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Obama is, without a doubt, the most polarizing President of my lifetime.
Look at what he did with ObamaCare - all previous social welfare schemes (SS & Medicare and the lesser ones) received bipartisan support. ObamaCare was passed strictly on Democratic votes. All of those town hall meetings which showcased the protests - nothing like that was evident in the past.
Bush doesn't even come close - his big black mark was the Iraq War and plenty of Democrats voted for that.
In terms of polarization, Obama is in a class of his own.
There are certain things you have to put outside of "polarization," else everything would fall under that umbrella. 1)Accusing the other party of being at fault for a key piece of legislation passing or not passing, or the other party for having a solution that's bad. That sort of partisan bickering is eternal -- it's not going anywhere. 2)One party passing a piece of legislation that the other side disapproves of. Really? Cause if that's "polarizing" then, once more, your problem is not with polarization but with the party that you don't belong to being in power.
In order to fit under polarizing, I think you have to focus on deliberate attempts to paint the other party not just as wrong minded, but as deliberately so, as I said before, enemies of the country.