Obama’s enemies have painted him as an alien threat.
“I’d like to burn them off,” says the Illustrated Man in Ray Bradbury’s 1951 science-fiction classic of that name. “I’ve tried sandpaper, acid, a knife.” Nothing works. More than a half century before head-to-toe tattoos, a time-traveling witch had painted colorful images on nearly every part of the man’s body. The elaborate stories they told made it hard for him to hold a job.Why is the total sum of conservative right-wing attacks based on lies/ Because Republicans know they cannot win an honest debate. Such unhinged hatred toward moderate policies and politicians has become an intrinsic part of the extremist conservative movement. They don't know how to govern and really have no interest in doing so. They say they hate bog government, but when Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 made government bigger they didn't say a thing. The fact is that conservatives love big bloated government as long as they're the fat cat corrupt capitalists running the circus.
President Obama is our era’s Illustrated Man. His enemies—and even some of his ostensible allies—have been busy for three years painting Obama as some kind of alien threat.
....Our maddening times demand that the truth be forthrightly stated at the outset, and not just that the president has nothing in common with the führer beyond the possession of a dog. The outlandish stories about Barack Hussein Obama are simply false: he wasn’t born outside the United States (the tabloid “proof” has been debunked as a crude forgery); he has never been a Muslim (he was raised by an atheist and became a practicing Christian in his 20s); his policies are not “socialist” (he explicitly rejected advice to nationalize the banks and wants the government out of General Motors and Chrysler as quickly as possible); he is not a “warmonger” (he promised in 2008 to withdraw from Iraq and escalate in Afghanistan and has done so); he is neither a coddler of terrorists (he has already ordered the killing of more “high value” Qaeda targets in 18 months than his predecessor did in eight years), nor a coddler of Wall Street (his financial-reform package, while watered down, was the most vigorous since the New Deal), nor an enemy of American business (he and the Chamber of Commerce favor tax credits for small business that were stymied by the GOP to deprive him of a victory). And that’s just the short list of lies.
