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RUSH: You know, oil prices are getting pretty low out there, they\u2019re hovering around $90 a barrel. What\u2019s the Dow Jones Industrial Average right now? It\u2019s down a little bit, but I\u2019m sitting here thinking that old Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could probably use an artificial boost in oil prices with an international incident such as shooting down a plane, a Hungarian plane, maybe something that didn\u2019t happen. I guarantee you, $90 a barrel is killing Iran; it\u2019s killing Russia; it\u2019s killing Venezuela. Greetings, my friends, welcome, Rush Limbaugh back after a fun-filled and thrill-packed weekend away. Great to be with you. Here\u2019s phone number if you want to be on the program: 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see. The market plunge that the bailout was supposed to prevent happened, right? It happened yesterday, and guess what\u2019s going on yesterday and today? Congress is conducting hearings grilling Wall Street CEOs! It\u2019s too rich. <\/p>\n

Yesterday I was in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The new federal courthouse there was dedicated yesterday to my grandfather, Rush Limbaugh, Sr. It was just a great honor for all of us in the Limbaugh family for this to happen. It was about a 90-minute ceremony. After it was all over, we left the tent where the ceremony was taking place, walked up to the steps, front of the courthouse, a bunch of us, to cut the ribbon. After we cut the ribbon, my cousin Dan who now lives in St. Louis, a West Point graduate, came up to me and said, ‘You know, I really can\u2019t wait for this election to end and you to get back to humor.\u2019 I looked at him and I said, ‘I know exactly what you mean.\u2019 And it got me to thinking about the intensity of this campaign and how serious it is, because we\u2019re talking about what kind of country we\u2019re going to be for a long time in the future. McCain came out yesterday, I was watching television on the way back to Florida yesterday afternoon, and McCain was in Albuquerque, and he just came out smoking against Obama. I\u2019ve never heard McCain sound this way. I got a couple sound bites. Here\u2019s a portion, the first sound bite we have of the two.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: For a guy who\u2019s already authored two memoirs, he\u2019s not exactly an open book. Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there\u2019s always a back story with Senator Obama. All people want to know is what has this man ever actually accomplished in government. What does he plan for America? In short, who is the real Barack Obama? But, my friends, you ask such questions, and all you get in response is another angry barrage of insults.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I wonder what this is? Is this a setup for what McCain strategery tonight during the town hall meeting is going to be? I hope so. I like him saying these things, I really do, but I wonder strategerically if it would have been wiser for Senator McCain to spring all this stuff on Obama tonight as a sort of a surprise and a shock. A I\u2019ll tell you something else that\u2019s going on out there, and it\u2019s effervescing, and that is this whole business of Bill Ayers. This association with Ayers, it\u2019s starting to hit the Obama people very hard. They\u2019re getting very defensive about this. Axelrod\u2019s out there, we\u2019re going to cover this in great detail as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears. Now, another thing interesting about this, I\u2019m reading in a lot of places in the Drive-By Media that this is a waste of time, to talk about Obama\u2019s associations, even some conservative media people are saying it\u2019s a waste of time, it\u2019s a wrong tactic because the only thing that matters to people right now is the economy. And if McCain doesn\u2019t get himself in the right position on the economy and so forth and so on, the election is over, a lot of people are trying to put pressure on the McCain campaign to ignore all of the associations. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a better word for this, because the Obama people are running around, (paraphrasing) ‘This guilt by association. I didn\u2019t know Ayers. I didn\u2019t know Ayers. I didn\u2019t know what he was doing when I met him.\u2019 You want to hear something hilarious? I was told, I didn\u2019t see this, but last night on Brit Hume\u2019s show on the Fox News Channel, Mara Liasson attempted to defend the Obama association with Bill Ayers and said that their kids attended the same school. Now, that doesn\u2019t work out because Barry\u2019s little girls are six and ten, seven and ten, something like that, and Ayers\u2019 kids are 29, late twenties, early thirties, I don\u2019t know how that works out. Nobody\u2019s caught this, but it nevertheless is indicative of how the Drive-Bys are circling the wagons. These are not associations. This is what everybody has to understand. Thomas Sowell put this very well today in a column at National Review Online. These are alliances. Obama has alliances with Bill Ayers and Jeremy Wright and Pfleger and all these other terrorists and wackos and fraud dealers such as Rezko. He allied with them. <\/line>I think as far as Obama, he doesn\u2019t care. I don\u2019t think he cares that Ayers was a terrorist. I think he knows and his campaign knows he has to say that he didn\u2019t know, but it wouldn\u2019t have stopped him because everything in Obama\u2019s life has been a calculation to get him to this point, establishing a base of operations in Chicago among the left to get the skids greased there as he needed to, and he would deal with all the fallout from it later, and it\u2019s now starting to happen. This Ayers situation is another example of Obama\u2019s morality option approach to government. He was willing — this is the way to look at this — he was willing to look past Ayers\u2019 terrorism to promote his political career. There\u2019s no right and wrong for Obama. There\u2019s only things that are advantageous to do or disadvantageous to do. There are only things that will help or harm. But in terms of having a morality-based life and campaign and agenda, that\u2019s not a factor. So Ayers and his wife are internationally known. They\u2019re renowned particularly on the left. They were active in Chicago. Ayers air wrote a book on 9\/11, he was featured on 9\/11 in the New York Times, Obama served with him on a board, attended a number of lectures with him, set up by Michelle Obama. By the way, where is she? How come they have her sequestered? You can answer that question yourselves. <\/line><\/p>\n

Ayers was an opinion leader in his district, and he sponsored the first fundraiser for Obama way back. But we are supposed to believe that Obama knew nothing of this guy. And interestingly, his campaign manager, Axelrod, says there\u2019s no evidence that he knew Ayers was a terrorist. It didn\u2019t matter. If he did know that Ayers was a terrorist, there\u2019s no evidence that Obama would have cared that he was a terrorist. And that, my friends, is the way of looking at this. As Joe Biden would say, ‘Let me say again,\u2019 let me say again, there is no evidence that Obama would have cared that he was a terrorist. I\u2019m seeing no evidence of a conscience in Obama. All I see is naked, raw ambition. Sarah Palin nailed Obama and Ayers this morning. She was at a rally in Jacksonville, Florida. We have the audio coming up. And essentially she said, ‘I guess Obama will now claim he was unaware that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had a radical background, too, after he promised to meet him without preconditions.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Polling data is out today, but before I get to the polling data, we all talked last week and everybody\u2019s a little up in arms about this, that all these early voters in Ohio, and we\u2019ve got stories of the homeless being bussed in and soup line people being bussed in to register and vote on the same day. But a story here, this is New Zealand or maybe it\u2019s the Philippines, I\u2019m not sure which. ‘A week-long period in which Ohio residents could register to vote and immediately cast a ballot has ended with turnout that didn\u2019t quite match the expectations of election officials or the campaign predictions that preceded it, according to the AP. As of Monday evening with polling sites still open, projections are that about 4,000 voters in the state\u2019s four largest counties would have taken advantage of the policy which survived multiple court challenges, but they expected between 20 and 25,000 people to have voted early in the four counties in Ohio beginning on September 30th.\u2019 Again, it\u2019s an AP story, APO, Associated Press Obama. We have a new name for it, APO, Associated Press Obama. So they could be just sandbagging everybody here by lying about the low turnout so that when the election returns are counted in Ohio that people do not suspect fraud. <\/p>\n

The Zogby poll is out and this, ladies and gentlemen, is key: Obama 48, McCain 45, likely voters, three-day telephone — it\u2019s actually 2.4, it\u2019s not actually three. They\u2019ve rounded things up. Obama is at 47.7, McCain at 45.3, so that gets rounded up to 48.5. It\u2019s actually a 2.4% advantage which is in the margin of error. By the way, Zogby was the only one to get it right last time in 2004. Zogby nailed it. We keep a sharp eye on Zogby. All these polls want to get it right in the end. They want to use polling data to influence public opinion up until the end, but at the end, they want to be able to say that they got it right for the accuracy and the credibility of their operation. CBS: ‘In a sign that the race for president has returned to about where it was before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket leads the McCain-Palin ticket 47 percent to 43 percent among registered voters. The Obama-Biden ticket led by a wider margin, nine percentage points last Wednesday,\u2019 before the vice presidential debate. CBS assuming here that there might have been some movement in the presidential race because of the vice presidential debate. Seventy million people watched it. The Drive-Bys and the Obama campaign tried to tell us that the reason people watched the debate is because they were so excited to see Plugs Biden. Well, we all know, ladies and gentlemen, that Sarah Palin was the drawing card for that debate, and it worked. Here is the second McCain sound bite yesterday from New Mexico tearing into the anointed one.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes that if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called it the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place. Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year, he said that subprime loans had been, quote, ‘a good idea.\u2019 Well, Senator Obama, that good idea has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Obama\u2019s fingerprints are all over this plunge with his close associations to ACORN. Now, Saturday Night Live did a skit. Did you see this? They did a skit nailing the Democrats on this, nailing Pelosi, nailing Barney Frank, nailing George Soros. You can\u2019t see it, however, they took it off their website. They nailed the couple that started this subprime mortgage business and ended up selling that business to Wachovia for $25 billion, which is what got Wachovia in trouble. This couple also funded Air America. They fund all of these vast far left-wing causes, and Saturday Night Live ripped them to shreds. People were stunned and couldn\u2019t believe it. Now, what happened, this thing aired and the people involved must have called NBC and said, ‘Take that down, that\u2019s outrageous, we don\u2019t want that up,\u2019 and they scrubbed it. It is not on the NBC website, but it\u2019s all over the blogosphere. We have the audio for it and we\u2019ll be sharing it with you as the program unfolds before your eyes and ears. Lots to do, folks. Great to be back with you. The phone number again is 800-282-2882. <\/p>\n

One more thing, I want to close the thought about this humor business and my cousin Dan saying we can\u2019t wait \u2019til the election is over and get back to humor. He\u2019s got a good point about that. These really are intense times. We are talking about the future of the country, a dramatic change in the future of the country if Obama and Biden win this. I know that humor is a fabulous way to be persuasive and so forth. Sometimes you just get so intense about this because it matters so much. I don\u2019t want to give people the impression that I\u2019m taking it lightly by making fun of it or by making fun of Obama. I know how effective it is. But it brought home to me just how intense this whole campaign has been because of the stakes that are involved here, and they are profound. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking about a vision of two distinct Americas, an America that\u2019s true to our founding where the traditions and institutions that have defined our greatness are defended, protected, and, hopefully, empowered and expanded. The Obama view, peppered with mentorship from Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright and so forth is to tear down all the institutions and traditions that have defined this country\u2019s greatness and rebuild the country in an image that, for lack of a better word, would be socialist. It\u2019s been tried everywhere in the world except here, and the left worldwide and in this country has great hope invested in Obama that he can succeed in bringing this country into the fold along with the rest of the socialist leftist world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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