Currently, the far right holds the most bigoted sections of our population. So when presented with the image of an individual with a different ancestry than their own it fuels the core of their fears.
This didn't happen in the last 3 democratic presidents because Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Lydon Johnson were all white southerners, which tends not to set off the *alarms* of most of the countries cores of bigotry. Obama is not a white southerner, so the fear, paranoia, and hate arises more vehemetly than in the previous 40 decades.
The increased rancor that Shepard Smith is seeing is at least partially related to this, IMHO.
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