{"id":18722,"date":"2011-04-08T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:23","slug":"donald_trump_shows_republicans_how_to_beat_barack_obama_in_2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/04\/08\/donald_trump_shows_republicans_how_to_beat_barack_obama_in_2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Shows Republicans How to Beat Barack Obama in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Mentor, Ohio. Matt, you\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Welcome, sir, hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s an honor to speak with you. I love you, my family loves you, and you\u2019re the foundation of everything that I am.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>RUSH: Whoa! Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You\u2019re welcome. I\u2019m well educated, well researched. One of the questions I have, something that really frustrates me, is this &#8220;smoke screen&#8221; of Obama\u2019s birth. Everybody\u2019s screaming about his birth certificate, and all these other documents &#8212; and, you know, it\u2019s all irrelevant. His father was a loyal British subject at the time of his birth, and his mother was too young to qualify. It\u2019s documented fact. So I don\u2019t know why everybody is running around trying to prove anything. Any document he puts forward is a fraudulent document.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll tell you why it\u2019s important. There are two reasons why it\u2019s important. Number one, he\u2019s got a grandmother or aunt in Kenya who said she saw him born there. That\u2019s number one. Number two, aside from all of that, what Donald Trump is really doing &#8212; and as I pointed out yesterday &#8212; is Donald Trump is providing a lesson on how to beat Barack Obama. Donald Trump is showing that the way to do that is you go after these people. Not just Obama. You go after the left. You go after the Democrat Party. You don\u2019t get timid, you don\u2019t act defensive and you don\u2019t act afraid. You just go after them. <\/p>\n<p>Look at poor old Meredith Vieira. She had no idea what to do with Trump. So, you may look at what Trump\u2019s doing as an expose of the birth certificate. I look at it as a lot more. There\u2019s a lot more to what Trump is accomplishing here than just questions about Obama\u2019s birth. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t think he really loved me that much, Snerdley. I think you got snookered. I think that was a seminar caller. I think you got taken in because you love me like that, so anybody telling you that they love me like that, you fell for it. You just got scammed, see? But I didn\u2019t get scammed. I didn\u2019t get scammed. (interruption) Right. (interruption) Weeeell, that\u2019s all right. These kinds of things happen but, you know, that\u2019s why I\u2019m here and you\u2019re on the other side of the glass screening the calls.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Back to this birther business for just a second. The Department of Health in Hawaii has verified that Obama\u2019s certificate of live birth is authentic, but it\u2019s not a birth certificate. In addition, one of Obama\u2019s relatives, aunt or grandmother, swears that he was born in Kenya. She saw it. She was there at the birth. Now, Trump\u2019s doing a lot of things, but what Trump\u2019s doing is giving a road map here. He\u2019s showing the Republican Party how to deal with Obama, how to deal with the Democrat Party at large. Now, even though the Department of Health in Hawaii has verified that Obama\u2019s certificate of live birth is authentic, the incredible thing here is that more than two years into Obama\u2019s regime more than 40% of the population still question whether he\u2019s actually an American or not. And don\u2019t think that it\u2019s all because of the birth certificate. <\/p>\n<p>Folks, the reason so many people are questioning whether or not Obama is American is because of what he has said and what he has done. Americans do not run around the world and apologize for their country. Americans do not support and implement policies that cause people to lose their jobs. Americans do not implement policies that decrease the standard of living. Americans do not institute policies that cause us to be more dependent on foreign oil. So all this talk about the birth certificate, the lack of one that\u2019s causing people to question where Obama\u2019s from, it\u2019s not just that. Don\u2019t doubt me. It\u2019s what he\u2019s done. It\u2019s his agenda. It\u2019s his policies. If we\u2019re gonna sit around and discuss &#8220;Do you think Obama\u2019s an American?&#8221; I don\u2019t even care about the birth certificate part of it. I want to focus more on his policies in terms of answering and dealing with that question. <\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Mentor, Ohio. Matt, you\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Welcome, sir, hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s an honor to speak with you. I love you, my family loves you, and you\u2019re the foundation of everything that I am. RUSH: Whoa! Thank you very much, sir. CALLER: You\u2019re welcome. I\u2019m well educated, well researched. 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