Obama’s extreme opponents, however, do not paint him with black stereotypes. Radicals, in many cases without even knowing it, have instead depicted him using conventionally negative Jewish stereotypes.

Obama’s many homes: Kansas, Indonesia, Hawaii and Chicago. This black man was the “wandering Jew.” He became the “rootless cosmopolitan,” a term Joseph Stalin summoned in his campaign against Jews.

Obama’s logic-driven pursuit has led many to the Vulcan analogy. When Jewish actor Leonard Nimoy first personified this fictional people, he made a traditional Jewish symbol Vulcan, popularizing the spread-finger gesture of the rabbinic Cohanim.

The far-right case against Obama, on so many fronts, touches on the Jewish experience. Obama is framed as a socialist; a political philosophy pinned on Jews. “Spread the wealth around” betrayed his inner Trotsky, or so this extremist thinking goes.