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And this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in and honored to be here.
We have been covering all kinds of stories in the previous two hours, but healthcare, healthcare continues to exercise the finest minds in the nation.
President Obama will be appearing with Barbara Walters later tonight.
And the president says, quote, that he has nowhere to go but up after the healthcare.gov debuff.
I think he's talking about the new mandatory prostate exams.
They have to be part of every plan, is that right?
Anyway, he says he's got, he's, yes, you know, when you're a president, you've got your numbers go up and down, up and down.
But right now, they're at a low point and they've got nowhere to go but up.
The president will tell that to Barbara Walters tonight.
That's also the interview in which Mrs. Obama, Michelle Obama, the first lady, says that she doesn't want to get into his ear because he's got so many people in his ear.
The fascinating thing about this president is that there's nobody in his ear.
He doesn't know about anything.
He heard about even though the IRS commissioner was visiting the White House 158 times more than the previous IRS commissioner under Bush, who made just one visit, just one visit, this guy was in there 158 times.
He knew nothing, nothing about this IRS targeting of Tea Party groups and other conservative groups until Lois Lerner gave it away in her speech.
He knew nothing.
He knew nothing about Benghazi.
He knew nothing.
He didn't speak to anyone about Benghazi.
He knew nothing about the Obamacare website.
He said the other day, do you think I would be so stupid as to go around saying it's going to work like Travelocity and Amazon if I'd known it was just going to be a heap of stinking rubbish?
Do you think I'm that stupid to go out there and say it's going to work like Travelocity and Amazon if I knew that it wasn't?
No, that's not the thing.
Do you think the guys who run Amazon and Travelocity would be going out and pitching for their website if they had no idea, if they took no interest whatsoever in what it was going to be like?
So this is what the president will be.
Yeah, I think.
Yeah, well, I think you're right.
You're right, Mr. Snowy.
You ask about these things once in a while.
I certainly would.
I don't know.
It is astonishing to me.
This is, by the way, what happens when you hire someone who believes, he doesn't really believe in the power of words.
He believes in the power of his own words, Obama.
And in a sense, he thinks that simply by saying something, then that's the beginning and end of it.
And that's usually worked for him.
That's how he got to be president.
That's how he got wafted up from the Ivy League to community organizer to state senate to the biggest waft of all into the White House.
No.
No, I think he's he's I think he thinks he can create his own reality here.
This is what it is, Mr. Snowy, is that he thinks, and he's done very well like this.
If you think about that event out in San Francisco where they have these fake Obamacare hecklers, these designated hecklers to make him look like a guy who can wander off prompter and respond to the guy heckling him in the crowd.
That for Obama has defined his own reality.
If you look at his, if you read his books, I mean, he's written all these autobiographies full of composite girlfriends and all the rest of it.
If you can create a composite girlfriend who bears no relation to girls you actually dated, it's only a mere difference of degree to then create a composite government policy that is full of fine-sounding phrases about a healthcare system that ought to work, but in fact doesn't.
I mean, this is the thing.
He's got to where he is by defining who he is.
By the way, this belief in the power of words, again, because he's been insulated from it, there's not a lot of evidence he can actually persuade people who disagree with him.
I mentioned that business with Alec Baldwin an hour ago, and I'm sim what right, right?
Well, no, Mr. Snerley, that Sebelius is actually, that's what government is.
Again, this is the difference.
This is the gulf between when you have a cool president, right?
We all agree Obama, Mr. Snerdley mentioned Jay-Z.
Jay-Z hangs with Obama.
That's how cool he is.
Beyoncé hangs with Obama.
That's how cool he is.
Mr. Snerdley mentioned while we were off air that the last president, in fact, sitting president to visit Gettysburg was Rutherford B. Hayes.
Rutherford B. Hayes was totally uncool.
Beyoncé wouldn't be seen dead next to Rutherford B. Hayes.
Jay-Z would not want to hang with Rutherford B. Hayes.
But Obama is the coolest president ever anywhere.
And so if, and he's surfing the groove of the zeitgeist when he's inviting all these cool people around him to the White House.
So naturally, when he announces that there's going to be an Obama healthcare system, it's going to be as cool as he is.
That's the whole idea of it.
It's going to be the coolest president ever is now creating the super coolest healthcare experience you're ever going to have.
It is going to be the ultimate in healthcare experiences.
And the fact is that Kathleen Sebelius is just some plodding government mediocrity and all the other people under her, likewise, it's a hard, slow government bureaucracy with all the features of government bureaucracy.
And I'm not one of these people who says, oh, you know, it's going to be healthcare like the DMV.
I love my DMV here.
I go to the DMV in Twin Mountain, New Hampshire.
It's like a little, basically just a little shack off the side of the road, the tiniest thing.
And you go in there.
And yes, it's got that look that government buildings have where they're all a bit tatty and down at heel and the poster is starting to curl on the wall and all the rest of it.
But I had to go in there for something a few weeks ago.
Boomf, the guy couldn't have been nicer.
I was in there with my daughter.
We were in there out, nothing flat.
And she said, what a nice gentleman he was.
That's the DMV in Twin Mountain, New Hampshire.
Couldn't have been nicer.
So when people say, oh, Obamacare is going to be like the DMV, they're actually insulting the DMV because the DMV at its best works perfectly fine.
But if you try and do the DMV for 300 million people's healthcare, and you've got at the pinnacle of this thing, you've got the coolest, grooviest, happeningest president, funkiest president of all time on the top of it saying, well, look, I hang out with the guy who owns Amazon and I hang out with the guys who run Apple.
And so simply because I socialize with them, simply because they and I share the same vibe, it's going to be a terrific healthcare experience.
It's the gap between, no, in the end, you take off the cool super veneer and what's left is just a big sclerotic, incompetent, paperwork-ridden dump of a bureaucracy in which there's not even any payment processing thing.
When Obamacare goes to work, you won't even be able to pay.
You know, you'll sign up for it and you'll think your healthcare is all set now.
You've got your plan.
It's supposed to kick in on January the 1st.
But they've got to send you a piece of paper saying you're officially accepted and enrolled.
And then you send them a check back in the mail.
And then they send you a confirmation back saying that your check has been accepted and you now got health coverage.
And this all has to happen between now and January the 1st.
There's nothing cool or groovy.
Do you think Jeff what's his name at Amazon would waste time?
Do you imagine that?
You say, oh, I went to buy the new Jay-Z.
I went to download the new Jay-Z song on Amazon.
Yeah, the new album.
What's it called?
What's it called, Mike?
The Pyramid album.
Thank you.
All my pop culture references are 40 years out of date.
I was going to go with the Partridge family.
But let's say you go to Amazon, right?
And you buy the Jay-Z, you download the Jay-Z thing or the Magna Carta song.
That's right, because he and I are both into Magna Carta, although I think he has a different take on it from me.
But you go there and it's like the 99 cent download.
And you think, wow, that's great.
I've just gone to Amazon and downloaded the 99 cent download of Jay-Z singing about Magna Carta and the Barons and King John in 1215.
Fascinating stuff.
So then you go there to click play and listen to your download and nothing happens.
But a week later, you get a letter from Amazon saying that your application for a download has been accepted and now all you have to do is send a check for 99 cents.
Preferably, if you don't want to wait for the check to clear, you might want to go and get a cashier's check or a bank draft for 99 cents and mail it to Amazon.com, wherever they are, and then they'll send back your download in the mail.
That is how the Obamacare experience was designed.
That's not a flaw.
That's how it's designed to work when it's working.
That's how cool Obama is.
There's nothing cool about that.
Where's the cool in that?
Where's the cool?
And that's the point.
That's the point.
In the end, in the end, Christopher Hitchens used to have a thing saying, the late Christopher Hitchens liked to say that politics is showbiz for ugly people.
And even the coolest people in politics are not really cool.
They're not Beyoncé cool.
They're not Jay-Z cool.
And in the end, they're just government functionaries.
And you want them to be dull, boring people who can get you through the Republic of paperwork in a dreary, uncool, unhip, ungroovy, unfunky way with the minimum of fuss.
And if Obamacare had worked, if Obamacare had been uncool, ungroovy, unhip, unfunky, if it had been totally Squaresville daddy-o, but it had just worked, there would have been no problems.
Obamacare is basically the gulf between Obama's so-called cool and his reality.
By the way, notwithstanding the fact that today is the official post-Thanksgiving Day off, it is still a regular week.
Obama has not decreed that the days of the week shall be changed the way the president of Turkmenistan did when he named renamed Tuesday after his mother.
So it is the end of the week, and you know what that means.
Live from Ice Station EIB, it's Open Line Friday!
Yes, indeed!
100-282-2882 Open Line Black Friday, and we will take all your calls on anything.
If you do think the president is cool, if you have leftover turkey points from the Democratic National Committee official designated Obamacare turkey points to berate your family with at Thanksgiving, do feel free to call up and inflict them on us.
We will take your calls on anything that is on your mind straight after these messages.
Mark Stein, in for us on the EIB network.
Great to be with you.
I hope you had a terrific Thanksgiving.
Let's go to Beth in Schenectady in the great state of the world.
My pleasure, Beth.
Well, I have a conundrum because my income swings quite a bit.
And I thought I would, you know, I looked at the insurance thing because you have to do it.
And I thought, well, the price that they came up for me sounded really great.
But I'm a skeptic.
And I asked them, I said, well, you know, my income swings quite a bit.
This year it's actually under the $15,500, but usually it's around $20,000.
What's going to happen?
I said, well, I'll even pay the amount for the $20,000.
But what's going to happen if I actually make the Medicaid level?
How is the insurance company is going to want to get paid?
But if I make what I made this year, which is like $13,000, it was a really bad year, there's no money for the, you know, that little bit that I pay them is only a fraction.
The rest is supposed to come from tax credits, which I won't be eligible for because I'm not going to make $20,000.
Or on the reverse, what happens if I sign up for Medicaid, which I'm eligible according to my income right now, but I make, which I'm hoping to make, like $20,000.
I know New York State's going to want me to give that Medicaid money back.
I'm not going to, you know, so I just decided that I'm going to do nothing.
And I'm just so thrilled to know that I may end up, if I work as hard as I like to work, that I end up owing a fine.
But I tell you, I'm not both signing up for insurance and paying a fine, or worse, owing New York State money for Medicaid because I, you know, once I had, I hate to say this, but I got an overpayment for unemployment, and you bet they want that money back.
Right, right.
They're very, very, I know how the New York State bureaucracy can be because I was, the Bureau of Compliance informed me I was in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance and fined me $12,000 or whatever it was.
So they take this stuff seriously.
But I'm interested to know, Beth, what did the Obamacare Navigator, or whatever they call them now, this week, what did the Obamacare Navigator, what was the answer to your problem?
She was very nice, but I don't trust it.
She said, well, of course, Beth, you're not going to owe the, she didn't say Beth, but I'm saying Beth.
She told me I wouldn't owe money.
I said, well, what happens?
I said the Medicaid thing.
I said, what if I end up making under $15,500?
She says, well, then you won't owe the insurance company.
But I don't believe that because they're a business.
And if I sign up and they're expecting to get paid, they're expecting to get paid.
So I just, she was really nice, and so I didn't want to be rude to her.
She was extremely nice.
But I thought that can't be correct.
Because you're not going to get the equivalent of the tax credit to make up the difference.
Yeah, and you're in the situation.
The whole premise of the Obamacare thing now is people can get these deals, so-called deals.
It's like when you, to use the Obamacare analogy of Travelocity or whatever, it's like when you're on a plane and there's like eight people all around you and everyone's paid a different fare.
And the government now gives you subsidies according to whatever your income is.
And if they suddenly yank those subsidies out from underneath you, then the insurance company will collect from who they think they can collect from, which is you, or they'll cancel your policy.
And this is actually the problem that that lady, the single mom that Obama was trumpeting as the first successful enrollee in Obamacare, the hardworking single mom who thought they'd offered her a great deal, and then they re-ran the numbers, and the deal was suddenly far more than she can afford.
You'd be in that situation.
You'd effectively be signed for an insurance policy at a certain level.
And then if your income fluctuates, they'll be demanding additional money from you.
So in fact, there is no price.
You can't get, in your situation, you can't get stable health insurance at a price that remains stable, Beth.
That's basically it, isn't it?
Right.
Well, that's crazy.
It is.
That's a nutso system.
No, it is.
And I used to be a, I can't stress this enough.
I'm actually a far left liberal, but I dumped the Democratic Party years ago.
And these things to me just don't seem like something that I can relate to the Democratic Party at all.
But in the end, you know, I'm scraping by.
And there are people in a lot worse situations than me that may live in a large city and they're paying a couple thousand dollars a month for rent.
They don't have any money for any of this bull.
They have no money left over.
No, I just want to hope I don't pay a fine.
Well, as Rush was saying, Beth, and this is important to remember, by the way, they have, for reasons one can be conspiratorial about, structured the so-called Obamacare fine so that if you take relatively elementary steps, as Rush said, if you structure your taxes so that they owe you, they don't owe you on April the 15th.
In other words, so you haven't got, they can only collect the fine out of the refund.
By the way, this is actually a very interesting point about this because the IRS has extraordinary powers, powers beyond revenue agencies in most other free societies, where they can, at the drop of a hat, they can take out a lien on your home or they can garnish your wages or they can freeze your bank accounts or they can freeze your kid's bank account.
You have a kid might have a savings account with 27 bucks in there and the IRS can freeze that because the connection between you and the kid, or the connection between you and the guy who lives three doors away, if they think he's mixed up in it too.
They can do almost anything they want, except with the Obamacare fine, where they have structured the Obamacare fine so that the IRS can't do all the things it does routinely for any other kind of delinquency.
So the fine, the fine is the fine is as mysterious and fictitious as so many of the other features of Obamacare, as Rush was explaining just the other day.
And the question about that is, did they do that deliberately?
Is it just an oversight?
It's a very strange oversight.
And if they did it deliberately, why did they do it deliberately?
You don't want to get too paranoid about these things, but you'd almost think the whole purpose of this was that Obamacare was designed to collapse in the first year, year and a half, and then we move to the next phase of, quote, comprehensive health reform, unquote.
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Jacob Sullam in Reason writes, The New York City Council is considering a ban on the use of electronic cigarettes in bars, restaurants, and public places because they look too much like real cigarettes.
You know these things, these fake electronic cigarettes that give you the air of, so you look like the Marlborough Man, circa 1962, but it's just like some fake thing.
HR, I think, has them occasionally.
You see him strolling around with them.
But Councilman James Gennaro, who is sponsoring the ban, tells the New York Times that we see these cigarettes really starting to proliferate, and it's unacceptable.
It's unacceptable.
New York City Councilman James Gennaro says it is now unacceptable for the citizenry even to have fake cigarettes.
When I was a kid, they used to have candy cigarettes.
I don't suppose you can still get them now.
They've probably been banned as dangerous.
But we used to have candy cigarettes, and like the boys would get a candy cigarette and you'd steal like seven or eight and you'd stick the candy cigarette in your mouth.
And you weren't allowed to have those.
They've gone now.
Now they have people who are giving up smoking, finding it difficult.
They're going to tell you, they're going to tell you that you can't have a fake cigarette on health grounds in bars, restaurants, and public places in New York.
This is, by the way, exactly the same kind of moronic zero tolerance that you have in the school districts of America where a kid, a lot of these stories for some reason, come out of Pennsylvania in my memory.
I think the time I was talking about this, it was a Pennsylvania story, where kids take, they're told it's show and tell, it's show and tell days.
You've got to bring something to school.
And they take a plastic fireman's axe.
And that's regarded as a weapon.
So the school goes into lockdown and they kick the kid, they expel the kid from school.
And it's on his record that he brought a weapon to school because he made the mistake at show and tell of taking a plastic fireman's axe to the school.
And by the way, it isn't a weapon, it's a tool.
And it's the tool used by people who built this country who hacked their way into the wilderness in my corner, New Hampshire.
They hacked their way up the Connecticut River and they chop down the trees with the axe.
Before people started using axes for axe murderers, it was a tool.
And they chopped down the trees and they built a civilization in the wilderness.
So the axe, this plastic axe that this kid is, plastic fireman's axe, that this kid is staying in school, is not a weapon.
It's a tool.
And it's the tool that built this nation.
But the school district says, zero tolerance, we're not having that.
You can't bring the axe to school.
And now everyone's a child.
Because once Big Nanny gets a taste for this stuff, if you think it's going to stop in the grade school, it's crazy.
So now the New York City Council says that you, you're 47 years old and you're going to a bar, you're going to a restaurant and you're not allowed to have an electronic cigarette, which doesn't, no secondhand smoke, doesn't give anybody cancer.
It's got no tar, no nicotine, no nothing.
It's not in fact a cigarette.
But they're going to ban it.
They're going to ban it because you, the 47-year-old Mr. Hepcat Manhattan swinger, going to meet the hot chick in the singles bar in New York City, you are too much of a child to be entrusted to use an electronic cigarette.
All those other cool, swinging Manhattan guys all around you, their children too.
So they can't be trusted to know that when you're standing there with your madman pose talking to the hot chick, that is not a real cigarette, but that is a fake electronic cigarette.
And eventually, if everybody goes, it doesn't matter whether people turn to real cigarettes because you look so cool, if they just turn to fake electronic cigarettes, it will still be too close to cigarettes.
So then the government in New York, New York City Council, is now going to tell you that you can't even have that.
At some point, you know, and I appreciate that I say this as an effete foreigner, so that I may lack a certain credibility on this, but at a certain point, America's self-image cannot survive this kind of thing.
You know, New York, hey, who's tougher than us?
Nobody.
Who's tougher than you?
Everybody.
Do you think some Twerp in Lahore is going to be told by his city council?
Do you think some down with Ziristan or Yemen is going to be told that he can't go and stand with an electronic cigarette while he's trying to pick up the hot babe in the burker?
No, you are, hey, who's tougher than us?
New York, New York tough, Boston tough, Vermont tough.
Yeah, Vermont Tough is actually real.
I got that on a bumper sticker across the river from me here in New Hampshire.
You're not tough.
You can't be tough.
If you accept that the government has the right to tell you you can't have something in your mouth because it looks to it's not a cigarette, but it looks something like a cigarette, then that's like you're no different from that kid we talked about on the show a few months ago who went to school and nibbled his pop-tart into what his teacher thought was the shape of a gun and got sent home for the day.
So don't so you're the equivalent of that grade schooler, you cool, cool New York guys.
You nibble your pop-tart into the shape of a cigarette and the New York City Council says to hell with you.
That's a crime in New York City.
Your self-image can't describe, hey, who's tougher than me?
Nobody.
New York tough.
Whoa, yeah, Yo, Vinny.
Yo, Vinny, Yo, Vinny, what do you mean, Yo Vinny, when he's not allowed to sick an electronic cigarette?
Your children, in the end, the nanny state is making you a child.
Councilman James Gennaro, the sponsor of this proposed ban, is turning you into a child.
And once the citizenry get used to being treated like children, all things are possible.
That's the great problem here.
Let's go to David.
David is in Jackson, Michigan.
Great to have you with us on the show today.
Good afternoon, Mr. Stein.
My most favorite, undocumented alien as a guest host for Mr. Limbaugh.
That's great.
That's an exclusive, that's an exclusive category.
But as I said, we're all terrified here.
Liberty, the talking horse, is like so popular from Rush's book.
The affiliates, the affiliates just want him to do the guest hosting now, the talking horse.
He's practicing.
He's in the next room practicing.
This is how bad it's getting.
What's on your mind today, David?
Calling from under the oaks here, the true birthplace of the Republican Party, Jackson, Michigan.
Oh, yes.
80 miles from Detroit.
Right.
Warren Buffett, with all the bankruptcy in Detroit, Warren Buffett, with your astute knowledge, Mr. Stein, Warren Buffett showed up in Detroit.
And I would like your take on what that means for the automobile industry, which resonates right here, all of Michigan and the nation.
Yeah, I think this is, he says he, this is actually the headline.
I think this was in the Detroit Free Press.
Warren Buffett says Detroit has huge potential and he might invest in it himself.
And he said at this conference, apparently, the resources are here to have a great, great city.
And it's fascinating to me, David, because this is the sort of thing.
Normally, you'd be an investor and you'd show up in the middle of Sudan or Chad, and you'd say the resources are here to have a great, great city.
Detroit had a great, great city.
And the question for Warren Buffett is how it ceased to be a great city, I think, and whether it can come and whether it can come back again.
And that depends on certain things happening.
And it requires a matter of political will that there's not a lot of evidence prevails among the city's political class.
And I think that's interesting.
But you know what it is?
It's like if you if I don't know whether Warren Buffett meant this, David, but here's how I think of it: is that when you've got somewhere that has a lot of problems and you want to invest, you can go in there and you can try to fix the problems and put something up in there.
Or you can start just somewhere on the map.
And it doesn't have to be Sudan or Chad.
It can be all kinds of places out there where you're just basically starting from scratch.
You're putting up a factory in, I mean, that's basically why everyone's putting them in China and places, is because they're not trying to correct.
They're not saying we'll go in and we'll negotiate less insane pensions agreements.
They're just going and saying there's nothing here.
We'll build a factory and everyone will want to work here.
And that's what's happening in Bangalore, in India, and up and down the Chinese coast and all the rest of it.
And that's easier to do than trying to turn around something once it's headed south.
And I wonder if Warren Buffett is not just in some sense pandering to his audience a little here, David.
I know that the state of Michigan cannot absorb the debts from Detroit, Flint, and so on.
No, that's true.
That's true.
Because they've got the rest of the state to be responsible for.
And if you're way down, if you're in the Upper Peninsula or you're way down on the Indiana border or whatever, you're a long way from Detroit's problems and you're in a different economy in large part.
And asking, in effect, the state to shoulder the burden of the city's miscellaneous.
I always say this, and I know it's an extreme solution, David, but Canada has been celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812.
They put it on the stamps up there.
They've got HMS, whatever it was, firing on the White House and all the rest of it.
And if you recall, in the War of 1812, the British rode in with some Indian irregulars, I think, and actually took over the city of Detroit.
And I think you should let the Canadians come through from the tunnel at Windsor and take over the city one more time.
And I would bet, by the way, actually, that is more likely that Warren Buffett taken over the city.
But great to have your call on the show today, David.
And yeah, that's, I forget what it was.
They only kept Detroit for whatever it was, a couple of years.
But basically, as I recall, I can't recall all the details of the Battle of Detroit, but basically, well, Mr. Sturdley says the Canadians must have had reasons for giving it back.
Yes, maybe they'd be exceptionally far-sighted if they saw what was coming back in 1812.
But I gather the governor was drug or something like that.
The governor of Detroit at that time, who surrendered the city to the British, was apparently a Rob Ford type.
He was a proto-Rob Ford.
He was off his face on crack or whatever they were doing back in Detroit 200 years ago.
And he surrendered the city without a shot.
But His Majesty's forces, very shrewdly, notwithstanding their military victory, decided to give it back to the Americans, which tells you something.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
The Times of Israel is reporting that under these U.S.-Iran talks, the U.S. has been freeing a lot of Iranian prisoners, including the Iranian scientist Moshtaba Atarodi, arrested in California for attempting to acquire equipment for Iran's military nuclear programs.
He was released in April as part of these secret deals, secret talks that were going on between the U.S. and Iran.
Let's go to Saeed in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
You're live on the Rush Limbosho.
Great to have you with us.
Yes, thank you for taking my call.
I just wanted to mention that this so-called agreement with Iran is a simultaneous betrayal of not only American national interest, but also of the aspirations of those in Iran who are seeking democracy and seeking to free themselves of this tyrannic regime that has ruled over them for 30 years.
The net result of this agreement will be to reintegrate the most virulent, anti-American, anti-Western force in the Middle East back into the world economic order.
And as such, giving the Ayatollahs in Iran far more resources than they currently have to fund their mischief around the world and around the Middle East against American interest and against the people of Iran.
Well said, Said essentially what the United States has done is rehabilitate an international pariah and as you say, enable them to fund a lot more mischief in the years ahead.
These are guys who just two years ago, 2011, they attempted to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States in Washington.
They're serious about this stuff.
And the other point you made, which is a terrific point, is that basically Obama has cut loose the opposition in Iran and the many Iranian émigrés in the Western world by basically saying, by basically prolonging the life of the Islamic Republic, by prolonging the Mullah's grip on the country, Saeed.
That's basically what he's done here.
Said, is he gone?
Okay, he's basically prolonged the life of the Islamic Republic.
Isn't that the case, Saeed?
Yeah, this is absolutely true.
He missed the historic opportunity Obama did in 2009 to stand with the people of Iran against this tyrannic regime so that if a transfer of power had occurred there, as it should have, the United States would then have a real partner for a negotiated peace.
You're absolutely right.
You're absolutely right on that, Saeed.
And you know the most disgusting thing about this, by the way?
Again, when people make the Munich comparisons, Neville Chamberlain, when he came back from Munich, didn't refer to Hitler as De Führer, which is German for supreme leader, by the way.
He just called him Herr Hitler, Herr Hitler this, Herr Hitler that.
John Kerry, Barack Obama have referred to this guy, Ayatollah Khomeini, as the supreme leader.
In other words, they have legitimized the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead.
Yeah, New York City Council is banning electronic cigarettes.
Strange, childlike treatment of its citizens.
It's different for us Canadians.
You know, Mayor Rob Ford in Toronto, he's just walking around these days with his own electronic crackpipe.