A whopping 80 percent of voters say that the United States is more divided today than ever before, and most of those believe these divisions are likely to continue far into the future.
-Nathaniel Persily and Jon Cohen, Oct 2016
Former President Bill Clinton asked Democratic voters to shrug off the "awful legacy" of President Obama's years in office in a speech Monday to support Hillary Clinton's campaign.
-Anna Giaritelli
I think we had hoped that he would inaugurate a period of racial harmony, and I think the situation has actually become even worse over recent years.
It seems to be overt inflammatory actions by the administration to pit the races against each other, so I think there’s a lot of damage that needs to be healed.
-Camille Paglia
There are many disappointed Obama supporters who saw that “all this hope and change was just made up,” or even worse, “I started to see what he stood for and stood against—which was basically against America.”
-Karin McQuillan
Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Oops
In the '80s and '90s, America's suicide trend was headed in the right direction: down. "It had been decreasing almost steadily since 1986 and then what happened is there was a turnaround," says Sally Curtin, a statistician with the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The suicide rate has risen by a quarter to 13 per 100,000 people in 2014 from 10.5 in 1999, according to an analysis by Curtin and her colleagues that was released Friday.
Democrat, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Obama, Education
[Apr 2016]: The nation’s high school seniors have shown no improvement in reading achievement and their math performance has slipped since 2013, according to the results of a test administered by the federal government last year... Like high school seniors, the younger students demonstrated lower performance in math compared with 2013. Reading performance dropped for eighth-graders and was flat for fourth-graders.
Guns, Obama, Oops
President Barack Obama celebrated his birthday on Saturday, August 4, and for the first time, Illinois marked the date to honor the former president. This weekend, however, also marked a surge of gun violence in Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago.
Eleven people have died and 73 have been wounded, but most of the violence occurred on Sunday, according to NBC Chicago. In a span of seven hours starting around midnight on Saturday, at least 40 people were shot — four fatally.
It seems to be overt inflammatory actions by the administration to pit the races against each other, so I think there’s a lot of damage that needs to be healed. -Camille Paglia
It seems to be overt inflammatory actions by the administration to pit the races against each other, so I think there’s a lot of damage that needs to be healed. -Camille Paglia
In fact, in the study’s key findings, it said the U.S. is "an increasingly dangerous place."
Despair is so palpable that people are increasingly taking their own lives through suicide, alcohol, and drugs. -David French
[Oct 2016]: If you have bought into the simplistic explanation that conservatives and Republicans are to blame for racism, poverty, and wars, and are perplexed that these things have gotten worse during the last eight years of a liberal Democrat president, don’t blame yourself.
-C.C. Taylor
[July 2016]: Americans have been disheartened for so long about the nation’s course that it is easy to miss a landmark in the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll: Nearly three-quarters of voters believe the nation has gone off on the wrong track, the highest mark of pessimism in three years.
-Aaron Zitner
She voted for Obama twice. “I was mesmerized . . . I really had high hopes.”
The trouble was, she realized, Obama “promoted one of the most divisive, racist terms that I have seen in my lifetime. He turned his back on our military . . . on our law enforcement, the people who go out and protect us, put their lives on the line every day . . . his agenda was never for our country.
He was tearing us down. He will go down in history as the most divisive, destructive president that we’ve ever had.”
-Karin McQuillan