# Obama and Divisiveness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-divisiveness/748286>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 8, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-divisiveness/748286 "2016-03-08T15:38:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-divisiveness/748286/94 "2016-04-26T10:19:12Z")

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> [@DerekMichaels00](#):
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> Many people have said that President Obama has been divisive. What’s y’all’s take on that?

The claim is … uhh … [checks forum] ignorant?

But congratulations, I guess, to OP for not mentioning “Hussein” in his OP. \*\*DerekMichaels \*\*has so much respect for our President he usually writes his name in full, eg.g.

> [@Joe Biden runs for president. How screwed is Hillary?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-runs-for-president-how-screwed-is-hillary/726899/31):
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> If Barack Hussein Obama wants to stab the Clintons in the back and send Biden in, I’d take Trump over Biden if he stole Hillary’s nomination, just to spite Obama. I’ll never forgive him for what he did to the Clintons in 2008…  
> Hillary had every right to 2008. Obama used recycled GOP talking points against her back then, made her into a “racist,” etc. It took a lot to move the party into Unity. It’d be much easier to divide it, it thats what Obama wants.

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