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President Obama’s choice to encourage politicians to stop “demonizing each other” was too much for The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes to handle. The president’s speech called on Congress to work toward a “better politics,” devoid of “‘gotcha’ moments, or trivial gaffes, or fake controversies” — all of which the Obama administration has repeatedly deployed against Republicans, Hayes pointed out.
“The idea that this president can lecture the Congress, lecture the country about a better politics I find preposterous on its face,” he said. “It might have worked before he practiced, in my view, some of the most divisive politics this country has seen in recent memory.”
Hayes’s list of examples included the Obama White House’s labeling Republicans “hostage-takers,” “cowards,” and “terrorists” at various points.