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May 28, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 28, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Snerdley, you uh have a chance to play with your iPad uh yet.
You just finished thinking it out.
Good.
Good.
So you took time out from show prep today to play with the iPad.
Way to go.
I guess now we know why uh ladies and gentlemen, uh Barack Obama and Bill Clinton had a lunch yesterday to get their stories straight.
You know who this is, and you know what this is.
So let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
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But on Friday, ever you want to talk about fine.
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Hurricanes could be Yes, I'm gonna get the Sestack in a minute.
Just keep your pants on.
Hurricanes could be stronger than usual because black oil would heat water faster and accelerate formation.
So the hurricane geniuses are now revising their forecast because all the oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
See, the theory is the oil is dark, it's black, it gets hot faster than the water does.
And if a hurricane comes along, I mean it's over.
Why do we all just commit suicide and be done with this?
Let's just be done with it.
I mean, it's every every waking moment is a disaster waiting to happen.
The drive-by media cannot wait for it.
Okay.
Now we know why Clinton and Obama had lunch today yesterday.
They had to get their story straight on this Cestac business.
It is, folks, this is just this is just too rich.
Isn't it great?
And now that here's what happened.
Apparently, Rahm Emanuel went to Clinton and said, Look, would you go talk to Sestac informally?
Uh, see if he's interested in taking a non-paid and unpaid job, high position job, unpaid here in the administration.
And Clinton, of course, said, hey, Mr. President, whatever one, you know.
I said you're gonna have to kiss my ass back during the campaign if you wanted my support because the way you called me racist and so forth, the way you the way you portrayed me and Hillary, and now you gotta come kiss my ass.
So find your kiss of my ass.
Well, I got the story right here.
Clinton said that.
Sit tight.
I'm gonna kiss your ass.
You kiss my ass.
I will make sure that you you have to you come groveling to me, I'll be happy to help you out here.
Now look at what's happened here.
They go to Bill Clinton.
He's famous for getting people jobs.
Monica Lewinsky offered a job at Revlon.
She was offered a job at a United Nations.
She didn't take any of them.
But they've got Bill Clinton.
Isn't it great, folks, that they found a guy who they know will commit perjury to carry the water here.
Uh Snerdley.
This is why the staff does not have microphones.
Uh people, why can't we hear them speak to you?
Anyway, what better choice than Bill Clinton?
A man who is willing, they know is willing to commit perjury in order to carry the water here.
Um, there's some question over whether this is any big deal or not.
The document dump on this coincides with the one's arrival uh down in New Orleans.
He's gonna spend three hours touring the disaster in Louisiana.
His average golf game, according to the New York Times, is five hours.
Last summer went on vacation up to Martha's Vineyard.
He played in a course owned and operated by a good friend of mine.
Uh, the Vineyard.
And five hours of The reason it takes five hours because he's not any good.
Most of the time spent in the woods looking for his errant shots.
That's in the New York Times.
I'm uh I'm not making it up.
Now, here is I went and looked at the law on this.
18 United States Code, uh, Section 211, acceptance or solicitation to obtain a pointed public orifice.
Whoever solicits or receives, either as a political contribution or for personal emolument, any money or thing of value in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointed office or place under the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned, not more than one year or both.
And it doesn't say here anything about it has to be a paid position.
Whoever solicits, in this case it'd be Rahm Emanuel, going through Der Schlieckmeister.
Whoever solicits or receives, that would be Sestak, and then by the way, Clinton went to Sestak's brother.
Well, that's that's the circuitous route here.
Whoever solicits or receives anything of value in consideration of aiding a person to obtain employment under the United States, either by referring his name to an executive department or agency of the United States, or by requiring the payment of a fee because such person has secured such employment shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned, not more than one year, or both.
This section shall not apply to such services rendered by an employment agency.
I guess they're going to say Clinton has one.
Uh, because I mean Lewinsky has been a previous client, uh, pursuant to the written request of an executive department or agency of the United States.
So what they're they're trying to get around this by uh by saying, we you know, we've always thought BJ meant we know it means bribe jobs.
Now that's apparently that's that's that's uh Lewinsky is what it is.
BJ means bribe jobs.
Uh the the there are two laws here.
This one I just read you, there are two laws they seem to be violating, but I doubt anybody's going to press this.
But it's uh clearly this is subject to um uh is a lot of people have been saying it's a potential impeachment type of uh of offense here.
Now, I've heard some uh commentators inside the Beltway commentator, it's no big deal why just the way Washington works happens all the time.
People are offered jobs for silence, people are offered jobs to uh uh give up their congressional seats all the time.
If they think they're gonna lose, fall on the sword, it happens all the time.
Well, just because it happens all the time, doesn't make it right.
And it it's uh it's clear here, you know, Sestack uh the onus has been on him because he blew the whistle on this.
He's the one who said he was offered a job.
So everybody's wait well who and what and how.
So Clinton Obama have lunch yesterday, and the story is, well, Rahm Emanuel went to Clinton and Clinton sought Sestack out through his brother to see if Sestack was interested in a very influential and important unpaid federal job.
Now we are we are left here to um uh believe that that is what happened, it was totally innocent, and uh, and as I say, so it looks like looks like the lawyers are gonna claim that if the offer was for an unpaid position, it is of no value, and therefore not technically a bribe.
Is it all setters here on whether or not Sestack was being bribed by the administration to give up his campaign for the Senate seat in Pennsylvania?
Now, if bribe reform, eve I know every time the Democrats break laws, we need to reform the laws.
As though the law was the problem, uh the Democrats are just fine people.
Even if the White House and Clinton are not lying about this, which is unlikely, it's still a very tough argument to make since a high position in the government has real value besides and beyond just monetary compensation.
And no matter how they slice it, still a prid quo a quid pro quo offer.
So Fox News was first on this, saying the White House counsel's office is going to say that Clinton offered Sestack a vague unpaid position or possible positions through Sestack's brother.
Buried way, way back in the New York Times on their website, the caucus blog White House used Dill Clinton to ask Sestaq to drop out of race.
Obama's chief of staff, that would be Rahim Manual, used Clinton as an intermediary to see if C stack, Sestack, would drop out of the Senate primary if given a prominent but unpaid advisory position.
Now, a lot of you probably won't, what do you mean rush?
You started out here at Clinton talking about kissing his rear end.
Here it is.
This is the UK telegraph back in June of 2008.
It's by Tim Shipman in Washington, Philip Sherwell in New York.
Bill Clinton did and it's it's uh June 29th, 2008.
This is after all the you know Operation Chaos is over, uh, the Democrat primaries are over.
Bill Clinton is so bitter about Obama's victory over his wife Hillary, that he's told friends the Democrat nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support.
Telegraph has learned that the former president's rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronizing attitude to Mr. Obama and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by his intransigence.
A senior Democrat who worked for Clinton has revealed that he recently told friends Mr. Obama could quote kiss my ass, unquote, in return for his support.
So here it is, UK telegraph, the media.
His lingering fury, Clinton's lingering fury has shocked his friends.
Uh the Democrat told the telegraph he's been angry for a while, but everybody thought he'd get over it, but he hasn't.
I've spoken to a couple of people who he's been in contact with, and he's mad as hell.
He's saying he's not going to reach out, that Obama's gonna have to come to him.
One person told me that Bill said Obama would have to, quote, kiss my ass, close quote, if he wants his support.
Well, it appears that it happened yesterday.
It appears that it Clinton finally got uh what do you want?
He was asked to bail Obama out of this and uh has uh has done so.
So this has been a building, it's been building to a crescendo here.
Uh, and people have been wondering well, who did what to who?
Because, you know, it Systek is the onus has been on him.
He's the one who revealed this had happened, but he wouldn't provide any details.
He was waiting for the White House to come out with a story, and now that they've come out with a story, Sestack's not talking.
You know, he's going right along with it.
But it was either one of two things either Sestack was lying when this all happened, or something far more serious was going on, and that is that a bribe was offered.
Now, it may be the way the game's played in Washington, but Sestaq blew it by going public with it.
And so now the lid's off.
Everybody's looking into it, and it remains to be seen if this is going to be uh accepted.
Uh and and the uh the end of the story.
In the meantime, Sestack's poll numbers in the Pennsylvania senatorial race.
Uh sort of leveling out.
Uh, he's running against Pat Toomey, as you know, who looks good.
Well, you got to take a brief time out.
There's lots of stuff going on in the program today, plus your phone call since it's open line Friday.
Oh, since we're talking about Clinton.
Let's just go to the audio.
So this gets us out of the way.
This is last Sunday, New Haven.
He did the commencement address at Yale.
Here is a portion of what he said.
Hawaii, the state where President Obama was born, has done everything they can to debunk this myth that he wasn't born in America.
They've done everything but blow up his birth certificate, put it in neon lights, and hang it on the dome of the Capitol.
But 45% of registered Republicans still believe that he is serving unconstitutionally.
Why?
Because they've been told that by the only place they go to get information.
Now, who is he think that is?
So Bill Clinton trashing yours truly.
Uh a harmless lovable little fuzzball here, El Rushbore at the Yale commencement Address last Sunday.
And I, you know, we have not made a big deal about the birth certificate on this program, uh, purposely said away from it.
Uh, but I don't believe that they have blown it up and put it in neon lights.
I think the truth is you can't find it.
And the governor out there, Linda Lingle, said, uh, we're gonna stop all these requests to see it.
So the uh why why do these 45% of red shirt Republicans believe?
Because that's as been told that by the only place they go to get information.
So on Hardball last night, Chris Matthews' uh hapless little show on MSNBC is talking to John Harris at the Politico, and they get who it was Clinton was talking about.
There he is taking a hard whack at Fox and Rush Limba and that sort of crowd, and defending his guy, the president.
Pretty strong politics there.
This is a topic that Bill Clinton has been warming to for almost 20 years now.
I remember the summer of 1994, right before that tough election that Hillary Clinton mentioned in that clip.
He was uh giving uh uh interview almost word for word, uh the some of the same subjects uh railing on Rush Limbaugh.
So this is uh this is uh midway conspiracy.
Exactly.
This is a familiar uh topic and one close to the heart of both Clintons.
We live rent-free inside their heads.
We are on their minds.
Rush Limbaugh back after this time out.
You might be wondering what Kim Jong-il's talking about there, the New York Times was able to ferret out.
A bit of deception.
The story of the day is in the New York Times, a brazen bit of deceit.
Obama goes to his press conference yesterday while everybody thinks that the top kill method is not only in progress at that moment, but that we are having some success.
However, the Times inadvertently publishes, I got I can't believe they did this on purpose.
They published that.
Well, let me just read what they say here.
This is exactly from the Times story.
The Topkill effort has proceeded in fits and starts BP officials who, along with government officials, created the impression early on Thursday the strategy was working, disclosed later that they had stopped pumping the night before.
When engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid was escaping along with the oil.
So when Obama did the press conference, plugged a hole.
Plugged a hole up, by the way.
C stack, Cestack is a whole they really want to plug out there, folks.
That's the whole Obama really wants to plug.
Uh they're this Sestack report, that's their top kill.
That's what they've got to try to sweep away.
But this little this story, the New York Times, uh, they bury the lead, they bury, they don't get the headline right, but this is amazing.
This is a brazen bit of deceit.
Obama needed some action going on.
He needed a he he needed uh uh uh some semblance of success so he could go out there and claim credit for this.
I'm in charge.
Nothing going on out there until they've been proved up by me.
Uh my memory of management service people are the Coast Guard.
No, I'm in charge on day one, laser-like focus.
It turns out that the topkill procedure was not even going on yesterday, been stopped the night before.
So we're left here to wonder just what is real and what isn't real with this administration.
And here we get the topkill effort has proceeded in fits and starts.
BP officials who, along with government officials, created the impression early on, exactly who created the impression the strategy was working.
The Los Angeles Times, I think you'll find folks, the Los Angeles Times is the favored repository for uh so-called exclusive stories from the Obama White House, because they're by obviously uh geographical uh measures.
They're not in Washington.
I mean, they got a bureau there, but LA Times is a whole coast away.
They're not inside the beltway, they're outsider.
And it was the LA Times who first yesterday broke the story that the top kill was working.
If you reread their article, Topkill Plugs Gulf Oil Leak officials said, I remember Drudge had a headline yesterday, the MSNBC was a plug may be have in the middle of they weren't even plugging it.
The topkill had been suspended the night before, and their stories in the LA Times.
Top pill plu uh topkill plugs Gulf Oil Leak official says.
It wasn't true.
None of it was true.
And now we're told we won't know until Sunday whether or not this method is working.
We all hope it does.
But this did and this press conference yesterday, all kinds of people are now weighing it.
It was a disaster.
Uh And Peggy Noonan today, who was one of the early Obama supporters, writes a piece I thought he was supposed to be competent.
It's taken her a year and a half to learn what all of us knew since 2007.
Sit tight.
Back before you know it.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, as always, with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Fairness a big thing in America today, open line Friday.
Have you noticed Democrats always throw their brothers under the bus when a when a when a controversy comes up?
I mean, look at the brothers of Democrats always get thrown to the wolves.
Billy Carter got thrown to the wolves.
Roger Clinton got thrown to the wolves.
Hillary's brothers got thrown to the wolves.
Hugh Rodham thrown to the wolves.
And now Sestak's brother.
It's all Sestax brothers' fault.
You know what the two most dangerous jobs in the world are?
The two most dangerous jobs in the world are being number three at Al-Qaeda and being the brother of an American Democrat politician.
And of course, look at Obama's brother.
This guy, he's still stuck in a hut.
He's still living in a six by nine foot hut in Kenya.
His brother is president.
And he hadn't even sent him a little sign, home sweet hut.
Living in a hut for crying out $20 would change this guy's life.
No running water.
I checked the email during the break, and uh quite naturally uh a lot of people.
What do you mean, Rush, you haven't made a big deal out of Obama's birth certificate?
I haven't.
I you ought to see the emails I get from people who call themselves birthers who are livid at me for not picking this up.
So what I did during the break, I went back to my own website.
Two things I found.
First, July 31st, 2008.
This is from the uh stack of stuff quick hits page.
And I'm just gonna read what I said.
Oh, that birther thing, you know, the birth certificate thing.
Andy McCarthy wrote a brilliant piece on this whole birth certificate controversy at National Review Online.
Really, McCarthy says it's not about the birth certificate.
Uh it's about Obama's honesty.
He hasn't released his law school records, his law review records, his Columbia Records, University Records.
He hasn't released a lot of things.
The this thing could easily be shut down if he just released the birth certificate.
You remember the drive-by media, the Dan Rather business, Dan Rather faked documents?
Mary Mapes, Dan Rather faked documents to show that Bush skipped out of National Guard service.
They ended up giving Dan Rather an award.
They circled the wagons.
Peter Jennings and Brokaw gave him an award for great work.
They circled the wagons.
They made it up.
And now this is just a bunch of kooks about this birth certificate.
Now that's the first reference.
August 21st, 2009, stack of stuff, quick hits page, story three.
And I when I found this, we have an amazing search engine at Rushlinbaugh.com.
When I found this, I chuckled because I remembered it.
I'm looking for something on Moamer Qaddafi.
Because you won't believe this, folks.
By the way, Qaddafi was the original birther.
Qaddafi was.
Back in 2007, Moamar Qaddafi predicted Obama would go soft and deny his Muslim roots and become too white.
I found it here.
September 2008 was a YouTube clip.
Qaddafi insists Obama is a Muslim.
Obama suffers inferiority complex.
So the first birther was Qaddafi.
We're pointing this out.
I've warned many of you people about this several times.
If you're gonna, if you're gonna write me emails and challenge my veracity and honesty don't, because I have uh backup on this.
Now here's the LA Times story on the on the uh the the oil leak, and this is this is where Obama goes.
I'm sure you'll find that that the LA Times is used by the administration to uh to drop uh exclusive news items.
LA Times seems to have been the one who broke the story yesterday that the top kill method was working.
They only cited Admiral Allen of the National of the uh of the Coast Guard.
In fact, they go on to say that as of early Thursday morning, neither government nor BP officials had declared the effort a success yet, pending the completion of the cementing and sealing of the well.
But today's New York Times says BP officials, who along with government officials created the impression early on Thursday that the strategy was working, disclosed later that they had stopped pumping the night before when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid was escaping.
So the Sestac thing is what they're really worried about, but they're using it to cloud this.
I mean, there is raging incompetence here over this oil spill.
Ben Stein today has a pretty nice column in the American Spectator in which he says, look at and all this finger pointing is not accomplishing anything.
The oil companies don't wish this had happened.
If they could take it back, they would do it.
Transocean, the operators of the rig, they wish this hadn't happened.
Nobody wishes this had happened.
And you can't blame Obama.
He's not Superman.
All well and true, but he portrays himself as such from the moment he started campaigning.
Obama's the guy who was going to lower the sea levels.
It's why everybody thought these that he he uh reeked of competence.
That was the image that uh that they put forth us.
Go to the audio sound bites.
February 7th, 2008.
This was the sales pitch from Obama in New Orleans at Tulane.
We can talk about a trust that was broken.
The promise that our government will be prepared, will protect us, and we'll respond in a catastrophe.
When President Bush came down to Jackson Square two weeks after the storm, the setting was spectacular.
And his promise is soaring.
We will do what it takes, he said.
We will take as long as it takes to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives.
But over two years later, those words have been caught in a tangle of half-measures, half-hearted leadership, and red tape.
So there you have candidate Obama ripping George Bush on Katrina, uh, vowing never again.
We can talk about a trust that was broken, and he goes on to mock Bush for going down there two weeks after the fact.
Uh, same speech, additional remarks.
It's time for America to rebuild trust with the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
When I am president, I will start by restoring that most basic trust that your government will do what it takes to keep you safe.
The words never again, spoken so often in those weeks after Katrina must not fade to a whisper.
Uh I don't even need to analyze this.
Barack Obama, in his own words, February 7, 2008, never again.
This kind of incompetence that we saw from Bush after Katrina ain't gonna happen again.
Not with me in charge.
I'm the guy that can lower the sea levels.
I'm gonna have uh post-racial America, post-partisan America.
We're gonna have a post-American America and a post-competence America.
Well, Jindal's not incompetent.
That's uh that's true, but Gindle, you know, Gindle has to get permission from the administration permits to build these berms out there that he wants to build to soak up the oil before it reaches the uh the real shores of Louisiana.
It's open line Friday.
We always go to the phones early, or at least we try to.
We'll start in Chicago with Susan.
Glad you called, and welcome to the program.
Hi, Rosh.
It's a pleasure to talk with you and an honor.
Thank you very much.
I just think that this is absurd with this uh sea stat job offer.
Nobody's going to offer somebody a job of no with no compensation to give up a Senate race.
That's absurd.
Well, but uh you understand the the uh the Democrats understand they've got a a sympathetic and supportive stenographer like media uh to uh to report this.
And they have, of course, they have the august stature of Bill Trenton uh to stand behind the veracity of this.
I mean, they what better guy could they have found to carry the story than a guy who has been willing to commit perjury before?
I mean It's made to order.
So you're not buying it.
No, not at all.
And another thing I wanted to bring up to you is I heard on late night radio that uh President Obama has a Connecticut issued Social Security number that he supposedly got when he was twenty-one years old from a state that he never lived in.
I seem to have heard that somewhere.
I don't know, I don't know any of the details about that.
I don't in fact I don't know if that's actually true.
I haven't looked into it, but I think I've heard that.
Uh but regardless, that's that's way down on the uh list of things to be concerned about is where he has his social security card.
Appreciate the call, Susan.
Ron in Santa Barbara, nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Reagan Ranch Gidd's Maha Rush.
Great to have you here, my buddy.
Just a comment on the News Dev Shavitz book, which I downloaded from Audible a couple of days ago.
Yep.
I listened to it.
It's fascinating, Rush.
It's a wonderful walk through the last 20 years.
You've been at the eye of the storm.
You've been the wind beneath the wings of conservative thought.
It's a pleasure to meet so many of your friends and associates, your family, your wonderful brother David, your father, your grandfather.
And I will just tell you that for those of us who are raising children.
You know, I'm a recovering leftist.
You've helped in that recovery.
For those of us who are raising children that aren't going to take up your eight-week challenge to actually listen to you every day to get a sense of your wonderful humor and your encyclopedic uh purview of the days of death.
I think that book is a wonderful memorial day present, Christmas present.
It's a wonderful way to introduce people to you, to your story.
I forget, uh, Ron, what's the title of the book?
The title of the book is Rush Limbaugh and Army of One.
Oh, yeah.
That's it.
Rush Limbaugh and uh an army.
I wanted you to say it, not me.
You're the broadcast Maha Rushi.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
I gotta I I go Zev Chaffitz, the author of the book, sends me an update every day on his media appearances, and he hadn't had one yet.
Uh he was he was scheduled to go on F. Chuck Todd's MSNBC show yesterday.
He was canceled en route.
I think he did appear with Brian Alera uh in New York on PBS this morning.
I haven't heard how it went.
But he's been blackballed.
He has been blackballed.
The reason he here's interesting story.
When the publisher, Sentinel, announced the book would be published on May twenty-fifth, this past Tuesday.
Their office was swamped with 200 media requests in the first half hour.
They had not seen anything like this.
Then excerpts of the book leaked out, and then the book was published.
And people saw that it was not a book that was critical.
That it was a book essentially fair.
It's not a puff piece by any stretch of the imagination, essentially fair.
So all the media who had wanted Zeb to appear have canceled or have not scheduled in the first place.
He's essentially a journalist of one.
And he has been uh he's been blackballed.
Uh anyway, that's how we gotta take a brief uh brief break here on brief time out.
We'll come back, more of your phone calls, lots of stuff still to do, as we have more fun than anybody should be allowed to have right here on the EIB network on open line Friday.
Right here I have it, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Formerly nicotine stained fingers from the White House website.
President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.
His own words, his own website, Come back to haunt the one.
As we return now to the uh audio sound bites, you know, this this yesterday, everybody the the drive-bys are just melting, melting over the humanity and the and the warmth and the personality.
Obama had the courage to make himself human in the midst of this disaster by referencing the fact his little girl came into the bathroom while he was shaving.
Remember, he said this.
This closed out the presser.
When I woke up this morning, uh, and I'm shaving, and Malia knocks on my bathroom door, and she peeks in her head and she says, uh, uh, did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?
Because I think everybody understands that when when we are fouling the earth like this, it has concrete implications, not just for this generation, but for future generations.
I grew up in Hawaii, where the ocean is sacred.
I guess it's not sacred anywhere else, but it is in Hawaii.
Now, you know, I don't have a daughter, but if I did, you know, in the bathroom shaving, and a door opens, a little girl comes in and says, Daddy, Daddy, did you pluck the hole yet?
And look at her and say, honey.
Uh that one of two things.
That that really is none of your business.
That's a very personal private uh question.
The second thing I would say is, honey, I can't plug the hole in the Gulf.
I don't have by myself the means to do it.
But here's Obama telling the story, and it's it's it's not accidental that he tells the story with his daughter saying, Daddy, did you plug the hole in the Gulf yet?
So, again, we we know that the Democrats will throw their both their brothers on overboard.
They will also use their children in in in ways to humanize them.
Jimmy Carter, October 28th, 1980, in Cleveland.
This is during the second presidential debate with Ronaldus Magnus.
I had a discussion with my daughter Amy the other day before I came here to ask her what the most important issue was.
She said she thought nuclear weapons.
Right.
Uh what was Amy at the time?
Eight?
Eight or nine.
And the most important thing, my daughter Amy thought nuclear weaponry.
And of course, uh, Malia Obama.
Daddy, did you plug the hole in the Gulf yet?
You know, if I were well, we would never know.
If I've lived and worked in Vegas, I'd take odds on whether that actually happened.
Quick phone call, Ben and Bryan, Texas.
I got about a minute, but I wanted to squeeze you in.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Lamar.
It's a pleasure pleasure to talk to you.
You bet.
Um, I'm a liberal art student, and uh, we read some great primary sources where I go to school, and something interesting that I read was by George Kennan.
It's called The Sources of Soviet Conduct.
Now, Kenner was an ambassador to the Soviet Union in around the 1930s, and he notes how the Soviet Union had this antagonism towards capitalism.
They believed it was the root of all man's woes and evils that we experienced on earth.
And they also believed more importantly, that a proletariat revolution was inevitable, that the people would rise up and cry for the overthrow of capitalism.
Well, I believe it's been pretty clear that Obama has the same antagonism towards capitalism and believes that it's uh the root of all our evils in the United States.
But see, he has this problem in that uh we really didn't rise up to overthrow capitalism like he wanted us to, and whereas the Soviet regime didn't feel the need to press their um social agendas militarily, so to speak, they felt that they could wait it out.
Obama knows that he can't wait it out.
He only has two and a half years left in office at most.
Maybe he only has a couple months.
Hopefully.
Until November until the elections.
But it's a brilliant observation.
I'm glad you're learning about George Kennan.
There's a lot of good and bad there.
I wish I had more time, but I don't.
I'm really up against it.
I have to go.
Thanks much.
George Kennan, one of the most famous yet star crossed diplomats.
He was the father of a whole notion of containment of the Soviet Union.
That we could get along with them.
We just had to contain them, defeating them.
No, no, no, we should never try that.
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