I don’t suppose it ever occured to Obama that people might oppose him and his policies, in some small measure, not because they’re playing around, but because they disagree with said policies. Because as dearly as he holds them, they are anathematic to others.
What is it about these guys that they thinl only the other guy is partisan? It’s like a pair of plumbers arguing over how to unclog a drain, and one of them says, “Stop playing plumbing; just do it my way!” There’s nothing to say the other guy has to listen, any more than the first guy listened to him. Except convenience, but it would be most inconvenient not to fix the drain.
“What is it about these guys that they think only the other guy is partisan?”
This question was asked tongue in cheek, of course. I realize that either Obama’s willfully ignorant, or he knows this whole non-partisan thing is a pose. The politics of “I’m above politics.”
Non-partisan rhetoric works sometimes, especially during emergencies, such as the build-up to war. Most of the time, the masses ignore it, perceiving bickering between parties as what it is: partisan bickering.