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January 11, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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All right, the Justice Brothers, the Justice Brothers ride to the rescue.
What a weekend.
So much to say about this book, Game Change.
What is the name of this book?
Yeah, Game Change.
None of this in Game Change is a surprise to me from the really in-depth revelations about the total fraud, frauds that John and Elizabeth Edwards have always been.
I had somebody send me a note last night.
You really think, you know, John Edwards was really popular.
A lot of women really dug John Edwards.
I thought he was this moderate, nice, soft-spoken down-the-middle.
I tried telling people from the, this guy is snake.
He's a snake oil salesman.
There's nothing real about this guy.
And of course, they hated me for saying this, but none of this about him or his wife.
I got a note last night.
Do you really believe all this about the Edwards?
I said, I believe this and more.
How can you not, after what you know is true about the affair that he had and the fathering of the kid and so forth?
He hasn't owned up to that yet, I don't think.
Maybe he has, but everybody knows that he did.
Nobody has any doubts about it.
But see, I know liberals.
None of this is a shock to me.
None of this, they're the ones they have.
Let me just go back and explain this to you by playing a clip of me from this program, January 28th of this year.
This is what I said about racism and the Democrats.
It's very simple to explain.
We have gone from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton, ladies and gentlemen.
That's the way to express what has happened to the Democrat Party, now totally divided along the lines of race and gender, but particularly race, from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton.
You and I have all known that the real racism in this country is in the Democrat Party, that the real bigotry in this party, in this country, is in their party, and that they promote it politically and try to blame it on Republicans and conservatives.
But this riff is just huge.
This was during the campaign.
This is the primary campaign.
That's January 28th of 2008.
And this was before the L.A. Times even did that column on Barack the Magic Negro.
I mean, all of it, you remember all the talk in the campaign about how Obama's not authentic because he's not down for the struggle.
See, he has no traceable roots to slavery and the civil rights history in this country.
And they were all worried about whether or not he was authentic and a genuine black.
And we had Biden coming out and saying, it's nice to have some clean and articulate guy finally in our party, which angered Al Sharpton because he takes a shower every day and made him very mad.
And now you've got Harry Reid coming out saying, yeah, I think it wouldn't win to this guy.
He's a light-skinned black, and he doesn't have a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to.
Now, I happen to think I believe that Dingy Harry was being complimentary.
And in the notion of being complimentary, he was being complimentary on the basis that Obama's got a great gift.
Obama's got a great shtick.
Obama can fool people.
Light-skinned, what does that mean?
Is dark-skinned more intimidating?
Does it make people afraid?
Light-skinned is better.
Point is, these are the people thinking about all this stuff all the time.
And he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect.
I would love to hear Harry Reid's observations about dialects, Negro or otherwise.
Is there a voice in his head?
For example, does Al Sharpton have a Negro dialect?
Does Harry Reid think that Al Sharpton has a Negro dialect?
How about John Lewis?
I would really love to dig further into Dingy Harry's views on that.
What about Maxine Waters or Chris Rock?
We don't have to limit ourselves to politics.
Does Derek Jeter have a black dialect?
Does Alex Rodriguez have a black dialect?
Harry Reid ain't damn near old enough.
He might have been an extra in that movie, Birth of a Nation, for all we know.
Maybe one of his parents might have appeared in it.
I got a movie idea, folks.
I was thinking about this over the weekend.
Here's a movie idea for the Senate Majority Leader and his soulmate, Senator Robert Byrd.
And we can call it When Harry Met Robert.
And it's a buddy film.
It begins when Harry Reid meets Robert Byrd at a KKK meeting.
A touching story of how two bigots bond and go on to be important leaders in the Democrat Party.
I can imagine a compelling scene, my friends, when Harry and Robert enlighten those in a local bar on various Negro dialects using bus boys for an impromptu show and tell.
And just to show their compassion for Negroes with hard-to-understand dialects, Harry and Robert let them shine their shoes and then tip them real big, maybe flash a five spot so everybody can see it.
The shoeshiners are dark-skinned Negroes, just to highlight the star's tolerance here.
In the background, you'd have a light-skinned Negro serving a young Bill Clinton coffee.
And then after impressing the locals with their brilliance and compassion, Harry and Robert get on a train headed for the nation's capital and just behind them.
And emerging from the steam produced by the mighty locomotive is a light-skinned Negro wearing a conductor's outfit and without a hint of Negro dialect.
And he hollers out, all aboard.
And that's where the movie ends.
You fade to black.
The credits appear, and we have Harry Belafonte singing, De-O, Day!
I get chills just thinking about this movie.
When Harry Met Robert.
And these guys are not through Blagojevich.
By the way, to be fair, and you know, that's our middle name here at the EIB network.
To be fair, Harry Reid, the way to look at Dingy Harry's statement that Obama spoke with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one, is as a cynical, manipulative politician.
He meant this with all due respect for Obama.
Reed was complimenting Obama's ability to act apart a role when it was politically expedient.
See, in Harry Reed's view and in Joe Biden's view, the problem with Jesse Jackson and Reverend Sharpton as Democrat presidential candidates was they had a black dialect and they weren't light-skinned enough.
That was the problem.
But Obama comes along, he's light-skinned, and when he doesn't want to, he doesn't have a Negro dialect, and so that's a home run.
He was complimenting Obama's being able to hide his half-blackness.
And this is the way they look at it.
It's the racism and bigotry in the Democrat Party and on the American left, it's amazing that people don't catch up to it.
These people, you look at how they're circling the wagons to cover for Dingy Harry here.
This illustrates, my good friends, the Democrats will give a pass to anything.
BJs in the Oval Office.
Male prostitution rings run out of one's apartment.
That would be Barney Frank.
Destroying the economy.
I mean, they'll give a pass to anything.
That'd be Chris Dodd and Barney Frank by any Democrat, anytime, any place.
They will forgive and look past any crime.
It doesn't matter because liberalism and commit to the cause, commitment to the cause is the thing.
There is a double standard.
There's no question there's a double standard.
Everybody's talking about Trent Lott.
Trent Lott's at a birthday party for an old man.
He makes a comment.
Hey, Strom, we'd all have been a lot better off if you'd have won back then, buddy.
Just, you know, Strom Thurmond's nearing the end of his life.
It's just a harmless little thing.
People do this all the time.
Trent Lott was forced out of office, and it was Barack Obama himself said the Republican Party is going to have to really examine itself here.
And they're really going to have to make a decision to get rid of Trent Lott.
And the Republicans fell right in line because the Republicans get defensive.
You have to prove they're not racists.
You have to prove they're not bigots.
And so Trent Lott's gone, thrown overboard.
Here comes Dingy Harry.
And people want to say that this is nothing compared to Trent Lott.
This is worse.
This is worse in this.
You take the opposite of what Harry, here's what Harry Reid could have said.
You know, I really like this Obama guy.
He's not intimidating.
He doesn't have dark skin.
And he doesn't have that Negro dialect.
That's what Harry Reid meant.
Harry Reid meant exactly that.
And of course, the Democrats are circling the wagons and Al Sharpton's forgiven him.
Obama.
Obama has forgiven him faster than he can get in gear trying to stop the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Oh, wait.
Obama has not singled out the Taliban as an enemy.
And now Blagojevich.
Blagojevich.
Rod Blagoevich.
I am blacker than Obama.
Listen to this.
And this is an interview, by the way, that he gave in a current issue of Esquire Magazine.
Now, the media, the state-controlled media has cleaned up what he said.
I went back.
I have the original comment here.
And it is this.
It's such a cynical business.
Most of the people in the business are full of crap, phonies, but I was real, man, and am real.
This guy, he was catapulted in on Hope and Change, what we hope the guy is.
What the hell?
Everything he's saying is on a teleprompter.
I'm blacker than Barack Obama.
I shine shoes.
I grew up in a five-room apartment.
My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived.
I saw it all growing up.
All I can say here, folks, is that I am so happy with the ascension of Barack Obama to the presidency that we can finally put the issue of race behind us.
This is what we were told was going to happen.
No longer would race be an issue.
Now we can judge each other by the content of our characters rather than the color of our skin.
Except, of course, for Dingy Harry.
The real comment here that's going unremarked upon is Clinton's.
That's what Clinton, you know, he's talking to Ted Kennedy, and he's trying to persuade the swimmer to endorse Hillary.
And the swimmer's got other ideas.
The swimmer wants to endorse Obama.
And so Bill Clinton says, you know, Teddy, I mean, come on, man.
A few years ago, this guy had been getting us coffee.
He said it.
Clinton hasn't denied it.
He said it.
It's in the book.
Yeah, a few years ago, this guy'd have been getting us coffee.
And supposedly, the swimmer was infuriated by this.
But this certainly reveals the plantation mentality of the Democrat Party.
And the reason that this Clinton comment hasn't gotten more attention is precisely because the media knows how damaging it is.
Many of you have all these fake pigs.
Remember when Clinton moved his office to Harlem and Hillary's out there passing out free coffee to people in Harlem?
And they went through it.
And Clinton on his rehab tour after getting caught with BJs in a global office, Bloville office, I meant to say it, and the semen stain on the purple dress or whatever, he went on a black church tour.
And he had the Reverend Jackson in the White House to help him worship and rehab, get his mind right and so forth.
And this book goes on to point out that, hell, even after all that, he's still running around having affairs.
And Hillary doesn't want to take Secretary of State job because of it.
And Obama gets so desperate, don't understand why.
He calls her up and finally says, I will put up with your husband to get you to take this job, meaning I'll run the risk that this guy will try to take over the State Department or that he's going to embarrass everybody.
I still don't know why Obama was that insistent that Hillary take the gig other than to get her out of the way.
But she can always resign anytime she wants to.
Hey, Teddy, come on, man.
A few years ago, this guy had been getting his coffee.
Now, Dingy Harry is going to be safe in Washington.
No Democrat is going to call for his resignation.
The chairman of Republican National Kennedy, Michael Steele, has done so.
But he's in big trouble in Nevada.
And this morning, on Morning Joe, F. Chuck Todd actually said that Harry Reid's toast.
He has no prayer of winning re-election in Nevada.
It's going to be a Tom Daschell situation over and over.
His poll numbers are very bad.
And there's a poll in the Las Vegas newspaper about healthcare in Nevada.
And the support for it is minimal.
It's just, it's, and they blame Harry Reid for it.
So he's a toast.
And after this, you think Harry Reid could own an NFL team, folks?
We need to call Commissioner Roger Goodell and find out what his thought on this is.
And Bill Clinton, too.
I mean, this is very divisive stuff.
We need to call Donovan McNabb and ask him what he thinks of Harry Reid or Bill Clinton ever owning an NFL team.
And welcome back, Rushland Boh, on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I know the real reason that Teddy Kennedy was mad and offended when Bill Clinton said, hey, hey, come on, man.
You know, this guy had been fetching us coffee a couple of years ago.
What made Teddy Kennedy mad was it's women get him coffee.
It was Negroes that brought Ted Kennedy his booze.
And that's why he was all offended.
By the way, a question I have.
You didn't like that one, Dawn?
Well, I mean, we deal in the truth here on the EIB network.
How come Bill Clinton can be rehabbed from actions taken in the Bloval office with an intern?
How come he can be rehabbed through the Christian faith with the Reverend Jackson?
And Britt Hume gets hammered for mentioning the same method of recovery for Tiger Woods.
And you've got people running around.
Yeah, his faith is something they're supposed to be silent about.
Supposed to keep it quiet.
Oh, really?
Somebody better tell that to the Democrats.
Whenever any of them get in trouble, who do they call?
They call the Justice Brothers, a couple of Reverends, the Reverend Sharpton and the Reverend Jackson.
And these guys come and they minister, and they do it publicly.
And there's Clinton at the White House with these guys.
I have sinned.
Jimmy Swaggart, I have sinned.
I have sinned before you.
And they all seek rehab through their Christian faith.
And it was just fine for Bill Clinton to do it.
And then it was all fine for Clinton to go to all of these black churches to redeem himself for actions taken in the Bloval office with a white woman about whom the Reverend Wright said he was riding dirty.
But let Britt Hume suggest to Tiger Woods that Christianity might provide him a better chance at a full recovery and redemption than the Buddhism that Tiger says he practices.
And all hell breaks loose.
So the double standards, ladies and gentlemen, are everywhere.
Frank Marshall Davis, the communist mentor of Barack Obama, gave him some advice about college that Obama wrote about in Dreams of My Father on page 41.
They'll train you so good you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity American way and all that.
They'll give you a corner office, invite you to fancy dinners.
They tell you your credit to your race until you want to actually start running things, boy, and then they'll yank on your chain and let you know that you may be well-trained, well-paid black guy, but you're still a black guy just the same.
He was right.
Bill Clinton.
Hey, come on, Ted.
A few years ago, this guy be getting us our coffee.
Brush Hudson Limbaugh.
Serving humanity here on the EIB network.
It's even more laughable when we think back and remember, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Clinton as the nation's first black president.
Hey, Teddy, come on, man.
I mean, you know, a few years ago, this guy's been getting us coffee.
That'll be excused too, ladies and gentlemen.
Although, you know, you don't know what the media is going to say.
It's all been excused and forgiven as they circle the wagons around the Democrats.
But it's bad.
It is really, really bad for the Democrats out there all over the country electorally.
In Massachusetts, the pollsters are kind of coalescing around the idea that Martha Coakley is going to win, but Scott Brown keeps raising money, big-time money.
And the fact that the Democrats are having to fight this hard, I mean, they're sending the union troops in there.
The fact that the Democrats are having to fight at all for Ted Kennedy's seat, wouldn't it be the most delicious irony if the Ted Kennedy seat were lost, preventing health care from passing?
Now, I know the Democrats, if Scott Brown wins, are going to delay his swearing in until after the health care vote.
They'll delay it a couple of months if they have to.
Emergency change to the law.
But everybody's going to see this.
The Democrats are now running naked through the streets.
There's no cover.
Everybody sees them for who they are, job destroyers, private sector destroyers.
Christina Romer, story here in the Politico.
She's chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
She said yesterday that Obama was subdued and disappointed upon learning of Friday's jobless number.
Said the administration favors further government action.
Of course he does, because he's not subdued and he's not disappointed.
This is the plan.
You don't do this accidentally.
You don't do what Obama's doing out of naivete.
You don't do this mistakenly.
And if you are mistaken about it, you realize much sooner than now that it's a mistake and you reverse it.
You don't double down on it.
She said to George Stephanopoulos on this week, the sense that we need to do more is overwhelming.
You know, there are things that have been working in the Recovery Act that are expiring, like some of the provisions for longer unemployment benefits.
That's creating jobs.
There's nothing about extending unemployment benefits.
It's going to create one job.
Clinton, Obama has the bankers up there.
He's demanding that they lend.
And some of the bankers, I'm told in the meeting, said, Mr. President, small businesses are not asking us for money.
They don't want to borrow.
You're talking to the wrong people.
They're not interested in borrowing.
And you know why, Mr. President?
Because they don't know what the rules of the game are going to be.
They don't know if your health care is going to pass.
They don't know if cap and tax is going to pass.
They don't know if tax increases.
They have no idea what their expenses are going to be.
Government expenses, meaning tax increases and further regulation.
That's why they're not borrowing.
That's why they're not hiring.
Obama knows this.
All those jobs summits, ladies and gentlemen, at the White House, just academic displays, tricks designed to make people think action was being taken.
Listen to this quote from Christina Romer.
She said, the country's on a path of steady progress.
The real question is going to be, is it going to be strong enough to really add a lot of people back into employment?
And that's what we're focusing on.
I think we're getting closer to stability in employment.
The next step, obviously, finally starting to add jobs.
The big variable in all of this is the private sector.
The government's been doing a lot to hold up demand.
The Recovery Act has been incredibly important.
This woman knows better too, by the way.
She knows that everything she's saying here is BS.
The big variable in this is the private sector.
The big reliable in this is the private sector if they would simply get out of the way, stop punishing people for engaging in entrepreneurism and for succeeding in the process, just get out of the way.
What have you done?
The private sector used the big variable here.
What have you done to the private sector, Ms. Romer, besides target it?
I don't know.
Here, let me tell you this.
The first year of Obama's presidency, he focused on what he cared about most, and that was him.
And this year, he says he's going to focus on what you care about, which is global warming.
No, he says he's going to focus on jobs.
Do you want proof, ladies and gentlemen, the government cannot jumpstart the economy?
I mean, it's all in front of you.
It's out there, 12 months of it, to see.
How many stimuli did we do last year and the year before?
We did a bunch.
They haven't done a thing.
The whole concept of save jobs, BS, what have they done?
Nothing.
And aside from the Economics 101 of it and the math of it, I mean, you cannot take $50 trillion, $50 billion, any amount of money out of the private sector and put it back in and say you're stimulating something.
You'd have to infuse money that's not already there, and there's no money to do that.
You have to print it, you have to borrow it, or you have to tax it, and then put it back.
This is an old shell game.
It's an old trick.
It's designed to enhance the growth of government.
But the proof is right there in the latest unemployment numbers.
And I don't mean the 10% unemployment, which is an obvious disaster.
And I don't mean the 17% real unemployment.
That's an obvious disaster.
But here are two numbers from last Friday's jobless numbers.
Construction unemployment is 22.7%.
22.7%.
Now remember, the stimulus was for shovel-ready jobs, roads, bridges, schools, all this infrastructure stuff.
Construction unemployment, it's almost 23%.
Government worker unemployment is at 3%, 3.6, less than 4%.
Where did the stimulus money go?
Stimulus money go to construction workers?
Nope.
Shovel-ready was a shovel why?
Much of the porculus went to city and states to help them with their deficits and to pay off unions, which are state and city employees, and to make sure that their health care packages remained whole.
State and city union workers, from the SEIU to the AFC SME, the only special interests, they're never called special interests.
Government union employees.
Don't think of the porculus bill as $800 billion down the drain.
Think of it as a Democrat investment in buying votes.
So what you have here is an economy managed by politicians guarantees waste, abuse, inefficiency, and jobs saved in state and city union workers instead of jobs created.
And that's exactly the purpose of it.
This is exactly what is happening.
And the private sector is being pillaged.
They're depleting it.
And it's on purpose.
Construction workers, 23% unemployment.
Government worker unemployment, 3.6.
Less than 4%.
Now to the audio soundbites.
Ann Coulter slamming the Reverend Sharpton on the double standard between Harry Reid and Trent Lott.
He said that his statements were wrong and unfortunate.
He did not try to make excuses.
He dealt forthright with it.
We heard a lot of statements last year, Raldo, from President Clinton to Joe Biden to others that we had to deal with.
So fine.
And I told him what I felt was offensive about the Negro dialect a lot.
And Coulter jumps in.
I'm surprised he had time to talk to you at all since I thought he would be busy writing his concession speech for next November.
But I do want to know, did he ask you to stop using that Negro dialect when you talk to him?
See, now she can say that.
Oh, I can't.
But you said it's fine for him to say it.
No, I didn't.
I said I was offended by it.
But actually, come on.
You cannot keep giving these Democrats a pass.
You get them all a pass.
They attack Patterson.
They attack Wrangell.
Now they're attacking Harold Ford.
You know you would not put up with this for five seconds of a Republican.
And yes, it is outrageous to compare it to why Trent Lottie.
So you do agree with no comparison.
Yeah, because Trent Lott was just saying some dumb cheer at a birthday party.
Dumb cheer at a birthday party is right.
And here you had Harry Reid again, light-skinned Negro, light-skinned, and doesn't have a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to.
You take the opposite of what Harry Reid's saying.
What he's saying is that dark-skinned blacks with a Negro dialect, we're hopeless.
And we don't want any more of them running for president in our party.
But we got this light-skinned guy who doesn't speak with the Negro dialect when he doesn't want to.
And we're cooking.
So much, much worse than Trent Lott.
And of course, Sharpton, well aware of that.
And Harold Ford, the reference to Harold Ford, Harold Ford is thinking of running for the Senate seat, currently held by Kirsten Gillibrand in New York.
And the Democrat Party does not want him to.
They want her to stay in the Senate because she's totally run by Chuck Yu Schumer.
Chuck Yu Schumer tells her to dance, she dances.
To jump, she says how high.
She is a mirror vote for Chuck Yu Schumer.
And Harold Ford is, Harry Reid would say, he's a light-skinned, and he doesn't have a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to.
I appeared at a forum this past summer, spring, I forget what it was, out of Los Angeles with Harold Ford.
I've met him a bunch of times.
He's a smart guy.
He's a Democrat.
He's a lib, and he's thinking about running, and he's not being bullied, but he's exactly what Harry Reid wants, light-skinned, and he doesn't use a Negro dialect when he wants to, but they are ganging up against him.
They don't want him to run, just like they didn't support Carl McCall, black guy for governor of New York.
They're dumping on David Patterson.
So Ann's right.
These people dump all over black people in their own party when they don't want them.
Exactly what Frank Marshall said.
They're going to tell you you're great.
They're going to tell you your credit year rate.
They're going to tell you until you want something, boy.
Until you want power, and then look out.
Frank Marshall Davis, the communist mentor to Barack Obama.
Exactly right.
Back with much more after this.
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There's one other thing in this book, Game Change, ladies and gentlemen.
New York Daily News has this today.
After Bill Clinton says to Ted Kennedy, hey, come on, man.
A few years ago, this guy had been getting us coffee.
The ex-president reportedly griped bitterly to Ted Kennedy.
Look, the only reason you endorse him is because he's black.
Let's just be clear.
Bill Clinton said that to Ted Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy was, of course, offended because black people got him his booze.
It was women who got him his coffee.
Remember this.
This is hilarious.
We had fun with it at the time.
March 4th, 2007, at the First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama.
The Democrat presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the church.
And here is a portion of her remarks.
Let us say with one voice the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
I don't feel no way tired.
Hillary Clinton speaking to a black congregation in Selma on March 4th, 2007.
Obama also brought out the black dialect at that same.
We're working on getting that from our archives.
Cookie keeps great archives, and we're working on getting that.
But Obama also brought out the black dialect at, because he knew they had an authenticity problem.
He wanted to show that he was down for the struggle.
Now, the NAA LCP, ladies and gentlemen, the NAA LCP has come out and defended Dingy Harry.
It was just awkward.
Dingy Harry's quote here, yeah, he's light-skinned and he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to.
They say that he was actually being complimentary.
He was saying that this is what it was going to take for Obama or any African-American to win the presidency.
I don't know how the NAA LCP can say that that is just awkward.
That is a profound insult.
Light-skinned, not really, not really black.
And he doesn't sound like a black.
That's what doesn't use a Negro dialect.
What does a black person sound like?
And the NAA LCP, it was awkward, but actually Dingy Harry was simply acknowledging the truth about what it would take for a black man to be elected in this racist country.
They didn't say racist country, but it's implied.
Michael Eric Dyson this morning on MSNBC, Georgetown Sociology Professor, questioned, professor, nothing to see here because official Washington is saying there's nothing to be worried about.
This is the Dingy Harry comment.
I think the Democrats here are morally weak.
They are noxious to me.
The reality is this, though.
We have a president who is loath to speak about race.
He would rather talk about anything but race.
Our side refuses to say anything that is even intelligible or coherent about the issue of race and to sweep it under the carpet as if it makes no difference.
If a white Republican had said this, this would be huge news.
They would be making hay out of it, calling for his resignation.
I think we're hypocrites and we're morally weak here.
Michael Eric Dyson this morning on MSNBC.
So Mike Allen Politico is on the show.
He says, last night we were talking to Republicans.
They're going to be out deciding what the party's figures are going to be saying today.
They plan to jam on the gas.
They're not going to step back and let nature take its course.
They're going to say, forget the apology.
Let's go beyond that and get into some of these questions.
What did he mean by those words?
What was he saying?
What was he thinking?
That's what they're going to challenge the press and Democrats to answer.
They're right, because here's where I say Mr. Obama is failing us.
A couple weeks ago, when the Congressional Black Caucus challenged him not doing enough for African American people, he says, look, I'm the president for everybody, not for black people.
Really, we didn't realize that.
Here's the problem, though.
His personal discomfort with race must not absolve him of responsibility as an American president.
We don't expect you as a black man to deal with race.
We expect you as the president of the United States to address this.
And I think that he's being shown short here.
He's shown that he's not really capable.
So there's some fallout here.
Michael Eric Dyson, who will probably change his tune since I have aired these bites, at least for now, saying that Obama is failing us, meaning African Americans, and is not capable.
Grab number 30 again, going to the break.
I got to hear this again.
Hillary Clinton in Selma, March 4th, 2007.
Let us say with one voice the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
There's a quote by Chris Dodd today, CNBC.
He appeared on CNBC and he said that healthcare reform is hanging by a thread.
He said that one or two votes could determine the outcome of the heavily debated bill.
He said, everybody feels like, yes, to some degree who've been for this, that they would have liked something different.
And that's not uncommon when you're considering an issue of this magnitude.
If just one senator on the Democrat side has just the tiniest attack of conscience and realizes what an utter disaster this health care bill is.
It would just take one vote to cancel it out.
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