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RUSH: Yesterday, during an interview with a public radio station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — we own Harrisburg, so probably very few people heard this on the PBS station there — here\u2019s a portion of what Senator McCain said.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I think it\u2019s very clear that Russian ambitions are to restore the old Russian empire, not the Soviet Union, but the Russian empire.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this is not sitting well with the American left and with the Obama campaign. Last night on Hardball, they actually took some time off from covering the tertiary Olympic events that nobody cares about, putting them on MSNBC, and they went to Hardball and they had a fill-in host out there, David Shuster. He talked to Obama foreign policy advisor Susan Rice. And the question was this. ‘Would the campaign support imposing economic sanctions on Russia as some Republicans are calling for?\u2019<\/p>\n

RICE: By reviewing all aspects of our bilateral relationship with Russia, as Senator Obama has advocated, we\u2019ll be able to take account of what steps are appropriate. But here\u2019s the thing, David, we cannot shoot from the hip. We cannot act on the basis of ideology or preconceived notions. When this crisis began, Barack Obama, the administration indeed, and all of our NATO allies took a very measured and reasoned approach because we were dealing with the facts as we knew them. John McCain shot from the hip, very aggressive, very belligerent statement, and he may or may not have complicated the situation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) McCain\u2019s made the situation worse! This is the American left. Obama calmed the situation by saying both sides are to blame and asking them to stop. But McCain may have complicated the situation. Barack\u2019s thing, according to his own advisor here, we\u2019re going to look at everything and then we\u2019re not going to do anything. We\u2019re going to wait \u2019til we have all the facts and then we\u2019re going to take into account what steps are appropriate, and we\u2019re not going to do diddly-squat about this \u2019til we get all the facts. Unable to recognize naked aggression, the Obama campaign is now blaming — I told you all this was going to happen yesterday. You didn\u2019t believe me, did you? You did not believe it would get this bad. I told you. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bill in Glenview, Illinois. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Nice to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Very nice to talk to you. I was born in one of the former Russian satellites. I was freed by Gorbachev during glasnost, perestroika. Russia usually has three patented reasons for going in a country. A is to liberate, of course. Two is to put down unrest, like in Hungary; and of course the third one is \u2019cause somewhere, somehow, some Russian citizens in the field were killed, so they had to go out and straighten things out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. Now, wait. Wait. Wait just a minute. I want to make sure I heard you right. The Russians generally go into countries for three reasons.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s usually what they talk about. They\u2019re liberators or they put down on unrest or —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Let me ask the question. Is this what you say the Russians are doing, or what they say the reasons are that they go in these countries?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s most of the reasons they say that (garbled).<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so they\u2019re going in to liberate people, like in this case they are ‘liberating\u2019 the people in South Ossetia?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs) Well, I\u2019m not sure that is in this case. They had probably other reasons like oil, but they could say that liberating these people and that\u2019s one of their patented reasons that they\u2019ll always use to go into countries.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Well, they have passed out a bunch of phony passports, Russian passports to people living there. They can say now they\u2019re oppressed by the people of Georgia.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, if they say that certain Russian citizens there are oppressed or were killed and so on, they don\u2019t have to prove it. They just say that\u2019s what it is and go in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, because the Drive-By Media will accept what the Russians say about this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, of course. I hope Obama is listening, because a guy like Putin would probably eat him for breakfast and spit him out without him knowing what transpired.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here, Putin is already responding. Grab the special exclusive address, Ed, that we have from Vladimir Putin, that we played in the first hour. I want you to listen to this. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You haven\u2019t read it yet, Ed? Okay, here it is. <\/p>\n

(playing of Putin spoof) <\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. He can\u2019t wait to work with Obama. By the way, whatever Russia says is believed. Here\u2019s a montage of Bill Schneider assigning blame.<\/p>\n

SCHNEIDER: It could be just what John McCain needs to highlight his strengths. McCain has talked tough from the outset of the crisis. His statement on the radio was ominous. Some voters may worry: Does he want to start a new Cold War? The risk for McCain is that he could overplay the issue and frighten war-weary voters whose priorities are at home right now. The Russians are doing a pretty good job of frightening people already.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here\u2019s McCain, lumped in by CNN\u2019s Bill Schneider, with the Russians in ‘frightening people.\u2019 Bill, let me tell you what really frightens people, and that\u2019s Obama, is what really frightens Americans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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