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December 3, 2007 |
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Story #1: Rasmussen: Huckabee Pulls Close to Rudy, Hillary
RUSH: This is a Rasmussen Report, daily presidential tracking poll. Let me just read what they've posted recently here. It was actually from this morning. "If the current round of Huckamania is nothing more than Mike Huckabee's 15 minutes of fame, the former Arkansas governor is certainly making the most of it. Today in the first full round of national polling completed since last week's debate among Republican presidential hopefuls, Huckabee has pulled to within three points of the front running Rudy Giuliani." This is nationwide, not just Iowa.
"Heading into the debate Giuliani led Huckabee by 12. Not only that, new polling data released today shows that Huckabee has pulled to within a single percentage point of Hillary Clinton in a general election matchup. Huckabee is also a front-runner in Iowa and essentially tied for second in New Hampshire. Some pundits believe that Huckabee's numbers will surely go down as fast as they've gone up, while others are beginning to consider the possibility that Huckabee may become a serious contender for the Republican nomination." I warned you people to keep a sharp eye out for all of this two or three weeks ago.
 Story #2: North Vietnamese General: America Lost at Home
RUSH: How many of you remember the name General Giap from the North Vietnamese army? General Giap, G-i-a-p is how you spell it, but pronounce it General Giap. He was a very famous, knowledgeable general in the North Vietnamese army. He's published his memoirs and here's a pull quote: "What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender. It was the same at the battle of Tet. You defeated us. We knew it. We thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice that your media was definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefield. We were ready to surrender. You had won." He makes the point the Vietnam War was not lost in Vietnam; it was lost here. That's why I keep telling everybody that the Drive-Bys were trying to do the same thing in Iraq that they did in Vietnam for a host of reasons, not the least of which among them was to reestablish their own ability to influence people into the United States losing a war that the media was opposed to. Scary, scary stuff.
Story #3: Dixie Chick Defense Fund for Convicted Child Killers
RUSH: This can't be. Dixie Chicks singer starts defense fund for convicted child killers? Tell me I'm not reading that correctly. Am I reading that right? "Dixie Chick Urges Donations to Defense Fund for Murderers." What's this babe's name? I'm having a mental block. The lead singer, Natalie something or other, Natalie -- whew. Wow.
Story #4: Revs. Sharpton, Jackson Lukewarm on Obama
RUSH: Interesting question here. "Why aren't the nation's two most prominent civil rights leaders enthusiastically supporting Barack Obama, the most prominent African-American presidential candidate in history? Political sources say Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson are lukewarm to Obama because he hasn't promised them anything yet in return for their support. 'Obama should be applauded for refusing to make any backroom deals,' said one source. 'And this should be very reassuring to white voters that Obama isn't playing their games.' Sharpton was fence-sitting after dining on soul food with Obama at Sylvia's in Harlem Thursday, declaring he hadn't made a decision yet. Meanwhile, Jackson has endorsed fellow-Illinois resident Obama, he praised John Edwards last week as 'the only candidate addressing African-American problems.'" So Jackson and Sharpton are making clear why they endorse various Democrats. It's as I've always told: they are promised seats at the table of power in the Democrat Party, and Obama has not made that pledge, and he's not out there pandering to them, and so neither of them are all excited.
Meanwhile, "Contradicting his father, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) writes in a [Chicago] Sun-Times column running today on the paper's editorial pages that ... Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is a 'powerful, consistent and effective' advocate for African Americans. Jackson mounted a strong rebuttal to a column by [his dad] that ran in the Nov. 27 Sun-Times editorial pages where he chastised the Democrats running for president -- with the exception of former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) -- because they 'have virtually ignored the plight of African Americans in this country.'" So now you have The Oprah running around backing Obama, and now the little Jesse Jackson, Jr., is disagreeing with his dad, which takes us back in time, takes us back in time. Remember when all this talk about Obama was starting? Joe Biden really got this all started when he called Obama clean and articulate, and the first clean and articulate [African-American] candidate the Democrats have had on their roster for a while. It didn't sit well with Reverend Sharpton.
(Playing of Behind the Scenes at Obama Headquarters)
RUSH: I envision Mrs. Clinton doing the same thing here, standing outside Obama headquarters giving him all kinds of grief here because he's lying about when he decided he wanted to be president. Al Sharpton was not through, however.
(Playing of Still Camped Out Behind Obama Headquarters)
RUSH: So there you have it. That's the Reverend Al Sharpton, perhaps precursing what might happen with Mrs. Clinton, because it's getting childish now. (laughter) They're getting mad at him as lying because he's running a slush fund, and he wrote in kindergarten he wanted to be president. (laughing)
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