Posted on 09/13/2017 12:41:18 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
The biggest surprise in President Trump’s willingness to work with Democrats is how much of a surprise it is to much of America. Expressions of shock are coming from all corners, suggesting that many of us view fierce polarization as normal and bipartisanship as abnormal.
If so, add that to the legacy of Barack Obama. He was the ultimate my-way or the highway president.
Obama first gained national attention at the 2004 Democratic convention that nominated John Kerry. Then a US Senate candidate from Illinois, Obama gave the keynote address and brought the crowd to its feet with striking lines such as, “There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America” and “There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”
That was four years before his own presidential election, but soon after getting to the Oval Office, Obama made it clear he would govern strictly as a liberal. He famously rebuffed GOP attempts to get their ideas into the stimulus package, saying bluntly, “I won.”
Democrats had big majorities in both chambers, and straight party-line votes quickly became the order of the day. With the GOP united in opposition, the president and his media handmaidens took to calling Republicans obstructionists for not getting on board with his big-government programs. It apparently never occurred to them that Obama was not living up to his own promise to be a unifier.
Subsequent studies showed the effect, with Pew Research reporting in 2014 that “Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines — and partisan antipathy is deeper and more extensive — than at any point in the last two decades.”
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Obamas signature politics were not “liberal”
Obama was a radical leftists who used Alinsky tactics in government, destroying the culture of America for his self defined racial and ethnic “Utopia.”
Obama was a fascist, a leftsist fascsist at that.
This article is great reading:
The Quintessential Liberal Fascist , (required reading):
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
The Kenyaneisan Usurpation could only happen with the full cooperation of BOTH parties.
Natural born citizen means one is naturally an American because one could not be anything else, born here of citizen parents.
Foreign national parent(s) or birth bring foreign citizenship(s).
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