RUSH: Here's Raj in Houston. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.CALLER: Dittos, Rush, from a 20-year-listener and a first-time caller.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: Rush, I just wanted to give you a perspective, my perspective on this horrible country.RUSH: Yeah? Yeah?CALLER: I got here with $12 in my pocket --RUSH: That's about how much Obama's half-brother has in a year!CALLER: (laughing) Well, I had it all at one time. I was a high school dropout from India. I cleaned...

RUSH: The Messiah has been all over the world ripping the United States, criticizing his country, we're not what we once were, we're not meeting our potential, we're just in bad shape, and they're going to have this parade of real, real people, victim after victim after victim at their convention. Obama tells a little seven-year-old girl asking him why he wants to be president because the country is not what it once was. He goes up with the eyebrow guy, Tim Kaine in Chester, Virginia, today, and...

RUSH: Now, there is an issue in this campaign that is not going to go away. It is an issue that the Democrats and Obama are not going to be able to sweep aside. It is very simply his thrice support, three times voting to support, killing babies who survived abortions. It ain't going to go away, as much as the Democrats would like for it to. Three different times, Barack Obama has voted -- and, by the way, in voting for this, he has said (summarized), "Ah, look, there wasn't any provision in...

RUSH: Here's Carl calling from Tokyo, Japan. Carl, it's nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir, hello.CALLER: Well, hello, Rush. Thanks for taking the call.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about McCain and his endorsement of cap-and-trade.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: It really has me worried.RUSH: Yes, it's absolutely insane. It's stupid. It's silly.CALLER: I don't know how I can vote for a guy who's going to put something in effect that's going to create a theocracy.RUSH:...

RUSH: Here is Charles as we start on the phones. Charles in Las Vegas, nice to have you with us, sir. Hello.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I've been listening to you since 1990, and I'm your self-loathing gay person from Las Vegas, who is a conservative and hates himself because he's gay and conservative.RUSH: (laughing) Yeah, well, welcome back.CALLER: Well, thank you. I was listening to the show, and in the midst of it, I don't know if it was a local feed or the national...

RUSH: Jim Geraghty, National Review Online at his blog called The Campaign Spot. I've been telling you over the past couple days that (it's obvious to me) -- in fact, all week -- that there is Panic City setting in in the Democrat Party and the Obama campaign. This was not how this was envisioned even as little as two weeks ago, but certainly not two months ago. They were just riding on the top of this wave of messiah sort of belief about Obama and it's all crumbled. McCain is ahead in some polls,...

RUSH: Here is Tim Kaine. This guy is as big an empty suit as Obama. I watched Obama this morning. He had a little town meeting there at some place in Virginia with Tim Kaine who is the governor there. The Eyebrow is what we call him here, his nickname. And, you know, for a moment I got a little worried 'cause Barry sounded like he got him. He started out talking about how he loves America and he started off talking about how great America is. He started off talking about how great Americans...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, Dingy Harry sat down with the editorial board of the Las Vegas Review Journal and said some very interesting things. According to Molly Ball in that newspaper, Dingy Harry "defended Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman on Wednesday after the former Democratic vice presidential nominee accepted a speaking slot at next month's Republican convention in Minnesota. 'He has a close personal relationship with John McCain. I don't fully understand why he does,' said Reid, who said...

Rush's Morning Update: Yet More WoeAugust 22, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer This story just will notgo away. Two weeks ago, I told you of the crisis American children face. They have been forced to wear last year's clothes to school because their parents are using the money to pay for gasoline and food --instead of springing for new clothes. School administrators are making kids walk longer distances to bus stops, and...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"You know how Chris Matthews talks about the 'tingle' he gets up his leg when he listens to Obama? I get a chill up my spine.""There is something so phony about a candidate like Obama, flying around on the best jets, asking billionaires and millionaires in San Francisco to support his campaign, having almost everything he has handed to him, and then attacking the McCains for the assets they've accumulated over the years." "I watched...

Story #1: So Far, 2008 is Coldest Year in Five YearsRUSH: The first half of this year, 2008, was the coolest in at least five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the WMO. "The whole year will almost certainly be cooler than recent years, although temperatures remain above the historical average." The point is it ain't getting any warmer out there. The Farmers' Almanac is out with their forecast for the winter. They say it's going to be catastrophic. It's going to be so...