Divider-in-Chief

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“Kate Obenshain's new book 
Divider-in-Chief
 is an outstanding exposé of the hypocrisy, cynicism, and extremism of the Obama administration. He claimed to be a uniter, but Kate's book identifies where and how he has been the ultimate divider of Americans. If Obama is shown the door after the 2012 election, Kate's book will be one of the reasons why—everyone needs to read this before November!”

—
Sean Hannity

 

“Kate Obenshain has written one of the best takedowns of Obama I've read. If you have friends still bedazzled by the fraudulent rhetoric of hope and change, give them this book, and wipe that smile right off their face.
Divider-in-Chief
reveals the radical presidency of Barack Obama for exactly what it is—the most divisive, polarizing, and balkanizing in American history.” 

—
David Limbaugh
, nationally syndicated columnist
and
New York Times
bestselling author, most recently of
The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic

 

“Kate Obenshain has written a penetrating and astute book about the Obama political method. Highly recommended.”

—
Peter Schweizer
,
New York Times
bestselling author of
Throw Them All Out

 

“Here is the book to have handy as Obama pursues his re-election strategy of dividing Americans along lines of race, religion, sex, and economic class. As Obenshain notes, ‘Whether Obama wins or loses, the country he promised to unite, the nation he pledged to heal, will be far more deeply divided than on the day he took office in 2009.'”

—
David Freddoso
, editorial page editor of
the
Washington Examiner
and
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Case against Barack Obama

 

“Kate Obenshain's new book, 
Divider-in-Chief
, is more than a must-read. It's 
required
 reading! Kate proves what many Americans have now learned the hard way. So-called ‘hope and change' was a smokescreen for Barack Obama's premeditated attack on the very foundations of our Republic. Instead of bringing the nation together, as he promised, we now see President Obama is truly the Divider-in-Chief. If you care about our nation, its future, and what will be left for our children and grandchildren, you need to read this book.”

—
Allen West
, Florida Congressman

 

“Kate Obenshain's
Divider-in-Chief
 is a devastating portrait of America's most polarizing president. She exposes his advertised politics of civility and unity as an utter sham—a demagogic plot that not only divides Americans from each other but also divides them from the founding principles of the country.”

—
George Neumayr
, contributing editor,
the
American Spectator
and co-author with Phyllis Schlafly
of
No Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom

T
he idea of Barack Obama the uniter is a lie; the notion of Obama the post-partisan president is a farce.

Obama was supposed to be a new kind of politician—America's first post-partisan president. But instead he's been a president who's astonishingly willing to jump into the trenches—to sling mud at his political enemies, launch attacks on other branches of government, and blacklist news organizations that criticize him.

Obama has sown division within and between religious groups; pitted women against one another; ignored laws he dislikes; cynically exploited class, race, faith, and even his own family for transparently political purposes; and shut down debate over important and controversial issues, in particular the government takeover of one-sixth of the economy through Obamacare.

This book is about broken promises and shattered hopes. And I decided to write it because, though Obama has abandoned unity and post-partisanship, millions of Americans remain unaware of his betrayals. In fact, many Americans take at face value the liberal talking point that claims conservatives and Republicans are chiefly to blame for the
divisiveness in politics. This book is not an indictment of division in political discourse. Our country was founded on differences of opinion—starkly contrasting ideas that were articulated passionately, openly, and with integrity. It was through the free and open exchange of ideas that our founders determined the best course.

But Obama's call for post-partisanship has as its goal the subjugation of differing points of view to the ideology of radical leftism. In ObamaWorld, partisanship can be transcended only when everyone agrees with Barack Obama.

With his attempt to force religious institutions to violate their core beliefs by covering their employees' birth control, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs, Obama has made a political calculation that appealing to secular and liberal female voters is more important than the constitutional rights of believers.

The day he publicly endorsed same-sex marriage—a decision he claimed was rooted in his faith and inspired by “Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf ”
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—Obama immediately jumped on a plane to attend a Hollywood fundraiser, where he raised nearly $15 million off the announcement.
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He's taken credit for the successes and heroism of others, and blamed others, including his predecessor and even the public, when his own initiatives have failed. When congressional Republicans wouldn't compromise on tax cuts, he began referring to them as “hostage-takers.”
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Democrats tried to rally liberal voters to the polls ahead of the 2010 mid-term elections by releasing a video of Obama imploring “young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women” to unite and go to the polls for Democrats just like they did back in 2008.
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The video was a desperate and cynical attempt to energize voters with an “us versus them” appeal. Obama ran for president as a post-partisan, post-racial uniter. But his instinct was to respond to the coming disaster by dividing on the grounds of age, race, ethnicity, and sex.

Obama's re-election campaign is also based on pandering to key constituencies—young people, ethnic and racial minorities, radical feminists,
gays, environmentalists, public employee unions—while demonizing Republicans, conservative women, business owners, portions of the media, religious organizations, and any other group or institution that challenges his agenda or threatens his power.

Because Obama spends so much of his time catering to special interests, he has very little time to focus on the national interest, in particular reviving the economy and creating jobs.