[RUSH: All right, now, folks, listen up here. I don't go to great lengths to stay optimistic because I'm naturally that way, but I do sometimes get frustrated at the doom and gloom fatalism that I am confronted with on a daily basis here, not only in the mainstream media but sometimes from people who call who go wobbly and get weak-kneed. I understand it, but it's just all the more important to stay upbeat and positive. Throughout this whole Cindy Sheehan business, and throughout the whole anti-war movement going back to the 9/11 Commission, the whole campaign year of 2004, I made the statement to you on a number of occasions, a bunch of different ways, a bunch of different and varying degrees, that all this was hurting the Democrats, that the Democrats don't have any sort of a plan. They are obsessed with seething hatred and rage. It doesn't get anybody anywhere. It causes you to be irrational. You remember all this. In fact, last night I had dinner with some friends. One of them happens to be an educated and informed and very, very intelligent woman. But you bring up the subject of Bush, and it's amazing the transformation that takes place -- and I conducted a little test last night. I said,] I want to really help you out here, ... Let me try to help you out here. Do you understand something? Bush is not on the ballot. Bush is not running for anything anymore.
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