RUSH: This is Kim in Cape Canaveral. Hi, Kim. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Honor to talk to you, sir. Dittos from Cape Canaveral, Florida.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: We're just up the coast.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I think you are dead right. I think that Wesley Clark is just trying to impugn McCain, and I think any military experience, in whatever the form, is going to help a candidate to better understand his number-one job of being commander-in-chief of the military. He better understand whatever his...

RUSH: Denise in Freestone, California, I'm glad you held on. Thanks much for calling.CALLER: Hello?RUSH: Hi, Denise. How are you?CALLER: I'm fine. How are you?RUSH: Never better.CALLER: Good. (chuckles) I'm just calling because I'm saying, "Are you serious about this statement by Clark?" Like, no one cares about what people are saying about McCain or Obama? (giggles) We are suffering as American people.RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I might have missed something here. Nobody cares...

RUSH: This is from a column by Chris Satullo, Philadelphia Inquirer: "'A Not-So-Glorious Fourth -- US Atrocities are Unworthy of Our Heritage' -- Put the fireworks in storage. Cancel the parade. Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time. This year, America doesn't deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement. For we have sinned. We have failed to pay attention. We've settled for lame excuses. We've spit on the memory of those who did...

RUSH: Bob Dole has issued a statement. "On Face the Nation on Sunday, General Clark called Republican presidential candidate John McCain untested and untried, claimed that McCain had no executive responsibility, belittled his leadership of a naval unit because it wasn't a wartime squadron, and stated, 'I don't think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.' The attack by General Clark on Senator McCain's war record and qualifications for the presidency...

RUSH: We'll go to Pittsburgh, home of the Steelers. Christie, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush. It's so good to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you. I know.CALLER: Hey, I have a -- well, not a question for you. The media is always going to give Barack Obama a pass. That's a given.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: That's done. I've just don't think that John McCain should. I mean they question his ability to lead and we hear nothing. I mean this is huge for McCain, this should...

RUSH: We turn now, ladies and gentlemen, to the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley. Mr. Snerdley.SNERDLEY: This is Bo Snerdley, the Official Barack Criticizer for the EIB Network -- medically certified with highly concentrated levels of slave blood, certified to criticize -- and I have a statement. Mr. Obama, since your rise on the political stage, you and your handlers have crafted an image that depicts you as a unique politician, one that can bridge the divides of our nation with your exuberant...

RUSH: This is Chris Hernandez who is NBC Action News, Kansas City. When we played sound bites of Obama's political speech yesterday on patriotism in Independence, we listened to it, and it sounded like there was the usual Obama throng, correct? Thousands and thousands of people fainting, shrieking, throwing their underwear up there, going wacko. Not the case. Here's the report from Kansas City's NBC affiliate last night.HERNANDEZ: There were a couple of hundred empty seats even though Obama's...

RUSH: In a truly pathetic news story, this is deeply troubling. We have been talking recently on this program about the chickification of American culture, the feminization of American universities, the chickification of the news business. From the Associated Press, this a story by Melissa Dutton, and this is about man showers. Brian, you went to one of these just last week, a man shower. "'Man showers' become popular for pre-wedding male bonding' -- When Jonathan Morris' daughter was planning...

Rush's Morning Update: DutyOriginal Airdate: March 31, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer A new study, my friends,reveals that older Americans are living longer, they are far wealthier, and they'rebetter educated than any previous generation. Now, this contradicts the liberal view of America, which isa land of endless soup lines where seasoned citizens have to chose between eating dog foodor heating their cave-like homes.Which...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Watch how all the liberals who opposed George W. Bush on faith-based initiatives will line up behind Obama.""What Obama's camp is trying to do here with McCain -- with genuine lightweights like Wesley Clark and Rand Beers, who could not wear McCain's jockstrap -- is breathtaking to behold." "To me, this is an example of just how diabolical Obama is. He knows the press is going to say that he rebuked Clark when he never did, so...

Story #1: Some Tough Love from Saudi King Abdullah RUSH: The king of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, this is some tough love, folks. He said we're just going to have to get used to this. We're just going to have to get used to high oil prices and there's nothing he can do about it. He doesn't set the prices. We're just going to have to get used to it. "'Consumer countries have to adapt to the prices and the mechanisms of the market. We have nothing to do with the current sharp increase in crude...