The Republican mantra since 2008 has been “hate Obama, allow nothing good or necessary to happen for which he might get some credit”. This tactic is new in American politics. Never before has one party shut down government for a reason so flimsy as their dislike of the president, himself, his very person. But they have gone beyond simple opposition, way beyond. They have gone all the way to downright simple ugly HATE, and have been applying this hate , universally, and to the Nth degree since Obama’s very first day in office. But why? No other president has ever been treated this way while in office. Now Paul Roberts (December 3, 2016) wants Donald Trump to “sign out” all of Obama’s executive orders on day one of the Trump presidency. Never mind the necessity of Obama using executive orders to govern precisely because Congress refused to do its job. Never mind that no Republican will ever, and I do mean ever, admit the real reason why this lily white Republican Party decided to destroy the first minority president in America’s history. Never,ever will that be acknowledged.