Again, quite the jump to conclusions.
I dont think you think IM a racist. Im trying to point out to you how you generalize and called me a racist regardless though and this generalizing is just as bad as the other side you are arguing with. If really stunts your points when you generalize and paint the canvas with one brush and color.
There are levels here.
Im sure some people went after Oboma because they didnt want a Black Pres. (Shame on them). Doesnt mean that was the ONLY reason anyone questioned him.
But the birther shit was started by racists. Should he really have to show his birth certificate? No other president besides the made up situations Marazul just mentioned above, has had it even questioned.
Who started the birther movement? It wasn't Hillary
like the Fat Hutt said...
There’s no definite answer to that question, as the 2008 iteration of the idea was first circulated, according to
a Politico history of the theory, by anonymous email. But, as the primary season came to an end, it got a publicity boost from an ironic source: the attempt by the campaign to quash rumors led some people who might have previously ignored them to wonder what was going on.
In 2008, Time
explained how that happened:
For more than a year, Obama relied on conventional means to confront the blogosphere’s superheated rumor mill—to little effect. The “fact-check” feature on his website, for instance, only seemed to spawn more, and wilder, rumors. A mention there of Obama‘s birth certificate spurred National Review Online to demand that he produce it to dispel groundless reports that Obama was actually born in Kenya and therefore would be constitutionally ineligible to be President; that his middle name is not Hussein but Muhammad; and that his mother actually named him Barry. That National Review article in turn became fodder for cable television.
Even after Obama won the election, the idea did not go away. Years later, in 2011, Donald Trump, then toying with a 2012 run for the White House, was
largely responsible for bringing it back into the news.
But the cached version of that original 2008 Obama campaign response, the fact-check website fightthesmears.com, can
still be found online. “Senator Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, after it became a state on August 21st, 1959,” the website states. And, of course, it links to the documents that prove so—not that anyone should need to see them anymore.
