I think it stems from racism. I think it stems from a bizarre idea that Obama’s loyalty is somehow to his ‘black half’. This is like the ‘anti-colonial’ charge, which is also racist.

There probably are a lot of people for whom it’s not racist, it’s just standard liberal-bashing, but the origins of it are “He’s not like us, he’s really African.”

I mean, why Kenya? There’s no possible benefit or reason for him to have been born there. Sure, his dad was from there, but so what? Why on earth would they have wanted him to be born there? The only reason to believe that is to believe that his black, African father wanted him to be born there.

So, racist.