On political sites, certainly. This country only has one president at a time and he is everyone's president. Regardless whether you voted for him or not, ideology, political differences, everything. Yes, I tend to agree with you that people who say this do put party over country. But in their defense, so do most of our elected leaders in Washington today. For most it isn't about the future of the country, it is the next election. How can we, my party retain power or achieve power. Personally I think Senators Reid and McConnell epitomize this type of thinking. It is always my way or the highway. Something comes over to the senate from the house, Reid just tables it, no debate, no vote, the czar of the senate has spoken although the senate has the power to amend, change, add, delete anything to those bills. McConnell loves to filibuster everything and anything that the Democrats want, a sort of tit for tat. They are not leaders of the senate, they are party hacks.
I wish President Obama would have reached across the aisle to find some Republicans he could have worked with when the GOP won the house back in 2010, he didn't. IKE did with LBJ, then democratic senate majority leader. Both JFK and LBJ when presidents did with Everitt Dirksen, then Republican minority leader. Even Reagan, that die hard conservative to hear some people talk, worked very closely with Tip O'Neal, Clinton to a lesser amount worked with Lott, Gingrich and Hastert after the Republican took over congress in 1994. President Obama hasn't even tried.
Our gridlock and hate of government is what happens when the leaders of both parties take this approach. Back in the 90 60% of the electorate identified themselves with the two major parties, only 32% as independents, today those number read 50% who identify with the two parties and independents has increased to 47% a whopping 15 point increased as more and more people are becoming dissatisfied with both parties. Figures courtesy of gallup. Democrats has dropped from 38 to 30% of the electorate, Republicans from 30 to 20%.
He's not my president fits in, for sure, Washington is filled with our elected officials who put loyalty to party way above loyalty to country. Who put good of the party way ahead of the good of the nation. As along as this continues, our future as a nation looks real bleak.