And this is why I knew it was useless to discuss this issue. You have your interpretation, I have mine. Neither of us is going to move. So I will repeat. You keep being you PH. I don't expect you to change your mind on whether Obama is partisan, and I don't see me changing mine. Being that I voted for Obama and then was confronted with the discord between his campaign rhetoric of inclusiveness and his actions as president, I tend to feel I have a pretty decent handle on the divisiveness of his policies. I crossed over and voted for a moderate candidate, and he almost immediately turned into a partisan president. Congress hasn't helped, but he has done almost nothing to to bridge the gap in a meaningful manner. Obama's motto for his president should be "It's not my fault", because that is pretty much his claim on everything. He chose to be partisan and get done what he wanted to get done when he had the power. Turns out that when you do that, and run over your political counterparts, they aren't so willing to meet in the middle when you have lost your power superiority and actually need their votes and cooperation. Crazy how that works. We are politically divided and both sides are equally to blame.