No US President in history has compromised more, reached out more, across the aisle...

[randys1]

I love the talking point of the right that Obama doesnt reach out, doesnt work with Congress.

In a tiny and very dishonest way this is true.

The story is Obama isnt like that dipshit Boehner and certainly nothing like Bill Clinton as in wanting to talk to anybody about anything for hours at a time.

Obama isnt a "lets hang out together" kind of guy or at least not with anyone from the other side, at least that is what I have heard.

So what, what the hell does that have to do with him doing his job and him compromising to get shit done.

This president has gone SO FAR in compromise and reaching out to the other side he actually at one point offered up changes to "that which no Democrat ever offers up in negotiation" Social Security...now I think he knew they wouldnt take the deal so it was safe, but EVEN THEN his haters said NO...

The fact is this man has compromised and reached out more than any other I can think of, and he has had his hands slapped repeatedly by racists.

[NanceGreggs]

1. And he has been masterful ...

... in making sure that everyone sees his hands being slapped.

To say, "I won't even try working with the other side, because I know they won't work with me," is political rhetoric.

To make a public display of trying to compromise with the other side, which is inevitably followed by a public display of the other side slapping it down, turns political rhetoric into political fact.

Had Obama not continually demonstrated that the GOP would rather sit on their hands and do nothing than move on the very things even their own constituents want/need done, he would not be in the position he's in now - which is being able to point to the Republicans' own unwillingness to work with him as the reason for many of the country's ills.

When you tell me something, I might or might not believe you. But when you show me something, it's a lot more difficult to insist it doesn't exist.