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RUSH: Colleen in Ocala, Florida, hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great music.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I just want to say, I am fit to be tied about this word ‘change\u2019 in America every time I see it. We came to this country in 1979 specifically because of what America stood for.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are from South Africa.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How did you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Accent. I know the South African accent. I know it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What part of South Africa are you from?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Johannesburg?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, welcome to America.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you. I\u2019ve been here quite a while, and we\u2019re very proud American citizens, so I\u2019ve got my vote and all that. <\/p>\n

RUSH: So you think this political concept of change is a bunch of rotgut?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think it\u2019s a bunch of hooey. Why do we want to change this country? You know, when we left South Africa if we wanted to live in a country that Obama wants or sees I would have gone to Holland. My husband\u2019s Dutch. We could have moved there and been taken care of from the cradle to the grave.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or you could have gone up to Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. You could have had Mugabe take everything you own.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Believe me, Rush, I\u2019ve got cousins there, and he\u2019s done exactly that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re exactly right. It\u2019s on par with Obama saying that he\u2019s going to unify everybody. Obama can\u2019t unify his family. He can\u2019t unify the Democrat Party. There\u2019s a headline today in a lot of newspapers about this upcoming meeting of the rules committee, the Democrat National Committee on Saturday, try to figure out this Florida-Michigan mess, and the word ‘chaos\u2019 is in the headlines, it\u2019s in the stories. The Democrat Party is in utter chaos. This is what\u2019s so frustrating about us not being able to take advantage of this. There is no unity, and when they talk about change, it\u2019s a code word, it means get rid of Bush. Their whole thing, their whole effort, is based still on as though George Bush was going to be on the ballot. But you\u2019re exactly right, why change things? What in the world do we want to change? The kind of change they\u2019re going to bring about is not what I want.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t want socialism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I brought my children here so I didn\u2019t bring them up in apartheid exactly for what this country stood for.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but let me tell you who it appeals to because I\u2019m glad you called. Let me tell you who it appeals to. You take a gander, if you will, at any Obama rally, and you look at the people in that rally who react the way they do when he mentions change and hope and the future, and they swoon, and some of them faint. But they all cheer like crazy. You know what they think?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: These are people that don\u2019t have much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: These are people that allow things that have nothing to do with them to determine whether or not they\u2019re happy. They think that Obama is going to give them what they want or see to it that they get it. That\u2019s the change they want. These are people that do not want to work for themselves. These are people that do not want to have to go out and acquire things themselves. Most of them are Baby Boomers or the kids of Baby Boomers and so they hear change as something consistent or similar to Obama and the government are going to make their lives better; make sure they get health care; make sure they get this, that they\u2019re not going to have to do it themselves. And in that way it\u2019s hideous because that\u2019s how those people are interpreting change. Great to hear from you, Colleen, thanks much. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gotta break. <\/p>\n

&bull; Washington Times: ‘Chaos\u2019 threatens DNC delegate solution<\/a><\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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