Back when Obama was running for president, I heard a lot of positive comment on his promise to "reach across the aisle," and to tone down the partisanship. Nobody I heard this from could offer an explanation as to how this amazing thing was going to be accomplished by literally the most liberal member of congress with the most radical associations of any serious candidate since Eugene Debs, if he was elected president.

That didn't matter because everyone just liked him so much.

Now we see that what we should have expected to have happened has indeed happened. Obama is the most polarizing politician to occupy the White House in decades.

Hope and change just got flushed.