From
The New York Times Editorial Board in a piece titled, "
A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks":
It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack
Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican
establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more
destructive.
Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been
focused on blocking Mr. Obama’s agenda and denigrating him personally
since the day he took office in 2009. But even against that backdrop,
and even by the dismal standards of political discourse today, the tone
of the current attacks is disturbing. So is their evident intent — to
undermine not just Mr. Obama’s policies, but his very legitimacy as
president.
It is a line of attack that echoes Republicans’ earlier questioning
of Mr. Obama’s American citizenship. Those attacks were blatantly racist
in their message — reminding people that Mr. Obama was black,
suggesting he was African, and planting the equally false idea that he
was secretly Muslim. The current offensive is slightly more subtle, but
it is impossible to dismiss the notion that race plays a role in it. READ MORE
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