The USA has never seen such hatred of a President by Congress. President Obama's leadership has been challenged during every aspect of his leadership with an exception of the TPP, a Republican promise to Wall Street. When the death of Justice Scalia was announced to the public, it was literally minutes before Mitch McConnell was announcing obstruction of any nomination. It proves Republicans have only one thing on their mind, the control of power and not the needs of the American people.
If we didn't have President Obama in office, the people would still be attempting to rise out of the Great Recession.
February 17, 2016
By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin
“They’ve been fighting that man since he’s been there,” Mr. Gadsden, who is African-American, said of Mr. Obama, before pointing at his forearm to explain what he said was driving the Republican opposition: “The color of his skin, that’s all, the color of his skin.”
When Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said after Mr. Scalia’s death on Saturday that the next president, rather than Mr. Obama, should select a successor, the senator’s words struck a familiar and painful chord with many black voters....
