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Sept. 29, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now look at his headline here.
From the state controlled associated press.
Consumer confidence unexpectedly falls in September.
Unexpectedly falls.
Let's see.
Unemployment through the roof.
No sign that there will be any positive change there.
Foreclosures continue.
The government continues to intimidate and threaten the private sector.
There are gang riots in Chicago, home of the 2016 Olympics.
And the AP reports consumer confidence unexpectedly falls in September.
Greetings, my friends.
The surreal attitudes, the surreal notion of what's news in this country continues, but we are here to straighten it all out for you.
Happily so.
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Something going on out there.
First, Howard Feynman yesterday.
Mr. President, please get off of television.
Today, Richard Cohen in the Washington Post exhorting Obama to govern and act like a president and cool it with the TV.
Now I think these people all see what we do.
The more Obama makes himself known to the public, the more the public rejects what he is selling.
Now you might say, well, why does this bother the media guys?
Well, it's a folks, the question answers itself.
The media guys want Obama to succeed in destroying the United States as it was founded and as we know it.
And he's blowing it.
He's blowing it by showing up on television.
His enablers, you got Howard Feynman now and then and Richard Cohen.
His enablers are admitting they can't help him if he's undermining them out there.
And he's undermining them out there every time he goes on television.
They're basically saying, look, Barack, shut up.
We'll handle it for you.
We'll handle the marketing.
We'll handle the PR, we'll handle the sales.
You just, you know, act like you're governing.
You know, too many people start to ask, does he ever work?
Does he have a job?
Or does he look at himself as a TV personality?
So the enablers, the state-controlled media, are admitting they can't help him if he undermines them.
Here's here's a little just some excerpts from Cohen's piece today.
Sooner or later it's going to occur to Obama that he's president of the United States.
That's the open.
Now, Richard, listen to me on this.
Obama knows full well he's president of the United States, but it doesn't stop there.
Obama is president of the world.
That's why he's on television all the time.
Cohen says, as of yet, though, Obama doesn't act like the president.
He appears promiscuously on television.
He grants interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is.
The election has been held.
The campaign goes on and on.
The candidate has yet to become commander-in-chief.
Take last week's group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh there, the candidate in full, commandeered to TV networks and the leaders of Britain and France to give the Iranians a dramatic warning.
Yet another of their secret nuclear facilities have been revealed, and Obama was determined to do something about it.
Just don't ask him what.
This is Richard Cohen writing this stuff.
This is a state control columnist writing this stuff.
It gets even better than that.
The trouble with Obama is he gets into the moment and means what he says for that moment only.
He meant what he said when he called Afghanistan a war of necessity, but now he's not necessarily so sure.
He meant what he said about the public option and his health care plan, and then again, maybe not.
He would not prosecute CIA agents for getting tough with detainees, and then maybe again he would.
Obama is our version of a supreme leader, not given to making idle threats, setting idle deadlines, reversing course on momentous issues, creating a TV crisis where none existed, or unbelievably pitching Chicago for the 2016 Olympics.
Obama's the president.
It's time he understood this.
Hey, Richard, he's flying off to uh Copenhagen for this, obviously because it's in the bag.
He wouldn't go over there if Chicago's not going to get it.
Here, the New York Times headline, Obama will go to Copenhagen to lobby the International Olympic Committee.
Come on.
He's gonna go lobby the IOC and then they're gonna award it to Sal some someplace in Brazil.
That ain't gonna happen.
If if he's not gonna set himself up to be embarrassed like he's heading over there to take credit for it.
The hell with health care that can wait for now.
Obama's surge is to Copenhagen.
And Afghanistan, why, hell, we don't even, we don't even need to talk about that.
Speaking of Afghanistan, the political today, a story by Martin Crady the second.
More outcry for McChrystal testimony.
While the uh president doesn't want to hear from General McChrystal, Congress does, said Missouri Senator Kit Bond.
Clearly, Republicans believe they have a lot to gain from a high-profile nationally televised hearing in which the top general in Afghanistan testifies in favor of a 40,000 troop increase.
It would put pressure on the White House to make a decision.
And if there's any delay, it would allow Republicans to continue to paint Obama as dithering on Afghanistan.
So once again, the drive-by's look at this as a horse race.
The hell with the issue, the hell with the substance of it.
The hell with winning or losing in Afghanistan.
Oh, no, no, no.
It's how can the Republicans, those evil or vast right-wing conspiracy members?
How can they embarrass Obama?
So the state-run media here portrays the Republican interest in this issue as political in nature, purely political.
Let me let me tell you something.
Those of you at the political and the rest of you, let me tell you something.
The audience of this show serves in Afghanistan.
The audience of this show serves in Iraq.
The audience of this show are parents and family members of those serving in Afghanistan and serving in Iraq.
This is not political.
It's Obama making it political.
It's a Democrats who've always politicized war.
It's the media that always politicizes every issue, such as health care, and strips it down to the bare essentials of a horse race.
Is Obama going to get his health care?
Is Obama going to get the public option?
Never mind that it would destroy the health care system of the Oh, no, no, we can't be bothered to tell you what's actually going to happen here if he succeeds.
No, no, no, no.
Is he gonna win?
Is our boy Obama gonna win?
Oh, those the best right-wing conspiracy gonna screw Obama, oh no, no, no, no.
Uh, it's always mattered here.
Substance of the issue.
Remember, the Democrats wanted Petraeus to testify, say call him a liar.
Remember, Mrs. Clinton, uh, you have to have a willing suspension of disbelief to listen to this guy.
Truth of the fact is that uh Obama's commitment to Afghanistan was political.
CC Connolly.
I have uh, well, it's it's it's tough to say that I have or never seen a more blatant case of being in the tank for an administration, because you could probably say that accurately every day about some media story.
CC Connolly, in delivering care, more isn't always better, experts say.
I kid you not.
I'll read the headline again.
In delivering care, more isn't always better.
Experts say C.C. Connolly today in the Washington Post, a dirty word in health care reform is rationing.
A term that conjures up the image of faceless government bureaucrats denying life-saving therapies in the name of cutting costs.
But what if the real issue is not the specter of future rationing, but the haphazard, even illogical way in which care is delivered today.
Oh, it gets better.
Medical professionals say the fundamental problem in the nation's health care system is the widespread misuse and overuse of tests, treatments, and drugs that drive up prices, have little value to patients and can pose serious risks.
The question, they say, is not whether there will be rationing, but rather what will be rationed and when and how.
And you realize that all these tests and all this stuff you're complaining about, you can point a finger of pure accuracy at one group of people for it, and that's the tort bar, the trial lawyers, who put the fear of God into doctors, malpractice insurance sky high.
Bernard Rosoff, chairman of the board of directors, New York's Huntington Hospital, board member of the Independent National Quality Forum, says more is not necessarily better.
In many cases, less is better.
Democrats feeling politically singed by this summer's talk of death panels are struggling to explain how a bill that would take hundreds of billions of dollars out of the system would not affect care.
Republicans, sensing a political opening.
See how this works.
Intend to highlight provisions they say could lead to the denial of medical services or rationing.
Others, however, see problems of misalignment in the American system, fueled by industry advertising, physician fears about a malpractice lawsuits.
Ah, she works it in there.
And a culture that craves the latest greatest everything.
The situation here, they argue is that there is not enough care for some and too much for others.
Now, as I say, folks, when it when it comes to carrying the water of Obama.
The Washington Post here.
Well, you could say Gungadin.
You can say makes Gungadin look like a slacker.
More is not necessarily better.
Yeah, oh, yeah, the history of the world has surely taught us that less medical care is better.
Look at the success of Africa, if you have any doubts.
We don't have much medical care in Africa.
Oh, yeah.
I guess Africa's the new model.
I guess all of these poor countries where there's less medical care is the answer.
Not enough care for some, too much for others.
You know, that sounds strange.
You're like we do a reversal theory.
Not enough health care for some and too much for others, from each according to his means, to each according to his needs.
Sort of like Karl Marx in reverse.
And she puts tort reform in her story, but I don't think we've seen any serious effort here at uh at tort reform.
Uh well, what's what no do the Democrats want less health care delivery?
This is to set up the case.
This is to further the notion that we can go ahead and cut whatever we're gonna cut and still have more health care for more people for less money.
Because right now there's too much out there.
There's too much medical care out there, and there's not enough for others.
So once again, we're now going to have to redistribute health care.
And everything's fine.
This is going to improve the situation.
So here you have uh Cece Connolly in the Washington Post carrying the water for Obama.
It just never ends.
No wonder all these people want him to get off TV.
They're doing such yeoman work.
They're doing, they're working as hard as they can to sell this guy's flawed, dangerously flawed policies, and he's screwing it up by going on television and talking about it all the time.
All these town meetings he's attending and so forth, and they're frankly getting frustrated.
So they want him to shut up.
Look, we can handle this.
Uh, problem is they can't anymore.
They don't have a large enough monopoly, they don't have a monopoly, period.
The American people are too informed and too educated.
Uh, they already know what the plan is, and the numbers for support of health care, as we mentioned yesterday, continue to plummet at an all-time low now at Rasmussen.
Forty-one percent are in favor, and it's it's still too high for my uh comfort level.
But 56% do oppose it, and the trend uh is more and more people opposing health care as more and more people learn about it.
I gotta take a quick time out, off to a rousing start.
Are we not?
Back with more in a moment.
Yesterday, at about this same time in this program, we shared with you the details of a story in the National Post in Canada, the only place I have found such details about how irritated with Obama the French President Sarkozy was.
Uh, the way he's dealing with um the Iranian situation and their nuclear ramp up.
Uh, and it was it was clear that we read the quotes from Sarkozy and things that he had said that again were not reported here in the state control media of the United States.
He clearly thinks Obama's an idiot.
He thinks he's naive, and he was laughing at him.
He was just, it was, but he's he's also very concerned.
Now, there is uh an editorial today in the uh in the Paris Daily Le Monde.
Now, listen to this.
President Obama wants a unified front against Iran, and to that end, he stood together with Sarkozy and Gordon Brown in Pittsburgh on Friday morning to reveal the news about Tehran's secret facility To build bomb grade fuel.
But now we hear that the French and the British leaders were quietly seething on that stage, annoyed by America's handling of the announcement.
Both countries wanted to confront Iran a day earlier at the UN.
Obama was, after all, chairing a Security Council session devoted to nonproliferation.
And the world's leaders were gathered in New York, the timing and venue would be dramatic way to rally international opinion.
But the Obama administration told the French that they didn't want to spoil the image of success.
That's in quotes spoil the image of success for Mr. Obama's debut at the UN and his homily calling for a world without nuclear weapons.
This is in the Le Monde of the Daily Newspaper in Paris.
Wall Street Journal repeats it.
So Obama thought he had this glowing aura after his brilliant first ever speech of the UN, and he didn't want to spoil it by having to announce that after he had made his speech, the Iranians are making a fool of him.
So he had a delay it a day till they got to Pittsburgh.
In the process of that, they allowed Ahmadini Zad to have the stage in New York where he was, where he uh reacted to what Obama was saying.
You know, the the uh I I I just I I I find this amazing.
So much is going on in the world.
And remember, folks, and and our news consumers are not hearing about it in this country, obviously.
And remember, we were told Obama's gonna bring the nations of the world together.
There's gonna be this unity, there's gonna be this utopia.
We're gonna bring back respect for the United States again.
They're laughing at us out there.
Our allies, folks, I have to tell you when the French come across as having bigger gonads than we do, I mean that this is this it's funny.
Sad but funny.
When of all people, the French, whose national anthem is the song Surrender.
The French.
God, and I love Sir Cozy.
I mean, don't don't misunderstand here.
But can you believe Obama?
No, no, no.
We're not gonna respond.
We're not gonna do this deal on the new nuke plant in Iran because we've got this great aura here of my great speech here where we promised no nuclear weapons anymore.
I'm not gonna go out and embarrass myself there.
We're gonna wait a day, we'll do it in Pittsburgh.
It's all about him, and it's all about his image.
I got a note.
I checked the email, subject line.
Sarah Palin, autobiography, may rival Rush.
Rush, any bets that Sarah Palin's autobiography will surpass your book sales to refresh your memory.
Both of my books in the early 90s.
And people say, well, how come you haven't written another one?
Because folks, I don't want to.
Everybody else does what I do after I do it.
I had two books, they both sold two and a half million copies hardcover, uh total of nine million copies hardback and paperback, and everybody else, the the the bookmark is flooded out there.
I plus, as I mentioned last week, I've gotten myself here in a very, very enviable position.
I am blessed.
Most people do not have the uh the freedom that I have.
I've I've gotten myself to a certain situation, circumstance in life where if I don't want to do it, I don't have to do it.
Very few people can say that.
And it leads to a tremendous amount of peace of mind and leaves me to focus on things I generally love and are therefore productive at.
And I had to do a whole bunch of stuff I didn't want to do to get there, and I had to get fired six or seven times or whatever.
I had to take jobs I didn't want to take, and we all pay our dues, but I finally got here.
And I'm sure if I the day'll come where I want to write another book, then I'll do it.
But I just I haven't had the desire.
Everybody else is doing it.
Sometimes these people come at two or three books a year.
Now, as to Sarah Palin outside, I'll tell you what's going to be very interesting.
You know, I've always said, I've been saying for, and particularly to people on our side.
I mean, I lose my temper.
Well, not every time, but I have lost my temper, which I don't like doing, when people on our side start parroting the drive-by media and Democrat Party version of Sarah Palin.
Oh, wait, I hope I hope she's not our nominee.
Oh no.
I mean, she's an idiot.
Why, you see her Katie Currick interview, she needs a study up on the issues.
I said, for crying out loud, do you people not understand what all that means?
I have been for a couple of years, well a year, ever since McCain chose her.
I have been pointing out that the Democrat Party and the media will tell us who they fear most.
And they're not afraid of Huckabee, and they're not afraid of Mitt Romney.
And they're not afraid of Rudy Giuliani.
But they have gone out of their way to destroy Sarah Palin.
They have gone out of their way to destroy me.
And more the soundbite roster today is half me in the drive-by media yesterday, half me.
I hope Sarah Palin sells five million copies of her book.
It's going to be interesting to see just what connection she does have with the voting base.
Conservatives and Republicans.
Oh, she sells a minute.
You know, this uh I hope she I hope it does great.
It'll be interesting to see because that will just send them into an even greater tizzy on the left.
We'd be right back.
And we're back.
El Rush Ball here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, as always, doing what I was born to do.
Serving humanity simply by speaking, simply by showing up.
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Grab a uh couple of quick phone calls, and we're gonna go to the audio sound bites coming up.
Uh John Kerry last week, uh, along with uh Barbara Boxer, they're gonna get a getting ready to introduce the climate bill in the Oh, speaking of that, there's this big argument, they're having a big debate uh and vote today at once a Senate committee on the uh on the public option uh for the uh for the health care legislation.
And again, I I just would remind everybody that we're gonna have it's gonna be a public option.
The whole thing is going to be a public option.
Otherwise, there's no reason to do a government health care plan.
Zip zero nada.
And now cap and trade's in trouble.
Boxer Kerry said to introduce climate bill in the Senate, but they want to change the name.
John Kerry said that uh it's not cap and trade, it's a pollution reduction bill.
Kerry said, I don't know what cap and trade means.
I don't think the average American does.
The average American does know, Senator Kennedy, and it's that's why the average American is calling it cap and tax.
And that is why you have to change it.
Because the American people do understand it.
U.S. Northeast may have coldest winter in a decade.
From Blueberg News Details coming up.
First Ray in Livermore, California.
Great to have you here, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, an old uh bomber pilot once said, uh, you know you're over the target when you're taking flack.
And uh as for Sarah Palin and Rush Lumbo, I want to congratulate you, Rush.
You're exactly where you need to be.
We used to be forced to listen to the left.
They used to try to uh ignore you and marginalize you, and now you are setting the news cycle.
They're responding to you minutes after you make points on the radio, and uh, we're taking back the argument thanks to Rush Limbo, and uh and I want to thank you.
Well, you know, the reason I wanted to take your call was not for the praise that you just uh offered me, because frankly I get that all the time, all day, every day.
I wanted to thank you because you have you have you've made an excellent point here that that uh that I have often another thing that I have lamented for years, and that is why in the world do we accept the premise on every issue that the left puts forth?
Why are we even debating a health care bill?
I mean, it's a bad bill.
Now that the Republicans are doing the right thing here by staying away from it, but they put forth their legislation, they put forth their agenda items, and of course the policy wonks involve, oh, a piece of legislation.
Well, will there be a bill?
Well, we got to see that there's a bill.
Because we can't come here and not do bills.
We can't come here and not pass a bill.
So the Republicans generally say, well, we'll get hold of that bill and we'll uh change that bill and make a little why do we let them set the agenda?
Well, Rush, they won the election.
So what?
Their agenda's damaging to the country.
Their agenda is dangerous.
Their agenda will wreck the opportunity for prosperity on the part of millions and millions and millions of Americans.
Why accept that premise and start nibbling at it around the edges?
Why let them set the agenda?
And I don't.
I'm not a Republican, and I'm not that well in terms of I'm a conservative first, and I'm certainly not elected to anything.
But I I just I've you know it not only should we not let them set the agenda, we shouldn't that that because it constantly puts us on the defensive.
And of course it's offense, offense, offense, offense.
And that's why the Sarah Palin thing was was um so obvious to me.
And why I really there there was there were one particular time.
There's some people that started talking to me, and and these these are these are Republicans first, and but they're also conservatives, but they're Republicans first with um electoral politics in their mind, just winning elections is the important thing to them, which of course is not bad, but you know, how you win them and what you're gonna do after you do so is is just as important to me.
And to sit there and accept the premise put forth by everybody on the left that Sarah Palin's an idiot just offended the hell out of me.
She was the only one that excited anybody on the Republican side at all during the presidential ticket.
Now the press would love to have some stoop uh, the press would love to have some old line, moderate fashion liberal Republican running our show like McCain.
By the way, Erasmus and poll out today.
Sixty-one percent of Arizona Republicans say McCain out of touch with the party base.
Well, duh.
But it's important poll for him because he's running for reelection.
61% of Arizona Republicans say that McCain's out of touch with the party base.
Here comes Sarah Palin.
She does the Katie Courick interview.
She'd be made fun of on Saturday Night Live all over the place by by uh Tina Faye.
I was on Barbara Walters' top ten personalities of the year, whatever it was last year, and Tina Faye was in the list because of her imitation of Palin.
Tina Faye made the top ten most fascinating people of the year because of her impersonation of Palin.
Why not put Palin in there?
I mean, without Palin being on the scene, Tina Faye wouldn't have had somebody to impersonate to make Barbara Walter's top ten list.
But he just really irritated me.
It happened, I can't tell you, even through uh the spring and summer of this year.
I don't think we can have Palin Rush.
Oh, look at it.
Because everybody thinks that what the press says about somebody seals the deal.
Rush, the press has already destroyed her.
Why, why no, they haven't.
They're trying to.
Why are you going to let them?
Don't you understand that's who they're scared to death of when they go after her, they go after her children?
They go, I mean, the some of the most despicable things.
Democrats want to lecture us about civility.
We had to sit here and put up with them uh ogling books on the assassination of Bush and producing movies about assassinating Bush.
We had to sit there and listen to them trash the U.S. military.
They want to talk to us about civility.
Why do we even enter that debate on the defensive side?
Why do we have to defend ourselves on civility?
They call us an unruly mob when we're the most polite, clean bunch of people ever hit the public protest to come down to Pike.
You want to talk to us about civility when Obama from the White House sends his union thugs out to beat people up at town hall meetings.
They want to talk to us about civility.
They will tell us.
They will tell us who they fear.
And I say this to people, and they it's like a light goes off in their head.
Because even these people, I'm talking about people on our side.
They're so one of the most frustrating things to me to this day, despite the weakened state, despite the obvious journalism is dead as we've known it, despite the fact that they are in the tank, so many people on our side still worried what the New York Times says.
Still worried about, you know, what what is on the evening news, still worried about as though we gotta conquer that before we'll ever succeed.
We gotta get the New York Times to like our candidates.
Well, we gotta get the mainstream press to like our candidates.
It's never gonna happen.
We set ourselves up for constant failure if that becomes the way we validate ourselves.
I get sick and tired of the defensive nature of this.
So we have to sit here and you know, listen to people.
Well, I Sarah Palin's idiot.
Sarah Palin, her books come up, right?
You need to kill outside you do.
I hope so.
That'd be fascinating to see.
Are you supporting no, I'm not endorsing anybody yet.
I'm just, I'm a commentator, just like our president.
A president's a commentator.
That's all he is.
Well, actually, they the public impersonation of Obama, or oppression is his commentation is actually doing dastardly stuff behind the scenes where everybody's distracted with this health care debate properly, so we ought to be focusing on it.
I mean, he's taken over the student loan program.
It's been nationalized.
Mortgage industry has been nationalized.
By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70% of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30%.
That's that's what he's aiming for.
And then Kerry and Box here, well, we gotta change the name here.
We gotta we've got to change the uh pollution reduction bill.
Nobody understands what uh cap and trade mean.
Yes.
They do.
A related story.
U.S. Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade because of a weak El Nino, which is a warming current in the Pacific Ocean.
This, according to uh Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group.
Weak El Niños are notorious for cold and snowy weather on the eastern seaboard.
Rogers said in a Bloomberg TV interview from Washington.
About 70% to 75% of the time, a weak El Nino will deliver the goods in terms of above-normal heating demand and cold weather.
It's pretty good odds.
Warming in the Pacific often means fewer Atlantic hurricanes.
And that's also been kind of comical.
Clusters of thunderstorms throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
The National Hurricane Center puts 50% chance this could develop.
30% chance this could be dying for a hurricane.
Oh, please, can you give us a hurricane?
The media has wanted a hurricane.
Zipped, zero nada.
There's been nothing out there other than clusters of thunderstorms, but we get the tracks.
We get the forecast pack and so forth, and everybody just gins themselves up, but there haven't been any hurricanes to speak of, and I checked the hurricane center just now.
And uh no tropical storms to report.
Now they're all over the place in the Pacific.
Uh, and uh and in Asia.
So in addition, when El Nino is weak, it means fewer Atlantic hurricanes, higher temperatures in the U.S. Northeast during January, February, and March.
This is all according to the National Weather Service.
El Niño occurs every two to five years on average, lasts about twelve months.
I've learned as a South Florida resident that a uh, you know, there's it's a it's sort of a it's a good and bad situation.
A weak El Nino does produce fewer hurricanes with a much cooler winter uh here.
And I've been through a couple of these.
It's somewhat disappointing, but it's still not nearly as cold as it is anywhere else.
Now, I'll tell you who's looking at this.
Hedge fund managers and other large speculators increased their net long positions or their bets that prices will rise in New York heating oil futures in the weekend in September 22nd, according to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data on September 25th.
So the people who put their money in this game are banking on a frigid, long snowy, cold winter in the Northeast, where they still use heating oil from Hugo Chavez, in some cases to heat their homes.
Roger said it could be one of the coldest winters or the coldest winter of the decade.
As such, U.S. inventories of uh distillate fuels, which include heating oil, are at their highest since January of 83 inventories.
Stockpiles of 170.8 million barrels in the weekended September 18th are 28% above the five-year average.
So again, the people who put their money on these weather forecasts are betting that this is right.
So here comes Al Gore, here comes Kerry, here comes Boxer, uh cap and trade, nobody knows what climate change bill.
Uh global warming, climate change, we uh change it a pollution reduction bill.
The worst thing possible, best for us, the worst thing possible for these people, is that there's no warming.
There's no sweat city out there.
And where it is hot, it's unusual for it to be hot, like in the Great Northwest.
But there wasn't a summer to speak of in the uh in the Northeast.
Where the primary readership of the New York Times is, and so they're having a uh a tough case to make.
And yet here we are again, back to the old theme.
Why accept their premise?
Why why go along with the whole notion that there is climate change?
Well, the American people believe in Russia.
We gotta get their votes.
We gotta we gotta act like we believe it, and we gotta tell them we care about it too and so forth.
It's a disaster.
And we see where it leads us.
It's as it's a disaster accepting every premise they put forth.
Been one of my bugaboos for years.
Just as the Sarah Palin thing has.
They'll tell us.
The Democrats, the liberals, the media will tell us who they are really frightened of most.
Back after this.
Boy, it's it's a it's a sad day at the New York Times.
Have you seen this headline?
It's it's in bad times for capitalism, socialists in Europe suffer.
Uh Europe's socialists suffering, even in downturn.
The New York Times terribly concerned about this.
A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of socialism slow collapse.
That's the lead in the New York Times.
Now they they buried this in the Europe section of the New York Times.
So the regular readers of the New York Times and the Upper West Side of Manhattan have probably not seen it, therefore have not had heart failure.
But I mean, this is quite an opening.
A specter is haunting Europe.
The specter of socialism slow collapse.
Wait till you hear the details first to Chicago, Bob Hello.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, welcome.
Or thank you.
Yes.
Um, I was just wondering, Rush, if you were president, what would you be doing right now in Afghanistan?
What do you think we should be doing?
Uh do you think we should be doing more anti-insurgency or anti-terrorism, more or less troops, different troops, that sort of thing.
Well, I'm not a commanding officer.
I would listen to those who are.
It's very simple.
We win, they lose.
But did you see the interview at 60 minutes this weekend with the general?
Yeah.
He said he's only talked to the commander-in-chief one time in 70 days.
Right.
And he was talking about, you know, being more careful in our bombing and stuff, and I know that's something that's driven you crazy when the Democrats have said that in the past, and I was just wondering.
It is it is a dichotomy when the when the uh the cowards who are enemy bury themselves in homes in neighborhoods with women and children wearing the burkas.
Uh it is difficult for us to go out and get the guys because the we are we are limited by our compassion for not causing collateral damage.
So you would just take the gloves off.
No, I'd listen to what the general say.
But the bottom line is you what I do in Afghanistan, I'd win.
I'd wit here.
Uh Obama has spoken up again.
It's it's not hard.
You know, in a war, the operating philosophy is, you know, well, what's the end game?
Well when do you get out?
After we win.
We win, they lose.
Here's Obama at the White House.
After he met with UN Secretary General Anders Fog Rasmus.
They give a new Secretary General.
I thought the Secretary General was Banke Moon from uh from one of the Koreas.
Anyway, here's Obama.
He said this about their and by the way, he is he's ignoring Richard Cohen's uh warning and uh Howard Feynman's warning.
Uh stay off TV, Obama on TV again, saying FG.
Well, he you listen.
Here's what he said.
We talked about obviously the most important NATO mission right now, and that is Afghanistan.
And uh we both agree that it is absolutely critical that we are successful in dismantling, disrupting, destroying the Al-Qaeda network, and that we are effectively working with the Afghan government to provide the security uh necessary for that country.
This is not an American battle.
This is a NATO mission as well, and we are working actively and diligently to consult with NATO at every step of the way.
He's the NATO general, uh, this uh this uh Anders Fograsmus, the NATO general, not the UN Secretary General.
But anyway, Obama, well no, this is not an American battle.
He said that.
You heard him, it's not an American battle, it's a NATO mission.
Who's NATO?
We are.
We and the Brits are NATO.
Well, yeah, the Australians, uh, you know, the people from Oz, cool, but but we're we're we're it's not an American battle.
Why, I thought I distinctly remembered all during the Iraq War that Afghanistan is where we should have been.
It's what Obama was saying, where we should have been.
We should go out there and capture bin Laden.
No, it's not an American battle.
The NATO mission?
We gotta do what we can out there to succeed in dismantling, disrupting, destroying the Al-Qaeda network.
It's not our battle.
Therefore, what this means is when we lose.
It's not his fault.
It's NATO's.
Back after this.
More Obama indoctrination of students has surfaced in video, this in North Carolina.
And get this headline from the Associated Press U.S. income gap widens as poor take a hit in recession.
Yes, the poor are hardest hit.
I thought I thought Obama was gonna even all this out.
It was gonna shrink the income gap here.
What what has happened here?
Uh recessions hit middle income and poor families hardest, is how the story opens.
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