RUSH: We're gonna talk with Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, about his new book. It's Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate. Senator Specter, welcome to the program. It's nice to have you back with us here.SEN. SPECTER: Rush, thank you very much for the invitation. It's a great pleasure to talk to you and your listeners. Thanks.RUSH: The title of the book is Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate. You were battling more than cancer in the Senate. I've read the summary of the...

RUSH: Here's how difficult it's going to be for Barack Obama to keep race out of his campaign. When you've got idiots like the haughty John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) out campaigning for you, you're rolling the dice. (laughing) Last Monday, Kerry did an interview with the New Bedford Standard-Times. It's in Massachusetts, the New Bedford Standard-Times editorial board, and of course they taped him. An unidentified reporter said, "Why would you say that? What gives Obama credibility on that...

RUSH: Bob in Miami, I'm glad you called, sir. You're next on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush, and thank God that you're on the air.RUSH: Thank you, sir. I agree.CALLER: You're the watchman on the wall, my friend, sounding the alarm.RUSH: Trying to, yes.CALLER: First of all, Rush, I have been around a long time, since before World War II, and I have seen these political parties deteriorate to what they are today. I have had it with both of them. Both of them are not worth the powder...

RUSH: Here's Joan in Philadelphia. Joan, thank you for waiting. You're next on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Okay.RUSH: Yeah, hi, we're up. CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi there.CALLER: Hi. Just longtime listener, first-time caller.RUSH: Great to have you here.CALLER: Thank you. I'm a 70-year-old, white middle-class granny.RUSH: Typical white person?CALLER: Yeah, typical granny.RUSH: Typical white person.CALLER: And I saw Hillary's ad, the red telephone ad at 3 a.m. in the morning.RUSH:...

RUSH: Operation Chaos continued last night on CNN. Wolf Blitzer was on The Situation Room, talking with James Carville, who is a Hillary advisor; and also Barack Obama advisor Tom Daschle. Blitzer says, "Hey, James, what about the argument that Senator Daschle makes here that there would be disenfranchised voters if you don't have these two do-overs?"CARVILLE: You have a primary, you let people vote. Have a Democratic primary! Let Democrats vote. Anybody that's watching this show can see that...

RUSH: This Obama stuff, that stuff is serious. Opening these race wounds like this, taking us back 30, 40 years, making it look like no progress has been made, what Barack Obama has done... I'm going to say something here that might offend -- not offend, but might make some uncomfortable. But it is clear to me that there has been a major transformation in Senator Obama, and it is this. Up until the videos of the Reverend Wright showed up, Barack Obama had succeeded in transcending race, and there...

RUSH: We're gonna talk with Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, about his new book. It's Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate. Senator Specter, welcome to the program. It's nice to have you back with us here.SEN. SPECTER: Rush, thank you very much for the invitation. It's a great pleasure to talk to you and your listeners. Thanks.RUSH: The title of the book is Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate. You were battling more than cancer in the Senate. I've read the summary of the...

RUSH: Here's Paris in Irvine, California.CALLER: Hi, Rush!RUSH: Hi, Paris, how are you?CALLER: I'm good. Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to talk to you about this Obama character.RUSH: Yeah?CALLER: Which I am a "typical white person," and I question his patriotism. I question that he's been defending this Reverend Wright and has yet never shown any kind of passion, this man, for this country as a whole, this nation as a whole. My second issue with Obama is the fact that he keeps...

RUSH: The Drive-Bys are fascinated with possible criminal charges in Ohio related to Operation Chaos. They're still investigating whether or not Republican voters lied about their pledge to become Democrats when they went in there and voted in the Ohio primary. Hugh Hewitt, renowned member of the Reagan administration, who has his own blog and talk show in the afternoons from California. He is from Cleveland, and said that if I get indicted in this, if I get charged along with any voters, he's...

RUSH: How about Obama on the radio in Philadelphia? We have the audio sound bite. Listen to this. Obama threw his grandmother under the bus at the speech on Tuesday. Then yesterday, he put the bus in reverse and ran over her.OBAMA: The point I was making was not that my grandmother, uh, harbors, uh, any racial animosity. She doesn't, but she is a, uh, typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences...

Rush's Morning Update: Big Mess! March 24, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer You remember last June --out-of-control wildfires claiming 254 homes in the Lake Tahoe basin? Well, now the Associated Press, using the Freedom of Information Act, has obtained over 4,000 pages of documents from the agencies involved at all levels of government:local, regional, state, and federal.It turns out that homeowners' pleas to their local...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I have a question. Where do you think, ladies and gentlemen, the Obama family will attend Easter church services this weekend?""How about Obama on the radio in Philadelphia? He threw his grandmother under the bus at the speech on Tuesday, and then yesterday he put the bus in reverse and ran over her again.""I'll tell you, Bill Richardson is on fire out there endorsing Obama. But the question that I have, ladies and gentlemen,...

Story #1: Economic Woes? Candidates Raise, Burn Millions RUSH: We hear about high food prices, high tuition, high mortgage foreclosures, and then there's this from the Los Angeles Times: "Presidential Candidates Pull in $790 million." Obama "has a lead in fundraising among both parties, reporting $192.7 million total." The also-rans are busy paying money back. There's a story out that Obama spent a million and a half bucks a day since February, including the Super Tuesday February 5 primaries....