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RUSH: Snerdley, I\u2019m still not sure I read that right. Obama is down in Miami, he\u2019s talking to the Cuban exile community, they hate the Castros, they despise the Castros, they want the Castros overthrown, they want their island nation back. They don\u2019t want the embargo lifted, and Obama is telling them that we need to have diplomatic relations with no preconditions with the Castros and he\u2019s still standing there? They have not run him out of the building?<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: Live from the Southern Command in sunny south Florida via New York City, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: He then said something about democracy is more than just the ballot box. I really think this dweeb is making it up as he goes along. I don\u2019t even think he\u2019s writing this stuff. Axelrod or somebody else is writing. I think he\u2019s not on the prompter, that\u2019s why he makes so many gaffes. He forgets what other people have written for him and what he said, and he goes out there and when he\u2019s on his own he makes all these gaffes. He made some kind of gaffe about the Cuban exile community, which is why he\u2019s down there trying to save face and fix it. But I can\u2019t imagine what he said to them fixed it. I didn\u2019t hear any applause. The sound was down, I was watching on closed-captioning. But I know the Cuban exile community and the last thing they want to hear is diplomatic relations with the Castros without any preconditions. He\u2019s saying this on the heels of putting his foot in his mouth over Iran on the same basis? <\/p>\n

Something about this guy is not right. There\u2019s something about this that doesn\u2019t jibe. This guy, two years ago in the United States Senate barely could find the men\u2019s room. He was still preoccupied with trying to figure out how to ingratiate himself with the Chicago machine politics. He didn\u2019t do one thing of any significance in the Senate. He\u2019d had more ‘I don\u2019t care\u2019 votes or ‘I\u2019m not here\u2019 votes or ‘present\u2019 votes or whatever in the Illinois Senate. Somebody\u2019s gotta be behind this. None of this Obama campaign makes any sense whatsoever, particularly him.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about Senator McCain here for just a second. Senator McCain has thrown two preachers under the bus now. Last night in Stockton, California, McCain held a press conference.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I just think that the statement is crazy and unacceptable and certainly Reverend Hagee, Pastor Hagee is entitled to his views. I\u2019ve never been in Pastor Hagee\u2019s church or Pastor Parsley\u2019s church. I didn\u2019t attend their church for 20 years and I\u2019m not a member of their church. I received their endorsement, which did not mean that I endorsed their views. But the comments made most recently by Pastor Hagee are just too much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so McCain has disavowed the endorsement of both Pastor Hagee and Pastor Rod Parsley, yet drawing a distinction, hey, neither of these two guys were my pastor. This drew a response from Barack Obama last night in Boca Raton.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: You know, John McCain is having to deal with his Hagee, who said stuff that is mind-boggling. I don\u2019t attribute those statements to John McCain. Nobody — nobody thinks that McCain believes that stuff. And for McCain to then suggest that, you know, every single statement that was made by somebody is somehow attributable to me is just wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Senator — (laughing) — you don\u2019t get it, you don\u2019t get it. You chose your pastor! You were in that church for 20 years. This nutcase baptized your two crumb crunchers. Your wife is out spouting in speeches some of the very philosophies espoused by Reverend Wright. I\u2019m sorry. I know I\u2019m not supposed to talk about his wife. Well, slap me. Bottom line here is that this guy is getting awfully defensive. You know, he\u2019s trying to basically cleanse himself here with a flawed comparison between these two preachers that endorsed McCain. He knows this association with Jeremiah Wright has upset him. Now, there\u2019s even a bigger, bigger contretemps going up between McCain and Obama. Obama went to Washington yesterday to vote on the new GI bill, and he voted against it. McCain was not there. He was somewhere out campaigning. So this is on the Senate floor yesterday. This is Obama about McCain.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I can\u2019t understand why he would line up behind the president in his opposition to this GI bill. I can\u2019t believe why he believes it\u2019s too generous to our veterans. I could not disagree with him and the president more on this issue. There are many issues that lend themselves to partisan posturing, but giving our veterans the chance to go to college should not be one of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this did not sit well with Senator McCain, who again in Stockton, California, last night, held a press conference and said this to reporters.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I don\u2019t know if the American people will judge Senator Obama as to whether he has military experience or not, but I think they may judge him as to whether he has experience and knowledge to make the kind of judgment necessary to care for our veterans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is a little bit like the John Kerry defense. You didn\u2019t serve, so don\u2019t criticize me. That only works for Democrats, Senator. Ask Bob Dole. He tried it against Bill Clinton, too. Jonathan Martin at The Politico has written up this episode: ‘Jim Webb\u2019s GI bill passed the Senate bipartisan majority 75-22. Clinton, Obama were both there, McCain in California on the fundraising trail. Obama used the opportunity to once again tie his rival to the president. Obama said, ‘I respect McCain\u2019s service to our country, he\u2019s one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can\u2019t understand why he\u2019d line up behind the president in opposition to this bill,” what you just heard him say. ‘The McCain campaign responded by issuing a sharply worded and lengthy statement in McCain\u2019s name. McCain notes his support for an alternative to the Webb measure, but points out his own military service and points out Obama\u2019s lack thereof.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Part of the statement: ‘It is typical but no less offensive that Senator Obama uses the Senate floor to take cheap shots at an opponent and easy advantage of an issue he has less than zero understanding of. Let me say first in response to Senator Obama, running for president is different than serving as president. The office comes with responsibilities so serious that the occupant can\u2019t always take the politically easy route without hurting the country he\u2019s sworn to defend. Unlike Senator Obama, my admiration, respect, and deep gratitude for America\u2019s veterans is something more than a convenient campaign pledge. I think I\u2019ve earned the right to make that claim.\u2019 And at the end of the statement, he says, ‘Perhaps if Senator Obama would take the time and the trouble to understand this issue, he would learn to debate an honest disagreement respectfully, but as Obama always does, he prefers impugning the motives of his opponent and exploiting a thoughtful difference of opinion to advance his own ambitions. If that\u2019s how he would behave as president, the country would regret his election.\u2019 That is Senator McCain speaking about Obama in this little dust-up that Obama started on the Senate floor. Joe Biden on MSNBC Live this morning, cohost Willie Geist was talking to him. ‘Senator, essentially Obama has questioned McCain for not backing up this bill. How do you see these two guys coming down on this?\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: There\u2019s a difference between an ad hominem argument and a logical response. A logical fallacy is an ad hominem argument. That\u2019s basically what John engaged in. It\u2019s a little bit like my saying, if we\u2019re having a debate about standards for trucking safety on the highways and I voted against making the rules more stringent, and one of my colleagues got up and said, ‘You know, Senator Biden\u2019s wrong on this, this is gonna make people less safe,\u2019 and I said, ‘Look, my wife and daughter were killed by a tractor-trailer, don\u2019t you tell me what it is to deal with safety.\u2019 That\u2019s an ad hominem argument. That has nothing to do with the response. It\u2019s not right; it\u2019s not fair; it\u2019s kind of beneath us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ohhh! All of McCain\u2019s buddies are now lining up against him. All of his Democrat buddies are lining up against him, accusing him of ad hominem attacks. Now, this GI bill, just for the sake of filling you in on this, this GI bill, ladies and gentlemen, is opposed by the Pentagon because it is so loaded with short-term benefits. They fear that it will hurt troop levels because it gives troops incentives to leave the service! Plus there\u2019s a whole bunch of domestic spending tacked onto this thing that is irrelevant to the GI bill, and this bill was designed specifically for many reasons, one of them is to give Obama cover on the fact that he is an anti-military dove who has joined the ‘let\u2019s lose\u2019 chorus. So they\u2019re constructing things in the Senate so he can vote for to make it look like he\u2019s this big hawk and big pro-military guy that loves the troops when in fact he\u2019s voted every chance he could to de-fund them or has joined the chorus of people saying they can\u2019t win or they have lost. Ad hominem argument. And then finally yesterday, Union City, California, here is Senator McCain on Senator Obama.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I admire and respect Senator Obama. For a young man with very little experience, he\u2019s done very well. So I appreciate, with his very, very great lack of experience and knowledge of the issues, he has been very successful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you can read this two ways. You know, you can react to this two ways. What is your reaction to it, Snerdley? Okay, okay. Snerdley\u2019s reaction is that this is a great way to take a shot. It was funny and lighthearted, and it was a great way to take a shot at the fact that Obama has no experience. Others are comparing it to Ronaldus Magnus and his reply to Walter F. Mondull in their debate, when Reagan said, ‘I\u2019m not going to make an issue of my opponent\u2019s youth and inexperience,\u2019 in the second of three debates they had, because in the first debate, Reagan seemed overprepared, and after that debate everybody raised the age question again on Reagan and other things, so he came back with that line in the next debate, and it quelled it. Other people are reacting to this, ‘Wow, Obama\u2019s really gotten under his skin. This is a cheap, overly sensitive put-down and an example of McCain\u2019s temper.\u2019 One analogy is that it\u2019s like when an 80-year-old lady says to a 50-year-old employee, ‘Young man. Young man.\u2019 It\u2019s a put-down. <\/p>\n

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