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Dec. 1, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 1, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Thanks, Johnny.
Appreciate it.
It's our last hour together today, and hopefully the last hour of fill-in host that you will have to endure until the return of Rush, who hopefully will be in fighting trim tomorrow, back in health after a sick day.
Yes, even he gets them.
But they're very rare.
And uh I know he tried to cut it pretty close.
Those of us who do this for a living.
We don't like missing shows.
And many is the time that we'll go to bed at night and just feel like death warmed over and go, uh, I'll feel better when I get up.
And then sometimes you do.
You get up, you do a show.
And if you get up and you don't, well, then you gotta make that dreaded uh that dreaded phone call.
Anyway, that phone call came, came to me.
I'm very grateful, appreciate it.
But I'll be uh particularly pleased if Rush is back in the chair tomorrow.
Meanwhile, though, here we have it, this final hour on this first day of December to pretty well do whatever we want to do.
Let me lay out a couple of things and then let's head right back to your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
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Umgoing business.
We had talked some things are big and some things are small.
This is small and yet emblematic of something.
And that is the big placard on front of the Barack Obama lectern today and everywhere he goes.
Office of the president elect.
And I just kind of, you know, put up an eyebrow at it and said, what an affectation that is.
Ed Hartle is uh in touch via email.
And boy, well, and and you know, I think we know each other well enough.
And I think I got enough uh we're about to find out.
Let me throw you an email address.
It's it's for here at the local station at WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth, and you're welcome to throw me anything you want on these days when I fill in or any other time.
And that's M. Davis, M as in Mark, M. Davis at WBAP, like boy Adam Paul, M. Davis at WBAP.com.
Okay.
I boy, I may regret that.
As smoke escapes from the laptop in the next hour.
Um so Ed writes me and says, Hey Mark, great show filling in for Rush on the issue of Obama and the lectern signed the office of the president elect.
One, there is no such office and never has been.
Well, well yeah, I mean, maybe not by that name, and it probably still doesn't go by that name, unless it sort of does now.
I think that's uh a reference, obviously, to the transition team.
The transition does indeed have offices.
It is indeed an entity.
So, you know, is there such a thing as the office of the president elect?
Yeah, it probably is.
But number two is intriguing from Ed.
Obama is not the president-elect until December 15th, when the electoral college meets and the electors cast their votes.
Until that point, since he has resigned the Senate, he is simply Mr. Obama.
Well, all right.
It Ed finishes up.
As someone has observed, or perhaps may have observed, Obama has spent most, if not all of his political life engaging in theatrics, and this is nothing more than that.
Okay.
On the notion of not being president-elect, that's technically true.
I mean, you are not president-elect until the electors meet and you know make you, you know, president-elect.
However, unless you're Alan Keyes, you know, uh cowering in a motel six somewhere in Sacramento, uh, hoping to God that this court challenge on the birth certificate uh succeeds.
He's pretty well president-elect.
And and by the way, and we have afforded that to everyone.
And so that's when sort of the official it's it's it's not the Mark Davis test, but it's the one that I've beaten you down with here for like three, four times.
Always ask yourself a question.
Would it bug you if your guy did it?
Right?
Would it bug you if your guy did it?
And if McCain had won I I think I'd still I'd smirk a little.
Saying, please, Senator, we know you won.
Take that thing down.
Come on, January 20th, you can put the real seal up there.
God, office on the president elect.
And as far as calling someone president-elect, we've pretty well done that forever, just as soon as it's clear someone has won.
Of course, how often is that made clear short of 37 days after the election these days?
So anyway.
Hey, speaking of um the the possible multiple standard.
Would would you be would it bother you if your guy did it?
Or let's let's make it your gal in this particular case.
Because we got something very interesting going on here in Texas.
We we always do.
Um Do you remember, of course you do, uh when Hillary Clinton decided, hey, I'm gonna move to New York because I can win that Senate seat.
Do you remember how maybe you might have had criticism for that?
Do you remember when you you just said, well, that's just opportunism.
That's just uh, you know, she's that's that's gutless.
She's going someplace she knows she can uh she can win.
And when people made that point to me, I remember saying, um, yeah.
Who wouldn't want to go where they can win?
And if you win, good for you.
And I always gave the um and it was always a hypothetical.
I said, you know, sitting here in Texas, I said, what if someone you love were to move to Texas and someone you support?
Yeah, I remember somebody I used once, used Bill Bennett, one of the most beloved American uh thinkers and writers.
Uh he's got a new book out now.
Everybody go buy that kind of a Patriots uh daily primer.
Um I said, what if what if you were to move to Texas and run for the Senate?
Would that be okay?
Well, yeah.
Well, there you are.
So this isn't about that you think it's bad to move to a state where you can win.
You just, you know, want to kick somebody in the shins uh that you don't like.
So here's uh so here's where I'm going with this, which is always a good question.
Where are you going with this?
We have a possibility.
Here in Texas, we are blessed uh with actual Republican senators, John Cornen and Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Uh Senator Hutchison is heavily considering uh coming out of the Senate, coming home to Texas, and challenging Rick Perry for the governor's mansion.
If she does that, that will, of course, ultimately leave a uh there'll there'll be a Senate seat that at some point someone can uh uh can run for.
And a guy called me about a week ago, and I just I I swooned with delight.
Because I am, I am one of those people on the subject of Sarah Palin.
And this is, you know, ride with me here for 30 seconds.
It seems like there are only two schools of thought.
The people who think that Sarah Palin is a complete idiot, and the people who think that she is Margaret Thatcher Reborn.
There is a middle ground, and I suggest that most of us are in it.
And that is a middle ground that says she is magnificent.
She was a spectacular running mate for Senator McCain and helped him not get beat so bad.
Uh and and after four years as vice president, it would have been magnificent to see her ascend to the presidency, running her own campaign in 2012 after four years a heartbeat away.
I'm all about that.
That having been said, I'm just here to tell you I think she gets eaten alive in 2012 if she doesn't do anything else but run Alaska.
And that's not criticism of her.
It's where I set the bar for the presidency.
And and I know I talk a lot about Bobby Gendal.
He's gonna say, well, uh, you know, w all he will have done is run Louisiana.
Uh yeah.
Uh if you could fix Louisiana, you may well be a miracle worker.
And and Charlie Christ and Florida, I mean, but those are big states that people have heard of, you know what I mean.
God bless Alaska, please.
All I want to do is go to Alaska now.
I've seen so much of it, and I love it.
Um but but y you might get Romney again, or you might get Huckabee again.
Well, no matter what you think of of that, or whether that excites you or depresses you.
Uh without additional experience, I I think that with four years in a very forgetful nation with a short attention span, with nothing else on the resume.
I I I don't really think that Governor Palin has much in her bag walking into 2012.
So I want her to do some things.
Now maybe there are private sector things.
Maybe she can get a, you know, a show on uh you know on the Fox News channel or something.
Maybe just something to stay front of mind and be, you know, right there with us, you know, duking it out over issues, something to broaden and deepen her.
All right, more than just, you know, walking around Juno running Alaska has done.
Because again, trust me on this, it would have taken four years as vice president to make her ready to be present.
Without that, uh, you know, excuse me, I think there are other people I need to consider.
So if I'm in this quest to find something for Sarah Palin to do, I would lead, I would go rent the moving van to bring her stuff to Texas and let her run.
I mean, of course, this is at the top of the list of stuff that will never happen.
I think she likes Alaska.
Uh I d you know, I don't know if there's uh I don't think uh Todd and the kids are, you know, are gonna want to come uh, you know, uh live in Dallas Fort Worth or Austin or Houston or San Antonio or any of our fine cities here in Texas.
So it ain't gonna happen.
It's pure pipe dream, pure fantasy, but it sure is fun.
Uh I uh if if she showed a peep of interest, I can't think of anything that I would love more uh than to have Sarah Palin come run for our vacant uh Senate seat in Texas if we get one.
So for everybody that that badgered Hillary about being opportunistic, this would be the picture of opportunism.
And you know what?
If you can win, you do it.
You do it.
Hillary did.
Worked out for her, you think.
And if Sarah Palin did, I would be the happiest guy in the room.
All righty, uh let us uh let's let's take our first pause of the hour, come back.
I'm through yammering for right now.
Let's uh let some other voices on here and see what's going on from Michigan to Kentucky to Missouri and beyond to the Rush Limbaugh Show parade of callers continues.
Rush hopefully back tomorrow.
Mark Davis in Texas filling in on the EIB EIB network, and we'll be right back.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show, just as much as if he were here.
And hopefully you will be tomorrow.
A one-day illness.
Let's cross our fingers and hope these are all better tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis filling in today, glad to be doing so from here in the studios of WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
Back to your calls.
Let's see what's going on with you.
We are in Lansing, Michigan.
Hi, Rick.
Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you doing today, Mark?
Good.
Hey, I want to before I get to my point, I want to add one more thing to your list of reasons to take kids out of school.
Yes, things that meet the bar of taking the kids out of school.
What?
The graveside service of a funeral with full military honors.
It is so funny you mention that, because if we talk about things that make history, space shuttle launches, you know, big time candidate appearances, even if they're political things, that's all fine.
Somebody emailed me right after that and said, how about things that by their nature are special events that instill a sense of pride in country, since God knows our public schools are so loath to do so.
I could not agree more.
Okay, now the point I wanted to make about Hillary as Secretary of State, she scares me.
Because she is more likely to be like the uh sacred cow Madeline Albright than Condoleezza Rice, in that she will go to the Middle East, she will be disrespectful of their customs and their values.
Well, okay, careful on uh disrespectful of their customs.
Well, I uh I remember the the photograph of Madeline in the uh uh cute little sundress and the wind blew blew the back of it up and showed that uh big ham hock of herself.
Stop stop talking.
Uh need to scrub my brain of that imagery.
Uh uh but you know, uh I that no.
Uh I'm uh no.
She's not gonna intentionally flout their customs.
But as far as their values, if you talk about Middle Eastern values, which ones are you talking about?
The is the the the Israelis who are desperately trying to survive or the Arabic countries surrounding them who largely want them violently eradicated.
Well, uh I I'd like to take the the the whole bunch at once, but that's not the dangerous part.
Well, but it but it's not possible.
I mean, that's like saying I want to come to America and agree with Americans.
We have liberals, we have conservatives, we have libertarians, we have, you know, all kinds of things.
Uh I will tell you this.
I I follow me on this one, and then I'll give it right back to you.
Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State will indeed embody the values of the majority of the Middle East, insofar as the majority of the Middle East doesn't give a flip about the survival of Israel.
Okay, and then she will come home just like Madeline Albright be on the Sunday talk show, uh all the Sunday talk shows with their arrogant, condescending tone talking down about the people she just tried to negotiate with, just like Madeline Albright did.
Like okay, like whom.
Uh Madeline Albright forever was was down talking about um well, Saddam Hussein.
Uh about uh the the problems in Libya, about the problems in Saudi Arabia.
Go on, is condescension uh uh I mean c if if the definition of condescension is to talk down to someone to to hold someone in a regard beneath yourself, wouldn't that kind of be appropriate for terrorist leaders?
Oh, I'm concerned about I'm concerned about it being condescending toward uh people who are trying to keep Israel alive.
I'm concerned about her being condescending uh d toward uh the to people who are trying to, you know, win the war and spread democracy in the Middle East.
I'd be concerned about that.
Well, I I and I'll give you that button.
But come back and talk about these people like they were a bunch of little children.
And anything she accomplished, she just blew right out the window.
Well, maybe.
Uh if your thesis is a Hillary Clinton Secretary of State ship will resemble Madeline Albright, I think by definition you're right.
Uh hopefully it i uh because Madeline Albright made my teeth itch virtually every day.
I I hold out some hope that maybe it could be a little better.
I don't know.
Let's let's see and and we'll we'll find out.
Let us roll to Bobby, you are in El Dorado Springs, Missouri.
Hi, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis, how are you doing?
Hey, Mark, I'm doing great.
Uh I'm not a world traveler or anything like that.
I'm just uh lowly self-employed uh Bobby the drafter.
And uh Joe I am a Joe the Plumber, Tito the Builder, Bobby the Drafter, I'll be the director.
T shirts are being made as we speak.
As we speak.
Um I'm a little concerned about something that hasn't been brought up on any of the media.
Uh I am a veteran, all my brothers served.
My brother brother was in Vietnam.
I was in during the Vietnam era.
Our constitution's pretty important.
It's not just pretty important, it's extremely important.
And uh there's about four cases that are fixing to go before the Supreme Court.
One of them goes today, and uh it's not Alan Keyes.
Uh there's a lot of them that are challenging Obama's uh uh eligibility as birth certificate.
The pesky birth certificate issue, yep.
Well, you know, and he could have he could have answered that if it was so simple, uh put one forth.
And the reason I know is because I adopted my son years ago while I was in the military.
I tell you what, let's do uh because because with about two and a half minutes and it'll be involved.
You first of all, y let's examine the ways in which you are totally right.
One would think that a presentation of the actual birth certificate, which is in a vault in Honolulu somewhere.
Yes, if it could settle this, why not present it?
That is a very important thing.
Well, and I talked to Andy Martin.
I I actually got him on the phone.
And uh he just he was very short, uh just like Tal B here.
And he said, Bobby, he said I do not know what's in there.
He says, but we don't know because they won't show us.
Right.
And they don't have to, because the laws essentially allow for for the uh the yanking of a birth certificate by people with you know some direct family connection or have some very, very personal regard in this.
We should have standing though, Mark, because we're citizens and we regret.
But that's not what the law says.
But that's simply not what the law says.
If we want to craft a law that says that if I somebody gets to be president and there's a doubt whether his his citizenship is uh uh is all kosher, then we we should be able to that that I think that'd be a pretty good law.
But we don't have to probably right there.
There's four of them.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, there's Lee Donifrio, there's uh Chris Strunk in New York, there's uh Kurtanski in Connecticut.
Uh I mean I'm looking at him right now in the Obama.
Can I ask you something?
Because with with about a minute here, because listen, before the election, uh and I talked to Phil Berg myself, I talked to the guy, and he's not a nut.
And he has questions not just about the birth certificate, but about whether uh Barack Obama's mom logged sufficient time of American residency to have any progeny of hers automatically be citizens, because obviously you know if he was born in Hawaii, then he's a citizen, boom.
But you know, but did she meet those criteria?
They're all thoroughly valid questions.
Now that he has won, the best thing uh the only thing that could happen only if he is somehow retroactively found unfit to uh to to have won, you get President Joe Biden.
So like, you know, okay.
Well, it isn't a matter of that.
It's a matter of us circumventing the Constitution.
If we if we break the law in one, where do we stop?
You know, and that and that's uh that's very valid because o okay, we get President Joe Biden, which may be better or may be worse, but at least we will have stuck up for making somebody uh now the Allen Keyes thing in California and Allen is a a very interesting man, uh uh dog if not uh d nothing if not dogged, uh is essentially trying to get California's electors from casting their ballots for for for Barack Obama until that comes out.
Likelihood of any of this succeeding is extremely close to zero.
So that's what everybody's waiting for is to see if that changes.
Be right back.
I have to smile.
Come on, who's with me?
Maybe not her Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ELO's evil woman, uh the the always rye, always sardonic bumper music library of the Rush Lib Show.
All righty, it is Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in today.
Hopefully Rush back with us tomorrow, back and healthy and ready to tackle uh the uh issues of December.
It is December one.
Can you believe that?
We're coming right off the uh Thanksgiving holiday, which was filled with topicality, Black Fridays and various deaths and injuries associated with uh renegade shopping.
And just a a bunch of other stuff going on, so let's get back to it.
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We are in Naples, Florida.
Hi, Ray.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hey Mark, how are you doing today?
I am good.
Uh Mark, you made the comment a little while ago that it'd be a uh a disadvantage for Governor Palin coming out of the state of Alaska in a quest for the presidency.
Needs a little more on the resume, and she'd really be in set, really be set for 2012.
Uh but you imply that coming out of Alaska is a disadvantage for her.
Well, not so much that it's a disadvantage that that it's that uh it that in and of itself may not rise to to the presidential bar as it's set in twenty twelve.
It was especially without being McCain's vice president for four years.
Well, um I'm looking at her being as governor of Alaska for uh at that point in time in twenty twelve will be for six years, and I think of Bill Clinton coming out of that great state of Arkansas.
Well, true.
Arkansas is not exactly New York or California either, but again, it's resume related.
He had also been the attorney general for Arkansas and had been a fixture on the national political scene with that Democratic Leadership Council for years.
So he's like that's it wasn't I mean, ask Mike Huckabee.
Arkansas alone may not get you there.
Now, I'll I'll tell you this.
Uh in fact, this probably deserves to be said.
If there's anything that really does seem to give you um, you know, some some street cred, it's running.
Uh I I think uh, and again, think what you like.
I I don't I don't think I don't think Huckabee was ever Rush's favorite.
And then and his uh Eddie seems to have a little broadcasting career lying ahead, and God bless him on that, but he was always too much of a John Edwards populist for me, too.
But he ran a noble and good campaign.
His skills are are are great, and he may tee it up again in in in 2012.
Ditto with Sarah.
There are other things that she can do, and having run, I think running broadened her and toughened her.
And if there's anything that running with the McCain ticket helped her do, it's to really probably want to strike out on her own, so you don't have uh McCain's toadies bugging her about staying on message.
You're gonna hear a whole different Sarah Palin.
She was muzzled by the uh McCain campaign.
I think so.
And uh and so we'll just but it's just it's it's it's it's so funny.
We all complain that our campaigns are too long.
Oh, the campaign we should do it like Canada, three months and you can't campaign but those three months and then that's it, blah, blah, blah.
The fact of the matter is we love this.
We were ready to pay attention for the 2008 race in 2006.
We were ready.
And we're ready to pay attention to the 2012 race right now.
And so we're all about it, and we're all here to cover it.
And Ray, thank you.
And my best to everybody down Southwest Florida.
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Let's go to a happy town.
There are lots of happy towns in America, but with the economy what it is, you better have a winning football team.
And boy, do they in Pittsburgh.
I'll stick up for I believe Rush would be throwing down some Steelers love.
They dismantled a very good New England team.
And uh boy, they may dismantle uh my cowboys uh next next weekend as well.
Let's go to Pittsburgh.
Jesse High, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hey, Mr. Davis, how are you?
Good.
Well, you just put a you put a smile on my face with uh with the Steelers.
Well, thanks.
Well, I have a comment for you.
And this is where I think that Sarah Palin should go.
And I know that you were joking around um with her, you know, in Texas, but the truth is is that when Hillary Clinton ran in New York, she in the last four years, she has not even reached the peak of her political life.
I guess if you want to say now she's Secretary of State.
Yep.
You know, and she is setting herself up for to basically be a perfect running candidate in the Democratic Party, of course, if if Barack Obama won, then she won it.
But she's setting herself up for to have political uh to have domestic experience and foreign experience.
Just in 2016.
And well, and tw I'm saying what Sarah Palin should do.
If she was looking to run in 2012, she needs to get a little more foreign experience.
Whereas Hillary Clinton right now is is going to be at the peak of her of her political experience.
She has got the resume stuff taken care of.
The difference between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin is that Sarah Palin can run in 2012, and Hillary really cannot.
I mean, it is the whole.
I agree with you completely, but I would like to see Sarah Palin Ryan, but right now she, I don't think that she has I don't want to say experience, because then we could talk about Barack Obama's experience and all that.
Right, it's not really about it.
You're right.
Experience has been redefined.
There's no doubt about that.
But she doesn't have, I guess, the the I'm gonna say experience.
She doesn't have what it takes right now to be president.
She hasn't, she served in Alaska instead of serving maybe in the Senate where she can get a lot more foreign or diplomatic experience.
There are distinctions.
I tell you what, uh let the Jesse Lenny thank you and and Ghost Stealers and and and God bless you.
Down here in Cowboy Land, I will tell you, we we we're we're pretty proud of Romo, and we're we're not writing them off just yet.
They might come up there and surprise you.
But let's uh uh 30 seconds on the Palin thing, because it it is so nuanced.
And I know a lot of things that are nuanced don't need to be.
This one needs to be.
And here's here's essentially why.
Um gentleman said she's not ready to be president.
I don't know that.
She may well be.
I've said a hundred times that I'd rather take somebody with a sound heart and whose mind knows what is right rather than someone that can beat me at jeopardy.
I'd rather take someone whose instincts are right, whose barometer for good and evil is accurate rather than someone who is a voracious reader.
The most brilliant IQ presidents of my lifetime, and perhaps yours, if you're you know, less than sixty.
Uh the the most IQ smart presidents we've had, Carter and Clinton.
I rest my case.
Um here's what it's about.
It's not about being ready to be president.
She may well be.
Because as I said, if John McCain were to win and excuse me, uh drop dead on the way to the inaugural ball, bam, there's Sarah Palin.
Is she ready?
I have every confidence that she would be.
That she would instantly be surrounded with people to bring her up to speed on everything she needs to be brought up to speed on, and I'd rather take somebody who needs to be brought up to speed on who the you know uh the president of Lithuania is than somebody who needs to be brought up to speed on what is evil and what is not, on what is right and what is wrong.
Her barometers there, her compass to use a better tool, is straight and true, and I I would have taken her in a heartbeat.
So it's not so much about whether she's ready to be president.
You know what it's about?
It's about is she ready to be a great candidate.
There is a huge difference.
We have no idea what kind of president Barack Obama's gonna be, but there is no disputing that he was a great candidate.
That's why he won.
You know, Reagan and Clinton were both great candidates.
The greatness of the presidency, you'll get some disagreements.
But there's no doubting that they brought incredible skills to the campaign trail.
Now, Wednesday night, uh, whatever that was in St. Paul uh at the XL Energy Center, I stood at the foot of the stage and looked up at one of the most remarkable political performances I've seen in my life.
Sarah palin night Wednesday night at the XL Energy Center in St. Paul.
It was a transforming experience.
Mere days later, I watched her melt down like a high school freshman with Katie Currick.
Not good.
Now, did she get better as the campaign continued?
Absolutely.
Might the next four years bring her additional breadth, depth, wisdom, poise, whatever you want to call it.
Sure, hope so.
I guarantee you she'd get it, would have gotten it as vice president, and I guarantee you she'd get it if she were to, you know, could have run for the Senate seat, but obviously uh Ted Stevens lost and that ain't happening.
So I don't know.
I'm looking for something for her to do, okay?
That is above and beyond what she's done so far.
Maybe just four more years on the planet will uh will will make her more seasoned.
Fine.
Because I'm so ready, so ready to to listen to her in 2012 and consider her instantly.
But also up for consideration will be people who I I hope to God will be people who are just as conservative who might be a little quicker on the uptake.
You know what I mean?
Who might not have that deer in the headlights moment with with Katie?
And that's what I mean about being a good candidate.
When you're running, it ain't about whether you're going to be a good president yet.
Not yet.
It's about whether you are a good candidate.
Uh out of the Republican field, guy who I just would if I could have waved a wand and made him and made him the nominee.
Duncan Hunter, San Diego's Congressman.
As a candidate, though, just didn't happen.
So there's there's the difference.
That's there's the difference.
There's the nuance.
Tell me if that makes sense to you.
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It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for this Monday, the first day of December 2008.
Get well rushed, get back tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis of WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth.
It has been a joy.
And let's see what we can achieve here in our final 13 minutes together.
We are in Gibsonburg, Ohio.
Carol, Mark Davis, in for rush.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
I'm good.
I was groove into your little tune there.
Little Junior Walker and the All Stars.
So uh you you made a comment, I think it was to Bobby, that if uh our best case scenario is we could have President Biden, and that's just not correct.
Well, it is it is at first.
Uh if you let's go to the 20th Amendment, and that's it, that's where you want to go.
Because if if for those just joining us, it's the pesky birth certificate thing, which ain't gonna go anywhere.
But if it does, if it does, the first thing you get is President Biden.
The first thing you get.
Well, let's back up though.
Okay, go ahead.
Because we elected consider you know, we need to see this birth certificate as the bottom line.
Well, I understand that.
But let's so let's say the birth certificate challenge succeeds, and thus the president-elect will not have qualified.
If an event, let's go right to the third paragraph, 20th amendment.
If the president-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the vice president elect shall act as president.
And here's the here's where I want to hand it right back to you.
Until a president shall have qualified.
What in the world does that mean?
Ah, I don't know.
I can't imagine how I missed that.
There you go.
You know, I just don't even see how he could have become vice president without qualifying first.
And Biden's vice president, he's fine.
You know, we should have had this candidate vetted before we got to this point.
We've never we've never had this before.
When has there ever been a doubt as to whether or not the president was um you know was a natural-born citizen in the United States.
Bear this burden.
So it's all kind of new.
We're slogging our way through it.
Um in a perfect world, uh, he produces the birth certificate and says, here, scoreboard.
Now go away.
Or his critics, or not even necessarily critics, people who actually want to make sure the law has been followed, uh, they'd be vindicated, and we would, in in any event, this issue would be dead and we'd know what to do.
He's either kosher for the presidency or he's not.
Or we get Biden.
I can't believe that.
We're right.
If he's not, we get Biden, at least at first.
And then, as will sometimes happen, and God bless the well, this isn't just the founding fathers, 20th Amendment is what, like 1933.
Uh the the the if the vice president will act as president until a president shall have qualified.
So I mean you go back and do another election.
Uh Does that mean we we would make sure the vice president qualifies and he would just automatically be the guy?
There's no protocol.
Yeah, precisely right.
We'd be winging it in a big way, and constitutional uh scholars and attorneys uh would have a lengthy heyday.
But you know what?
The good news slash bad news is this won't happen because this issue will die.
But I think it's a good one.
It just will.
And and I and I don't know that it deserves to.
It may not.
Um, but it will.
So I just I just wouldn't I just would save your keystrokes, get out, take a walk, read a book, spend time with your kids.
The birth certificate challenge is going simply no where.
Uh if uh now I'll tell you what, uh uh here's but here's the thing.
Here's why it's okay.
And Carol, thank you.
Let me let me scoot here.
Here's the thing.
Uh between Alan Keyes, God knows he's kind of focused like a laser beam on it, Phil Berg in Pennsylvania, and a few other, you know, hardworking folk.
They're on it, man.
They're on it.
And there's only one place to get this uh and and God bless talk shows, but it ain't gonna get fixed here.
It has nothing to do with the media.
It is the courts.
The courts are the only place this gets resolved.
And there are dogged, determined, yeoman-like efforts underway to uh to get this to the the light of day.
Um if they succeed, they succeed.
If they don't, they don't.
Um I would set my hopes very low.
Better to be pleasantly surprised and then have your head hit the pillow each night, hands clasped, pining away that uh someone pry that birth certificate out of its Honolulu vault.
We got a lot to worry about in this life.
Let's focus on what the guy's gonna do as president because he's going to be president.
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With a couple of minutes to go.
This seems like time well spent.
One of the 14 things we've covered today is uh first of all with Saxby Chandless doing events with Sarah Palin all over Georgia.
The question arose, is it okay to take your kids out of school to go to that event?
Of course it is.
It's huge politics.
And I'd say that even if you're going to the Democrat rally, because it's huge politics.
Make sure your kids' work is done ahead of time, got good grades, and it's okay with the teachers.
So that got us into a whole round table over where's the bar set for whether it's okay or not okay to take the kids out of school.
Well, we can all talk about this in the adult world, but what we need here is a teenager.
Let's go to Allentown PA.
Patrick is all of 16, I'm told, and what a pleasure to have you.
How are you doing?
Hello, I'm doing good.
Thanks for having me, Mark.
It's great to have a pleasure to be on your show.
Uh I just wanted to uh agree with you what you're saying, you know.
Uh take kids out of school, like wait till the uh summertime, you know, for vacations and stuff.
And you know, I as it's coming from a sixteen-year-old, I just want to agree with you because you know I've dived on it before, and uh I agree it's it's hard to make up school work.
You know, I had to have tests while I was gone, or you know, uh stay do homework forever, you know, trying to make up all that work I missed, you know.
School's demanding enough when you're there every day.
But if there are certain things, did you did you mention to Kit that you actually did see McCain at one point?
Yes, yes.
I saw McCain at um over here in uh Bethlehem, he came here to uh Lehigh University at Stable Arena.
Well, very cool.
Well, that certainly meets the and and again, to be very bipartisan about this, if somebody took their kids out to go to an Obama event, that's fine.
You're looking at the next president one day, no sweat, make sure it's okay with the schools.
And with that, speaking of kit with uh for for Kit Emmanuel Carson, the uh chief of staff at Limbaugh World at Broadcast Engineer Mike Mamone, I'm Mark Davis.
Have a great, great rest of your day.
Get well rushed.
We hope to see you back tomorrow.
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