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RUSH: From the Raleigh News and Observer: ‘A debate Wednesday night that focused on Sen. Barack Obama\u2019s potential vulnerabilities was an example of outmoded political ‘gotcha\u2019 games, Obama told a Raleigh audience today. ‘That was the rollout of the Republican campaign against me in November,\u2019 Obama said during a ‘town hall\u2019 meeting at the State Fairgrounds. ‘They will try to focus on all these issues that don\u2019t have anything to do with how you are paying your bills at the end of the month.” Well, that\u2019s none of your business, either, how people are going to pay their bills. That\u2019s not what a president\u2019s supposed to do, Mr. Obama. These questions that have been asked of you are totally legitimate. The people with whom and who you associate are very indicative of the kind of person you are. We all hang around people that we like. We all hang around people that reflect our views. There are some exceptions to this. But I mean everybody that we know that this guy runs around with is a radical, an extreme radical in one form or another. Here is Obama actually on tape whining about this in Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Forty-five minutes before we heard about health care, 45 minutes before we heard about Iraq, 45 minutes before we heard about jobs, 45 minutes before we heard about gas prices. I don\u2019t — I don\u2019t — I don\u2019t blame Washington for this, because that\u2019s just how Washington is. They like stirring up controversy and they like playing gotcha games and getting us to attack each other.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Washington? Washington? The debate was in Philadelphia and it was ABC. By the way, do you not love the way ABC is being attacked by other Drive-By networks as well as the kook fringe leftist blogosphere? Folks, Operation Chaos has tentacles that have gone far beyond the presidential campaign. Operation Chaos now has taken root in America\u2019s newsrooms and America\u2019s networks. But Mr. Obama, 45 minutes before we heard about Iraq, I know everything you think about Iraq. I\u2019ve heard it in 21 debates. I know everything you think about taxes. I\u2019ve heard it in 21 debates. I know everything you think about jobs, gas prices, I\u2019ve heard about it in 21 debates. What I haven\u2019t heard is the answers to the questions that you were asked on Wednesday night. The questions were perfectly justified. Can you imagine any great NFL quarterback after a loss talking to the press about how bad the referees were, how unfair circumstances were, how bad the play calling was, basically blaming everybody but himself? This is what Obama sounds like. This guy is coming off very amateurish. Whining and crying, this man is not a leader, ladies and gentlemen. He\u2019s whining about the questions he got in the debate, and it\u2019s embarrassing to listen to him whine.<\/p>\n

By the way, have you seen the videotape where he\u2019s talking about Clinton twisting the knife in? Have you seen the videotape? He sticks one finger up as he\u2019s scratching his face, and it\u2019s the bird. He\u2019s scratching his face with the bird finger as he\u2019s talking about Hillary, and he\u2019s talking about the Drive-Bys and their tough questioning. You know, this guy\u2019s a spoiled brat. He is a spoiled brat. He\u2019s had it easy. You know that story he told about, ‘Well, I am not an elitist, my mother was on food stamps.\u2019 You know where he was where his mother was on food stamps? At some elitist prep school, some private prep school somewhere that cost a lot of money to get into. You know, Tiger Woods just last week came in second at the Masters, and I don\u2019t know about you, I was stunned when I found out on Monday that he has to go in for knee surgery, the third or fourth surgery on the same knee. He played every tournament this year with a bum knee — and, by the way, Augusta is not an easy place to walk, trust me. I hate walking, period. It\u2019s pointless. But that\u2019s a hilly golf course, it\u2019s not easy to walk, and he didn\u2019t complain. He didn\u2019t blame his loss on his knee. He didn\u2019t even mention it at the Masters. <\/p>\n

He put it on his website to explain why he probably wouldn\u2019t be in another tournament until either the Byron Nelson or maybe the US Open in June. We were shocked. He didn\u2019t complain, he didn\u2019t whine about it. Marty Schottenheimer was asked about how he thought a rookie would play, he would say, ‘We\u2019ll see how he does after he gets hit in the mouth.\u2019 Bill Parcells, when he was the coach of the New England Patriots, and Drew Bledsoe was in his rookie season and Bledsoe got beat up pretty bad in a game, finished the game but was limping, I think it was in Cleveland, limping off the field and somebody asked Parcells in the postgame press conference, ‘How do you think he\u2019s going to do?\u2019 He says, ‘We\u2019ll see, I can\u2019t tell you.\u2019 Now, Parcells could have said, ‘He\u2019s a tough guy, he\u2019ll come out.\u2019 He was waiting to see what happened, and Bledsoe didn\u2019t complain. These guys don\u2019t. Obama complains. Obama is whining. Obama wants us to feel sorry for him. He gives a great speech, but he can\u2019t take a punch, he\u2019s weak, and he whines. I\u2019m sure some women find that attractive because they would look at him as a little boy and would want to protect him from the evils of the mean, bad press and that evil witch, Hillary. But it embarrasses me as a man. <\/p>\n

This reminds me, I saw something, this is some weeks ago now, somebody had a theory as to why women were flocking to Obama in droves. It was because he was so skinny, and the fact that he was so skinny made them worry, like mothers worry that he\u2019s maybe underfed, it was a rousing maternal instinct. Look at the poor boy, he\u2019s so skinny. I can\u2019t recall, I don\u2019t know whose theory this was, if it was a man\u2019s or woman\u2019s or not. But, anyway, it\u2019s embarrassing to listen to this guy whine and moan. And Clinton\u2019s even out there, (doing Clinton impression) ‘You know what? Hillary didn\u2019t whine, and she\u2019s not crying. And Obama is.\u2019 Everybody\u2019s noticing this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, who\u2019s next? Sean in Hermosa Beach, California. Welcome to Open Line Friday. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s a thrill to be on the show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I was listening yesterday, and I\u2019ve been listening today about your Doomsday Option where the superdelegates are supposed to ditch the affirmative action candidates and bring in a third candidate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And at first I was alarmed and scared, and I\u2019m thinking, well, you\u2019re kind of coaching them, Rush, but as a thinking —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t think they aren\u2019t thinking it themselves.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, exactly. I put myself in their shoes, which was hard because I was sober, and I said, ‘Well, they\u2019ve probably already thought about that.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) <\/p>\n

CALLER: And it came to my mind that you were just kind of pulling a Jedi mind trick on them and kind of reverse psychology and they\u2019d be thinking, ‘Well, if Rush says that, maybe we shouldn\u2019t be thinking that.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, you\u2019re very shrewd, sir, very shrewd. You know how I know that both you and I are right about this? Two things. Yesterday, I suggest that the superdelegates bag these two and get a third candidate. Yesterday afternoon, Dr. Dean goes on CNN to demand the superdelegates stop messing around and choose a candidate now. Then the New York Times today has a story, ‘superdelegates unmoved by debate and will be unmoved by Pennsylvania primary results.\u2019 That is a crock. If Democrats really want to win the White House, they had to be alarmed as they could be after that debate, because Obama got one thing right, whatever happened there, he was up against a Republican campaign, and he didn\u2019t do well.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know what, Rush? Those superdelegates, they could care less what their other fellow delegates think, much less what the people think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Voters, right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019ll do whatever they want to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and they don\u2019t care what Howard Dean says, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re more concerned of what I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: By the way, Rush, if it\u2019s a fight between you and Howard Dean, I\u2019m happy with that lineup.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am, too. Fight between Howard Dean and me for control of the Democrat Party. Let\u2019s listen to a little bit more Obama as he\u2019s whining and moaning in Raleigh yesterday. This is his comment about Hillary twisting the knife.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I have to say, you know, Senator Clinton, you know, looked in her element, you know, she was — she was taking every opportunity to get a dig in there. You know. That\u2019s all right. I — that\u2019s her right. That\u2019s her right, to kind of twist the knife a little bit, you know, that\u2019s why, that\u2019s all right, that\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is pathetic.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: That\u2019s the lesson that she learned when the Republicans were doing that same thing to her back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yesterday in St. Mary\u2019s, Pennsylvania, former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: When I watched that debate last night I got kind of tickled, when the other guy, after the campaign, her opponent was, the people working were saying, ‘Oh, this is so negative, why are they doing this?\u2019 Well, they\u2019ve been beating up on her for 15 months. I didn\u2019t hear her whining when he said she was untruthful in Iowa. <\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, that\u2019s enough. Clinton is sounding more and more like my impersonation of him every day. When that started, I thought, ‘Is that me?\u2019 Mr. President, your wife hasn\u2019t whined? How about, ‘How come I always get the first question?\u2019 (crying) You and your wife have been whining for 25 years about stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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