign across the finish line.
Well, you know what, then this is what I'm gonna keep doing.
I'm talking to everybody I know, and I know there's the people who listen to your program, good people, patriots, citizens who work hard, working people, wonderful people in this country.
They're doing the same thing.
I I mean I go to the Columbus market, I have a stand there in Columbus, New Jersey, and I can't tell you how many people I've gotten into conversations with, and they're saying, I'm talking to my kids, I'm talking to my grandkids, I'm talking to my Jewish Anne in Florida and telling her, you know, all this stuff, and that's how we're gonna do it, and with you keep if you keep helping us.
I think that's the only I'm gonna keep doing it even though I'm frustrated.
I want well, good.
Understand here we're all gonna have to be self-starters in this.
We're all gonna have to be individual leaders with uh, you know, among the people that we know.
I'll take care of the leadership here from the golden EIB microphone.
But uh this it is what it is, and you have to you have to face the reality of it.
Now we've heard Senator McCain, he said he's he's gonna he's gonna whip Obama's you know what, he's gonna bring up heirs and all that tonight.
Well uh good.
I'm I'm looking forward to it.
I I uh wanna see how it happens.
I wish he hadn't telegraphed it.
I mean a marketing plan is uh something to be executed, not bragged about, because then you give people a defense against it.
But we'll see.
But look at the debates are not gonna decide anything.
They're not going to decide anything.
I knew this after the first one.
I knew it again after the one last week, and this this there's gonna be three weeks after this debate, and it's unless something, you know, highly unusual happens here tonight, uh the debate is not gonna be the final determining factor.
But but beyond all that, sh I know, folks, that Rebecca is voicing every one of your fears.
Every one of your frustrations.
Everyone, I know it.
And what it tells me is what a golden opportunity we have had here for leadership at the elected level.
And had there been that leadership, people the American people will respond to leadership every time.
And our side just as uh they they haven't had a whole lot of leadership, unless, of course, your number one issue is earmarks, and then of course you're happy as you can be.
Uh who's next here?
Uh let's see, uh Paul in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, nice to have you here.
Rush.
Mega dittoes.
Thank you, sir.
I should say mega dessert making ditto.
I'm in the middle of that.
But anyway, to the point that uh I was told to keep to.
Uh in many respects, uh McCain doesn't have to mention heirs, but what he what he needs to do is tie Obama to acorn, which is not hard.
Why do you think he hasn't done it?
Uh don't know.
I don't either, but I'll bet you.
McCain's a senator.
I'll bet you at some point.
It's the honorable.
McCain's had something to do with him himself, either as a co-sponsor of legislative some piece of legislation.
I'll bet you somewhere.
These this is the problem with electing somebody that comes from the business of legislating.
Uh they get in bed with everybody one at one time or another when they have a long enough career.
And it probably probably who knows just I'm just guessing.
That's why Palin is doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I I read some stuff by Stanley Kurtz.
I think you mentioned it on your show that we're not going to be able to do that.
No, talking to him after the program, Billy, by the way, interviewing him for the next issue of the uh of the limball letter, but uh I th I think McCain can bring up voter fraud.
Oh, yeah.
He doesn't have to mention Acorn, he can bring up voter fraud and cheating.
He can do it without mentioning Acorn.
Yeah.
Although, you know, that's what Ob uh because uh Stanley Kurtz was saying that's what Obama was doing as a community organizer.
He was teaching people how to intimidate banks and you know, fill lobbies with all these pill folks and then scare banks into making these.
Look at what there was an affiliate of Acorn that ob that got eight hundred grand from the Obama campaign for voter turnout work during the Democrat primaries.
It was in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and some other states.
I think the name of the group is the uh community values project, something that we we saw something I cited earlier today.
All these all these various community organization groups really operate under the umbrella of Acorn.
He paid an affiliate of Acorn, got 800 grand from the Obama campaign.
And he's out there saying he doesn't need their help, he's backing away from Acorn.
Let me let me expand on this.
I mentioned this in the first hour of the of the program.
Any pollster that does a registered voters' poll.
I want to expand on this here for for just a bit.
Any poll that calls on registered voters has acorn illegally registered voters in the mix.
And this is another reason why these registered voter polls as opposed to likely voter polls are flawed.
And it's also why they are willingly used by the drive-bys.
ACORN is paid to illegally register Democrat voters.
You don't think ACORN's out there registering Republicans, do you?
If you think that they are, change your ways.
Some of the people are registering are fictional people, but some are potential voters.
Some of them have telephones at home.
These are potential Democrat voters.
Acorn doesn't register Republicans.
That's not their mission.
Even though they take taxpayer dollars and say they are nonpartisan.
So if you use a registered voter poll, it will almost always favor Democrats since Acorn tirelessly lies, cheats, and bribes to get people signed up as Democrats.
Registered voter polls can be used to make news because Acorn heavily influences the number of registered Democrats in any given state.
And that news can be used to depress Republican voter turnout, which is what the New York Times poll today showing Obama with a 14-point lead is designed to do.
Why bother to register voters indiscriminately?
Because some will vote, some will answer their phone, and all will be used to pump up polls and pump up Democrats.
Hey, look at how many registered Democrat voters we have in this state, say the pollsters.
Look at all, we better wait this.
Uh and some polls do sample more Democrats than Republicans.
Now, what Acorn has done, just to just to hit you between the eyes here with Acorn.
What Acorn has done is to help rig the electoral system from beginning to end.
They have done this on a national basis for 30 years.
They have done this at the direction of people like Obama who paid them this year $800,000 to do what he trained them to do, win elections for Democrats come hell or high water.
He has not distanced himself from Acorn.
He paid them $800,000, a related group, an affiliate during the Democrat primaries.
Acorn and their Democrat partners in crime have skewered registered voter numbers and cheapened their true meaning when sampled by pollsters as a result.
And by the way, the media could not be happier about this.
Now, uh ladies and gentlemen, we just had a call representing, I'm sure millions of you.
A woman desperately wanting to get through to McCain to give Him advice on what to do tonight.
So we have average citizens trying to advise Senator McCain.
Who is it advising Senator Obama?
Let's go to a media montage.
McCain not only has to win this debate, he needs Obama to lose.
He needs Obama to make the kind of mistake Michael Dukakis did.
They're gonna play it safe and do what's working.
For Obama, he's basically in do no harm mode.
His big challenge is just to avoid mistakes.
Barack Obama's been at this for several years now.
I don't think he's gonna make some major gaffe.
Survive this debate without any damage.
Barack Obama's playing defense.
Barack Obama, does he play it safe tonight?
They're basically telling the drive-by is there's just shut up.
You know, whatever McCain says, just smile and laugh.
Just don't make any mistakes.
Now, if they're up by if this is if this election's over, and so why are they worried about what happens in the debate tonight?
Uh is this camera?
Is I pronounced Camma in uh Fort Collins, Colorado, the Homa Dance Bake Sale.
Nice to have you on the program, Cama.
Thank you, Rush.
It's nice to be here.
I've been trying to get on any show I can today.
I talked to our uh local affiliate this morning on Fox Radio.
Um I was talking to my friend yesterday, she's a staunch Obama supporter.
I'm staunch conservative.
Um, and she made she told me that her daughter, who her husband is in the military.
She said, Yeah, he's coming home on leave this weekend, and so we told her to get his absentee ballot and vote for Obama because he would probably vote for McCain being in the military.
And so they took his ballot and voted for Obama.
Well, wait a minute.
What makes sure I understand this?
You have a married couple friend.
Yes.
He is in the military coming home on leave this weekend.
That's right.
Somebody told the wife of the soldier on leave coming home.
Her mother, who is my friend.
I'm friends with both the mother and the daughter.
The daughter is her mother told a daughter slash wife to go get some absentee ballots real quick and vote Obama on both of them.
One for the wife, one for the husband, who's not yet home and is so his vote is being handled by his wife.
It was his absentee ballot that came in their mail.
Okay, it was his absentee ballot came in the mail.
She opened his absentee ballot, voted Obama for him because she was worried he would vote for McCain.
That's right, because he's in the military.
Well, I knew the Democrats wanted a disenfranchised military people going back to Florida, but I've I don't know if I've I mean, I haven't heard about this before, this kind of thing, but I'm sure it's not unique.
What are you gonna do about it?
You know, that's what I'm struggling with.
I really I we've always had differences of opinion politically, but this to me is a judgment deal breaker.
I mean, these my children play with her children, and I am just I've really had a hard day dealing with this information.
I don't I don't know what to do with it.
Uh do you know him?
I know him.
I I I've seen him once, I've never met him officially.
But you don't you you couldn't call him on the phone and say, I want to I want you to know what happened.
I could put a message on his MySpace page.
I know he has a MySpace page.
Uh and I just I wonder how many soldiers this might be happening to.
Well, that's a um that that's a good question.
Obviously, Acorn and Obama's get out the vote drive at work here.
Let me think about this.
Let me let me I mean, I you're you've hit me here between the eyes.
I've got five seconds left.
It's enough time to say goodbye and thanks for the call.
What to do about the guy's gotta be told.
Somebody has to tell the guy.
I mean, his vote's been cast for him.
Okay, gotta watch the big debate tonight, folks.
We'll do that.
I'm sure you will too, and then we'll be here tomorrow to dissect it, discuss it, and uh, whatever else needs to be fixed up and cleaned before we get back.
See you then.
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