RUSH: ‘Barack Obama says he doesn’t want to make the same mistake with his grandmother that he made with his dying mother,’ so today he’s jetting off to Hawaii to make sure that doesn’t happen. He was on The Early Show this morning with Harry Smith, and Smith said, ‘Lincoln said, ‘All I ever hoped to be, I owe to her,’ in speaking about his mother. Your grandmother, very much like a mother to you, how important is this trip?’
<*KMAGE*>OBAMA: It’s very important to me. My grandmother is the last one left, uh, she has really been the rock of the family and the foundation of the family, uh, whatever strength, discipline, uh, that I have, uh, it comes from her.
SMITH: You said in the past that you regretted your own mother’s illness and her death came so quickly, you didn’t have time to get back to —
RUSH: Stop the tape here a minute. Stop, recue this. Harry Smith is doing everything here but crying, everything but crying here. This is an embarrassment. You people in the media, you don’t even care how embarrassing this is, you do not even care. Here it is again from the top.
OBAMA: It’s very important to me. My grandmother’s the last one left, uh —
RUSH: Right.
OBAMA: She has really been the rock of the family.
RUSH: I know.
OBAMA: And the foundation of the family, uh–
RUSH: Absolutely right.
OBAMA: Whatever the strength, discipline, uh —
RUSH: Hawaii all these years.
OBAMA: — that I have, uh, it comes from her.
SMITH: You’ve said in the past that you regretted your own mother’s illness and her death came so quickly, you didn’t have time to get back to see her.
OBAMA: Got there too late. We knew she wasn’t doing well, um, but the diagnosis was such where we thought we had a little more time and we didn’t, so I want to make sure that I don’t, uh, I don’t make, uh, the same mistake twice.
RUSH: Now, Harry Smith is very, very worried, ladies and gentlemen, that this could hurt Obama’s campaign.
SMITH: Some people say there’s risk involved in this, with so little time left.
OBAMA: Yeah. Well, the, uh, I think most people understand, uh, that if you’re not, um, caring for your family, uh, then you’re probably not, uh, the kind of person who’s going to be caring for other people.
RUSH: Yeah, right. Okay. Now, I have some questions here, ladies and gentlemen. If Obama has this election in the bag, if he has this election in the bag, which they’re all saying, I mean, he’s building the stage. They’re already putting together this massive little stage out there in Grant Park in Chicago. They’re making all these postelection plans. They’re working on the transition team. If it’s in the bag, Obama, please, stop spending money on TV and radio spots. Stop raising more money. You already have tons of it. Stop campaigning all over the country. You’re wasting fuel. You’re emitting carbon dioxide along the way. If it’s over, then behave like it’s over. By the way, I’d like to be a little bit more inquisitive than the average reporter out there and observe that we’ve been hearing and reading for at least three days now that Obama’s grandmother is deathly ill and that he’s going to rush to her side in Hawaii.
Now, if he’s already won the presidency, why hasn’t he already gone to Hawaii? Why is he not already there? What’s he waiting for? ‘If she’s deathly ill,’ I’m pretending to be a reporter here. You know they’d ask McCain these questions. ‘If Obama’s grandmother is deathly ill, why has this been announced days ago and he’s only going now,’ or tomorrow, or whenever it is. Now, I understand, folks, Snerdley’s got his head buried in his hands. I understand this, my friends, anything said about Obama is going to be turned into an unfair racist attack on the man. Am I not asking obvious questions? Who announces days in advance they’re rushing to the side of a loved one who is deathly ill but keeps campaigning in a race that’s said to be over, only to go to the loved one’s side days later? See, I think this is about something else. You know what’s really percolating out there? I’ve been laying low on this because it hasn’t met the threshold to pass the smell test on this program.
This birth certificate business, this lawsuit that a guy named Philip Berg filed in Philadelphia in August for Obama to produce his genuine birth certificate and he still hasn’t replied. You’ve got a deathly ill grandmother, you are going to rush to her side a few days from now, when you first announced this, you’re going to rush, you’re going to hurry, you’re going to make tracks, you’re going to get over there because you don’t want your grandmother to die before you got there like your mother did, but somehow you keep campaigning, you take three days to get over there, if he’s left yet, and this birth certificate business, I’m just wondering if something’s up. I have no clue, and folks, I’m telling you, this has not reached the threshold until now, and it’s popping up all over the place. There are a lot of people now that are starting to speculate and be curious about this.
I don’t know, let’s say for example that somebody does come up with proof that something’s screwy with his birth certificate and something’s screwy about the fact that he’s allegedly a natural citizen, American citizen, but may not be, dual citizenship, born in Kenya, who knows, there’s all kinds of stuff out — so what? What’s going to happen this late in the campaign? Do you think if it’s proven that they’re going to dump him? That’s not going to happen. But still, these are just questions that I have. And, look, both of my parents have died. When I was told the end was near, bam, I got there, fast as I could. I didn’t announce to the audience, ‘I just got word my father is said to be passing away and in four or five days I’m going to go to Missouri. In the meantime, I will not leave you here on this radio program.’ These are just natural questions. I think any inquisitive reporter — I know the risk I’m running here by raising all this. But I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t do that.
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RUSH: I want to go back to this one sound bite from Obama, second question from Harry Smith this morning on the CBS Early Show.
SMITH: Some people say there’s risk involved in this, with so little time left.
OBAMA: Yeah. Well, the, uh, I think most people understand, uh, that if you’re not, um, caring for your family, uh, then you’re probably not, uh, the kind of person who’s going to be caring for other people.
RUSH: Okay. ‘If you’re not caring for your family…’ How about George Onyango Bodongo Hussein Obama in the hut outside Nairobi living on a dollar a month? A $20 bill would double his half-brother’s annual income. Not even a sign ‘Home, Sweet Hut’ has been sent to George Onyango Bodongo Hussein Obama, and how many other of Obama’s family members are living in squalor? Yeah, ‘if you don’t take care of your family, if you don’t put that first, you’re probably not the kind of person that’s going to be caring for other people.’ You have a half-brother living in a hut!