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| March 26, 2008 |
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Story #1: Crossovers Fuel Record Pennsylvania Registration
RUSH: Here's Keith Staskiewicz at ABC News: "Republican crossovers are a key factor in record-level voter registrations for the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary, officials say. State Democratic party officials touted a record-level four million registered Democratic voters..." AP had this yesterday. ABC is just getting onto it. "Bill Meck, a resident of a Philadelphia suburb, remarked that after 41 years of voting Republican, he recently registered with the Democratic party. 'I wanted to be a part of the choice,' said Meck. His wife, Patsy, a longtime Democrat, points to the race's historic significance as rejuvenating political interest among Pennsylvanians, including Republicans like her husband. She joked, 'It's like being in bizarro-world. For the first time since I can remember, we're on the same side.'" Over 116,000 Republicans have switched parties, at least for the day, to vote in the Pennsylvania primary on the 22nd of April.
 Story #2: Obama's Reverend Jeremiah Wright Smears Italians
RUSH: Operation Chaos continues. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is canceling all of his public appearances for "safety concerns." He's supposed to be over at some church in Tampa, but he bailed out of that one. But get this. He has slurred Italians now in a piece that he wrote published in the most recent issue of Trumpet News Magazine. He wrote a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November-December, 2007, issue of this magazine, Trumpet News Magazine. Here's what he said: "(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him. The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans. From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ... He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others. The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God." The gift of Operation Chaos just keeps giving.
Story #3: Hillary Falls Behind in North Carolina Polls
RUSH: Obama, 21 points ahead in the North Carolina primary. "New public policy polling of North Carolina shows Obama has jumped into an enormous lead over Mrs. Clinton after having been in a dead heat during the worst of the Jeremy Wright controversy" -- Yes, Mr. Snerdley? Well, you know, I got a mistress in North Carolina, but I don't know about the Italian population of North Carolina, if there is a large Italian population in North Carolina. Actually, you know, Jeremiah Wright wrote that article last year. It was published in the November-December issue of some magazine where he slurred the Italians as, what, garlic noses, looking down their garlic noses -- but I don't know how many Italians there are and how unified they are, but if there are, they're going to have to get in gear fast. Obama, 55%, Clinton 34%. From the internals of this public policy survey, Obama leads 80 to 14% among blacks while Hillary has a narrow 47 to 40% lead among whites. Late update here, one other factor in the wild swing for this poll -- because it was, they were neck and neck in North Carolina just late last week. "It could be that the public policy polling outfit has altered their methodology to a higher turnout model than their last North Carolina poll, the same model was used for some other primary polls this season, in those cases the numbers are relatively close to the final result." So some people think that this might actually be accurate.
Story #4: Drive-Bys Fret Over Obama's "Old Liberalism"
RUSH: Also, the Washington Post today, Alec MacGillis: "In Obama's New Message, Some Foes See Old Liberalism." Really? Well, of course, that's all Obama is. When you strip it away, that's all Jeremiah Wright is. It's hate, in Jeremiah Wright's case, but it's liberalism, pure and simple, and Obama is a liberal, and Hillary is a liberal. Now, this story starts this way. "Sen. Barack Obama offers himself as a post-partisan uniter who will solve the country's problems by reaching across the aisle --" who believes this? He has never done so in the Senate! He's never reached across the aisle. He's not been part of bipartisanship legislation in the Senate. This is a myth, that he's a uniter! I'm getting blue in the face reminding people, nobody in his inner circle is united. "But as Obama heads into the final presidential primaries, Sen. John McCain and other Republicans have already started to brand him a standard-order left-winger, 'a down-the-line liberal,' as McCain strategist Charles R. Black Jr. put it, in a long line of Democratic White House hopefuls."
This story goes on to try to dispel the notion that Obama is a liberal, and the liberals are gearing up to stop anybody from calling them that. This story is all about, "No, he transcends the usual ideological distinctions, he transcends conservatism, and he transcends liberalism." All these experts in this piece are quoted as saying that. It comes down to the fact, liberal is still a dirty word, it's harmful, because it correctly identifies for people who people are. The Drive-Bys and any number of other associates in the Democrat Party are going to do everything they can to see to it that he isn't called a liberal. "Supporters also argue that the liberal tag will not stick to Obama partly because the public climate has shifted toward him amid widespread disillusionment with Republican policies, scrambling traditional notions of right and left. 'There's growing dismay about the war in Iraq as it enters year six, and a sense that we've neglected some real basic necessities in this country,' said Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D), one of Obama's key red-state backers. 'He's not out of step with what I hear people being worried about.'" Oh, no, he's not a liberal, he's not a liberal. Of course not.
Story #5: Paterson Took Ex-Gal Pal to Campaign for Hillary
RUSH: New York governor "David Paterson recently twice traveled with an ex-girlfriend to campaign for Hillary Rodham Clinton." So Hillary makes affairs possible! You know, it's amazing. She's the most cheated on woman in the world! And this woman enables even men who are not her husband to have affairs! "Governor Paterson recently twice traveled" -- recently! -- "with an ex-girlfriend to campaign for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Paterson, when he was lieutenant governor, and Lila Kirton, director of community affairs for former Gov. Eliot Spitzer and now Paterson, traveled to Iowa on Nov. 20 and 21 and South Carolina on Jan. 24 through 27 to campaign for Clinton." Oh, man, it's unmistakable: She makes affairs possible. She facilitates them.
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