Wasn't Barack Hussein Obama supposed to unite the country?

NO he has not brought us together, we are just as divided now as the country was during the Vietnam War.

He has not reached anywhere but his shirt pocket to get a cigarette, and he is smoking in the white house....since when are you allowed to smoke in govt. buildings, and yes the white house is a public building.

They will hate you and me for being conservative, and call us racist....that is the only word in their vocabulary, because they do not understand the issues well enough to have a healthy debate....it is all name calling.

Unifying the nation is actually not part of a president's job description. It would be nice for that office to do that but it really isn't realistic.

Many of you on here and in the country (both sides) don't want to be unified with compromise... people like you (partisans) want things their way all the time. If you aren't willing to compromise anything then your concerns should not burden a president (any president, not just Obama).

So very true and I do remember him very clearly saying he would unite this country. But with Pelosi at his side, she is seeking revenge big time and is called the great divider. Obama goes along with what she says and has done nothing but tear this country apart.

One person can't do everything. There needs to be an effort by the citizens too, and there certainly hasn't been that. A lot of people assumed that just electing someone would solve all our problems, when even Obama said that it would be a lot of hard work, and take time.

I thought that George W Bush had all of America united after 9/11.

Look how that turned out.

yet another impartial partisan unfastened representation of yankee politics. retains me firmly on the self reliant wagon. human beings positioned united states of america first by vote casting, era. ideologies fluctuate for the period of this united states of america, and one area basically would not have each and all of the solutions. yet i like the finished loss of compromise. a minimum of it highlights how we will shop this divergence in our political scheme for some years yet to come again.

He lied about everything else..why should he tell the truth about this? I agree, i have never in 56 years seen this country so divided!

The liberals didn't want to unite under Bush, I'm certainly not going to extend a hand to them under Obama. What went around, came around.

He is reaching across the aisle. Republicans have unprecedented access to Obama and his team. Republicans cannot seem to grasp the meaning of bi-partisan - they cannot see outside their own ideological box.

The country is no more or less divided than it was when Bush was in office.