There is a massive difference between being more sympathetic to Iranians and other Muslims than other presidents-which may or may not be true regarding Obama-and BEING a Muslim.
It is not as though the only possible relationships a U.S. head of state might have to Islam are either being implacably hostile to all Muslim peoples and countries, on the one hand, or membership in the faith. Obama didn’t make the(actually very muted) acknowledgment of the U.S. role in overthrowing the democratic Iranian government of 1953, and replace that democratic government with a restored Shah who returned to power with full U.S. approval to rule his country as an absolute despot. This was an entirely justified statement-he should actually have admitted the US and the UK were WRONG to overthrow the government of President Mossadegh, since this overthrow ended up being the cause of the seizure of power by the Shi’ite mullahs in 1979. He never “bowed his head” to the Saudi ruler-he simply lowered his head slightly-he was much taller than the other man-so the Saudi ruler could place a medallion commemorating the visit around his neck. ANY U.S. president in the same situation would have done the same thing in the name of common courtesy. And the nuclear arms agreement he made with Iran was not made out of sympathy with the Iranian regime-it was made because the previous U.S./Israeli strategy of keeping harsh sanctions in place while constantly threatening missile strikes against Iran, missile strikes which would mainly have killed innocent people and had no real impact on the Iranian nuclear program, a program which would immediately have restarted, was not working and never would have worked. None of that justified the argument that Obama was secretly loyal to the enemies of the U.S..
As to Hillary-no, nobody checked her birth certificate. Nobody, in fact, had ever challenged the citizenship by birth of any previous major party presidential candidate. For all we know, every white president we’ve ever had could have been born in Toronto or London(a “Real American” accent isn’t that hard to learn, especially if you’re brought here as a small child. There was simply no legitimate reason for anyone to think Obama’s citizenship-by-birth was in any greater question than any other U.S. presidential candidate, and there was no greater reason for anyone to think, in 2008, that one of the country’s two major political parties was suddenly going to get stupid enough to choose a presidential nominee who could possibly be declared ineligible for office than there had been in any previous year. The ONLY reason anyone questioned where Obama was born was that they couldn’t accept that a black man had any right to run for the presidency, let alone be elected with majority popular-vote support.
That was the only reason Obama’s citizenship by birth was every questioned.
