deranged many millions of americans. once obama was in the white house, the backlash grew and grew. you remember some of the raci racist caricatures of obama as a monkey gourla. ugly overt race imts. barack hussein obama. why doesn t he give his birth certificate? the insendary charge that obama was not born in this country. no other american president was badgered to prove he was an american. the idea of whether he was born in the united states, i think that s a metaphor. is he one of us? answer, no. obama combined the two fires