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Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread - Tuesday 9/2/08
The EIB Network ^ | September 2, 2008 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 09/02/2008 8:16:22 AM PDT by TSchmereL

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, Maha-Rushie! America's Anchorman, Truth Detector, Doctor of Democracy, and Chief of the Patriotism Police. He is the man who runs America. He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do--That's host. Get ready to what you were born to do--That's listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).

"We love to hear Rush Limbaugh,
Excellence in Broadcasting.
From sea to shining sea,
Millions and millions listen.
Conservative voice of freedom,
Heard throughout all America.
A message pure and truthful,
The downhearted are encouraged.
Integrity and honesty his motto.
We love you, Rush.
Listen to Rush Limbaugh.
G-d Bless You, Rush Limbaugh."


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; elrushbo; limbaugh; palin; rncconvention; rush; talkradio
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To: NonValueAdded

Yes, please send soap, as we have a brief rain shower passing through Minnesota, and we’ve only got till about 4pm to bath all the Democrat Protesters for the week.


21 posted on 09/02/2008 8:33:02 AM PDT by Son House ( [ ]Obama=>LoseBothWars/Raise Taxes [X]McCain=>WinBothWars/CutPorkBarrelSpending)
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To: 50cal Smokepole

Hi 50cal, me too, second it!


22 posted on 09/02/2008 8:33:42 AM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^==^..^=)
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To: TSchmereL

RUSH needs to devote his entire 3 hours today to defending Palin, exposing the MSM and excoriating the Obama campain


23 posted on 09/02/2008 8:34:25 AM PDT by wilco200 (Typical White Person)
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To: NonValueAdded

Ahhh I went to the blog - read some comments on “needing change”...one person was whining because her family members were not citizens and could not vote. “We are created equal but are not treated as such.” *LMAO* In what country can you NOT be a citizen and vote? Sheesh the incredible entitlement these people feel is amazing.


24 posted on 09/02/2008 8:35:25 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (When did having a pregnant teenager stop being a badge of honor to Democrats?)
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To: Biggirl

Ask Democrats if they support abortion for a normal, healthy pregnancy?


25 posted on 09/02/2008 8:35:28 AM PDT by Son House ( [ ]Obama=>LoseBothWars/Raise Taxes [X]McCain=>WinBothWars/CutPorkBarrelSpending)
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To: Son House

Isn’t “choice” supposed to be for having the option to also keep the baby? It seems that “choice” only means abortion for some....that’s not choice, that is a dictate.


26 posted on 09/02/2008 8:43:00 AM PDT by madinmadtown
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To: Biggirl
The blame will go to Mr. Axelrod (campaign strategist). This is a Chicago style tactic.

Rush will crush him today.

27 posted on 09/02/2008 8:44:04 AM PDT by AGreatPer (If it's in the Yellow Pages our government shouldn't get involved.)
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To: Kitten1

Thanks for sharing that, Kitten1. What is so amazing about the Sarah pick isn’t that she is woman - but it doesn’t hurt - but that she is so much the American story and we can all relate. It completely stands on its head the notion that the DemocRATs are the party for women. And look how they and their surrogates are treating her and her family. You are right, this will backfire in ways they can’t even imagine. And congrats for standing firm and getting the family to come your way.


28 posted on 09/02/2008 8:45:12 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
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To: NonValueAdded
anti-war protester asks for more food! moo!


29 posted on 09/02/2008 8:46:22 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: Son House

“Ask Democrats if they support abortion for a normal, healthy pregnancy?”

That’s only an issue of convenience for them, I’m sad to say.

(Back to WnL mode)


30 posted on 09/02/2008 8:47:01 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Dealing with a situation with a speech or voting "Present" just doesn't hack it.)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan
Up on TMZ right now - pictures of Bristol with Beer/Rum/Alcohol containers and the headline “Britsol puts the PArty in GOP”...

They did the same thing to Jenna Bush. Sad.

Just remember - Michelle's off limits because what fun is it questioning an adult on her comments made throughout the course of a political campaign when you can be embarrassing and humiliating a teenager for her PRIVATE actions in her PERSONAL life with absolutely NO reflection on a political race.

31 posted on 09/02/2008 8:47:26 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (When did having a pregnant teenager stop being a badge of honor to Democrats?)
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To: JFC
I have been doing my part on a liberal forum where a bunch of women were arguing in length about the Palin lack of experience and her lack of ability to make wise decisions, and of course, her stance on abortion and how their rights can be taken away if she gets any power. I posted the August 29th transcript link for them to read about how Rush predicted what they would say and do and what their motives are. I did this after I let them talk for a long time and prove him absolutely right. They are ignoring all of it! Below is the link.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082908/content/01125113.guest.html

Then I posted a proctology cartoon with the doctor pulling a rabbit out of the hind end of a guy.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/blowup_stock.asp?imageref=dre0860&artist=Reynolds,+Dan&topic=dre0860

32 posted on 09/02/2008 8:48:11 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (DRILL HERE-DRILL NOW-PAY LESS)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Perfect example of why we need Welfare Reform!


33 posted on 09/02/2008 8:48:32 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (When did having a pregnant teenager stop being a badge of honor to Democrats?)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Perfect example of why we need Welfare Reform!


34 posted on 09/02/2008 8:49:58 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (When did having a pregnant teenager stop being a badge of honor to Democrats?)
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To: TSchmereL
Here is the letter I just sent Rush:

Rush,

As you well know the LEFT and their allies in the mainstream media are pulling out all of the stops to trash and destroy Sarah Palin. I donated to the McCain campaign for the first time today. If she stays on the ticket I'll continue to do that. McCain must come out and fight the elite left, maintain his Maverick stance, and support his candidate.

Governor Sarah Palin was a strategic pick. She is the Battle of Midway in this election. She is the turning point. McCain must steel his resolve. Please, please help him do this.

Kindest regards and appreciation for what you have meant to the Conservative Cause.

Regards,

The Shrew

35 posted on 09/02/2008 8:50:32 AM PDT by The Shrew (www.ToSetTheRecordStraight.com/www.swiftvets.com/www.wintersoldier.com-The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
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To: TSchmereL

Thanks for the ping!


36 posted on 09/02/2008 8:51:08 AM PDT by pattty (McCain/Palin 2008!)
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To: ConservativeMan55
And I follow with


Buechner!

37 posted on 09/02/2008 8:51:43 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
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Heap Big Chief Sitting Bullsh*t Repeller here!


38 posted on 09/02/2008 8:52:34 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (2008 = The Year of the Toilet (for 'RATS) because of Operation Chaos.)
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To: All

In case you missed it:

Asia Times http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JI03Aa02.html
How Obama lost the election
By Spengler

DENVER - Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last week seemed vastly different from the stands of this city’s Invesco Stadium than it did to the 40 million who saw it on television. Melancholy hung like think smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democratic Party staffers. The crowd, of course, cheered mechanically at the tag lines, flourished placards, and even rose for the obligatory wave around the stadium. But its mood was sour. The air carried the acrid smell of defeat, and the crowd took shallow breaths. Even the appearance of R&B great Stevie Wonder failed to get the blood pumping.

The speech itself dragged on for three-quarters of an hour. As David S Broder wrote in the Washington Post: “[Obama’s] recital of a long list of domestic promises could have been delivered by any Democratic nominee from Walter Mondale to John Kerry. There was no theme music to the speech and really no phrase or sentence that is likely to linger in the memory of any listener. The thing I never expected did in fact occur: Al Gore, the famously wooden former vice president, gave a more lively and convincing speech than Obama did.”

On television, Obama’s spectacle might have looked like The Ten Commandments, but inside the stadium it felt like Night of the Living Dead. The longer the candidate spoke, and the more money he promised to spend on alternative energy, preschool education, universal health care, and other components of the Democratic pinata, the lower the party professionals slouched into their seats. The professionals I sat with were Hillary Clinton people, to be sure, and had reason to sulk, for an Obama victory might do them little good in any event.

The Democrats were watching the brightest and most articulate presidential candidate they have fielded since John F Kennedy snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And this was before John McCain, in a maneuver worthy of Admiral Chester Nimitz at the Battle of Midway, turned tables on the Democrats’ strategy with the choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Speaking to Obama supporters on the periphery of the big event, I was startled by the rapturous devotion elicited by the junior senator from Illinois. He is no symbol for identity politics, no sacrifice on the altar of white guilt, but the most gifted persuader of individuals that I have encountered in any country’s politics, as well as a powerful orator on the grand stage. This is not a crowd phenomenon nor a fad, but the response of hundreds of people to an individual.

I sat in on a session with three leaders of Veterans for Obama, a group of retired young officers who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of the New Republic’s writer on the scene, David Samuels. With passion and enthusiasm, these young people spoke of their hopes for nation-building in Iraq. The George W Bush administration should have put twice the resources into the beleaguered country, they harangued me - not just soldiers, but agronomists, traffic cops, lawyers, judges, and physicians. The Department of Agriculture should have mobilized, along with the Department of Justice.

Nation-building? Doubling down on the US commitment to Iraq? Isn’t that trying to out-Bush the Bush administration, while Obama campaigned on getting out of Iraq and spending the money on programs at home? Unblinking, one of the soldiers said, “That’s what we think Barack will do.” They believed in a more expensive version of the administration’s program, and faulted Bush for half measures - and somehow they believed that Obama really agreed with them, all the public evidence to the contrary. And they believed in Barack with perfect faith.

Gandalf’s warnings about the irresistible voice of the wizard Saruman in J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings come to mind.

If these battle-hardened veterans of America’s wars fell so easily under the spell of Obama’s voice, who can withstand it? Obama’s persuasive powers, though, are strongest when channeled through the empathy of his interlocutor. Everyone believes that Obama feels his pain, shares his dream, and will fight his fight and heal his ills. But that is everyone as an individual. Add all the individuals up into a campaign platform, and it turns into three-quarters of an hour worth of promises that echo all the ghosts of conventions past.

Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why he rejected the obvious road to victory, that is, choosing Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential nominee. However reluctantly, Clinton would have had to accept. McCain’s choice of vice presidential candidate made obvious after the fact what the party professionals felt in their fingertips at the stadium extravaganza yesterday: rejecting Clinton in favor of the colorless, unpopular, tangle-tongued Washington perennial Joe Biden was a statement of weakness.

McCain’s selection was a statement of strength. America’s voters will forgive many things in a politician, including sexual misconduct, but they will not forgive weakness.

That is why McCain will win in November, and by a landslide, barring some unforeseen event.

Obama is the most talented and persuasive politician of his generation, the intellectual superior of all his competitors, but a fatally insecure personality.

American voters are not intellectual, but they are shrewd, like animals. They can smell insecurity, and the convention stank of it.

Obama’s prospective defeat is entirely of its own making. No one is more surprised than Republican strategists, who were convinced just weeks ago that a weakening economy ensured a Democratic victory.

Biden, who won 3% of the popular vote in the Democratic presidential primary in his home state of Delaware, and 1% or less in every other contest he entered, is ballot-box poison.

Obama evidently chose him to assuage critics who point to his lack of foreign policy credentials. That was a deadly error, for by appearing to concede the critics’ claim that he knows little about foreign policy, Obama raised questions about whether he is qualified to be president in the first place.

He had a winning alternative, which was to pick Clinton. That would have sent a double message: first, that Obama is tough enough to make the slippery Clintons into his subordinates, and second, that he is generous enough to extend a hand to his toughest adversary in the cause of unity.

Why didn’t Obama choose Hillary? The most credible explanation came from veteran columnist Robert Novak May 10, who reports that Michelle Obama vetoed Hillary’s candidacy.

“The Democratic front-runner’s wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party’s nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility,” Novak wrote. If that is true, then Obama succumbed to the character weakness I described in a February 26 profile of (Obama’s women reveal his secret). His peculiar dependency on an assertive and often rancorous spouse, I argued, made him vulnerable, and predicted that Obama “will destroy himself before he destroys the country”.

Alternately, Obama might have chosen a rising Democratic star like Virginia’s 50-year-old governor Tim Kaine. A weaker choice than Hillary, Kaine (or someone like him) would have made a bold statement of self-confidence. Obama could have said with credibility that he would bring to Washington a new generation of outsiders who would change the old system. Instead, Obama saddled an old and unpopular Washington warhorse.

Curiously, Obama ignored the rising stars of his own party, offering the prime time speaking slots to familiar faces, including Senator Edward Kennedy and Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as his own wife, the first prospective First Lady to take the keynote spot in the history of American party conventions.

McCain doesn’t have a tenth of Obama’s synaptic fire-power, but he is a nasty old sailor who knows when to come about for a broadside. Given Obama’s defensive, even wimpy selection of a running-mate, McCain’s choice was obvious.

He picked the available candidate most like himself: a maverick with impeccable reform credentials, a risk-seeking commercial fisherwoman and huntress married to a marathon snowmobile racer who carries a steelworkers union card.

The Democratic order of battle was to tie McCain to the Bush administration and attack McCain by attacking Bush. With Palin on the ticket, McCain has re-emerged as the maverick he really is.

The young Alaskan governor, to be sure, hasn’t any business running for vice president of the United States with her thin resume. McCain and his people know this perfectly well, and that is precisely why they put her on the ticket. If Palin is unqualified to be vice president, all the less so is Obama qualified to be president.

McCain has certified his authenticity for the voters. He’s now the outsider, the reformer, the maverick, the war hero running next to the Alaskan amazon with a union steelworker spouse.

Obama, who styled himself an agent of change, took his image for granted, and attempted to ensure himself victory by doing the cautious thing. He is trapped in a losing position, and there is nothing he can do to get out of it.

Obama, in short, is long on brains and short on guts. A Shibboleth of American politics holds that different tactics are required to win the party primaries as opposed to the general election, that is, by pandering to fringe groups with disproportionate influence in the primaries. But Obama did not compromise himself with extreme positions. He did not have to, for younger voters who greeted him with near-religious fervor did not require that he take any position other than his promise to change everything. Obama could have allied with the old guard, through an Obama-Clinton ticket, or he could have rejected the old guard by choosing the closest thing the Democrats had to a Sarah Palin. But fear paralyzed him, and he did neither.

In my February 26 profile, I called Obama “the political equivalent of a sociopath”, without any derogatory intent. A sociopath seeks the empathy of all around him while empathizing with no one. Obama has an almost magical ability to gain the confidence of those around him.

Perhaps it was the adaptation of a bright and sensitive young boy who was abandoned by three parents - his Kenyan father Barack Obama Sr, who left his pregnant young bride; his Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetero; and by his mother, Ann Dunham, who sent her 10-year-old son to live with her grandparents while she pursued her career as an anthropologist.

Combine a child’s response to serial abandonment with the perspective of an outsider, and Obama became an alien species against which American politics had no natural defenses. He is a Third World anthropologist profiling Americans, in but not of the American system.

No country’s politics depends more openly on friendships than America’s, yet Obama has not a single real friend, for he rose so fast that all his acquaintances become rungs on the ladder of his ascent.

One human relationship crowds the others out of his life, his marriage to Michelle, a strong, assertive and very angry woman.

If Novak’s report is accurate, then Michelle’s anger will have lost the election for Obama, as Achilles’ anger nearly killed the Greek cause in the Trojan War.

But the responsibility rests not with Michelle, but with Obama.

Obama’s failure of nerve at the cusp of his success is consistent with my profile of the candidate, in which I predicted that he would self-destruct. It’s happening faster than I expected. As I wrote last February:

It is conceivable that Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country. Hatred is a toxic diet even for someone with as strong a stomach as Obama ... Both Obama and the American public should be very careful of what they wish for. As the horrible example of Obama’s father shows, there is nothing worse for an embittered outsider manipulating the system from within than to achieve his goals.

By all rights, the Democrats should win this election. They will lose, I predict, because of the flawed character of their candidate. ~

*

BONUS: Obama The Bitch-Slapped
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html

Obama is a mother’s revenge against the America she despised.

“Cherchez la femme,” advised Alexander Dumas in: “When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman.”

In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama’s women reveal his secret: he hates America.

We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty... His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he edited, or a single piece of legislation.

He appears to be an empty vessel filled with the wishful thinking of those around him.

But there is a real Barack Obama.

No man - least of all one abandoned in infancy by his father - can conceal the imprint of an impassioned mother, or the influence of a brilliant wife.

Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in public. Early in Obama’s campaign, Michelle Obama could not restrain herself from belittling the senator. “I have some difficulty reconciling the two images I have of Barack Obama. There’s Barack Obama the phenomenon. He’s an amazing orator, Harvard Law Review, or whatever it was, law professor, best-selling author, Grammy winner. Pretty amazing, right?

And then there’s the Barack Obama that lives with me in my house, and that guy’s a little less impressive,” she told a fundraiser in February 2007.

“For some reason this guy still can’t manage to put the butter up when he makes toast, secure the bread so that it doesn’t get stale, and his five-year-old is still better at making the bed than he is.” ...”She added that the TV version of Barack Obama sounded really interesting and that she’d like to meet him sometime.” Her handlers have convinced her to be more tactful since then.

The video footage of her remarks shows eyes hooded with rage as she declares:

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.

“Frustration” and “disappointment” have dogged Michelle Obama these past 20 years, despite her US$300,000 a year salary and corporate board memberships.....Obama’s choice of wife is a failsafe indicator of his own sentiments.

Spouses do not necessarily share their likes, but they must have their hatreds in common.

Obama imbibed this hatred with his mother’s milk. ..

Blackness is not the issue; General Colin Powell, whose parents chose to immigrate to America from the West Indies, saw America just as other immigrants do, as a land of opportunity. ... ~

BONUS: Asia Times May 8, 2008 ( http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC04Aa01.html) Sing, o muse, the wrath of Michelle By Spengler


39 posted on 09/02/2008 8:55:14 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (2008 = The Year of the Toilet (for 'RATS) because of Operation Chaos.)
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To: Matchett-PI

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40 posted on 09/02/2008 8:59:28 AM PDT by Fawn (Who are these idiots who would vote for 'Obama Bin Biden' ????)
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