Midterm Elections in the U.S.: Tired of Obama
... in putting an end to the Obama presidency. By winning in November, the Republicans would like to go beyond rendering Mr. Obama a lame duck, but also to utterly discredit him as the first black politician rising to American presidency. The repeated accusations of violations of the U.S. Constitution are not just campaign spin, but something with fairly definite post-election aftereffects. In winning Congress, the Republicans might as well attempt to impeach Mr. Obama, as was the case in 1998 with Bill Clinton in his sixth presidential year. Such a scenario might be fraught with a total paralysis of the government process until 2016, with significant ...