[quote=briansd1]CA renter, I think that you made some good points.
This thread is about Obama so I won’t take it to wages and immigration.
The world is complex… and changing faster than ever. When people are facing hardships, and when they have limited frames of reference, they want to blame the “foreign evil” that most readily comes to mind (by foreign, I mean foreign/different from them).
Politicians know that all to well, and they are marketing to that human emotion. Questioning Obama’s citizenship is a way of labeling him a foreigner — someone not to be trusted.
The reality is the issue has already been put to rest and Obama is already president. It makes no difference at all other than rally the troops of haters.[/quote]
The Obama-birther thing is such nonsense, I can’t even begin to address it. It really doesn’t matter at this point, and the fact that some people are trying to bring up the “birth certificate” nonsense at this point in time really speaks to how they (and the people behind them) feel about the intelligence of the American electorate.
Just wanted to address the “xenophobia” thing that gets thrown around so often. There are very legitimate arguments to be made against “globalization” as it exists in its current form, especially as it affects most working Americans. You just can’t ignore their very real concerns and dismiss them with buzzwords like “xenophobia” and “racism.” It’s not honest.
