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RUSH: Last night CNN aired a special on faith and politics, sponsored by Sojourners\/Call to Renewal. It\u2019s an evangelical organization. It was moderated by Soledad O\u2019Brien, and they talked to Hillary Clinton, they talked to Barack Obama, and former Senator John Edwards. They joined the forum. We\u2019ve got audio sound bites of this. <\/p>\n

The past ten days have just worn me. In fact, I got here today, didn\u2019t know if I was going to be able to pull this off with energy. I\u2019m always here. I went to bed early last night for me, and I got in bed and I started channel surfing around and I said, ‘I really need to go to sleep.\u2019 So I turned on CNN, and I watched. I saw Anderson Cooper 180 and they were rehashing what had happened earlier on CNN. I\u2019m watching this and a thought hit me. I said, ‘Well, now, wait a minute, the Republican Party is doing everything it can to diminish the role of Christian conservatives in it\u2019s structure.\u2019 Well, not every Republican is, but face it, there are many moderate blue-blood Republicans out there just embarrassed all to hell that there are 24 million conservative Christians in the Republican Party. They\u2019re known primarily as pro-lifers and of course these moderate country club blue-blooders, it\u2019s embarrassing to be in the same party with them. We hear from the Drive-By Media and the Democrats that religious people are to be feared. If they ever get in power, they\u2019re going to do away with separation of church and state. They don\u2019t think; they\u2019re stupid; they\u2019re dangerous. They want to impose their morality on everybody else. <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m saying why in the world are these Democrat front-runners showing up to talk about God-d, and why are they showing up on CNN to talk about faith-h, and why are they concerned about it? What brought this on? If Christians and Catholics and Protestants are the death knell for a modern political movement, then what the hell are the Democrats out there doing trying to court those very same people? Well, of course they\u2019re not the death knell. The Democrats would love to peel \u2019em off. The Democrats would love to get the NASCAR crowd, without admitting it. They\u2019d love to have them vote for them, just don\u2019t want anybody to be embarrassed if that happened, but they\u2019re a large group of people, and they are active and they are engaged and they vote and they care. They\u2019re informed. So this idea that the Christian element of American political society is somehow to be shunned and embarrassed of and so forth is absolute poppycock. The Democrats are out there trying to court them! <\/p>\n

I remember after the 2004 presidential election, and the Democrats are doing their postmortem. What happened to us? They find out at the exit polls that morality, moral views, decency on television, these kind of things mattered to a lot of people who went out and voted. So Democrats started saying, ‘You know, we\u2019re going to have to shore up our values base.\u2019 That lasted about two weeks, and they started debating how it was they could show themselves to be more religious. But of course the truly conservative Christians are not going to be fooled by it because you are who you are, not what you say you are. And the Democrats are not. Let\u2019s face it, the Democrat Party for the most part — there are exceptions of course — the Democrat Party resents religion. They don\u2019t like the firm resolve and the faith that people have, it scares them. They are scared by it. They\u2019re scared by people who have faith in a higher power than that which is alive on earth today, or the earth itself. This is no mystery. So I see this last night, and we\u2019ll get some audio sound bites, just to let you listen to what these Democrats are saying about this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, let\u2019s go listen to the Democrats now talking about all of a sudden their faith. Now, this group, Sojourners\/Call to Renewal, is an evangelical organization. I don\u2019t know this group, but precisely because I don\u2019t know them is why I have questions about them. There are all kinds of religious groups. Religious groups have sprung up that are pro-global warming. I don\u2019t believe that they\u2019re actually religious. I think that they\u2019re libs calling themselves a religious group trying to move forward that particular — (interruption) now, what are you laughing at in there? It\u2019s starting to get distracting. Haven\u2019t said anything funny, well, maybe not funny in at least ten minutes. Are you telling jokes about something in there? Will you clue me in? Who am I questioning? I\u2019m not questioning their faith, I\u2019m questioning their legitimacy. <\/p>\n

They can be faithful all they want. I\u2019m just telling you that all of a sudden, out of the clear blue we\u2019ve got religious groups that are pro-global warming? How come I\u2019ve never heard of this before? Then they\u2019re starting to make inroads in the conservative Christian community on global warming, grow government. Hey, I didn\u2019t fall off the turnip truck. I wasn\u2019t born on one so I couldn\u2019t have fallen off one. I don\u2019t know about this group, but when we start talking about Democrats and faith and God-d, I\u2019m telling you it\u2019s a trick. It\u2019s a trick. Otherwise they\u2019d be doing it all the time and wouldn\u2019t be embarrassed about it. Okay, there you have it, US News &amp; World Report describes Sojourners as a liberal Christian group. Well, how many of those are there besides the United Methodist Church, which is my church, so I can say it. Maybe the Episcopalians, they\u2019re sort of off the straight and narrow for a while there, too, but some sects — (interruption) you just quit distracting me in there so I can play these sound bites. People are chomping at the bit here to hear John Edwards and Obama and Hillary talk about their faith in God-d, and so here we go. <\/p>\n

Jim Wallis is the founder of Sojourners\/Call to Renewal and they invited Democrat presidential contenders, Hillary, Barack Obama, and John Edwards to join this forum. Now, it is a little odd. Can you imagine if Jerry Falwell had called up, or Pat Robertson had called up CNN and said, ‘I want to do a religious forum,\u2019 would it happen? Of course not. I\u2019m eating the microphone now so that — (kissing sound). We know what this is, and we know it\u2019s a trick. What\u2019s interesting about it is they think they have to do this. These are the people that run around ridiculing conservative Christians, make fun of them. You people drive the pickup trucks. You live in Mississippi, wear the plaid shirts. You got a bottle of Old Crow sitting next to you. You\u2019re going to go bomb an abortion clinic in a couple of days. You watch NASCAR. You don\u2019t have your two front teeth. That\u2019s what they think of you, and you know it. Now all of a sudden they want you? Ha. All right. Here\u2019s the first question from Soledad O\u2019Brien in this religious series faith and politics, ‘Do you think homosexuals have the right to get married?\u2019<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: No, not personally. You\u2019re asking about me personally. But I think there\u2019s a difference between my belief system and what the responsibilities of the president of the United States are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mario Cuomo.<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: There\u2019s a reason we have separation of church and state, and they\u2019re very good people, including some people that I\u2019m very close to. My daughter, who is sitting in the front row here tonight feels very differently about this issue, and I have huge respect for those who have a different view about this, so I think we have to be very careful about ensuring that the president of the United States is not using his belief system and imposing that belief system on the rest of the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay, you just failed, dude. If you\u2019re out there trying to attract conservative Christians, you have just blown it sky high. It\u2019s not that conservative Christians want a president to impose his view on the American people. It\u2019s about character, it\u2019s about morality, and it\u2019s about having the courage of your convictions. This is how Mario Cuomo tried to get around with the Catholic Church his pro-choice stance. He went to Notre Dame and he made this big speech, and he said, ‘My personal beliefs are my personal beliefs. I would not ever, ever impose them on the country.\u2019 Really? You\u2019ll impose your tax policy on the country. You\u2019ll impose your pacifist foreign policy views on the country. You\u2019ll impose every economic policy or socioeconomic or immigration policy you\u2019ve got on the country. Why not this? I would ask the same thing of Senator Edwards. (Doing Edwards impression) ‘No, not personally. You\u2019re asking me personally, but I think there\u2019s a difference between my belief system and what the responsibilities of the president.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Well, if your belief system is that unimportant to you, then why are you running? Most people that run for president — who would put up with this? From the moment you announce, even sometimes before you announce, if they think that you\u2019re interested in it, you get a media anal. It\u2019s not as bad for the Democrats as it is for the Republicans. Who would put up with this? The people that put up with it have this incredible passion and this desire, and you can say about this what you want, but the fact of the matter is the people that run for the office of president believe the country can\u2019t get by without them. You have to have some kind of drive like that. I don\u2019t mean in an arrogant, egotistical way, I\u2019m talking about passionate belief. You love it, and you believe it. It should be as you want it to be, and you want the power of the bully pulpit to take the country in the direction you believe it should go. He\u2019s just sitting here, ‘I wouldn\u2019t impose any personal views.\u2019 I\u2019m not buying this for a moment. This is just his way. ‘I\u2019m personally not for gay marriage, but, but, but, it would not have a thing to do with the way I ran the country.\u2019 Anyway, that\u2019s a question at the religious forum? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So, John Edwards just told us what his views of on gay marriage. Let\u2019s go back, shall we? This is Sunday on CNN. Wolf Blitzer is interviewing his wife Elizabeth Edwards, and Blitzer asks her about Bob Shrum\u2019s book. ‘Shrum wrote, ‘More troubling was an exchange I had with Edwards one afternoon. We were throwing around questions and answers in his law firm\u2019s conference room. I said, ‘What\u2019s your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights?\u2019 Edwards said, ‘I\u2019m not comfortable around those people.” You were there, Ms. Edwards, at that conversation. What really happened?\u2019<\/p>\n

MRS. EDWARDS: I believe that, uh, Bob Shrum brought up the issues of, uh, gays and lesbians, and, uh, John said, ‘You know, I come from a small southern town, uh, Baptist town, you know, as far as I know I don\u2019t know… This is honestly…\u2019 He said, ‘Honestly an abstract issue for me, because,\u2019 he said, ‘You know, I don\u2019t — I don\u2019t really know, as far as I know, know any gay people, um,\u2019 you know?\u2019 So he sort of talked to me about it, and I said, ‘Well, actually you do,\u2019 and I said — I referred to a friend of mine from English graduate school, and how we had been, uh, out — uh, John and I out for the evening. I saw this old friend from English graduate school — this is when we were still in law school — and I went over and spoke to him, and I knew that he was gay, uh, and I said, ‘You know, I\u2019m — I\u2019m engaged, and there\u2019s the fellow over there I\u2019m engaged to,\u2019 and he said, ‘Oh, he\u2019s awfully cute. I might snake him if he wasn\u2019t with you,\u2019 and I told John that. This is where he used the word ‘uncomfortable.\u2019 He said, ‘That made me feel uncomfortable.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. She said it, folks. The gay guy wanted to ‘snake\u2019 John Edwards and that made Edwards feel uncomfortable, and then she continued the explanation with this.<\/p>\n

MRS. EDWARDS: So Bob correctly remembers the word ‘uncomfortable\u2019 but incorrectly remembers this — the — the circumstances in which he said it. I mean, all of us feel uncomfortable at someone ‘snaking\u2019 us, I guess — trying to snake us — in the presence — trying to snake us in the presence of our fianc&eacute;, uh, and that made him feel uncomfortable, and he was — John talked about that. So he\u2019s just — he remembers it slightly, but he remembers it incorrectly, and I have a — from my book, you\u2019ll know, I remember things very — in quite good detail from — from years ago, and I remember this conversation very clearly, and I have talked to John about that, and he does recall exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that\u2019s why Edwards got the question: ‘What do you think about gay marriage?\u2019 Let\u2019s move on now, another sound bite here from the Breck Girl. Soledad O\u2019Brien, the host of the show, said, ‘If you think something is morally wrong, though, and you morally disagree with it as president, don\u2019t you have a duty to go with your moral belief?\u2019<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: No! I think that first of all my faith, my, ummm, my belief in — in Christ plays an enormous role in the way I view the world, buuut I think I also understand the distinction between my job as president of the United States, my responsibility to be respectful of and to embrace all faith beliefs in this country, uh, because we have many faith beliefs in America — and for that matter we have many faith beliefs in the world — and I think one of the problems that we\u2019ve gotten into is some identification of the president of the United States with a particular faith belief as opposed to showing great respect for all faith beliefs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I assume here that we are talking about Bush and perhaps even Ronaldus Magnus, and of course Bush is one of the most tolerant presidents we\u2019ve had of faiths other than his. Look at what he\u2019s trying to do in the Middle East. Look at the faith he has in the Islamofascist population to straighten out. At any rate, you see what\u2019s happening here. The Democrats continue saying, ‘Well, I\u2019m this and I\u2019m that but I don\u2019t believe it enough to really have my views based on it, my morality or what have you.\u2019 So this is a play for the Christian conservative vote, and to say, ‘Yeah, I believe in God. We\u2019re faithful,\u2019 but I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it, because… Well, I know there\u2019s a lot of bucks in there, but the point is they\u2019re arranging their base. The base hates the Christians. Their base has no desire. I\u2019m talking about these wacko kook fringe base people. We\u2019re constantly told that we\u2019ve gotta deemphasize these people from American politics, and here come the Democrats out now trying to court them. Here\u2019s one more. This is the Reverend Suzan Johnson Cook, president of the Hampton University Ministers Conference. The next question: ”It Takes a Village\u2019 is an African proverb. In fact, one of your colleagues has written about it but it speaks about it, ‘the blessed of us really helping the rest of us. ‘ Now, quite frankly, the African-American community felt with Katrina that our American village disappeared. You are president of the US. What are the first two things that you would do to rebuild the gulf in New Orleans, not just the damage that was done physically but also the hopes of the people that were deferred?\u2019<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: Well, let me say first of all, this — this cause of New Orleans is also very personal to me because you may know that I announced my campaign from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, why?<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: I took 700 college kids down to work during their spring break in New Orleans a little over a year ago, uhh, and I\u2019ve been to New Orleans and to Louisiana repeatedly since the hurricane —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Answer the question!<\/p>\n

EDWARDS: — including just a few weeks ago. The single biggest thing to be done is the president of the United States needs to put one person — a very high level, competent person in the White House — in charge of New Orleans, and that person, the president should say to that person, ‘I want you in my office every morning telling me what you did in New Orleans yesterday,\u2019 and the next day, say, ‘I want you in my office telling me what you did yesterday. I\u2019m not interested in what you\u2019re going to do six months from now. I want to know what you did yesterday, and I want to know what\u2019s happening on the ground, the president, what\u2019s happening on the ground every single day.\u2019 What has happened in New Orleans is a national embarrassment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Remember, now, this is a conference, a TV show on faith — and what? Faith and politics. So you have somebody in the White House. You know, New Orleans, you\u2019re not in charge of yourself anymore. If John Edwards is elected, it\u2019s going to be somebody in his office at the White House is going to be in charge of fixing you up. Let\u2019s keep going. If I start commenting on all of these things we\u2019re never going to finish this. Soledad O\u2019Brien to Barack Obama: ‘The president talks a lot as you know about sort of good versus evil in war. Do you agree with that?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: There have been times in our history where, uh, that requires that we take up arms. Uh, I think the civil war was a just war.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Well, that\u2019s something.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Defeating fascism, uh, and ensuring that Europe was liberated was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How big of you.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What was also interesting about Lincoln, though, during the course of the Civil War was, uh, his recognition that simply because we\u2019ve engaged in something just doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t times where we may act unjustly. Abu Ghraib obviously is something, uh, that all of us should be ashamed for, even if you were supportive of a war. I believe Guantanamo, uh, the decision to detain people without charges is unjust. And so the danger of using good versus evil in the context of war is it may lead us to be not as critical as we should be about our own actions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whew. Okay, here you go, folks, these are the people that want to defend you. These are the people that want to claim to you that they\u2019ll do whatever it takes to protect you, and yet whenever these questions come up, what do they do but attack their own country. Next question. Mrs. Clinton gets it. Soledad O\u2019Brien: ‘I\u2019m going to ask you a delicate question. Infidelity in your marriage was very public, and I have to imagine it was incredibly difficult to deal with, and I would like to know how your faith helped you get through it.\u2019<\/p>\n

HILLARY: Well, I\u2019m not sure I would have gotten through it without my faith, um, and, you know, uh, I take my faith very seriously and very personally, and I come from a tradition that is perhaps a little too suspicious of people who wear their faith on their sleeves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See?<\/p>\n

HILLARY: A lot of the, uh, talk about and advertising about faith, uh, doesn\u2019t come naturally to me. It is something that, uh, you know, I keep thinking of the Pharisees and all of the Sunday school lessons and readings that I had as a child. But I think your — your faith guides you every day, certainly mine does. But at those moments in time when you\u2019re tested, it — it is absolutely essential that you be grounded in your faith.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) Okay. Are you people buying this. Here\u2019s more. She continued her answer with this:<\/p>\n

HILLARY: For some people, being tested in cruel and tragic ways leads them away from faith. Uh, for me, uh, because I\u2019ve been tested in ways that are both publicly known and those that are not so, uh, well known or not known at all —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We know.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: — my faith and the support of my extended faith family, people whom I knew who were literally praying for me in prayer chains, who were prayer warriors for me, and people whom I didn\u2019t know whom I would meet or get a letter from, uh, sustained me through a very difficult time. Um, I am very grateful that I had a grounding in faith that gave me the courage and the strength to do what I thought was right, regardless of what the world thought, and that\u2019s all one can expect or hope for.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (Applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. All right, she\u2019s got some applause. (interruption) Now, you think there\u2019s something noteworthy about what she just said? I mean, ‘It\u2019s all one can expect and hope for regardless what the world thought, do what I thought was right?\u2019 Well, how come that\u2019s not applicable in Iraq, the war on terror? How come what the world thinks is so damned important to all you Democrats, but when it comes to your faith, you don\u2019t care what the world thinks; you\u2019re going to do it your way? Look, I don\u2019t care whether you\u2019re buying this or not. The point of this is, for those of you who are faithful, for those of you who are deeply religious, you can judge whether or not this sounds sincere to you on your own time. The important thing about this that you have to keep in mind is, that they are courting you, that they are out there trying to make you think that they are one of you, and you have to balance that against all the years and years and years you know of where they have impugned you and laughed at you and made fun of you and wished that you weren\u2019t around. So you can take this and interpret it however you wish, but don\u2019t take the political aspect out of it, because that he does primary point here. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. We\u2019re doing a little research here to find out about this group, Sojourners whatever it is, Sojourners Call to Renewal. Who are the Sojourners? ‘It\u2019s an evangelical Christian ministry that preaches radical left-wing politics. It championed communist revolution in Central America.\u2019 Is there any wonder CNN found this bunch to cosponsor this business? ‘The founder is Jim Wallis, and the mission statement here is: ‘The Sojourners is professed to a devotion of the pursuit of social justice. Giving voice to Sojourners\u2019 intense anti-Americanism, Jim Walliscalled the United States, ‘The great power, the great seducer, the great captor, the great destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity in history in its totalitarian claims and designs.”\u2019 The founder of this group has that opinion of the United States of America, and by the way, the source on this is DiscovertheNetwork.org. His bio on this site: ‘Activist preacher and editor of the left-wing Christian magazine Sojourner is a Democrat Party operative. He is an apologist for communist atrocities in Cambodia and Vietnam. He\u2019s a dedicated foe of capitalism and contends that biblical scripture calls for a large central government to aid the poor.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I knew it! I knew it. Just because the guy is on CNN, I knew it. My instincts are such that I didn\u2019t need to read that to know it. I got some details, but I knew it. One more from Mrs. Clinton — and this is a montage of her answer. But she was asked this question by Monsignor Kevin Sullivan of Catholic Charities USA. Remember, this is faith and politics. ‘Mrs. Clinton, you have spoken a lot by our need to work for the common good. In an age in which there is oftentimes narrow and excessive individualism…\u2019 This guy ought… Narrow and excessive? This guy. Do you realize this country could not have been built if these people were around in the 1700s and 1800s? What do you think got \u2019em through to the 1800s? Anyway, let me get to the question here. ‘In an age in which there is oftentimes narrow and excessive individualism, how will you speak to our country about the need for sacrifice and restraint when it comes to the critical issues of taxes, gun control, health care and energy consumption?\u2019 and all this is presented to the CNN audience as ‘faith and politics.\u2019 Here\u2019s a montage of her answers.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: Take health care. I think we could get almost unanimous agreement that having more than 45 million uninsured people, nine million of whom are children, is a moral wrong in America. … An uninsured person who goes to the hospital is more likely to die than an insured person. I mean, that is a fact. So what do we do? We have to build a political consensus, and that requires people giving up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground. The same with energy. You know, we can\u2019t keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil and the need to deal with global warming and the challenge that it poses to our climate — and to God\u2019s creation — and just let business as usual go on. That means something has to be taken away from some people.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (wild applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Something has to be taken away from some people,\u2019 and the CNN audience went berserko. ‘Something has to be taken away from some people.\u2019 That\u2019s Mrs. Clinton. Here is Chris in Old Bridge, New Jersey. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I just wanted to comment. When Hillary was talking, you were playing the sound bite, she was talking about how she acts on her faith and all that, something sparked. I was thinking that maybe that might be the most honest thing that she\u2019s ever said because she never said what her faith was in. She said she acts on her faith.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was waiting for this. I said this to the staff during the break: ‘Did any of you guys hear what she said her faith was in?\u2019 I was reluctant. You know, I don\u2019t like to challenge people\u2019s faith. That happens too much. Faith is deeply personal. That\u2019s why this is not a church. I\u2019m not sitting here in a pulpit, and I don\u2019t do sermons. But I know that people who are deeply faithful can analyze what Mrs. Clinton is saying, and they can figure out whether they think it\u2019s legitimate, genuine or not, and you\u2019ve nailed it. What does she have faith in? She didn\u2019t say. Edwards did. Edwards talked about his belief in Christ. Obama didn\u2019t say, and Hillary didn\u2019t say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. All right, well, I just want to run that by you, and see what you thought about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think it\u2019s a very, very astute observation on your part. In fact, it\u2019s one that I had myself, and anybody that comes up with something I\u2019m thinking before I\u2019ve thought it and therefore before you know it, is pretty bright. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (Chuckles.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: You ought to be feeling really good about yourself today, because you\u2019re on the save wavelength as the host without the host having said something to get you on that wavelength.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you very much, sir. It\u2019s been an honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I\u2019m glad you called. This is something to brag about to your friends and family tonight. I\u2019m not kidding. This doesn\u2019t happen much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve got my wife listening on the computer in the other room and she\u2019s going to come in gloating, so… (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019ll get your gold star for a couple hours, at least. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughs.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: But congratulations. That\u2019s really, really, really, really well done. I was hoping somebody in the audience would ask this question and not me, ad the guy was right there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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