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RUSH: Now, before we get to the Obama speech and the sound bites from the speech. It was a fabulous speech. It was just oratorically fabulous. The energy in the room… There were something like 17,000 people in the room and 15,000 people outside. The line of people extending outside who wanted to get in but couldn\u2019t, according to officials in St. Paul, was a mile and a half. The energy inside that room was electric. He gives a great speech. He\u2019s a tremendous orator. In most instances of the speech he said nothing again, but he said it better than anybody else is saying it. This has a lot of Republicans worried because McCain\u2019s speech last night was… Well, it was a bomb. I mean, if you read the speech, it looked pretty good. If you just read what he was going to say, ‘Wow. Okay. There\u2019s some potential here.\u2019 Then he gave the speech, and it was, ‘Ugh! Dull,\u2019 because we know that there\u2019s this great orator on the other side. Now, this, my friends, has caused a lot of Republican commentators to say, ‘Yeah, Obama gives a great speech, but Americans don\u2019t elect presidents on the basis of great speeches and great oratory.\u2019<\/p>\n

And some of them are using examples from great orators of our history who have lost elections. In many of these examples, they are citing great orators who existed before there was radio or TV; pointing out, by the way, both Bushes (Bush 41, Bush 43) won without being great orators and so forth, and all that\u2019s true. In a historical sense, there\u2019s no question that\u2019s true. However, this circumstance is different. I think the oratory of Obama is going to matter. In addition to running into — and this is, by the way, over a number of years — these anecdotes. Again, I make nothing scientific about this, but I\u2019ve talked to enough people over the years on both sides of the political aisle, who have just been frustrated as they can be that the president of the United States doesn\u2019t seem to be able to communicate; just is not a flashy orator; is not a riveting, spellbinding speaker; is not inspirational and so forth; mispronounces the word ‘nuclear\u2019 and so forth; and I\u2019ve heard a bunch of Democrats say, ‘I just want somebody that sounds smart. I\u2019m embarrassed as an American to have a president who can\u2019t talk.\u2019<\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019ve got Obama, and when you come off the comparative, this flashy oratory, I think, is going to have more impact on voters than some of the McCain people who think, ‘Ah, it will wash itself out at the end of the day.\u2019 It might, but I think there\u2019s a greater chance that the oratory is going to be a factor here for one simple reason. If Obama\u2019s charisma on television hasn\u2019t gotten him where he is, then what has? All Obama has is his oratory. All he has is his charisma. He does not have substance. He doesn\u2019t have anything that you can really grab onto and say, ‘Yeah, that\u2019s America!\u2019 He\u2019s not talking about the greatness of America. Somebody in this election needs to defend that which is great about this country and that which needs to be conserved in this country. This doesn\u2019t mean that we oppose change; it means we support our society. McCain is out there trying to make a big deal he\u2019s the reform candidate, and I\u2019ve had a number of people ask me, ‘Reform what, Rush?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Well, let me let you in on the dirty little secret. When Senator McCain talks about reform, he\u2019s talking about reforming the conservative movement. He\u2019s talking about reforming the Republican Party, as much as he is talking about reforming the country. But he\u2019s talking about reforming the political system. Like he had a town hall meeting today, and he says he wants a whole bunch of town hall meetings with Obama, because this is a special election, and we need to have these issues out. He wants Obama to fly with him on the same plane to these town hall meetings in order to save energy, and so forth. So his reform is not so much reforming the country; it\u2019s reforming our politics and reforming the Republican Party\u2019s politics specifically. All right, we\u2019ll have more on McCain here in just a moment. Let\u2019s get started with Obama. Remember back in the race speech in Philadelphia, Obama — and, by the way, we will have a segment coming up in the next half hour from our Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley, reacting to Obama\u2019s speech. You don\u2019t want to miss that. But Obama threw his grandmother under the bus in the race speech. Last night, he brought his grandmother back on board the bus.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Thank you to my grandmother, who helped raise me and is sitting in Hawaii somewhere right now because she can\u2019t travel, but who poured, uh, everything she had into me and, uh, who helped, uh, to make me the man I am today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Obama bringing back his grandmother, who used to be ‘a typical white person.\u2019 Now she is the woman who poured everything she had into him. Does that mean he\u2019s a typical white person now? Let\u2019s go back. This is how he described his beloved, ignorant, racist grandmother March 20th of this year.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The point I was making was not that my grandmother, uh, harbors, uh, any racial animosity. She doesn\u2019t. But she is a, uh, typical white person who, if she sees somebody out street that she doesn\u2019t know, you know, there\u2019s a reaction that\u2019s been bred into our experiences that — that don\u2019t go away and that sometimes, uh, come out in — in the wrong way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so ‘typical white person.\u2019 But now she\u2019s back on the bus because she poured everything she had into Obama. Here\u2019s the next excerpt from his speech.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Because you decided that change must come to Washington, because you believed that this year must be different than all the rest, because… (cheering) because you chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations, tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another (cheering), a journey… (cheering) a journey that will bring a new and better day to America. Because of you, tonight I can stand here and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for the president of the United States of America. (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I told Cookie to leave the applause in on some of these bites today just to give you an example of some of the energy in the room last night — not room, it was an arena — in case you didn\u2019t see the speech. So ‘we\u2019ve marked the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another.\u2019 And if you go through the newspapers today, you will find reference after reference after reference after reference after reference in the Drive-By Media to his race. Washington Post: ‘Black President This Century? Black president…. Black president… Black president… That is how four consecutive paragraphs begin. Also in the Washington Post, ‘A moment of triumph with a little disbelief,\u2019 focusing on his race.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the Obama sound bites, from last night\u2019s speech. Now, this is a guy very gracious, right? He represents something new! And I was just discussing with Senator McConnell, there\u2019s nothing new about what he\u2019s proposing. It\u2019s all been tried. It\u2019s been tried in this country. It\u2019s all failed.! It\u2019s been tried all over the world. It\u2019s all failed! There\u2019s not one thing new from Barack Obama. There is no ‘change,\u2019 unless you want to go backwards. His foreign policy is 60 years old, from the 1930s, forties; and his domestic policy is right out of the 1960s. There\u2019s nothing new about the guy. For a guy who\u2019s supposed to be so gracious, he takes a little shot here at Senator McCain.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: In just a few short months, the Republican Party will arrive in St. Paul with a very different agenda. (booing) They will… (booing) They will come here to nominate John McCain (boos), a man who has served this country heroically. (begrudging applause) I honor — we honor — the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I saw that last night, and I said, ‘That\u2019s a good point, Obama. What are your accomplishments? What are your achievements? What are they?\u2019 He\u2019s been in the Senate less than three years — or maybe four, something like that, whatever it is. He hasn\u2019t done anything; he\u2019s not distinguished himself. He was a ‘community organizer\u2019? Whoop-de-doo! Harvard Law Review? Whoop-de-do. Let\u2019s see. Runs around with terrorists. Whoop-de-do. Has a mentor and spiritual relationship with a wacko preacher. Whoop-de-do. What are his achievements? He doesn\u2019t have any, not in the sense of a presidential resume. This is another reason why I say his oratory is going to be a factor, because that\u2019s why he\u2019s where he is. Plus, his name isn\u2019t Clinton. But his oratory is why he\u2019s drawing these crowds, not his achievements. He doesn\u2019t have a resume. I don\u2019t know that McCain is denying Obama\u2019s achievements. He just doesn\u2019t know what they are. Here\u2019s another little excerpt. Now, this one\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: While John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party in the past, such independence has not been the hallmark of his presidential campaign. (applause) It\u2019s not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95% of the time as he did in the Senate last year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Now, this is a fascinating bite to me, and I\u2019ll tell you why. ‘While John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party in the past…\u2019 This whole statement is rooted in typical liberal arrogance. McCain, in his own speech last night, the theme of his speech last night was: I\u2019m not George Bush. (doing McCain impression) ‘Don\u2019t you call me Bush. I\u2019m not Bush! Got it?\u2019 It was very defensive. He wanted to make it plain to everybody he wasn\u2019t George W. Bush. It\u2019s a mistake to run around and be critical of the president of his own party. He can do it in different ways than he\u2019s doing it, but he touted his independence last night — and what does ‘independence\u2019 mean in this context? Independence in this context means he abandoned his own party and walked across the aisle and sat down with Democrats and did deals. And he\u2019s touting that. And you will hear him expressly say so in a sound bite I have coming up in the next hour when we get to the McCain sound bites. <\/p>\n

And Obama acknowledges it. Oh, yeah, that\u2019s true. ‘While John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party, such independence is not been the hallmark of his campaign.\u2019 Barack Obama can tout zilch, zero, nada independence. Barack Obama has not crossed the aisle — on meaningful legislation, just symbolic things. Barack Obama has the most left-leaning liberal voting record of all senators, and that\u2019s saying something, in his short time there in the United States Senate as present constituted. So here\u2019s McCain — who\u2019s making a biiiig deal out of his independence, a biiiig deal out of the fact that he has abandoned his own party, a biiiig deal that, while we are Republicans and Democrats, ‘We\u2019re all still Americans.\u2019<\/p>\n

He\u2019s making a big deal out of making deals with Democrats. You see how it counts? You see where it\u2019s getting him? Obama is mocking him. Obama is saying, ‘Hey, you want to be fully independent? Quit the Republican Party. Your independence isn\u2019t counting anything from me, dude. You say you\u2019re independent and you\u2019ve crossed the aisle and you\u2019ve worked with us? Fine, but not enough.\u2019 It\u2019s typical. No matter what you do for the libs, no matter what you give them, incidents enough. McCain would have to switch parties in order to show his independence. So here\u2019s Senator McCain trying to score all these points with Democrats and independents by touting his independence and the Democrats are saying, ‘That doesn\u2019t count for anything; he hasn\u2019t even been independent enough from Bush.\u2019 So the point is the whole thing gets you nowhere and it gets you mocked. And it points how the Democrats never waver like this, they never scram from their own side.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I\u2019m in Snerdley\u2019s office here at the top — by the way, those of you on the phones, please be patient. I\u2019m going to get to you as quick as I can, and I mean that. So I\u2019m in Snerdley\u2019s office at the top-of-the-hour break and there\u2019s McCain in there doing a town hall meeting, and he\u2019s talking about, ‘The town hall meeting is the purest form of American democracy, and the American people are tired of politics as usual.\u2019 They\u2019re tired of this; tired of that. I\u2019m asking myself, ‘Where have I heard that the American people are tired of this?\u2019 I hear it in the media! I hear it all the time in the Drive-By Media, that the American people are fed up with this and tired of politics as usual. If that\u2019s true, how come negative ads keep working? Let me tell you what I\u2019m not tired of, folks. I am not tired of somebody leading my party, slugging it out for what I believe in! I am not tired of that. That is not politics as usual. If it isn\u2019t, it should be! I mean hell\u2019s bells, what the hell is going on here? We have widely divergent, differing views from liberal Democrats. We want our side to slug it out with them, to beat \u2019em, to prevail — and not proclaim ‘independence\u2019 as a resume enhancement. Here, listen to this Obama bite again. Basically he\u2019s saying he\u2019s not going to let McCain separate himself from Bush.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: While John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party in the past, such independence has not been the hallmark of his presidential campaign. (applause) It\u2019s not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95% of the time as he did in the Senate last year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, can we talk about that for a minute? Some of the things that McCain stood with Bush on were McCain ideas, such as McCain-Kennedy and amnesty and the immigration reform bill, and what else? Campaign finance reform. Things that Obama would support, too! I don\u2019t know why I care so much. Both of these people are weak candidates. But I\u2019m sitting here; I\u2019m getting mad as I can be. This independence crap? McCain is out there touting his independence. You\u2019ll hear it in his sound bites later (we have some of them from last night) as though it\u2019s a resume enhancement, a selling point. (doing McCain impression) ‘I\u2019ve abandoned my party on numerous occasions and worked with Democrats. I seek to continue doing it.\u2019 Well, whoop-de-doo and look what it\u2019s getting you! Obama still mocks the independence. It\u2019s not enough. Well, when the hell has Obama ever criticized his party? When the hell has Obama ever crossed the aisle and joined the Republicans? <\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t we ask that? Why don\u2019t we say, ‘Senator, you sit there all arrogant and cocky and say that McCain\u2019s independence still isn\u2019t enough for you. Where\u2019s your independence? You have zilch, zero, nada independence. You are following a 30- and 60-year-old liberal playbook. For criminetly\u2019s sake, why are we not attacking the Democrat Party, attacking the Democrat Party for its policies and Obama toeing that line?\u2019 Senator McCain\u2019s difficulty here is that he\u2019s attacking his own party to prove his credentials with non-Republicans, but Obama does no such thing to his own party. No Democrat does. That\u2019s why there are no such things as Democrat mavericks. Democrat mavericks are run out of the party. Hello, Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman. By the way, McCain doesn\u2019t even criticize the Democrat Party. He only criticizes the Republican Party. That\u2019s how he gets credentials as an independent. He doesn\u2019t even criticize the Democrat Party. Now he\u2019s boxed in by his own rhetoric. <\/p>\n

This is what\u2019s so damn frustrating to me. You\u2019ve got the most left-leaning liberal, socialist candidate the Democrats have ever nominated; a golden opportunity to contrast what we believe with what the Democrats have put up there. A guy who barely crawled across the finish line securing the nomination, he just barely made it, is being touted as this landslide guy who\u2019s overwhelmingly rocked the country. It\u2019s all Drive-By Media BS. But the problem is that Senator McCain is now boxed in by his own rhetoric. He joins the Democrats to establish his credentials so the ability to contrast himself and the Republican Party ideologically with the most leftist, socialist candidate the Democrats have nominated in my lifetime is now going to be very difficult if not impossible for Senator McCain to do. (sigh) What are we to conclude here as we watch all this play out it? It seems like Senator McCain\u2019s idea how to rebuild the Republican Party is to criticize it and to explain to liberal reporters he\u2019s not really a Republican. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s different; he\u2019s independent. I\u2019ve never seen anything like this! I have never seen a Republican try to establish his bona fides by ripping his own party, praising the other party. That\u2019s why so many of us are outraged. I mean yesterday, he trashed President Bush again. In his speech last night, he trashed Bush over Katrina, trashed Bush over New Orleans. He praised Hillary, praised Obama. We can confront Obama, you and I, the conservatives in this country, we can confront Obama and his radicalism better than the Republican Party can today. We know how to beat leftist radicals like Obama. But in an official sense, we have no say in this. The truth be told, Obama should lose. Obama should be beaten as badly as Dukakis, as Walter Mondull, as John Kerry, \u2019cause he\u2019s just another one of them. He\u2019s just another one of them. He\u2019s reading out of the same playbook. We have, let\u2019s see, two more Obama sound bites, and then the Official Obama Criticizer. Despite McCain\u2019s attempt to elevate the debate… Well, here. Listen to what he says.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What you don\u2019t deserve is another election that\u2019s governed by fear and innuendo and division. (cheers) What you won\u2019t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon. (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Remember that line. I have a comment coming up about that line.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What you won\u2019t hear from this campaign or this party is a politics that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to polarize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first. (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m rubbing my hands together here, folks, \u2019cause I am deathly afraid of uttering a string of profanities. I have never had to censor myself on this program. I have never had to hit the bleep button because of anything I have said in almost 20 years of broadcast excellence. But I am so damn close to it. You\u2019ve been warned. ‘What you don\u2019t deserve is another election that\u2019s governed by fear and innuendo and division.\u2019 Can I translate that? ‘What we are not going to allow is another election that tells the truth about me and Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and Father Pfleger. Those things are off limits. We\u2019re not going to have another election governed by fear and innuendo and division. I\u2019m not going to let you talk about Jeremiah Wright. I\u2019m not going to let you talk about Michelle (My Belle). I\u2019m not going to let you talk about Pfleger. I\u2019m not going to let you talk about Ayers. I\u2019m not going to let you talk about Dohrn. I\u2019m not going to let you talk about my association with Hamas and the Palestinians. I\u2019m not going to let you talk about any of it!\u2019<\/p>\n

Then he says: ‘What you won\u2019t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon.\u2019 I\u2019ll translate that for you. What that means is: ‘Nobody is going to be able to discuss religion in this race. We\u2019re not going to talk about my religion, not going to talk about my grandfather\u2019s religion, not going to talk about my father\u2019s religion, my grandmother\u2019s religion, my wife\u2019s religion, Jeremiah Wright\u2019s religion, Bernardine Dohrn\u2019s religion. We\u2019re not going to talk about Calypso Louie\u2019s religion and we\u2019re not going to let the Republicans talk about theirs.\u2019 That\u2019s what this means. He\u2019s sending the signal: None of this stuff. You can\u2019t talk about it. ‘We are not enemies to polarize. We may call ourselves Democrats or Republicans. We\u2019re Americans first.\u2019 No, you\u2019re not. You are the Democrat part first. That\u2019s what defines Democrats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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