RUSH: Here is Michelle Obama. This is yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin, at a Barack Obama campaign event, a portion of her remarks.MRS. OBAMA: What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback, and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm 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...

RUSH: Here is Michelle Obama. This is yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin, at a Barack Obama campaign event, a portion of her remarks.MRS. OBAMA: What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback, and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm 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...

RUSH: Here is Michelle Obama. This is yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin, at a Barack Obama campaign event, a portion of her remarks.MRS. OBAMA: What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback, and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm 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...

RUSH: Erin in Martinsburg, West Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: First-time caller and a true Rush Baby. I've been listening to you since '89 --RUSH: Wow.CALLER: -- with my mom. Quick shout out to my husband, Brian, who also listens to you every day. My point is, in history, when you take history courses, they talk about the law of history and how it will repeat itself if we don't change it, if we don't take...

RUSH: Barack Obama was on the Today Show today with Matt Lauer, who said to Obama, "You seem to have started to listen to the critics who started talking about these speeches, the inspiration and the hope. 'You've given me the whip cream. Give me the mashed potatoes.' Is that a fair assessment?"OBAMA: There's no doubt that we want to strike a balance where we explain to people that it's important for us to get people engaged and motivated and involved, but not just for abstract feel-good stuff....

RUSH: There was a piece in the American Spectator yesterday, one of my favorite online websites -- (interruption) why are all of you people smiling and laughing? Why? Oh, okay. Well, I can't talk about that, most people can't see it. Somebody sent me a Mao hat today, I put it on here, break at the top of the hour. You people watching on the Dittocam can see it. Sadly, it looks good, it looks better on me than most caps do. It's a green army fatigue Mao cap with a red communist Chinese star,...

RUSH: This is Christian in Detroit. You're on the Rush Limbaugh program. It's nice to have you here, sir.CALLER: Hello, Mr. Rush Limbaugh. Melting pot (unintelligible) president. Got time to unveil character over candidate and talk to me in Detroit, man? How you doing?RUSH: Very well, sir. I'm glad you called.CALLER: Okay, well, I have a statement and maybe a question. You know, people in Detroit go to work on Monday, and they get paid on Friday. You know, people say Barack has no experience....

RUSH: Anyway, "Facing the prospect of her ninth and 10th straight losses Tuesday, Hillary Clinton tried to flush out a few more votes in Wisconsin with a crowd-pleasing tale about shooting a duck. Yes, she bagged a duck, back when she was the First Lady of Arkansas. 'I've hunted. My father taught me how to shoot,' she told a crowd at the Labor Temple in rural northern Wisconsin. 'I remember standing in the cold water. It was so cold, you know, at first light. I was with a bunch of my friends, all...

RUSH: Roy in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Roy, thanks for waiting. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you. It's unthinkable to me that Michelle Obama would not have reason to be proud of our country, but Rush Limbaugh, you can't live in a world without hope, friend. I'd love to hear your definition of hope.RUSH: I've gone through a riff on hope before. CALLER: I heard it when you opened it up, I'm sorry --RUSH: No, no, no, that was quoting Friedrich Nietzsche.CALLER: Would you mind quoting...

RUSH: Here is Michelle Obama. This is yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin, at a Barack Obama campaign event, a portion of her remarks.MRS. OBAMA: What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback, and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm 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...

RUSH: It is heating up, the Wisconsin primary today. Seventy-four delegates on tap for the Democrats. Superdelegates are being paid by both Barry Obama and Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Clinton going after Obama's pledged delegates, and there's nothing to stop her. The pledged delegates do not and are not required to vote for any particular candidate on the first ballot. They are all up for grabs. It's like I've been saying, ladies and gentlemen, it's almost like these primaries don't really count. The...

RUSH: Let's go back to the archives, the audio sound bites. This program yesterday, I said this.RUSH ARCHIVE: What if she actually loses? What if that happens? I was thinking, all of these women on TV, wherever they are, even those who may not particularly be for her now, I wouldn't be surprised, if that happens, that all of a sudden there becomes a similarity in the coverage: "A woman lost! In 2008, this country is still so sexist, and it will refuse to elect a woman." I can just see them...

Rush's Morning Update: Castro!February 20, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer You know, folks, it's hard to miss the outright hero worship in the Drive-By's coverage of Fidel Castro's "retirement." Here's a Reuters story casting Castro as a 20th century revolutionary --instead of the tyrant that he is:"Castro is admired in many Third World nations for standing up to the United States and providing free education and health...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Somebody sent me a Mao hat, and I put it on here at the top of the hour. Sadly, the thing looks better on me than most caps do.""I, over the course of many years, have dated many different women, and I have dated some liberals. I remember one prominent liberal babe that I dated -- I had to go on the Rush-Proves-He's-Not-Satan Tour, meeting all of her friends and family.""If you sit around and hope, you end up fainting at political...

Story #1: Castro Steps Down, Embargo to RemainRUSH: So Fidel Castro has stepped down, may even be dead for all we know. He will not run for president again, or not serve, I should say. It's sort of like when Saddam got 97% of the vote, the Drive-Bys here celebrated. And the Drive-Bys, the liberals, oh, they're beside themselves. Such a maximum leader! Such a compassionate, wonderful man! Many people wonder why (I'm sure many of you do, too): What is it about these thugs, these totalitarian dictators...