Obama s election, far from alleviating paranoia in the white fringe, has only compounded it. There is no purer expression of this animus than to claim that Obama is literally not an American " or, as Sarah Palin would have it, not a "real American. The birth-certificate canard is just the latest version of those campaign-year attempts to strip Obama of his American identity with faux controversies. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.