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Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread - Thursday 9/25/08
The EIB Network ^ | September 25, 2008 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 09/25/2008 8:21:33 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.
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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
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To: Just Lori

I Love Silvester!

Is it his birthday today?!!!


141 posted on 09/25/2008 10:05:48 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (Bin Laden was a Community Organizer. W was a Governor. GO SARAHCUDA!)
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To: hattend
And we want this man to help bail out banks...sheesh.

I'd rather have a BANK ROBBER bailing out the bank then Barney Franks.

142 posted on 09/25/2008 10:06:24 AM PDT by MaineConservative (Obama, we aren't electing McCain for president of GEEKS-On-Call, but for President of the USA)
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To: AliVeritas
Is this the one you meant?...

Monday, September 22, 2008

Chicago Tribune editorial misses the point on Obama's machine ties

Although the Chicago Tribune hasn't endorsed a Democrat for president since 1872--and the lucky man, Horace Greeley was so overcome with excitement that he died after Election Day--but before members of the Electoral College cast its ballots, I have a feeling it will endorse Barark Obama for president. When the Tribune Company purchased the Los Angeles Times eight years ago, the hope was that the liberal Times would move to at least to the center. Not only did that not happen, but the Trib has moved to the Left.

This morning the McCain-Palin campaign released a television ad highlighting Barack Obama's ties to Chicago's corrupt political culture. It's a good ad, and one that the campaign promises will run nationally. But the Tribune, in an editorial, dismissed that ad as a "lame attempt at guilt by association."

I don't think the ad went far enough. Where in the ad is Alexi Giannoulias? He's the "boy banker" who Obama plucked from obscurity and through his endorsement, essentially placed the man who, while chief loan officer of his family owned bank approved $15 million in loans to convicted mobster Michael "Jaws" Giorango. Oh, Giannoulias is an alleged "Granny Grifter."

And two autumns ago, Obama led a big push to get machine hack Todd "Corruption Tax" Stroger elected so he could succeed his father as Cook County Board President. Because of the incompetent "leadership" of "The Toddler," Chicagoans pay a sales tax of 10.25 percent, the highest in any big city in America.

Perhaps the McCain-Palin campaign is keeping its powder dry for the next onslaught.

Here's an excerpt from the Chicago "free registration required" Tribune editorial:

Obama deserved the heat for dealing with (Tony) Rezko, a friend and fund-raiser who was convicted of money laundering, aiding and abetting bribery and mail and wire fraud. Obama has acknowledged that the relationship was fraught with potential conflicts of interest, and that lapse in judgment has dogged his campaign.

But the suggestion that Obama is a politician in the classic Chicago mold is way off base. He wasn't a machine candidate in his bid for the Illinois Senate in 1996, and he won the 2004 nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in a heavily contested primary without Daley’s support. Though he now enjoys the support of establishment Democrats, Obama is a man governed by his conscience, not by his associations.

Obama wasn’t "born of the corrupt Chicago political machine," and that makes his rise all the more remarkable. But the McCain camp is betting voters know less about Obama than they think they know about Chicago, which can usually be summed up in three words: Dead people vote.

Chicago, regrettably, deserves that rap. Obama does not.

Sorry, Trib, he does.

Earlier this year Obama dismissed Rezko, his first political sponsor as just as someone he barely knew.

In March, three Chicago reporters tried to get the Great Orator to answer specific questions about Rezko at a press conference. Obama didn't. He announced to the media present, "Guys, I mean come on. I just answered like eight questions." He left the stage as the questions continued.

Is this leadership?

Here's what the Tribune missed. Obama is running, as he's told us thousands of times, as a "new kind of politician." He's presenting a message of "hope" and "change." Since Obama has no US Senate record to run on, and even his once vaunted state Senate record turns out largely to have been the creation of machine pol and state Senate President Emil Jones Jr., his machine ties deserve close scrutiny.

Obama did the right thing in pressuring his mentor Jones to call the state Senate back into session to approve a much needed ethics bill, but Obama remains silent about Jones' egregious insults to the taxpayers of Illinois. Since the Trib didn't go into detail about Jones, I will.

For instance, is it a "new kind of politics" to do what Jones has done, by engineering his son's replacement of himself on the ballot this fall--without facing voters? Is it a new kind of politics to see his stepson "mysteriously" win government contracts? Is it a new kind of politics for Jones' wife, who works for the state, to get a big raise?

Obama, the agent of change and hope, has nothing to say about the actions of his machine mentor--and a whole lot of other corruption in Illinois.

He may not have been a machine candidate when he first ran for public office, but sheesh, Chicago Tribune, Obama was running in a super-liberal Hyde Park district where machine politics are an anethema.

But when Obama arrived in Springfield in 1997, leading his party was Emil Jones, Jr.

143 posted on 09/25/2008 10:06:43 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: All

“Responsibility is the price of greatness.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

_______________________________

We are a nation of greatness that offers the opportunity for individual greatness.

The law makers who are PERSONALLY caught in this mess are not being responsible.

Those who were IN THE LOOP are screaming like stuck pigs and denying their hands CAUGHT IN THE COOKIE JAR are actually in the cookie jar.


144 posted on 09/25/2008 10:07:00 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory
Agreed to a set of principles....

HA!

Congress would know a principle if one bit it on the A$$.

145 posted on 09/25/2008 10:09:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Big Northeaster a coming.

Batten down the hatches.

146 posted on 09/25/2008 10:09:43 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (Bin Laden was a Community Organizer. W was a Governor. GO SARAHCUDA!)
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To: TSchmereL

Yhello.

Raining locusts and frogs in the PRONJ.


147 posted on 09/25/2008 10:09:46 AM PDT by HonestConservative (Votes with Flask in pocket.)
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To: mewzilla
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

148 posted on 09/25/2008 10:10:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: advertising guy

You got that right. Big Media shapes every issue for the undecided and middle voters.


149 posted on 09/25/2008 10:10:47 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: AliVeritas
Or was this the one you had in mind?...

Obama's housing skeletons

David Freddoso of The National Review points out that Obama, who has compared our current economic turmoil involving mortgages to the 1980s Savings and Loan fiasco. But in his former state Senate district, chicanery involving housing--and there is a Tony Rezko tie-in, was taking place.

Here's what the "new kind of politician" said recently:

Too many S&Ls took advantage of the lax rules set by Washington to gamble that they could make big money in speculative real estate. . . . [T]hey made hundreds of billions in bad loans, knowing that if they lost money, the government would bail them out. And they were right. The gambles did not pay off, our economy went into recession, and the taxpayers ended up footing the bill. Sound familiar?

Freddoso explores Obama's nasty housing past in Illinois' 13th Senate District.

Indeed, it does sound familiar — it sounds a lot like what Barack Obama did to Illinois taxpayers as a state senator in Springfield. Using his elected office and his clout, Obama helped Tony Rezko and other unscrupulous low-income housing developers obtain millions of dollars in state grants, tax credits, low-interest loans, and regulatory advantages.

Taxpayers had no serious chance of recouping these "investments" in Rezko and other developers. And many beneficiaries went one step farther, depriving the public of even the benefits they could have gotten. These developers took government help to build low-income housing, and then let their buildings deteriorate into uninhabitable slums.

To date, the most complete account of this sad story is Binyamin Appelbaum's piece in the Boston Globe. Not only does it demonstrate the monumental failure of the low-income-housing policy that Obama vocally championed as a state senator, it gives a detailed look at how some of Obama’s donors and friends — the beneficiaries of that policy — neglected their own housing developments at the expense of the inhabitants.

There is no indication that Obama approved (or even knew) of the massive and systemic neglect of these properties in his own state-senate district. But there is also no question that he was an enabler in these transactions. He cosponsored at least six bills to give special tax breaks, tax credits, building-and-maintenance subsidies, and zoning exemptions to the developers. In 1998, he wrote letters to state and city officials requesting $14 million for a project developed by Tony Rezko and another close Obama friend — the politician's old law-firm boss, Allison Davis.

Here's how the Globe described the Davis property:

Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale — a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.

On June 27, 2003, Tony Rezko hosted a lavish fundraiser at his Wilmette mansion, pictured on the right. But at that time the Chicago Sun-Times reported last year that the state was working to foreclose on a Rezko property:

The cocktail party Rezko hosted in 2003 came at a critical time for Obama. He and Rezko timed it to help Obama show he had enough money to compete in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate against millionaire Blair Hull and state Comptroller Dan Hynes.

"This was discussed a lot. They wanted to have a good showing," said a source familiar with the fund-raiser, speaking on condition of anonymity..

"Tony was one of the biggest fund-raisers."

At the time of the party, the state was in the process of foreclosing on a low-income apartment building Rezko's company rehabbed in Obama's state Senate district -- a rehab project on which Obama's law firm worked. Rezko had also abandoned many other low-income apartments, leaving numerous vacant units in need of major repairs.

Rezko paid for the party, but couldn't find cash to fix that building.

Audacity!

It was not the first time Rezko put cash-for-Obama ahead of the needs of his tenants. During the winter of 1997, tenants in a building co-owned by Rezko went without heat for five weeks.

Once again from the Chicago Sun-Times:

Rezko and Mahru couldn't find money to get the heat back on.

But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building.

Even more audacious!

150 posted on 09/25/2008 10:11:09 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I haven’t seen a forcast that even mentions it. Got a link?


151 posted on 09/25/2008 10:11:17 AM PDT by HonestConservative (Votes with Flask in pocket.)
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To: workerbee
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." HL Menken

Excellent and true! Thanks for the post

We're on to them, I see - not that it will make a difference.

152 posted on 09/25/2008 10:13:36 AM PDT by KittenClaws
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To: austinaero

Perhaps he like Freddie’s Fannie.


153 posted on 09/25/2008 10:13:36 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: HonestConservative

My pleasure my dearest!

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=365&from=newslinker1


154 posted on 09/25/2008 10:14:02 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (Bin Laden was a Community Organizer. W was a Governor. GO SARAHCUDA!)
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To: TSchmereL

I am trying to listen to Rush and work while the Blue Angels are circling my building warming up for an air show this weekend. It is tough.


155 posted on 09/25/2008 10:14:59 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (How do I change my tagline?)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

But Rush, if we eliminate taxes, the government would have to be the one tightening the pursestrings so to speak rather than average Americans. ;-)


156 posted on 09/25/2008 10:15:06 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan ("My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference." Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Correction - Thunderbirds, not Blue Angels.


157 posted on 09/25/2008 10:16:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (How do I change my tagline?)
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To: rightinthemiddle
Perhaps he likes Freddie’s Fannie.


158 posted on 09/25/2008 10:17:16 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (Bin Laden was a Community Organizer. W was a Governor. GO SARAHCUDA!)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
I am trying to listen to Rush and work while the Blue Angels are circling my building warming up for an air show this weekend. It is tough.

What's the matter--can't you multi-task like Obama? ;)

159 posted on 09/25/2008 10:17:20 AM PDT by exit82 (The only person that could get me to vote for John McCain is Sarah Palin -God bless her)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Big Northeaster a coming. Batten down the hatches.

Yup..... and I just did my lawn and garden yesterday! UGH!

160 posted on 09/25/2008 10:17:35 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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