Racist or just plain stupid?

Why, oh why, would President Obama's birth be announced in a Hawaii newspaper (Honolulu Advertiser, Aug. 13, 1961) if he wasn't really born here? Donald Trump has the answer: It was a ruse. Obama's grandparents perpetrated the scheme to collect welfare benefits. So in addition to slandering a sitting president, he's now slandering his grandparents. TPM Josh Marshall observes: "Weirdly, Trump doesn't seem to realize that for the purposes he's discussing, an American mother makes you an American citizen. Period. Full stop. What makes this all comical and egregious is that I don't get the impression that Trump is any sort of conspiracy theorist or racist. But if that's what's necessary to pump up his latest 'campaign' stunt, bring it on." The Donald is no racist (at least not consciously). He's just a charlatan. Period. Full stop. Somebody ought to sue this inglorious basterd.