Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
I don't remember all these movements when it was a White president
There were all kinds of crazy movements during the Bush Administration. Remember the 9/11 Truthers? Claiming the president colluded with foreign terrorists to attack his own country in order to start a war for personal profit is a hell of a lot worse than claiming the president (who does have a rather unusual background) was not born in America.

Quote Originally Posted by jabarto
More on topic, it's pretty much a forgone conclusion that race has a large part in not only this, but the entire right-wing ideology. Just take a look at terms like "welfare queen" and pay attention to the demographic to which it's most often applied.
To people on welfare?

Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
That said, anyone who doesn't see the racial undertones of bitherism/DNAism has a highly selective take on reality.
If a Left leaning white president was elected with the same background, I'd wager we would see similar groups pop up. Many Americans put a lot of stock in lineage (which is ironic), and this is a natural reaction to a politician with an obscure background. These people's political ideology dictates that he is not to be liked, and his background is a convenient excuse - just like 9/11 was a convenient excuse for many lefties to entertain fantasies of sabotage.