Today's RW Spaghetti (as flung at the wall in Joey the Scar's hot air emporium):

[Skidmore]

President Obama is divisive. Yep, he is. The most divisive president in history. And don't blame * for any of the mess that President Obama is going to create over the next 10 years.

[Turbineguy]

1. It's not spaghetti.

It's linguine.

[Berry Cool]

2. He has his RW talking points well memorized.

Saw one of them on TV just the other day saying: "Barack Obama is...just a sec here, let me uncrinkle the paper...oh yeah...'The Most Polarizing Figure Ever to Occupy the White House.' Yeah, that's it."

[quaker bill]

3. Now, wait a minute

how do they get to this conclusion? I am pretty clear that roughly half the country did not like Bush on his first day in office.

Now it is clear that those who don't like President Obama have strong opinions. But there aren't as many of them and I clearly recall that most posters here had fairly strong thoughts on Bush. Personally, I am not sure that I ever agreed with a single thing Bush did over the entire 8 years.

[jmowreader]

5. You know that's not true

I know you liked the No Call List law he signed...you know, the one that actually INCREASED the number of telemarketing calls I received, but that's okay, you know he meant well.

And didn't you think when he got on the helicopter after noon on January 20 and flew away to Dallas was really nice of him? He could have whipped up a nice little signing statement declaring himself Decider-for-Life, but he didn't.

But other than that...yeah, pretty much everything he did between waking up in the morning hung over and passing out in a drunken stupor with a raging hardon because Pickles makes him sleep in the other room when he's like that was objectionable to me.

[zbdent]

6. maybe he's "the most divisive" because, when they aren't voting,

some Republiclones actually agree with what he's doing, but can't be seen being "on the record" of supporting any bit of his time ...

[KharmaTrain]

4. How About Some Astroturf With That Spaghetti

The only way the GOOP gets any traction right now is to bring President Obama down. They have no answers (other than the same-old failed slogans) thus they need to make Democrats look bad in any form they can. Even if its not true.

Remember, one of the first things they teach at the Morton Blackwell Wingnut School (besides yelling over anyone else in the room) is to lie, lie, lie...if you say it enough, people will believe it. So no matter that President Obama's approvals are in the 60s (compared to the 20's of the "non-divisive booosh) or that 80% think he's heading this country in the right direction...for the GOOP it's all doom and gloom. It's the only thing they've got.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. That's not original. It's from Michael Gerson's article yesterday in the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040703378.html

"Who has been the most polarizing new president of recent times? Richard Nixon? Ronald Reagan? George W. Bush?

No, that honor belongs to Barack Obama. According to the Pew Research Center, the gap between Republican and Democratic approval ratings for Bush a few months into his first term was about 51 percentage points. For Obama, this partisan gap stands at 61 points. Obama has been a unifier, of sorts. He has united Democrats and united Republicans -- against each other.

Polarization in American politics has its own disturbing momentum, aided by some strident Republican voices. But that does not require a president to make it worse. And it is a sad, unnecessary shame that Barack Obama, the candidate of unity, has so quickly become another source of division."