'It's not a bird, it's not a plane - it's Super Bill!'

And realize Clinton cut financial regulations, Glass Steagall, ultimately leading to the financial crash. Obama got rid of "Don't ask. Don't tell", Clinton's half step to freeing LGBT citizens in the military. Obama has come out for gay marriage. A bold move. His first step as president was to sign the Lily Ledbetter Law, guaranteeing equal pay for men and women. He invests in green energy, broadens our energy use to "all of the above", passed a stimulus which got past Republicans. And above all, finally we have universal or almost universal health care! All of this a struggle against Republicans who vowed to "make health care his Waterloo" and their main goal not to help him achieve anything, but simply to defeat him. Clinton faced similar Republican instransigence, but there's a racist element to that against Obama. At the rise of The Tea Party Jimmy Carter, (a good president who Didn't invade Iran when any other party would, who offered aid to the Sandanistas after their election, but was told, "No thanks, we need you as the Evil Empire", and put solar panels on the WH roof), warned "The rise of the Tea Party is due to racism in the South And the rest of the country." I'm a white Southerner who was in the Civil Rights Movement there. The only day I was prouder than picketing a segregated motel by myself, being cursed, spat at, things thrown, was the day Obama was elected. Le Monde should give him credit. But then, as The Onion's Guide to Our Dumb Planet, says about France: "One great nation, over God." (Lived there a year and loved it. Hello to Stanislav Ravenel and Juan Fournol, whom I met in Lyon.(