RUSH: Here's Jim from Florida. You're next. Hi.CALLER: Yes, Rush?RUSH: Yeah?CALER: Rush, great talking to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Born in Missouri and ended up in Florida, just like you.RUSH: It's a great place to be. Everybody has to be somewhere.CALLER: Hey, Rush, I was listening to that deal about Obama pandering to these people in Missouri and mentioning Mark Twain.RUSH: Yeah, he mentioned Mark Twain.CALLER: Do you remember a few years ago when the Democrats wanted to take Mark Twain's...

RUSH: Arnold Schwarzenegger, let's see. This is Tom Brokaw from Meet the Press yesterday talking to Schwarzenegger. Question: "You endorsed McCain as the presidential candidate, saying he was a crusader who had the best interests of the environment in mind. Now he is in favor of offshore drilling and he wants to build 45 nuclear plants. Do you still stand by his record in that regard?" SCHWARZENEGGER: I'm very proud of him. I'm 100 percent behind him. That we don't agree on everything, that's...

RUSH: Saturday in Washington at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference McCain spoke. An unidentified person said, "Senator, you have been a leader on immigration reform in the Senate, but unfortunately congress has failed to make progress on this very critical issue. As the next President of the United States, will comprehensive immigration reform, not just enforcement, be one of your top policy priorities in your first 100 days?" MCCAIN: It will be my...

RUSH: From the Associated Press, ladies and gentlemen: "Four-dollar gasoline has stolen a beach vacation from Julie Jacobs' family... exotic bath washes from Angela Crawford... Phil English has had to sell his beloved but fuel-guzzling red pickup. Like a plague that hits every economic class, race and age, soaring [gasoline] prices are inflicting pain throughout the US. Nine in 10 people are expecting the ballooning costs to squeeze them financially over the next half-year, says an Associated Press-Yahoo...

RUSH: Snerdley and I were just discussing whether or not this hack surrogate of Obama's, Wesley Clark, might end up hurting Obama. It's a tough call. I mean, I know so many... It's amazing. This is a replay of 1992. There's nothing new here. There's nothing new about Obama. There is nothing new about his politics. There is nothing new! I mean, look at his supporters. Ashley Wilkes? Here's a guy who's The Messiah, he's going to bring unity, brand-new politics, we've never seen anything like this...

RUSH: Theodore, Baltimore, Maryland. It's nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Good evening. Good afternoon. I'm respecting the service of both "Mister" McCain and Three Star General Mr. Clark. I think they both served honorably. I wouldn't consider Mr. Clark failed, and I do think that once I've listened to it, Mr. McCain sounded weak. Mr. Clark, and even speeches by the late Ronald Reagan, sounded more forceful. If the attitude displayed by "Mister" McCain in answering this...

RUSH: I want to go back to McCain's response to Wesley Clark. He was at the National Association of... Now, wait. Come on, I don't want to get the wrong bite. This is today. He was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and he was responding to Wesley Clark's attacks on Sunday on Face the Nation, in which Clark said (paraphrased), "Hey, he never ordered any bombing. He's never been a boss of anything in the military. He was never a squadron leader. He was never in combat. None of that. Dropping bombs...

RUSH: I just tuned into a little bit of the Obama speech in Independence, Missouri. He said, "I..." He got a standing O on this. He said, "I will never question the patriotism of any of my opponents." Yay! Who has questioned his? And then he said, "I'm not going to sit idly by when someone questions mine." Now, who is questioning his patriotism? There might be some fringe people out there, for crying out loud, but who is doing it? Is McCain doing it? Who of any consequence or importance is...

RUSH: CNN's American Morning this morning, John Roberts talking about Democrat on Democrat vandalism in Orlando, Florida. And this is, of course, happening to the unity party and unity candidate.ROBERTS: Police in Orlando, Florida, investigating the spray painting of dozens of city vehicles, some with racial epithets about presidential hopeful Barack Obama. One of the vans was painted: "Obama smokes crack." The vandals also left business cards that disparage both Obama and Republican John McCain....

RUSH: The Drive By Media is ecstatic because our record for a charitable purchase on eBay was broken over the weekend. We got $2.1 million for the Harry Reid Smear Letter, but Warren Buffett got $2.11 million for lunch with him over the weekend on eBay. A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with Warren Buffett by bidding $2.11 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay. I'm trying to think. I'm not surprised at this if I'm right, when we set the record...

Rush's Morning Update: K.M.A.July 1, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, despite the show of unity-- in Unity-- there isno "unity." That's right, my friends: Mrs. Bill showed up for the hardest day of her political life in Unity, New Hampshire.Cameras recorded the whole thing, but back home in Chappaqua, Mister Bill is seething over Obama's win.The UK Telegraph reports that Bill Clinton's "rage is still so great that...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"How long will it be before Barack Obama says, 'That's not the Wesley Clark I know'?""They're ecstatic out there in the Drive-By world because Warren Buffett has eclipsed the charitable record set by me on eBay -- for now.For now.""Can you imagine a 6-year-old getting up and reading the paper with his mom and dad and saying, 'Mommy, Daddy, what's it called when a man hugs a woman?'And Mommy says, 'Little Johnny, it's called...

Story #1: California Fires Emit Huge Carbon Footprint RUSH: I wonder what Governor Schwarzenegger thinks? There are 1,400 wildfires out in California. Did I read that right? Do you know how many times lightning strikes the planet? It's like 100 times a second. All over the planet lightning is striking somewhere. Maybe it's 100 times a minute, I'm not sure. But it's huge. So we've got all these fires in California. I have a picture. I have a satellite photo. Let me zoom in on this for...