The Most Misleading Headline. Ever.

Not to mention the fact that “Obama is the most polarizing president ever” is a meaningless statement absent a little context. Specifically: why is he the most polarizing president ever? Is it because of his policies, or because of a massive right-wing echo chamber crying out that he’s a socialist who hates America and isn’t even legitimate because he was born in Kenya, yadda, yadda, yadda? Honestly, that Obama is the most polarizing president in whatever says more about the Right in this country than it does about Obama.

Goddammit! Is Blazing Saddles streaming on Netflix?

@Serolf Divad: It’s actually meaningless in any context, but I was playing along.

The real story — which Cillizza eventually gets to — is that the top seven “polarizing” years are the last seven years. Obama is continuing a trend, not starting one.

And that trend starts in 2004, the year the Quagmire began to reveal itself. Just one more way Bush fucked over the country.

At that point you can mention Fox and Friends, if you’d like. Or dip into the — wait for it — Clinton/Gingrich Era for even more context. It’s not like Our Exceptional Divided Nation is news.

nobody’s throwing shoes yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLds-TZMGw

From the Twitterverse: Newt introducer Kelly Clem Rickon warns that Obama re-elect would be “first step into 1000 years of darkness.”

@Dodgerblue: Is it just me, or does any mention of “1000 years of XYZ” have a distinct undertone of Third Reich about it?

@IanJ: i thought the same. the thousand year reich. once again the children on the right who only read the first couple of chapters about ww2, compare obama to hitler. and once again i must say that the comparison is profound considering how hard a mixed race man with an arabic name must work to rise to the position of leader of the nazi party. considering what the nazis stand for and all, he sure had a lot to overcome getting there.