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GREW UP IN THE PROJECTS, FED UP WITH THE DEMOCRATS
www.rushlimbaugh.com ^ | September 9, 2005 | The Truth Detector

Posted on 09/09/2005 5:34:03 PM PDT by Yosemitest



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Louisiana; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; blackvote; blanco; democrat; dnc; govblanco; hampton; katrina; maxmayfield; nagin; neworleans; rush; talkradio; thomassowell; virginia
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Thanks Rush, I can't thank you enough, and I hope you don't mind my adding Thomas Sowell's photo and link to the article.

If only this were required reading and listening to all students in school, but the teacher's unions would never allow it.

1 posted on 09/09/2005 5:34:04 PM PDT by Yosemitest
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To: Yosemitest

His shows this past week have been some of the best I've heard so far.


2 posted on 09/09/2005 5:47:11 PM PDT by Redgirl (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him.)
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To: Yosemitest

Just a reminder, How many of us were Liberals until we listened to Rush?

Politics was the last thing on my mind, I heard Rush during the Clarence Thomas Hearings and thought hey heres a guy that thinks the same way I do, I didn't even know I was a Conservative, (I had been voting Democrat).

God Bless Rush Limbaugh


3 posted on 09/09/2005 5:47:56 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Ogden contact Texas Transplant)
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To: Redgirl

You should have heard Rush during his first three or four years. This is a refined, ole Rush, and more effective than ever...


4 posted on 09/09/2005 5:50:58 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die)
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To: TexasTransplant

He is quite mesmerizing.


5 posted on 09/09/2005 5:51:24 PM PDT by Redgirl (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him.)
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To: TexasTransplant
Rush really should be President of the United States, but as a Leader-Maker, we can't afford to lose him from his three hours a day talk show.
6 posted on 09/09/2005 5:53:18 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die)
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To: Yosemitest

I didn't "see the light" until around 1998.


7 posted on 09/09/2005 5:53:57 PM PDT by Redgirl (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him.)
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To: Yosemitest

Wonderful!

Good follow-up questions.

Guess some of those former democrats will now be voting Republican!


8 posted on 09/09/2005 5:58:21 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Yosemitest

YES! I heard this caller, she was great


9 posted on 09/09/2005 6:03:40 PM PDT by jocon307
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Governor Blanco doesn't care about black people.

The Democrats don't care about black people.

All they care about is retaining and regaining power. Their black supporters have been sold a bill of goods.

10 posted on 09/09/2005 6:04:19 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Yosemitest

I thought that was a great call, along with the earlier one from the black student from Washington U. Unfortunately, reasonable voices like theirs are drowned out by the rantings of Jesse Jackson and the pandering of Howard Dean and his ilk.


11 posted on 09/09/2005 6:05:09 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: Yosemitest
"Rush really should be President of the United States,
but as a Leader-Maker, we can't afford to lose
him from his three hours a day talk show."

Rush in 2008! Think about it.

12 posted on 09/09/2005 6:11:57 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: TexasTransplant

LoL, my awaking was 9/11, I happened to turn on FOX news and it wasn't all doom and gloom, like CNN and the other news shows. I realized that I had been a republican my whole life and had been voting for democrats by mistake.


13 posted on 09/09/2005 6:14:30 PM PDT by Bostton1 (Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns have!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
There have been many great callers to Rush that just happen to be black Americans. One of the best is in Houston. Her name is Joyce, or ReJoyce. She was on Rush's show, then joined us at the March for Justice in DC.

I truly hope Joyce knows how many of us cherish and still think of her.

14 posted on 09/09/2005 6:20:04 PM PDT by CT
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>>>" I realized that I had been a republican my whole life and had been voting for democrats by mistake"<<<

If all that you know is MSM why would you you Vote Republican?
Republicans are Evil!, GW Bush is Evil! America is Evil!

Thank God I found Rush, then I found other AM talk Radio, then I found Free Republic and then I found FOX and discovered that I am not alone.

TT


15 posted on 09/09/2005 6:22:24 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Ogden contact Texas Transplant)
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Thanks Rush, I can't thank you enough,

DITTOS to that.

I heard that call, she said it exactly right.

Rush on a roll, take that Jesse, LOL.

16 posted on 09/09/2005 6:24:58 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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To: Redgirl

He is. I have two addictions - and they are serious and in contest with each other for first place:

Free Republic and Rush Limbaugh!

I'm building an insurance business right now. One of my first big rewards when I start making money is going to be to buy myself an MP3 Player and become a 24/7 member of Rush Limbaugh.


17 posted on 09/09/2005 6:25:55 PM PDT by bethtopaz (We will not allow another generation of heroes to be forsaken. -- NewLand, from Free Republic)
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To: Yosemitest

I agree - but maybe he could do both!


18 posted on 09/09/2005 6:26:52 PM PDT by bethtopaz (We will not allow another generation of heroes to be forsaken. -- NewLand, from Free Republic)
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To: StormEye
Rush in 2008! Think about it.

He's more important where he is.

19 posted on 09/09/2005 6:27:33 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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To: Yosemitest

Here's an e-mail I got today. Supricingly a Canadian newapaper article is critical to the NOLA officials:


I wholeheatedly agree with this and it is what I have been saying. Local and State Officials are to blame. In Southwest Florida before Hurrican Charlie last year, people were ordered to evacuate and if they did not they were told there would not be any emergency services, no police services or any help at all - they woule be on their own if they chose to stay in their homes. Why New Orleans did you not do the same and use the busses to evacuate those who had no way to leave and keep them out for three or four days. This would have saved millions and millions of dollars in thed rescue efforts that were necessary to save the poor prople. We are ultimatey going to pay for it as taxpayers. I might note that I am glad for each life saved no matter how costly, however let's not let the Mayor of New Orleans blame anyone but himself for this disaster.



This from Canada's National Post.

National Post Tue 06 Sep 2005A

Byline: Lorne Gunter

Last September, as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast, New Orleans residents were ordered to evacuate. Those who could, did. But an estimated 60,000 had no means to flee, or simply refused to go. So the city's Mayor, Ray Nagin, suggested they conduct a "vertical evacuation" -- go up in tall buildings and ride out the storm.


Ivan was a monster. Seldom before had a 'cane reached Category 4 strength at such low latitudes (10.6 N). Its lowest recorded pressure -- 910 mb -- made it the sixth most powerful Atlantic storm on record. (The lower the pressure in a hurricane the greater its ability to suck in heat and water to fuel its tempest.) At one point, in open waters, Ivan thrust up a wave nearly 30 metres high, hit Category 5 and even accelerated the current on the floor -- the floor, not the surface -- of the Gulf of Mexico by 2.5 k.p.h.


In the face of such a hydrological beast, experts labelled Nagin's advice "naive." At a height of 20 or 30 floors above ground, hurricane winds can be even stronger than at ground level. In his apparent ignorance of storms and his ill-preparedness for Ivan, Nagin had quite possibly suggested his city's poorest and least-mobile residents put themselves even further in harm's way.

Ivan missed N'Orlins, making landfall instead near Gulf Shores, Ala. But for weeks after that near-miss, Nagin took heat for his reaction, or lack of it.

The city had 350 transit buses, it was pointed out. If Nagin was so concerned about the safety of those who had no cars to leave, why didn't he authorize the buses' use to ferry the poor to higher ground? There were perhaps 500 school buses in New Orleans, too: Why weren't they pressed into humanitarian duty?

So many of those fleeing Katrina last week were huddled in the Superdome as a direct result of Nagin's initial refusal to open the cavernous, covered football stadium during the Ivan evacuation. Following Ivan, Nagin was chastised for having kept the dome locked until the very last minute. At the time he claimed he was reluctant to swing open the doors because, during the 1998 Hurricane Georges evacuation, 14,000 had poured in and the place deteriorated into a criminal cesspool with muggings, thefts, fights and vandalism.

He made sure the Superdome was open this time to avoid a similar political fallout, but he made no provision for bottled water or water purification equipment, no emergency food stuffs, no portable toilets or diesel generators. No city-employed doctors or nurses were assigned to evacuation duty there.

This time, too, Nagin neglected to use city transit and school buses to get out those without their own means to leave. Before Ivan, the Mayor claimed he couldn't use city buses because they lacked toilets; this time, he acted as though he was unaware he had buses. In his often-replayed (and unhinged) late-night interview on talk radio station WWL -- the one in which he blamed the relief foul-up entirely on the Bush administration -- he exclaimed "I need reinforcements. I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man ... This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."

True, by the time he made this plea, New Orleans' buses were under water.

But before the crisis, when the buses could have done the most good, Nagin failed to act.

The Bush-hating, politically correct American media isn't interested in any of Nagin's mistakes, though. If they can find any way to make President George W. Bush look bad, they'll take it.

And criticize Nagin? No way, he's African-American. Blaming might make them look insensitive. Besides, if the blame can be shared by someone else, then it can't be all made to fall on Bush.

Yet, if the Superdome deteriorated into the same kind of chaos the last time it was used as a shelter from a storm, isn't it at least partly the city's fault that it wasn't ready for the same thing this time? Perhaps, too, it says something about the city's culture and infrastructure that this keeps happening.

Moreover, if Bush is a racist for failing to help New Orleans' black residents fast enough -- the prevailing charge in the American media at week's end -- isn't Nagin one, too, for not being ready enough to shelter them safely?

There will likely be plenty of blame to go around -- justifiable blame -- for federal, state and local officials alike when the response to New Orleans' flooding is assessed. But if it were wholly the fault of the Bush administration, how to explain Biloxi, Mobile and other storm ravaged communities that didn't descend into madness, and where federal reaction is being praised?


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20 posted on 09/09/2005 6:28:01 PM PDT by danamco
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