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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: All right. For you Oprah fans, we have Oprah-style news here. Dylan Byers, writing in a blog at The Politico, has uncovered an interesting fact. In Obama's 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, there is the story of his "girlfriend." We've asked on this program, "Where are Obama's former girlfriends? Everybody has former girlfriends. You can find 'em and find out what kind of guy the guy was, especially if he's running for president." He was such a "cool guy," you would think women would be falling out of the woodwork here telling us what a great,...

*snip* The letters between McNear and Obama centered around philosophy and literature. “Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism — [T.S.] Eliot is of this type,” Obama wrote in one letter to McNear. “Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter — life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised...