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Story #1: It's All About Obama, Not Jeremiah Wright
RUSH: Some very confusing poll numbers out today. Rasmussen is reporting a national telephone survey found that just 4% of American adults believe that comments made by Jeremiah Wright have helped Obama's bid for the White House. Sixty-six percent say that Wright's comments have hurt Obama's campaign. It was just yesterday the New York Times said just the opposite. USA Today has a poll today saying basically the same thing Rasmussen is saying. Zogby has a poll out today. Obama expanding lead in North Carolina, still biting nails in Indiana. Now, how can this be true? How can 66% say Wright's comments have hurt Obama's campaign if he's going through the roof in North Carolina? The Clinton campaign also is trying to lower expectations. They've told everybody here they see a 15-point loss tonight in North Carolina, which is a classic move to lower expectations. If she only loses by ten, then it's a big surprise, they can say, based on what their so-called internals had to say about all this. So this Jeremiah Wright stuff, I have to tell you, a lot of people are missing the point. It's not about Jeremiah Wright, and it really never has been about Jeremiah Wright, because Jeremiah Wright's who he is.
This is about Obama. It has always been about Obama. Wright makes no bones about who he is. It's Obama who is trying to hide who he really is. It is Obama who's trying to keep people from understanding exactly the details of his relationship with Wright. We can sit here, we can talk about Jeremiah Wright all day and the things that he has said and the friendships that he has, Calypso Louie, traveling to Libya to meet Moammar Khadafy and so forth. It's always been about Obama, and it will remain about Obama if he secures the nomination and heads into the general election. It's always going to be about Obama. They can make this about Jeremiah Wright and they can throw Wright overboard and get rid of him, but it's not going to help Obama in the sense that it's still going to cause people to be curious about who he is. And you get past these primaries in the Democrat convention, get into the fall, get into the general election and Obama is going to have a much tougher time keeping himself hidden or camouflaged once the opponents are the Republicans and not other Democrats, plus the Drive-By Media is in the tank for the guy.
Story #2: States Get In on Calls for Gas Tax Holidays
 RUSH: A lot of other news as well. Some states are trying to get in on the gasoline tax cut, or holiday, putting pressure on the feds. Charlie Crist wants ten cents lopped off the Florida state gasoline tax. So you add that to the feds' 18.4, now you're taking 28.4 cents. California gas taxes run as high as 45 cents a gallon. So if you add 45 1/2 cents to the 18.4 federal tax, you're talking now almost 63 cents here. It's a New York Times story: "Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida has been fighting to cut 10 cents from the state's gasoline tax for two weeks in July. Lawmakers in Missouri, New York and Texas have also proposed a summer break from state gas taxes, while candidates for governor in Indiana and North Carolina are sparring over relief ideas of their own." The point is that some state representatives and governors are behind this and trying to get this done for a whole host of reasons. So that's percolating.
Story #3: Three Stories: McCain Tries to Get Noticed
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RUSH: Senator McCain is also in North Carolina today, trying to get noticed. He was in North Carolina talking about judges and the kind of judges he'd appoint. Well, the whole news cycle is devoted to the Democrat primaries and Operation Chaos. So Senator McCain wants to make some news. Well, from the AP out of Phoenix, Arizona: "McCain: Feds' Failure Led to Local Immigration Efforts." Now, I want you to hang on here as you hear this. "Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Monday that the federal government's failure to overhaul its immigration policies and secure the border has regrettably prompted some states and cities to enter the fight against the nation's border woes. Some communities frustrated by federal border efforts are rejecting the long-held notion that immigration is an exclusively federal responsibility. Local efforts include denying some public benefits to illegal immigrants, training police officers in federal immigration law and trying to prevent businesses from hiring illegal border-crossers.
"'It saddens me to see these conflicting approaches toward the issue of illegal immigration, because we would not have this problem if the federal government had carried out its responsibilities,' McCain told reporters in Phoenix on Cinco de Mayo." In this case, my friends, I ask: "Who was the federal government here? Who was it that was the impetus and the energy behind closed-door legislation that would not have secured the borders? Who was it that was helping to push amnesty legislation that forced the states and local communities to act in order to protect themselves from rampant crime, drunk driving, all kinds of hell happening out there?" It was forced to act because the plan that the federal government put forth would not have alleviated one ounce of this problem -- and the plan that was put forth that didn't happen, was not put forth by "the federal government." It was put forth by John McCain and Ted Kennedy, with the assistance of the president.
(doing McCain impression) "Limbaugh? Limbaugh! This is why I went to North Carolina. Talk about the judges. The judges!"
Sorry, Senator. You're right.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
One more Senator McCain story from Phoenix again on Monday. This is a Reuters story: "John McCain reached out to Hispanic voters on Monday as he sought to win over a constituency that has moved away from his Republican Party but could prove key in swing states in a close US presidential election in November. The Arizona senator's campaign launched a Spanish language website to mark the Mexican Cinco de Mayo festival and McCain told reporters that "everything about our Hispanic voters is tailor-made to the Republican message." This is why Hispanics, I guess, have now become the minority in Democrat registration in Florida.
Story #4: Violence Over Food Prices Across the Globe
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, rising food costs have put turmoil on everybody's menu. Violence over food prices has been reported in Egypt and Haiti, and now at least two people have been killed in Somalia, where troops put down rioting over food. The Asian development bank is warning that over a billion Asians may sink back into poverty because of rising food prices. The bank, of course, says they want more money, but they're actually debating if India and China ought to foot the bill, not us, for a change. Meanwhile, the ChiComs have problems of their own. They're clamping down on food exports even as inflation rises along with food prices. North Koreans are still starving. Another American mission is over there trying to find solutions to their worsening food problem. I have the solution to all this, and that is, capitalism, born of freedom.
Story #5: Liberalism Infects Harvard Student Cafeteria
RUSH: Things are getting bad here in the United States as well. Hardest hit, apparently, are American students. Get this. At Harvard, the richest university in the country, they are struggling to make ends meet. At Harvard, in the student cafeterias, they have stopped serving whole gain pasta and cherry tomatoes. They have substituted chicken thighs for chicken breasts, until outraged students had a temper tantrum. So now the whole grains and the breasts are back, and the tomatoes. But other colleges have stopped using trays in the cafeteria, forcing students to carry their menu choices by hand to the table -- honest to God here -- in hopes that the students will eat less. Others are serving smaller portions. This may be hard to believe, but students in severe cases are resorting to bringing affordable food from home. I tell you, folks. It's getting tough out there. Very, very tough -- and remember, all of this is happening due to liberals holding firm to their principles. And when liberals hold firm to their principles, who gets hurt? People.
Story #6: Jerry Wright Stole His Wife from Parishioner
RUSH: Don't doubt me. I happened to mention to Snerdley at the top-of-the-hour break, in this hour, "Did you hear that Jerry Wright stole his wife from a parishioner?" And Snerdley, "No, I didn't hear that." I said, "Yeah, it's true, it was in the New York Post over the weekend. This couple in Jerry's church are having trouble, and Wright counseled them and ended up marrying the woman." And Snerdley told Dawn, and Dawn refuses to believe it, that Jerry wouldn't do that, of all the things that Jerry's done, Jerry Wright wouldn't do that. I'm sure Jerry could find a biblical precedent for this. Finds a biblical precedent for everything else he thinks. New York Post exclusive, May 4th: "The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner -- after the man sought Wright's help in saving his troubled marriage, the former husband told friends. Delmer Reed, 59, confided to pals that he believed the minister moved in on his wife while Wright was counseling the couple at his Chicago church in the early 1980s, The Post has learned. 'That's exactly how he said it,' Reed's divorce lawyer, Roosevelt Thomas, told The Post. 'It looks like Delmer might have been right,' he said, because after Delmer and Ramah Reed were divorced, she got remarried -- to Wright. 'Either that or this was the biggest coincidence in the world.'
"Asked about the relationship between Wright and his ex-wife, Reed told The Post, 'Oh, the things I could tell you.' Initially, he didn't believe the rumors. 'People were telling me that my extremely attractive wife was seen with the pastor,' Reed said. 'But I didn't believe it. I thought, '"So what?"' Was he wrong in the end? 'Well, yeah,' he said. Asked if Wright broke up his marriage, Reed laughed, then said, 'I told my kids I wouldn't say anything to hurt their stepfather, so I'm not saying anything.' But he said he's been hounded by the press and 'offered money' to tell his story. A spokesman for the Wright family flatly denied the allegation yesterday. 'This story has no merit whatsoever and is not based on facts,' said George Lofton. 'They had problems throughout the course of their turbulent marriage, and the couple never received marriage counseling from Rev. Wright or anyone else.' But Reed, a former investigator for the Illinois secretary of state, told The Post he and his ex-wife went to Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for counseling when their marriage hit the skids over his demanding work schedule. 'I spoke with [Wright] four times over a few months,' Reed said in an interview at his upscale home in Lemont, Ill. 'Her father asked me to go to counseling. We thought we'd be together forever. I decided to try to work this out.' Asked if he's forgiven the pastor, Reed nodded. 'I let it go,' he said. 'I don't want my kids to hear anything negative about their stepfather.'"
Don't doubt me.
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