OBAMA SLAMS HEALTH CARE PROPOSAL OF GOP

Former President Barack Obama slams his successor's plans on health care and foreign policy. He  called repeated efforts to repeal his signature health care law "frustrating" and defended institutions like the United Nations as important to diplomacy. 

He said "It may be frustrating that we have to mobilize every couple months to keep our leaders from inflicting real human suffering on their constituents."  He added, "we just have to reject the notion that we are suddenly gripped by forces that we can't control, and embrace the longer, more optimistic view of history and the part that we play in it. I know that statement doesn't seem to jibe with the steady stream of bad news and cynicism we're fed on television and Twitter." Read more>>