Trump Super PAC Strategist Says There Is An ‘Otherness’ To Obama

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

Donald Trump super PAC strategist Alex Castellanos said Sunday that there is an “otherness” to President Barack Obama, adding fuel to the conspiracy theory that the president is somehow not American.

After blaming Hillary Clinton for starting conspiracy theories that Obama was not born in the U.S., Castellanos himself questioned Obama’s allegiance to the country, furthering a narrative on the right that the president is exotic.

“I think the big question about Obama is not where he was born or his faith. The big question about Obama has been...has he considered himself more of a globalist than an American?” Castellanos said. “There is an otherness to this president.”

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But accusations by Trump’s campaign that Clinton started spreading questions about Obama’s citizenship have time and time again been proven false. Trump has fueled the conversation for more than five years. As recently as Wednesday, Trump refused to say whether he believed Obama was born in the U.S., saying he’d do so when it was convenient for him.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-otherness-alex-castellanos_us_57deb122e4b0071a6e07d2fe?section=&

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I guess Hillary Clinton apparently has mind control in that she is the one causing Republicans to promote birther theories. Also, because it is Hillary Clinton, you just make the accusation and it presumed true until she affirmatively disproves it.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. So Trump is the International Capitalist

but Obama has 'otherness' whatever that means to him??

Republicans try to twist the minds of ordinary voters, just like
Evangelicals and Fundamentalists

or that bakers that make cakes that contain their religion

[PatSeg]

2. Just another attempt to

reinvent birtherism. We all knew it would never be over. So now its, "He may have been born in America, but he doesn't act like it." They have to keep placating their racist base.

[MBS]

8. well summarized. n/t

[PatSeg]

12. Thanks

Back in 2012, John Sununu made a lot of similar remarks about Obama:

“The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses, from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world. It is the American way. And I wish this president would learn how to be an American.” [Conference call, 7/17/2012]

Newt Gingrich also said things like that, reinforcing birtherism without actually saying Obama wasn't an American.

"What if he [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together (his actions)?" (2010)

Don't even have to say anything about a birth certificate.

[Moonwalk]

3. Guess those Kansas grandparents didn't raise him American enough...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. These idiots would act like it's treason to mention other nations as friends.

[JHB]

18. I think using "would" gives them too much credit

Plenty who do exactly that.

[monmouth4]

5. His "otherness" would be intelligence, tact, style and grace. He's quite different than most in

those categories..

[Hekate]

6. Well, Obama does have about 50 IQ points on that lot, so I guess that could account for it

Christ on a trailer hitch, could they be more obvious?

[C_U_L8R]

7. Smarts and Goodness is an alien concept to Trumplerites.

Other despots also went after intellectuals first.
Just sayin', we've seen this awful film before.

[GeorgeGist]

9. Click bait is for suckers.

[GreydeeThos]

10. I think there is an "Otherness" to Trump

Judging from his outrageous statements over the last six months that swing from one reality to another, I would say there is more than one personality that exists in Trumps body. Are his statements today made from the same personality that was talking yesterday, or is it some otherness?

[montana_hazeleyes]

11. So now "otherness' is their

new code for n-word.

[elleng]

13. Right, he is 'other' than you, trump super pac strategists,

OTHER than ignorant, selfish, and racist.

[bhikkhu]

14. There is an otherness to all of us

I can't think of a single individual, in my family, among friends and co-workers, that fully conforms to some ideal american norm. The more you look, the more you see, and people are naturally multi-faceted and interesting. I wouldn't want it any other way, though wanting it some way or other in no way would affect the reality of us. Do people want or imagine a star-spangled cardboard cutout president?

[Mr.Bill]

15. And every day they continue to talk about this

is another day Trump is on the defensive and campaigning against someone who isn't even running for office. They've been taking the bait and running against Obama for weeks.

[Angel Martin]

16. maybe Castellanos' PAC hired Mark Penn

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/08/penn-strategy-memo-march-19-2008/37952/

[TomCADem]

17. Please. Mark Penn Was MLk Compared to Trump

I know a lot of folks try to normalize Teump by suggesting that he is no different from Hillary, but even in his worse day, Penn does not hold a candle to what comes from Trump on a daily basis.

[tclambert]

19. What he meant to say:

[Sunlei]

20. Mr. Castellanos must get a huge cut of PAC$$$ to work for all the losers he's 'consulted' for.

Alejandro "Alex" Castellanos is a Cuban American political consultant. He has worked on electoral campaigns for Republican candidates including Bob Dole, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney

[TygrBright]

21. So "otherness" is the new dogwhistle for "brown"? n/t