RUSH: David in Upton, Maryland. You're next as we go back to the phones. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Longtime listener, first-time caller.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I got a situation which I think McCain could take care of, or take advantage of, and it has to do with short selling, and I told your caller, I disagreed with your lack of regulations by the government, and it is this. There is, as far as I know, on the books a regulation in the SEC that doesn't...

RUSH: Well, now, isn't this interesting, ladies and gentlemen. We're working on getting the audio to this. This is from the Washington Post's blog called The Trail today, story by Ed O'Keefe. "The Obama campaign has released new radio and TV ads in Spanish that seek to tie Sen. John McCain to anti-immigrant comments made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The ads also suggest the Republican has 'dos caras' -- 'two faces' -- when it comes to his relations with Latino voters. The new messages,...

RUSH: Now, the latest daily tracking poll from Gallup has Obama back up by two, 47-45. This economy stuff works for 'em, in the short run, and it's about what's happening on Wall Street. I said this yesterday. This is a sitting duck issue for McCain and Palin to head down the path of blaming the Democrats for this. You know, we can back 'em up on this, but they're going to have to do it themselves. The campaign is going to have to get out there and start firing something other than blanks...

RUSH: We are on the verge, ladies and gentlemen, of becoming a socialist country. The federal government now owns 80% of AIG, my insurer. That means that you are going to be propping up the outfit that insures me. I'm going to be, too, but so are you. If you want to fix AIG, put the guy who built it back in there, Maurice Hank Greenberg, not to be confused with Hank Ace Greenberg who ran Bear Stearns. Where's that now, by the way? We have a socialist retirement system. We have a socialist...

RUSH: This is last night in Beverly Hills at his fundraiser, The Messiah, the Most Merciful, Lord Barack Obama.OBAMA: We may be passing on an America to our children that is less prosperous, maybe meaner and more divided than the country we inherited from our parents.RUSH: This is what he means to say if he loses. We're mean now, but we're going to be meaner if we don't elect The Messiah. Now, who's "we"? We may be passing on an America to our children that's less prosperous? It's a good question....

RUSH: Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, was on MSNBC this morning with Joe Scarborough, and Scarborough says, "How will this economic news impact the campaign?"MITCHELL: It is focusing everyone's attention on the economy. It has stopped all of the attention being paid to Sarah Palin. For Democrats, this ought to be a good thing, these pocketbook issues ought to be good for Democrats, just generically. But this year not so much, so far at least, Barack Obama with this new two-minute ad today...

RUSH: Joe Biden, they say that he really turned that gaffe around in Columbia, Missouri, really quickly, really fast, Joe Johns said he's really good at this, he's really good at screwing up and then covering up, really good at screwing up and recovering. There's nobody better at it than Joe Biden, that's right, 'cause he's got a lot of practice at it. He's has decided now to incorporate the whole notion of get up and stand up into his stump speech. This is in Media, Pennsylvania, yesterday,...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, I tell you, the race business now is starting to really worry the Democrats and Obama. We have two examples, Jack Cafferty on CNN's all upset. Why is he not ahead anymore? It's about race, this is still a racist country. Kathleen Sebelius calls Republicans racist. The AP then changed the headline and the context of the story, take Republicans out of it, said some voters, Ed Morrissey tipped me to this last night from his blog, HotAir.com. And then Obama...

Rush's Morning Update: Hang 'EmSeptember 18, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer To explain the financial market turmoil, Lord Barack Obama, The Most Merciful, points his skinny littlefinger of blame at President Bush --but let's review history, here.Long before the subprime crisis, the Bush Administration not only warned of impending calamity, but they had a plan to avert it. Fannie Mae-- under the leadership of Clinton...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Why do liberals hate capitalism? Because they don't control it.""The economy is a sitting duck issue for McCain and Palin to blame the Democrats. You know, we can back them up on this, but they're going to have to do it themselves. The campaign is going to have to start firing something other than blanks and stop worrying about offending Democrats.""I thought Obama was about the future, but when you go out and grab Barbra Streisand...

Story #1: Lehman Backed Algore, Environmentalist Wackos RUSH: One thing about Lehman Brothers -- it ain't so bad. You know who was really heavily invested in Lehman Brothers? Algore! Algore's investment firm, his carbon tradeoff firm -- I'm not kidding! The demise of Lehman Brothers will be mourned perhaps most by the environmentalist wackos. "The bank was, like Enron, a big booster of carbon pricing and its recommendations on the subject had begun to be adopted by governments around the world....