Remember the post-racial, post-partisan, post-ideological presidency that was promised?
Obama the campaigner
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose.
We need a leader who can finally move beyond the divisive partisanship of Washington and bring Democrats, Independents, and Republicans together to get things done.
Partisanship is why we can’t tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that’s what we have to change first.
We will turn the page on the ugly partisanship in Washington, so we can bring Democrats and Republicans together to pass an agenda that works for the American people.
Obama the President
What I haven't been able to do in the midst of this crisis is bring the country together in a way that we had done in the Inauguration. That's what's been lost this year... that whole sense of changing how Washington works. - Obama from a January interview with People.
In other words you haven't done what you've promised.
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