President to hecklers: Don't stop heckling, go heckle the Republicans

What kind of President, when being heckled, doesn't ask the hecklers to stop heckling, but instead suggests they go heckle Republicans.



I put this in the same category as the "bitter clinger", "not thinking clearly", "you think they would be saying thank you", "Republicans need to sit in the back seat", "We're going to punish our enemies" comments. If I was an Obama supporter, I'd be shaking my head asking myself "What in the world is he thinking?"

Pat Caddel watched that video for the first time last night as a guest on Sean Hannity's show and said "This is not the guy people thought they voted for." Caddell and Doug Schoen elaborate on this point in this column:

Obama is conducting himself in a way alarmingly reminiscent of Nixon's role in the disastrous 1970 midterm campaign. No president has been so persistently personal in his attacks as Obama throughout the fall. He has regularly attacked his predecessor, the House minority leader and - directly from the stump - candidates running for offices below his own. He has criticized the American people suggesting that they are "reacting just to fear" and faulted his own base for "sitting on their hands complaining.

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With the country beset by economic and other problems, it is incendiary that the president is not offering a higher vision for the nation but has instead chosen a strategy of rank division. This is an attempt to distract from the perceived failures of his administration. On issue after issue this administration has acted in ways that are weakening the office of the president.