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April 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
No long-form birth certificates on me, no, sorry.
That Obama guy may wimp out when some freaky-haired reality show billionaire Yanks' chain, but some of us ineligible candidates are made of stronger stuff.
I'm a foreign exchange student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to study here.
And in return, Michelle Obama gets to go to the royal wedding, but at the stroke of midnight, her coach turns back into a Chinese-owned pumpkin on which the $3 trillion interest payment is due.
So it all works.
It all works out.
Rush is away today, but I believe he'll be back tomorrow to anchor our three hours of live wedding coverage.
Is that right, HR?
He's coming back for that.
Oh, no, he's apparently run screaming from the building just at the thought of it.
So who's going to be then tomorrow?
Walter Williams explaining the economic rationale of Page Boys?
He's going to anchor the royal wedding coverage.
Is that right, HR?
Oh, it's me.
Oh, dear.
Okay.
Well, I'll try to be enthusiastic for our royal wedding special tomorrow.
Coming up on the show today, by the way, we'll have an exclusive interview with a Fleet Street reporter who once interviewed someone who knew someone who was at school with a second cousin of Kate Middleton.
So you won't want to miss that.
And even if you do want to miss it, tough.
You won't be able to miss it because every other show will be carrying it too.
Muslims Against Crusades wanted to apply to hold a mass demonstration and riot outside Westminster Abbey tomorrow.
And normally when Muslims Against Crusades and other Muslim groups apply to hold a riot in central London, the police give them the go-ahead, but they turn them down today.
So Muslims Against the Crusades have urged all Muslims to stay away from the group wedding.
The group spokesman, Abu Abbas, said, quote, we urge all Muslims to stay away from the royal wedding, not only because of the drinking, drug-taking, and sexual promiscuity.
I may, you know, I may get up to watch the live coverage after early to watch the live coverage after all.
We urge all Muslims to stay away from the royal wedding, not only because of the drinking, drug-taking, and sexual promiscuity, but because of the likelihood of an attack by the Mujahideen.
So we urge all Muslims to stay away from public transport, trains, buses, and tubes around central.
They don't normally give us as much advance notice.
So this is very useful information.
And so it's not just the drug-taking and drinking and sexual promiscuity at the royal wedding that they object to, but they also regard the Queen and Prince William as war criminals.
They've got these big posters here.
Queen Elizabeth II wanted for war crimes, wanted Prince William, modern-day Nazi.
Actually, modern-day Nazis often get a big welcome in the Muslim world.
I don't know why they're down on him for that reason.
But anyway, Abu Abbas, the spokesperson for Muslims Against the Crusades, has warned all devout Muslims to stay away from public transport tomorrow in London because of an attack by the Mujahideen.
So thanks for the heads up.
We'll put that into our traffic updates for anyone driving in the central London region.
As the group accused the royal family of being responsible for war crimes, onlookers shouted, Long live the Queen, and you're all on welfare anyway.
Which is true.
And one of the Muslims replied, you paid for this camera.
You pay for my benefits.
You're basically my slave.
And that's also true.
People moan that Muslims don't assimilate with Western society, but that guy has absolutely captured the relationship between a pampered permanent dependent class and the poor saps who have to pay for it.
You paid for the one of the Muslim guys goes, You paid for this camera, you pay for my benefits, you're basically my slave.
That's right, that's right.
And I wish those union guys in Wisconsin were more upfront about it in that way.
So we will keep you up to date on all the exciting developments.
What is it?
The alcohol, the drug taking, and the sexual promiscuity at the royal wedding.
We'll be having live coverage of that.
More birth certificate news.
Superman is renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
Seriously, seriously, this is from Comics Alliance, which is something to do with AOL.
And it says the key scene takes place in Action Comics number 900 in a story called The Incident.
Superman consults with the president's national security advisor, who's furious that Superman has appeared in Tehran to non-violently support the protesters.
This is how lame it's got, by the way, in the comic book world, by the way.
Non-violent.
Superman non-violently supporting the protesters demonstrating against the Iranian regime.
And this is supposed to be an analogy with the real-life protests in the Middle East.
And the Obama administration, for such we must assume it is, is furious with Superman for marching with the non-violent protesters in Tehran.
And in return, Superman, where is this?
This is an amazing picture.
Superman says, I intend to speak before the United Nations tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my U.S. citizenship.
I'm tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy.
Truth, justice, and the American way, it's not enough anymore.
Superman is renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
I wasn't actually aware that he was a U.S. citizen because I assume, no, I assume, you know, he doesn't have a long-form birth certificate because, you know, the filing cabinet in the town clerk's office on Krypton pretty much got wiped out when the planet exploded.
So, and frankly, that's a much cooler reason for not producing your long-form birth certificate than certain other parties ever had.
But I had no idea Superman was a U.S. citizen, but he isn't anymore.
By the way, if you're thinking of following Superman and renouncing your U.S. citizenship, be aware that the IRS still claims the right to tax you wherever you live, anywhere on the planet, for up to 10 years after you've renounced your U.S. citizenship.
So Superman can be living on an island in the South Pacific or he can be at his ski place in Switzerland, and the IRS are still going to come after him.
So that's how bad it's got, folks.
You win some, you lose some.
It turns out Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen, but Superman isn't.
Who doesn't like that trade-off?
It works out perfectly.
If you want to know what I think of Rush was talking about this birth of business, the birth certificate, the birth of certificate yesterday.
And I'm pretty much on Rush's page with that.
But if you want to talk about that, we will do it.
We will go there.
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Because you got to love the fun of this.
When is Rush appearing?
Not Rush.
When is Obama appearing on Oprah?
It's May 2nd.
Okay.
Okay.
That's Monday.
And I love the way the guy stands up and he says, oh, this whole birth certificate business has become a terrible distraction.
And then he immediately leaves to play golf and rehearse his Oprah appearance.
So that's marvellous.
The President of the United States calling a press conference to reveal that, unlike Superman from the planet Krypton, he does have a long-form birth certificate.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm not a birtha.
And we can get into that if you like, and you can ask me why I'm not a bertha.
And I enjoyed I so enjoyed seeing that that weird spectacle of the press, the split screen thing on one of the cable channels of the of the empty press room at the White House waiting for Donald Trump in the snows of New Hampshire to finish speaking.
So that the president of the United States could come out and explain that he does have a long form birth certificate.
Thank you.
As it happens, it's a shorter log form birth certificate than the bi-log form birth certificate.
I'm very interested to see the questions that aren't on there.
But I'm not saying it's a fake.
You never know.
It may well be perfectly genuine.
But I think it's in Obama's interest for us to carry on talking about this for another year or 18 months or so.
So I certainly hope to contribute to that today.
Rush will be back on Monday.
He's not going to be doing our three-hour royal wedding special, but he is going to be back here live at midday on Monday.
I was looking at the guest list for this wedding, and I think Sir Elton John is the only guy on the planet who'll be able to say he was both at Rush's wedding and Prince William's wedding.
Unless Snerdley's going to be in Westminster Abbey tomorrow, and I can't see his name.
Is that where Snerdley's taken off for HR?
He's going to the royal wedding.
I'm trying to look for him on the guest list here.
No, no, because it's just so Elton John's the only guy who will be at both Rush's wedding and Prince William's wedding then.
So, yeah, so no, I'm just going through the guest list here.
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Governor General of New Zealand.
I think Snerdley would be just ahead of Sir Michael Somari, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, and His Majesty the King of Swaziland, but I can't see him on there, so I take it Snerdley's not going.
So it's just Elton John, the only man on the planet who will be able to say he was at both Rush's wedding and at Prince William's wedding.
Obama, the birth certificate thing.
It is a distraction.
Rush got to the point of it.
What matters about President Obama is not whether he has a birth certificate, but that he has an economic policy and that this economic policy is disastrous for the United States of America.
This country is borrowing officially, the government of the United States borrows every single hour $188 million.
So we're just shy.
By the time this show wraps up today, the government of the United States will have borrowed In your name, another three-fifths of a billion dollars just in the course of this show.
What does it do with this money?
For the most part, it entirely wastes it.
That's the issue when you're spending at that level, when you're spending at that level, the president's birth certificate is not the big issue facing this country.
It was damaging him because people look for explanations as to why a man who is charged with upholding the Constitution of the United States and defending the national interest of the United States and governing in the interests of the people of the United States, why such a man would embark on policies that are entirely ruinous for the United States.
Now, the clever guys in the media have come up with an explanation for this, and we're going to get into that.
But the quick version of what the Washington Post thinks is that Barack Obama is simply too intelligent to be president.
According to a professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia, and if that's not a smart guy, who is?
A professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia, Jonathan Haight.
Quote, what distinguishes Obama particularly is the depth and carefulness of his thinking, which renders him somewhat unfit for politics, unquote.
That's where we went wrong.
We were stupid enough to elect a really smart guy to be president, and he's simply too smart for the stupidity that politics requires of you.
This is the ingenious explanation by Jonathan Haight, professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia, as to why Obama is doing a wretched job.
We'll explore that and get into lots of other aspects of today's news in the next three hours.
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Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
We're talking about Obama's struggle to regain control of the narrative.
He was quite happy to let this long-form birth certificate issue sit out there and fester because he thought it was driving the Republican Party nuts.
And he thought initially that that's when Trump started making a big deal out of it, that it would rebound on the Republican Party.
And if you notice, for a while, it seemed to be going that way because everybody else who was thinking of running for president, doesn't matter whether it's Mitch or Mitch Daniels or Tim Polenti or Michelle Buckman, they suddenly found that whenever they appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, somebody wanted to ask where they stood on the birth of issue.
The whole thing was to get all the mainstream candidates to turn on Trump and denounce him for being so vulgar, vulgar, and absurd as to bring this birth of conspiracy into the mainstream.
And then clearly the White House looked at it and realized that, in fact, it was, he already has a problem with independence.
The people who got him elected in November 2008 aren't there for him right now.
And for whatever reason, this birth certificate business wasn't helping him there.
So then we now have the spectacle of the President of the United States going out there and, in effect, responding to what Donald Trump worked up.
But I think it plays into a larger question that Rush was talking about yesterday: the smartness, the so-called smartness of this president.
Some people were embarrassed because they say, well, Trump's a buffoon and a reality TV guy.
And here's the president of the United States, the smartest president in U.S. history, according to presidential historian Michael Beschloss.
Michael Beschloss called Barack Obama the smartest president in the smartest man ever to become president.
And the question then arises: if he's so smart, why is everything such a mess?
Why is he doing so poorly?
And Dana Milbank in the Washington Post explains it this way.
He says, Obama's strengths and weaknesses come from his high degree of integrative complexity.
Because we can all use that in a guy, can't we?
Integrative complexity.
If you look at the small ads, it's what women want in a man.
Integrative complexity, his ability to keep multiple variables in mind simultaneously.
The integratively simple thinker, say George W. Bush, has one universal organizing principle that dominates all others, while the integratively complex thinker, Obama, balances many competing goals.
And that's true, because you realize when he got to the end of his press conference, he was the integratively complex thinker Obama was trying to balance his competing goals of should he get an Air Force One and fly off to Chicago to do the Oprah interview, or should he go out to the golf course for another 18 holes on the links.
This is an integratively complex man.
Philip Tetlock, a professor of psychology with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, found that politicians on the center left where Obama dwells tend to have the highest degree of integrative complexity.
Well, there's a surprise.
The smartest guys are on the center left.
Because let's face it, you know, let's face it.
If they're smart, they can't possibly be on the right, can they?
So the smartest guys, the integratively complex guys, are on the center left where Obama dwells, according to Philip Tetlock.
Actually, he doesn't dwell on the center left.
Obama's worldview is on the far left.
His view of American power is on the far left.
His view of economic markets is on the far left.
His view of society is on the far left.
The fact that Philip Tetlock thinks that a guy like Obama is on the center left is a big part of the problem.
But he has the integrative complexity.
And Dana Milbank then goes, one type of thinker isn't necessarily better or smarter than the other.
It depends on the circumstances.
A simple thinker such as Winston Churchill, for example, was a better answer to Adolf Hitler than the complex Neville Chamberlain.
That's the thing, isn't it?
You know, Neville Chamberlain, he was a smart guy.
He was so smart, he was so smart, he would have lost the war.
With war, a simpleton like Churchill comes into his own.
And that's the situation we're in now.
Things are so bad that a complicated man of integrative complexity like Barack Obama is simply unsuited to politics.
You need a simpleton.
The left uses this argument all the time.
A couple of months after 9-11, Jacob Weisberg of Slate magazine wrote a piece for Slate called How Bush's Shallowness Makes Him a Good War President.
In extreme times, the moron comes into his own, and integrative complexity is entirely suited to the issues of the day.
They were saying it back then about Al Gore, too smart to be president.
Now they're saying it about Barack Obama.
He's too smart for the White House.
This is desperation on the part of the left.
This guy is not smart and America's figuring it out.
Yes, your undocumented anchor man sitting in on the EIB network.
No long-form birth certificates on me.
No, sir.
Obama and Biden are furious, still furious at not being invited to tomorrow's big royal wedding because this is a state-of-the-art royal wedding.
For the very first time in history, the royal bride's wedding gown will have a high-speed train.
So that's something to look for when you get up early to watch it tomorrow morning.
Mark signing for Rush 1-800-282-2882.
We're talking about the smartest man ever to become president.
That's what Michael Beschloss calls Barack Obama, presidential historian.
He should know, he should know.
And why, in that case, he's having such trouble that we have the spectacle of the president of the United States standing up before the world and announcing that he has a long-form birth certificate.
And for the most obscure reasons.
He said it was because two weeks ago it was the number one news story in the land, and he wanted people to be talking about the economy.
If the economy was the number one story, nobody was covering the birth certificate thing because the New York Times guys are too snooty to look into it, so they just use it as a kind of cheap cudgel with which to bash the Republicans.
Nobody was talking about it, but he felt it was the media, the court eunuchs of the Obama Palace were, as usual, doing their palace guard role in protecting him.
And somehow the damage was being done, and he decided he needed to get this thing out there.
Let's go to John in Mercer, Wisconsin.
John, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
I'm glad to be with you.
This is quite an honor.
Our little town here gets a resident of the radio.
Really?
How big is Mercer, Wisconsin, by the way?
Because I gave you a big area, just a gorgeous little part of America that is up in northern Wisconsin, about 25, 30 miles south of Lake Superior.
Oh, that's wildlife, and just wonderful to be here, and pretty conservative.
Wow, great.
So you're not just a first-time caller, you're a first-time town.
Mercer, Wisconsin, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
My comment is this is something I've always had on my mind, and I think a lot of listeners seeing what goes on.
I talked to your call screener and I said, you know, why is it every time we get a Republican president or a Democrat president, they fall into a certain template?
We all realize, and I go back to the days of Jimmy Carter, and he was a certified genius, just like the present certified genius we have in office.
And when you watch television and you hear the talk shows like The View, Joey Behar has said, well, he's a certified genius, you know.
I'd like to take a different approach.
And my credentials are I graduated with a degree in sociology and a minor in psychology and going on into the financial industry, got my Series 7.
So I'd like to consider myself reasonably intelligent.
But I can tell you, what meets my eye is this, that the guy is probably more closely identified as a testament to affirmative action rather than a certified genius.
I can't believe anybody could make so many bad decisions that have our country on the verge of collapse and still be considered a certified genius.
And then one last thought.
Why is it that Sarah Palin, on the other hand, gets the other side of the template, which is, oh, well, she's a Republican.
She's a great-looking woman, and she's conservative, makes sense when she talks, and yet you hear people like Bill Amarr saying, oh, does she read?
Yeah, it just gets rather tiresome.
It's what needs the eye that the American public sees.
Well, John, You make a good point there because Sarah Palin's run a commercial fishing operation.
She's run a small town in Alaska.
She's run a state.
Barack Obama had never run anything until he became president of the United States.
And when somebody pointed out to him that say what you like about Sarah Palin, but she'd actually run all these jobs in which she had executive authority and had to make things happen at 9 o'clock every Monday morning, Barack Obama responded that his main qualification for running for president was that he'd run such a good presidential campaign.
I mean, it's a totally circular postmodern argument.
His rationale, his qualification for being president, is that he's doing such a good job of running for president.
And whatever one feels about that, once he got in there, he wasn't any good at it.
One thing we've got to remember, and we can't forget, he gives good teleprompter.
No, I don't, I wouldn't even agree with that.
Speaking, I'm not the biggest teleprompter thing, but he just does that center court at the U.S. Open ping-pong head thing where you're looking from one side of the net to the other side of the net.
He doesn't even give good prompter.
By the way, did you see the guy, the fellow who, Mr. Schlafly, I think it's Herbert Schlafly, the inventor of the teleprompter, died a couple of days ago.
And I don't know whether this is, I don't know whether Obama has instituted five days of official mourning and ordered the flags lowered to half-staff, but it might explain why he suddenly came out and did that totally off-the-prompter press conference yesterday.
The man who invented the teleprompter, Herbert Schlafly, died at the grand old age of 94.
The man who, in a sense, enabled the Obama presidency by enabling him to look so clever at being able to read fatuous, gaseous bromides off a blank screen, almost as if he's a blank screen himself.
As John pointed out, this is an old, old, old thing going at least as far back to Eisenhower and Adley Stevenson.
Adley Stevenson was the smart guy.
Eisenhower was the dummy.
What had he ever done?
He just won the Second World War.
Ha!
Think that's a qualification to be president?
He was just a dummy who played golf all the time.
That used to be the criticism you made of the stupid Republican, that he played golf all the time.
Eisenhower played golf all the time.
Bush, he played golf all the time.
Obama plays more golf in a month than George W. Bush plays in a year, but suddenly golf isn't the big cudgel.
You don't whack the dummy president over the head with the golf club anymore.
Golf is cool now.
And ever since the Eisenhower dummy golfer days, the critique of the Republican has always been he's an idiot.
Reagan was an idiot.
In fact, Reagan had the most fully formed and thought-through worldview of any man in the modern era to become president.
He'd thought about all this stuff a lot.
He was very clear in his mind about how it all fit together.
What original thought?
We're told all the time, this guy in the Washington Post, the fellow professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia, the depth and carefulness of Obama's thinking.
Where's the depth and carefulness of his thinking?
When he's off the prompter, what he says is completely ridiculous.
When he suddenly decides to intervene in some Harvard professor's intervention getting mixed up with the Cambridge Police Department in Massachusetts, he just wades in without giving it a moment's thought because he just retreats to his lame tropes about a white racist cop and the black guy who's on the receiving end.
Doesn't seem to have anything to say, for example, about these two black women in McDonald's who beat up a poor white transvestite the other day.
Where's Obama, the great thinker on that?
Or is it all too complicated?
Because you've got two different groups there.
You've got like your black victim group and your transvestite victim group there.
So it's all a bit more not as easy to wade in as just demonizing the poor old cop up in Massachusetts.
How come Obama, the great thinker, hasn't thought that one through?
If anything calls for nuance in these turbulent but complex nuanced times, black women beating up a transvestite in McDonald's, isn't that the ultimate issue where the great nuanced, integratively complex thinker comes?
No, no, happy to wade into local policing issues when it's Skip Gates, Professor Skip Gates up at Harvard, but suddenly Obama's got nothing to say on this.
Where's the smartest guy on the planet?
Doesn't he care about transvestites being beaten up in McDonald's?
Where is he?
If that is an issue that cries out for his super nuanced attitude, then one certainly doesn't exist.
This is the oldest game in the business.
Even this, and this idea of putting it in historical context by saying Chamberlain was the smart guy.
Chamberlain wasn't the smart guy.
He was succored by Hitler.
He was succored by the Germans.
And the idea that Churchill, the guy who for 10 years had been warning about this before he became prime minister, that Churchill is the dummy, but that in wartime, war is a simple, things get simple in war.
And you need a moron then.
A moron like Churchill comes into his own, a moron like George W. Bush comes into his home.
And it's just so unfair that complex guys like Neville Chamberlain and Barack Obama are unsuited to the times.
By the way, did you ever think that the left would be so desperate that their argument in defense of Barack Obama would involve comparing him to Neville Chamberlain?
This is what the Washington Post has been reduced to.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the EIB network.
Superman, Superman has renounced his U.S. citizenship.
This is what it's come to.
He's left it in a phone booth.
He's left it in the last working phone booth in Metropolis.
Superman has renounced his U.S. citizenship.
We were talking about the Washington Post arguing that Obama's problem is he's simply too smart to be president.
Jacob Weisberg, who wrote all these books filled with so-called amusing bushisms.
Do you remember they used to have that?
In fact, I think they still do every so often at Slate magazine, these amusing bushisms.
And Jacob Weisberg got a book out of them.
I think it's rocketing up the Amazon.com bestseller list at big hit position number 1,454,797, if you want to order a copy.
And after 9-11, he had to come up with an explanation as to why Bush seemed to be doing a good job toppling the Taliban and that kind of thing.
He stuck with his line that the guy was an idiot, but that fortunately for Bush, war plays to an idiot's strengths.
This is Jacob Weisberg.
Quote, Bush continues to exhibit the same lack of curiosity, thoughtfulness, and engagement with ideas that made him a C student.
That's right, by the way.
Bush was a C, what was he, HR?
We were talking about this earlier, C-plus student when he was at Yale, is that right?
I think he was a C-plus student.
And we don't know, of course, what Obama is because Donald Trump has now called on him to release his grades.
I'd like to know how he did in third grade at whatever school he was in in Jakarta.
It'd be interesting to see that, how he did that.
But he's not releasing those records yet until Trump forces them out of him.
According to Weisberg, the same lack of curiosity, thoughtfulness, and engagement with ideas that made him a C student.
Nuance, complexity, subtlety, and contradiction are not part of the mental universe he habits.
He inhabits.
And curiously enough, it is these very qualities of mind or lack thereof that seem to be making him such a good war president.
Unquote.
That was Jacob Weisberg in Slate almost 10 years ago.
He was sticking to his argument that boneheads make bad presidents, but that, as he put it, there's a wartime codicil.
In wartime, certain qualities sometimes associated with high intelligence, fascination with detail, a tendency to self-reliance, and awareness of ambiguity become greater obstacles to effective leadership.
Unquote.
In war, the idiot president comes into his own.
Okay, well, what happened to the war?
What happened to the war?
Iraq has been stabilized, at least to the extent that it's not in the newspapers.
Afghanistan, terrible things are happening.
An Afghan soldier killed nine Americans at Kabul airport just the other day.
Barely made the newspapers here because it's not helpful to Obama.
So Afghanistan's not in the news.
Obama himself, not content with these two wars that no longer make the papers, Obama himself launched a third war and then outsourced it.
I think he put a Canadian general in charge of it and left it to NATO.
And that war is now a quagmire.
It's the fastest quagmire in history.
It's in the Guinness Book of World Records under World's Fastest Quagmire.
It's a stalemate.
We've backed all over the Middle East.
Mubarak fell in nothing flat.
Ben Ali and Tunisia fell in nothing flat.
These regimes are wobbling everywhere, but we've backed, we've chosen to back the one rebel movement that can't even overthrow the local strongman, even when you lend him every functioning NATO air force.
Fastest quagmire in history.
It's not on the news anymore.
You would never think this war, you'd think I dreamt it.
Did I have too much to drink that weekend and I woke up and everybody seemed to be talking about a new war in Libya?
And then my hangover wore off and it just turned out to be a bad dream.
The war, the Libyan war is not in the news.
So we're not talking about a war presidency now.
We're talking about the economy.
We're talking about the debt that America is drowning in.
And suddenly, Jacob Weisberg needs to expand his theory.
His theory is that boneheads make bad presidents, but in war, the moron president comes into his own.
We're not talking about a war presidency now.
Obama never talks about the war, never talks about wars, not only Bush's wars, he never talks about his own wars.
We're talking about the economy.
We're talking about the multi-trillion dollar debt that is sending the United States plunging into the abyss.
Now, is that also, is that also a situation where we'd do better to have a moron in charge rather than the smartest guy ever to occupy the White House?
The reality is that Barack Obama, and this again gets back to the birth of business.
One reason why I don't want to get into the, don't particularly never got excited about the birth of business.
I don't want this president discredited and kicked out on a technicality.
This isn't like when Snoop Dogg found himself up on that murder wrap and got acquitted on a technicality.
I don't want this president to be convicted on technical grounds.
I don't want this presidency to end on the technicality of whether he was born in Hawaii or whether he was born in Mombasa or whether he was born on the planet Krypton.
Want these ideas to die, the ideas on which he got elected, because these ideas are killing your country.
And in that sense, Obama is not a foreigner.
He's like millions and millions of the Americans he's lived among in Hyde Park Chicago, at Harvard, at Columbia, at Occidental.
These are the people who take these ideas about economic growth, the iniquities of American foreign policy, they're all entirely normal.
This is the swamp in which he's been marinated his entire life.
And what's embarrassing about it is not that it's utterly foreign to the United States, but that it's so normal to a huge swathe of American elites.
All the views Obama holds are entirely normal to huge swathes of the American elites.
Those ideas have to be discredited.
It's not enough to end this presidency simply on some rinky-dink technicality like where the guy happened to be born.
That's my view on the bertha thing.
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Hey, Mark Stein, in for us.
Great to be here as Royal Wedding FIFA mounts.
Don't forget, we'll be covering that with our non-stop three-hour royal wedding special here on the EIB network tomorrow.
Also, talking today, 1-800-282-2882 about Obama.
Who won that one?
Trump or Obama?
Trump did.
Trump did.
I said I wasn't a bertha, but I really got into it.
I wanted to be a bertha once I heard Trump just sticking it to the president about it.
Because compared to all the people saying, oh, you know, we've got to be careful.
We don't want to raise this.
He just had fun with it.
He had fun with it.
He stuck it to the president and he made, he put the president on the defensive and he made him look like an idiot.
I'm not a Trump supporter.
Trump is not a conservative.
Trump has given money to Rahm Emmanuel and Rod Blagoevich and all the rest of it.
But Trump showed the way when it came to sticking it to the president.
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