But it’s not “just” based on race, or even race-based at all. It is about the otherness, the foreignness of the Obama experience.
He is an other.
If he was a black (or half-black) person who grew up in Connecticut or Alabama or California I think he would have more normal reactions. And people would feel more that he was one of us.
But he did not. He grew up in foreign places and under the tutelage of avowed socialists and America-haters.
If one believes America is a creed, a culture, a set of ideas that binds people together despite external differences then it is only natural to not want some “other” to lead our nation. Especially when he wants to fundamentally change it.
If you are a multiculturalist, all things are equal and it should not matter if an Afghani goat herder or a baker’s son from Michigan is President.
i made those points. we discuss, our minds don’t meet.
but here are some things she DID admit to:
Sarah Palin is very pretty and we have neither of us seen a BAD pic of her and who else can you say that about?
that the Trig stuff is just horrible and nasty and has no place in public discourse.
that it was unfair that W was painted as a buffoon and only someone who became pres bc of family connections.