VAN SUSTEREN: Rush, nice to have you here. What do you think about all this noise about Governor Palin, people complaining and attacking her?RUSH: Hey, Greta, great to be with you. I just got back from a sance, trying to reach Ronald Reagan, but I couldn't get through. VAN SUSTEREN: (laughing)RUSH: Some guy named Obama's got the astral plane blocked. You know, the bottom line with the Sarah Palin stuff is, of course what they're saying about her -- and it's McCain people -- is contemptible. But...

RUSH: The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back. Last night in Milford, Connecticut, at the Kingdom Life Christian Church.WRIGHT: My youngest child came home from school, and said to me, "Are you and Barack cool?" I said, "Of course we are. Why do you ask that? I just heard some kids talking at school." I said, "No, that's a media thing." Ninety percent of the people sitting in church do not agree with everything their pastors say. What I say or don't say, it is not an index in terms of what Senator...

RUSH: Maya Angelou this afternoon on DNCTV. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, was talking to Maya Angelou. "What was going through your mind Tuesday night as the returns were coming in?"ANGELOU: I realized almost within a minute, I don't have to apologize for my country when I'm abroad. I can say, "I belong to a great country," and there are Europeans who say, "Aren't you glad to be here in France where we don't have the racism you live under? Aren't you glad you're here in Britain?" I mean, I've been...

RUSH: Let's go to couple stories I have here from Change.gov, www.Change.gov: Office of the President-Elect. "Homeland security" is the topic of this section of the website. This is a website that basically tells you what Obama is going to do, what he's telling us he's going to do. Homeland Security defines the problem, and then he says this: "The idea here is to win the battle of ideas. An Obama administration will defeat Al-Qaeda in what the 9/11 Commission called 'the battle of ideas' by...

RUSH: Pop quiz time. Pick the month, pick the day, pick the year when the teachers union pronounces that all classrooms must hang a portrait of President Obama. No answer. I don't know what the answer is; only time will tell. Okay, Snerdley is making his guess: January 20th, 2009. Pick the month or the day -- well, the month, day, and year when the teachers union pronounces all classrooms must hang a portrait of President Obama, The One. I think the last time this happened was FDR, when you...

RUSH: Man, things just keep falling into my lap here. Politicians of both parties unwittingly make me look like the genius I already am. Christopher Shays, moderate congressman from Connecticut who was sent packing on Tuesday, there are now no Republican members of the House from a northeastern state. So Christopher Shays decided to go on MSNBC and tell the Republican Party what it needs to do to win, after it just got wiped out. He was on with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. "We saw...

RUSH: Dover, Ohio, Kathy, welcome to the EIB Network and Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'm a first-time caller, a longtime listener, and a rank amateur for sure.RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate your standing.CALLER: I was commenting on the "story" Carl Cameron and Fox did on Wednesday -- RUSH: Mmm-hmm.CALLER: -- "story" in quotes -- revealing the background details of the McCain campaign, and I was watching that whole bit. I just found it odd, like, have I got the right channel?...

RUSH: We're going to go back to yesterday's audio sound bite roster. Remember now Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw a week ago today, (paraphrasing) "We don't know anything about him. It's an interesting question, he's written two books, largely autobiographical, we really don't know what his views on China are, Charlie." So they didn't know anything about him, and here Wednesday night, again on the Charlie Rose Show, we had a couple of clowns from Newsweek, Evan Thomas and Jon Meacham, and they're...

RUSH: His name is Cedric. He's from North Haven, Connecticut, and it's great to have you on the EIB Network, Cedric. Welcome.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Happy Friday.RUSH: Same to you, sir.CALLER: Yeah. It used to be Friday was a payday but we're paid biweekly now, one other thing that slows us down here. But I wanted to --RUSH: Don't worry, it's going to change.CALLER: (laughing) I wanted to thank you --RUSH: You're going to get paid every day, Cedric.CALLER: (laughing) RUSH: Gas tank's going...

RUSH: I want to take you back to an Associated Press story, Thursday, December 27th of 2007, a little less than year ago. AP-Obama: "Barack Obama declared today that he is the only candidate who can bring true change in Washington, hoping to persuade Iowa voters to give him the first victory in the Democrat presidential race. Making his case against Hillary Clinton without naming her," and this is the money part of the story, Obama said, "The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington...

Rush's Morning Update: PracticalityNovember 10, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer A recent article in Congressional Quarterly examines the best way for Republicans to "repackage" their agenda. Thankfully, many elected Republicans are embracing a theme that "the problem is not conservative principles" --but rather how poorly Republicans practiced conservative principles once they got to Washington.Others view "the problem"...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Barack Obama is my president of the United States, but it is his ideas I am terrifically, tremendously worried about.""I am praying that they name the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, secretary of state. I want Lurch going all over the world, stepping in it every place he goes. You put a bag of manure in front of John Kerry, and he'll step in it, folks.""I just had a chance to listen to a little bit of Obama's press...

Story #1: NY Times: Obama Asked to Govern Before InauguralRUSH: The New York Times today had a story about how never before -- never, ever, ever! -- has a president-elect been forced to govern before he was inaugurated. The pressures, ladies and gentlemen, the pressures and the expectations! So wonderful is the one that we can't wait for January 20th for his munificence and for his countenance. We must have Lord Obama, the Most Merciful, governing ASAP. Story #2: Obama Names Failed Granholm to...