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RUSH: Now, for the past two days, I have been lamenting the fact that the Republican Party is officially — well, not officially yet, but people behind the scenes at the RNC are leaking this without attribution, they\u2019re deeply strategerizing how to criticize Obama without running the risk of being accused of racism and bigotry and all of that, which is another reason why I want to extend Hillary\u2019s run here so that Obama gets bloodied up because it\u2019s apparent that the Republicans aren\u2019t going to bloody him up. In fact, yesterday in the opening monologue, I repeated, reprised, the question I so often ask of people to take time to consider: How is it that in less than 250 years a population of less than 300 million has come to be so dominant the world? Never before in human history has there been an America, not even close, and we\u2019re no different than anybody else in terms of DNA and humanity. We\u2019re no different. How has this happened? What\u2019s the reason? There are substantive reasons. I got an e-mail from a guy responding to this. <\/p>\n

Dear Rush: I agree that freedom is first and foremost the reason America is exceptional. But there\u2019s another thing which is born of freedom that makes America exceptional. America is the greatest collection of ass-whooping warriors the earth has ever seen, from a ragtag bunch of drunks, old men, and youth, the Continental army defeated the greatest empire in the world, at the time to earn independence. We repelled the nation a second time in 1812. The story goes on over and over the same way until the 1960s and the rule of liberalism. World War I, World War II, you name it, we are a nation of warriors. <\/emphasize><\/p>\n

He is exactly right. This is from William, he\u2019s a subscriber to Rush 24\/7. But he\u2019s exactly right. We are a nation of warriors, for good. We liberate the oppressed, we do not conquer. The reason that his e-mail resonated is that our political party, the Republican Party, has no warriors, in the political sense. None. None are willing to fight the premise of liberalism. None are willing to fight the premise behind the liberal Democrat agenda. Well, there are exceptions to this. John Boehner right now is doing something very good in the House. He is trying to humiliate the Democrats into voting for the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) that the Senate passed. So there are spurts of it. But of course we never see Republicans on TV attacking liberals the way we are constantly attacked. We don\u2019t have warriors. We have some, they\u2019re just not in elected office, at least federally. I think there are some effervescence out there, if you will, in the warriors class in the state legislatures, governors mansions, and this sort of thing, but it is an excellent point, and here is an illustration of what I\u2019m talking about. <\/p>\n

McCain is in Cincinnati. Mrs. Bill Clinton is reporting that a McCain supporter repeatedly calls Barack Obama [instead] Barack Hussein Obama. This supporter — it was essentially a talk show host but I\u2019m not sure, was on the mic at a McCain rally and kept referring to Obama as Barack Hussein Obama. Now, may I ask a simple question? Is that his name? It is. So why can\u2019t it be used? Because McCain apologized for this. McCain went out there, after the event was over and virtually apologized and said that kind of disparaging reference to his opponent is not the way he runs his campaign. He said he accepts full responsibility for it because his campaign set up the event but he didn\u2019t know that the talk show host was going to be speaking. So it\u2019s Barack Hussein Obama. Now, we don\u2019t make a big deal out of it here, but other people do, and it happened at a McCain rally. McCain went out there, (doing McCain impression) ‘I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s uncalled for. It\u2019s uncalled for in American politics. I take full responsibility, although he did it. I didn\u2019t even know he was going to be here.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, what if McCain\u2019s middle name was Adolf instead of Sidney? His name is Sidney. What if Obama, what if the Democrats started talking about John Sidney McCain? Is somebody going to say, ‘We\u2019re not going to tolerate that? That\u2019s the kind of disparaging reference to my opponent we\u2019re not going to put up with.\u2019 His middle name is Hussein. ‘Come on, Rush, you know they\u2019re trying to use it in a disparaging way.\u2019 How? Because of Saddam Hussein, because it\u2019s an Arabic name, what? It\u2019s his name. As I say, we don\u2019t make a big deal out of it here, but this just illustrates the fact, we\u2019re not even going to do that. In fact, if somebody does call him Hussein, we\u2019re going to apologize for it because it\u2019s disparaging. So we\u2019re going into this defensively. Some of you may think strategically it\u2019s wise to stay away from it because it\u2019s only going to gin up sympathy for him because the name is obviously highly charged. But, you know, you can\u2019t call Barack Obama a liberal. I have a story in the stack here, he doesn\u2019t want to be called a liberal — no, no, you can\u2019t call him a liberal. I\u2019m not kidding. I\u2019m going to find it in the stack here somewhere. He does not want to be called a liberal. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s in the Boston Globe. He bristles at it when people call him a liberal. Well, let me find it. I can do many things at once. Sit tight. Let\u2019s see. Is this it? ‘Just Don\u2019t Call Barack Obama Liberal, Okey Doke?\u2019 That\u2019s the headline. It\u2019s by Peter Canellos. ‘In his radio and TV ads that are blanketing Texas, Barack Obama claims a chief executive can make more money ‘in 10 minutes\u2019 than an ordinary worker makes in a year. Obama wants to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, enact a national health plan, offer a $4,000-a-year tuition reimbursement in exchange for national service, and have the government intervene to prevent home foreclosures. But he doesn\u2019t want anyone to call him a liberal. For despite Obama\u2019s vow to build a working majority for change — to win a clear mandate for his progressive agenda, rather than engage in Clinton-like ‘triangulation\u2019 — he\u2019s not yet willing to own the L-word. … Now that John McCain has all but secured the GOP nod, he\u2019s been trying to cast Obama as a liberal. The National Journal recently obliged by publishing a survey declaring Obama the most liberal senator. The survey itself was highly subjective — based on a limited number of recent votes — but it nonetheless pegged Obama as a liberal. <\/p>\n

‘On Friday, Obama responded — by denying it. ‘Oh, he\u2019s liberal, he\u2019s liberal,\u2019 Obama said, mimicking his critics. ‘Let me tell you something. There\u2019s nothing liberal about wanting to reduce money in politics. That is common sense. There\u2019s nothing liberal about wanting to make sure [our soldiers] are treated properly when they come home. … There\u2019s nothing liberal about wanting to make sure that everybody has healthcare. We are spending more on healthcare in this country than any other advanced country, but we\u2019ve got more uninsured. There\u2019s nothing liberal about saying that doesn\u2019t make sense, and we should do something smarter with our healthcare system.\u2019 Obama has invented a phrase for actions that smack of politics-as-usual: okey-doke. Of the liberal charge, Obama thundered: ‘Don\u2019t let them run that ‘okey doke\u2019 on you.”<\/p>\n

Okay, so his name is off limits, can\u2019t use Hussein. You can\u2019t call him a liberal. What other fact about Obama are we not going to be allowed to talk about? That\u2019s right, can\u2019t talk about his ears, either, because when Maureen Dowd made some comment about his ears, he went straight into the crowd and said, ‘I\u2019m very sensitive about my ears.\u2019 She said, ‘We\u2019re trying to toughen you up.\u2019 Well, it hasn\u2019t worked. Can\u2019t use the name Hussein, can\u2019t call him a liberal, and this is the kind of thing — look, it\u2019s brilliant on Obama\u2019s part. He\u2019s setting the rules, and everybody\u2019s going to abide by them. Republican National Committee, ‘Okay, we can\u2019t call him a liberal because he\u2019s going to tear into us, we don\u2019t want him tearing into us.\u2019 Well, I don\u2019t know how you\u2019re going to characterize his policies if you don\u2019t call him a liberal. And, by the way, what\u2019s so bad about being a liberal? How come none of these liberals want to be called liberals? <\/p>\n

See, Obama\u2019s no different than any of the rest of them, folks. No different at all. Nothing new here. The only thing new is the Democrats have now made it official that their guiding principle is ‘America sucks.\u2019 But they have to mask who they are, they have to disguise themselves, camouflage themselves, whatever, you call them a liberal, and it\u2019s a personal attack. So Obama\u2019s now said liberal is off limits, can\u2019t do it. What will Republicans do? Your guess is as good as mine, but I hope they don\u2019t shy away from that. This Hussein business, that could backfire. It\u2019s so charged. It\u2019s almost one of those things that could arouse sympathy for Obama, but regardless, I can\u2019t believe that somebody\u2019s name is off limits. I just don\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I have a question about this business that we can\u2019t use ‘Barack Hussein Obama,\u2019 or if somebody in McCain\u2019s camp does, McCain is going to apologize for it. They\u2019re going to get rid of this disparaging term. If Obama is given a free pass because of his father\u2019s heritage — you know, one generation — then a question. Are all white Americans going to continue to be held responsible for their alleged racist forbearers, multiple generations removed? Of course! (laughter) Why ask? It\u2019s a stupid question. Of course they are. But you could say, ‘Okay, Obama. You don\u2019t want the name Hussein used. We\u2019ll give you a pass, if black America gives all of us a pass.\u2019 Isn\u2019t that what the primary reason that a lot of white Americans want Barack Obama is because Barack Obama offers absolution for sins that they aren\u2019t even responsible for? It\u2019s the whole ‘Magic Negro\u2019 concept, that white people vote for him not knowing what he stands for and don\u2019t care what he stands for because it makes them feel like they\u2019re getting rid of their racial sins — discrimination, racism — they never even committed. So this is classic example, by the way. Somebody called here and asked if Obama is actually elected president, is it going to end racism in America? It\u2019s going to get even better. It\u2019s going to expand. The race business will become more heated than ever before. You wait, folks. I know what I\u2019m talking about, here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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