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WingDinger

(3,690 posts)
Sun May 20, 2012, 10:37 AM May 2012

"Obama is the MOST divisive president EVER!"

What makes you think that?

He is making all of us "Real Americans", act the fool, one and all.

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Obama promised transparency and an end to divisive politics. Both of those core claims can be disputed, ad infinitum, simply by doing so loudly. Thus Bernie Goldberg.

Hint: Attempts at advances or fairness in culture or economics, DIVISIVE. Presidenting while BLACK, DIVISIVE.
Hint: Refusal to answer the same questions put to rest, to the delight of the Birthers{simply tools}, obscure/obtuse.

I almost think Obama made those claims as bait. To lull Wingers into going after fluff, with HATEFUL tone.
They indeed sound, as an institution, deranged.

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randome

(34,845 posts)
1. Knowing how and when NOT to respond to ludicrous claims...
Sun May 20, 2012, 10:51 AM
May 2012

...is as important as the response itself.

Obama is a very intelligent man. He knows this.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
3. It's a form of swiftboating
Sun May 20, 2012, 11:17 AM
May 2012

Obama's 2004 DNC speech was all about coming together and "we are not as divided as our politics suggest."
Inclusiveness is what attracted independents to Obama. Rs are trying to turn his strength against him by claiming he's as divisive as Kerry was unpatriotic, and his "failed" foreign policy as bad as Bushs' was good.
Obama is smart to not play their game. He lets his success accumulate and stand on it's own.

 

Suji to Seoul

(2,035 posts)
7. yeah. . .go steal a TV and father 80 kids while drinking your 40 and listening to rap music
Sun May 20, 2012, 12:06 PM
May 2012

Damn black guy! Damn him to hell!!

How dare he do anything? Why can't he be more like JC Watts, Walter Williams, Armstrong Williams, Clarence Thomas and not be as "uppity?"

THIS IS SAID WITH THE MOST BITING SARCASM I CAN MUSTER!!!!

Arkana, I was thinking the same thing you were.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
8. Obama is not the one who refuses to compromise
Sun May 20, 2012, 12:18 PM
May 2012

At one of the Republican debates, the candidates were asked if they would accept a deal where they could get 90% of what they wnted but it would include a tax hike. Not one GOPer raised his hand as being in favor of such a deal. The "my way or the highway' TeaTalitarians can't lecture anyone on divisiveness.

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
9. If that is so, then that is a good positive thing
Sun May 20, 2012, 12:30 PM
May 2012

Lincoln and FDR were also divisive polarizing figures.

If you are going to get big things, good things done then yes it is going to be divisive and rub some people the wrong way.

Obama being called divisive can be taken as a sign that he is doing things right.

 

WingDinger

(3,690 posts)
10. Thats how I see it. A good thing. They will be about spent on nasty adjectives
Sun May 20, 2012, 01:05 PM
May 2012

come election day. And it will slowly dawn on many, that Obama derangement syndrom, is part racism, part return to the 50's, part scared shitless of any change. In fact, no change, and back if possible, is their slogan.


I can hardly wait, to see the bloodbath, when the wingers say, further still right would have won it. And the rinos become not republicans as they are just as hated as we are.

polmaven

(9,463 posts)
11. Hint:
Sun May 20, 2012, 01:12 PM
May 2012

Refusal to completely capitulate on every issue and do things exactly as the tea party wishes: devisive!

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