| 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.