Still Polarizing After All These Years

PJ Media ^ | January 17, 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

I have no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Barack Obama, State of the Union address, 2016.

[Kaslin]

Victor Davis Hanson Column

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[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

People still read Pj Media? Those schmucks are now sending me miracle fat loss cures for the low low price of lots of money, as most of these tabloid fraud websites tend to do. Not sure how they got my email. All I ever did was post there in their comment’s section, which I think is Disquis.

[digger48]

Still a good piece by VDH

[TigersEye]

0bama the Uniter!

A man who loves his country doesn't try to divide it and set it against itself at every turn.

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Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, ... asked, "Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit' Democratic voters "and it will encourage the extremists." - Nov. 7, 2009

Jan Brewer: We Found Out the Obama Was Turning Us In To the UNHRC on Internet (video)

Top 5 Most Violent Obama Quotes Ever Including - "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun, because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl." (video)

Obama Tells GOP "They Can Come For The Ride, But They Have To Sit In Back" (video)

OBAMA TO LATINOS: 'PUNISH OUR ENEMIES' (Youtube audio-vid)

A President who uses his bully pulpit to mock and taunt Americans, who incites his followers to be confrontational, creates an atmosphere of incivility and violence.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...Why then does the president, desperate for some sort of legacy, continue to embrace polarization?...he was a "community organizer" - polarization is in his blood - how and why else do people have to "organize" communities - they find common "enemies" like evil big corporations or nasty racists and rouse to community against them in order to invoke their own version of order and justice on the populace and take control - once a community organizer, always a community organizer.....

[libertylover]

>> detractors in greater number seem to vehemently dislike him

Count me in the vehemently dislike category.

[Kaslin]

Another one who does not know the difference between a publisher and an author.

[publius911]

Nice summary of the incompetent Obama National culture; the sicko New York culture spread nationwide.
And NO, my IQ is above 60, so I know that does NOT mean the Police and Fire departments, nor the brain-dead general citizenry.

[Kaslin]

0bama the Uniter. My foot

0BAMA THE DIVIDER

[TigersEye]

I’m glad you caught that. lol

[Kaslin]

Very well said

[TigersEye]

It is the only political tactic he knows. Ubama is a one trick pony. Look at any action he has taken or any speech he has made and the main gist of it is pitting one group against another.

[rockinqsranch]

Yes it is. A very good piece as most of VDH articles are.

I wish some at this site could concentrate on the article presented versus some self inflicted wound they have with the site presenting the article. Seems to me if the person posted commentary at the site, the person had to register to do so, and give an email address in the process. It’s common practice.

[kearnyirish2]

Years ago Rush framed it correctly when he said Obama would have to act the part of someone carrying on the struggle for his whole tenure; if there was a pause and anyone looked at the trail of mayhem created then the scales would fall from peoples’ eyes. Even Obama’s hard-core supporters stopped listening to him years ago; they’ve accepted the disappointment (and probably realized a white guy was typing his teleprompter lines).

[TigersEye]

Both you and Rush are very prescient there. Ultimately his act comes to an end when he leaves the WH. He can try to keep the media lens on himself but they will move on regardless of how leftist the media is. 0bama will be a retrospect story for the most part and it won’t be a “good old days” perspective.

[JDoutrider]

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[kearnyirish2]

Thanks. A huge problem for Dems is how to treat the destruction of the last 7 years in the upcoming election; I was very surprised to see both Clinton and Sanders expressing their undying devotion to Obama in the last debate. If people think either of them will be a third Obama term, I’d like to think they are doomed (if not, then our problems in this country cannot be fixed; low information masses will continue their destruction of the country with even more socialism).