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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
	Yes, America's Anchor Man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
	Honored to be here.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	No long form birth certificates on me, no surre.
	That Obama guy may wimp out when some freaky haired reality show billionaire Yankees 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 programme.
	Guys like me get to study here.
	And uh 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 three trillion dollar interest payment is due.
	So it all works, it all works out.
	Rush is uh away today, but um uh I believe he'll be back uh tomorrow to anchor our three hours of live wedding coverage.
	Is that right?
	Is that right, HR?
	He's uh he's coming back for that.
	Oh no, he's he's apparently run screaming from the building just at the thought of it.
	Uh so who's it gonna be then tomorrow?
	Uh Walter Walter Williams explaining the economic rationale of page boys.
	Uh it's is he he's he's he's gonna anchor the royal wedding coverage, is that right, H. Oh, it's me.
	Oh dear.
	Okay.
	Well, I'll try to I'll try to 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.
	Uh Muslims against Crusades uh wanted to applied to hold a a mass demonstration and riot uh uh outside Westminster Abbey tomorrow.
	And normally when uh 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.
	Uh so uh m 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 uh you know, I I may get up to watch the live coverage after all early to watch the live coverage after all.
	Uh 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.
	Uh 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 advanced notice.
	So this is very useful, uh useful information.
	Uh and uh so uh it's not just the uh drug taking and uh drinking and sexual promiscuity at the Royal Wedding that they object to, but they also uh 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 uh often get a big welcome in the Muslim world.
	I don't know why they're uh down on him for that reason.
	Uh but anyway, uh Abu Abbas, uh uh the spokesperson for Muslims against the Crusades has warned all devout Muslims uh to stay away from uh public transport tomorrow in London uh because of an attack by the Mujahideen.
	So uh so thanks for the thanks for the heads up.
	We'll we'll uh we'll put that into our traffic updates uh uh for anyone driving in the central London region.
	Uh 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, uh, You paid for this camera, you pay for my benefits, you're basically my slave.
	And uh that's also true.
	Uh the people moan that uh, you know, Muslims don't assimilate with Western society, but that guy has absolutely captured uh the relationship between a pampered permanent dependent class and the poor saps who have to pay for it.
	Uh you paid for m uh 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 uh I wish those uh union guys in Wisconsin were more uh uh up front about it uh in that way.
	Uh so we will uh we will keep you up to date on all the exciting developments.
	Uh the what is it, the alcohol, the drug taking and the sexual promiscuity at the Royal Wedding.
	We'll be uh we'll be having live coverage of that.
	Uh more birth certificate news.
	Superman is renouncing his US citizenship.
	Uh seriously, seriously.
	This is from Comics Alliance, which is uh something to do with AOL, and it says the key scene takes place in Action Comics number nine hundred 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 nonviolently support the protesters.
	This is how lame it's got, by the way, in the comic book world, by the way.
	Nonviolent Superman nonviolently supporting the protesters demonstrating against the Iranian uh regime.
	And this is supposed to be an analogy with the uh real life protests in the Middle East.
	And uh the Obama administration, for such we must assume it is, is furious uh with uh with Superman for uh marching with the nonviolent protesters uh in Tehran.
	And in return, Superman, where is this?
	This is an amazing uh picture.
	Uh Superman says, uh I intend to speak before the United Nations tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my US citizenship.
	I'm tired of having my actions construed as instruments of US policy.
	Truth, justice, and the American way, it's not enough anymore.
	Superman is renouncing his US citizenship.
	Uh I I I wasn't actually aware that he was a US citizen, uh, because I I assume no, I I assume, you know, he doesn't have a long form birth certificate because uh you know the filing cabinet in the town clerk's office on Krypton pretty much got wiped out when the planet exploded uh so uh and the f frankly that's a much cooler reason for not producing your log form birth certificate than certain other parties ever had.
	Uh but I had no idea Superman was a US citizen, but he isn't anymore.
	By the way, if you're thinking of following Superman and renouncing your US citizenship, be aware that the IRS still claims the right to tax you wherever you live anywhere on the planet for up to ten years uh after uh after uh you've renounced your US citizenship.
	So uh soman can be uh living on an island in the South Pacific, or he can be at his ski place in Switzerland, and the IRS are still gonna uh still gonna come after him.
	Uh so that's that's how bad it's got, folks.
	Uh you win some, you lose some.
	Uh it turns out Barack Obama uh is a US citizen, but Superman isn't.
	Uh who doesn't like that trade-off?
	It works out works out perfectly.
	Uh if you want to know what I think of Rush was talking about this birth of business, uh the birth certificate, the birth of certificate yesterday.
	And uh and uh I'm pretty much on Rush's page with that, but if you want if you want to talk about that, we will we will do it.
	We will go there.
	1-800-282-2882.
	You gotta love the fun of this.
	When when is Rush uh appearing uh not not Rush, when is Obama appearing on Oprah?
	He's uh he's uh It's May 2nd, okay, okay.
	That's uh Monday.
	And uh I love the way uh the guy uh stands up and he says, Oh, this uh yeah, you know, this uh this whole birth certificate business has become a terr terrible distraction.
	Uh and then he immediately uh leaves uh to play golf and rehearses Oprah appearance.
	So that that's that's uh that's marvelous.
	The president of the United States calling a press conference to reveal that uh unlike uh Superman from the planet Crypton, he does have a long form birth certificate.
	1-800-282-2882.
	I'm not a birther.
	And uh we can get into that if you like, and you can you can ask me why I'm uh why I'm not a birther.
	But I enjoyed I so enjoyed seeing that spec that weird spectacle of the press uh the the the the split screen thing on one of the cable channels uh of the uh of the empty press room at the White House uh waiting for Donald Trump in the snows of New Hampshire uh 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.
	Um as it happens, it's uh it's a shorter log form birth certificate than the biolog birth certificate.
	I'm very interested to see the questions that aren't uh on there.
	But I'm not saying 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 uh for an uh another year or eighteen months or so.
	So I h I certainly hope to contribute uh to uh to that today.
	Uh Rush will be back on Monday.
	Uh he's not going to be doing our three hour Royal Wedding special, but he is going uh to be uh back here live at uh 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.
	And unless uh Snerdley's gonna be in Westminster Abbey tomorrow, and I can't I can't see his name uh is is that where Snerdley's uh taken off for HR?
	He's gone to the uh he's going to the uh uh Royal Wedding in L I'm trying to look for him on the guest list here.
	No, no, because he it's just so so it's Elton John's the only guy who'll be at both Russia's wedding and Prince William's wedding then.
	So yeah, so no, I'm 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 Snurley's not going to.
	So it's just Elton John, the only man on the planet who'll be able to say he was at both Rush's wedding and at Prince William's wedding.
	Uh Obama, the birth certificate thing.
	Uh it is a distraction.
	Rush Rush got to the point of it.
	What uh what matters about uh President Obama is not whether he has a birth certificate, uh, but that he has an economic policy, and that this economic policy is disastrous uh for the United States of America.
	This country is borrowing officially, uh the government of the United States borrows every single hour one hundred and eighty-eight million dollars.
	So uh we're just shy.
	By the time this show wraps up today, the government of the United States will have borrowed in your name uh another uh three-fifths of a billion dollars uh just in the course of this show.
	What does it do with this money?
	For the most part, it entirely wastes it.
	Uh that's the issue.
	Uh by uh i by the by when you're spending at that level, when you're spending at that level, uh the president's birth certificate is not the big issue facing this country.
	It was damaging him uh because people c people look for explanations as to why a man uh who is charged with uh 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 uh would embark on policies that are entirely ruinous for the United States.
	Now, uh the clever guys in the media have come up with an explanation for this, and we're gonna get into that.
	Uh but but the but the but the the the the quick version of what the Washington Post thinks is that uh Barack Obama is simply too intelligent uh to be president.
	Uh 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 Hayt.
	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 Hayt, 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 uh uh uh aspects of today's news in the next three hours.
	1800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network, 1800-282-2882.
	Uh we're t we're talking about uh Obama's uh struggle uh to regain control of the narrative.
	Uh th he he he was quite happy to let this uh long form birth certificate issue sit out there uh and and uh and and fester because he thought it was driving the Republican Party nuts.
	Uh and and and he thought initially that that's when Trump started making a big deal out of it, uh that it would uh that that it it would rebound on the Republican Party.
	And uh if you notice for a while it seemed to be going that way because everybody else who was uh thinking of uh running for president uh doesn't matter whether it's uh Mitch or uh Mitch Daniels or Tim Polenti or Michelle Buckman, they suddenly found that whenever they were appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, uh somebody wanted to ask uh where they uh stood on the Bertha issue.
	The whole thing was uh to to get all the mainstream candidates to turn on uh Trump and denounce him for being so vulgar, vulgar as to br uh uh and and absurd as to bring this Bertha conspiracy into the mainstream.
	And then clearly the uh White House looked at it and realized that in fact it was uh he already has a problem with independence.
	The people who got him elected in uh November 2008 aren't there for him right now, and uh for whatever reason this uh birth certificate business wasn't helping him there.
	So you then we have now have the spectacle of the president of the United States uh going out there and uh and in effect responding to to what Donald Trump worked up.
	But I think it plays into uh a larger uh question that um that Rush was talking about yesterday, the smartness the so-called smartness of this president.
	Uh some people were embarrassed because they say, well, Trump's a buffoon and uh reality TV guy, and here's the president of the United States, the smartest president in US history, according to presidential historian Michael Beschloss.
	Michael Beschloss called Barack Obama the smartest president in uh the smartest man ever to become president.
	Uh and that's uh and the question then arises, if he's so smart, uh why is everything uh such a mess?
	Why is he doing so poorly?
	And uh Dana Milbank in the Washington Post explains it this way.
	He says, Obama's sp 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.
	Well, the integratively complex thinker, Obama, balances many competing goals.
	And that's true, because you are you 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 uh 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 uh for another eighteen holes on the 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.
	Uh the smartest guys are on the center left.
	Because let's face it, uh you know, let's let's face it, uh if if they if if if they were 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.
	Uh Obama's world view is on the far left.
	His view of American power is on the far left.
	Uh his view of uh economic markets is on the far left, his view of society is on the far left.
	The fact that Philip Tetlocks thinks that a guy like Obama is on the center left is 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 he was a smart guy.
	He was so smart, uh he was so smart uh he would have lost the war.
	Uh with war, a simpleton like Churchill comes into its comes into his own.
	And that's the situation we're in now.
	Things things are so things are so bad that a complicated uh man of uh integrative complexity like Barack Obama uh is simply uh simply is unsuited to politics.
	You need a simpleton.
	The left uses this argument all the time.
	Uh a couple of months after nine eleven, Jacob Weisberg of Slate magazine uh 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 uh to the issues of the day.
	Uh th they 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.
	Uh this is desperation on the part of the left.
	This guy is not smart, and America's figuring it out.
	Yes, your undocumented Anchorman sitting in on the EIB network, no long form birth certificates on me, no sir.
	Uh uh O Obama and uh and Biden uh uh furious, still furious at not being invited to uh to uh tomorrow's big uh royal wedding, because this is a state of the art royal wedding.
	For the for the very first time in history, uh the Royal Bride's uh wedding gown will have a high speed train.
	So that's uh that's something to look for when you uh when you get up early to watch it uh tomorrow morning.
	Uh Mark signing for Rush, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
	We're talking about the smartest man ever to become president.
	That's what Michael Beschloss uh calls Barack Obama, presidential historian, he should know he should know.
	Uh and why in that case he's having such trouble that we have the spectacle of the President of the United States standing up and uh and and before the world and announcing that he has a long form birth certificate.
	Uh and for the most obscure reasons.
	Uh he he said it was because two weeks ago it was the number one uh news story in the land and he wanted people to be talking about the economy.
	If he if i the economy was the number one story, uh nobody was covering the the birth uh uh the birth certificate thing because the uh New York Times guys uh too snooty to look into it, so they just use it as a kind of cheap cudgel uh with which to bash the Republicans.
	Nobody was talking about it, but he felt it was the the media, the the court eunuchs uh of uh uh uh of the Obama Palace were as usual doing uh doing uh their palace guard role in protecting him.
	Uh and uh and somehow the damage was uh was being done and he decided he needed to get this thing out uh 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.
	Oh I'm glad to be with you.
	This is uh quite an honor, our little town here uh gets a resident of the radio.
	My point is Really?
	How how how how big is Mercer, Wisconsin, by the way?
	Just a gorgeous little uh part of uh America that is up in northern Wisconsin, about uh twenty-five-thirty miles south of Lake Superior.
	Uh wildlife and uh just wonderful to be here and and pretty conservative.
	Wow, great.
	So you're not you're not just a first time caller, you're a first-time town.
	Mercer, Wisconsin.
	Welcome to the Rush uh Limbaugh Show.
	Uh my comment is uh I uh this is something I've always had on my mind, and I think a lot of listeners uh see in what goes on.
	Uh I talked to your call screener and I said, Yeah, why is it every time we get a uh Republican uh president or uh or a uh 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 uh television and you hear the uh talk shows like the view, uh Joey Behar said, Well, he's certified genius, you know.
	Uh I'd like to take a different approach.
	And my credentials are uh I graduated with a degree in uh sociology and a minor in psychology, and going on into the uh financial industry, got my series seven.
	So I I'd like to consider myself reasonably intelligent.
	But I can tell you uh what meets my eye is this that the guy is probably more closely identified as a uh as a testament to uh affirmative action rather than uh you know, a certified genius.
	I can't believe anybody could make so many bad decisions that are that have our country on the verge of collapse and still be uh considered a certified uh genius.
	And then on one last thought, uh 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 uh conservative.
	Makes sense when she talks, and yet uh you hear people like Bill Maher saying, oh, does she read?
	Uh yeah just gets rather tiresome, you know, it's what meets the eye that the American public sees.
	So well John You you make a a good point there because uh uh Sarah Palin's run a commercial fishing operation.
	She's run a small town in Alaska she's run a state uh 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 uh jobs in which she had executive authority and had to make things happen at nine o'clock every Monday morning uh Barack Obama uh responded that his main qualification for running for president was that he'd run such a good uh presidential campaign.
	I mean it's a totally uh circular postmodern argument his rationale uh his qualification for being president is that he's doing such a good job of running for president uh and whatever one feels about that once he got in there he wasn't any good at it.
	One thing we got to remember and we can't forget he gives good teleprompter.
	No I don't uh I don't uh I wouldn't even agree with that.
	Speaking I'm not a the biggest teleprompter thing, but he just does that you know center court uh at uh the US Open ping pong head thing where you're uh you you're 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 uh the the fellow who Mr Schlafley, I think it's Herbert Schlafley, 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-prompt-to-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 close.
	clever uh at being able to read fatuous gaseous bromides off a blank screen uh uh almost as if he's a blank screen himself uh as John pointed out it this is an old old old thing going at least as far back to uh Eisenhower and Adley Stevenson.
	Adley Stevenson was the smart guy, Eisenhower was the dummy.
	What did he ever done?
	He just won the second world war.
	Ha!
	You think that's a qualification to be president?
	He was just a dummy who played golf all the time.
	That was 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 played m played 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 you don't whack the dummy president over the head with the golf club anymore.
	Golf is golf is cool now.
	And uh ever since the O uh Eisenhower dummy golfer uh days the uh uh 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 uh world view of uh 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 against mixed up with the uh Cambridge police department in Massachusetts uh he just wades in without giving it a moment's thought because he he just retreats to the his lame tropes about a white racist cop uh and the black guy who's on the receiving end.
	He doesn't seem to have anything to say for example about uh These uh these two black women in McDonald's who beat up a poor white transvestite the other day.
	Where's uh where's Obama, the great thinker on that?
	Or is it all too complicated?
	Because you've got two different groups there.
	You got you got like your black victim group and your transvestite victim group there.
	So it's all a bit more con not as easy to wade in as just demonizing the poor old cop uh up in uh up in Massachusetts.
	How come uh 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 uh integratively complex thinker come No no happy to wade into local policing issues when it's uh when w when it's uh Skip Gates, Professor Skip Gates uh up at uh up at Harvard, but suddenly he suddenly uh 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 if that is an issue that cries out for his super nuanced attitude, uh then one doesn't uh then one certainly doesn't exist.
	This is the oldest uh oldest game in the business.
	Uh uh even this and and this idea of putting it in uh in putting it in uh historical context by saying uh Chamberlain was the smart guy.
	Chamberlain wasn't the smart guy.
	He was suckered uh by uh Hitler, he was succored by the Germans.
	And the idea that Churchill, the guy who for ten years had been warning about this before he became prime minister, that Churchill is the dummy, but that in wartime uh war is a simple uh things get simple in war.
	And you need a moron then.
	The moron like a moron like Churchill comes into his own, a moron like George W. Bush comes into it comes into his home, and it's just so unfair that complex guys like Neville Chamberlain and Barack Obama uh uh are unsuited to the times.
	By the way, did you ever think that the left would be so desperate uh 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.
	Uh Mark Stein in for rush, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB and network, Superman, Superman has renounced his US citizenship.
	This is this is what it's come to.
	He's uh he's left it in a phone booth.
	He's left it in the last working phone booth in Metropolis.
	Superman has renounced his US citizenship.
	Uh we were talking uh uh about the Washington Post uh arguing that that uh Obama's problem is he's simply too smart to be president.
	Jacob Weisberg, uh who wrote uh all these books filled with so-called amusing Bushisms.
	Do you remember they used to have that?
	In fact, they uh I think they still do, uh every so often at uh at Slate Magazine, these amusing bushisms, and uh Jacob Weisberg got a book out of them.
	I think it's rocketing up the Amazon.com bestseller list at big hit position number one million four hundred and fifty-four thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven if you want to order a copy.
	Uh and after uh nine eleven, he 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.
	Uh he we he stuck with his line that the guy was an idiot, but that fortunately for Bush, war plays to an idiot's strengths.
	Uh this is this is uh 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.
	Uh Bush was a uh C what w what was he, H I?
	We were talking about this earlier, C plus student uh when he was at Yale, is that right?
	Uh I think he was a C plus student.
	Uh and we don't know, of course, what O Obama is because uh Donald Trump has now called on him to release his grades.
	I'd like to know how he did in uh in third grade at uh whatever uh 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.
	Uh 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 ten years ago.
	Uh he was sticking to his argument the boneheads make bad presidents.
	Uh, 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 ambigue 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, uh at least to the extent that it's not in the newspapers.
	Afghanistan, terrible things are happening.
	An Afghan soldier killed nine Americans uh at Kabul Airport uh just the other day.
	Did barely made the newspapers here because it's not helpful to Obama.
	So Afghanistan's not in the news.
	Uh Obama himself, not content with these two wars that no longer make the papers.
	Obama himself launched a third war and then outsourced it.
	Uh I think he put a Canadian general in charge of it uh and left it to NATO.
	And uh that war is now a quagma.
	It's the fastest quagmire in history.
	It's in the Guinness Book of World Records under World's Fastest Quagma.
	It's a stalemate.
	Uh we've we've backed uh there's all all over the Middle East.
	Uh the Mubarak fell in nothing flat, Ben Ali in Tunisia fell in nothing flat.
	Uh these regimes are wobbling everywhere, but we've backed, we've chosen to back the one rebel movement uh that can't even overthrow the local strongman, even when you lend him uh 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?
	Uh and then my hangover wore off and it just turned out to be a bad dream.
	The war the Libyan war's not in the news.
	Uh so we're not talking about a war presidency now.
	We're talking about the economy.
	Uh we're talking about the debt that America is drowning in.
	Uh and suddenly uh Jacob Weisberg needs to expand his theory.
	His theory is that boneheads make bad presidents uh presidents, but in war, the moron president comes to 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.
	Uh we're talking about the economy.
	We're talking about the uh the the multi-trillion dollar debt uh that is that is sending uh uh 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.
	Uh the reality is that Barack Obama, and this again gets back to the Bertha business.
	Uh one reason why I I don't want to get into the don't particularly never got excited about the birtha business.
	I don't want this president uh uh 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 uh on a technicality.
	I don't want this I don't want this president uh to to be convicted on technical grounds.
	Uh 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 Crypton.
	I want these ideas to die, the ideas on which he got elected, because these ideas are killing your country.
	And the and and in that sense, Obama is not a foreigner.
	He's like millions and millions of the Americans he's lived among in High 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 uh what's what's embarrassing about it is not that it's utterly foreign to the to the United States, but that it's so normal uh 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 uh to end this presidency uh simply on some rinky dink technicality like where the guy happened uh to be born.
	That's my view on the birth of thing.
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	Don't forget, we'll be covering that with our nonstop three hour Royal Wedding Special here on the EIB network uh tomorrow.
	Also talking today, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two uh about uh Obama.
	Who won that one?
	Trump or Obama?
	Trump did.
	Trump did.
	Uh I said I wasn't a berther, but I really got into it.
	I wanted to be a bertha once I heard Trump just sticking it to the President about it.
	Uh because compared to all the people saying, Oh, you know, we've got to be careful, we don't want to raise this, we don't want to he just had fun with it.
	He had fun with it, he stuck it to the president, and he made uh he put the president on the defensive and he made him look uh like an idiot.
	I'm not a Trump supporter.
	Trump is not a conservative.
	Trump has uh uh given money to Rahim Manuel and Rod Boevich and all the rest of it, but Trump showed the way when it came to sticking it to the President.

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