sharkman Posted November 28, 2011 Report Posted November 28, 2011 (edited) This would certainly seem to be the case for someone who's observing the politics from the perspective of Culture Wars. Voters are not going to see it as though he hasn't tried to build bridges. Obama's team are going to paint it as a deliberate attempt by the "powers that be" to keep the political rhetoric polarized and divided. It's impossible not to see Obama as some sort of "saviour" that rises above the rhetoric and unites a nation when he's not even making his political arguments from the same paradigm. While conservatives and progressives are battling it out for the cultural values of society, Obama offers a solution to the divisiveness by calling on people to work together. This has the benefit of painting any of his failures as a problem of the "Other". It was their unwillingness to compromise. They blocked progress. They're dividing America. They're not fit to lead because they're more concerned with dissonance than harmony. Again, it's not an argument about conservative vs progressive from Obama's camp, it's an argument about functional vs dysfunctional. They're going to paint all of the problems with his administration as the dysfuntion of Washington and only Obama can make it functional. You are describing the general approach he used in 2008. After 4 years of seeing that his approach was no different than previous presidents, it will not work this time. Obama realizes this, his actions now bare this out. Edited November 28, 2011 by sharkman Quote
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