Following the recent Donald Trump rallies which have resulted in one cancellation and potential multiple criminal charges (against both Trump supporters and protesters), Florida Senator Marco Rubio, while laying some of the blame on the GOP frontrunner's rhetoric, as well as the protesters, also claimed that President Obama is partially to blame. He's not the first Republican politician to suggest this, for many have come forward and laid claim that Obama is the most divisive president in this country's history - some even blaming him for the rise of Donald Trump. I'm sorry, but the GOP calling President Obama divisive is so ironic Alanis Morissette is currently rewriting her hit song to reflect Rubio and many other GOPers' sentiments on the subject.
Republican politicians can believe all they'd like that President Obama is divisive, but let's look back at Obama's tenure before casting him as such, shall we?
- When he was elected in 2008, the GOP said their #1 goal was to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
- Many in the GOP continually cast the president as a foreigner, as not "one of us," some even going so far as to suggest he wasn't born in the United States and is leading the country illegally due to that.
- The GOP spread constant lies, and with that fear, about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) after its passing.
- The GOP shut down the federal government for 2+ weeks, trying to repeal Obamacare, without offering any plausible suggestions to replace it of their own.
- The GOP's #1 goal for President Obama's second term was to make him a lame-duck/failed president.
- While President Obama has attempted to take a balanced approach to the police brutality debate, the GOP has tended to go the George W. Bush false-dilemmic route, saying, "You're either with the cops or you're against them!"
- The GOP has painted President Obama as a terrorist-sympathizer because he doesn't tend to take the war-first-ask-questions-later approach.
- The GOP has obstructed Obama when it comes to his judge appointees at every level.
- While President Obama has attempted to present America as a welcoming country across all demographics, the current GOP presidential frontrunner has proposed that we build a wall along our southern border and ban Muslims from entering this country.
So, Marco, even though you and your party have constantly tried to: Obstruct President Obama's policies and appointees, lie about him, question his citizenship, paint him as an extremist even when the evidence suggests otherwise, with your main intent being to make him a one-term or failed president, you're claiming that he's the divisive one? Once again, Isn't that ironic? I'd add, "Don't you think?" but I have a feeling I already know the answer to that question...
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