>> that mesmerizing 2004 democratic convention speech transformed barack obama from relative obscurity to a national star. in bipartisan or post partisan theme helped him stun hillary clinton and lift him to the white house, and then he met an opposition party that had no interest in across the aisle work. on and on. it's been won confrontation after another, government funding, the debt ceiling, you name it. and it's been matched with overheat party rhetoric. the question is if the experience of the past four plus years of watching barack obama inspire the nation with post partisan rhetoric and then watching washington descend into a state of hyperpolarization anyway has soured the country on the idea of post-partisanship.