Oct. 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Let's go back. | |
| Joe Biden, who has been taken off the campaign trail today, obviously for this reason. | |
| The whole world's waiting, folks. | |
| The whole world is waiting. | |
| I know almost every one of these major leaders in the world by their first name, not because I'm important. | |
| Because they were young parliamentarians when I was coming up. | |
| We've been hanging around a long time. | |
| Tell you what. | |
| I mark my words. | |
| Within the next first six months of this administration, if we win, we're gonna face a major international challenge. | |
| Because they're gonna want to test it just like they did young John Kennedy. | |
| They're gonna want to test it. | |
| And they're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine. | |
| What's changed your opinion here, Senator Biden? | |
| Because back during the Democrat primaries, you specifically said that Biden wasn't ready, that the presidency was not a place for on-the-job training. | |
| He said that about Obama during the primaries. | |
| But again, the the larger question is why is this gonna happen in the first place? | |
| Why is it gonna happen? | |
| The world's gonna love us, I thought, with Obama's election. | |
| They're gonna get rid of all of this distrust and dislike for the United States with Obama the Messiah there. | |
| Uh why why why would anybody want to test him? | |
| I thought there was gonna be universal worldwide love for Barack Obama. | |
| By the way, he's going off Obama himself has taken Thursday and Friday off the campaign trail. | |
| Go back to Hawaii. | |
| We found out why his wife is his girlfriend who we threw under the bus sorry, grandmother. | |
| Trying to say too much too quickly here, folks. | |
| Grandmother, who by the way, this might have happened when he threw her under the bus earlier. | |
| She has a broken hip. | |
| And uh one of Obama's sisters or somebody, somebody's out there caring for her. | |
| She's not in the hospital. | |
| So why do you go off the campaign trail for two days to Hawaii when you're when your mom, your grandmother, whatever is a broken hip, if you're not in the hospital. | |
| They s they said she's deteriorating badly and might not make it? | |
| Is that what they're saying? | |
| I hadn't heard that, so I'm sorry. | |
| What I'd heard, did you hear broken hip? | |
| So I heard broken hip. | |
| Well, who knows. | |
| Anyway, Biden's off the campaign trail today. | |
| Obama will be off the campaign trail on Thursday and Friday. | |
| And what what Biden is saying here is that whenever this big test comes, he's not gonna do anything. | |
| That's what he has to be saying when he says our numbers are gonna plummet. | |
| And we're gonna we're gonna need your support. | |
| He went on to say in this in this fundraiser out there in Seattle on Sunday, we're gonna need your support. | |
| We're gonna need you to hang in and support us. | |
| You're we're you're gonna need to remember the love you had for us right now when this attack happens. | |
| Well, Hills Bells, he must figure. | |
| He must figure then that the uh Obama camp's gonna do nothing when this happens. | |
| Let's stay with the audio soundbrights. | |
| This is uh uh situation room CNN yesterday, with uh Madame Albright, former Secretary of State, John Roberts said, now look, in terms of this being tested by an international crisis, is that a suggestion that uh some rogue state or terrorist organization may try to launch an attack on the U.S. to try to take advantage of what uh may s may be seen as uh I don't want to say vacuum of power, but when a new president's taking office, all the systems aren't always in place. | |
| What you see is the fact that there's something happening in the world all the time. | |
| I mean, nobody expected just a complete financial meltdown in this particular way. | |
| And I think that we just have to expect the unexpected. | |
| I also do think that what is very evident is that uh there are many systems that are put into place right away, and there is continuity on things. | |
| Well, something happening in the world all the time. | |
| Nobody expected just a complete financial meltdown. | |
| Are we are we forgetting I'm not mean to beat a dead horse here, but the world is supposed to love us. | |
| Our reputation's supposed to be remade. | |
| Are the are they now telling us that there as uh actually is evil in the world, and no matter who is president, evil will be out there that Obama's not gonna get rid of the I guess that's what they're telling us now. | |
| So another leg of the stool of the Obama campaign reasoning is blown to schmitterines and blown to shreds here. | |
| The world's not gonna love us. | |
| The world is though this is not reassuring at all, ladies. | |
| I was under the impression that our reputation would be fully restored on election day. | |
| That we wouldn't even have to wait till inauguration day. | |
| And now they're telling us we should expect to get our butt kicked. | |
| But a guy, or despite the guy who's gonna make the world love us, uh, all that much more. | |
| So then on MSNBC, this is this morning on Joe Scarborough's show, the co-host Mika Bzhinski talks to Madeline Alburn, but they got her out there pretty quickly, didn't they? | |
| They got Madame Albright out there, and Mika Bzhinski says, Look, we got some Joe Biden issues to discuss this morning. | |
| I'm sure you've read or heard his comments, blah, blah, blah. | |
| What do you make of his comments? | |
| Did he make a mistake? | |
| Absolutely not. | |
| I mean, every president is tested, and everybody knows that the unexpected happens, and so I think it's a completely natural thing to say. | |
| That's a natural thing to say. | |
| Natural thing to say. | |
| It's not a natural thing to say when your campaign fundamental building block is the world's gonna love us. | |
| The world is gonna have newfound respect for us once we get rid of George W. Bush. | |
| We have not. | |
| We have not been attacked since 9-11. | |
| We have not been, because one guy actually passed this test, and that's George W. Bush. | |
| Also on Scarborough Show, Mika Brzezinski talked to Obama campaign's senior strategirist Robert Gibbs. | |
| She said, Did Biden undermine your candidate on the issue of experience? | |
| Because it sure seems like he did. | |
| No, absolutely not, Mika. | |
| Look, uh, there's no question that this next president, whoever that is, is gonna be tested. | |
| Tested with a global economic crisis that's not just affecting Wall Street, but definitely affecting Main Street here in this country. | |
| And we're fighting two wars. | |
| The question is, which direction are we gonna take to get our country pointed back in the right direction and get out of the hole that the last eight years has created? | |
| So now we're just getting spin talking points. | |
| There's uh that's that's campaign spin. | |
| That's what Biden was really saying. | |
| Of course, we all know that's not what Biden was really saying. | |
| Uh this uh uh Madeline Albright and this Gibbs guy are not exactly inspiring confidence, are they? | |
| Here? | |
| They're telling us the world's still gonna suck. | |
| They're telling us uh they're telling us that we're still gonna suck in a world that sucks. | |
| And there's nothing that we can do about it, except the only reason the world sucks and that we're gonna suck is because of Bush. | |
| We suck here because of eight years of Bush, the world sucks because eight years of Bush, but now all of a sudden the world's still gonna suck after Obama gets inaugurated. | |
| And then they had this exchange, by the way, Mika Zhezinski and uh uh Robert Gibbs. | |
| Did he use the wrong words? | |
| Did he make a mistake? | |
| He's saying they're gonna want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. | |
| They're gonna want to test him. | |
| He's talking about Barack Obama. | |
| Look, Mika, like Mika, like I said, every every president is gonna be tested from day one. | |
| And there's no question that the next president of the United States is gonna inherit problems that almost no president has ever inherited. | |
| It seems that Joe might have just pointed toward your cannon and JFK is a missile crisis that he botched, by the way. | |
| This is what nobody said. | |
| He blew it big time. | |
| We were on the brink. | |
| They JFK blew that missile crisis big time. | |
| We were we're that far away from having some real problems. | |
| Uh what it what it what did he say here? | |
| This there's no question, next president's gonna inherit problems that almost no president has ever inherited. | |
| Okay, those these guys are not inspiring confidence out there anymore. | |
| They're doing just the exact opposite, and it's Joe Biden that has uh that has brought this about. | |
| I I have to tell you, this this rambling Biden prediction, folks, is better the more that I think about it, because Biden is here and now and Albright. | |
| What have we just heard? | |
| Albright and Robert Gibbs are guaranteeing that it's gonna happen. | |
| They are confirming what Biden said, and we shouldn't even be surprised that this is gonna happen. | |
| So Biden guarantees that Obama's gonna do something unpopular within the public arena in the area of foreign affairs because he says that the poll numbers are going to go down and we're going to need your support, just like you support us now. | |
| You're going to need to remember this day when that attack comes because you're not going to like at first what we're doing. | |
| You're not going to think it's the right thing. | |
| A difficult situation Obama will encounter like 9-11. | |
| We need to let him handle it in a way he thinks will keep the country safe. | |
| Like uh Iraq, by the way. | |
| Well, okay, if if we're if if now we're if we're going to be tested, Biden says they're going to be tested. | |
| Albright confirms it. | |
| Robert Gibbs confirms it, then we need to go back and look at what Obama has done during times in the past eight years we've been tested. | |
| And one of the areas we've been tested is Iraq. | |
| And what did Obama do? | |
| He wanted to get out of there cut and run, and he wanted defeat squarely around the neck of the United States in George W. Bush. | |
| Is Biden saying that that was wrong? | |
| Is he admitting that what Obama did undermined the president in a way that was counterproductive to the long-term interests of the country? | |
| When Bush's polls suffered, by the way, Bush's numbers actually went up after 9-11 for a time. | |
| The Democrats not only helped cause the plunge of bulls of Bush's numbers, but they pounded on him for the express purpose of destroying his approval ratings in order to help them in elections. | |
| Democrats did exactly what Biden is asking not to happen during an Obama presidency. | |
| This is mentally ill, folks. | |
| We're talking serious things here. | |
| This isn't just a gaff, uh admitting that Obama is weak and will invite a tax. | |
| It's a pathetic plea. | |
| We don't have this on tape, but he he begged these supporters. | |
| We gotta, hey, you gotta love us. | |
| You've got to remember the way you support us today, because we're gonna need that kind of support when this uh when this happens because you're not gonna like what we do. | |
| You're not you're gonna think we're wrong. | |
| So this is a pathetic plea that Obama and Biden not be treated as they treated Bush. | |
| He's begging for the golden rule not to be applied to an Obama administration. | |
| And when you consider that Obama based his entire campaign on being a vocal war protester, how the hell does that square with what Biden is now saying? | |
| I I I would have to think, uh, ladies and gentlemen, psychiatrists all over the country resalivating over the opportunity to get Biden on their couch. | |
| We'll be back, probably do it gratis. | |
| All right, so what do we have here? | |
| I mean, let's let's add this up. | |
| We have the Democrats and Obama and the media trying to destroy Joe the Plumber. | |
| Literally destroy him, shut down his business and punish him for daring to answer Obama's question or ask the question that Obama answered. | |
| They are doing everything they can to wipe out an average American. | |
| You think they're just going after the rich, you take a look at what they're doing to Joe the Plumber. | |
| Then we have Biden guaranteeing that we're gonna have this young president tested by mean, evil people. | |
| And then he says that our response is not gonna be what you're gonna like, and you're gonna we be I'll tell you why Biden brought this all up. | |
| Biden's been given the briefings, they know what's being the transition teams have both been briefed with intelligence, foreign policy, they know what's brewing out there. | |
| Because he said he said he could meet five possible scenarios. | |
| He's been told what's going on. | |
| What Biden brought that up for was to specifically beg Obama supporters to hang in and support them when this happens. | |
| He is assuring us that Obama's response will not be acceptable, but they don't want the country turning on Obama like they turned the country on Bush. | |
| That's why Biden brought this up. | |
| To beg Obama supporters to hang in. | |
| So he's basically assuring us that we're gonna get hit by somebody or one of our allies will, and then Obama's not gonna do the right thing. | |
| But they still want to be loved and adored. | |
| And now we've got Obama promising to raise taxes on virtually everybody. | |
| Barney Frank, we are gonna punish the rich, and everybody who is an achiever is rich. | |
| Rich is no longer a figure. | |
| It is a characteristic. | |
| And one of the characteristics of rich people is that they achieve. | |
| If you achieve, you're going to get hit. | |
| The Obama campaign is openly telling us all this. | |
| We're going to tax you to death, we're going to give it away, we're going to, we're going to spread the wealth around. | |
| Uh we're incompetent during a uh foreign policy crisis, but we want you to love us anyway. | |
| And by the way, if you get too uppity, we'll come after you and ruin you like we did Joe the Plumber. | |
| This is all out there. | |
| And yet people still think the Democrat Party is the party of compassion. | |
| The party that cares. | |
| Also on the Scarborough show today, Dan Blather. | |
| Scarborough said, Mr. Blather, talk about the double standard. | |
| Are there times that you would cover this story differently? | |
| This is the Biden comments in Seattle. | |
| If Sarah Palin said it rather than Joe Biden, not you, but the media. | |
| Might as well taken, Joe. | |
| That certainly if Sarah Palin had said this, it would be above the fold in most newspapers today. | |
| Gee, what are we to make of this? | |
| Dan Blather just indicates his whole brotherhood. | |
| He just, he just all these guys, what's happening to them? | |
| Biden, Blather, they are all telling us exactly how they operate. | |
| Oh, so's Obama. | |
| Oh, no question, Joe. | |
| No question is Sarah Palin would be above the fold of most major newspapers today. | |
| Thank you, Dan. | |
| And Rhea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington had this exchange with Scarborough this morning on his show. | |
| You told me something I didn't realize about yesterday. | |
| They tucked Joe Biden safely away, didn't they? | |
| Well, I'm not sure what the cause and effect is, but for the first time, and you know, this is the last 15 days of the campaign. | |
| He disappeared from the campaign trail. | |
| He went back to Wilmington. | |
| But he said lunch with Hunter, his son. | |
| So, in retrospect, I think they had seen before some of the news media had seen it. | |
| This happened at two fundraisers where there were no cameras. | |
| One was Saturday night, one was Sunday. | |
| So he said it twice. | |
| And it took a while, frankly, for the media to catch up. | |
| You would not have caught up at you were dragged kicking and screaming into this, and what do you mean for the media to catch up? | |
| The media was there. | |
| The media was there. | |
| They had to be dragged and scan and screaming into this. | |
| Took a while for the media to catch up. | |
| They think we're stupid, folks. | |
| They think we're idiots. | |
| The media was there. | |
| They tried to cover this up. | |
| It wasn't, if it weren't for us in the new media, you still wouldn't have heard about this. | |
| And Biden would still be out there on the campaign trail. | |
| Last night in Belton, Missouri at a campaign rally, Senator McCain. | |
| We don't want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis, and Americans are already fighting in two wars. | |
| You know you can talk about all these crowds that Obama's draw. | |
| Oh, by the way, folks, I have to share this with you. | |
| I, as you know, I very seldom make this program about me. | |
| But I couldn't help but notice this. | |
| Over the weekend when Obama's in St. Louis, they said he drew 100,000 people and 75,000 in Kansas City. | |
| In every story, even UK newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post, every news story had to reference that Obama drew these crowds in the home state of conservative talker Rush Limbaugh. | |
| And they even found some people from my hometown Cape Girardo in the St. Louis crowd. | |
| They found them to go talk to them. | |
| Now you know what this is about, don't you? | |
| This is about setting up the notion that happens every election, every presidential election. | |
| This is about setting up the notion I've lost my influence, that my salad days are behind me. | |
| Everything is now waning and fading away. | |
| Why in Limbaugh's own home state, Obama draws a hundred thousand people. | |
| That is is where we're headed. | |
| All these crowds, however, would somebody explain to me something. | |
| Because I shared with the CBS New York Times poll today where those who have changed their opinion of McCain to the negative say it's because of a large number, say, 14% because of his choice of Sarah Palin. | |
| Now, every time I have seen a crowd at a Sarah Palin rally, it has been huge. | |
| And it has been loud and it has been vocal. | |
| And I see that Sarah Palin set uh 14-year record for ratings on Saturday Night Live. | |
| And she didn't do much. | |
| She just showed up. | |
| I frankly thought it was kind of a stupid appearance. | |
| Not for her. | |
| I mean, but they just blew the opportunity. | |
| They had a having her there. | |
| But that's Lauren Michaels in Saturday Night Live. | |
| What would you expect? | |
| But where's this notion that Sarah Palin's hurting anybody? | |
| Where is where does this get started? | |
| Sarah Palin's not doing but helping. | |
| Sarah Palin is the salvation of this campaign. | |
| And these people are reporting that she is uh harming the campaign know full well that that's an out and out lie. | |
| Sarah Palin's generating the incitement in this campaign. | |
| This notion, she's drawing crowds of 14,000, 25,000, and they are raucous. | |
| In fact, the drive-bys are telling us the crowds are so raucous, they're saying kill him. | |
| Kill him. | |
| Of course, reporters are making that up. | |
| Comments are directed to the media, if anybody else. | |
| This is a close election, folks. | |
| Don't trust anybody who tells you otherwise. | |
| Yeah, folks, you know, this this is going to be my first election ever, where we can expect a test of the of the new president. | |
| I mean, I thought that this they're out there saying that it's been a given for so long that people don't even think of it anymore. | |
| Oh, Madeline, oh yeah, every president gets tested. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Robert Gibbs, every president gets tested. | |
| Oh, this is common ordinary stuff. | |
| Biden's exactly right. | |
| Well, it's my first election I've been told this. | |
| First election I've been told were going to be tested. | |
| That the new president specifically is going to be tested. | |
| First time I can remember this. | |
| Uh, let's see. | |
| Oh, by the way, we've heard uh, ladies and gentlemen from former Congressman Mark Foley. | |
| He says an online article posted today on Variety's website inaccurately reported that I was supporting Obama. | |
| The story on Variety's website, based on a second or third-hand account of my private conversation is incorrect. | |
| I have already voted by absentee ballot in Florida. | |
| Although I didn't vote for Obama, I intend to keep my choice private. | |
| So Foley is denying that he's supporting Obama. | |
| Senator McCain at a rally this morning in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, talking about Biden. | |
| Senator Biden told their campaign donors that when that crisis hit, they would have to stand with them because it wouldn't be apparent that Senator Obama would have the right response. | |
| Forget a parent. | |
| We know Senator Obama won't have the right response. | |
| We've seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign. | |
| He opposed a surge strategy that is bringing us victory in Iraq and will bring us victory in Afghanistan. | |
| He said he would sit down unconditionally with the world's worst dictators. | |
| When Russia invaded Georgia, Senator Obama said the invaded country, Georgia, small teeny country, should show restraint. | |
| He's been wrong on all of them. | |
| That's actually pretty damn good. | |
| I'm I'm I'm yay! | |
| Way to go, Senator McCain. | |
| All right. | |
| That's a great response. | |
| Forget a parent. | |
| We know Obama won't have the right response. | |
| Amen, bro. | |
| Sarah Palin, Reno, Nevada today. | |
| Senator Biden said at a fundraiser on Sunday, he guaranteed that a Barack Obama is elected that we will face an international crisis within the first six months of their Administration. | |
| He told. | |
| He told his Democrat donors to mark his words, it will happen, that there were at least four or five scenarios that would place our country at risk in an Obama administration. | |
| I guess we got to say, well, thanks for the warning, Joe. | |
| And she said more. | |
| I guess the looming crisis that most worries the Obama campaign right now is Joe Biden's next speaking engagement. | |
| The real problem is that these warnings from Joe Biden are similar to his earlier assessment. | |
| Remember, throughout the primary, it wasn't that long ago. | |
| He said Barack Obama wasn't up to the job. | |
| He's not ready to be president. | |
| He said, I quote, the presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training. | |
| The same Joe Biden said he would be honored to run on the ticket with John McCain because he said the country would be better off with John McCain. | |
| Oh, radio, right on. | |
| And this. | |
| You don't want your dreams dashed by the Obama tax increase. | |
| And if you don't like the way our opponents have treated a guy who just asked a simple question, then we're all Joe the Plumber too. | |
| Doesn't sound like you're supporting Barack. | |
| Nevada, that is because you understand that his plan to redistribute wealth will ultimately punish hard work. | |
| It discourages productivity. | |
| It will stifle the entrepreneurial spirit that made this the greatest country on earth. | |
| See, our opponent's plan is just more big government and big government. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| That's not the solution. | |
| Instead of taking your hard-earned money and spreading your wealth, we want to spread opportunity so people like you and Joe can create new wealth and create new jobs. | |
| Well, they've shut down Joe the Plumber. | |
| I mean, they basically tried to ruin the guy. | |
| Well, they sucked the union on him. | |
| You know, stuck the union on him. | |
| We don't have a license and so forth. | |
| So they're they're doing everything, they're making people afraid to hire Joe the Plumber and his company. | |
| I'm not kidding you. | |
| They sucked the AFL CIO on them, or stuck whatever the sickdom. | |
| They sick the AFL CIO on them out there. | |
| What did the plumbers union or what have you? | |
| They have that what do you mean how low are these people? | |
| This is this is not surprising. | |
| This is what all this is what amazes me about people thinking the Democrats are the party of compassion. | |
| How can anybody paying attention to watch what happened to Joe the Plumber think that? | |
| Joe the Plumber's a blue-collar guy. | |
| He's one of their people. | |
| Joe the Plumber's one of those guys that they ought to be claiming should be voting for them. | |
| Blue collar. | |
| You know, I said the other day, Joe the Plumber probably knows how to put in a Renee Tankless water heater. | |
| Well, even if you want to buy a Renee Tankless water heater right now, which you should, I don't think Joe the Plumber could put it in because of what the Democrats have done. | |
| Now he's gonna be able to work at some point someday, but I mean they're they're they're targeting this poor guy simply because he asked the wrong question and forced the Mafiah to answer it honestly. | |
| I'm sure that Joe the Plumber would recommend the Renail. | |
| Well, I don't know they would recommend it, but I know he can sing its praises because he's a plumber. | |
| He knows that the Renee Tankless water heater is something that saves people money. | |
| You do not spend a lot of money heaving water that you're never gonna use. | |
| There when you turn it on. | |
| I don't care how many utensils and appliances well, appliances, some of you may use heating and utensils. | |
| Stop and think a heating utensil. | |
| Or you want to get a Renault Tankless Water? | |
| You go to Forever Hotwater.com, snurly, you know this. | |
| Foreverhotwater.com. | |
| It'll show you how it works. | |
| Compute the size that you need for your house. | |
| Of course, this doesn't apply to those of you being foreclosed on who are soon going to be homeless. | |
| Uh, according to the Obama campaign. | |
| Well, they're I'm not laughing at it because they're not gonna be kicked out of their houses. | |
| This is that's another lie. | |
| They're not being kicked out of their houses. | |
| The whole Democrat plans to find a way to keep them in their houses, even though they are being foreclosed on. | |
| So I take it back. | |
| Even those of you being foreclosed on can probably get a Renai Tankless water heater for your home that you can't pay for and save a lot of money by not heating water that you don't need. | |
| Foreverhotwater.com is the site. | |
| To find out just what a marvelous invention this is. | |
| All right, it's phone call time, folks. | |
| We have been patiently waiting on the phones. | |
| People have organized and I appreciate your hearing you're standing by out there. | |
| We'll start in Columbia, South Carolina with Rick. | |
| Great to have you on the program, sir. | |
| Hello. | |
| Rush, it's an honor to talk to you, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I just wanted to tell you I'm I'm one of those people that's within weeks of being foreclosed on. | |
| And I want to tell you something. | |
| Hang on just a second, though. | |
| Hang on just a second. | |
| Do you have a subprime mortgage? | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| You do. | |
| Okay, so you have a subprime mortgage. | |
| D were you given a loan that you really weren't qualified for? | |
| No. | |
| No, I I it was one of those adjustable rate mortgages, and and I knew what I was signing when I signed it. | |
| But what I want to tell you is I'm out there every day trying to scrape up enough money to get enough money to catch up this mortgage and pay the house. | |
| I'm I'm not sitting around whining, blaming everybody else. | |
| And if if Barack Obama himself was standing at my doorstep with a check to pay off my mortgage, I'd tell them to go pack sand. | |
| I don't want what these guys are shoveling. | |
| And I'm tired of listening to the liberal media, painting people like me like we're all standing in a soup line waiting for Obama bin Biden to swoop down and save us. | |
| Because we're not all that way. | |
| And that's and and all you can do is go out there and if you know if the house and you know, I'm a single dad. | |
| I could qualify for all kinds of stuff that the government wants to give away, and I don't want any of it. | |
| And I'm just tired of being tainted by these elitists as somebody standing in a soup line waiting for them to come down and save us because that's not the way it is. | |
| Now this is pretty gutsy. | |
| This is uh pretty crazy. | |
| You have you have uh government assistance that would alleviate your situation, you don't want it. | |
| And you're you're offended at at how you are being portrayed by the Obama people as near homeless and incompetent and uh just a waif waiting to be bailed out. | |
| Well, you hear it all the time. | |
| You know, all they do is they tell uh they talk about how stupid we are. | |
| We didn't we were taken advantage of, or there was some kind of predatory lending going on out there, and that's just that's just wrong. | |
| Maybe not in every case, but I think in most cases, you know, all you can do is go out and do give it your best shot, pick up the pieces, and if the worst happens, you pick up what you got and you move on. | |
| Okay, though. | |
| All I want them to do is out of my way and stop trying to save me. | |
| Nancy Pelosi says, or Obama says some some Democrats said that they want a three-month moratorium on foreclosures. | |
| Uh I don't know for what reason, but they do. | |
| Does that not intrigue you? | |
| No, it doesn't, and I'll tell you why, because w where's where does that solve the problem? | |
| They put a three-month moratorium. | |
| Okay, you can't foreclose on my house for 90 days. | |
| Big flying look. | |
| Maybe during that time I can scrape up enough money to catch the mortgage up, but it doesn't solve the problem. | |
| Government isn't in the business to solve this problem. | |
| The way that they can solve it is to get out and let us do our thing. | |
| And and and get out of get out of the mortgage business, start trying to them trying to save people like me to begin with is what got us in this mess. | |
| And and I didn't necessarily need it at the time. | |
| But you know, I'm sure you can hear my frustration. | |
| I I'm just tired of being painted as some kind of a a pauper who who can has to depend on the government to do this. | |
| I'll sink or swim on my own. | |
| If you're foreclosed on where you go. | |
| Um I've got a uh brother that um has told me I I can me and my son can move in with him. | |
| Are you without a job right now? | |
| You have no income at all? | |
| I'm looking, I'm I've been looking for months. | |
| What do you like to do? | |
| Well, my background is in real estate and sales for the most part, but I I'm sure I don't have to go into the what's happened in the real estate industry. | |
| So but I I d I just uh it just it just frustrates me to hear this. | |
| And when I heard you on the radio talking about it, and uh and every place I listen to, I hear about you know the poor people that are getting foreclosed on and you know, and then with with our hands out, and that's just it's just not it's just not the a true picture. | |
| Not of not if you basically know I am Joe Six Pack, and I don't want what these guys are shoveling. | |
| That's amazing. | |
| We are proud of you. | |
| Well no, seriously. | |
| This is if somebody somebody in your situation, most people in your situation uh I would ho well it'd be nice if a lot of them did, but I don't think most of them do have your attitude about this. | |
| Because I mean you're in dire financial straits here. | |
| I mean, if you're unemployed, have been for a while, and your your your field of expertise is financial uh real estate sales. | |
| By the way, that's gonna come back at some point. | |
| It always does, and they're going to be look, you have you seen uh home sales figures in California up sixty-five percent. | |
| Yes. | |
| And half of the home sales that are occurring are resold foreclosed homes. | |
| Well, that's typical of real estate. | |
| If these bozos would just leave it alone, it will come back on its own. | |
| It doesn't business doesn't need the help of these people. | |
| And you know, if they really had everybody's best interest at heart, that's what they would do is get out. | |
| Just leave us alone. | |
| But they're just lining their own pockets and using people like me to further their own political agenda. | |
| That's exactly and line their own pockets and get themselves elected. | |
| They don't care. | |
| And that's the height of hypocrisy because they're trying to steal this election on the fact that they do care. | |
| And if they did really care, they would leave us alone and just get out of the way. | |
| Cannot argue with that. | |
| Look uh Rick, all the best to you. | |
| Thank you, sir, and I appreciate what you let me do. | |
| Thanks for the call. | |
| Quick timeouts. | |
| Back after this. | |
| It's the Rush Limbaugh program, the most listened to radio talk show ever. | |
| And we go back to the phones. | |
| This is Jim in Watertown, Massachusetts. | |
| Hello, sir. | |
| Hello, Rush Kiddos. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Oh, I keep hearing about how Bar Barack Obama is being compared to John F. Kennedy. | |
| And one of the things that frightens me is that he's going to have instead of the Cuban missile crisis, a Venezuelan missile crisis. | |
| And I just want to know your opinion on that. | |
| You mean the possibility that the Ruskies will uh will install missiles down there in Venezuela? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Well, the the possibility I look at the there's during this campaign and for the last year, well, everybody focusing here on our economy. | |
| There has obviously been scant attention paid to what's going on around the world. | |
| We have focused on it here. | |
| The Russians are flexing muscles big time in Georgia. | |
| The Russians have sent a couple of unarmed, they say, bombers down to Venezuela. | |
| Uh Hugo Chavez is making a deal, trying to make a deal to buy armaments from the Russians. | |
| Vladimir Putin has a Napoleonic complex. | |
| He's former KGB, he's a tiny little guy. | |
| He wants to reassert Russia's stature in the world where it equals what it was when it was the Soviet Union. | |
| He wants to bring uh that kind of of uh fear of his country back. | |
| And to do this, uh he will align he's making deals with the people in Iran all over the place. | |
| There these that that scenario is entirely possible. | |
| Another scenario involving Venezuela would be if Castro dies, or maybe already is, uh make a move. | |
| Well one thing that we know is that whatever is being planned will not happen while Bush is in the White House. | |
| That's one thing that we can rest assured of. | |
| It will not happen when Bush is in the White House, because these people know that Bush will respond to it. | |
| But suppose Hugo Chavez wants to take Cuba. | |
| Once Castro assumes room temperature. | |
| What if he makes a move to do that? | |
| Bill Ayers has a very close friend named Hugo Chavez. | |
| Bill Ayers is one of Obama's good friends. | |
| Everybody says, why do you keep bringing up bears? | |
| Well, because it's relevant. | |
| Who his alliances are with, his friends are, that's all relevant. | |
| Yeah, but Obama was only eight years old when when Ayrth was doing the spicable act, Smith or Limboa. | |
| Yeah, well, uh Obama was not eight years old on 9-11, 2001, when uh Ayers published a piece in the New York Times saying he wished they'd done more damage when he was in the weather underground. | |
| And Ayers is down pushing socialist education reforms with Hugo Chavez in 2006. | |
| So if Hugo Chavez, a good friend of Bill Ayers, decides to take Cuba, purely hypothetical here, but if that happens, What would Obama do? | |
| Stop it? | |
| Try to stop it? | |
| Call Chavez, say, hey, let's have an unpreconditioned meeting. | |
| I don't know, but it's these are these are obviously things that are relevant and clearly on the table. | |
| And as Senator McCain amazingly said, we don't need to wait to find out what Obama will do. | |
| We already know what he'll do, and it's the wrong thing. | |
| He's been wrong on the surge, he's been wrong in Iraq, he's been wrong in Afghanistan, and he was wrong in deciding who was responsible for what happened between the Russians and Georgia earlier this year. | |
| So we're not going to have to do a whole lot of waiting. | |
| And so Biden, the two things here have been have been given to the McCain campaign to really make hay with. | |
| One is Joe the Plumber and what that tells everybody about the Obama campaign and their policies. | |
| And of course, Biden assuring us that there will be some kind of attack, and then also assuring us Obama won't do the right thing because he begged in Seattle for everybody to continue to support Obama when we don't appear to be doing the right thing at first. | |
| These are profoundly important things, and they've been handed to uh McCain here in the last couple weeks, and it's time to use them. | |
| Early voting begins today in a lot of states. | |
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