Again. I keep coming back to this.

None of this would have happened if he had just been a man and laughed off Obama's sick burning of him. And Obama wouldn't have burned him if he hadn't become Birther Number One.

This is a Sophoclean tragedy, but without anything edifying. A Black man DARED to humiliate him, so he had to get revenge. And, as always, revenge is as ash in one's mouth.