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RUSH: Dave, Oakdale, California, we start with you. You\u2019re first on the phones today. Nice to have you with us, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nice to talk to you, Rush. Congratulations on your recent marriage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, basically I\u2019m a new listener, and I voted for Obama and I\u2019m having some real voter regret. And I just wanted to kind of touch base on how you\u2019re calling the college education, all the professors and the trying to push thinker agenda down on the country class, here. I think it starts a lot sooner than in college. You know, speaking of when I was in school just a few years ago — I\u2019m in my late twenties now, but — I remember in high school there\u2019s a kid who wrote a essay and actually end up getting some college scholarship money for basically — you know, I was proud and happy for him, but — it\u2019s just all about how proud he was to be African-American and the struggles his family went through in America and how proud he was and all I could think was, ‘If I change those words to how proud I was to be white I would have been probably thrown out of class, expelled, sent to a psychiatrist. You know, not applauded and handed college scholarship money.\u2019 I just think that\u2019s kinda —<\/p>\n

RUSH: When did you come to that realization? At the time, or just recently?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, at the time I was thinking that and I thought it years since and I\u2019ve always kind of known as a double standard but we all just kind of sit quietly and let it happen because there\u2019s a lot of underlying guilt that\u2019s been going on for generations —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ab-so-lute-ly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. It\u2019s actually… It\u2019s really bad. They push it on us and it\u2019s crazy how many people actually feel it — and they don\u2019t realize it, either, that\u2019s the sad part.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Yeah, sadly probably more and more are, though. Why did you vote for Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why did I vote for Obama?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess I fell for the propped. Before the election I was actually a registered Libertarian which I like libertarianism — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re going to give Libertarians a bad name.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — fairly progressive in a lot of ways also. But why did I vote for Obama. That\u2019s a good question. I guess I fell for the hook line and the sinker of the propaganda. I was really frustrated like a lot of people, really angry, feeling like the country was going in a bad direction. And now since he\u2019s taken office I feel like we\u2019re going in an even worse direction. It\u2019s actually truly scary. I can\u2019t hardly believe it. With his lackluster reaction to the BP oil spill — and the straw that really broke the donkey\u2019s back for me is when he went after Arizona on the immigration debate. That really beyond makes me angry. I can\u2019t hardly stand that. In Oakdale, California, we had a Hershey factory here that actually shut down and moved operation to Mexico, and this town is still hurting over that. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. <\/p>\n

CALLER: So that really hit home for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They shut down a Hershey chocolate factory in California and moved it to Mexico?<\/p>\n

CALLER: In Oakdale, California, Hershey Chocolate Town. They had a chocolate festival every year, chocolate tours of the factory. I used to go \u2019em all the time when I was a little kid. It\u2019s disgusting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody knows that chocolate will melt in Mexico. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t believe Hershey did that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t, either. It was like a slap to the face — and to see him go down that to Arizona and go up to those people, feels like a slap in the face here. The whole country should have done what Arizona\u2019s doing, and for them to act like, ‘How can you tell what an illegal is?\u2019 Here\u2019s your first clue: When you pull them over all they have are IDs from Mexico. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Uhhh…<\/p>\n

CALLER: Is that racist? It\u2019s common sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughs) I can\u2019t believe you voted for Obama. What in the hell got into you? This doesn\u2019t sound like a new revelation the way you\u2019re thinking now. Yet you got caught up in all this Obama hype. I\u2019ll bet he wanted an end to the partisan bickering, maybe believed in the ‘great unifier\u2019 business. Thank you, Dave. Great to have you on the program. Here\u2019s Barbara in Quogue, New York. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And God bless you for saying what you mean, meaning what you say, and your honesty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sitting here fuming as I\u2019m listening to you. I\u2019m a 58-year-old ‘white\u2019 female, proud to be a tea party patriot. I\u2019m not racist, I\u2019m not violent, I\u2019m just no longer silent — which brings me to make this call, Rush. I am so sick of hearing the NAACP, Jeremiah Wright, other black left-wing activists and the liberal elitists speak about black oppression, racism, using this as an excuse to further their agenda. Rush, I grew up on welfare in the coalmine region of northeast Pennsylvania. Our family was berated, we are chastised, we were scorned upon because we were the only welfare family on the block. It was the most demeaning experience of my young life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It had a stigma in attached to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was. And, Rush, my story wasn\u2019t unique. When I turned seven years old — I was the baby of the family out of three children — my mother went to work as a state case in a dress factory. Dad was a coalminer. The coalmines had closed down. Dad was also a World War II, Battle of the Bulge veteran, and when he came back from the war, work was just not in his life anymore. But getting off welfare, Rush. When my mother went to work, we couldn\u2019t stand it. It made me work harder to better my life. It made me work harder to be more proud of myself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you see, that was back in the days before the definition of being an ‘American\u2019 equaled being entitled to largesse from the government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was before the whole concept of ‘funemployment.\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back then you didn\u2019t have stories about how wonderfully liberating it was to be out of work like you do today, about the family growing closer spiritually and so forth, taking advantage of being out of work and on welfare, being supported by other people. But that\u2019s a bygone era, as you are pointing out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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