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Oct. 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 8, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, welcome back.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
You know who I am and you know what we do, and you know how we do it.
Even on Friday, I checked the email.
Lots of people irritated that I didn't take a call for the first hour and a half on Open Line Friday.
Can't win.
Do a great extraordinary show every day.
No appreciation.
Still can't win.
Still always doing something wrong.
Oh, guess what?
I do owe some people an apology.
Earlier this week, we played our Barney Frank update theme, uh, My Boy Lollipop, with the usual sound effects added in.
What I forgot was that on our daily podcasts, we cannot feed any music because of royalty issues.
We can't feed the theme song at the opening of the program.
We can't play any of the parodies.
We can't play any music.
And so during the Barney Frank update theme, all people on the podcast heard were the added sound effects.
Totally without any context.
And I got lots of email about that.
And it ran the gamut.
Some thought it was funny, thought other others thought it was uh abrasive and offensive.
You can imagine what that would sound like without the song My Boy Lollipop.
So I that's always been a frustrating thing for me about the podcast.
It's it the royalties that are being charged to play music over the net, it's just absurd.
It's ridiculous.
The price that we would have to charge for the podcast would make it senseless to do.
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the Senate campaign committee, is moving all of its money out of Missouri.
Meaning the campaign of Robin Carnahan, the uh the Secretary of State, the Democrat Party is abandoning.
This is a sign that the Senate race may be moving beyond their grasp.
Four Republican sources, this is in the Hotlines National Journal today, four Republican sources who monitor media buying, and three Missouri TV stations have confirmed to the hotline on call that the DSCC has canceled reservations from October 11th to October 25th.
The Democrats Senatorial Campaign Committee still has reservations in Missouri for the last week before election day.
Uh, but they have requested cancellations in Kansas City and the NBC affiliate there, which is uh KCTV.
So with all these ad buy changes, it's what they say here, it's worth keeping in mind that they're fluid and they can change at any time.
The DSCC could still go on the air in Missouri during this time period, but it would have to pay a higher ad rate than it first received.
So they're pulling their money out of there.
Uh they've they they've squeezed about all they can here uh out of the Carnahan family, though the widow Carnahan of the Russ Carnahan.
Russ Carnahan's where the uh the black tea party guy got beat up uh two summers ago to town hall meeting his sister Robin, uh Secretary of State not going well.
I mean, she's the one that had to come up with a fake Tea Party candidate that's playing all kinds of games uh to try to split the vote going for Roy Blunt, and it isn't working.
Then you couple that with we have this from the uh public policy polling, I mean hard left polling outfit in North Carolina, and the headline here is Obama's big drop in blue states.
One of the most amazing things in our polling over the last month has been how dreadfully bad Obama's approval numbers are with likely voters in a lot of states that he won by large margins in 2008.
Public policy polling polled 12 states since the beginning of September.
At October one, uh Obama won by at least nine points, and in all but three of those states, Hawaii, California, and New War New York, his numbers are under water.
And by only one point in New York.
This is big.
Now, if you go to CNN, by 47 to 45%, Americans say Obama is a better president than George W. Bush.
But that two-point margin is down from a 23-point advantage a year ago.
CNN poll was Bush better president than Obama.
Americans are divided over whether President Obama and his or his predecessor has performed better in the White House.
And a CNN opinion research corporation survey released today also indicates that in the battle for Congress, Republicans hold large advantages over the Democrats among independents, men, and blue collar whites.
A poll also indicates that Republicans are much more enthusiastic than Democrats to vote.
And by 47 to 45%.
Americans say Obama's a better president than Bush.
But that's down from a 23-point lead that Obama had a year ago.
My how the Messiah has fallen.
Now Biden, Vice President Bite Me.
Do you remember?
Vice President Bite Me insulted an audience at a campaign rally.
He said, You are the dullest audience I have ever spoken to.
That was at a fundraiser for Robin Carnahan in Missouri, where the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee has announced they're pulling money out of that race.
They're going to spend it elsewhere.
See all indications are that they are conceding that race.
She doesn't have much of a chance.
Audio sound bites.
This is some good stuff we've been keeping on hold.
This is late yesterday afternoon in Bowie, Maryland.
Bowie State University, a rally for the re-election of Governor Martin O'Malley, President Obama spoke.
If I said they're fish in the sea, they'd say no.
See, their calculation was if Obama fails, then we win.
That was their calculation.
Inside the mind of Barack Obama.
Because there wasn't one Republican who said this.
It was just I. Only I, L. Rushbow said, I hope he fails.
See, their calculation was Obama fails, we win.
That was their calculation.
Now, meanwhile, he's at a campaign rally for somebody else talking about himself.
Now, at this rally at Bowie State University, a rally for the reelection of the Governor Martin O'Malley.
While Obama was speaking, a protester shouted, you are a liar, and this caused a bit of a kerfuffle.
You're a liar!
Get out of here!
You're a liar!
Get out of here!
You're a liar!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Get out of here!
Get your ass out of here.
Take care of your ass out of here.
We don't want you.
F*** you!
Just your average peace-loving, tolerant left-wing rally for an incumbent mayor.
You're a liar.
And they Obama'd start insulting.
I think it was very funny.
They're fainting again, by the way, uh, for the Messiah.
Again, yesterday afternoon in Bowie, Maryland, at Bowie State University, while Obama was speaking.
I think we might have had somebody faint down here.
So if we got the paramedics right here up front, everybody's pointing at him.
Now, they'll be all right.
Just make sure that you give them some space.
And if somebody has a bottle of water, might want to get it to him.
That sounds like it's on the teleprompter.
That sounds like it's on the teleprompter.
They're going back.
I mean, they're really turning back the hands of time.
They're going back to their own groove yard of forgotten favorites.
When the um when Obama was out there as the messiah, all these people were swooning and fainting.
And that's exactly what he said when it would happen during the campaign.
Oh, uh, might have hit somebody faint down there.
Uh, got the paramedics right up here, right?
Get a bottle of water.
Give them space out, they'll be fine.
He doesn't know they're going to be fine.
There were 15 of them that keeled over.
And I read a news account of this.
I forgot where it was, CNN, Washington Post.
They said it was because of the heat, that it was an unusually warm day at Bowie State University.
So I went out there and I checked at the weather underground.
It was a blistering 74 degrees.
You ever heard of people fainting in blistering temperatures of 74 degrees?
Fifteen of them dropped over, keeled like flies, and right on cue, as though it's on the prompter, Obama calls out for the paramedics and then dispenses his own medical advice.
Give them space, back off, find a bottle of water, they will be fine.
Then another one went down after this one.
There's another one up here gotten a little hot.
Let him sit down.
Let him sit down.
All right.
We got another bottle of water.
We can get another bottle of water up here and a medic up here.
You believe this.
They were dropping like flies, fainting, 15 of them in total, during a blistering hot day at Bowie State, Maryland, or university in Bowie, Maryland.
And right on cue.
Does it not sound to you, Dawn, like this is on the teleprompter?
There's another one.
Let's sit down.
Let it let it sit down.
All right, all right, got it a bottle of water.
Uh, uh, somebody has a bottle of water.
Make sure you give them some medic, medic.
Just like it's, you know, on the battlefield.
Now the media, the media is trying to explain the three dozen getting ill at buoy on the temperature.
Blistering high of 74 degrees in Bowie, Maryland.
Now, we should note here that the audience was largely comprised of college students, which is to say they were mostly children under the age of 27.
Who else is going to show up in the middle of the day to see President Obama.
So you had children under the age of 27.
What are the odds that these children under the age of 27 had just realized that they are not going to get their health insurance for free on their parents' policies.
I have to make a correction out there.
Uh Biden did not insult the Robin Carnahan audience.
It was an audience in Wisconsin.
Uh, probably for fine gold, but it could have been.
Somebody in Wisconsin said the audience was the dullest audience that he had ever spoken before.
And the audience said, why don't you just take your butt out of here?
No, they didn't, but we can dream.
But then when you're wrong about bite me, I mean, I uh nobody would really notice, but I correct myself anyway.
Because I care about my own accuracy.
Uh Mark Charlotte, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
Hey, dittoes, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Uh my son uh just turned 18 this year.
His name is Chris, and he cannot wait to vote this year.
He's a huge fan of yours, so uh he's like the rest of us, very excited about his first vote.
So it's gonna be a big deal.
Yeah, we're ready for that.
Listen, I'm in the financial services business, and I was at a a uh series of uh conferences, and they had one guy come up and present how the markets did, depending on which side of the house was in control of the Senate, the House, and the presidency.
One of the things that you've been so eloquently able to communicate to us is that the market's like gridlock.
Absolutely.
And it was fascinating, Rush, what they came up with when they showed that it it didn't matter which whether Democrat or Republican, if all three controlled all three of them, if if one controlled all three, one party, uh the markets averaged about four percent.
The the time when the markets were the highest was when the Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and there was a Democratic president.
It was it was it was astounding.
It was by far uh the most active and and prosperous market that we had.
And I think it was just a testament to what you've said about the whole concept of gridlock.
They it showed it right there in in in real numbers.
It was fascinating.
Well, here here are let me here are the real numbers.
The average stock market gain during a Democratic Congress is about ten percent plus nine point eight.
The average stock market gain during Republican Congress is thirty percent plus thirty.
The average stock market gain during a Democrat president with Democrat Congress plus thirteen with Republican Congress plus thirty-two.
Yeah, it shows who controls the purse strings, right, as well.
Who grew really controlling where the money's going.
The most recent example, you got two of them.
You'd be Bush and the Republican Senate, and Clinton, the Republican Senate.
And House uh as well.
So no, but you're absolutely right.
The markets love gridlock.
Now, this might surprise a lot of people who are saying, why?
When nothing gets done, that means there are no laws punishing anybody being passed.
When nothing gets done, there aren't any new regulations to have to overcome.
When nothing gets done, there aren't any new taxes.
When nothing gets done, the government is essentially dormant.
And that's what capitalists like is a dormant, out-of-the-way government that's gridlocked, unable to move.
And that is what's in store here, because the the Republicans are not going to have enough votes to override certain Obama vetoes.
And gridlock is also predictable.
You know what happens during gridlock.
Markets and businesses love predictability.
Ron in Richmond, California, thank you for waiting, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you.
Hey, Rush, I just wanted to uh thank you so much for being a great American.
I listen to you every day.
And uh I had a comment and question uh regarding uh the stock market.
Yes.
Because I keep hearing that the feds are injecting the stock market, uh and I'm wondering, because I predicted this with my wife about a year ago when the stock market went way down, actually about a year and a half ago.
And I was curious if our government is injecting it as well, besides the Federal Reserve.
Um, and if the feds are, are they using our tax dollars or are they just printing money up?
Now this and and throwing it in there.
Wait a second now.
What this is an excellent question because last well, in the fall of two thousand eight, when the TARP was necessarily imminent financial collapse, we were told, unless we had these bailouts immediately, the whole world financial system would collapse.
The Federal Reserve lent two trillion dollars to somebody, and we still don't know who got the money.
That's above and beyond TARP.
Oh my goodness.
There were court cases, you know, people said we have a right to know who where this money came from, whose money is it, and where did it go?
And we still don't know.
Now, I want to I want to be as accurate as I can here.
When I say that the the Fed is injecting money in the stock market, they're not buying stock.
What they're doing uh is is enabling other investors, not not not the mom and pop, the average you and I type investors, institutions.
They are they are complicated process.
But they're basically putting cash, which is is it is available for investment into people's hands for the purpose of bucking up the stock market.
Wow.
Now, you you ever thinks the Fed is an independent agency, and it is.
But it's clear if you just look at what's happening.
I mean you've got you've got economic morass melees destruction all over the place except everybody in the dreaded hated Wall Street areas going through the roof.
Have you noticed this?
And today we go through the eleven thousand barrier.
Now why is this happening?
Obama's been running against these people.
He's been telling these people that the only thing separating them from the people with the pitchforks is him, and yet they in this economic downturn, Wall Street doing well.
Some people think this is by design, which is to counter today the bad jobs news, bad jobs numbers, that they're desperate prior to an election to make it look like there's something positive somewhere happening in the economy to give Democrats some hope, give voters some reason, perhaps possibly to vote for Democrats.
People do believe this kind of manipulations take place.
Talent on lawn from God.
Dr. Ryan Maw's a scientist, a climatologist, a good guy at Florida State University.
Monitors cyclone activity.
For the official record.
Dr. Ryan Maw's 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update.
Current, current year-to-date analysis of Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone accumulated cyclone energy and power dissipation index has fallen even further than during the previous three years.
The global activity, the the the bottom line here is global activity, tropical cyclone activity is at 33-year lows.
And at his an historical record low where typhoons form in the western Pacific.
Also see this I'm I'm reading from the from the webpage here.
There's a chart, very simple, easy to understand chart, and you can see that we are in a a um 33-year low.
I mean, the tr tropical cyclone activity, typhoons, hurricanes, all in the northern hemisphere, Western Pacific, uh, Caribbean Atlantic, 33-year low.
And it says here right in this post, also see additional blog posting with recognition given to Rush Limbaugh's tropical cyclone knowledge.
They have repeated my hurricane forecast for this year.
Well, they've linked to it at Rushlinbaugh.com and have acknowledged my tropical cyclone knowledge.
Um Coco will uh will link to this at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Uh Coco, it's W W Waps, C-O-A-P-S dot F S U dot Edu slash Maw Tropical.
Just just search Dr. Ryan Moore, Florida State University, you'll find this.
Somebody needs to call Gore.
Look, we've got a genuine hoax and a fraud being perpetrated out there.
All seriousness now.
We got this fraudulent movie, a fraudulent book.
Look at how many people believe all of this calamitous, apocryphal stuff that's going to happen because of global warming and hurricanes, and we're at a 33-year low for global tropical cyclone activity.
Uh Tamra in Yakima, Washington.
Go back to the phones with you.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
Um, my husband listens to you every day, and he has your phone number memorized.
Well, um thanks very much.
I'm calling, thank you.
The reason I'm calling is the statement that you made a few days ago calling President Obama a jackass.
Um I understand and realize that the liberal news media, the government news media, is making a big deal out of that, and probably because they can't find anything else to criticize you about.
Um I so I looked up the word jackass is A legitimate word in the Webster dictionary.
Right.
It has two meanings.
Um, the first one is a male donkey, which we're all aware of.
And the second one in the Webster Dictionary says a jackass, a stupid or foolish person.
Witch.
Fits.
And I thought that fit, and I thought, well, maybe the rest of the world needs to know that that is a legitimate word and a um uh good definition of probably most of the Democrats, liberal Democrats in our Congress today.
Let me tell you.
Let me just tell you, Tamra, why this cut these people to the quick.
This ran originally on Jacob Tapper's ABC blog site.
The fact that I had called Obama an economic ignorance, economic jackass.
They most of it was pretty much in context what I had said.
Every comment, and there were hundreds.
Every comment posted on the ABC, i.e., state controlled media blog site agreed.
That's why they had the cow.
Because so many Americans agreed.
I mean hundreds all over the place.
Not just then it went viral from Jacob Tapper's blog site to all kinds of other blog sites that picked it up, and the comments on those sites were overwhelmingly in agreement with I, L. Rushbo, your host.
And so that's what sprung him into action.
And I'm just gonna say again.
Now, if you're the if you're the state controlled media and you have somebody, if you don't do it yourself, you have somebody monitoring this program, and for a year, you're told that I said, you know, this guy is purposely destroying the U.S. economy.
He is singling out this country for destruction.
He doesn't like it.
He's been raised to believe this country is the problem in the world.
None of that bothered him.
In fact, they didn't even refute the charge.
They didn't even nobody even denied it.
To this day, nobody, Axelrod Pluff, nobody from the White House has denied that.
Not that they would.
I mean, but but actually I think they would.
Like that if if it's so out of the mainstream, if it's so if it's just so yiky, I can somebody say that, that they would laughingly.
But not a word.
No refutation, no acknowledgment.
But then he's a jackass.
All hell breaks loose.
Go figure.
This is uh Tommy, is it Tammy or Tommy?
Tommy, Richmond, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you, Mega uh Pittsburgh Steelers Ditto's.
Thank you very much.
So I wanted to call and talk about the chicken of football.
Yes, ma'am.
Um, I don't think you need to do pink breast tensor awareness to get women to like football.
Either you like it or you don't.
And if you're a woman, you want to see men being meant and hitting hard and hard-hitting football.
I don't want to wear a pink Steelers jersey, I want to wear a black and gold jersey.
And I don't think you can also I do uh bring my husband beers while we're watching the game.
So I thought you would like that.
Well, hubba hub.
All right, so you want men to be men.
You want men, you want to watch manly.
Yes, I do.
I want to watch Troy Paul Marvel.
You don't want to watch the pile.
You don't want to watch metrosexuals play football.
No, not at all.
Who would?
Okay, so tell me this.
What do you think of Tom Brady's haircut?
I don't know.
You know what's interesting about Trump Brady is I watched the first part of the game the other night on Monday night, and I put up what's up with Tom Brady and a bunch of girlfriends wrote, You mean the good looking one?
And I was like, Yeah, but he's not playing well tonight, and then I didn't see the second half, and then I didn't see him go forward.
So that was a special teams victory.
Yes.
That that really was.
That was the the Dolphin special teams fell apart uh Monday night.
But I'm you know, it's it's amazing.
Uh the women that I know who watch football are just what's with Brady's hair.
In fact, a lot of the male sports writers I have to are wondering what's with Brady's hair.
Why doesn't he cut it?
And of course, there's an obvious answer to this.
But nobody wants to state it.
But well, you know, he's a model.
He has to do these things.
Right on.
Right on.
But that's right.
I love what she said.
She wants men to be men.
She don't want to watch men playing football in pink Steelers jerseys.
She likes manly.
That is so refreshing to hear.
I love it.
All right, brief time out.
Back with more right after this.
And we are back with the Reverend Dr. Kenneth Hutcherson, who is the pastor of the Antioch Bible Church in Seattle, Washington, former star linebacker of the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Seattle Seahawks, known affectionately to all of us as the Hutch.
I was hoping you'd make it in this hour because I've been telling people you were going to call.
Yeah, you guys had me block.
Burt, post nearly when letting me in, you know.
No, no, no.
You were not blocked.
You never be blocked.
Nobody could ever block you anyway.
I'm trying to see a recovery from the wedding, how you're doing.
Uh, very well.
Thank you very much.
It was a great time, my man.
It really was, and uh, you were you were you were just amazing.
The Hutch performed the actual matrimonial ceremony of the Catherine's and mine wedding.
And it was um it was great.
See, it was superb.
Everybody loved it.
It was it was superb, so congratulations.
Thank you, sir.
Judge Catherine is lover and uh keep you keep you smiling like you were that day.
She does that.
Hey, you gotta be careful, man, about that uh humanization and chication uh in a failure, no.
Well, I mean, I only brought it up because you said you wanted to talk about it.
It's getting awfully bad out there, and you really gotta watch out for those good looking women in football jerseys, too.
I heard you comment a little earlier.
Well you know, Tony Roma, Tony Romo has not even recovered yet from just the symptoms being in that jersey and get blonde sided.
Yeah, that was a trip to Cabo, I think.
During the playoffs, during a bye week during the playoffs, that's a good point.
That's a good bus like Samson and Delilah.
You gotta understand it.
But that these are just the simple facts, bro.
How many men do you see on the sidelines as commentators today?
How many men do I see in the sidelines as commentators?
Oh, the sideline reporters.
Uh uh.
Tony Siragusa's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
Only one.
That's the only one you you can look at football all day, Sunday, Monday night, and the interviews is by women.
Oh, so what's up with that?
What do you do you say w w well what's wrong with it?
What is right with it?
That means it's the trickrification of the NFL.
There's some guys out there that really know what language to use with these guys.
Let the men be men.
I I had a call from one of the ladies that ran for governor up in New Jersey.
Uh, excuse me, New Hampshire.
Yeah.
And you know one thing she says is as a woman, I want men to be women, just like your earlier caller.
Right.
You want to track women to football, let men be men and quit tricklifying them.
So you think sideline reporters being women.
Like I happen to some of those women actually know the sp they know the game, Hutch.
I mean, they know it, they know it X's and O's.
So but what 10 to 1 knows it better than men?
Well, I don't know about that, but they know it.
Okay.
How many men do you hear about going in the uh with problems in the dressing rooms these days?
I'm I'm a man of the comp Rush in that that C on scene of whoever she was.
I couldn't even look at her picture, you know, and I I got God in front of my eyes.
Well, but it's it's guys, it's a game for men.
You don't hear you don't hear very many uh things going on with the women in the in the WLBA.
That men being in the dressing room, you know what the WLBA is.
That's the women lesbian back.
No, no, Hutch, don't do this.
You're a man in a cloth out there now.
Hey, most of the there's no problem there because most of the guys on the court.
I mean, let's be honest.
We are trying to make women the number one thing about the NFL.
And we're losing what the games are all about.
And we're bringing the women in because women want to see these men be men, not walk around being afraid to be hit.
Look at the quarterback today.
How many quarterbacks are we getting hurt?
Uh Hutch, let me tell you, you this series problem.
They're dropping like flies.
They're dropping like flies.
You know why?
You could put the number of of top line make or break quarterbacks in the NFL in one hand out of 32 teams right now.
Why are they dropping like flies?
Because there's no hitting drills anymore, even in practice.
They blow the whip along before you can even get to them.
Why not just put dresses on them?
Well, Bradshaw said that way, but no, Jack Lambert said that way back in the 70s with the Steelers.
Well, I'll tell you why.
That's when they first started.
Well, it's about money.
The quarterbacks are the stars.
The quarterback, you know, if these guys aren't playing, there's not as much reason to uh to watch the game.
And plus, if if you've if you take women, if you take women out of the game, there won't be any more Inez signs running around than New York Jets.
We gotta come to the conclusion, whether we lack it or not, that what all the new rules it is it's an over simplification of sensitivity.
Look at the whole thing.
No taunting.
Rush, this is the NFL, National Football League, not for long.
And you're getting penalties for taunting your guy that you just ran over not down.
That was part of the game.
Yeah, now this I agree with you.
This I and the side and the and the end zone celebrations and the taunting and this kind of thing.
But Hutch, I know why they're doing this.
And and you do too.
Oh, yes.
You know why they're doing it.
Because that taunting is going to lead to some weapons being brought on the field someday if they if they don't stop it.
I mean, you know, uh, you know, my big thing, Rush, is why is all the new rules, even leading with, you know, your helmet these days.
You can't really leave with your helmet.
You can't leave with your shoulder.
15-yard penalty, 10-yard penalty.
You know, it's almost like if you hit some guy too hard, it is uh unsportsman like Honda.
And and and uh celebrate, you can only celebrate by yourself.
Uh, and if you celebrate, you're gonna celebrate with one other player, and then you have no free uh free conditions of practice on your celebration.
You get penalty, pinage the penalty.
Most of the things are like it's going towards the brothers, Rush.
What is the penalty toward the white players?
Uh well, that's that's looking that that's a percentage question.
I mean, that's just that's how many of the that's I'm gonna but look, I got 30 seconds here, and I want I want to react to this because I think it's only going to get worse.
I think they're gonna legislate more of the so-called toughness or hard-hitting somebody want to kind of call it violence out of the game.
As more and more people watch it, as more and more helmets keep flying off guys' heads, as more and more concussions take place.
You watch.
They're going it it's gonna get worse, Hutch.
They're they're they're going to do what not they won't end up flag football.
They're gonna take away the three-point stance.
There will not be offensive and defensive linemen of three-point stances anymore.
That's coming, especially 18-game schedule.
I wouldn't be surprised if that happens to reduce the collisions that take place at the snap.
I wish well, they they might lose hardcore fans, but their TV audiences are at record levels right now.
That's partly because the rest of TV is such a wasteland.
Hutch, thanks for calling.
I'm really way out of time, and we'll talk soon.
Thank you very much.
Well, another exciting excursion, a full week of it.
Broadcast excellence in the can.
And as Obama told his supporters yesterday in Maryland, don't make me look bad.
Thinking this election when he's not even on the ballot is about him.
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