He just seems foreign
by digby
Colbert:
This has to be the loudest dogwhistle since Willie Horton. I can’t believe he’s getting away with it. Why not just call Obama un-American and get it over with?
And at some point, some conservatives in Hawaii are going to have to speak up about this bullshit:
Rush Limbaugh:
How many people come from a background like Obama’s? “Half say Obama has the background and set of values they identify with”? Yeah? Where’s the hardscrabble life? Where’s the growin’ up in the Midwest? Where’s the numerous jobs as a boy with the hardscrabble life the parents had? There’s no life story that Obama has that has much in common with anybody in this country. Obama had a communist, bigamist, absentee father from Kenya. How many people in America can lay claim to that?
He was raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.
He never set foot on the US mainland until he was in college and went to Howard Johnson’s. He was a student of the radical left. His mentors were communists like Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky and Jeremiah Wright.
That’s just a lie. There’s a very famous vacation in 1971 when Obama was just 11, where he went to Disneyland and traveled all over the place on a Greyhound bus with his (very midwestern) grandmother. But so what if he hadn’t? Hawaii is a state of the union even if these throwbacks (I’m looking at you Cokie) insist that it isn’t really America.
But here’s where ole Rush gets tripped up:
Where’s the hardscrabble life? Where’s the growin’ up in the Midwest? Where’s the numerous jobs as a boy with the hardscrabble life the parents had? There’s no life story that Obama has that has much in common with anybody in this country.
Who’s the last president that describes? The one he hates more than any other president in the world: Bill Clinton. Of course, he was technically Southern, but Rush probably needs to be careful with that one. It sure doesn’t describe George W. Bush or his father. Or Mitt Romney. Or John McCain. It describes Ronald Reagan, but then he was born a hundred and one years ago when that “hardscrabble” story was a lot more common.
Go back through history and there are a whole bunch of presidents and presidential candidates who don’t fit that mold. But you know who does? Rush Limbaugh. Oh wait. No it doesn’t. He likes to think he’s a self-made job creator but he comes from a long line of lawyers, judges and politicians. Still, you have to give him credit. He became gazillionaire by being the most notorious demagogue of his generation. Nobody can say he isn’t an achiever.
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