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Does Obama Think Republicans Are Un-American?

The president, who campaigned on the promise of bringing an end to bitter partisanship, made a highly partisan speech to House Democrats who were on a ?retreat? in Williamsburg last night. Politico called that retreat ?a partisan love fest.?

In a ?fired-up? speech to the House Dems on Thursday night, writes Politico?s Jonathan Martin,

Obama accused his Republican critics of wanting to return to ?the same policies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin.?

?I don?t care whether you?re driving a hybrid or an SUV,? he said. "If you?re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That?s what the American people called for in November, and that?s what we intend to deliver.?

He had struck the same highly partisan tone the day before in a meeting with Senate Democrats at their retreat, perhaps fittingly at Washington?s Newseum.

He assured his former colleagues that he would reach out to Republicans ? but ?not at the expense of the American people,? an attendee recalled.

Implying that Republicans are a threat to ?the American people? (including, somehow, the 47% of them who voted Republican in the presidential election) is not a sure path to the promised bi-partisanship.

Full post as published by Discriminations on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).