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RUSH: Operation Chaos continues to inflict casualties, ladies and gentlemen, big time. Rampant confusion, arguments among Hillary and Obama big donors at private cocktail parties on Fifth Avenue in New York, with Howard Dean in the middle of the fight. This happened late last week, Thursday night, at the home of Maureen White and Steve Rattner, who is Little Pinch Sulzberger\u2019s best friend. Yeah, greetings, my friends, and welcome, it\u2019s Rush Limbaugh. We are here with broadcast excellence for three hours at the infamous distinguished highly respected and greatly feared Excellence in Broadcasting Network. I am your host, the highly trained broadcast specialist, Rush Limbaugh, showing how it\u2019s done. Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, as always, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

They are blaming me for Hillary losing, and they are blaming me for Obama not being able to wrap it up yet, on the cable news networks on CNN. Operation Chaos continues to unfold. Note what state Albuquerque is in. Albuquerque is in the state of New Mexico. You know who the governor of New Mexico is? Bill Richardson is the governor of New Mexico. ‘Hillary Clinton vowed a strong fight in the remainder of the Democrat presidential nominating contest. She brushed aside any notion of bowing out yesterday during a fundraiser in Albuquerque, which raked in about $150,000. ‘I\u2019m going to campaign hard in all the remaining states,\u2019 she said. She flew in and flew out of New Mexico for the fundraiser. ‘I want to tell you the campaign\u2019s going well.\u2019 She said anybody who believes that she should bow out of a race against Obama, who leads in the delegate count, should take a lesson from college basketball\u2019s final four. ‘Why should anybody play North Carolina? You saw what happened last night,\u2019 said Hillary, referring to Kansas\u2019 upset win over the Tar Heels.\u2019 No accident here that she goes out to New Mexico, flies in, flies out, does a fundraiser, saying that she is not going to leave the campaign. She is not going to get out. <\/p>\n

Folks, I find it fascinating here that Mrs. Clinton, on the one hand, says that we have to get out of Iraq, we just have to, and so does Obama, we gotta get out of Iraq. Our country has a better chance of winning in the Middle East than she has of winning the Democrat primary, yet she wants to fight to the end in her campaign, but quit in Iraq. Did you hear about Nancy Pelosi over the weekend late last week? I think it was on Friday, the day I was off and went to the memorial service for William F. Buckley. Nancy Pelosi issued a warning to General Petraeus, who\u2019s due to testify with the ambassador to Iraq, Mr. Crocker, sometime this week, and Pelosi said, (paraphrasing) ‘Don\u2019t you dare come up here and give us good news, because we\u2019re not going to believe it because there isn\u2019t any. Don\u2019t you dare.\u2019 It\u2019s a warning shot across the bow. Clinton master strategerist Mark Penn is no longer her strategerist. I\u2019ve often wondered, ladies and gentlemen, just why the smartest woman in the world needs somebody to strategerize for her. Why does the smartest woman in the world need anybody on her campaign team? At any rate, typical Clinton fashion, he\u2019s out doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s out. He\u2019s out as a strategerist but he\u2019s not out as her pollster. <\/p>\n

Mark Penn owns Burson-Marsteller, which is a PR firm, and the problem is, ladies and gentlemen, that he consorted with our South American ally, Colombia, to help them get a free trade agreement passed. While the left is sucking up to the anti-trade unions, Mrs. Clinton will now do anything to win, dissing NAFTA. And so Penn, who\u2019s got a side business, a PR agency and so forth, is out there actually lobbying for the free trade agreement with Colombia to work. And this is important. I don\u2019t think a lot of people understand why this is important, I\u2019ll get to that in a second. The Democrat Party, Pelosi on down, Dingy Harry Reid, are all standing with their constituents and the big unions and denying — and this is a huge ally of ours and it would make all kinds of great economic sense, plus it would provide a bulwark against Hugo Chavez and some of the other communist dictatorships in South America. But because of the campaign, we can\u2019t normalize relations with Colombia. Democrats opposing free trade again — you could easily call this the Uribe or Chavez decision. If we weaken our ally of Colombia we strengthen the Chavez regime, and if we of course strengthen Colombia we weaken the Hugo Chavez regime. So the question: Do we want him to get stronger or weaker? Liberals in Congress are waiting and watching the union bosses for marching orders. All of South America is watching us for direction. Freedom or Hugo Chavez? And in this case, it\u2019s up to the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

Now, while all this is going on with Mark Penn, he\u2019s out, but not really out. This has not gotten much play. But this hit on April the 4th, and I\u2019m flying back from New York Friday afternoon, and I\u2019m watching TV. This didn\u2019t get hardly any play at all. ‘A key adviser to Senator Obama\u2019s campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office. The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the center-left Center for a New American Security.\u2019 It\u2019s a left-wing bunch. ‘In ‘Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement,\u2019 Mr. Kahl writes that through negotiations with the Iraqi government ‘the US should aim to transition to a sustainable over-watch posture (of perhaps 60,000-80,000 forces) by the end of 2010 (although the specific timelines should be the byproduct of negotiations and conditions on the ground).”<\/p>\n

I guarantee you this is what\u2019s going to happen, if either of these two win, we\u2019re not pulling out of Iraq, despite what they say during their campaign. ‘This is not the first time the opinion of an adviser to the Obama campaign has differed with the candidate\u2019s stated Iraq policy. In February, Mr. Obama\u2019s first foreign policy tutor, Samantha Power, told BBC that the senator\u2019s current Iraq plan would likely change based on the advice of military commanders in 2009. She has since resigned her position as a formal adviser. Mr. Kahl\u2019s approach would call on the remaining troops in Iraq to play an ‘over-watch role.\u2019 The term is used by Multinational Forces Iraq to describe the long-term goal of the coalition force presence in the country, Mr. Kahl said in an interview. ‘It refers to the US being out of the lead, largely in a support role. It doesn\u2019t mean the U.S. does not do things like targeted counter-terrorism missions or continue to train and advise the Iraqis,\u2019 he said. ‘It would not be 150,000 Americans taking the lead in counterinsurgency.” This is from the Obama campaign — and I know a lot of you liberals religiously listen to this program while never admitting it — is this clear to you? ‘Pulling out\u2019 in the Obama campaign means leaving 60,000 to 80,000 troops on the ground in Iraq. It doesn\u2019t mean total withdrawal. <\/p>\n

A lot of reaction here to the Clintons\u2019 income as reported in their tax returns. I\u2019m not an accountant, by the way. I do not play one on the radio. But I think since some people are missing one of the real angles in the so-called Clinton income shocker, $109 million in seven years. Now, first, I don\u2019t begrudge anybody making money. I don\u2019t care, even those who get money thrown at them like Clinton does. I do not begrudge anybody who earns money. The $109 million, though, not the whole story. That $109 million is the money that went directly, to them, it doesn\u2019t include the money, if any, that went to the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor. It doesn\u2019t include any money that went to the Clinton family trust. Nor does it include any of the money that went to the Clinton Foundation. Just last year, the Clinton Foundation got contributions of $109 million, pledges of another $105 million and then some $3 million of other income, so that\u2019s $132 million in revenues, $92 million in expenses, so you have a surplus there of $40 million. Now, the forms do not include any deferred income. Deferred income is money that\u2019s earned and not paid in the present tax year. <\/p>\n

Now, a lot of people are making a big deal out of the Clinton Family Foundation, because the large 10% charitable donation that\u2019s reported in their returns went to the Clinton Family Foundation. That\u2019s fine. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that. I\u2019ve seen something that a very small percentage of what they\u2019ve donated to their family foundation has actually been paid out. The rules on foundations are quite simple. Anybody can set one up. And let\u2019s use Clinton numbers, for example. Let\u2019s say the Clintons wanted to set up a family foundation, which they did, and the year they set it up, let\u2019s say they fund it with $10 million. They get an immediate tax deduction of $10 million in that year, but they only have to dole it out in small increments. I think you only have to give away, I\u2019m guessing at the figure, 5% a year. And a lot of people do this. Now, they lose control of the money, don\u2019t misunderstand, it\u2019s not theirs when it goes to the family foundation. It\u2019s a charitable donation. Then that foundation in turn donates to charities that the trustees are interested in. However, if you look at one of the donations from the Clinton Family Foundation, it went to a library in South Carolina, a local South Carolina library the day after Mrs. Clinton debated in the early primary there in South Carolina. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what I think is going on with this presidential campaign. As much as the Clintons want to get their mitts on the country and bend it, shape it, form it, as liberals, the best they can, but if you have four more years of Clinton, or nine, whatever it is, the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton family trust, the Clinton Library and Massage Parlors, the Clinton speaking fees, can you imagine how much money they would rake in? This is a business as much as it is politics. It is Clinton, Inc., but these are the people who routinely run around and say, (doing Clinton impression) ‘We don\u2019t need those Bush tax cuts. I never had any money before in my life, but I love telling you, because I know it bugs Limbaugh, I love telling you how rich Hillary and I have gotten. But you can see from these returns Hillary didn\u2019t contribute diddly-squat. Ten million bucks. And I campaigned and brought in the rest. I\u2019m the breadwinner, always have been the breadwinner. She\u2019s adjunct. But we combine it all. The reason why we want to win, of course we want to turn the country into Moscow West, but we also want to keep earning the big bucks so we can tell people how rich we are, how we don\u2019t need tax cuts and so forth. That way the little people out there think we love \u2019em, ha-ha, while we laugh at \u2019em as I go to bed every night in my bed and she goes to bed in hers.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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