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RUSH: This is Robert in Los Angeles. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing, Rush? Pleasure to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just recently got some work done on my house, and I had some contractors come by, and I kind of interviewed \u2019em, and I wanted to see pictures of their work and what they did. So when you have a contractor, you will look at their work and how they\u2019ve done on their previous jobs. Now, judging by what Obama is saying, the south side of Chicago must be just a paradise, all the kids in the schools must all be passing, there must be jobs everywhere, because that\u2019s who he represented so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and the lakes are not rising.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, there\u2019s no trash everywhere, everyone\u2019s doing fine. And, you know, I doubt if it kind of is that way, so, you know, my main thing about Barack is that, you know, I just basically feel that he\u2019s being put up. I think one of the worst things that has happened to this country is white guilt. And I think he\u2019s there through white guilt, so that white people can feel good about themselves. And I think that\u2019s the only reason why he\u2019s there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I think you\u2019re on to something. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the only reason why he\u2019s there, but there\u2019s no question that he appeals to a whole segment of the population, white people, that can feel like they can assuage their guilt — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — for supporting the guy. I think whoever is behind Obama, whoever it is, somebody has to be, there has to be a group of people that thought this is the guy that can get done what we need to get done, almost as though he\u2019s a puppet. His speeches are written for him. You know, when he doesn\u2019t give a teleprompted speech, he\u2019s a different guy. I think they made a calculation. A black guy can win. How do we beat Hillary Clinton? Black guy can do it, black guy can do it with liberals especially, put the right words in his mouth and we got a pretty good chance at it. I think you\u2019re right about that. Also, you\u2019ve really done something very bright here. A lot of people — I was expecting you to go a different direction, and I was expecting, when you mentioned your contractor, and I was going to give you a little bit of a lecture on how your analogy is somewhat flawed, but you came through with a grand-slam home run. What a lot of people say is, when you got a guy with a limited resume like Obama, they\u2019ll say, ‘Would you hire him to run any aspect of your business?\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And they would say, no. No, of course not. But people don\u2019t look at government — it is a business, and politics is a business, but they don\u2019t look at government that way. They look at government, the ideal is that government\u2019s represented by soaring people who have great imagination and who have great charisma and who can mobilize and motivate and inspire a nation, not so much run the bureaucracy and keep it running, because no president can do that. The bureaucracies are independent of any president. But your analogy of his past political experience, both as a senator from the state of Chicago and the Chicago state Senate and his community organizer work, and plus his, whatever it is, three years in the US Senate, where is this track record that suggests that all that he wants to do has come even close to being done where he has worked and lived before. You\u2019re right on the money with that. South side of Chicago is still the south side of Chicago. Lake Erie, it\u2019s still there, and it\u2019s still what it was when he got there and it hasn\u2019t changed. The work that he did as a state senator from Illinois to clean up all kinds of messes and make paradise, hasn\u2019t happened. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d also like to say that John McCain scares me also. He does nothing for me. In this election, there\u2019s nothing there for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What scares you about McCain?<\/p>\n

CALLER: His stance on illegal immigration. And I think one thing that the media really covers up is the effect of illegal immigration in the black neighborhood, how it\u2019s just kind of decimating schools that were bad already, especially here in Los Angeles. You know, it\u2019s decimated schools that were kind of bad already.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I gotta agree with you again. Another leftist-oriented policy on top of what welfare did to the black family and the Great Society and all these things where the government became the substitute for the father and paying for all these illegitimate kids to be born and raised without a father. It was very destructive. Yeah, you\u2019re right on the money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So there\u2019s nothing out there for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a second. Now, there may be nothing out there for you in terms of a candidate that can inspire you. So let me ask you something, Robert. What are you going to do? You have just told us neither of these two candidates, you don\u2019t give a peep —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, Rush, I grew up in the Bronx, I grew up in the projects, you know, the first money that I seen being transacted was food stamps, and I\u2019ve seen government programs, and I realized that the best program for kids to bring \u2019em up is like two parents and being in an environment where the parents can prosper, be it work and education, but it\u2019s gotta come through hard work because I\u2019m just seen that, I\u2019ve seen through life that giving people stuff, it just does nothing for them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: People have to want to prosper.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re a brilliant guy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go forward to November 7th, a couple days after the election. No matter who wins, you\u2019ve just told us neither one of them excite you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are you going to do? You said there\u2019s nothing for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I mean that\u2019s the $64,000 question. I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, you do. Yes you know what you\u2019re going to do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess I\u2019ll look forward to the next one and see who comes along.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019ll tell you what you\u2019re going to do. You\u2019re going to do what all the rest of us are going to do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m going to go to work and still maintain my life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Damn straight. You\u2019re going to go to work and you\u2019re gonna work as hard as is required to overcome whatever obstacle policies either one of these two people put in your way. And you\u2019re going to go about trying to enjoy your life the best way you can despite the fact the there\u2019s nobody in Washington that inspires you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And despite the fact that here in California, all they want to do, the policies, they just want to take away your money, I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s — they just want more, they just want their hands deeper into your pocket.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s almost like their God-given right to put their hand deeper into your pocket. And, you know, like I said, it\u2019s just the way it is, so I just keep on working hard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: While telling you, Robert, while telling you that you\u2019re not doing your fair share, that you\u2019re not taxed enough, or that you\u2019re destroying the planet, or that you\u2019re destroying the local environment in Southern California or that you\u2019re committing some other sin against people, country, soil, that you have to pay for. And that\u2019s the basis on which they\u2019ll tax you even further. Well, Robert, I love you, man. You are fabulous. You are fabulous. I\u2019m glad you called. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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