I don't think Obama could have done more (except perhaps standing on his head) to try and bring the country together. The problem is that you can't reconcile when one of the rwo parties has absolutely NO interest in reconciling. Instead the Rethugs, flush with testosterone from Turtle McConnell made a point of letting Obama know that he could expect exactly ZERO cooperation in anything. Hard to blame Obama for that.

There was just too much change for them to handle. Obama offered olive branch after olive branch but you had Mitch saying ON THE SENATE FLOOR, that his goal was one term (Garland at the end was just a dick move), Rush saying he was rooting for failure, he’ll they lost it over Roberts screwing up the oath and demanded a do-over. The media made Teabaggers the lead story every morning, blurred the bailout (9/11- Iraq War too to some people) between W and Obama, and RARELY reported on the scope and size of the recovery.

Obama dated mentioned that there were more sides to issues than just the white cops side. Oh and Gay became okay.

It was just too much.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to find it. Maybe someone else does and could show the complete unedited tape.

the political environment he was working with. He made some mistakes, but he was also faced with obstruction that I never imagined. Every time he reached out to Republicans he was rebuffed. You can't pull people together unless they wish it.

Obama should be the one pulling the country together:


Source: Salon

Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and owner of several media outlets, thinks it’s time that Americans “get behind” President Donald Trump and “make it work.”

Democratic opponents of Trump need to get over themselves, Bloomberg argued during an interview on ABC’s “The View.” “The public has spoken, whether you like the results or not,” he said.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/06/23/michael-bloomberg-says-democrats-should-get-behind-president-trump/



https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141806115

the nation by Republicans and fellow travelers. The thing is that these nefarious folks are actually worse than run-of-the-mill racists--they wanted to use race to divide to gain power, though they would have used anything at hand to accomplish their goals, it was just that race was so accessible for them.

Any time Obama would address racial inequality these GOP-led forces would distort the effort into one with the fake story that Obama was biased, building resentment.