Obama bipartisanship push has mixed success - AP Article which is BS

[EV_Ares]

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer Liz Sidoti, Associated Press Writer – Fri Apr 24, 3:22 am ET

She writes crap and to me anyway is about as partisan as you can get when you read the tone of her article which I take as blaming President Obama for the partisanship in DC when he has done everything possible to try to bring the republicans in to help with our problems.
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ARTICLE: WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept into office with a lofty promise to bridge the capital's fierce partisan divide.

Easier said than done.

"Old habits are hard to break," the new president acknowledged in February as reality set in just weeks after he took office.

And that reproach includes him, too, as he nears the 100-day mark of his presidency. While preaching bipartisanship and civility in his first months, Obama also has shown a willingness to push his priorities through Congress over Republican opposition, as with the $787 billion economic stimulus plan.

The White House also has engaged at times in the divisive politics Obama himself has condemned, for instance mocking commentator Rush Limbaugh as the GOP's titular head.

The president continues to emphasize overcoming poisonous partisanship. At one point, he said, "Whether we're Democrats or Republicans, surely there's got to be some capacity for us to work together, not agree on everything but at least set aside small differences to get things done. People have to break out of some of the ideological rigidity and gridlock that we've been carrying around for too long."

entire article @ link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama100_days_bipartisanship

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1. You know, the more I see him in action the more I see him as nonpartisan rather than bipartisan.

His approach is more issue-oriented and principled rather than political.

[Captain Hilts]

2. I wish more folks here were that way.

Until then, the politics of personality and the personal prevails.

[NJmaverick]

3. I would agree with that assessment

Obama is driven by an internal set of principles more so than a sense of partisanship.

[EV_Ares]

4. Absolutely, he is bi-partisan and he is issue-oriented and willing to work with anyone to get

that issue handled. She is looking at one side on this and the fact about Limbaugh shows where she is coming from. Hoping that Obama fails which Limbaugh said is about as partisan as you can get and unfortunately for the republican party, he is sort of the leader.

[Adelante]

5. Exactly right

Obama can't be put into an ideological box. People want to do that, but it will never stick. One of the first reasons for my strong support in the primaries was that he is more concerned with resolving problems and getting stuff done than towing a party line he sees won't be productive. It's always going to be case by case with him.

[Adelante]

8. This fits in here

From an interview with Politico published today:

Obama’s Governing Philosophy

Axelrod: I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He’s consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations. He believes strongly that we need health care reform. He believes strongly that the federal government has a role to play in lifting the level of education in this country. He believes strongly that energy is an integral part of our economic mixture. And so if, in engaging in those, people want to call him a big-government liberal, he doesn’t care.

Obama’s Pragmatism

Emanuel: He differentiates ends vs. means unbelievably well. He says: “Here’s where I think we’ve got to get $3.5 million. Tax cuts make up X percent vs. Y percent. Does it get you the jobs?” He doesn’t get caught on the means. Republicans and others have made a mistake: He has an open hand, but it’s a very firm handshake.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=CAFB4557-18FE-70B2-A8CFDB1038E50E7F

[Clio the Leo]

6. The very fact that this author is posing the question proves it worked..

..... he didn't have to be successful, all he had to do was TRY.

And who gets the blame for his desire for bipartisanship to "not have worked"?

Well, it's not the Democrats.

We should call him "the rose" because that's how he comes off smelling, every time.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. The headline should read "Obama not bending over enough for republicans and refusing

to provide his own Vaseline." What a bunch of fucking nonsense. How can you be bipartisan with people who've declared war on you?