Nobody questioned McCain's citizenship even though he was born in Panama (on an army base so he's a US Citizen, I know) but noone asked to see his birth certificate to confirm it
1. He was born of two American parents.
2. He was born on an army base, therefore he was born on American soil in a legal sense.
3. Obama was also hindered by the unfortunate fact that for a long time, he didn't know where his long form birth certificate was. It was packed away in his Chicago home with his mother's stuff. That missing birth certificate gave the birther movement much more traction than it ever should have.
Yet Obama, who was born IN AMERICA, still gets that nonsense
So you can say its xenophobia because of his name or whatever, but it's hard to argue that a milky white motherf***er like McCain would get treated that way, even if his name were Kim Jong Hussein McHitler.
It's xenophobia because of his Muslim Kenyan father who was a British national and he has brothers and sisters that live in Kenya to this day. It's the exact same thing we saw with JFK's Catholicism, they feared if JFK would be loyal to America or loyal to the Pope. Is Obama loyal to America or is he more loyal to ties elsewhere.
Now, I'm not defending the the basis of birtherism. It's based on absolute stupidity like how they don't acknowledge that Obama was born in Hawaii, which last time we checked is an American state and therefore he gets automatic citizenship at birth. And he has an American citizen/resident mother, which also grants him automatic American citizenship at birth, even if he were born in Kenya.
But you people just like to play the race card and accuse others of racism simply because it's easy. It's easier to say something is racist than something is xenophobic because it's a simpler word and racism is seen as much uglier than xenophobia. And you use the race card to justify the made up narratives in your head that Republicans are nothing but vile evil men.
That said, yes, it gets just as bad from average liberals towards republican presidents as well. The Nazi comparisons were definitely too much in the Bush days, as they are now.
Agreed, neither President has done anything that is comparable to Hitler. You wanna know who was comparable to Hitler? Freaking Hitler!
The difference I believe is in Congress. Congressional Dems worked with Bush,
Congress was very different then. During the Bush era while you had your idiots of both sides, there were still many Blue Dog Democrats and Rockefeller Republicans that could work together. Those have been wiped out. The Republicans and Democrats really didn't have to deal with the ideological grassroots that both parties now have to pander to. And Bush had the benefit of 9/11 happening which gave him sky high approval ratings until the Iraq War build-up, which essentially allowed him to do whatever the **** he wanted.
It's not that one side is better than the other, it's that Bush had far, far, far easier circumstances, especially in his first term.
even when they had to heavily compromise, they only filibustered a fraction as much as Repubs have since Obama took over,
When Bush's standing was severely diminished, especially when the Iraq War was starting to look really bad, that was when the Democrats were able to fight Bush more aggressively.
and they didn't scheme on Bush's first day in office to obstruct everything so he'd lose the next election at the cost of our economy.
Selective memory. Democrats were extremely ******** over the 2000 election and looked for many ways to delegitimize Bush. Not only that, but political parties always plot to gain power at the expense of others. Just like how Republicans plotted from day one to make Obama a one-term President, Democrats did the same thing with Bush. Hell if political parties didn't do that, they're not doing their job.
"Not My President" under Bush came from Dems feeling robbed in the 2000 election, with Obama, its because Reps view him as illegitimate, despite that fact that he's a natural Born American and won the popular vote in a landslide
It's still the same ****ing immature bullcrap from people who act like 5 year olds. The President of the United States is the President of the United States. If you're a citizen of the United States, these men were your President, whether you like it or not.
