the red and blue america into one america and the perception is he didn t work hard to redeem that note and i don t think he wants to go down in history as a president who promised to overcome polarization and ended up intensifying it. but that s exactly what happened. and the reason is and i i didn t think it would come down to this. he doesn t schmooze. he doesn t make calls for bill clinton and george w. bush says what do we need to get it done? he got calls from president clinton in the middle of the night to say how do we get through on this or shake hands and have a private conversation? he made the promise way back when. here s what he said. i hope and expected that we could get beyond some of the old political divides between democrats and republicans, blue states and red states, that prevented us from making progress for so long because although we re proud to be democrats, we re prouder to be americans. there we go. great promise but as we know