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RUSH: To Dallas, this is Marilyn. Glad you called, Marilyn. Nice to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, Rush. It\u2019s so good to talk to you!<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019m calling because I know using Obama\u2019s religion and the sermons, are taking him off guard. But I am so worried about religion being thrown into this, because I think it eliminates any chance that Romney might be picked as a vice presidential candidate, because that would open the field for them to use his Mormonism against him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to Romney anyway, but the Jeremiah Wright stuff is not really about religion.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there\u2019s such a thin line, though, between racism and religion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, but it\u2019s not even about racism. The racism is in the Democrat Party. Let me tell you what the Reverend Wright stuff is really all about. It\u2019s religious to the extent that he\u2019s a pastor. What the Jeremiah Wright stuff is all about is: Just who the hell are Obama\u2019s friends? It\u2019s not just Jeremiah Wright. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s terrorists — Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn — who are still attempting to infect and pollute the American college student with anti-American rhetoric. They\u2019re blowing the country up with bombs, now. He has questionable relationships with sleazy people, with people that we would not want anywhere near having influence in the Oval Office. Jeremiah Wright\u2019s problems do not stem from his religion; so much as they stem from his hatred of this country, for his rabble-rousing and his conspiratorial beliefs about this evils of this country and its government. Obama has said that he\u2019s a ‘spiritual advisor\u2019 and ‘mentor.\u2019 He\u2019s been in that church for 20 years. You choose your pastor. It is simply unbelievable to hear Obama say that he was unaware that Wright believed these things or said these things for 20 years. Obama is a calculating Chicago machine politician who knew that he needed a black church to give him street cred should he seek public office beyond the state of Illinois. He refuses to get out of this situation with Bill Ayers. The real question is: Who\u2019s Obama? We know who Wright is. Who\u2019s Obama, now? And do we take the chance? We know who Bill Ayers is. We know what he\u2019s done and we know he\u2019s proud of it. Who\u2019s Obama? Obama has tried to hide who he really is, but it\u2019s now coming out. Really, this has nothing to do with religion.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, all this talk about it\u2019s been so difficult to Obama to leave his pastor. That\u2019s not what happened. Wright retired. Obama\u2019s pastor left him! Who is Obama\u2019s pastor now? It\u2019s a good question. Is it the new guy that replaced Wright at the church in Chicago?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Don in Vermilion, Ohio. Don, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I almost missed you. I had to take a quick commercial break there. Reverend Wright, when he came back out with his first interview the other day, he said that he\u2019d never talked politics to Barack Obama. I really believe that one. And Barack Obama says the same thing. He also, at the end of his show, plugged his new book that\u2019s coming out in two or three months. Is that why he came back out? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it might be. Everybody wants money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And nobody has enough. And the liberals try to tell other people they have enough but for them it\u2019s never enough. Reverend Wright just had a house given to him in a white neighborhood with a $10 million line of credit in addition to the $1.6 million house.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Poor people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Look it, of course he\u2019s out there trying to sell a book. But that is poppycock to say that he and Obama never discussed politics. Wright\u2019s sermons are politics. We had a caller not long ago, ‘I really resent religion being part of the campaign.\u2019 This is not religion. The Democrats have injected race, anti-Americanism, and all kinds of extreme radical politics into this campaign. This isn\u2019t about religion.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, him and Barack Obama both have said that the sermon that he gave, the snippets are all about, that that was an old sermon, six years old, and six years ago he wouldn\u2019t have been comparing Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton. So this is a sermon he brought back out–<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let\u2019s not sharpen our pencils too much here. There are a lot of sermons from 2000 to 2007 that have been mangled and so forth. The point is people have now gotten their hands on all of these sermons. It\u2019s even worse. Plus Jeremiah Wright\u2019s out there saying, hey, I\u2019m not the one who said America\u2019s chickens have come home to roost, our ambassador to Iraq said it. Well, the ambassador to Iraq, Mr. Peck, has just told Fox News he didn\u2019t say what he said I said. (paraphrasing) ‘I didn\u2019t say what Obama\u2019s preacher said I said about chickens coming home to roost or, you know, 9\/11 being a product of our terrorism around the world.\u2019 None of these guys can be straight. That\u2019s another thing that argues against Obama being some kind of new politician. He\u2019s not. There\u2019s no such thing. We have seen in this country since our founding every possible configuration of politician. It is not possible for one to come along who has never come along before. It is not possible for a politician to come along and espouse policies or have a charismatic attitude or a prescription to fix all that\u2019s wrong that has not come before. They\u2019re a dime a dozen. Some are better than others because some are more sincere than others. But the idea that we\u2019re going to get somebody new that has never before trod the earth as a politician leading us out of bondage or whatever has got us in bondage, it\u2019s all poppycock. It\u2019s all marketing and packaging brought to us by the sycophants in the Drive-By Media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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