RUSH: This is Brian in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you, sir?RUSH: Just fine, sir. Thank you for asking.CALLER: Conservative, right-wing, Christian dittos from North Carolina.RUSH: Ah! Just the kind of people that Barack Obama says the Democrats don't like.CALLER: Yeah. Oh, by the way, just a good old southern saying: Just keep laying the hardwood to Nurse Ratched, okay?RUSH: (laughter) I really know no other way.CALLER: (laughing)RUSH: I just know...

RUSH: Have you heard the latest now? Bill Clinton is taking the blame for botching health care, not Hillary. It happened last Thursday in Glenwood, Iowa. Here is the former president.CLINTON: She has taken the rap for some of the problems we had with health care last time that were far more my fault than hers. I mean let's just face it: We couldn't raise money. This time, when you let the -- the -- tax cuts for upper income people expire, they'll create a pool of money that wasn't there last...

RUSH: Laura in Erie, Pennsylvania. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi there, Rush. Mega optimistic dittos. I wanted to give you an opportunity to clarify something you said earlier when you were talking about Senator Obama's sacrifice. I know what you mean, and I think he means more taxes for the rich to go to the poor, and we know they've misused those taxes, but the word sacrifice, I think this is a perfect day to clarify and to just applaud those that are truly the ones...

RUSH: Tommy in Brooklyn, I'm glad you waited, Tommy. You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Mega dittos from New York City.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Listen, I'm really nervous here so you gotta help me out. Talking about Barack, I was listening to -- actually I was watching Meet the Press, and I couldn't believe, when he said that he doesn't like Christians -- actually he didn't even say he didn't like 'em, he says, "we" didn't like them, and I take that to mean that...

RUSH: I have a little piece here from Jon Friedman, his media weblog at MarketWatch. I guess TIME Magazine brought in a bunch of people to help him come up with a list of potential people of the year for the ultimate Person of the Year, and this guy says, "After attending TIME's discussion of who should be their magazine's Person of the Year, I have reached two conclusions. One, Al Gore looks like a shoe-in, and number two, TIME Magazine's blowing a major journalistic and marketing opportunity...

RUSH: Obama was on Meet the Depressed yesterday with Tim Russert. We have some sound bites here. First question from Russert, this is the payroll tax and Social Security, "When you say 'raise the cap,' right now you pay payroll tax on the first $97,500. If you increase that for people to pay Social Security tax on their full income, about 10 million people, some could pay as much as $5,000 a year more. How is that going to play in November?"OBAMA: I've got a friend, Warren Buffett, you may know,...

RUSH: To Akron, Ohio, this is Tom. I'm glad you waited, sir. You're next.CALLER: Thank you, Rush.RUSH: You're welcome.CALLER: The reason for my call is, this morning I was just watching the TV, and I heard Mrs. Obama make what I felt was a really racist comment. She was being interviewed, and she was being asked why people of, uh -- African-Americans, weren't going for Obama, that the polls were more showing for Clinton, and Mrs. Obama had a reason for that. She said that they would slowly...

RUSH: Barack Obama has decided to open up. He ripped Hillary yesterday "for planting easy questions among supporters at her campaign events out of fear -- continuing a broader attack on her cautious 'triangulation' in a fiery speech Saturday night. Sen. Obama accused Sen. Clinton of running a 'textbook Washington campaign' in which 'you don't answer directly tough questions. You don't present tough choices directly to the American people for fear that your answers might not be popular.' ... In...

RUSH: Mrs. Clinton, planting questions, having questions planted at campaign appearances. She has responded to these allegations, and she said, "Well, it was news to me. And neither I nor my campaign approve of that. And it will certainly not be tolerated." (laughter) I didn't know about it. Certainly, this is news to me. My campaign won't tolerate it. Yes, your campaign will! Your campaign plans it. Your campaign sets it up. "But it may not have been the first time. In a telephone interview...

RUSH: Have you people seen -- it's on YouTube -- Hillary Clinton is in Iowa, she just finished an interview with reporters, there's four or five flags behind her, and she turns to walk away, and the flags start falling down. It was in Waterloo, Iowa. The flags start falling and she grabs one of them to try to keep it from hitting the deck, and I'm thinking, "This is an omen." This is either an omen for her or for us. I'm not sure which. Here's the audio of how it happened. This is Sunday in...

RUSH: You remember last Thursday we had a call from Sarasota -- Kimberly, a military mom. She said that something awry was going on at the Bay Haven Elementary school in Sarasota, that a teacher there was going to, on Veterans Day celebrations on Friday in the fourth grade, have a banner listing conscientious objectors. We have two sound bites. CNN's Headline News on Sunday. Here's the anchorette, Susan Hendricks.HENDRICKS: Veterans Day at one Florida elementary school got more attention than...

Rush's Morning Update: MiseryNovember 13, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer When Venezuela's thug-dictator Hugo Chavez moved his country away from market-based capitalismto thug-based socialism,I predicted it was only a matter of time before Venezuela's economy would tank.Well, I have a Reuters story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers: Food shortages are now a part of life [for Hugo’s subjects]. Workers...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Trust me on this. Don't doubt me. The Drive-By Media's objective is to destroy every Republican candidate, except the ones who cannot win.""Hillary Clinton just finished an interview with reporters in Iowa, and when she turned to walk away, the flags started falling down! I was thinking: 'This is an omen.This is either an omen for her or for us -- I'm not sure which.'""The Hawkeye Cauci is on January 3rd this year, and that's...