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Story #1: Thomas Friedman Begs Barry to Get Tough
 RUSH: When you get a 20-point swing in white women from Obama to McCain, that's unprecedented. I don't think anybody's seen that kind of movement that quickly in presidential politics in their lifetimes. You know the Democrats live and die by the polls, and they're out there saying, "Well, the polls don't matter, don't matter! Change every day! Snapshots! Doesn't mean anything!" They live and die by it. I'm telling you, there's got to be panic back there. Evidence of this can be found in the New York Times today, a column by the esteemed (ahem) Thomas Friedman, who has this advice for The Messiah. "Somebody needs to tell Obama that if he wants the chance to calm answer the phone at three a.m. in the White House, he's going to need to start slamming down some phones at three p.m. along the campaign trail.
"And if Obama wants to rally his base, he has to be more passionate about his own ideas," and then he write this: "Obama will need to find another way to connect his ideas clearly, crisply, and passionately." Now, this is the esteemed Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times, who is essentially saying Obama has lost his base. His base is the media, and the kook fringe. Obama's lost his base and he's lost his way to connect his ideas. He doen't do so "clearly, crisply, and passionately." Now, I'm sure that Mr. Friedman is trying to help here when he writes, "Somebody needs to tell Obama," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, Mr. Friedman, I think you better get in line. This is what Obama's thinkers have been telling him for weeks, if not months.
This is the advice Obama's disappointed, sycophantic followers have been giving him. Friedman, you're a little bit late to the party here. Obama's idiotic lipstick and dead fish comments were examples of Obama getting tough. That's how he gets tough! This is how community agitators man up, folks. The real problem -- and I say this to Tom Friedman and to all the others who are getting quaky in your boots. I mean, this clown that calls here right before the end of the hour, if that doesn't illustrate liberals, I don't know what does. Call here and say Sarah Palin can't put two sentences together, when his own candidate can't put a paragraph together without an uh, and an eh, you know, uhhh. Obama doesn't have any ideas he can get tough on. See, this is the real problem.
How would he get tough on tax increases? How would he get tough on surrender in military conflict? How does one get tough about not drilling for oil? I mean, is he going to sit there and angrily pound his fist and say, "If you don't properly inflate your tires, I'm going to lose it! Shut up about high gas prices and listen to me, quit your whining. Go out and buy a tire gauge and use it in an air pump or stick it where the sun don't shine!" What's he gonna do? How does he get mad about that and get tough about his issues? How do you get tough telling people how you're going to screw 'em? You hide the fact that you're going to screw 'em. Barack Obama does not have any ideas that Americans want, Barack Obama does not have any ideas that Americans need.
The guy is a one trick pony. He climbed into the arena of ideas with a speech from 2004 in one hand and in the other, a speech about him being The One we've been waiting for. And now that he's punched out, his followers are stunned, that's all their guy had. They have been passionately backing a man who has accomplished zilch, zero, nada. He hasn't accomplished anything. He has no life story he can tell. Well, he has a life story, but he won't tell it.
Story #2: Rev. Wright Compares Obama to Virgin Mary
RUSH: By the way, good old Pastor Wright is back. There's a story he busted up a marriage, was having an affair with some woman at a church in Texas. He's preaching at a church in New Jersey all week through tonight, and he compared Obama to the Virgin Mary. Jeremiah Wright said, "Lord told him, an ordinary black boy, 'You can be a state senator, and you can bring folk to the bargaining table who want only do not talk to one another, these folk don't like one another.' He did what the Lord said .. An ordinary black boy like Mary was an ordinary little girl."
Story #3: Ayers Publishes Cartoon Explaining His Terrorism
RUSH: Bill Ayers published a cartoon, a four-panel cartoon on his website yesterday explaining what he meant when he said, "We didn't do enough," because he said it's been taken out of context. He says, "People think that we meant we didn't bomb enough." He said, "No, no, no. What I meant was we didn't do enough to stop the war. We didn't do enough to stop the murdering and so forth." So the two guys that Obama needs to shut up and go away can't help themselves. They're out there opening up, telling parts of Obama's story he doesn't want told.
Story #4: Congressman: Jesus was "Community Organizer"
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I don't remember who I was quoting yesterday. Do you remember I told you that somebody, some Democrat, had compared Obama to Jesus Christ and said that Pontius Pilate was a governor. Do you remember who I was quoting that on yesterday? Well, they've done it again. Somebody said it on the floor of the House of Representatives today, a Democrat congressman, Steve Cohen, from Memphis, said, "If you want change, you want the Democrat Party. Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister just prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor." Now, this from the party, ladies and gentlemen, who wants nothing to do with mixing religion and politics, religion and state. So apparently somebody thought that whoever said this yesterday had come up with something brilliant 'cause this Cohen guy mentions it on the floor of the House of Representatives today.
Story #5: US Weekly Inundated with Palin Cover Complaints
RUSH: By the way, you remember Us Weekly, the cover on Sarah Palin, losing subscriptions left and right? Michelle Malkin actually had a post on her website, just received from one of her readers, "The latest desperate plea from Obama's Palin-bashing backers at Us Weekly magazine to stop the bleeding," basically Us says: "Thank you for contacting US Weekly. We are sorry you are upset over the Governor Palin cover. We do not want to lose you as a subscriber over one article in one issue. In an effort to keep you as a subscriber, we will add five FREE issues to your subscription." So they are apparently being inundated. Now, what's great about this is that Us Weekly is a Jann Wenner entertainment weekly with pop culture type treatment of America's leftist celebrities and entertainers. I don't remember this happening. I don't remember a left-wing publication running an article, cover or whatever, critical of anybody before that caused such an uproar. And I will guarantee you that the Us Weekly offices and in Jann Wenner's office, they had to be stunned. This just doesn't happen. Normally they get praised when they rip into right-wingers or conservatives.
Story #6: Pelosi Supports Big Three Automaker Bailout
RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, off subject but still very important here, Nancy Pelosi says that she is going to urge and support a $50 billion bailout or loan program, quote, unquote, to the big three automakers, enabling them to be able to compete. This comes on the heels of the very people who destroyed the US mortgage industry being placed in total charge of it. By the way, the two most recent head honchos at Fannie Mae, one of them is Franklin Raines, the other one is Jim Johnson, Raines had to leave the place amidst charges of corruption and so forth. He was in Clinton's administration. Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, they are both economic advisors on the Obama campaign. Both these guys who have ties to Fannie Mae, which botched the mortgage industry in this country, are economic advisors to Barack Obama. By the way, the automakers were all over both conventions.
They're out there trying to get the money, but there's a great column about this in the Wall Street Journal by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., and it's entitled: "'How to Save Detroit and $50 Billion.' -- For a sum small compared to their revenues but large in relation to their market caps, the Detroit auto makers were all over the two conventions. Their lobbyists had something to sell -- a plea for $50 billion in federal loans. Congress practically owes us this money, Ford, GM and Chrysler argue -- because Congress slammed us with new fuel mileage mandates that will cost us $100 billion to meet. John McCain caved. The White House is in the process of caving. Barack Obama didn't need to cave. But before rushing to pass the legislation, there's an easy way to save $50 billion or whatever part of these loans wouldn't be paid back: Just repeal the fuel economy rules. It must infuriate the auto makers how readily their critics attribute their problems to their own incompetence. Then how to explain that GM is thriving in Europe, selling small cars that get lots of miles per gallon?"
There was a story the other day that Ford has a car that gets 65 miles to the gallon but they can't sell it in North America, they're not allowed, can't sell it in North America because it runs on diesel. It seats five, it gets 65 mile per gallon. "Buick is among the biggest selling brands in China. GM is running away with Latin America. The Big Three's problem, to be blunt, is North America. They should have pulled out long ago." And his idea is rather than give them $50 billion, just get rid of these stupid CAFE standards, get rid of the government running the auto business. Get the environmentalist wackos out of the auto business and let them make the cars that they know the customer wants. These silly restrictions are causing all kinds of retooling, all kinds of investment. They don't face these restrictions in different parts of the world, and they're doing well. The only reason GM and Ford is thinking about going bankrupt is because they're all kicking butt around the world. They're just not kicking but here. Now, why is that? They also got saddled with a monopolistic union, UAW and big, huge contracts and paying people who are no longer working for them. Toyota doesn't have that. Other foreign makers that make their cars here do not have the same restrictions that the big three do, so it's real simple.
You know, you get the government out of the mortgage industry it's going to be fine but no, we're going to put 'em in charge of it. They destroyed it. Get the government out of the car business. Algore and his ilk have been trying to get us to buy electric cars and all these little things that nobody wants and forcing the automakers to make these things, the automakers said, "All right, if you're going to force us to lose a hundred billion dollars making stuff, you better help us pay for it." In a way they've got a point. Just get out of this. Here's Pelosi proposing today she's going to support this $50 billion loan program. Of course she will. Every liberal Democrat down the pike wants this to happen. They want the federal government to have their hands in the auto industry so that they can have even more control over it. But these CAFE standards are not part of something that the automakers would have done unilaterally on themselves, it would have happened anyway, according to market forces, but they're unrealistic. The government doesn't know how to run the car business; they don't know how to build cars; they don't know how to design them and instead what we have are environmental wacko lobbyists who have a lot of pull in Washington, forcing all kinds of regulations. It's classic.
The auto business is overregulated and it's costing a lot of people a lot of money per car. The union contracts are costing I don't know how much per car. The health insurance for the union employees, I don't know how much per car, costs that Toyota doesn't face, for example. So it's real simple. Mr. Jenkins here is exactly right. If you get the government out of these businesses, they'll be fine, because the government cannot tell 'em what CAFE standards to build in Latin America, in China, in Europe, and American cars are kicking butt over there. As to General Motors, folks, as you know, they are an official sponsor here, and we are honored to have them as official sponsors. They are working hard to try to provide cars that people demand and people want. Everybody is talking about the cost of a gallon of gasoline and General Motors are designing terrific cars. We get to drive the new ones periodically here. They've got great crossovers and trucks, SUVs that use alternative fuels, they just came out, the Escalade hybrid now. They're working on all kinds of new technologies that will help use less gasoline, and they're doing this independent of these government regulations.
One of the alternatives to gas is driving flex fuel cars that use biofuels, like ethanol. If you want that, if you want to buy a car that uses ethanol, General Motors has them. They have four million flex fuel vehicles on the road, across globe, and they've committed to build even more. They've got a lot of models that run on E85, the 2009 Buick Lucerne runs on it. What, Dawn? Really, your dad just bought a Malibu after you were test-driving it? Dawn's dad just went out and bought a Malibu. When are we going to get the Lucerne? I thought the Lucerne was supposed to already be here. I think they're waiting for the hurricane to pass. You never know. Yeah, we're going to get the Buick Lucerne, we'll be reporting on it as we drive it around. But I've met with these GM people, folks, and they're working hard. They got a lot of people in their way, they got a lot of obstacles in their way, global warming crowd and all that, but they are trying to provide vehicles that people actually want, can afford, and are not expensive to run. You can see them all, by the way, at RushLimbaugh.com.
Story #7: Interesting Little E-Mail Question: Who Am I?
RUSH: Somebody just sent me an interesting little ditty here in the e-mail, ladies and gentlemen. It's entitled, "'Who am I?' I'm under 45 years old, I love the outdoors, I hunt, I am a Republican reformer, I have taken on the Republican Party establishment, I have many children, I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor's office. Who am I?" Teddy Roosevelt is right, Snerdley, Teddy Roosevelt in 1900.
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