During the election campaign, Barack Obama sought to appeal to the best instincts of the electorate, to a post-partisan sentiment that he said would reinvigorate our democracy. He ran on a platform of reconciliation—of getting beyond “old labels” of right and left, red and blue states, and forging compromises based on shared values.
President Obama’s Inaugural was a hopeful day, with an estimated 1.8 million people on the National Mall celebrating the election of America’s first African-American president. The level of enthusiasm, the anticipation and the promise of something better could not have been more palpable.
And yet, it has not been realized. Not at all.
Rather than being a unifier, Mr. Obama has divided America on the basis of race, class and partisanship. Moreover, his cynical approach to governance has encouraged his allies to pursue a similar strategy of racially divisive politics on his behalf.
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Can’t force people to unite. There were very early signs during the McCain/Palin campaign that there would be no unity if the other side won. This magnified during the Tea Parties and solidified during Fox “Scary Swarthy Obama Official of the Month” campaign on its website.
Well, of course when the policies of one party are 180 degrees to the policies of the other, I dont see how anyone could expect unity.
Those who believe[ed] that Obama, or any other political party leader, could unite a country are ideological idiots.
Party politics, regardless of the leader or the country, depend upon divisiveness and they all foster, and practice the politics of, that concept.
No one can force unity but Oblamebush and the cabal that is running him are doing all they can to create divisiveness.
Wrong Joe…The Bushman did more harm to unity and american respect abroad that it will take years to correct.
UV you’re funny! As evidenced by yesterday’s discussion on a 50 year old flag war you are stuck in the past. I’ve always taken it as a sign of mental instability when people are fixated on the past rather than dealing with the present. Bush was never my choice but Oblamebush IS ten times worse. Bush IS NOW gone and the goof NOW in the oval office IS magnifying the crisis in America instead of trying to fix it. (present tense amplified for those who can’t tell the difference)
Re#6 I agree Joe even if one can blame the previous guy that milage is limited if the new guy is making things 10 times worse rather than slowing the rate of the damage or reversing the damage.
The Obama administration is so out of touch with the pulse of America that it is really getting frightening. It is doubtful there has ever been so much distance between the people and DC.
#8 — then why did Obama become President. Cause America had it up to here with the Bush/Cheney war machine and their wild and crazy spending that culmnated in their economic meltdown, turning $240 billion budget surplus that they inherited in 2001 into the $482 billion deficit Obama inherited.
We seem to all agree that dissent is needed for optimum functioning in a democracy. But Obama didn’t campaign on that. The “healer” campaigned on “no more red state/blue state” attitudes.
Obama’s Foreign Policy was to just blame Bush, push the “Reset” button and apologize to depots. But it isn’t working. The Obamarx gang is learning that the Euroweenies are progressive, hypocrites, that they love to whine about Guantanamo but won’t help with the offloading of the terrorists there.
It now seems that when Bush does something it’s bad, but if Obama does it, it’s a good thing. Iraq is no longer “lost,” but the greatest achievement of the Obama administration. Surging is now good. So is the architect of that policy, Gen. Petraeus (formerly General Betray Us).
The deficits caused by rising entitlements and the just wars of Reagan and the 2 Bush’s were bad enough over the last 30 years. But Obama campaigned on fixing the deficits, yet he’s made deficits 10’s worse and ObamaCare hasn’t even kicked in yet. The CBO says this is unsustainable.
The fact remains that neither Clinton,Bush or Oblamebush can take credit or blame for surplus’s, deficits or balanced budgets since the budgets are set by Congress. Right now the Congress is refusing to do up a budget and even if Oblamwbush wanted one there is norhing he could do about it.