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July 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchor Man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
Uh Rush will be back on Monday.
Tomorrow, Mark Davis will be here, and uh he'll have Scott Rasmussen, the pollster in to talk about these uh falling Obama poll numbers and also uh Republican Congressman Mike Pence will uh be here.
Uh uh in uh in uh in in other news.
The uh the Reverend Al Sharpton has called on the U.S. Postal Service to issue a Michael Jackson stamp.
And is also pushing for a national day of mourning.
Uh I don't know why we don't do just we well, what is it?
We've had twelve days of national mourning now, haven't we?
Why don't we uh this is more than uh Iran had for Ayatollah Homeini, and on the whole that was actually more dignified.
Uh why do we just uh cut to the uh cut to the chase and stick him on Mount Rushmore, moonwalking over Teddy Roosevelt's head?
Uh Sheila Jackson Lee uh has ignited a fierce debate.
Democrat of Texas.
She spoke at the uh Michael Jackson Memorial, has ignited a fierce debate by calling on Congress to recognize Jackson as a quote global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises, unquote, and celebrate the King of Pop as an accomplished contributor to the worlds of art and entertainment, scientific advances, and global food security.
Uh the resolution, which was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the day after Jackson's death, uh lists the singer's accomplishments in detail and also cites his humanitarian work, including his 1984 visit to a burn unit at a Los Angeles hospital.
Uh uh but unfortunately.
Actually, what was he going to the burn unit for?
Well, that didn't it wasn't that around the time he got he got burned?
Uh yeah, that's right.
That's right.
So it's not clear to me from this whether that was the burn unit he went uh to for treatment or he was just visiting one for old time's sake afterwards.
I don't understand.
Anyway, uh Sheila Jackson Lee s has herself been the subject of controversy regarding her speaking engagements at funerals.
Did you know that?
I love that.
That's great.
Who knew that was a category?
You know it's right Controversial funeral speaker, Sheila Jackson Lee.
Uh the Texas Democrat reportedly asked aides to quote, cull the obituaries for funerals at which the Texas Democrat could speak, according to a reported The Houston Chronicle.
One told friends of taking her to five funerals in one day.
That's right, the big new Hollywood film, The Funeral Crasher, with uh Sheila Jackson Lee.
And of having of uh uh of hating to have to ask the families if they would allow her to speak.
You th the Houston Chronicle reporter Rick Casey writes, uh the request, please sub, he said, but angered others.
I did I had no idea that.
You know, the I didn't know you could book Sheila Jackson Lee for your funeral.
Is the uh you know, i is it just the uh eulogy and is the congressional resolution extra, or is it all part of one big uh Sheila Jackson Lee funeral package?
You know, I think it's nice of her to cruise the funeral parlors uh looking for business.
Um maybe it's time to get a thing like the organ donor card you can keep in your wallet.
Uh, you know, in the event of my death, uh I do not want Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee speaking at my funeral.
Uh but uh apparently uh that she's leading the charge now to get this congressional resolution honoring Michael Jackson as the greatest humanitarian who ever lived because of this uh visit to a burn unit uh in nineteen eighty-four.
Uh and uh he may also be on a a stamp and there may for the Reverend Sharpton gets it away be a national day of mourning.
Uh and why not we should just go for the National Month of Mourning, I think.
Uh we've been talking about Obama's poll numbers.
Uh and we will have more on that tomorrow with Mark Davis uh talking to Scott Rasmussen.
Uh but there is there they're they're they're interesting.
And what's interesting is the movement of independence away from Obama.
The so-called moderate centrists are the ones who are beginning uh to drift and to head off in another direction.
Uh so let's take a call from Jeremy in Los Angeles uh and see what uh Jeremy has to think about it.
Jeremy, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you uh great to have you with us.
Thanks, Mark.
Hey, I hear you all the time on a local show out here.
Oh, do you?
Are you are you anywhere near the Staples Center right now, by the way?
Yeah, I just passed it.
Oh, right, right.
So is the clear up going well?
Uh yeah, thank God, yeah.
It was uh actually it was really overblown.
There was nowhere near the crowd that said that was gonna be there.
I go through there all the time in the morning.
So it's only it's only gonna be uh a couple of hundred extra million on the municipal tax bill, nothing for you to worry about.
Drop in the ocean compared to the good to our uh our mayor here is already soliciting donations from fans, which is uh incredible.
But uh that's just for the Michael Jackson cleanup, not for California in general, is it?
Because if if we could get Michael Jackson fans to pay off California as a whole, that I would be in favor of a National Day of Mourning, then.
That would be a great idea.
That would be a great idea.
Yeah, unfortunately I don't think that's gonna happen.
Hey, um I called because you were talking about Obama, his numbers, you were actually soliciting supporters.
Uh I am not, but I wanted to make the point that uh the ship was already listing very hard.
And we had TARP one before Obama was elected.
That's true.
And and and not only that, and so then we had the follow-up stimulus, we had the follow-up TARP, and we're probably gonna have something else.
And my point in calling was that there's no difference.
The n the the new boss looks just like the old boss.
There's no the these guys wouldn't have been doing anything differently to date.
I would even argue that cap and trade would be on the table.
And not only that, but I've been hearing people talk about cap and trade, and no one read the bill before they voted on it and everything.
Hey, nobody's read the Patriot Act.
And they just were squeezed to vote on that.
And in fact, and in fact, John McCain was boasting at one point that he hadn't read his own immigration bill, which was called what was that called?
The McCain, whatever bill, who who was that?
The McCain Kennedy.
Yeah, he hadn't read his own bill, even if it's got his own name on.
Uh and uh that it that is uh true.
It's also true, I think, that McCain uh had he won in November, the first thing he would have done would have been Mr. Bipartisan and reached across the aisle with some hugely uh uh elaborate government cap and trade scheme, uh energy scheme, or immigration scheme, or on something else that would have annoyed uh conservatives and Republicans just as much uh as what Obama's doing.
And you're right to say that that first uh bailout in September opened the floodgates for everything that followed.
In a sense, uh d Obama could paint what he was doing in January, the stimulus type stuff, as the continuation of of what was going on in the f previous fall.
Mark, they're surrounded by the same people.
You know, uh it's the same there's no there seriously, there is no difference between these two administrations to date.
Well, if you I'm sorry.
No, no.
Here's the difference though, Jeremy, is uh i i is that uh it you can say the cars were heading in the same direction, but Obama has put his foot on the accelerator.
And that's the that I think is the difference, is that uh is that whatever one feels about spending during the Bush years, a lot of which a huge amount of which was wasted, and a lot of which damaged the uh completely damaged the credibility of the Republican Party.
Obama has done all that, but put his foot on the gas as well.
And the and and the difference is uh w uh and the lesson of that I think is that uh if if it's the choice if two p parties are heading in the same direction, uh you might as well vote for the party that's gonna be the express train to that direction rather than the guys who are just sort of chugging along, but basically taking to you to the same point.
Well, let me ask you one more question, Mark.
Is is it really worth right now the ten billion dollar a month plus to be in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan?
Is this uh are we fighting are we're seriously fighting a war on an emotion.
Is this really worth it?
Do these do these countries have flotillas of ships?
Do they have let's take that point.
America is never going to face an enemy with flotillas of ships, ever.
Uh America spends uh m uh uh more than the next forty countries uh combined in its total military spending.
It spends not just more than uh Russia, France, China, Britain uh combined, but going down all the way down the mid-level, low level countries as well.
It's a hu it spends a huge amount.
And the consequence of that is that nobody's ever going to be uh at war with you in flotillas of ships.
Uh nobody's ever going to be uh firing uh planes off the coast of uh of of Florida.
I mean uh a rogue nuke from North Korea is a possibility, something like that.
But conventional war fought with conventional armies is not.
Now what you're saying to me is uh about Iraq and Afghanistan is are Iraq and Afghanistan worth it?
Well again that depends on w what the war aim is, what the strategic goal is, and whether it's realizable.
And I've never had a clear answer uh when people have asked Obama, I've never heard a clear answer on what he regards as the strategic goal in Afghanistan.
We know he's not in favor of the war in Iraq.
Uh he is in favor of the war in Afghanistan, but it is not clear to me what he thinks is is the goal there.
What do you think his goal is there, Jeremy?
Uh you know what?
I honestly I'm one of those guys.
I'm I'm I'm a Ron Paul supporter, so I'm I'm out there on the edge.
Uh I don't think there's any difference.
I think it's about advancement of territory, empire, I do not take it I'm I'm a son of empire.
Empire empire is one thing I know about and uh it's the the Americans are the least imperial people on the planet.
America does not America does not have a non uh does not have an imperialist bone in its body.
That's why uh after two hundred and uh thirty years, what have you acquired?
Guam.
Guam.
That's uh if you if you uh when I was a kid we had uh maps in the classroom uh showing the parts of the British Empire marked in red.
Uh and let me tell you that was one big serious red state included Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, large chunks of the Pacific.
That's uh that's an imperialist nation.
America is not like that.
So when it goes into somewhere like Iraq and Afghanistan, it goes in with far more limited aims.
And you can argue about whether those aims are limited.
But the idea where I park company with Ron Paul.
Ron Paul talks uh you know a lot of sense on fiscal issues and things.
But the idea that you can have an in the modern world you can have an isolationist superpower uh that can hold the entire planet at bay that can retreat within Fortress America.
What fortress?
This is a country that cannot even hold two relatively benign neighbors at bay.
Uh uh fifty percent of the population of Mexico is now living in your state of California and one hundred percent of every bad Canadian idea has seeped south of the 49th parallel so that now in America it seems entirely normal to be talking about confiscatory taxation and socialized health care.
You c the Fortress America delusion, the Fortress America delusion uh the isolationist republic far from the cares of the world, uh which was a valid concept in the early nineteenth century, uh does not work now.
Go ahead, have at me, Jeremy.
I I just want to make another point that that what I meant more so but instead of empire was more for that if you are not part of the global community, the n the new world order if you will, then you are in the crosshair.
And clearly you have Pakistan which is autonomous.
They don't want to play with the rest of the world.
They do their own thing.
Now they're getting bombed regularly.
Iraq uh Saddam Hussein was getting ready to peg his his uh oil off the Euro and all of a sudden boom he's in the crosshairs and every everybody that has an independent spirit whether or not they're corrupt, awful, evil, whatever, if you don't play with the globalists, you're going down.
And that's clearly what has happened here.
The new world order is in full effect.
Well well thanks for thanks for that point uh Jeremy.
Look, r realistically, there's lots of places in the world that don't attract the world's attention.
In Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe can starve all the people he want, nobody cares.
In uh in Sudan, uh the guys can machete each other to death, nobody cares.
In the Congo, millions and millions of people die in the Congo and it doesn't make page thirty seven of the newspaper because it's got nothing to do with George W. Bush.
There the the reality Is there isn't uh some uh kind of globalized conspiracy against free spirited maverick uh world leaders in North Korea or Pakistan.
Uh the fact is that most of these guys get on with killing and torturing uh people all the time they want when they want, uh without anybody bothering about them.
The issue is when uh the what's debatable is when there is a strategic issue there of interest to the rest of the world, uh is there any kind of c coordinated ability to act?
And the truth is uh there isn't.
Saddam Hussein, the world was opposed to what Bush did in uh in uh in Iraq.
Pakistan essentially uh is not a functioning state, and the and the guy who runs it uh can't can't enforce his sovereignty over over territory from which attacks are launched on American troops.
These are like very particular things.
But if you're just like a nickel and dime dictator and you want to kill people and not attract the Americans' attention, uh or the so-called New World Order's attention, it's still very easy to do so.
Mark Stein sitting in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
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Let's go to Joe in uh Detroit, Michigan, land of the telegenic Canadian governor.
Joe, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Regard from what I call no mo town.
Yeah, no mo town.
Or the motorless city.
Yeah, that's right.
It's a when you fly over at night over the inner city of Detroit, it's looking like North Korea now.
The lights are out, nobody's hope.
That's about right.
Uh okay, Joe, what's what's your point?
Well, there's one huge difference between George Bush and Matarp and all this Democrat boondoggle mouth.
And that is, you know, we always heard from the Democrats how dumb and stupid George Bush was, and anything he did couldn't possibly be right.
But they want to continue the TARP and spend policies.
So one time I want to agree with him, he was dumb, he was stupid.
We as conservatives agree TARP was dumb and stupid.
Republicans to a lesser extent.
But the major difference was George W. Bush had to be convinced to do it against his better judgment by Paulson and Bernacke.
He went against what would have been a conservative better judgment to do so because of the uh chicken little sky is falling, you've got to do this, or the country's gonna go to heck and a hand back.
I was opposed to this thing at the time.
I just I simply didn't believe it.
You the old thing, uh, what is it, when uh General Motors sneezes, America catches a cold.
And uh the the idea now that when AIG sneezes, the entire planet comes down with the Ebola virus.
I wasn't persuaded of that logic, but George W. Bush was.
He said this sucker he was talking about capitalism.
He said this sucker is going down.
And I think I think that that was a bad move to let himself be shanghaid by Paulson.
Uh and we can't really use that phrase.
In the end it's his administration and he has to take responsibility for for that first uh TARP thing last fall.
Uh but there but there is a broader lesson, I think, here, and that is uh that voters want a two-party system.
A two-party system doesn't function if you've got a one and a half party system.
And I have a basic lesson on a lot of this stuff is that when uh when when you have this so-called bipartisan agreement, in other words, when both parties are in favor of something, that's when my eyebrows starts twitching upwards, uh and I get very suspicious.
Because generally, if the entire governing class is in favor of something, uh you the citizen ought to be uh ought to be very uh skeptical of it.
Uh but uh but uh in essence uh the the point that was being made by Jeremy is that uh McCain would be doing half this stuff too, and uh do you disagree with that part, Joe?
Unfortunately, I cannot disagree with that as much as I would like to.
No, that's uh that's that's the sad lesson there.
And I think that's why there was enthusiasm for Sarah Palin.
Whatever anyone says about Sarah Palin, the only moment I enjoyed in the 2008 campaign uh was going to see uh Sarah Palin speak in uh Laconia, New Hampshire, because it it she was uh the nearest we came to getting a real two-party choice uh in the last election.
And that's the danger of uh socialized health care.
When once you get socialized health care, the relationship between The citizen and the state has been so distorted that you don't have seriously conservative government again, and you'll have the kind of conservative parties you have in continental Europe or in Canada uh for for much of modern history where their their sole remaining rationale is that they tell the voters they can run the left wing state better that more efficiently than the left can.
They can do a better job the right can do a better job of running the left wing state.
So if you want a functioning two-party system uh now and in the future, you've got to stop this socialized health care thing because that is a game changer and it's a permanent game changer.
Uh and that's why there's no the idea of sort of accommodating, meeting them halfway on this, uh these so-called soft wimpy reform plans, uh, are not gonna do it.
You've got to kill this thing dead, or it will be a game changer that makes genuine conservative government impossible uh to all intents and purposes.
Lots more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away.
This is your undocumented anchor man.
Uh good news, good news.
The the bloom may be off the Obama Rose, but a new savior has offered himself.
Uh Alec Baldwin has expressed interest in running for the Senate.
Maybe in Connecticut, he says against Joe Lieberman, uh, or maybe in some other state.
I mean, it doesn't really matter, does it?
I mean, he can just pick a state and and be elected there.
He's a very winning uh charming uh well, yeah, he used to be a charming.
I'm thinking of those early films where you used to uh what was he was writhing around naked on top of uh what's her name?
Ann H. And uh the one where he was uh w uh and then oh yeah, what what was it what was his wife called uh uh back then?
Uh Kim Basinger, that's right.
And that one where they're on the getaway.
They the get the remake of the Steve McQueen film, and they're basically writhing around naked, uh they're on the lamb, but they stop for a sex scene every twelve minutes.
That's the whole film, basically.
Uh so um so who knows, that may be a winning platform in the America of uh two thousand and nine.
I don't know.
He'd be the first senator to have done uh nude films uh since John Edwards.
So that would be uh that would be a uh uh uh uh a great great uh full full disclosure.
That would be a great, uh great uh moment for America.
Uh and uh would demonstrate we were getting even more uh sophisticated and continental, because uh like France only has a first lady who's who's uh been uh photographed nude, so we would have an actual Senator if we had uh Alec Baldwin.
So that's great news.
Uh let us uh go to Justin in uh Reno, Nevada.
Uh and uh Justin, is it is it true that you were an Obama voter last November?
Yes, I was.
And why did you vote for uh President O uh Senator Obama as he then was?
Yeah, um I'll I'll go straight across with it.
I didn't want I felt McCain was another Bush and I wasn't nothing to do with it.
So you basically voted uh for Obama because he was not Bush and you felt McCain was.
And did you pay any attention?
Yeah, carry on.
Um I feel that uh uh Hillary had my vote off the top.
When her and Bill came at this man like a high school couple, uh, you know, it's really blew me off the map, you know, and I was like, what's going on?
You know, wait, wait a minute.
Wait a minute, when you're accusations against the man that I didn't even know were true.
None of us knew who he was, really.
Exactly, and that's the point.
When when uh Hillary whatever and incidentally, whatever Hillary Clinton uh side said about Obama wasn't anything like what uh uh other Democrats were doing to Hillary once she they decided she was a loser.
Poor old Rush was her only friend in the on the entire continental United States at one point.
Um but but what you must have liked something about him.
It can't j it can't just be the fact that uh he was appealingly amorphous to you.
What what what was it what was it that uh that made you decide?
There must have been a positive reason.
There must have been something he said that you liked.
When Hillary and Bill started going after him like this was a high school election, uh, you know, I I needed something from him, and he gave me something.
He said that he wasn't gonna give a special tax to the factories overseas.
Well, wait a minute, when he says he wasn't gonna work in my life, and that's something that uh touched me one day when our Vietnam vet got uh a little upset that uh all the furniture in the warehouse, especially the box that said that Vietnam on it, and it's true.
All of our stuff, a lot of it, almost everything is made overseas.
Yeah, but why is that?
Why is that?
Because the greed Americans, a lot of them, those democrats and Republicans, they're greedy and their greed is exceeding the need of the people.
Yeah, now now what you have, let's uh put that aside for one moment.
Let's take it as uh red that uh people in business are greedy.
What what we now have with this cap and trade thing, for example, is the United States government imposing more costs, more regulations on business.
So you say you don't like the way your furniture's made overseas.
Where do you think once cap and trade is in, uh, once uh American businesses are being more regulated and more taxed, where do you think stuff's gonna be made from now on?
Well, you know something?
Right about now, to me, we live in corporatism.
You know, it's part of the corporate structure of mass confusion.
You know, I don't know where this is gonna go.
I only know where it's at right now.
So, yeah, maybe the man attracted me with that, and maybe you're telling me that uh he's going in the wrong direction.
Believe me.
I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I mentioned this yes I mentioned this yesterday, Tim Horton's Donuts, a Delaware corporation reorganizing itself as a Canadian corporation.
So it's not just the chair you're sitting in that's gonna be made overseas, the donut you're chewing as you sit in the chair is gonna be made overseas.
Uh that's that's how b it's gonna it'll be still be called a Boston cream donut, but in reality it'll be a Winnipeg cream donut.
This this is the world, this is the world that Obama is making.
That if I take your point that if you are if you are concerned uh about if you're concerned uh uh about uh employment and American industry and about it being uh worthwhile running a business in this country, then nothing Obama is doing is gonna do anything for that.
Why do you think unemployment's going up?
Who's hiring now?
Nobody.
I drive a cab.
You're telling me I get everybody in my cab.
I get everybody's feedback.
I know what's going on, and it's not good.
No, well, you're lucky people can still afford to take a cab.
If the Democrats get serious about all this stuff they always propose every every election, you know, light rail projects from Dead Skunk Creek, Nevada, uh to Moose Jawbone, Maine, once they get serious about that, n then there ain't gonna be any cabs or cab drivers anymore.
Uh the the the lesson here, Justin, is uh don't just follow a politician who talks about the issue you're concerned about.
Follow where his thought processes are gonna lead.
Because if you're worried about American jobs and American industry and America making things, then uh uh what this uh stupid cap and trade bill is gonna do is gonna turn America into Vermont.
Nobody makes stuff in Vermont.
Vermont is about boutique businesses.
Uh Howard Dean, when he was running for president, said uh Vermont is the way America should be.
Well, if it is, we're all doomed.
Because you can't you can't start a business and make anything big uh in Vermont.
Uh you can you can do Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
Uh you can you can do the Vermont Castings wood stoves, you can do the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
Yeah, that's right, actually.
You can run a fudge shop in Vermont.
Homemade homemade fudge.
And in fact, the Vermont State Fair, Tunbridge, uh the World's Fair in Tunbridge, Vermont.
I always remember the little sign they got there.
Uh don't don't poke the fudge.
It's a very in the little homemade fudge thing.
Because you know what it's like.
It's but it's like boutique fudge.
It's not boutique fudge.
It's boutique fudge.
And Ben and Jerry's now.
Uh Ben and Jerry's is now part of Unilever, a uh British Dutch uh multinational.
Uh I I Ben or Jerry, uh one of them didn't like it, but uh either way they went along with it, and uh so Ben and Jerry's is uh now part of Unilever.
It's really uni Ben or Jerry Lever or whatever.
The Vermont Castings wood stoves.
I couldn't believe this.
I I was sucking, I thought, oh, this is nice and homemade and Vermonty.
I'll buy a nice homemade Vermonty w uh wo uh ca Vermont Castings wood stove.
It'll be all nice and Vermonty in New Englandy.
They're made in Mississauga, Ontario.
They're owned, they're owned by a company in Ontario.
They're really it comes with this label on uh saying C A H H or something, and you think, wait a minute, there's no V for m Vermont in that, and it stands for something like Canadian Affordable Home Heating, which is their parent company.
The fact is, uh all you have when you when you overregulate business, you wind up with boutique business.
Uh so you don't have Hershey's chocolate bars.
You you have Grandma's homemade Vermont fudge company.
Uh you you uh and eventually uh the big multinational buys up a grandma's homemade Vermont fudge company uh because it's easier uh to pay some guy in China seven cents an hour to play grandma, you put a bit of makeup on them, they can do the TV commercials, and they can and you can still have your cute homemade uh fudge company.
So if you're interested, if you're interested in having world companies that uh that make things and sell things around the planet, uh then regulating the life out of America uh out out of American capitalism is the last way to do it.
So you should have paid attention, uh, Justin in Reno uh when not just the fact that he seemed to be worried.
I don't know.
As far as I can tell, uh what's the evidence that there's American furniture in in Obama's pad in Chicago?
I don't know.
Who knows what he's he's sitting on?
Uh his uh his uh delightful uh first lady has been going around with a six thousand dollar alligator clutch in um in on her tour of r to take a stroll in the Russian woods to go for tea at Putin's Dachau or whatever she was doing.
She had this uh six thousand dollar alligator clutch.
Now what's the likelihood that that's made in Michigan?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I wouldn't put it very high, though.
That's the thing.
You wind up with boutique businesses and eventually, as in Vermont, the boutique businesses all wind up owned by sinister Europeans and sinister Canadians.
Uh thank you for call, Justin.
Uh Mark Stein sitting in for rush on the Rush Limbaugh show.
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We've been talking about regrets.
Regrets, do you have a few?
Uh and let's hope they're not too few to mention, and you will be happy to talk about them with us.
Jen from Gillette, Wyoming uh is calling.
And Jen, you're also an Obama voter, I gather.
Yes, I uh I did vote for him last November, and I absolutely regret it now.
Why did you vote for him then?
Let's get that off the table first.
Well, you know, he's preaching change and uh he's gonna do all these great things and he's but wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Any politician can preach change.
Paul Pott believed in change.
He believed in uh change by killing millions of people.
You know, i it's the the question is not change.
The question is what kind of change.
Right.
Well, I mean, I don't know.
I guess most of it was the fact that I was blinded by um the prospect of having a non-caucasian president.
You know, and I think a lot of people were blinded by that too, that we weren't actually listening to what he was saying.
Now d now do you you're do you have that bumper sticker that I see on a lot of Obama voters' cars when you come up behind them, they got that thing, my vote made history on it.
In other words, they made the point you're making that they voted for the first non-Caucasian president, and that is that's that was the determining factor and all and the confiscatory taxation and the government health care and the double digit unemployment was all peripheral.
They didn't pay any attention to that.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that that is a possibility, you know.
I mean, I think people were so excited that we even had a non-caucasian person running for president that, you know.
Well what what's the solution then for the for the Republican Party?
Does that mean that if they let's say in 2012, 2016, they just run some middle-aged white guy, are they gonna uh they're gonna get clobbered again because that'll just be too dull and boring?
Well, uh hopefully people have learned their lesson from this, you know.
I mean, this is the opposite of the so-called colorblind society, because you're basically saying you like the idea, which a lot of people did.
You like the idea of having uh uh uh of having a the first black president.
And uh uh McCain made this worse uh in in that characteristic way he has of actually making things worse when he said he told people you've got nothing to fear from a President Obama.
I think he said that at one of the debates or at one uh campaign rally.
So basically he's saying, look, you've got a you've you've got a a cho uh choice between an old cranky white guy and this super cool black dude.
Uh so if you're attracted to the super cool black dude on aesthetic reasons, uh then you certainly don't have anything to fear on policy.
He basically liberated people to do what do what you did and and vote for Obama by saying they had nothing to fear from Obama's policies.
So in a sense McCain was part of the McCain was uh part of the suckering job too.
Right.
Yeah.
So so who do you uh how how are you thinking you're going to be voting uh in twenty because you're in Wyoming, which is which is one of the last of the deep red states.
And so if you're voting, if he's if if Obama's cool uh can even start purpling Wyoming uh then that is that that is a uh uh a remarkable uh feature who do you think you're gonna be voting for in twenty ten twenty twelve I don't know I'm gonna have to uh you know wait and see the candidates I guess and really listen to the issues but I do want to say that I wasn't in Wyoming when I voted.
I recent I moved here um which which state were you in when you voted?
I was in Michigan.
Oh right.
So your your vote uh maybe did uh did make history then.
Listen listen, Jen, here's the thing.
You you can afford to indulge yourself if everything's great.
So you can say well this guy is prettier than the other guy this guy is a novelty.
He he would be uh the first Uzbekistani American president, uh he would be the first lesbian president, whatever.
You can do that in times when times are good.
But right now times are not good.
And I think a lot of people were like you thought they could vote for Obama and they would get his cool without any consequences.
And the thing is this is even worse in the 70s now.
In the 70s people had to worry about inflation and uh losing their job.
Now you have much higher home ownership.
So people's homes are worth less uh worth a lot less.
You have uh more people invested in uh the the stock market directly or indirectly so their 401ks are now cut in half.
So there is no limit to the damage that a president with determined statist policies can inflict on you.
I mean this is like Jimmy Carter on steroids.
He can clobber your home he can clobber uh your savings and your pensions uh he he can clobber your job uh and he can uh uh uh uh deva he can basically end the dollar as a world currency uh he can clobber your health care I mean basically he can get you on every front so he would have to be the coolest dude on the planet to make it worth voting for him just because of his sheer cool rather than what he's saying.
The lesson here is y you listen listen to him on the radio.
Don't watch him on the TV uh or read him in the cold gray lighter print.
Do you like what it actually says in the cold gray light of print?
Do you like these policies?
Because if you don't, no matter how cool he is, it's not going to make up for a collapsed home price, an unemployment and a shattered uh savings uh retirement savings plan.
Thanks very much for your call, Jen, and better luck with your vote in 2010 or 2012.
It's Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network 1800 28282.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow and Rush comes back on uh Monday.
Don't forget you can uh keep up with all the good rush stuff on uh rushlinbord.com.
I mentioned that Michelle Obama five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollar alligator clutch uh that she was wearing to take a stroll in the Russian woods uh to uh but Putin's data or whatever it was and uh I I I hope I didn't confuse anybody.
Uh that's uh I said that it was unlikely the clutch was made in Michigan.
By clutch I meant that that was a uh purse, you know, a pocketbook uh a lady's handbag type thing uh not the other kind of clutch because obviously none of those are made in Michigan anymore.
So uh I wonder I want to be c I want to be clear on that.
But it's uh this six thousand dollar clutch that she's uh the first lady is uh took for a stroll in the woods uh in in Russia uh with uh Vladimir Putin.
You know it's actually when when you're uh when you're with the Russians, because they've got like uh all these uh Russian mafia guys and their moles are loaded.
The Russian mafia moles are loaded, they're dripping uh with the these six thousand dollar clutches.
So I think it's fair enough that when you we send the first lady over there that she's able to keep up.
And incidentally one reason that you know that this uh economic downturn is serious uh is that according to recent Figures, the ten richest Russian oligarchs have lost a third of their wealth in the last year.
Now that is a reliable, if you don't want to believe the Congressional Budget Office or anything, uh anybody else, believe that statistic.
Because when uh the Russian mafia guys can't steal it uh faster than it devalues, uh, you know the economy is in really serious uh trouble.
Uh so we will talk about that and uh related matters and the continuing decline in Obama's numbers.
Uh all straight ahead.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Don't forget that tomorrow Mark Davis will be here.
Special guests, Congressman Mike Pence and uh the polster Scott Rasmussen.
So that's all with Mark Davis coming up tomorrow on the EIB network.
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