#birther

The president of the USA must be a 'natural born citizen'? Screw where you were born, it just can't have been by *sneers* c-section

(Please don't feel sorry or sympathy or whatever for me. Treat this as dark humour.)

Oh its because they are racists.  While Hussein is a super common name in many parts of the world, because so many Republican voters are Islamaphobic xenophobes about half of whom believed that Obama was a Muslim despite there being no evidence for it, so Republicans calling him by his middle name was a racist dogwhistle to their despicable base.  Soetoro was Obama’s stepfather when he was in Indonesia who was a Muslim (like most people in Indonesia) and so its another way to try to render him illegitimate.