Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

I doubt it was a surprise
to lifelong Democrats Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen that
President Barack Obama is divisive ("Our Divisive President,"
op-ed, July 28). Everything cited by the authors is reflective,
deliberately so by Mr. Obama, of his redistributive political ideology.
All of his initiatives illustrate this: the recovery act, health-care
and financial system reform, his immigration and energy policies, etc.
Moreover, according to public opinion, they are being enacted against
the will of the people.

The president's
"fundamental transformation" to big government redistribution over time
will change our citizens from being represented by government to
subjects being ruled by it. Divisive?

Sadly, as the authors
suggest, an opportunity that would have provided the president a truly
historic legacy as a unifier is being wasted. The president could be
helping so many poor whites and blacks, long entrapped by failed social
policies, to contribute to and benefit from the continuing greatness of
this country. Instead he is doubling down with much more of the same. In
this administration every policy is a social policy—a conduit to his
fundamentally transformed, but dangerously divided society.

I hope many more Americans will become enlightened before November, as the authors apparently have.

Mike Curtiss

Hazel Green, Wis.