CaféAuLait;3549862 said:
This wasn't just Hilary Clinton who perpetuated both of these things, the “Birther” issue and the “Muslim” issue, it was also droves of her democratic followers and she had a lot of democratic followers who wanted to see her make it into the spot Obama did. The party was split for sometime if you recall.
So trying to label this as racist or purely "right wing" and not a political advent of a large part of the democratic party is beyond me.
Sorry but there's one helluva racist streak in the birfer population and while the whole birfer thing began with the Hillary campaign in today's environment birfers are overwhelmingly right wing. In fact, I can't think of one lefty birfer on this site. Can you? Who are the prominent Dems today flirting with the birfer issue?
The Birther movement grew legs due to left wing political rhetoric as did the Truther movement. It is political. Can I say there are not any racists in that movement, no, I can’t the same way I can’t make the same claim for the truther movement. Nor can I say there are not racists in either party. The Truther movement did not spring up because it was racist, it’s there because there are conspiracy theorists everywhere for every presidency. From Kennedy to Lincoln.
Each president has dealt with them and some are horrible, just because they are it does not mean they are racist in nature. Some examples:
George W. Bush carried out the 9/11 attacks and blew up remaining buildings. Should Bush claim racism since many Truthers are black and some have been in Obama’s cabinet? No.
Clinton murdered Vince Foster, racism or political propaganda?
Johnson killed Kennedy was it racism because Johnson was said to be intolerant of blacks and he had Kennedy killed? Or typical conspiracy lore ?
Washington was accused of conspiring with the British. Racist or rhetoric?
Jefferson would ban Christianity and terrorize its adherents.
Warren Harding, during his 1920 presidential campaign, it was said and spoke of that the presidential candidate was part black to put him down. ( racist indeed)
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
This was started as a political ploy that has gained conspiracy level attention. Obama is not the first nor will he be the last. Trying to turn this into a race issue convolutes the matter even more. The fact of the matter is many presidents have faced such before Obama and many will face such after. These off the cuff accusations that this is racial is blatantly ignoring the true history of presidential conspiracies.