PREVIEW: OBAMA/WALZ: Colleague Bill Whalen of Hoover recounts two anecdotes about famous Democratic politicians misspeaking while in the splendor of California fundraising. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:32.0 | Conversation with my colleague Bill Whelan of the Hoover Institution about California and visiting |
| 0:38.4 | politicians during election cycles. |
| 0:41.3 | Bill tells the story, very famous story now, many years ago, when Barack |
| 0:46.7 | Obama was first campaigning for the nomination for the Democratic Party, this is |
| 0:51.7 | 2008, and he made a remark in California during a |
| 0:56.9 | fundraiser that has remained a trouble for democrats ever since about clinging to God and rifles. |
| 1:07.0 | However, Bill also tells an episode I did not know of when Governor Walsh looking to be the Vice President for Vice President |
| 1:18.4 | Harris came to California and made a remark about, well to Bill tell the story the electoral college and |
| 1:26.7 | Bill puzzles whether California being in California the weather |
| 1:32.1 | good reception, cheerfulness, makes Democratic candidates say things |
| 1:38.0 | say, as Bill said, better left unsaid. |
| 1:41.6 | Here's Bill Whelan to describe the Walsh incident following the |
| 1:46.2 | Barack Obama story of many years ago. |
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