The Hate Of The Union

The “president” will be holding his final State of the Union speech tonight, and he intends to give the country a big middle finger.

Obama will be talking about himself, not asking Congress for a long list of items he knows he’ll never get.

Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address a week after bypassing Congress by using his executive authority to expand gun rules. He could use the speech to highlight other issues on his agenda that he’ll address without the help of Congress, like Guantanamo Bay, echoing previous executive actions on everything from immigration, carbon dioxide emissions and re-starting diplomatic relationship with Cuba.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough signaled that Obama will pit the American people, watching on television, against Congress, his in-person audience, and its members’ donors.

The man whose 2008 political ads claimed “just knows how to bring people together” is going to pit the American people against politicians who have the audacity to disagree with him. Ironically, Obama will then hit the campaign trail to lament the inability of the country to come together and work toward a common goal.

Barack Obama. Uniter. Community organizer. The most divisive president in American history.