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Story #1: Some Tough Love from Saudi King Abdullah
RUSH: The king of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, this is some tough love, folks. He said we're just going to have to get used to this. We're just going to have to get used to high oil prices and there's nothing he can do about it. He doesn't set the prices. We're just going to have to get used to it. "'Consumer countries have to adapt to the prices and the mechanisms of the market. We have nothing to do with the current sharp increase in crude prices,' he said reiterating the Saudi position that speculation, rising demand and the taxation of oil products in consumer countries were to blame." Ha! Gas taxes. He says, "These countries must reduce their taxes on fuel... if they want to contribute to easing the burden on ordinary consumers." Now, the king's got a point here. I think the king probably understands this. The Obama campaign is thinking of doing just the exact opposite, and there are some on our side who think it would be a great idea to increase taxes on gasoline and other fuels as a way of limiting their use and generating money for the beloved, benevolent federal government to be able to take care of even more pressing problems that it has failed to solve since the New Deal, but we keep giving them more money or they keep taking it. But the king says, "Gotta get used to it."
Story #2: Washington Post Reporter Apologizes to Obama
 RUSH: A Washington Post reporter has apologized to Obama for calling him much more white than black. In an online chat last week, not even in the newspaper, in an online chat last week, Washington Post reporter Jonathan Weisman said this of Obama, quote, "He really did not become immersed in black American culture until he left college and went to Chicago." Hello, Jeremiah Wright. "The great irony is that he is much more white than black, beyond skin color." Well, now, see, when you work in the Drive-By Media and you happen to swerve into the truth about a Democrat candidate, all hell will descend on you, and all hell did descend on poor little Jonathan Weisman, so he has apologized, said, "I was trying to say that chronologically Obama spent his entire childhood either in the white environment of an elite Hawaii prep school or in Indonesia. But, frankly, I'm not defending myself. It was a really stupid, insensitive comment, and I have apologized for it to the people who have e-mailed me." A lot of readers were upset about this on the blog.
Now, isn't this what many were saying from the get-go about Obama: He not down for the struggle; he doesn't have slave roots to the civil rights struggle in this country; he doesn't have slave blood. We had the LA Times, the "Magic Negro" column, (paraphrasing) "This guy is just a way for whites to assuage their guilt, white liberals to vote for him." It was the left, there's all these journalists out there that worried about his authenticity. It was just last week, I will never forget this. I wish I could remember the guy's name, the guy that runs the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, said, (paraphrasing) "Hey, just 'cause Obama might be elected doesn't mean we're out of business. Doesn't mean the race business is out of business, because he doesn't have any slave blood, and so he has no ties and we'll not be able to say that a black American, an African-American, has actually been elected. Now, his wife has slave blood, but that doesn't mean anything because she just going to be first lady." So here's Weisman, he comes along, "Obama is half white. He was raised by his white grandmother," who has been thrown under the bus and extracted. He is not down for the civil rights struggle, and, in fact, as everybody knows, he goes to Chicago, probably chose that church for black street cred, and who was it do you think that he turned to advice on that? Who would you think would advise Obama? Could it be his wife, Michelle (My Belle)? She already had the cred. Could it have been Oprah? Could it have been somebody in the Chicago political machine?
This man Obama is a series of calculations, ladies and gentlemen, a pure series of political calculations. Now, this is funny. Not only is Jonathan Weisman in trouble for daring to say that Obama is much more white than black, beyond skin color, I mean he talks white, he lives white, that's what Weisman meant.
Story #3: Uncle Bills Feeling Backlash for Clinton Support
RUSH: From the New York Times today: "'A New Campaign Charge: You Supported Clinton' -- Brooklyn's 10th Congressional District, home to more African-Americans than any other in New York, gave Senator Barack Obama his highest margin of victory in the state. But the district's longtime congressman, Edolphus Towns, did not share his constituency's preference for Mr. Obama. Now some of those voters are pushing to oust him. 'His decision not to back Obama shows he is out of touch with his constituents,' said N. Chandler, a former city corrections officer who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant and who had supported Mr. Towns in the past. 'And I think the people of this district are ready for a change.'"
Poor old Edolphus Towns, he'd done nothing but what the Congressional Black Caucus has ever told him to do. He's been an expert radical in the House of Representatives. He's done everything, but since he supported Hillary, he gotta go. He's not the only one. "The tensions in the district echo those in a handful of races around the country as Democratic incumbents with large African-American constituencies try to soothe resentments and anger incited by their support for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Even after Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton embraced in Unity, NH, on Friday and sought to put their divisions behind them, some strains are still evident closer to the ground. In Georgia, Representative John Lewis, a prominent civil rights leader, is facing primary challenges from two black candidates who have been critical of him for backing Mrs. Clinton for months before shifting to Mr. Obama. To underscore the point, one of the challengers set up his headquarters in the same building that served as Mr. Obama's office for the primary. Nearby, in Savannah, Representative John Barrow, who is white but represents a district that is largely black, is under attack from a challenger who says Mr. Barrow was also late to endorse Mr. Obama. Another New Yorker, Representative Gregory W. Meeks of Queens, faces a primary opponent who has sought to make an issue of Mr. Meeks's support of the Clinton campaign in a district, New York's 6th, where Mr. Obama drew nearly 56 percent of the vote."
What does all this mean? Where is the racial identity politics in this country? It's in the Democrat Party. Where is racism? Where are demands for unity based on skin color and gender, not on issues? It's in the Democrat Party. Where are all these restrictive demands and guidelines and requirements that people toe the line based on race? It's in the Democrat Party. "Patrice C. Queen, a freelance writer from East New York, Brooklyn, and a volunteer for Mr. Powell's campaign, was especially upset that Mr. Towns had continued to back Mrs. Clinton. To her, the reason black leaders like Mr. Towns stuck with Mrs. Clinton was obvious. 'Racial self-hatred,' said Ms. Queen, who is black. 'It was as if they were saying: "We people of color are not ready yet. We’re not ready to be in the White House." Self-hatred does that to you.'"
Do you understand this, folks? They are saying that people like John Lewis and Edolphus Towns and Greg Meeks did not get on the Obama bandwagon because they didn't feel they were ready as black people for a black president. That's not what it was. They were rolling the dice. They were going to dance with the people that brung 'em. The Clintons had taken real good care of 'em in a manner of speaking. The Clintons invited them to the White House. They had all the good times. And who's Obama anyway? Who is this guy? Don't forget, folks, I gotta remind you of this. During the early days of this campaign, there were a lot of liberals saying, "Who the hell does he think he is? This is Hillary's time." There were a lot of people. This whole notion of unity and Barack Obama as the unifier is another myth, a total fabrication, a PR package that is designed, once again, as all liberalism is, to fool people and disguise what actually is going on behind the mask.
Story #4: Grouse Suffering Stops Energy Exploration
RUSH: From Billings, Montana: "Two conservation groups have asked the federal government to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, a popular game bird on the decline. Scientists contend sage grouse breeding areas are suffering in the face of accelerating oil and gas exploration in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah and other Western states." Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the grouse! The grouse are suffering -- and, damn it, we're the ones that deserve to suffer because we're making the grouse suffer, and we're doing it for immoral reasons. We're searching for gas, natural gas. We're searching for oil, and that makes us sick, says Senator Reid. Senator Reid, it is you, sir, who make me sick, and presumably many other people.
"Unless drilling is slowed... the chicken-sized grouse could end up on the endangered species list. That could shut down public hunting for the bird and prompt restrictions on residential development and agriculture." So the first stab here is to protect the grouse, to shut down oil and gas exploration. And then they say, "If you don't do this, we're going to blackmail you even further. If you keep exploring, then we're going to put this damn grouse on the endangered species list, and that will stop you living anywhere here, it will stop you buying anything here, and it will stop you developing anything here. And as such, if you already own property here we're going to make it worthless." The American left, conservation movement: the grouse are suffering. (Or is it, Snerdley, the "grouses" are suffering? It's the grouse, the grouse.) Let them adapt; they will! They'll find a Kmart sign to live in like the spotted owl.
Story #5: Gas Prices Change Views on the Environment
RUSH: What were we just talking about? How in the hell so many people in this country not see what's right in front of their eyes? I think it's because of the way it's explained to them. You say that the Democrats want to destroy the economy and raise your taxes, and ruin your chances for prosperity. They don't think there's any American would like to do that. "No, the Democrats are trying to come up with alternative energy! Democrats want to tax the rich and make it fair!" That's what they think. So, the Associated Press: "A new poll shows high gasoline prices have dramatically changed Americans' views on energy and the environment. More people now say expanding oil drilling and building new power plants is a bigger priority than energy conservation.
"The poll by the Pew Research Center shows nearly half of those surveyed -- or 47 percent -- now rate energy exploration, drilling and building new power plants more important, compared with 35 percent in February." Now, we read this and we say, "If this is true, then how does Obama even have a chance?" They're opposed to drilling, and everybody knows it. They are saying so! They are opposed to new refineries. They are opposed to exploration. They want to protect the stupid grouse. So you tell me: if this poll's accurate, then how in the name of Sam Hill (and there was a Sam Hill) does Obama even stand a chance? How do the Democrats stand a chance? How in the world can you have this poll and another one that will come out shortly (mark my words) which will suggest that more Americans trust Obama to deal with the energy crisis than McCain?
Story #6: Lindsey Grahamnesty Says Clark Made Mistake
RUSH: "American voters will not stand for attacks on John McCain's military record, his campaign warned Tuesday in an escalating row over the Republican presidential hopeful's Vietnam war heroism." This is the French News Agency reporting this. "The McCain team sought to score new points on the second day of a fresh controversy over whether McCain or ... Obama has the best credentials to be US commander-in-chief." Of course, Wesley Clark, who started all this, "refused to back down. Senator Lindsey Graham[nesty] ... described his friend as a 'rock star' among US troops, contrasting his long military and political experience with that of Obama... 'I do believe that General Clark has made a huge mistake here, no matter how he sugarcoats it ... he is trying to question John's service,' Graham [said]. 'I just don't think this is going to sit well with the American vote.'" Well, I don't know. We just heard from a female American voter who doesn't give diddly-squat about it. They don't like all this fighting, don't like all this arguing about his service doesn't matter. I don't know how representative she is of people. Anyway, we'll just have to see.
Story #7: NRA Plans to Spend $40 Million on Campaign
RUSH: Looky here, ladies and gentlemen. "The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year's campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court," and they are dead-on right. That was another flip-flop. Somebody got to Obama and said, "Look, we don't care about this issue. This issue kills us, this gun business. We'll deal with it after we're in power. Do not make it a campaign issue," and he followed suit. The NRA -- God bless 'em -- is showing the rest of the Republican Party how it's done, and isn't it interesting that they are winning?
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