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Dec. 23, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
You expected us to be here today, and here we are.
Everybody else is on vacation.
We here at the EIB Network are live from the offices of America's Anchorman.
Great to have you with us, my friends.
It really is.
Snerdley, let's do open line Friday on Tuesday today, since this is it.
I will not be here tomorrow or the rest of the week or next week.
Back at it on January 5th.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address.
Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
What?
No, I'm I'm I'm not going anywhere.
I'm I'm the Madoff thing.
I'm staying here.
You know, it's pretty, it's it's bad out there.
This actually has become a status symbol.
You were talking about public relations and the rich and a phoniness with which they operate and so forth.
It has now become a status symbol among the rich to say that you got ripped off by Bernie Madoff.
Because everybody is losing money in the market.
Everybody is, but it makes you special and unique if you lost money because of Madoff.
It doesn't, they these people don't think it makes them look stupid.
It continues to elevate their status, they think.
So there are people actually saying, no, I won't be coming down to Pompey, maybe a couple weekends this year, but you know, the Madoff thing.
We're not going to be able to be quite as active as we are.
I'm actually, I've had people tell me that.
Who here to four I didn't know they were involved in the Madoff.
It's just it's amazing.
Anyway, uh, ladies and uh and and gentlemen.
The um program today will feature a wide variety.
We will cut a uh a wide swath through our stacks of stuff, as well as deal with our uh normal pre-Christmas program.
Now, one of the things that this it's deja vu.
Today in the Daily Mail, UK Daily Mail, and now everywhere on U.S. websites, is a picture of Barack Obama in boxer swimsuit with a uh uh totally bare uh upper torso showing him to be in quite good shape.
Drudge got a hold of his picture and also got hold of a similar one of Vladimir Putin is running an online poll asking people to vote on who looks more buff.
Uh and so far Putin's winning 18,000 to 12,000 for Obama.
And I'm kind of surprised.
I thought Obama would run away with this, given the uh popularity of the of the Messiah.
So now, ladies and gentlemen, it's not just not what he says, but how he says it, but now how he looks when he says it.
And the drive-bys are having obasms over this.
They just think it is the coolest thing.
Now, not to nitpick here, folks, but is this the right image for what Obama calls the worst economy since the Great Depression?
No, no, no, no, seriously.
People are getting laid off.
They have been ripped off by Bernie Madoff.
Some people are working two and three jobs.
Obama is blasting anybody who gets a bonus.
And he's showboating as a workout freak in Hawaii who manages to find time for golf, and he says the worst is yet to come.
And you know, just just as the Clintons popped up magically on that beach down in the in the Virgin Islands about three weeks before the Lewinsky story broke, you know damn well that Obama uh intended for this picture to get published in as many places as possible.
If you if you if you get a Republican, you get grief for golf.
I get grief for talking about golf from my audience for crying out loud.
He's being praised for going out and playing golf in the middle of the Great Depression 2, in which he says things are going to get worse.
Remember when Bush would go on vacation, Bush 41, Bush 43, uh, and they all the drive-bys they don't care.
They're just they're they're they're not not in touch.
They're detached from uh from reality.
Uh I I think this could be a plan to keep celebrity magazines in business, a stimulus plan, if you will, for image magazines.
Maybe it isn't image, though.
this is a thing to consider.
Maybe it is an image.
Maybe this is who Obama is.
And if it's uh good enough for president, who's to say that Caroline Schlossberg doesn't have the uh right lack of stuff to be a U.S. Senator.
Have you seen she will not release any of her financial data until she is appointed?
It's nobody's business.
The drive-by's are hitting her pretty hard.
I I have to say that the drive-by's they're they're hitting her pretty hard.
I it it's it's somewhat uh comical to watch this.
Let's go to the audio sound bites, ladies and gentlemen.
We will start yesterday and last night.
We have a montage of drive-by media figures swooning over Obama's Hawaiian holiday.
Aloha.
President elect Obama says Melee Kaliki Maka on a bright Hawaiian holiday.
We'll take you to the $30 million retreat where the future first family is spending Christmas.
The President elect vacationing in the Aloha State inside his incredible $30 million vacation retreat.
The Obamas, along with close friends, rented three houses worth more than $30 million, each a spacious $0000 square feet with waterfalls and a lagoon pool that flows throughout.
Barack Obama and his family arrived in Hawaii over the weekend to a multi-million dollar ocean front home.
The President elect and his family are in Hawaii, where they're getting a little RR before the big move to Washington.
They've rented a nine million dollar ocean front home, but the vacation is not all sun surf and golf.
Do you hear how they they just love the fact that they get to pack off and go to Hawaii now instead of Crawford, Texas?
They are so happy.
But listen to the admiration that they have.
And listen to the appreciation that they have.
$30 million retreat where the first family is spending Christmas.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
The president elect vacationing in the Aloha State inside his incredible $30 million vacation retreat.
Oh, isn't he special?
Now we all know what happens when Republicans try going on lavish vacations.
Yesterday, PMS NBC Live, the anchor David Schuster spoke with a correspondent, Savannah Guthrie, about Obama's vacation in Hawaii.
Schuster says, We just saw the pictures of Obama, I guess, in the golf course yesterday, and apparently he was requesting spam.
Sort that out for us.
He did golf yesterday, 18 holes, and he took a break at the snack bar and ordered, among other things, a local delicacy called the spam masubi.
It's kind of like sushi.
It's uh rice, and then it has a slice of spam on it, and this particular kind also had an egg, and then it's wrapped in seaweed.
And it's said to be delicious, and and people really love it.
Spam Masubi.
Wow, he's just like us, folks.
He just like us.
He eats spam masubi.
And seaweed.
He's not an elitist whatsoever.
Obama eats spam.
I don't know what the carbon footprint this fun in the sun is, Mr. Snerdley.
And uh I don't know if any AIG executives are holding a seminar at the same time, while Bam uh is out uh vacationing here in the Aloha State in uh thirty million dollars worth of rental property.
We have another drive-by media montage.
Obama and the media are calling the pictures of his uh uh naked upper torso an invasion of privacy.
But listen to the owner of the agency and the boss of the photographer in this piece.
You'll hear him say that Obama gave it up, that they wanted these photos to be taken.
Beaches in Hawaii, including Kailua Beach, where the Obamas are staying, are all public, and that makes keeping this family vacation private almost impossible.
The photos show the Obamas at ease.
The president elect strolling in swim trucks.
His wife Michelle in her one piece bathing suit, private moments that are now an internet sensation.
In our parlance, we would say he gave it up.
That's the expression in the business.
They he gave up the picture.
Photographer Chris Banke didn't hide What he was doing as he snapped the pictures from his perch on Kailua Beach.
Banke was just a hundred and fifty feet away from the Obamas.
Their security detail has laid out a seaweed barrier in the sand and has been turning people away.
But from this close, it's hard to stop a telephoto lens.
It's something the Clintons had to get used to.
They were spotted dancing in the sand on one vacation.
It may be part of the job, but that doesn't make it easy.
How stupid this reporter is.
How gullible and stupid.
Who is this reporter?
I don't know how to pronounce the name.
Y U N-J-I, Yunji, I guess, and then small D E N I E S. Yunji Denise.
Good morning, America.
The Clintons had to get used to it.
They were spotted dancing in the sand on one vacation.
It may be part of the job, but it doesn't make it easy.
These people, it's this is a disgrace to journalism.
It is a disgrace, and it continues to increase as a disgrace.
This is all planned, this is all imagery.
This is all PR.
These pictures were intended to be to a seaweed barrier for crying out loud.
What seaweed's gonna stop anybody?
A seaweed barricade?
He's either hiding behind seaweed or he's eating it.
At the halfway house on the golf course with spam on the top of the seaweed, or in the middle of the seaweed, or what have you, with some rice thrown in there.
And these drive-bys are just groveling.
Uh it it's just that let's go back to this Clinton thing.
This was in uh, I think it was St. Thomas, somewhere in the Virgin Islands.
It was January 5th, the first working day after the Christmas break in 1998.
And unbeknownst to everybody at the time, it was three or four weeks before the Lewinsky story was going to break, and the Clintons knew the Lewinsky story was going to break.
And all of a sudden, on the front page of the Los Angeles Times was a black and white picture of President and Mrs. Clinton dancing in their swimsuits on the beach down there.
And it was a fairly close-up picture.
Only appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
We learned later that there was no music being played.
There were no speakers on the beach.
They were humming along whatever tune they were dancing to.
It was not a flattering photo of either of the two.
Now, I am not going to be any any more descriptive than that.
But it was not going to do it.
No, there was no online poll of of uh of this was just trust me on this uh ladies and gentlemen, it was not flattering, especially to uh Mrs. Clinton.
Uh and she had to know it wouldn't be fun.
I mean this this this had to be one of the biggest bullets she had ever knowingly bitten to pose for this picture to try to present an image that all was hunky dory and cool mere weeks before the Lewinsky scandal was to go public.
So it one one paper, I think it was the uh Los Angeles Times.
And at the White House press briefing with Mike McCurry on January 5th of 1998, an unidentified reporter said, Mike, there were some surreptitious pictures taken while the uh president was in St. Thomas for stills and television.
Does the White House have any concern that there was a security risk implied by the fact that those pictures could be taken?
The president is confident that he's well protected by the Secret Service.
I think if there had been any security threat, they would have attended to it appropriately.
The issue is a different one, which is we try to work in an amicable environment where we help you do your jobs and you respect certain ground rules that we set.
That didn't happen in this case.
Not much of anything we can do about it, but that's the fact.
The president said that he considered the picture an evasion of his privacy.
That was his answer.
He's long ago given up any sense that there is any privacy in the White House.
And you know, he just has to live with what he's put through by all of you.
Now, here's the thing about this.
I will never forget this.
At the time That this reporter stood up and asked the question, everybody else in the press room was clueless.
What picture?
What picture you talking?
It only run one place.
In the Los Angeles Times.
Uh, and you know, people out there had seen it, no big deal.
McCurry wanted this picture plastered everywhere.
And so this willing accomplished reporter stands up and asks a ridiculous question.
McCurry gets to portray Clinton as a victim of no privacy in the White House when he was on a public beach in St. Thomas dancing while there was no music being played with his wife.
The picture then got plastered all over the place.
And uh, oh, look at this loving couple.
Oh, this is this is just what a wonderful bunch of this oh because there were all kinds of rumors here with the status of their marriage and this sort of thing.
And the same thing happening here with Obama.
This is a replay, it is a repeat, it is total PR, it is total imagery, uh, and it is quite telling in uh in that regard.
Uh we got to take a brief time out here, folks.
We have only just begun.
Carpenters, 1969.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Mr. Sturdley reports to me angry liberal Democrat callers that don't want to go on the air.
They want him to pass on their messages to me.
And many of them are saying, what's Rush making a big deal out of Obama going to Hawaii or as his home state?
I didn't make a big deal out of him going to Hawaii.
The drive-by's are.
The drive-by's are talking about how wonderful it is that we've got a president in waiting, renting $30 million worth of rental property that is posing nude from the waist up on purpose for image photography.
It's not what he says, it's how he says it, and it's how he looks.
When he says it, the stock market, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, is down 40 points on the news that Vladimir Putin is out polling Obama on Drudge's hunkiest authoritarian socialist poll.
And it's um it's not even close out there.
Putin is running away with this.
And I'm frankly surprised because I thought it would be the other way around.
I thought it would be uh Obama continuing on the wave of popularity as the Messiah who would be skunking Vladimir Putin, but it's apparently not to be.
No, I don't care where Obama goes, he can go wherever he wants.
You liberals are gonna have to understand something.
I'm not the one that wants to put limits on anybody.
You people are.
I don't want to judge anybody by wherever they go.
Doesn't matter to me where he goes.
If he wants to go to Hawaii, it's his home state.
Fine.
Hunky dory.
Plastic banana, good time, rock and roller dittoes.
What I'm talking about is the dual-faced media.
George W. Bush stopped playing golf with his father and with his family during the Iraq War because he th he said it just doesn't look good.
Obama's out there eating seaweed and spam.
He's playing golf.
He's renting 30 million dollars worth of rental property himself, three houses and his family and friends and so forth.
All well and good.
And the drive-by's are swooning.
They're falling over backwards.
They can't, they can't say enough about how wonderful this all is.
And what a great guy Obama all is.
And it's just sickening to see what has become of journalism.
I'll tell you something else.
Here's a story.
This is on the New York Times blog today.
Obama to take oath on the same Bible as Lincoln.
This is by Catherine Q. Kit Seeley, Barack Obama sworn into office with the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used for his first inauguration in 1861.
The move further extends the parallels that the Messiah has drawn with Lincoln since he announced his candidacy in February of 2007 in Springfield, Illinois.
This could be the first time an incoming president has used Lincoln's Bible, which is part of the collection of the Library of Congress.
Now, folks, it is a grotesque distortion of Abraham Lincoln and the history of this country for Obama to continually create the false impression that he is of the same metal and that this is the same type of time or period.
It is even more Grotesque that the media allows this comparison of Obama to Abraham Lincoln to go on and on and on.
And then there are the comparisons between Obama and FDR.
But come on, folks, we face nothing like the Civil War today.
The economic conditions are challenging.
They don't equate with the kind of circumstances as the Civil War.
Our nation's not at war with itself.
Our people are not at war with themselves.
And Obama's notion of freedom, I have to say, is nothing like Lincoln's.
There are no similarities in these two other than they're, well, Obama's not even from Illinois.
You think Lincoln would have closed Club Gitmo or given terrorists the kind of rights Obama and his liberal buddies insist on?
Lincoln had opposing party members put in jail for opposing him on the civil war.
Obama wants to give our enemies that kind of benefit of the doubt.
Lincoln was all about victory in a war, period.
Obama's more like McClellan in this regard, not Lincoln, and there's nothing in anything Lincoln has ever done or said that would justify invoking his name to populate the bureaucracy with a bunch of leftists who are committed to undermining our economic system and our superiority around the world.
Lincoln, that there is no comparison or similarity whatsoever.
Lincoln never adopted European socialism or any other kind of socialism.
It did exist at the time.
It was a growing philosophical body of work.
European socialism was.
Pegolism, if you will, Lincoln's concept of freedom and Obama's are totally at odds.
Lincoln fought for the individual, Obama fights for big government.
This is another bit of PR imagery that is just full of it, folks.
And we're back.
Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year's Eve from all of us at the EIB network to all of you.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, did you just see the video of the water main break in Bethesda, Maryland today?
You didn't see that, Brian.
It was uh it was huge, it's huge water main.
I mean, it must have been one of the biggest water water mains in America, Bethesda, Maryland, suburban Washington.
And there were all kinds of people trapped in their cars, had no idea this giant floods hadn't had them.
And uh they had to get rescued by boat, by helicopter, and so forth.
And I was amazed watching this.
Just to show you how sensitized I have become to the environment.
Just to show you how much I care.
Well, all these cable networks were worrying about the people that were trapped in their cars.
I was saying, what about all this water that's being wasted?
What about the environmental damage this water is causing?
Who knows what ecosystems are being destroyed here?
And then I thought, wait a minute.
Water main equals what?
Infrastructure.
Infrastructure on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. And then I realized it is but mere days, weeks, until the inauguration of Obama, who pledges a massive stimulus plan featuring infrastructure repair.
So we have Chuck Schumer starting to run on banks with Indy Mac in June, leading to a total economic collapse.
Barney Frank and the boys helping out here, spun a little bit out of control.
Now we got a water main break.
Christmas week.
And Obama's Obama's playing golf.
Obama's playing golf in his home state.
By the way, Obama did, I didn't know this.
He's left-handed.
Did you know that?
At least he plays golf left-handed.
I think he writes left-handed, I'm not sure.
All I know is that uh people who are left-handed, there's a reason for it.
Do you know how left-handedness happens?
Have you ever studied this?
Because I have.
It is the result of poor potty training in the formative years.
No, it has been, it has been.
I learned this at a pig iron convention in uh in Kansas City, Missouri when I when I lived there, when I was working for the uh for the Kansas City Royals.
So here I am.
I'm uh I'm the only one concerned about the flood, the water, the uh damage to the environment, the waste of the water.
The walk at how much water was wasted when the and you know, we got to repair the water main and so forth.
This is uh this is a terrible thing.
And get this.
This is just classic.
They have had if it's not record snow in Seattle, it's close to it.
They had big snowstorm on Saturday night and Sunday morning in Seattle, and then again Sunday afternoon.
It was so bad that the New York Jets, who went out and promptly lost to one of the worst teams in the league, needing to win the game to further their playoff hopes.
Although that loss did set up quite interesting showdown at 4.15 Eastern Time Sunday afternoon as the Dolphins arrive in Giant Stadium to play the Jets.
Nevertheless, it was a one o'clock game out on the left coast.
The game that ended actually a little early, I think a quarter to four.
And because I'm a student of the game, I happen to know that visiting teams try to be packed up everything in out the door an hour after the game.
Sometimes they're not able to do it depending on how long a coach and a players have to spend with the media, but at least the equipment truck's gone.
I mean, they just pack everything up.
It's a massive project to move an NFL team around, but they get it done in about an hour.
Then they have to head to the airport.
You can generally figure it's uh rule of thumb if you care about such things.
Uh and I'm big logistics person, so these things interest me.
When you got to move that number number of people around to do it efficiently, it's always fascinating to me how you do it.
But an NFL team is generally at the airport on a plane and ready to leave two hours after a game.
So local time, this would have been 6 p.m. in Seattle.
The Jets plane did not lift off until around 11 p.m. local.
They were on the tarmac in the runway four or five hours because of snow.
Huge, unexpected, not unexpected, but I mean it was the forecast had it right, but it was they're not prepared for this kind of snow in Seattle.
Lots of rain, right, Snerdley?
Snerdley used to live there, one of the most disappointing, miserable times in his life, he often recounts for us.
So the Jets didn't get back till like 6:30 on Monday morning.
And uh so I I saw this story about the snowfall out there and how it's backlogged the city.
This is from the Seattle Times.
Did you know this, Snerdley?
Seattle refuses to use salt.
They no, it's not just that.
They they refuse to use salt.
The roads are snowpacked by design.
It's not just that they want to save their precious roadways, they're worried about the salt runoff hitting Puget Sound.
But anyway, look at fine, admirable goal, typical liberal bureaucratic idiocy, but but an admirable again, wonderful intentions.
Lousy results.
Listen to this.
The city's approach of no salt and snowpacked roads.
Means that crews clear the roads enough for all-wheel and four-wheel drive vehicles, or those with front-wheel drive as long as they are using change.
The icy streets are the result of Seattle's refus.
In other words, folks, the people who run the streets in Seattle in snowstorms want them icy.
And the only cars that can pass the roads after Seattle has cleared them are the cars liberals are trying to take out of your garage.
SUVs, four-wheel drives, front-wheel drive, chains.
You think chains might do more damage to a roadway than salt would?
If we were using salt, you'd see patches of bare road because salt's very effective, said Wiggins, the Department of Transportation chief of staff out there, Alex Wiggins.
We decided not to utilize salt because it's not a healthy addition to Puget Sound.
Now, what is this?
The only cars that can safely get around in Seattle after such snowstorms are the same cars these same liberals want to take away from everybody.
Puget Sound is made of salt water, but it's a delicate balance.
It's a very delicate anything, you know, man can destroy Puget Sound, Mr. Snerdley, with salt runoff from snow removal the three or four times a decade they have to do it.
These are very sensitive people.
I'm surprised you're questioning their uh.
By the way, I'm being told here by someone who cares deeply that uh see what uh Abraham Lincoln was left-handed.
Yep, may well be, but that was in the days of outhouses, and there wasn't any potty training uh back in those days.
You can't say Lincoln's left-handedness is the result of poor potty training.
There weren't any potties.
I appreciate all this assistance from uh from my buddies out there.
Now, back, folks, I want to I want to finish up with this this business of Obama and Lincoln.
Um, because this really is a grotesque distortion of Lincoln.
It's a grotesque distortion of Obama.
Here is a man who hasn't done anything.
He didn't do anything as a senator.
He is accomplishing playing golf, naming a bunch of fraud phony moderates to his cabinet.
You see how Hillary's trying to take over the State Department.
I think that's smart of Obama.
Let her just run the whole thing.
That way he can sit there and be president while people in his cabinet are actually outdoing things.
She wants more envoys she wants a more domestic role for the State Department.
So anyway, he hadn't done anything except be the Messiah.
And of course, that's not working out too well because now Biden is today warning everybody around the world, lower your expectations.
Obama took care of us.
He told us you got to lower your expectations.
Obama sent Biden out to tell world leaders, hey, hey, hey, don't get your hopes up.
We're not gonna let them get away with this, folks.
They got elected on high expectations and magic happening.
And we're gonna hold them to it.
Drive by's won't, but we will.
So he's out there, hasn't done anything.
He didn't do anything in the Senate.
Don't get mad at me, folks.
He may end up being one of the greatest presidents ever.
Frankly, I hope so.
I have doubts, but if he is, I'll be the first one to say so.
But he hadn't done anything yet.
He's out playing golf.
He's out eating spam.
Halfway house at the golf court.
His brother is still living in a hut in Nairobi.
They can't find grandmother or grand uncle or aunt, whatever it is, Zetooty.
What does it mean when you were ambidextrous?
It means you didn't need to be potty trained.
You could do it yourself.
It's very simple.
People peppering me with these questions as though I don't have the answers.
Well, girls in potty train, it's a different thing.
Their left-handedness comes from different things.
Don't even make me go there.
You know, this is, you know, you didn't, I'm not going to tell you what happened in love, actually, that you wouldn't want your kids to see.
Don't let me go there to explain female left-handedness.
It's op it's open line Friday.
I know I haven't taken a call.
I'm answering all these questions.
Some of the best questions I ask are those I ask of myself.
Or sorry.
Some of the best questions I get, some of the best answers I give are to the guests and the questions I ask myself.
Who needs calls?
People keep trying to distract me from this Lincoln Obama thing, and it isn't gonna happen.
Obama hasn't done anything.
How in the world is grotesque.
How in the world do you allow this comparison to take place?
Now tell you why it is important.
We are allowing, by our silence on this, the left and the media and Obama to rewrite history and create false images of Obama.
And false images of Lincoln.
Lincoln is not Obama and verse the visa.
And Obama, by the way, is far worse than FDR.
Obama, if if if he does what he says he's gonna do, is gonna spend far more money than FDR ever dreamed of printing.
Now, Obama intends to spend far more than FDR did, even taking inflation and currency differences into consideration, which means to me, folks, that Obama is intentionally ignoring America's experience with socialism and plowing ahead anyway.
And the reason is that this stuff was pounded into him from his earliest days.
He's not Lincoln, he's not even FDR.
If he does, if he follows through with the plans that he has promised to quote unquote save the country, then I think he's going to be a um a disaster.
But I hope for the opposite.
I really, really do.
Here's how wacko it's getting, folks.
This is how Silly it is.
Everybody in the in the global warming movement, the militant environmentalist wacko movement is saying that this bitter cold illustrates irrefutable evidence of global warming.
That this bitter cold shows just how fast the earth is warming.
Do you realize the sophistry of this?
This is something a six-year-old could blow holes through using simple logic.
Mommy, mommy, you mean when it's Timbalow outside, it's actually getting hotter?
Yes, little Johnny.
This is the brilliance of the people who are monitoring computer models, tracking the global warming.
But mommy, how can it be getting hotter if it's freezing?
Johnny, go back and watch an indiscriminate truth or whatever the hell Gore's movie is, and that'll explain everything to you.
Okay, so in the spirit of wide-spred bitter cold being irrefitable proof and evidence of global warming, Obama ought to call a press conference in Hawaii, his home state, I know, and declare with the utmost confidence the following.
A weak economy is evidence of robust job creation.
Deficits are proof of wise planning by public officials.
High tax rates combined with middle class welfare and massive deficit spending, cap and trade and socialized medicine are essential for increased liberty and a major economic expansion.
Just go make the case for these things.
All you gotta do is say it.
The dumbed down drive-by's will repeat it.
It'll echo around to the American left, and people will begin to accept this idiocy as true too.
You could also say that negative growth in retail sales indicates consumers have more disposable income.
Yes, you can say that.
Retail sales are going down.
It just shows that consumers have more money than we thought.
Being surrounded by crooks and radicals his entire life has made Obama a better man.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg's sheltered elitist, and otherwise unremarkable life have been ideal training for a public servant on a national stage in trying times.
Plus, she ate at Sylvia's.
Hillary Clinton's massive conflict of interests will have zip-zero-nada impact on how she performs her job as Secretary of State.
Because she's already a cold, calculating, money-grubbing thief.
Well, not thief, but take that back.
Recipient of donations.
Obama's obsessive workouts are proof positive he's going to work around the clock, keeping the country safe and turning the economy around while posing nude from the waist up for Us Weekly.
Waiting for the printer.
Hang on a minute.
All right.
All right, I want to grab a phone call here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We're doing open line Friday on Tuesday today, so whatever you want to talk about is fair game.
Jim in Lewiston, Pennsylvania, nice to have you here.
Thank you, Rush.
Merry Christmas, and thank you to you and your EIB team for your outstanding service to our country.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate it.
The contributions of the staff are wonderful and somewhat overrated and exaggerated, but you're very nice.
You're correct that it is a gross distortion to compare Obama to Lincoln.
However, I don't think it's that much of a stretch to compare these times with the times of the Civil War.
I mean, we have more division now than any time since then, probably.
And I know, you know, Lincoln did what he had to do to stop to eliminate that division.
I'm afraid Obama is going to do whatever he can do to keep the division going.
See, that's the difference.
I mean, you you you've just nailed it.
Look at I know you you can take the red-blue divide and you can take the ideological wars we are having, and you might you might want to have fun trying to draw an analogy between that and a civil war, but you can't.
The civil war was about a number of states who wanted to secede.
Frankly, if the liberals wanted to secede and start their own little socialist country, I would not stop them.
I would let them do it.
You know, pick a couple of the you know, the states that they all love, let not even all the states, is make the liberals live in San Francisco, uh Seattle, the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
You know, let them let them have.
There aren't that many of them.
They just live in big loading blocks.
But Lincoln kept, he he inherited a divided country and kept it intact.
Obama, the American left, not just Obama, is trying to divide this country.
Obama's pushing through socialism, particularly in terms of government-run health care.
You're good, you're gonna have a divided country in a virtual civil war.
You are going the only thing Obama might have in common with Lincoln will be over 600,000 dead economically.
If he gets what he wants.
Economically, snurdly, economically, the American left is trying to destroy this country as it was founded and as it is known today.
And he's not trying to stop that.
I think we've pretty well established here in research during the breaks, Abraham Lincoln was not left-handed as Obama is.
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