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Oct. 20, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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And the is he ready to go in there.
Rudy Giuliani has called, ladies and gentlemen, and has asked to uh respond to Senator Biden promising calamity in the first six months of an Obama administration.
Mr. Mayor, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Nice to have you here with us.
It's nice to be with you, Rush.
I'm uh campaigning today with uh Cindy McCain in Pennsylvania.
We're in Bucks County.
Bucks County.
Bugstone, what are you doing on the way to a rally there?
We just left the hospital and we're going to a rally, and as I was traveling on a campaign bus, I noted Joe uh Joe Biden's uh comment that I think he said, Mark my words, it'll not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.
That's exactly right.
What was your reaction?
My reaction is uh maybe we could elect a president that uh will not uh tempt the world to test them because of their inexperience.
If Joe Biden is suggesting this, it seems to me that we could elect someone more like Ronald Reagan, who has experience, who the rest of the world has a uh pretty good idea how he would react and what he would do and the way he would defend America.
I uh uh I I can't imagine uh why Joe Biden would want to raise this, but since he's raised it, it seems to me we should answer it.
Well, I think it's possible, you know, the the with a transition uh process being stepped up, both campaigns were given foreign policy briefings last week.
It might well be that Biden was part of it, and you know he just can't keep anything to himself, and this is his way of going around and trying to tell people what he knows.
And what was interesting about it was you can take this one of two ways.
He guaranteed it, and then he begged the supporters in Seattle to whom he was speaking, our poll numbers are gonna go down, we're gonna be very low, you're gonna be asking what happened.
We're begging you to stand with us because our it's i our our response might not be apparently the correct one to you at first, but this guy's got a spine of steel.
We know what we're doing.
You gotta hang with us.
Well, and I I I find the the uh remark uh very puzzling, and uh exactly why he did it and what motivated it, only Joe Biden can explain.
I d I do know that if he's predicting that the president he's supporting is going to uh uh somehow motivate an attack on the United States.
It would seem to me he's doing it for a reason.
I guess the reason is the lack of experience that Senator Obama has.
Uh I think he went on to say, watch, we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the medal of this guy.
Right.
Well, I don't, you know, I I I I think we'd be far better off to have a president that wouldn't tempt people to want to tempt his to want to test his medal the way Joe Biden is talking about.
And uh it it it is it it is true that at least history records that that's what happened with John Kennedy, that Khrushchev uh tested him and believed that he was wanting, and then went ahead and uh the Cuban Missile Crisis, other things happened.
But that didn't happen with Ronald Reagan.
No one tested Ronald Reagan's medal.
In fact, they released the hostages uh as he was being sworn in as President of the United States, if I recall correctly.
Mr. Giuliani, do you realize how many times Bill Clinton was tested by Al Qaeda starting in nineteen ninety-three through Mogadishu through the USS Cole?
And every time Clinton was tested, he failed, and that's why they tested Bush on 911.
Yeah.
Oh.
And we haven't been here since.
I think if we had raised this, there would be all kinds of uh all kinds of criticisms that we were uh trying to uh frighten people.
Uh but it seems to me that Joe Biden has raised it.
And it is a very good uh uh point uh to uh to just ask, well, is there a way to avoid this testing?
And maybe if we elect someone with the kind of experience and background that John McCain has uh no one knows exactly what's gonna happen, but don't we give ourselves A better chance that as we did with Ronald Reagan, we can avoid this.
Well, I look at I I agree with I think by definition he was saying there would not be an attack if if uh McCain was elected.
Well, I'm not sure.
I think we're gonna have to ask Joe Joe Biden this, but you know, typical when Joe does something like this, makes one of these comments, they then hide him for about a week, and nobody can get to him and find out what he means.
That's right.
Remember though, he's the guy that's supposed to he's supposed to be the experienced backbone for Obama.
That's why he was chosen.
I know, I know.
And uh the the one of the annoyances, of course, if you get used to it as a Republican, is that uh he is not uh examined in the same way Sarah Palin is.
I think recently he said that the campaign is gonna be about that three-letter word jobs.
Yeah, he did.
He did have to tell him the guy in the wheelchair to stand up.
Yeah, but this one this one now is raising a serious issue.
The others are uh kind of funny, and everybody's used to Joe kind of making big mistakes like that.
But uh I don't know if he's being serious about this, or this is some kind of campaign ploy, but I mean the re the reality is that it raises the issue that he talked about when he was running in the primary, and maybe it's that he still has doubts about whether uh Barack Obama is ready to be commander-in-chief.
Well, now there is there is one other possibility, and I will admit that it's remote, and by the way, he was dead serious.
I've got one audio soundbite from his appearance.
He was being dead serious about this.
But when he made the plea, the appeal to the people in the audience to hang with them because their poll numbers might drop, it could well mean that he was implying that if there is some sort of international incident, that Obama's gonna reply with uh with huge force, and that the base of the Democrat Party is not gonna like that.
It could well I mean it's a stretch, but it the point is it's confusing.
We don't know what he was talking about.
Yeah, well, he whatever he's talking about, he was suggesting that Barama will do something that will be very unpopular, and I guess you could read that either way.
Yeah, and he's also suggesting that something will he guaranteed, Mr. Mayor, he guaranteed within six months it's gonna happen if Obama's elected.
Yeah, extraordinary.
I uh I mean, only he can explain why he's saying that, but I d I do believe that he is he is squarely raising the issue as to whether or not uh he believes that Obama is is prepared.
Or at least that others will perceive that Bar uh Barack Obama is not prepared and want to test him.
Well, he said that Obama's got a spine of steel, not to worry about Obama.
He said that.
Well, obviously he believes that others in the world don't see it that way.
Now quickly before you have to go, you're campaigning with Sarah Palin, you say in Bucks County.
No, I'm campaigning with uh Mrs. McCain.
We're gonna be a good thing.
This is McCain that's uh uh and we've been in the Philadelphia area, and now we're going up to Bucks County for a rally, and then I'll be campaigning in Pennsylvania and Ohio tomorrow.
And uh we're doing everything we can to make sure that people understand just how important this election is.
And maybe in a way, Joe Biden explained one of the things that's been left out of this campaign for a few weeks now as we focused on the economy, which may be the real test that we have, which is you know, terrorism and foreign policy, and who's ready to defend this country in the appropriate way.
Which is all about maintaining economic productivity and peace as well.
Peace and the economy, good economy go hand in hand.
What's your what's your perception of things out there as you can as you're running around campaigning with these various figures?
My my perception is that this is a very close election.
Uh that the American people are uh very deeply divided.
This election is not by any means over.
Uh I think that I think that uh a lot of people are just really focusing on it right now.
And as they saw some of these polls with Obama ahead by seven, eight, nine percent, I think uh they're they're taking a second look at Obama.
And I think Joe Biden just gave us another opportunity uh to have a second look at Obama.
Well, we're not gonna forget that.
But let me ask you, let me ask you one question.
You've been in politics all your life.
Have you ever seen a political party as confident of a major landslide as the Democrats are this time around and the media?
You got Pelosi promising guaranteeing minimum 250 seats in the Senate.
Harry Reid's saying we're gonna have a filibuster proof Senate.
Uh we're we're you've got you've got network executives saying that the landslide's gonna be so large that the election results are gonna be known and the election over before most people on election night have dinner and they're worried about programming to keep people interested all night.
Have you ever seen this kind of overconfidence?
The only time I ever saw it was on Election Day four years ago, when I appeared on a network.
Uh and I overheard a conversation between uh some of the actors on the network and about who uh John Kerry was going to put in the cabinet.
And they were very convinced and very confident and almost kind of dismissed uh my comments that the election wasn't over.
But that happened only on the last day when those exit polls came out.
Right.
That had ahead by six or eight percent, or they had him, you know, winning Ohio and they had him winning Florida.
But uh up until then there was a feeling that it was a close election.
But on that day they were very, very confident.
And uh let you know, let's hope that uh that that's a misplaced confidence.
Sometimes overconfidence being a football game, it hurt the Giants last week.
We kind of caught up uh y uh yesterday.
But overconfidence can hurt.
Well, it can also cause a backlash among voters.
Voters may might resent being told by these Democrats that it's all over, it's just a fate of compli now and start to measure drapes in the White House and this kind of thing.
Well, I think it is I think it is exciting uh uh the other side of it.
I think there's a as I said, I think it's having people take a much closer look at Barack Obama, which after all, I think those of us on our side have been trying to do for a long time now, and every time we do, we're frustrated by uh the media uh projecting him and not wanting I mean it was extraordinary the article about Mrs. McCain on the front page of the Times uh two days ago, going into all kinds of personal things twenty and thirty years ago.
And if you raise the slightest issue about Obama, whether it's airs or right or resco, you're being unfair, it's negative campaigning.
It's I mean, it's very hard to it's very hard to uh get to the issue of is Obama prepared to be president.
Well, no, they're clearly covering for him.
They they'll look into all that stuff a little bit after the fact, but they're not gonna do anything to derail his candidacy.
If as far as the media is concerned, his election is campaigns historic, and they want to be the reason history happens.
They want to be able to say they pushed him over the finish line on their own, and you know that's that's just uh that's what we face.
It's uh Rush, I w I was at I was at dinner with Yogi Berra at the Italian American dinner.
I sat next to him.
He was my hero when I was a child, and Yogi didn't endorse anybody, but he did tell me it ain't over until it's over.
Good.
All right, well, look, have a good time with your rally with Mr. And that's the feeling I have in uh Pennsylvania, and the feeling I've had as I've been campaigning for the last couple of days.
Well, good luck to you.
We appreciate the call.
It's uh great to have your input here on Senator Biden.
This one has to be kept alive, and he needs to be asked what he meant.
I think so.
I think this requires some kind of press conference.
Uh I know they don't usually do that with him, but I I think uh if I had said this, they'd require that I'd have to explain what I was talking about.
Mr. Mayor, thanks much for the call.
Appreciate it.
Always pleasure talk to you.
You bet.
Governor uh Mayor Ruby Giuliani on the campaign bus with Mrs. McCain on the way to Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
All right, folks, it just keeps getting better and better and better out there.
The drive-by's at DNC TV are still focused on my claim that uh Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama is about race.
This afternoon on DNC TV Live, Andrea Mitchell, and be seen here in Washington, was talking to their bureau chief, Mark Whitaker, and she said, uh, let me play for your Rush Limbaugh's reaction to the media.
This happened just moments ago, Mark.
Now back to General Powell.
I just want to button this up because the drive-by's had a tizzy over my allegation that his nomination was about race.
It well, let me say it louder.
And let me say it even more plainly.
It was totally about race.
The Powell nomination or endorsement totally about race.
What in the world are they doing to my voiceover on this network when they replay things?
I mean, making it sound like it's gravelly as it can be.
They gotta be putting my voice through a harmonizer or something out there.
So anyway, and and that's when I was cupping my hands in the first hour and ensuring, hey, for your drive by is it miss it the first time, it is about race.
So they replayed that.
And then uh Andrea Mitchell has this exchange with the Bureau Chief, Mark Whitaker.
Of course, General Powell said it wasn't about race, that obviously this is transformational and historic, but that his main reasons were in watching the last six weeks of the McCain campaign.
He was not he was disappointed was his word in John McCain's response on the economy, on other issue on William Mayers.
What is your conclusion?
I'll tell you that if it was only about race, Colin Powell could have endorsed Barack Obama months ago.
And getting him on Meet the Press was something that the producers and Tom Brokaw worked months to do, first talked to Powell before the conventions, and he made it clear that he hadn't made up his mind and that he wasn't going to say anything until he had had more time to study both candidates and to study their positions.
And I think the reason also that he chose ultimately Meet the Press was that he wanted to lay out all of his reasons, which he did very eloquently, I thought.
What's that got to do with anything?
Choosing Meet the Press.
What is this study the candidates and their issues?
I can understand if somebody who's from Mars just arrives here and needs to do that.
Well, what is this notion?
We know they need to study the uh candidates study uh issues and their positions and uh he could have made this decision a month ago if it was about race.
Nobody's surprised by any of this.
So this afternoon on the Fox News Channel live desk, Martha McCallum is interviewing Doug Shane, the Democrat strategist and Polster.
And uh she said, now Rush Limbaugh says I'm researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates he's endorsed.
I'll let you know what I come up with.
What did you think of that, Mr. Shane?
Let me answer Rush Limbaugh's question.
Colin Powell in 2001 endorsed Mike Bloomberg here in New York, who was inexperienced and very liberal, and I think Mike Bloomberg benefited from that endorsement.
Well, now this is fascinating.
There are two things about this.
Doug Shane is admitting that Powell endorses inexperienced people.
Number one, and that Bloomberg benefited from it.
But the second thing is, nice try, Mr. Shane, but Bloomberg was pretending to be a Republican.
Lest we forget Bloomberg was pretending to be a Republican who would follow in Rudy's footsteps at the time.
He was running, Bloomberg was running against a seemingly far more liberal opponent on the Democrat side.
So that's what they've come up with.
Their research, they've researched this, and Colin Powell endorsed Bloomberg, who they admit was inexperienced.
So they admit that Powell is endorsing inexperienced candidates.
All right, John in Enfield, Connecticut, uh, your next sir, as we go back to the phones.
Hello.
Hi.
Um Russ, don't let them steal the term.
Trickle down economics.
I was I I'll give you the bottom line.
To explain Obama's answer to Joe Diploma.
At first I was shocked.
I and then I laughed, and then I say, Oh, that this this this this level uh this low level of uh of ignorance, can't argue with that.
And then I said, you know something?
Maybe they can pull it off, you know.
I said you are the only person who can stop it.
If you have time, I can give it to give you the story.
Well, you know what what Obama's really talking about is trickle up poverty.
Uh the best the best way to describe the Barack Obama financial plan is trickle up poverty.
Um everybody who's poor is gonna stay that way.
People who are in the middle class are gonna get poorer and on up the ladder.
Trickle up poverty via Obama's tax cuts.
So that's that's the way to, or tax increases, rather.
That that's the way to to counter this.
Look, the Democrats have been trying to revise history on trickle-down economics, but they admit that it works every time the government comes up with a stimulus plan.
Every time every time Nancy Pelosi or somebody or Obama or anybody on the left says we need more consuming going on out there, and the people need more consuming power, meaning they need more money, more disposable income.
It's just the Democrats want to be, they want to be thought of as the source of that disposable income.
They don't want that disposable income to come from tax cuts and people keeping more of what they earn.
They want that disposable income to come in the form of a bribe.
A check from the government.
And there are enough people, sadly, who will buy into this as uh good economics.
Okay, gonna go back and play audio sound by twenty-eight again here.
This is Andrea Mitchell talking to uh Mark Whitaker, the NBC TV bureau chief, news bureau chief in Washington, D.C. And uh ladies and gentlemen, I very seldom do this, but I'm gonna beg your indulgence because I have uh, since the drive-by's are focused on my take on this, after we play this soundbite.
I am going to have an exclusive response and reply for the drive-bys.
For those of you out there monitoring this program, both on my ditto cam and uh just on the radio or via audio feed.
I will speak slowly so that you'll have no trouble cutting this up for use later on during your busy broadcast day.
Here again is that soundbite.
Of course, General Powell said it wasn't about race, that obviously this is transformational and historic, but that his main reasons were in watching the last six weeks of the McCain campaign.
He was not he was disappointed was his word in John McCain's response on the economy on other issues on William Ayers.
What is your conclusion?
I'll tell you that if it was only about race, Colin Powell could have endorsed Barack Obama months ago.
And getting him on Meet the Press was something that the producers and Tom Brokaw worked months to do.
First talked to Powell before the conventions, and he made it clear that he hadn't made up his mind and that he wasn't going to say anything until he had had more time to study both candidates and to study their positions.
And I think the reason also that he chose ultimately Meet the Press was that he wanted to lay out all of his reasons, which he did very eloquently, I thought.
All right.
Now, attention, dry buys, here's my reply.
The reason Powell made the decision is that it's about Powell.
All of this was about Colon Powell.
How stupid do you reporters and bureau chiefs think we are?
You think we believe that Colin Powell had to be begged to come on NBC and meet the press?
That's like telling us that Chuck Schumer needs to be begged to appear before a camera.
Oh, yeah, there was so much drama here.
But Powell made the decision because it was about Powell.
Andrea Mitchell and her husband, the former uh Fed chairman, and Powell, I have no doubt that they are social friends.
Look at it this way.
If if Colin Powell gives this endorsement months ago, it means nothing compared to giving it now.
They're out there saying that that Colin Powell did this, and it proves it has nothing to do with race.
Well, if it was about race, he would have done this months ago.
The campaign has revealed, this campaign's revealed that Barack Obama is a socialist.
The truth is that Joe the Plumber is 100 times more relevant in this election than Colin Powell.
Powell is just another Washington insider at this point.
And so now what have we learned, thanks to Joe the Plumber and others in this campaign?
Obama is a socialist.
Powell has found out and admitted that Obama is inexperienced, has poor judgment, talks in the language of a Marxist, comfortable in his own skin.
If it was not about race, Powell would have endorsed when Obama wasn't a known quantity to help him out.
When he was believed to be an elegant and eloquent man with moderate politics.
But Powell comes out and endorses Obama after we learn what Obama's all about.
You tell me this is about anything other than race.
We hear Obama being endorsed by Colin Powell after Joe the Plumber exposes Obama as a socialist and a redistributionist.
We hear from Powell after we hear about heirs and all of these funny alliances.
Jeremiah Wright, the precise reason that Powell gave this endorsement later in October means it's more likely about race, Maximum impact for Obama, maximum damage to McCain, but more importantly, the most maximum benefit goes to Colin Powell with his inside the Beltway buddies.
Obama's got the Washington insider voter vote tied up.
There's nothing new here about Powell endorsing.
Powell Gergen, what's the difference?
They all say the same thing.
But here's the difference.
Colin Powell is a very wealthy man.
He commands over a hundred thousand dollars a speech.
He makes more in three speeches than all those small businesses Obama says he wants to tax.
Joe the Plumber does not.
And if you're playing the class warfare game, why do you want the endorsement of millionaires like Powell and billionaires like Buffett?
Why wouldn't you want guys like Joe the Plumber on your side?
So you people in the drive-by's, you you can act like this is outrageous to say, but anybody with any honesty will tell you that there was no drama to Powell going on meet the press.
He didn't agonize over it.
It's all about him.
The timing was purposeful.
Because Obama's being hurt now with all these things that we have learned about him.
It would have been much easier to embore endorse Obama before all this garbage came out when he was the Messiah, when he was uh the one, the magnificent, the anointed, the most merciful.
Here comes the endorsement right before the election after we've learned all the dirty laundry about Obama.
It's totally about race, one hundred percent.
And you people in the drive-by's know it.
But don't play us for fools.
Don't think that he agonized and studied both candidates who studied their positions and had to be wooed and whined and dined and begged and cajoled to go on meet the press.
Here is uh Kirsten Kirsten in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Hi, Kenders uh Kirst whatever.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine.
Too many syllables in your name in town put together.
That's that's okay.
I I I understand.
I I have that trouble myself.
Hey, listen, you know, I'm here and uh it's so many thoughts are going through my head, and and I'm just a normal person like Joe the plumber, like most Americans are, and and I I listen to all this and all of a sudden I start feeling like Alice in Wonderland.
You know, I'm falling down this this tunnel that never ends with these crazy people yelling at me uh like I'm completely stupid.
And my husband and I we're in our mid okay, late 40s, and um we just finally my husband works for um a home repair place, and um you know, we make a moderate income and we have kids.
And um we finally have gotten to a place where we saved up enough money to buy a home.
Oh.
And I am not talking about a huge home.
I am talking about a modest home.
Oh, Joe the Plumber kind of house, yeah.
Yeah, 150,000, three bedrooms, two baths, nothing huge.
I don't uh I and as you North Carolina does have bigger lots.
We do have more space because of the squirrels.
But um, you know, it we went to the bank and and we have money to put down.
We have more than ten percent to put down, and we still can't get a loan.
Why not?
What if you're gonna be able to do that?
They are not getting money.
Why not?
What do they tell you is the reason?
They they're just saying, you know, no, no, well, we had some medical bills, but we we have paid those off, but as you know, the things clear up after six months.
Wait, wait, did did they did they say we're not making loans, or did he tell you that they looked at your circumstances and think you could repay it?
Well, they never really said.
They kind of started sounding like the media and and the Democrats.
They never answered our questions.
You know, I I've been like two weeks trying to find out why.
And and this bank in particular is not one that has been overly hurt by what's happened.
Um it's you know, we've we dealt with these people most of our lives.
I mean, these are people we know, we've always done our banking there, we're not anybody unusual.
But but we hear that.
Well, no, but this is crucial.
This is this is uh in in terms of my being able to respond to this.
If they told you that credit's tight and they're not lending money, that's one thing.
If they told you that you don't fit their criteria right now because you either don't have enough data.
Well, you know what?
I got news.
I got news.
I don't think anybody would fit their criteria right now.
Because uh you know, we pay more in rent.
Than we would pay.
In the house, that that's interesting.
Now I in in some other states around the country, the people are being uh we've had the we had the bankers call, we've had people call.
They've had no trouble getting loans.
It may just be this particular bank that is uh that's worried right now because of the uh circumstances that are that are governing all the banks right now.
What with the government investing uh uh purchasing stock.
I don't know if the government's purchased stock in your bank or not, but yeah, I I did predict some of the banks would hold on to the money when when they got this bailout money, they would they would uh save it, the deposit it, hope it would grow rather than put it in circulation.
And that appears what's happened to you.
You were you're sitting out there, you're told that the bailouts happened, the banks are solvent, credits going on, you go down there, you want to buy a house, your monthly payment will be less than what your rent is, and the bank says, Well, we're not ready right now.
It could well be that they're just they're just waiting to see what happens with the economy.
Don't give up on it.
You you're um a lot of people don't get the uh the first mortgage they asked for.
And if you just keep plugging at it and keep uh paying your rent like this, eventually things are gonna even out and you'll be able to get into this house that you want to buy.
Uh don't think it's over forever just because you get turned down one time.
It's happened to all of us at uh at one point, except Obama, in which case uh Tony Resco actually bought the property for him with his wife or some s you can't do it, but Obama did.
Hey, get this, folks.
MSNBC just again ran video of me, your beloved host, assuring everybody that the Powell endorsement of Obama was indeed about race.
And then the Info Bay Banker had asked a Republican strategist just how damaging is Rush Limbaugh to the McCain campaign.
And the guy said, not damaging at all.
Limbaugh not running.
He didn't say that.
That'd be my retort.
At the same time this was going on, get this.
CNN's running a story on the black McCain's.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, McCain's ancestors owned slaves.
CNN found them.
And they're still running around using the last name McCain.
Now why you do this?
Why you do this if you've got this in the bag?
Joe the plumber.
As I say, one hundred times more influential on this campaign than Colin Powell.
Joe the Plumber was on Fox News Channel's Huckabee show on Saturday night.
And Huckabee said you find yourself under an enormous level of scrutiny.
How does that make you feel, Joe the Plumber?
That actually upsets me.
You know, I am a plumber and uh just a plumber.
And here, you know, Barack Obama or John McCain, I mean, these guys are gonna deal with some serious issues coming up shortly.
And the media is worried about whether I've paid my taxes, they're worried about uh any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.
I mean, they really don't.
You know, I asked a question.
Uh, you know, and when you can't ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary.
That bothers me.
That's exactly right, Joe.
They're out to destroy you for the question you asked and for the answer you forced from the Messiah's lips.
But the uh the the the thing to learn about Joe the Plumber is not even it's not just what Obama said in response to his question, it's what happened.
And the left made it clear they are going after achievers.
They are not just going after the rich.
They um Joe the plumber is not rich.
And he's not on, he's not on board.
Joe the plumber has not signed on.
And so Joe the plumber is like anybody else.
He's gonna be investigated, he's gonna have his life turned upside down until he gets his mind right.
What we have here with Joe the Plumber and Barack Obama is a failure to communicate.
And so they're gonna have to throw Joe the plumber back down in the ditch or put him in the box till he gets his mind right.
This is uh m uh Stephanopoulos show yesterday morning.
He had the former speaker, Mr. Newton.
Stephanopoulos says, You've heard, I think you see McCain Newt uh starting to lay into this as well.
Talk about Obama measuring the drapes in the Oval Office, raising the prospect of an Obama Pelosi Reed government.
The only hope that McCain has is Harry Truman in the age of television.
You can be Harry Truman in about ten days.
And what he has to say is this is actually a repo team.
It is Reed Pelosi Obama.
He's not going to have that.
He's going to have card check to take away your right to vote in a secret ballot.
He's going to have an effort to eliminate freedom of speech for Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
He's going to have a Congress that wants to raise taxes, a Congress that wants to increase government.
And he's going to have to decide is he really going to veto and fight with Pelosi and Reed?
Of course he's not.
They're going to they're going to they're going to run roughshod over him as as best they can.
But uh, you know, it's going to be more than just me and Hannity whose uh freedom of speech will be uh uh done away with via the fairness doctrine.
That's what he's that's what he's talking about.
Uh Ron in uh Canton, Connecticut.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
So uh listening to Biden's comment about uh um, you know, Senator Obama being tested if he's elected president reminded me of a story you told many, many years ago.
You were sort of a drop jaw dropper when you first showed up in syndication, and you told a story about listening to President Kennedy's inaugural address with your grandfather, at the conclusion of which your grandfather turned to you and said, Rush, this man's gonna get us into a war.
And that has been much on my mind thinking about Obama because you know that's right.
And my dad, my dad was my dad.
He's uh anybody who'd listen, is he's telling us what he thought about Kennedy.
Bad news, horrible, can't afford this.
You boys are gonna be slaves.
Little nine-year-old daddy, why what's so bad about Jack Kennedy?
See, so okay, he's got a nine-year-old son.
He's got to explain to me why he's so free.
He said, son, I don't think he's a bad man, but I think he's going to get us into a war, but not on purpose.
And and he did.
He almost got us all turned into a Cuba products in Cuba.
And then, you know, the as much as Oliver Stone and the rest wanted control the narrative, it was really JFK who made the commitment to Vietnam.
I mean, Lyndon certainly scored.
Yeah, I mean, exactly right, the best and brightest surrounding JFK then proceeded to run it for LDJ.
And they all thought it was going to be their great triumph.
They were going to show the world.
And right, and these are the smartest and best people that Obama's gonna have around him, these same elites that think they know better about anything than anybody else.
And they were all cut from the same cloth.
I mean, you know, if they should have listened to it.
By the way, what is transformational about having John Podesta, who was Clinton's chief of staff, run your transition.
What is transformational about having Laura DeAndrea Tyson on your economic team?
Other other concerns about Obama's side, I have two deep concerns.
One of them is that that concern that he will have to show everybody how tough he is.
Um, and the other one, of course, is that uh is the courts.
I just can't imagine Oh, though they're gone.
Forget the court.
They're Obama courts are gone.
Courts are gone for two generations.
Not just Supreme Court, the district courts, they are gone, folks.
They're they're gone.
I want to finish the story my dad told me.
He said, Son, I don't think he's gonna start a war on purpose, JFK, but imagine if I got see he there was a light bulb in our kitchen.
He said, Imagine if I got on a stepladder and started swinging the bat around.
Be a stupid thing to do, because I might break the light bulb, but not on purpose.
You'd never ever swing a bat near a light bulb.
I think that was how he illustrated for me what he thought JFK's ineptitude would lead to.
And that's what the caller was talking about.
Back after this, folks, to close it out.
A rousing week, off and running.
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