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Story #1: Obama-Biden Kick Off Campaign in Beaver, PA
RUSH: Regardless the process, regardless how it came out, it's just a great choice here with Sarah Palin. An absolutely fabulous decision was made here -- and they kept it secret. They brilliantly executed the whole ceremony today, the whole appearance, knocking coverage of Obama's messianic descent from the heavens last night in Denver. They just obliterated it. Obama is nowhere. He and Biden are opening their campaign in Beaver, Pennsylvania, on the day that McCain named Sarah Palin his vice presidential running mate, and they put out this statement: "Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil, and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies. That's not the change we need. It's just more of the same," said Adrianne Marsh, Obama campaign spokeswoman.
They are floundering out there! We may have wrested the women's vote away from the Democrats with this choice. She is the governor of a state that has just 100,000 fewer citizens than the state of Delaware. Delaware has 700-some-odd thousand some odd citizens and Alaska has around 638,000. She is an executive. She has a story.
Story #2: John O'Sullivan on Lady Thatcher's Experience
 RUSH: John O'Sullivan is a veteran of many political experiences over many years. He's edited National Review, he's very close to Lady Thatcher, and he points out that Lady Thatcher came to office as prime minister with very little foreign policy experience, but she surrounded herself with experts that believed in her, that she trusted their instincts as compared to her own. Now, Joe Biden has foreign policy experience on the Foreign Relations Committee -- yip yip yip yip yahoo -- 30 years of being wrong on everything. What good is experience if you're wrong on everything? And that's what this is going to boil down to. Obama and Biden are simply wrong and it's been proven. They were against the surge. Obama was against the whole thing in Iraq. They've been wrong on everything that has been important. Her foreign policy experience is -- you know, that's where character comes in, education, surrounding yourself with the right kind of advisors. McCain can handle that. That's a baseless charge. They're going to have a lot of problems going after this woman, they really are. Her son deploys to Iraq on September the 11th.
Story #3: Drive-Bys Hoping Gustav Hits New Orleans
RUSH: By the way, you know the Drive-Bys -- and this is sad to say -- but these Drive-Bys are just dying. They can't wait for this Hurricane Gustav to hit wherever it's going to hit in Louisiana. It's almost sick to see them out there. "Really, this is so unbelievable! This is happening three years after Katrina! It may hit again! Yaaaaay!"
Sorry, I don't mean to cheer. But they want this Hurricane to illustrate the incompetence of Republicans again, that's going to backfire on them with Governor Jindal down there running things, already. If you put a conservative Republican in charge of a state rather a couple liberal Democrats like Nagin and Blanco, you're going to see the difference if this happens. But while Drive-Bys and the Democrats are keeping a sharp eye out on Hurricane Gustav, category three; Hurricane Sarah struck the Democrats and made landfall today as a category ten and global warming had nothing to do with it! And I would have loved for Senator McCain to say today, "All right, Governor Palin and I are hitting the campaign trail now. We think that Senator Obama should head to Louisiana and stop Hurricane Gustav."
Story #4: Denver Stripper Business Slumps During DNC
RUSH: This is from MediaNews Group, which is out there filing stories at the Democrat National Convention: "'Strip Club Business Slow During the Democrat National Convention' -- The political convention is kind of a bust for downtown strip clubs--" this easily understood by me "--but techies in town for next week's electronics show should give the clubs a boost, one exotic dancer said." Bad news for strippers in Denver. How many real men were in Denver this past week? That's the question you need to ask.
Story #5: Three Drive-By Accounts of the Palin Story
RUSH: Now, this is interesting, ladies and gentlemen, this is interesting. I have summaries of three Drive-By reports on the choice of Sarah Palin today. First, the Boston Herald: "Mitt Romney Lauds McCain's Sarah Palin Pick -- 'Governor Palin's story is one that all Americans will find inspiring,' Romney said in a statement. 'She's a Washington outsider with a commitment to conservative principles that will make our nation stronger. I look forward to campaigning for Senator McCain, Governor Palin, and Republicans across the country. Mitt Romney.'" From the Pioneer-Press in Minnesota: "Pawlenty Calls Palin an Outstanding Pick -- Governor Tim Pawlenty this morning praised the Alaska governor, Sarah Palin. 'She's an executive. She's a reformer. She's going to be a great leader for our country,' Pawlenty said after his weekly radio show at the Minnesota State Fair."
Anne Kornblut, Washington Post: "Though it was high in shock value, the Palin pick left bruised feelings among the short-list contenders who were not picked -- and infuriated some Republican officials who privately said McCain had gone out on a limb, unnecessarily, without laying the groundwork for such an unknown. Two senior Republican officials close to Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty said they had both been rudely strung along and now 'feel manipulated.' 'They now know that they were used as decoys, well after McCain had decided not to pick them,' one Republican involved in the process said." Which spin will become the "truth"? They hate us. They just hate us!
Story #6: Civil Rights Leaders Upset with Obama
RUSH: Jesse Washington writing in the Associated Press: "Obama Avoids Race on King's 'Dream' Anniversary -- Obama accepted the nomination Thursday night standing on the shoulders of King and thousands of others who suffered and bled to give blacks the right to vote -- yet Obama did not speak King's name. ... 'I think Dr. King would have been proud to have witnessed tonight's events,' said Joseph McNeil, one of the four black students who started the 1960 desegregation sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. 'No place in my mind, or I'm sure his, would we have imagined seeing so many people of all type of backgrounds rallying behind someone like us who had been denied full participation for so long,' said McNeil...
"'The walls that (King and Obama) are trying to tear down are much different,' said Calvin Smyre, a 34-year veteran of the Georgia statehouse. 'King was trying to tear down the walls of injustice. Obama is trying to build walls of opportunity.' Yet others, while staunchly backing Obama's candidacy, remain alarmed by his avoidance of all things racial as he seeks to mollify the white voters needed for victory. 'It looks like he's running from history,' Dr. Cornel West," well-known radical leftist "professor of African-American studies and religion at Princeton University, said after the speech. 'He couldn't mention Martin, he couldn't mention the civil rights movement, he couldn't mention those who sacrificed and gave so much. It's very, very difficult to actually create a new world if you don't acknowledge the world from which you are emerging.'"
A-ha! We're starting to see some cracks out there, folks. The radical civil rights left, and it's pretty large, are being dissed. They're being ignored. Other than delegates, there weren't a whole lot of black people on TV last night as the cameras up and down the stadium, because the cameras didn't get up to the upper deck. Well, Michelle went out there and painted her lifetime story as June Cleaver, whatever. Mrs. Partridge, what have you. They quickly hustled to cover that. "No, no, no! The Huxtables! The Huxtables, yeah." Well, Bill Cosby was the Huxtables, and they tried to destroy him. So this guy, Cornel West, he's right, in terms of analyzing what the Obama campaign is trying to do.
Story #7: Multiple Liberals Rip The Messiah's Speech
RUSH: Another article criticizing Obama, Charles Babington, AP, "Obama Spares Details, Keeps Up Attacks." He talks about what specifics Obama proposed, then says: How the hell is he going to do it? This can't be done. "For instance, Obama said it's time 'to protect Social Security for future generations.' But he didn't mention his main proposal, which is to add a new Social Security payroll tax to incomes above $250,000 a year. He said he would 'cut taxes for 95 percent of all working families,' but did not say how." Here's another one, from Jim Drinkard at AP -- another article of total criticism.
"Obama's tax proposals come with a hefty price tag. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, a joint effort of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, estimates that Obama's tax proposals would reduce projected tax revenue by $2.95 trillion..." His tax increases reduce tax revenue? The AP is saying his tax increases will reduce revenue! This is unheard of. "Foreign Policy. The promise: Obama says he would engage both allies and adversaries to repair the U.S. image abroad and regain leverage and leadership that he says Bush squandered. ... The problem: The United States has already reversed many policies other nations saw as isolationist or bullying -- for example, by joining international diplomatic efforts with 'axis of evil' nations Iran and North Korea. Obama would continue those efforts and others without any greater guarantee of success."
Unbelievable! This is the Associated Press with three stories in a row ripping The Messiah! "The promise: Pull all US combat forces out of Iraq within 16 months, send more combat troops to Afghanistan ... The problem: A troop pullout is feasible and conforms roughly to a withdrawal timetable advocated by the Iraqi government. But a 16-month timetable risks shifting responsibility to Iraq's security forces before they are ready..." Where's the one on oil? Here we go. This is the Associated Press again: "Barack Obama's promise Thursday to work to 'end our dependence' on Middle East oil within a decade may be good political rhetoric ... but the goal likely would be difficult -- perhaps impossible -- to achieve and flies in the face of how global oil markets work." I've not seen anything like this before. And look, these stories get run in thousands of newspapers. I have not seen this. Obama has said nothing new last night that he hasn't said all campaign, and this is the first time -- I mean, three AP stories deep, long. I just gave you the highlights, full-fledged analysis, explaining how Obama can't do what he promises to do or how if he tries it, it's going to really cost a lot of money. Not only to you, but to your government that you love so much.
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