Obama as most polarizing president: A rebuttal

[jaxx]

Obama as most polarizing president: A rebuttal
Posted by Chris Cillizza at 03:29 PM ET, 01/30/2012

<..> I have been a long time fan of The Fix and his expanding empire of reporters, so imagine my surprise this am when I checked my blackberry and this is what I saw, “Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever.” Now, as someone who spent the first two years of the Obama administration working as a senior Senate democratic leadership aide for Senator Reid, I needless to say have slightly different perspective on things.

For me, this quote from Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) that appeared in National Journal magazine on Oct. 23, 2010 neatly sums up what I saw every day in the Senate and in every decision Republicans made: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

Or this headline, which came out of speech that Senator McConnell gave at the Heritage Foundation two days after the 2010 election: “GOP leader’s top goal: Make Obama one –term president.”

So, for The Fix to write in kind of a throwaway line “that Democrats will point out that Republicans in Congress have played a significant role in the polarization” falls far short of the mark and made me kind of mad.

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Very good read by a man who was an aide to T.Kennedy and H.Reid. About damn time Democrats speak up about the crap that President Obama is polarizing!

[pappy]

This whole meme can be summed up in one sentence.

President Obama is the most polarizing President ever because his opponents refuse to accept that a Black man won election to the Presidency.

[jaxx]

(01-31-2012 11:25 AM)pappy Wrote:  This whole meme can be summed up in one sentence.

President Obama is the most polarizing President ever because his opponents refuse to accept that a Black man won election to the Presidency.

That is the truth!

[Still a Democrat]

(01-31-2012 11:25 AM)pappy Wrote:  This whole meme can be summed up in one sentence.

President Obama is the most polarizing President ever because his opponents refuse to accept that a Black man won election to the Presidency.

Beat me to it.

He is absolutely polarizing. MLK was, too. Great leaders often are.

[NJMaverick]

There hasn't been a President in modern history that has done more to reach out to the other party the President Obama. The problem is simply the increasing radicalization of the GOP.