Beatrice: you need to do a bit more research with data to make these assertions that Reagan through Obama all were all guilty of causing the death of manufacturing. As for Obama’s Presidency you ignore the obstacles he faced 1. A defiant Republican senate bent on blocking almost every policy 2. An economy that was on the brink of near fatal collapse, bleeding out thousands of jobs a month and 3. A financial sector in ruin. I’m not even adding the epic oil pipeline disaster in the golf, Hurricane Sandy that took the East Coast and buckled it to its knees, and finally the uninterrupted slaughter of men women and children ( in Newton) at the hands of military assault weapons and the sick men who used these weapons. So before you paint President Obama as ‘someone we did not really know’ you might take a few hours to read about how his eight years set this nation back on track, only to have Russian intervention, far right propaganda from Fox News and Limbaugh stoke the fears of people who were fooled buy a snake oil salesman.