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April 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Hey, great to be with you.
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It's fine.
It's okay as long as you don't touch it or rattle it too hard and then the whole thing falls apart.
But it's great to be with you.
We were talking just before the break. about this North Korean test.
And what I find, you know, I mean, it's easy to make, it is easy to make jokes about Kim Jong-il because he's like this ridiculous figure with his CD.
He's got his greater DVD collection, I believe, as Gordon Brown has after a visit to Washington.
But at heart, something serious is happening here.
Something serious is happening here.
And we have a president who is way out of his league, who thinks this is just a question of being community organizer-in-chief to the world, and they'll love us for it.
And it's not like that.
If you were to sit down and design as weak a response to the North Korean test as could be devised, then for the President of the United States to stand up and say he believes in a world without nuclear weapons and that America ought to lead the way because America is the only country that has used nuclear weapons.
By the way, so far, and those are two important words, because if we get through Obama's term without somebody else using them, that club could be looking a lot less exclusive by the time we get to the end of the Obama administration.
But here's the point.
You know, he uses the North Korean test as just another excuse to apologize for the world, for America.
He's apologized for American arrogance, the Europeans.
He's apologized to the Muslim world for America not understanding that Islam is a religion of peace.
And when the North Koreans think, hey, this guy going around with his stupid apology tour, let's really shake him up, and they launch a rocket in the middle of his stupid apology tour, then what does he do?
He says, oh, well, we need to have a world without nuclear weapons, and America needs to lead the way because we're the only country that's used nuclear weapons.
So what's he doing now?
Apologizing for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The projection, the projection of Obama on the world stage is of a man who has no bottom line and can't draw a bottom line.
And what is pitiful about his remarks and his reaction to the North Korean test is not what one crazy lunatic dictator in Pyongyang thinks, but what the other fellows associated with that guy think.
I would find it hard to believe, for example, that the Chinese were not aware in advance of this test.
So-called test.
By the way, we call it a test.
But it's a bit like, you know, if you live next door to a guy and he grabs his shotgun and fires into your kitchen as a test to see whether the bullet will penetrate to your living room.
It's basically that kind of test.
That is the test that Kim Jong-il is engaging in.
He would have no objection if this thing fell and landed on Japan or whatever.
But here's the bigger point.
It's almost certain that Beijing knew about this test in advance.
So that in a sense, going through this diplomatic charade where Obama goes, we need to send a strong message and we need to get the UN Security Council and we need to get who's on the UN Security Council.
Again, it's like the Second World War Victor's Parade preserved in ASPIC.
So you've got the British, you've got the French, you've got the Russians, you've got the Chinese.
The Chinese are the people who prop up the state of North Korea.
They supply the food for North Korea.
There's millions of people starving in that country.
There would be millions more if it weren't for the Chinese.
The Chinese, North Korea is in that sense, a semi-client state of Beijing.
So the Chinese are already on board with this stupid rocket test of the North Koreans.
Obama risks on this trip making himself look ridiculous.
But beyond all that, one can understand why he mutters some State Department mumbo-jumbo in response to it.
But to then go further and talk about a world without nuclear weapons, this is beyond pitiful.
We were talking to Shahad, who's 13.
Shahab, Shahab, I beg your pardon, Shahab, who is 13.
Shahab was a genuinely enthused Obama voter.
And Shahab would have a great reason for standing up in a high school debating class and saying we need to have a world without nuclear weapons.
The President of the United States does not have that excuse.
You cannot uninvent nuclear weapons.
Instead, what's happened is that anybody who's got the cell phone number of AQ Khan in Pakistan and has a few bits and parts that have managed to come his way in the mail from some former Soviet republic, one of these no-name stands in Central Asia where there's all kinds of bits of Soviet this and Soviet that lying around.
Today, anyone can join the nuclear club.
You don't have to be a world power.
And so, as I said in the first hour, we're moving into a world which is absurd on its face, where wealthy nations have no means of defending themselves and basket case states are going nuclear.
And yet, Obama stands up as the world's oldest 13-year-old, stands up in public and commits himself to a world without nuclear weapons in which America is going to lead the way.
That is great news, isn't it?
And I wonder what Kim Jong-il is sitting in his presidential palace.
He must be roaring, it must be funnier than his three Stooges DVDs.
He must be roaring his head off at that.
This is what's going to make Kim Jong-il.
Oh, you're right.
I shouldn't be wasting my time with setting up my typo dong every night of the week.
I should just say, oh yeah, Obama wants to just hold hands and sing of peace and happiness and hope and change.
You know, the Iranians got the message.
The Iranians, what was it, January, two days after his inauguration, the Iranians sent up a satellite and they called it the Persian word for hope.
And the next one they send up will be the Persian word for change.
They've got his measure.
Kim Jong-il's got his measure.
Beijing's got his measure.
Bosco's got his measure.
This is not an encouraging side for the world.
You know, these are serious times.
Essentially, nuclear technology has gone freelance.
There's a very low entry level.
You're dealing with people who are sort of millennial anyway.
When you look at the Iranians, the Iranians don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk.
They blow up.
They blow up community centers in Buenos Aires.
They're responsible for killing American troops in Iraq.
They've destabilized Syria and Lebanon.
They put a bounty on a British novelist and killed his publishers and translators.
This idea that somehow if they go nuclear, you know, what is the first thing that's going to happen in such a scenario?
The first thing that's going to happen is they don't have to use it, by the way.
They don't have to use anything.
It just means that all the sunny Arab dictatorships are now going to be subject to Iranian nuclear blackmail.
It also means that they're going to have far more leverage in controlling the price of oil out of the Straits of Hormuz.
In effect, my friend Rich Lowry in his new novel posits a scenario where they might actually sort of put a toll booth in effect at the end of the Straits of Hormuz and take a cut.
The price of oil would go through the roof.
There would be catastrophic consequences.
We think about these things too narrowly.
What matters for the United States is a simple equation.
How much credibility do you have around the world?
Your credibility gets nibbled away each time you fail to deal with relatively weak threats.
And they don't come any weaker than North Korea.
You're only a superpower as long as you're perceived to be a superpower.
And it's one thing to have a crazy guy loosing off a rocket.
It's quite another thing when the president then commands, essentially upgrades his nuclear braggadochio by saying, oh, well, this demonstrates that we need to have a world without nuclear weapons.
What do you think Medvedev and Putin make of that in Moscow?
They're roaring their heads off with laughter too.
What do you think the Chinese Politburo make of that?
What do you think every crazy no-name nut in the third world makes of that?
What do you think the guys in Sudan think of that?
This is the danger.
The Iranians have offered to share their nuclear technology.
It's all very interrelated, this.
The North Koreans basically supply the delivery systems for Iran.
Iran offers to share the technology with Sudan.
Sudan is a country, a very strange and primitive country.
They hack people to death with machetes.
They had a thing in the capital, Khartoum, a couple of years ago, where there was this scare that sinister foreigners were coming up and shaking your hands with Sudanese men, after which, to put it discreetly, your manhood would disappear.
Your manhood, these Sudanese men were complaining that they'd shake hands with these sinister foreigners and then certain bodily parts would disappear.
And it became a kind of widespread panic in Sudan.
I don't, you know, I'm sympathetic.
The same thing happened to me when I shook hands with Hillary Clinton.
But the point about that is that the panic was spread by cell phones and text messages.
So you've got people who are sophisticated enough to have cell phones and text messages, yet believe that shaking hands with a foreigner can make key bodily parts of yours drop off.
Now, what happens when a culture like that goes nuclear?
Do you think they're going to be subject to the same kind of deterrence restraints that prevailed between East and West during the Cold War?
No, they're not.
They might not use it, or they might use it.
Or they might have a sound reason for using it, or they might use it for a completely nutty reason.
The New York Times argument is that Kim Jong-il is basically just some peripheral crazy.
But that's the point.
He's a peripheral crazy with nuclear weapons.
And that is the world we are building.
A world in which wealthy nations are spending all their money on prescription drugs plans for seniors and nutbar states are spending their money on nuclearizing.
And good luck betting the future on that kind of stability.
Mark Stein, InfraRush, 1-800-282-2882.
We'll take more of your calls on Obama's overseas pilgrimage and the fantastic results that are being seen from Brussels to Pyongyang from the Obama's first trip overseas.
More straight ahead on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
Did you see that story the other day?
The White House offered this special on-the-record briefing call for journalists with Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Secretary of State.
And they gave the phone number that you were supposed to call in to have you on the record briefing call.
And fortunately, they gave the wrong number out.
This is true.
They gave the wrong number out.
And the gentlemen of the press were greeted by this darkly seductive voice, clearly not Secretary Clinton, offering them phone sex and seeking their credit card if they feel like getting nasty.
And of course, you know, the White House subsequently corrected it and gave out the new number.
But what strikes you is that right now it's the rest of the world that is getting nasty and that it would be fine if like if you if the White House is going to give out these phone sex numbers, if the White House is in the like dominatrix role.
But right now it seems to be the rest of the world getting nasty and we're the ones hanging upside down in the bondage dungeon being flogged and humiliated by the rest of the planet.
Let's go to JC in Belton, Texas.
JC, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Mark, great show.
Hey, good to have you with us.
Listen, I've put a couple things together that really I think is a stunning achievement by Obama.
Number one, Kim Jong-il goes ahead and fires his missile.
Obama does nothing.
And he has hinted, perhaps even more stronger than a hint, that with Putin rattling cages, he's going to back down on the anti-missile system that the United States promised Poland.
Right.
So, I mean, that's a stunning achievement that the president of the United States gets rolled by two antagonists on both sides of the same issue.
That's right, because the Russians are no friends of the North Koreans.
What these things have in common, though, is that whatever side of the fence you fall down on on some of these issues, what they have in common is that it's, as you say, Obama who's getting rolled.
And the friends of America, like the Poles and the Czechs and the other Eastern Europeans, who are getting stiffed.
That's also a dangerous message to send out to a world where America could use a few more real friends.
Well, he's not the first Democratic president that has sold Poland down the river.
No, that's true.
Poland has had a tough time.
But the thing about it is if you are a Polish politician, and this is why the Democrats were so irresponsible on their wish to hang Iraq out to dry, too, is that that isn't just about Iraq or just isn't about Poland.
It's not just about the war, nuclear or missile defense.
It sends a broader message to the world about what it means to be America's friend.
And Bernard Lewis, the great scholar of Islam, says that what a lot of these things have in common are that they communicate the message that America is toothless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.
And that is a very dangerous message to risk sending to the world.
And as you say, essentially here, two people who don't get on, Kim Jong-il and Putin, have both managed to roll Obama from different sides.
He's basically like one of those little sort of wagging dog type things.
One of those bendy figures you kind of can whack from either side and he kind of bounces up and whatever.
But he's basically just getting whacked from either side at the moment.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call, JC.
Let's quickly go to Matt in Sparta, New Jersey.
Matt, you want to disagree with Shahab, the 13-year-old we spoke to from California.
Yeah, well, you know what?
The thing, too, now that we're talking more about how Obama is trying to make amends with basically the rest of the world, Democrats need to understand something, and that's you look at history from all time, and there's always been war.
There's always been conflict.
And there's a famous saying that war cannot be avoided.
It can only be postponed.
And that's exactly what they're trying to do.
Because every time a Republican gets in office, there's obviously going to be a conflict that we have to resolve that the Democrats caused.
And if you look in the past, after Bill Clinton, we have George Bush.
Now we have Obama, and then we're going to have another Republican.
And we're just going to have to keep going back and fixing all their problems, which makes the Republican Party look like the mean party.
I like the way you're talking, Matt.
There's nothing wrong with being the mean party, by the way.
How old are you, by the way, Matt?
I'm actually 18, and I'm at Ryder University right now.
Okay, but you're the generation that is lining up to be stiffed by this spending that's going on.
And I think you're right.
You know, by the way, this mean business is right.
I think Republicans should just run with that.
I was talking to a friend who is thinking of running for the state legislature in New Hampshire.
And he wants to run as to neutralize all the thing about being mean-spirited and hard-hearted and uncompassionate.
And he's tired of compassionate conservatism and all the rest of it.
He wants to run as the evil Republican.
I think there might actually be some mileage in that, that embrace your inner evil.
Just have the thing, you know, like the music from jaws, people hissing and booing and giving weird Dr. Evil type cackles.
You might as well run.
If you're designated as the mean evil party, you might as well run with it.
Thanks a lot for your call, Matt.
And I wish you well in your studies.
And thanks for pointing out to Shahab the many areas in which Shahab might be in for disappointment for the Obama years.
But yeah, that's the thing.
Okay, we are mean.
It's a mean world.
And sometimes you need to be mean there if the alternative is Princess Fluffy Bunny wandering around over the planet pledging to surrender American nuclear weapons.
This is just an absurd position for the last superpower to be taking.
It's doing great damage and poses great danger.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush will be back tomorrow and take care of things through the end of the week.
Barack Obama has been attending, what is it called, the Alliance of Civilizations Summit.
That's like real summit one-upmanship, isn't it?
It's like you got the, first you got the G6, what is it, the G5, then the G7, then they've got the G20 summit and the European Union summit.
Now he's gone to this Alliance of Civilizations summit in Istanbul.
I don't know which he's presumably representing Western civilization, I assume, although you can't tell from a lot of these speeches.
But he said on Monday that, quote, the United States, that's, according to the Associate Press, President Obama making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, basically did this whole Islam is a religion a peace thing and said nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile, CBS News reports that a man carrying an Al Jazeera TV ID card confessed after his arrest that he was planning on stabbing the U.S. president with a knife during the Alliance of Civilizations summit, adding that he had three other accomplices to help him execute his plan.
And President Obama has been doing a great job, terrific job, winning the hearts and minds of people around the world.
Unfortunately, with this guy, he won his heart and mind, but he didn't win his knife-wielding hand.
And so this guy and three others have been arrested with a plan to stab the U.S. press.
He turns out to be an Al Jazeera.
He turns out to be an Al Jazeera journalist planning to be president.
You know, I miss the old days when the only journalist planning on stabbing to be the president worked for American newspapers.
That was the way it worked a couple of months back.
Let's go to Victor in Florida.
Victor, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Great to talk to you, Mark.
I am a huge fan.
I read everything you write, and I try to catch all your appearance on TV.
I wish you had your own show.
Oh, I don't know.
I'm just like a crazy misanthropic writer.
Like to come down from the hills once in a while, but it's great to be here.
I think you're brilliant.
I think you really are the most brilliant voice.
It's a comment.
I agree 100% with your comments and your opinion on Obama's trip.
I want to bring up a little tidbit, which probably you already known, is about Obama's interview, a press conference interview in Strasbourg, where he was asked a question by someone from Austrian TV.
Oh, right.
And he, yeah, his answer was sort of, it was rambling on and on, and then he was trying to sort of make a point of some people like they used to be sort of like willing and dealing types in the past.
And he was trying to express it in a way where the Austrian interviewer will understand.
And he used the word sort of like, well, I don't know what it sounds like in Austrian, willing and dealing.
So the great leader, the Obama Messiah, just invented a new language.
Yeah, good faith.
Good faith.
It could have been worse.
He could have said, I don't know what the expression is in Australian, which would have complicated things even more.
But you're right.
This is the kind of remark that if Bush had said that or Dan Quaylebin said that, they would have powered, you know, that fellow, that guy at Slate, who is still doing Bushisms, by the way, you know, Slate on the internet did the Bushism of the day every day for eight years.
And you thought, well, okay, now we're in the post-Bush era.
We got this new president, but they're still doing the Bushisms of the day.
That ought to be an Obama-ism of the day if there was a level playing field on this.
But we now know that Barack Obama, who told us all to learn another language, does not speak Austrian.
Did he speak any other languages on this trip?
I don't know.
Maybe I don't know with a forked tongue, but I'm just, you know, the videos, I think, on Red Slate or Hot Hair, one of those sites.
He speaks with forked tongue.
That is actually European.
If you look at Jacques Chirac, Dominique de Villepin, they've all got that forked.
They've all got that forked tongue.
The whole bilingual thing, they used to mock Bush for that.
Actually, Bush was very game with things, but they used to, when he'd go to these foreign countries, but they always just used, you know, he'd say he'd be having dinner with Jacques Chirac, and he'd go, the waiter would ask what they wanted, and he'd go, oh, quesqueur la soup du jour.
And Chirac would go, it means soup of the day, idiot.
And He was just mocked for all his efforts to try and blend in.
But actually, you know, when people talk about foreign languages, Obama has had more opportunity to learn a foreign language.
He's been to these elite institutions.
He's had one of the world's most fantastically expensive educations.
Why is he telling, you know, minimum wage people with high school educations that they need to learn a foreign language?
He's had every opportunity to learn a foreign language, including all these years when he was a community organizer, which has never struck me as being the most onerous job in the world.
And yet he doesn't speak Spanish, he doesn't speak French.
And as you say, as he's just announced to his European audience, he doesn't even speak Austrian.
I think that isn't that yodeling.
Isn't that those Heidi's goat herds?
Was Heidi Switzerland?
Yeah, no, Austria is the sound of music.
That's right.
It's like yodeling on the top of the mountain.
High on a hill was a lonely goat herd.
That's how you speak Austrian for the Obama's next visit.
So yodel your way through the press conference and everything will be fine.
Let's go to Carl in Queens, in the great city of New York, home of the flagship studios of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Carl, you're on the Rush Limbo show.
Hello, Mark.
I'd like to make a couple of comments.
I think what you said about the president being rolled by North Korea and Russia is wrong and irresponsible and dangerous too.
And I'll tell you why.
Number one, if we had taken out that rocket by North Korea that happened to just fall harmlessly into the ocean and a million North Korean troops started pouring across the border into South Korea, I wonder what your comments would have been today.
And number two, as far as Russia and this ABM satellite thing that we were going to put in Poland, I wonder how you would feel if the Russians came to Mexico and Canada with the same idea about putting some kind of ABM radar on our border.
I don't think we'd be too happy.
So, I mean, you know, you got to really look at what you say because there are consequences to these things.
You just can't, you know, shoot first and ask questions later.
We did that in Iraq, and you gotta rush seven to eight years later.
Well, hang on a second.
What we've done, what we've done in Iraq is replaced a dictator who was gaming the United Nations and harboring terrorists and had significant regional ambitions above many things.
Well, it doesn't matter.
The point is, it doesn't matter the reason we let's say now that Saddam Hussein had still been in power or that one of his even more psychotic sons, Uday or Kusay, was running the joint.
You wish they were?
Hey, thank you for your call, Carl.
Hey, New Yorkers for Uday and Kusay.
Marvelous.
You know, you know, people who don't wish they were the Iraqis who participated in that poll.
This is the unrealism of realists.
People think this is cynical.
This is what it involves to be a realist.
This is what it means to be Brent Scowcroft and James Bacon to look at the world in this big new Brzezinski and to look at this world in this cynical realist way.
When you have, there's no such thing as stability, by the way.
When you leave people like Saddam Hussein, Uday, and Kuse, look at this guy, Kim Jong-il.
He's not the original dictator.
He's an hereditary dictator.
Same guy, same with Junior Assad in Syria.
He's an hereditary dictator.
If you'd had hereditary dictators in Iraq, too, that is dangerous for the region, dangerous for its neighbors.
At some point, realism involves drawing a line.
You can't, if you're a serious power, you cannot let guys just basically take, even if they're just throwing tin cans at you, at some point you've got to say, no, you can't throw tin cans at the superpower.
Because all you do if you just let them carry on like that is increase the level of provocation that they move to.
What happened was, what happened in the 1990s was that Osama bin Laden kept trying to get America's attention.
He blew up American embassies.
He hit American ships.
He hit American barracks overseas, overseas, overseas.
And in a famous statement, Bill Cohen, President Clinton's Defense Secretary, says, and I forget whether it was Bill Cohen or Sandy Berger, the guy with the secret papers stuffed down his pants and in his socks, but whether it was the Pantsy Man, the Sandy Pants, or Bill Cohen.
one of them said that this does not rise to the level of response.
Osama bin Laden was like a guy in the back of the restaurant trying to catch the head waiter's eye, and he couldn't do it.
He kept killing people at U.S. embassies, U.S. ships, U.S. barracks, and America did nothing.
So then he said, okay, we're really going to have to do something to get his attention, and they did.
Serious powers lose credibility if they allow themselves to be mocked and nibbled away at with impunity.
More straight ahead on the EIB network.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network.
Just seen this item.
This is how you know the bailout is really working.
Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett, he's like one of, what is he, one of the three richest guys on the planet, promoted the Troubled Assets Relief Program and lambasted the greed on Wall Street.
Yet he is one of the main benefactors of the TARP Largesse, according to a Sacramento Bee story.
That's terrific now.
TARP money going to Warren Buffett.
That's great.
That's terrific.
There's nothing, there's no activity that is profitable in America any longer unless Michelle Obama, you've got a sweater and Michelle Obama wears it.
You've got a new type of firearm and Michelle Obama models it.
You've got a Chevy Trailblazer and she rides around on top of it, waving out of it.
Other than that, now Warren Buffett is benefiting.
He's taking money from TARP.
This is terrific.
This is great news.
One day, one day, we'll all of us be in TARP on the TARP.
What is it?
The toxic assets?
What's the RP stand for?
Troubled assets.
Oh, it's troubled assets.
I thought it was toxic assets.
I'd say, yeah.
That's great.
It's toxic the next stage after troubled.
You're just troubled.
Wasn't that what Tom Daschell used to say?
He was always troubled.
It's like President Bush would announce he was going to invade Iraq, and Tom Daschell would announce he was troubled about it.
I don't even know what is a troubled asset.
Is that like Tom Daschell's driver and chauffeur?
But then you go beyond that and you become a toxic asset.
Let's go to Brad in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Brad, you are the Rush Limbo show.
Great to have you with us.
Well, thank you very much, sir.
And I believe you're the author of America Alone.
That's right.
I came across that book by accident, a happy accident, not on purpose, and I'm so glad I did because it brings me to your concept of American exceptionalism.
But also, you say in here, Islam is now the principal supplier of new Europeans and currently the second biggest supplier of new Canadians, so it's worth mulling over, which brings to babies in the cradle, make boots on the ground 18 years later, as you pointed out with the Checheny, with the Russian army.
And my question actually goes to a fact that America is going to be alone unless we stop abortion.
The importance of being exceptional.
If no one is exceptional, we go nowhere as a civilization, as a humanity.
But if America maintains its exceptionality, we can go somewhere.
Please comment.
Yeah, and you're right.
What is distressing to me is that America is now embracing what I believe to be the same death spiral as Canada and Europe and other Western nations, which would be a disaster.
Now, something's changed, by the way, since you pointed out in my book that I say Islam is the biggest supplier of new Europeans, biggest supplier of new Russians, the second biggest supplier of Canadians.
That's the way it was a couple of years ago.
Now Islam is now the biggest supplier of new Canadians now.
It used to be China, but all the ambitious entrepreneurial Chinese guys started going, the young hot Chinese guys started going back to Shaghai and Beijing because they figured you had more economic opportunity under a ruthless communist dictatorship than in the Dominion of Canada.
It's a tragedy, but apparently that's the case.
So Islam is now the biggest supplier of new Canadians.
The birth rate is critically important here.
The fertility rate.
If you don't have, you know, the future belongs to those who show up for it.
And Europeans have decided not to show up.
I mentioned that statistic earlier.
30% of German women are childless.
These people cannot just simply spend their way out of it because they haven't got anybody to pay the debt off.
Now, you can say, well, so what?
What does that matter?
Well, it matters because lots of us, you know, lots of people take out big loans.
When you get a credit card offer in the mail, a lot of people say, wow, that's great.
I've got like a $10,000 limit on this credit card.
I'm pre-approved.
Who cares if I can pay it off?
You have to have somebody willing to give you the credit card in the first place.
And the problem for much of the world right now is that they know the Chinese, who are the only guys talking any sense at this G20 summit, the Chinese who are the big buyers of Western debt, know that the Europeans haven't got enough children to be able to afford their government programs.
If they make that same calculation about the United States, then we are done.
We are through.
We are over.
I believe in American exceptionalism.
And the basic definition, you know, if you want a crude definition of American exceptionalism, it's this.
Find out everything that the European Union's in favor of and do the opposite.
That's a great place to start.
Brad, thanks very much for your call.
We'll be back with more straight ahead on the EIB network.
Hey, I just saw the Al Franca Norm Coleman Senate race in Minnesota.
There's been some exciting new development in that.
I'm really hoping they'll have the recount done in time for the, what is it, the 2010 election or 2012 at any rate.
Good news, the Minnesota recount is still going on.
Mark sign in for Russia.
I'd like to leave you with one final thought.
Go Chok Tong, the Prime Minister of Singapore, came to Washington in 2004, asked about the Iraq war, and said it's not about WMD or the role of the UN or anything like that.
He said, quote, the central issue is America's credibility and will to prevail, unquote.
That's the issue with all these things, missile defense in Eastern Europe and the North Korean nukes and all the rest of it.
And what do you think this European tour has told the world about President Obama?
This has been Mark Sun.
I gotta go.
The Border Patrol's banging at the door.
Your undocumented anchor man is out of here.
And don't forget that coming back in to take care of the rest of the week, Rush will be here.
Rush had a great line the other day.
He was quoting Larry King, and Larry King was saying, we've got 300 million Americans in this country.
We can't all be individuals.
Somebody's got to take care of the masses.
No, the problem we're in is because of thinking like that.
You let 300 million people calculate their own best interests, and you'll have a great, dynamic, thriving society.
Rush is right on that.
He'll be back with you tomorrow.
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