Stephen Henderson: The 'unworthy' president proves his understated ability

The one-letter difference between Obama and Osama has always made it easier for this president's detractors to portray him as "other."

Un-American. Insufficiently patriotic. Muslim. African. Alien. Whatever.

President Barack Obama's name, almost as much as his race, makes him the unlikeliest of American presidents, a cultural phenomenon that inspires many but terrifies many others, to the point where they have constructed an entire political narrative around the idea of his unworthiness as a person, rather than a policymaker, to lead us.

So it was a little more than ironic that Obama, just days after having produced a long-form birth certificate to prove he hadn't defrauded his way into the White House, emerged Sunday night to claim a defining American victory.



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