Not all Birthers are racist. But the birther controversy itself was spawned from racism. There’s a valid discrepancy there, but the whole thing is so stupid it’s a Pyrrhic victory to insist on the distinction.

The only reason someone has thought to question this President’s record of birth is because he doesn’t look like any other President.

By comparison, McCain actually wasn’t born in the United States, (he was born on a US base in Panama), but none of the birthers have questioned his candidacy.