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RUSH: As you know, over the course of the recent past, I, El Rushbo, your host; have been openly speculating that there has to be somebody behind Obama and his campaign, somebody who had the idea. Somebody said, ‘Obama, you\u2019re the guy to deliver us from bondage, the Democrat Party. Hillary can\u2019t do it. We don\u2019t like the Clintons anymore. You are unassailable because of your skin color. You are articulate. You have this messianic quality. We\u2019ll write your speeches for you; we\u2019ll put your campaign together. Plus — as an added bonus, Obama — we\u2019ll make it look like it\u2019s all your decision.\u2019 Do you remember in the early days of the Bush administration, after the 9\/11 incident, Bush made some soaring speeches. Do you remember this? And what was the Drive-By reaction? The Drive-By Media\u2019s reaction was, ‘Who\u2019s writing these speeches?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Then they found out it was Mike Gerson, and then Gerson was getting all kinds of puff piece stories in the Drive-Bys: the New York Times, the Washington Post. Anything to further the notion that Bush is an idiot who couldn\u2019t tie his shoes or tie his tie without some assistance. But have you noticed in the Obama campaign, we don\u2019t hear anything about anybody behind this guy! We might hear about David Axelrod. You don\u2019t; I do. I tell you about David Axelrod. You might hear about his campaign manager, this guy named Plouffe, but you don\u2019t hear about it much. They have succeeded in presenting the picture (the image, if you will) that Obama is totally in charge of everything that happens. He\u2019s in charge of everybody that gets hired. He\u2019s in charge of writing every speech. He is the brilliant strategerist and tactician. I mean, there\u2019s no question, and I\u2019ve said, ‘This can\u2019t be. This guy just does not have enough experience to be pulling all this off the way he is and writing these speeches and so forth.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So I said, ‘There gotta be somebody.\u2019 Not an Oz. I don\u2019t mean in a conspiratorial way. I don\u2019t mean some Oz behind a curtain yanking the strings, but somebody, some pro, some hack that has made a strategeric decision that Obama is the perfect front man for the leftists and the radicals to take over the party — and, lo and behold, from Thomas Lifson, who runs the American Thinker blog: Soren Dayton of RedState, also one of our favorite blogs here, ‘Notices that Barack Obama\u2019s choice of Jim Johnson to make vice presidential choices is worse than previously understood.\u2019 You\u2019ve heard about this Johnson guy. He\u2019s got ties to Countrywide, the home lender; very close ties to Angelo Mozilo, the guy that ran it. He\u2019s a Democrat Party hack, a lobbyist and all this — the exact opposite of what Obama claims his campaign is all about. However, according to RedState, there is more on Johnson. <\/p>\n

‘In 2001, he joined Perseus, LLC, as vice-chairman. Perseus has a number of funds. Among them are the Perseus Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund LP, which Perseus co-manages. It was formed in 2000 with capital commitments totaling $449 million to make investments in life science companies.\u2019 So Perseus — it might be Perseus, I\u2019m not sure. I\u2019ve never heard it pronounced. It\u2019s P-e-r-s-e-u-s. ‘Perseus is a business partner with George Soros; and Johnson, one of Obama\u2019s vice presidential vetters, is the vice-chairman. Incidentally, the Say Anything blog notes that Perseus also seems to own the publisher of the Scott McClellan book.\u2019 So George Soros\u2019 business partner is helping select Obama\u2019s veep. How interesting that Obama just keeps coming up with friends and appointees with very dubious associations, who are no more than Democrat Party hacks. Some change, eh? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Professor McCarthy has just sent me a brief note saying it\u2019s Perseus, or Perseus, is one of the two, he\u2019s a hero of Greek mythology who killed Medusa. That\u2019s the name of the company that Jim Johnson, the guy vetting for Obama\u2019s VP works for; founded by George Soros. Welcome back, folks. El Rushbo here behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Here is Obama describing the head of his vice presidential search team, and this is what he said about the guy.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I am not vetting (pause) my VP search committee for their mortgages. You know, these aren\u2019t folks who are working for me. And, you know, ultimately m-m-my assumption is — is that, you know, this is a discrete task that they\u2019re going to be performing for me over the next two months. Everybody (pause) uh, eh, you know, who is tangentially related to our campaign I think is going to have a whole host of relationships. I would have to hire the vetter to hi– to vet the vetters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is unbelievable. This is exactly what I mean. By the way, I was wounded to the heart today, or last night, because as you all know, I have the deepest admiration — the most profound respect and love — for Camille Paglia. I think Camille Paglia is absolutely brilliant in what she does, but she in the tank for Obama. And she has a little paragraph in her latest column that takes to task conservative talk radio, which she has been listening to and has very much enjoyed it for 20 years. Twenty years? I\u2019m the only one doing it for 20 years! She doesn\u2019t mention any names, but she says we\u2019re just going off the deep end here with these criticisms of Obama that he can\u2019t speak without a prompter, that he\u2019s really not that bright, that we\u2019ve called him a Marxist. I\u2019ve never called him a Marxist; maybe some other people have. (interruption) Snerdley said, ‘Why haven\u2019t you called him a Marxist? We\u2019ve been waiting.\u2019 I haven\u2019t called him a Marxist. I haven\u2019t gone into this Muslim business. But anyway, it\u2019s clear that she included me in some of this, and she\u2019s such a brilliant lady, but you listen to this bite. Camille, listen to this with me again, please. Mike, play this from the top and I want you to start it with the sound up from the beginning because the last time we aired this, mere moments ago, we left out three key words. He\u2019s at a press conference in St. Louis, and he\u2019s describing — I might start and stop this, Mike, just so you know. It\u2019s a portion of his remarks on the head honcho of his vice presidential search.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I am not vetting (pause) my VP search committee for their mortgages. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. Why not? Why not, sir? This is a comment in reaction to the fact that this guy is in bed with Countrywide, which is under some scrutiny because their role in the mortgage crisis. I don\u2019t know what culpability they\u2019ve got, but they\u2019re not looking good right now for a lot of reasons, and that\u2019s where this guy is from. He\u2019s got an association with the guy that heads up Countrywide. The whole mortgage thing is something the Democrat Party is trying to make political hay out of and blame on ‘predatory lending.\u2019 Well, predatory lending might equal Countrywide, and yet this is a guy Obama\u2019s gone out and asked to secure his search committee who\u2019s got ties with all of this. This is another illustration here that there\u2019s nothing new and nothing unique and there\u2019s nothing refreshing, just a recycling of the same old party hacks. Look, Camille, I\u2019m sorry. Obama doesn\u2019t know anything about picking a vice president. He probably only figured out where the Senate dining room was six months after he got there. He\u2019s just not been there very long. There\u2019s something else going on. I don\u2019t mean a conspiracy. There\u2019s just something else. Hit the tape. Let\u2019s resume it.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: You know, these aren\u2019t folks who are working for me. And —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. What? These are not folks working for him? If you dig deep, as I have, what you find out is Obama means he\u2019s not paying them, that they are volunteers. But they\u2019re not working for him? They are the guys, this guy and his partner in crime, Eric Holder? Eric Holder, by the way, was the guy who secured the pardon of Marc Rich when Clinton was fading into the sunset while stealing some china on his last day in the White House. He\u2019s not working for him? These guys don\u2019t work for Obama? It may be true; they might be working for Soros. ‘They don\u2019t work for me. What the hell! Here\u2019s the next bite.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: You know, ultimately m-m-my assumption is — is that, you know, this is a discrete task that they\u2019re going to be performing for me over the next two months. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! Wait a minute. They\u2019re not working for you. They\u2019re ‘performing\u2019 for him. They are ‘performing\u2019 for Obama. Ah, they are court jesters! They are clowns. The court jester in the old days when there were court jesters, these guys to keep the king all mused and so forth. Kings were generally insane and in a bad mood all the time, chopping people\u2019s heads off, they bring in the court jester and they called him the fool. They had such a low, low, low opinion of entertainers back in those days that they called him the fool. So these guys are fools? They\u2019re not working for Obama, they\u2019re performing a task. I know, I know. ‘Rush, you\u2019re going a little bit too far here in parsing this. Okay, let\u2019s listen to more.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Everybody (pause) uh, eh, you know, who is tangentially related to our campaign I think is going to have a whole host of relationships. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. Tangentially? I know this is a challenge for those of you in Rio Linda. Let me define tangentially involved in a campaign. Michelle Malkin put it best. Michelle Malkin said, ‘Tangentially, Obama, is the cleaning lady at your Iowa campaign headquarters. Somebody choosing your vice president and vetting candidates is not tangential.\u2019 It\u2019s not a tangent. It\u2019s not something that is irrelevant, it\u2019s not something unimportant. So he\u2019s just said these people aren\u2019t working for him, that they are performing a task for him; he\u2019s not vetting the search committee for their mortgages, and ‘everybody whose tangentially related to our campaign is going to have a whole host of relationships.\u2019 He said, of course people are going to know some scoundrels. I know some scoundrels. Everybody in my campaign\u2019s going to know some deadbeats. Everybody at any campaign is going to have some questionable associations, but you can\u2019t go out there and vet them. Here, here\u2019s how he wrapped up.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I would have to hire the vetter to hi– to vet the vetters. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you haven\u2019t hired vetters \u2019cause they\u2019re not working for you! They\u2019re not working for you. He hasn\u2019t hired vetters to vet the vetters. It wouldn\u2019t be a bad idea. Given the vetters that he\u2019s got I think it would be a smart thing for Obama to get some vetters on these vetters, to vet the vetters. I mention all this, ladies and gentlemen, simply to illustrate that the image that is being created of Obama is not deserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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