re: #828 palomino

It’s not just racism though. I can’t imagine a President Colin Powell or even Deval Patrick/Harold Ford having to put up with all this crap. None lived in Indonesia; none has a Kenyan Muslim father; none has a mid name like Hussein.

It’s a toxic mixture of the leftover dead-end racism of a previous generation and some very timely, know-nothing xenophobia.

Yeah, I think all of that is an extra inciting factor.

Obama is sort of the perfect storm in some ways.