Krauthammer: Obama's 'Presidential Smallness'

This video addresses Obama's divisive, inexcusable rhetoric.

"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."

--BARACK OBAMA

"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2."

--BARACK OBAMA

It's a discussion of the "authentic Obama."

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think this is how the great post-partisan, post-racial promise of Obama ends: Not with a bang or a whimper, but with a display of unbelievable presidential smallness.

He isn't only urging Hispanics to punish enemies, he's criticizing Hispanics who don't. And this is the man who told us, this is what propelled him into the spotlight of the country - we're not a 'blue' America, we're not a 'red' America, we're not a black America, Hispanic America.

Now he tells us, on the eve of an election, we actually are a Hispanic America, an Anglo-America. We aren't only separate, but, in a sense, we are enemies. I don't even think he uses the word 'enemy' in describing the president of Iran or Hugo Chavez. But he used it against Anglos who believe in the Arizona law.

Good grief. I mean, this really is something that... People who believed in him in '08, I think believed a lot against all evidence.

This really is a man who sat in the pew of Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, some of us have suspected was not exactly the man who hovered above it all and would bring us all together the way he promised.

And I think this display - even though it's pre-election, you can write it off as extreme - I think this really is the authentic Obama. And I think it's really disappointing.

Exactly.

Krauthammer perfectly articulates my reaction to Obama.

This divisive rhetoric from the president of the United States is really disappointing. Obama is actively trying to divide the country.

It's sad and it's scary.

Obama is the wrong leader at the wrong time.