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RUSH: I want to expand a little bit on this debate last night. We\u2019ve got some audio sound bites of it coming up, and I might get to \u2019em later on in the program. But to analyze this debate in sort of a horse race fashion: Who did better here? Did Hillary slap Obama around on health care? That misses the whole point. It misses the whole point. In the first place, at this stage, when it comes to Obama\u2019s supporters, it doesn\u2019t matter what he\u2019s saying. I\u2019m not trying to be funny. I know it sounds funny to say, ‘He says nothing better than anybody\u2019s ever said it.\u2019 He\u2019s saying a little bit more than nothing if you listen carefully, but right now it\u2019s just totally about how he\u2019s saying it. He cool. He\u2019s calm, collected. He\u2019s conversational. He\u2019s competent. He\u2019s very articulate. This is something that a lot of people… I\u2019ve told you for eons, folks, ‘The way you speak will have a lot to say about how smart people think you are,\u2019 and he\u2019s perceived to be smart. He\u2019s perceived to be brilliant. <\/p>\n

I found the whole thing — I don\u2019t care who won what — scary last night because in terms of the policy differences between them, there are none, and if Obama is elected president, he\u2019s got policy. But his voters don\u2019t care. This is the scary thing. That\u2019s not why they\u2019re with him. They don\u2019t even know. That\u2019s not the attraction. This is a movement. This is a movement designed to make people feel like they matter again, to make \u2019em feel like they have purpose in their lives, meaning in their lives. They\u2019re behind something and they don\u2019t even really know what it is, and these are the kind of people that when you tell them, they\u2019re going to reject it. If it makes \u2019em feel bad, they\u2019re going to reject it. They don\u2019t want to feel bad about Obama — and they\u2019re not going to want to hear how he gets facts wrong. They\u2019re not going to want to hear the absolute evidence of his total inexperience in dealing with foreign policy. Some of the things that he said last night about — he\u2019s going to have a worldwide ban, for example, on fissile material. Do you realize what that means? <\/p>\n

That means he\u2019s going to turn everybody\u2019s lights out around the world! It\u2019s a worldwide ban on fissile material, that means he\u2019s going to shut down every power plant that there is. I don\u2019t even think he knows what he\u2019s saying. He just sounds good when he says it. He\u2019s got an audience that\u2019s made up of class envy types. If you have no meaning in your life, and you\u2019re searching for it, and you want purpose; well, it stands to reason you\u2019re going to look at successful people, achieved people as the enemy. You\u2019re going to look at them with envy. You\u2019re going to look at them with anger — if you\u2019re being asked to, if your leader is promoting that — and you\u2019re going to want to get even with them. So there\u2019s really nothing new here. This is standard Democrat liberal dogma. But he\u2019s not acquiring support on the basis of that. He\u2019s acquiring support on other things. So, when the time comes to start trying to talk to his supporters — and his are not supporters. His are followers. This is going to pose a great challenge. When you start trying to talk followers out of following, you are up for a huge challenge. You\u2019ve got a big challenge when you try. Pardon the analogy here. I don\u2019t mean to be insulting. <\/p>\n

But try to dissuade a devout Christian against Christianity. You\u2019re not going to do it. You\u2019re going to solidify the attachment. I thought about opening the program today actually asking, ‘Is Obama even qualified to be president on the basis of separation of church and state?\u2019 because he is a religion, in the sense that he has followers. So it\u2019s going to be very, very delicate process here to pick off his followers and get them to abandon him. Now, there are a number of variables here. We\u2019ve got all these national polls — and, by the way, the national polls are not uniform as people are telling us. The Drive-Bys are trying to tell us that Obama is cleaning everybody\u2019s clock, Hillary\u2019s and McCain\u2019s nationwide. It\u2019s not true. There are a couple opposing polls — Rasmussen is one, I forget another one — where McCain is beating Obama right now. But in those polls where Obama is leading, you can\u2019t rule out the Wilder Effect. You just can\u2019t. That is where people lie to pollsters about their desire to support the black candidate, because they don\u2019t want the pollster to think that they\u2019re racist.<\/p>\n

But when it gets time to go vote and you go into the voting booth and it\u2019s just you in there, to hell with what you told the pollster. You vote your own way. So it\u2019s way too soon to make anything of these polls, but it\u2019s not too soon to explain to people what Obama and his presidency would mean, either Hillary or Obama. You listen to that debate last night as I listened to it and you\u2019re listening to two people argue about how to destroy capitalism. That\u2019s what I heard. How can we destroy capitalism? On one hand we had Mrs. Clinton once again talking about ‘taking\u2019 $55 billion in profits from special interests. Well, all of a sudden now Big Oil has become a special interest. Big Pharmaceutical has become a special interest. So we\u2019re going to take their profits and we\u2019re going to do what? We\u2019re going to ‘reinvest them.\u2019 In what? Health care, whatever social program that liberals want to utilize to create serfs out of people. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not just talking about people who want to create dependents. We\u2019re talking about two people that want as many Americans to become serfs — s-e-r-f, serfs — of the state, as they can make, as they can manufacture. So I watched this last night in utter — well, I wouldn\u2019t say I was palpably frightened, but it\u2019s scary. It\u2019s scary. They\u2019re just going to wipe out treaties. They\u2019re gonna cut down treaties. They\u2019re going to do whatever they have to do, and it\u2019s going to be so easy to do. They\u2019ll just wave a magic wand, and all of these things are going to happen. They\u2019re going to tell the candidate in Mexico, ‘Hey! Screw it. We\u2019re getting out of NAFTA.\u2019 You know, by the way, the people of Youngstown… If I lived in Youngstown, Ohio, after last night\u2019s debate, I\u2019d be offended. I would be sick and tired of my town being made out to be some ghost town of losers. But that\u2019s what they did, and this is how Democrats relate to various people. <\/p>\n

Youngstown, Ohio, is not a community of losers, but that\u2019s how the Democrats made Youngstown sound last night and a couple of other Ohio towns, and it will be on to Texas. They\u2019ll find a couple loser towns in Texas that they can — well, there aren\u2019t any more debates, but ads or what have you. But it\u2019s going to be a nifty trick to separate Obama from his followers, because they\u2019re not going to want to hear about his flaws. They\u2019re going to get very defensive. It\u2019s going to be like attacking a family member. You know, a family member can rip a family member to shreds. You try it, and the family will circle the wagons against you — and all the reprobates in the family that know they\u2019re reprobates will get rid of you and let you know what is what. So it\u2019s going to be fascinating. It\u2019s going to be a big challenge here for Senator McCain to find a way to distance Obama\u2019s followers from him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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