Posted on 06/22/2015 11:21:02 AM PDT by jazusamo
Of all the annoying things President Obama does, one of the worst is his hectoring Republicans and conservatives for their partisanship when he is the quintessential divisive partisan.
The Washington Post reports that the day after the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina, Obama began the day angry and frustrated and ended it admitting that he has been unable to change the culture of polarization and gridlock in Washington, which he is obviously blaming for the climate that led to the shootings.
Please imagine the level of arrogance it would take to assume one could, as president of the United States, even with the cooperation of other Washington politicians, create an atmosphere that would make such episodes of evil in the nation obsolete.
That Obama does make these assumptions is pretty clear from his immediate effort to scapegoat others for generating the type of angst he assumes led to this episode.
He said: "When I ran in 2008, I in fact did not say I would fix it. I said we could fix it. I didn't say, 'Yes, I can.' I said, 'Yes, we can.'" He continued, "If you're dissatisfied that every few months we have a mass shooting in this country killing innocent people, then I need you to mobilize and organize a constituency that says this is not normal and we are going to change it."
With that statement, he attempted to link up the partisanship with the killings and blame the former for the latter.
But let's accept this assumption, for the sake of argument, that a sitting president does have the power, in cooperation with other Beltway bigwigs, to bring about a wholesale change in people's attitudes and fundamental nature that could prevent mass shootings motivated by race or mass shootings in which a firearm...
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Boner is bi-partisan.
He occasionally works with Republicans.
He “IS” bi-partisan.. he tells Boehner and McConnell what to DO...
AND THEY DO IT...
Yep, about as often as 0bama does.
Actually, in my case he is less, because I was once a Democrat, but he has never been bipartisan.
What DIRT does Obama have on Boehner and McConnell?? Must be something REALLY, REALLY big.
(what 0bama knows is that secretly, boner and mcturtle are really socialist democrats....)
I don't believe that.
If they had something big on either of those guys, they'd use it to get rid of them - and without hesitation - just as they did with Denny Hastert.
Jeb Bush is very bipartisan. In fact, I think he’s a Democrat in an R jersey.
It is born of the pent up evil of generations of Marxists who finally have their finger on the bomb. These are the children of those who have hated us. They have been fermented in the juices of evil for their entire lives.
Truly, we are lost in the kingdom of the enemy.
“...when he is the quintessential partisan...”
Revolutionaries use all the rhetorical devices at their disposal. Since they have no core values, except the revolution, they have no problem with saying whatever it takes to put enemies of the revolution on the defensive.
IMHO
Obama is a strong believer in the two party system, Friday AND Saturday nights.
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