[onemiddleamerican]

I heard Rush talking today, too; and he was a little confusing when he was talking about Rubio. He was talking about Rubio's story about his dad not being born here. But I agree, he wasn't totally clear when he said it; and by the end of his commentary, he cleared it up that the story was about Rubio's dad and not Marco.

(And by now you've heard here that Rubio was born in Miami.)

[gitmo]

Here's what Rush said:

Now, this is interesting because Marco Rubio has lived it. His father wasn't born here. Marco Rubio didn't read about it in a book, as he said. He does not have to wonder what the people who paid the price had to go through. You know, of all the things, I love that particular bite. He "grew up largely in a society where what you were going to be when you grew up was decided for you like almost every other place in the world." Here is a short explanation of American exceptionalism. "This is like almost every other place in the world. Think about what that means. It means that before you are even born, how far you were gonna go in life is decided for you by who your parents are or are not." It's true, in part, in this country. The Kennedys are a great example. But it's not true for everybody. You don't need special circumstances to get anywhere in this country. You do everywhere else.

Emphasis added.