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RUSH: Jim, thanks for waiting, and welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, I\u2019ll tell you what, I\u2019ve listened to you since 1989. I so admire you. You say everything I want to say articulately, diligently, and to the point. I…cannot believe I\u2019m being actually talking to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s your lucky day. I\u2019m flattered with your comments. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. Brevity is the soul of wit, and that\u2019s why I try to get in, get it, and get out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush I\u2019ll try to be as articulate because I\u2019m a little nervous because I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m actually speaking to you, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I want to say this to all callers: nobody expects a caller to be as articulate or as succinct as I am. Nobody has that expectation. So you shouldn\u2019t be nervous.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, well, I\u2019ll tell you what, I have so many things I would love to sit down and talk to you about, but I will get to the point really quick. I would like to hear… I have not heard a single word out of Hillary Clinton discussing the immigration bill, and why I say that is that I sent a letter to both senators of my great state of Ohio, Sherrod Brown and George Voinovich, and I am very much a conservative, and I voted for Voinovich in the last election. I did receive an e-mail back from Sherrod Brown, who blamed everything on NAFTA, and Voinovich I never heard a single word from, but after calling his office relentlessly last week —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. I thought you said you haven\u2019t heard Hillary say anything about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I have not heard anything from Hillary, but I\u2019m just saying what I find interesting is that the ones that voted for cloture, I don\u2019t hear anything from, nothing — except for Sherrod Brown, which I expected to hear from him anyway because he wants to blame everything on NAFTA.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You may not hear from them personally but they\u2019re out there speaking, and Hillary has come out. After the vote failed, she had a couple of things to say in a press conference. I don\u2019t know if she put out a press release on it or anything. But she\u2019s not making a big deal of it in her campaign. They\u2019re heading into Iowa, she and Bill are heading into Iowa today for four days. She can\u2019t get it done without him out there. I\u2019ve got a story on it. We\u2019ll get to it in due course. (interruption) Well, Barack raised more money than Hillary, but that\u2019s not the full story. She\u2019s going to be the nominee. You know, Howard Dean raised more money than anybody else, and he lost in the first Hawkeye cauci. That\u2019s where John Kerry\u2019s, quote, unquote, ‘electability\u2019 surfaced, is when Dean bombed out. Clinton, Inc., hasn\u2019t even started working on Obama yet, I think. Look, you gotta remember something. I warned you about this many, many moons ago. The Clintons, they\u2019re sort of conflicted with this whole concept of inevitability. They like it but they don\u2019t like it at the same time, because the whole concept of inevitability of her being elected president, they think can work negatively and positively. So having Barack out there as something she must overcome — she must win a fight, must overcome this obstacle — is something that they probably secretly like. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t think that they ever expected him to be raising this kind of money. If you add all these numbers up, the Democrat candidates have raised a total — in this year, I think, of what\u2019s been reported — of about $61 million, and nine of that is Edwards. Edwards is just nowhere, folks. As far as money is concerned, he\u2019s literally nowhere, compared to Hillary and Barack and of course none of the others are raising any significant money, either, but if you add them all up to $61 million… I don\u2019t know where the Republicans are. I don\u2019t even think they\u2019re halfway there if you add them up as a field. But too much emphasize I think is put on money, particularly during primaries. Mrs. Clinton, seven million, I think, of her total is for the general election, which is a positive thing for her, because it shows she\u2019s able to go out and get $7 million for the general election right now before she\u2019s even won the primary. Barack doesn\u2019t have any money for the general election, obviously. So they have numbers of ways of looking at this, plus there are so many institutions. Media Matters for America and all these other little organizations that are just extensions of the Clintons, that don\u2019t count when you start raising money.<\/p>\n

But how much are they worth when all this free publicity and attacks that they dole out on any opponent of Hillary Clinton? So, yeah, if you just look at the money in one sense, you would conclude that Barack\u2019s doing very well and Hillary isn\u2019t, but he doesn\u2019t have nearly the organization that she does. I think she\u2019s got the same problems that nobody else is going to have. She\u2019s got problems of likability, and she\u2019s got problems of reality. She\u2019s not a real person. Nobody really knows who the real Hillary is, and she hasn\u2019t had to put that on display much yet. She\u2019s going to have to do a pretty good job of covering that up. You know, money is one thing, and it\u2019s the mother\u2019s milk of politics. At the same time, there\u2019s this thing that Barack is doing right now and that is that he is generating — in addition to that, the money is an indication of this — a lot of popularity, a lot of excitement. There seems to be a big buzz. Frankly, he\u2019s got 154,000 individual donors that have given a total of $31 million. I find it amazing. You watch this stuff, and I don\u2019t see this happening out there. I see it happening in the media, but I don\u2019t see it happening. Yet the money rolls in. They can\u2019t lie about the numbers. So it\u2019s obviously real. You just don\u2019t see the evidence of it, other than, as I say, in the media — and that could be where the excitement is actually being generated. <\/p>\n

Then of course you have as David Ehrenstein in the LA Times in an op-ed piece back in March pointed out the ‘magic negro\u2019 aspect of the Barack campaign. A lot of guilty white liberals can say they\u2019re supporting Obama right now and make themselves feel better and prove to everybody that they\u2019re not racists, even though they have no clue what he stands for. So it\u2019s all very fluid, but I think the only thing the Clintons are really unhappy about and surprised about is the amount of money that Barack has raised. The fact that he\u2019s still there? They Clintons haven\u2019t even started trying to take the guy out yet. We\u2019re talking Clinton, Inc., here, folks. (interruption) I have just been asked, ‘Can they afford to do their usual tricks on Barack?\u2019 Yes, of course they can, because all their usual tricks never have their fingerprints on them. That\u2019s one of the key elements of Clinton, Inc. You don\u2019t know who did it! What happened to Howard Dean? Howard Dean was taken out in the Hawkeye cauci. Somebody released a letter from that Dean had written Clinton when he was president, saying we needed to do something about Iraq, we need to do something about Saddam Hussein, and of course Howard Dean was running an anti-war, anti-this campaign — and, well, we all know who released it. It had to be Clinton\u2019s office, but nobody ever knew it for sure. All that was reported was, ‘O, look at this letter Howard Dean wrote!\u2019 That\u2019s a classic illustration of how Clinton, Inc. functions. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, look, I want to clarify something here, too, about Mrs. Clinton and her fundraising along with Obama. They both have a lot of money. It would be one thing if Obama had raised 31 and Hillary had raised nine like the Breck Girl. But what is it, 31-24? They both have a lot of money, and you\u2019ve got to remember, all of these front groups, they don\u2019t tally the financial value of these front groups. Media Matters, The Center for American Progress, they\u2019re all her groups, and they\u2019re all supposedly ‘independent\u2019 and supposedly ‘non-ideological,\u2019 supposedly ‘charitable\u2019 and ‘nonprofit,\u2019 and this sort of thing. But they\u2019re Hillary fundraising groups, or front groups that go out and promote her and attack her enemies — and how do you put a dollar value on that? That\u2019s part of Clinton, Inc. <\/p>\n

She will be the nominee, there\u2019s no question about it, and it\u2019s going to be tough for her. She\u2019s going to have trouble concealing her hated personality. She\u2019s not a likable woman. Everybody knows this, and they\u2019re worried about it, but her leftist agenda. How\u2019s she going to hide that? Especially in the primaries, she\u2019s going to have to really trumpet that leftist agenda. The New York Times, as I mentioned earlier, too, is smearing Fred Thompson and getting nowhere doing it. I mentioned earlier that if they really want to start looking at lobbying efforts that have actually been reported in newspapers, LA Times and the Atlanta Journal Constipation, to have real potential criminal implications, that would be Harry Reid and his kids, and some of the shenanigans they\u2019ve done in Nevada — and that has direct links to the Senate. But even forgetting Dingy Harry, look at Hillary\u2019s husband. Hillary\u2019s husband earns tens of millions of dollars talking to companies, special interests, which money belongs to her, too! That\u2019s no big deal. Well, yes, it gets filed jointly in her reports of their wealth and so forth. Absolutely it\u2019s hers. He\u2019s out there talking to Dubai. He\u2019s out there talking to all these foreign governments. He\u2019s taking money from them. You don\u2019t think this is lobbying? In fact in the Dubai Ports deal, Clinton was a hired lobbyist. He was out there trying to make the US Congress go ahead and vote for the Dubai Ports deal! <\/p>\n

The idea heathens lobbying? The idea he\u2019s not engaged in some kind of chicanery here and nefarious activity? All of these people that are paying Clinton, all of this money to make speeches are banking one thing. They are banking on Hillary becoming president, and if you look at the media it\u2019s all Hillary all the time, all Democrat all the time, that\u2019s what everybody\u2019s focused on. Now, while they\u2019re attacking Fred Thompson and they\u2019re trying to make Fred Thompson look dirty with lobbying and his sons, there is a far more direct link and question when Hillary\u2019s husband is raking in tens of millions and they\u2019re bragging about it, as they always do! They\u2019re out there bragging about how much money they\u2019re earning. (Clinton impression) ‘I don\u2019t need that tax cut, you know, but they want to give it to me.\u2019 Well, I have not seen anybody offer the government any money back on the Clintons side. They\u2019re taking in tens of million dollars talking to everything from insurance companies, farm groups, the Saudis. They\u2019re paying Clinton big bucks to get to her, because she\u2019s the one who will have power. This is how they work! Hillary is getting this money. It\u2019s hers, just as it is his, because it all has to be reported. It\u2019s contributing to both of their wealth. Clinton\u2019s out there. He\u2019s just a blowhard right now but he\u2019s doing the front work. He\u2019s making all the money and he\u2019s making the contacts for her because that\u2019s what this is all about. That\u2019s how Clinton, Inc., works. You haven\u2019t seen Obama over there talking to Saudis, have you? You haven\u2019t seen Obama over in Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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