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RUSH: I\u2019m minding my own business yesterday, went to Green Bay for the Indianapolis Colts-Green Bay Packers. Stayed out in Appleton at the Radisson, which is where the visiting teams who play the Packers stay. The Colts were there. I went in and had dinner at Lombardi\u2019s on Saturday night. Oh, it was just fabulous, went in with some people from Gulfstream and ran into a bunch of Colts front office people. It was a great, great, great time. We were up pretty late on Saturday night because we didn\u2019t have to go to the stadium \u2019til one o\u2019clock Central time, was a 3:15 p.m. game Central time. So I get up on Sunday morning and got coffee sitting there, fire up the computer, start doing a little show prep, get a head start. Minding my own business, I\u2019m not harming anybody. They don\u2019t even know I\u2019m in the hotel. I\u2019m registered under a fake name. So I fire up the Drudge page, and I see Colin Powell has endorsed the Most Merciful Barack Obama. And then I see some of the things that Powell said. He said it wasn\u2019t about race, and he said he would have difficulty with any more Republican Supreme Court appointments. So I\u2019m making notes of this and out of the blue comes an e-mail from Jonathan Martin at The Politico. ‘Hey, Rush, you got anything to say about this?\u2019 I wrote him and said, ‘Jonathan, look, I\u2019m here in Green Bay with the Colts and the Packers, I don\u2019t have a lot of time.\u2019 I just fired off a couple little thoughts, couple little paragraphs.<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Secretary Powell says this endorsement\u2019s not about race. Okay, fine. What I\u2019m doing now Jonathan is researching Powell\u2019s past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates that he has endorsed. I\u2019ll let you know what I come up with.\u2019 Then the next paragraph I sent to Jonathan Martin of the Politico said, ‘As for Powell\u2019s statement of concern that he would have difficulty with two more Republican Supreme Court nominees, I was unaware that he had dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, and Antonin Scalia. I guess he also regrets Ronald Reagan making him a four-star general. I guess he also regrets George Bush making him secretary of state. I guess he also regrets George H. W. Bush naming him chairman of the Joint Chiefs. I guess he\u2019s also upset that a Republican appointed his son to head the FCC. Yeah, let\u2019s hear it for transformational figures,\u2019 because Powell had said Obama\u2019s a transformational figure, and yet Colin Powell is who he is and is a household name because of Republicans. <\/p>\n

So I fired that off, and forgot about it. And the next thing I know, into my e-mail comes a Google alert. Martin got that thing up in five minutes and it\u2019s all over the Internet with Google and Drudge has linked to it. I hit the shower, got ready for the game, head down, got on the bus, head on over to Green Bay for the game. Apparently all hell is breaking loose and I\u2019m not even aware of it because, of course, Jonathan said, ‘I really envy you, your Sundays.\u2019 He said, ‘I had tickets to the Redskins game today but I can\u2019t go because of this Powell thing.\u2019 I said, ‘Jonathan somebody has to enjoy life, and it\u2019s me, and don\u2019t worry, Jon, I\u2019ll cover you next week because I\u2019m going to Pittsburgh next week for the Giants and then after that I\u2019m going to Indianapolis for the Patriots. So I\u2019ll cheer for you, just tell me which teams you like.\u2019 So we go to the game, a fabulous time at the game, and I picked the Packers in my little pool. Snerdley walked in today, I said, ‘How are you?\u2019 ‘Been better.\u2019 I figured it was the Powell endorsement or something to do with the campaign. He\u2019s bent out of shape about the Cowboys. A lot of Cowboys fans are bent out of shape about the Cowboys. <\/p>\n

At any rate, flew home after the game, I guess we rolled in at 10:45 or so, got into the house at 11:30. I still wasn\u2019t aware how much it had blown up. I did a little work when I went home, went up to bed, it was a long, taxing, exhausting day. I\u2019ll tell you, it is tough physically going to a football game. I can\u2019t imagine playing in one. I got home last night feeling like I had played in the game. So I got up this morning and talked to Cookie. Cookie says, ‘Okay, here\u2019s a preview of the sound bite roster,\u2019 and, lo and behold, the media had a cow over this. Folks, I must have struck a nerve on this because everybody in the Drive-By Media has something snarky to say about my two little paragraphs to Jonathan Martin at The Politico regarding the Powell endorsement. Now, there\u2019s something else interesting — I got one thing wrong. It was not a Republican that nominated his son, Michael Powell, to head the FCC. Michael Powell, by the way, has not only endorsed McCain, Colin Powell\u2019s son has endorsed McCain, he is campaigning for him. Colin Powell\u2019s son is debating Obama surrogates on communications issues. What actually happened was — and this is even more fascinating — what actually happened was, and my friend Professor Hazlett informed me of this, it was McCain who got Michael Powell appointed to the FCC by Clinton in order to forge a relationship with his father, Colin Powell, as was reported at the time. <\/p>\n

So McCain went out of the way, went to Clinton, said, ‘Please nominate Michael Powell to the FCC.\u2019 Clinton did it. This was an effort by McCain to forge a continued relationship. We\u2019ve also heard — I can\u2019t substantiate this — we\u2019ve also heard that the reason that Senator McCain has had Jeremiah Wright off-limits is in hopes of getting the Powell endorsement himself. But one of the interesting things to point out about this is, who is Powell? If you stop and think about how Powell is characterized by the Drive-Bys, he\u2019s the epitome of today\u2019s moderate, right? And that moderate, Mr. Powell, that kind of person is the target for McCain\u2019s campaign, is it not? And so we see, ladies and gentlemen, just how — I mean, he gets his kid on the FCC with Clinton, forge a relationship, bam. I don\u2019t know if McCain thought Powell was bought, but if so, it\u2019s obvious Powell doesn\u2019t stay bought for very long. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s the great thing. This is fascinating when you look at it this way. After Iraq and the United States Security Council where General Powell went up there and showed the pictures of all the WMDs and so forth, Powell was bad. Powell was a sell-out, Powell was horrible. This is crucial, because this is why Powell needed to resuscitate his reputation. He knew that Armitage had leaked Scooter Libby\u2019s name. He knew that Scooter Libby had nothing to do with this, and he stood mute, ladies and gentlemen. I\u2019ll never forget Powell threatening with running for president back in 1995, remember that? And he wouldn\u2019t identify what party he was from. He had these approval ratings in the seventies. He knew if he identified himself as a Republican or a Democrat, that he\u2019d lose some of the numbers, he wouldn\u2019t take a position on abortion, for example. Everybody on our side was so excited about Colin Powell. I said, ‘Folks, don\u2019t you think it matters whether or not he\u2019s a Republican or Democrat? He won\u2019t tell us.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So, anyway, Powell was bad after the United Nations. Now Powell is good. Massive campaign spending was corrupt. Now, since Obama\u2019s doing it, it\u2019s just fine. Voter fraud, why, that was anti-civil rights. Now voter fraud is pro-civil rights. Experience doesn\u2019t matter in Obama\u2019s case, but it\u2019s now the reason why Governor Palin isn\u2019t qualified to be president, and on and on and on. The pretzels that the media and the left are willing to twist themselves into to push this dummy over the finish line is amazing, folks, speaking here of Obama. But I look at so many things, and people ask me, ‘Rush, why is Palin so hated? Why is it that people like Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley and some of the Fox All-Stars –‘ folks, it\u2019s an elitist thing, it\u2019s an intellectual thing. <\/p>\n\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s what it is, folks. This is very, very simple. I\u2019ll tell you when this first hit me, and it probably hit you a little sooner than it did me. When I traveled around the country, four years ago, three years ago, shortly after the Iraq war started; I ran into people from all political spectrums who didn\u2019t like Bush simply \u2019cause they thought he couldn\u2019t talk. He wasn\u2019t ‘articulate,\u2019 and to them, that made him seem stupid. So when people who know Bush — and I, as a powerful, influential member of the media am one who knows Bush — would tell them, ‘You have no idea what you\u2019re talking about. The guy is sharp as a tack, people that know him personally say.\u2019 ‘Well, he doesn\u2019t come across that way. He\u2019s just stupid,\u2019 and then Obama comes along, and I see Christopher Buckley who says things like, ‘Well, I read his books.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Chris, he may not have written one of them, but that\u2019s beside the point. ‘I read his books. He\u2019s a very thoughtful guy; a very, very thoughtful guy. Somebody that eloquent, somebody that able to write so well has to have a good mind. So I\u2019m for Obama. You gotta go with the mind,\u2019 and then they mention Palin as being some sort of trailer trash hick. They don\u2019t like her accent; they don\u2019t like the fact she leaves G\u2019s off of some of her words like mornin\u2019, instead of morning. They don\u2019t like that. And then Chris Buckley said, ‘But, you know even if he goes lefty when he\u2019s elected, I\u2019ll have a problem with that.\u2019 I was reading this and I\u2019m stunned. If he goes ‘lefty\u2019? So what it is, folks, there is an alignment of elites taking place, pseudointellectuals who don\u2019t want…<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t think McCain can speak. They don\u2019t think McCain is articulate. They think of Obama as one of them, even though he has ideas diametrically opposed to theirs, he\u2019s still smart. He\u2019s cool. He\u2019s eloquent. He\u2019s elegant. He\u2019s calm, and he represents us well. He makes it look like Americans elected somebody smart. And of course Palin, she doesn\u2019t fit that mold. This is why there are so many defections on our side, and there\u2019s another reason, too. You know, it\u2019s directly traceable to this Powell endorsement. Look at this. If Powell had endorsed McCain, you know what would have happened? Donna Brazile and the other black elites in the Democrat Party would never have forgiven him. This was all about Powell and race. It was nothing about the nation and its welfare. He said it\u2019s not about race, and I said, ‘Okay. Show me all of the inexperienced white liberals you\u2019ve endorsed. If it\u2019s not about race.\u2019<\/p>\n

Of course everybody\u2019s having a cow. Wait \u2019til you hear the sound bites. They\u2019re coming up after the next break. So what happened to General Powell is he evolved over time into a calculating Washington insider who speaks incessantly to the media. He seeks to portray himself in a good light at the expense of others. He did great damage to the Bush administration. It stuns me. It really does. It stuns me how General Powell and others can back a man whose judgment has been so flawed for most of his career, who has been so out of the mainstream, yet they find Palin so unqualified. None of us are buying this nonsense. What\u2019s happening here is Powell and some of the other people on our side, they are positioning themselves to perhaps get positions in Obama\u2019s campaign. In fact, Obama has said that Powell will serve in his administration. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about here, folks.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I just want to button this up because the Drive-Bys had a tizzy over my allegation that his nomination was about race. Well, let me say it louder, and let me say it even more plainly. It was totally about race! The Powell endorsement is totally about race. People have forgotten, but I have not, ladies and gentlemen. Colin Powell publicly broke with the administration over affirmative action; specifically, affirmative action cases that were before the Supreme Court in 2003. It was a case in Michigan. I have the CBS story here, January 20th, 2003. ‘Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he disagrees with President Bush\u2019s position on affirmative action case before the Supreme Court, as the White House called for more money for historical black colleges. <\/p>\n

‘Powell, one of two black members of Mr. Bush\u2019s cabinet, said he supports methods the University of Michigan uses to bolster minority enrollments in its undergraduate and law school programs. The policies offer points to minority applicants and set goals for minority admissions.\u2019 That\u2019s why he doesn\u2019t want any more Republican appointments. He is pro-affirmative action. He is also pro-abortion, in case you had forgotten. Here\u2019s a quote from Colin Powell at the Republican National Convention August 12th, 1996. ‘You all know that I believe in a woman\u2019s right to choose, and I strongly support affirmative action, and I was invited here by my party to share my views with you because we are a big enough party and big enough people to disagree on individual issues and still work together for our common goal: restoring the American dream.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what happened to the tent. It\u2019s very, very small. He\u2019s not comfortable in it. I think he\u2019s still saying he\u2019s a Republican, by the way, after all of this, after endorsing Obama. But if anybody thinks that Barack Obama has the slightest intention of restoring the American dream, Secretary Powell, you have another think coming. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. As I say, I was unaware of any of this. I sent a little couple paragraphs. Okay. So they get linked at Drudge, The Politico and so forth, but yip yip. DNCTV Live this morning, Tamron Hall talking to Michelle Obama\u2019s chief of staff, Stephanie Cutter. Question: ‘Stephanie, Rush Limbaugh went on to say in his critique of all this, he says, ‘I\u2019m now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates he has endorsed. I\u2019ll let you know what I come up with.\u2019 That\u2019s what Limbaugh said. How do you respond to those critics out there like Limbaugh?\u2019<\/p>\n

CUTTER: I think it\u2019s disgusting, actually. Colin Powell is not somebody who enters into the political fray easily. The symbolism of Colin Powell rejecting John McCain as president is just as powerful as choosing Barack Obama. We are, eh, thrilled and honored to have Colin Powell\u2019s endorsement, but we also understand it was a real blow to John McCain and I think Rush Limbaugh was just expressing that.<\/p>\n

HALL: Humph.<\/p>\n

CUTTER: They\u2019re going to grab at anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘They\u2019re going to grab at anything.\u2019 It\u2019s ‘disgusting\u2019 what I said. It\u2019s actually disgusting what I said! Well, I stand by it. I thought it was pretty clever to come up with this for a couple seconds before I had to run out to the football game. This didn\u2019t take much time to think this through. Everybody knows this is totally about race. Then on CNN\u2019s American Morning today, the cohost Kiran Chetry is talking to Tom Brokaw. Brokaw left NBC to go over to CNN today for an interview. Kiran Chetry said, ‘Rush Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail that Secretary Powell ‘said this endorsement is not about race. I\u2019m searching his past endorsements to see if I could come up with all the inexperienced, very white liberal candidates that he has endorsed.”<\/p>\n

BROKAW: What Rush Limbaugh does not get into is Colin Powell\u2019s indictment of what the Republican Party, he says, is doing to itself. Colin Powell said at the convention in 2007 (sic), praised President Bush and Dick Cheney, saying that he thought that they would help, uh, er, heal the racial divide in America. He thinks it\u2019s contracted the Republican Party rather than reached out to a lot of people. He has great, great admiration for John McCain. He just doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s run a very good campaign.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So we\u2019re gonna decide who we elect based on the kind of campaign they run? Has a lot of respect for John McCain? One thing I don\u2019t get into is Powell\u2019s indictment of what the Republican Party\u2019s doing to itself? If there has been anybody who has been sounding the warning buzzers and bells about the mistakes the Republican Party is making, my friends — over the past year and a half — it is I, El Rushbo. I can\u2019t help it if the party doesn\u2019t listen. It went on. This is yesterday afternoon on DNCTV live. Contessa Brewer talking to George Mason University\u2019s Michael McDonald about the Powell endorsement and me.<\/p>\n

BREWER: Here\u2019s what Limbaugh writes in this e-mail. Quote, ‘Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race. Okay, fine. I\u2019m now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates he has endorsed. I\u2019ll let you know what I find.\u2019 Uh, you know, Michael, does that kind of rhetoric courage the Bradley Effect. When people go to the polls, does that (sic) — sort of the question that lingers here?<\/p>\n

MCDONALD: Those Rush Limbaugh supporters are going to be like those people who aren\u2019t going to vote for Barack Obama because he\u2019s a Democrat or some other reason that they don\u2019t agree with his policies. So this really won\u2019t magnify this next time in any sort of way. <\/p>\n

BREWER: No.<\/p>\n

MCDONALD: It\u2019s just going to reinforce the opinions of these people who aren\u2019t already going to support Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he\u2019s saying, ‘What are you people in the media so worried about? Limbaugh\u2019s not going to change anybody\u2019s mind. He\u2019s just going to increase the validation of people already opposed.\u2019 But how about the question, that my comment will increase the Bradley Effect? (laughing) Where do you get that? It still strikes me, folks, that all these people on the Obama side are still a little worried for a bunch of people who think they\u2019ve got this in the bag. David Shuster this morning on DNCTV live. Host Tamron Hall talks to Shuster, says, ‘General Powell said if race was the only factor, he would have decided months ago. That\u2019s not stopped people from talking about this.\u2019<\/p>\n

SHUSTER: You\u2019ve heard that sort of language repeated by Rush Limbaugh, who has said show me some white liberal that Colin Powell has endorsed. It\u2019s an issue out there, and a lot of people will find it quite unseemly to suggest that Colin Powell is doing this simply because of race.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it may be unseemly, but it\u2019s totally true. Nobody has talked… Not one of them has addressed the ‘inexperienced\u2019 aspect of what I said, either. Remember, the whole quote here, folks, the whole quote is, ‘I\u2019m now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates he has endorsed. I\u2019ll let you know what I come up with.\u2019 Now, just so you know, I haven\u2019t come up with any. I worked diligently on this on the airplane on the trip home from Green Bay yesterday. After I got home last night, I worked diligently. I can\u2019t find any of these inexperienced white liberals that Powell has endorsed. So they\u2019re all focusing you know it\u2019s race. This has hit a nerve. So what if it\u2019s race? Why is it so hard to admit that it\u2019s race? Ninety-five percent of black people are going to for Obama because he\u2019s black. What\u2019s so problematic about admitting this? I thought it should be about race. I thought you liberals thought this is a historic candidacy because finally we\u2019re going to elect a black guy to be president. Why hide behind this? Why act like it\u2019s not about race? What, you want to tell us it\u2019s about his policies? (laughs) Still, they weren\u2019t through here. ABC\u2019s World News Tonight, a portion of correspondent John Cochran\u2019s report about me and the Powell endorsement.<\/p>\n

COCHRAN: Rush Limbaugh suggested today that Obama\u2019s race may have played a part in Powell\u2019s endorsement. Powell denied race had any connection, but did say Obama\u2019s election would be historic.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You notice what nobody else is talking about here is that second, brilliant paragraph I wrote about the Supreme Court, which is just as big an indictment of General Powell as the first one is. In fact, maybe even more so. The second thing I wrote to the Politico states, ‘I was also unaware of his dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, and Antonin Scalia. I guess General Powell also regrets Ronald Reagan making him a four-star general. I guess he regrets George Bush making him secretary of state.\u2019 Meaning, hey, Powell owes his name and his ascension to various heights to Republicans. I guess nobody wants to focus on that one. Juan Williams of all people at Fox News was asked about this this morning on America\u2019s Newsroom. Megyn Kelly said to him, ‘What Rush is saying is he doesn\u2019t believe Powell that race didn\u2019t have anything to do with it, or that this is not a race-based endorsement. Does Rush have a point, Juan?\u2019<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Of course he does. Of course it has to do with race. It has a lot to do with this sort of senior black man, sort of the original crossover race star in American politics, Colin Powell; I think reaching out to this younger black man, and I think in so many ways it goes beyond race. But I think Rush Limbaugh\u2019s right, if he says race is a definite factor here. In terms of his legacy, I think this will stand as a real monument reaching out to the — potentially, the — first black president of the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? It is. It\u2019s totally about race. How could he not support the guy? If he wants his standing in Washington to remain what it is. He\u2019s the liberals\u2019 favorite Republican, he\u2019s the liberals\u2019 favorite diplomat, the liberals\u2019 favorite this and that, and that\u2019s what\u2019s important to him, how can he dare…? In fact, I will take you back. I — I, ladies and gentlemen — was on This Week with David Brinkley August 16th, 1995, and I said this about former General Colin Powell on that program. This was 13 years ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: He\u2019s playing it very coyly. He\u2019s done a very good job of keeping everything he believes on every issue totally secret. He doesn\u2019t know — and that\u2019s why he\u2019s so high in the polls. He\u2019s acting like he doesn\u2019t want it, but he\u2019ll make every speech he has a chance to make and the situation is psychological. ‘Please, Mr. Powell, General Powell. Please run,\u2019 and what can be a better situation than that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was when Powell was flirting with being president, running for president in 1996. This is when he would not even identify what party he was a member of. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, folks, it\u2019s just funny. The Drive-Bys can\u2019t make up their mind out there such as they are. On the one hand, we are told that if you are a white Democrat and you vote against Obama, you are a racist. On the other hand, if Powell endorsed Obama, it\u2019s got nothing to do with race, right? If you oppose Obama, you\u2019re racist. If you support him, you are intelligent. In fact, here\u2019s a headline: ”Biden: Voters ‘Having a Difficult Time\u2019 Electing First African American President.\u2019 Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Saturday that with Republicans firing ‘vicious\u2019 and ‘dangerous\u2019 attacks at Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., voters are ‘having a difficult time\u2019 opting for the man who would become the nation\u2019s first African American president. ‘Undecided people are having a difficult time just culturally making the change, making the move for the first African American president in the history of the United States,\u2019 said Biden. ‘These vicious attacks on Barack\u2019s character.” What he has is truthful information emerging to attack his lack of character, is what\u2019s going on. <\/p>\n

Anyway, so if you\u2019re undecided and you can\u2019t make up your mind to vote for Obama, you\u2019re racist. But with Powell, no, no, no, no, had nothing to do with race. But, of course, it has everything to do with race. Snerdley, you think they\u2019re just now claiming victory? Pelosi\u2019s out there thinking she\u2019s going to have 250 seats in the House, even more if they had more money. Oh, they\u2019ve got it in the bag. In their minds this is over, it\u2019s just a matter of time. Now, we\u2019ve put together a montage here because Obama said he is honored and humbled, he said yesterday in Fayetteville, he\u2019s honored and humbled by Powell\u2019s endorsement. So we put together a montage here of Obama praising Powell\u2019s wisdom, along with Powell\u2019s weapons of mass destruction speech at the UN. Remember, now, Obama\u2019s whole campaign is based on opposition to the administration and this speech that Powell gave at the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This morning a great soldier, a great statesman.<\/p>\n

POWELL: Banned materials have recently been moved from a number of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction facilities.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: A great American has endorsed our campaign for change.<\/p>\n

POWELL: There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I have been honored to have the benefit of his wisdom.<\/p>\n

POWELL: Saddam Hussein has never accounted for vast amounts of chemical weaponry.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: And his counsel.<\/p>\n

POWELL: Saddam Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: But today I\u2019m beyond honor.<\/p>\n

POWELL: Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I am deeply humbled.<\/p>\n

POWELL: Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction for a few more months or years is not an option, not in a post-September 11th world.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I am deeply humbled to have the support of General Colin Powell.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Powell went up there and said everything Obama disagreed with, it\u2019s just a little fun, sort of like our montage with Bob Torricelli, The Torch, denying it all while a lawyer listed all the stuff that Torricelli got, a gold watch, 5,000 in cash, and ‘I can\u2019t believe my character is being attacked.\u2019 Hush money payments to women, blah, blah — whatever they were, it was funny. And we did the same thing here with Obama and General Powell. <\/p>\n

All right, now, when we come back, we\u2019ll get started the next hour, we\u2019re going to get some of your phone calls, focus on Biden promising, promising that the United States and its new president, Obama, will be tested by multiple acts and multiple nations, and he\u2019s going to need our support \u2019cause they may not do the right thing, or may not appear to be the right thing but it will be the right thing, is going to be very, very tough out there. This is stunning.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Valerie in Erie, Pennsylvania. Hi, Valerie, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is very much a pleasure, sir.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Mr. Powell referred to Obama as a transformational figure, but he didn\u2019t specify as to whether the Obama presidency would require him to transform, government to transform, or our lives to transform.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re taking it much farther than what General Powell meant.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Really?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Transformational simply means we\u2019re finally going to get over our days of slavery and a majority of people would elect a black guy president, that\u2019s what transformational is. Because it\u2019s not his policies, his policies aren\u2019t transformational. His policies are every bit as liberal as any the world\u2019s ever seen. There\u2019s nothing new about them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You just made me feel a lot better because I really thought a lot of things were going to have to transform in order for him to be the president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I mean things can transform to the worst.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Transformational figure, that term is being thrown around as though messianic, all kinds of great new things, this change and so forth. Transformational can be bad as well. Why is Palin not transformational? Why is it only Obama? That proves, for the rest of you in the media, if you didn\u2019t hear it the first time, Powell, nomination of Obama is about race, R-A-C-E, it is about race, and you can quote me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m minding my own business yesterday, went to Green Bay for the Indianapolis Colts-Green Bay Packers. Stayed out in Appleton at the Radisson, which is where the visiting teams who play the Packers stay. The Colts were there. I went in and had dinner at Lombardi\u2019s on Saturday night. 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