A "legitimate quote," please

I am ready to stand corrected. I do not recall this "pledge," vaguely cited (again) by the Washington Post:

Obama regularly talks about his desire to find bipartisan consensus, even if he has not delivered on his 2008 pledge to change politics in Washington.

What I recall is Obama's pledge to strive for greater comity and fewer fanatical fevers and less diagnosable insanity and at least some workable semblance of bipartisan consensus. He promised to try. Did he promise delivery?

Perhaps he did, perhaps somewhere in some speech he failed to qualify what would amount to--even in the heat of self-inflated campaigning--an absurdly hubristic, triumphalist pledge. But I sure don't recall it.

Nonetheless the claim is made repeatedly by the Beltway press. Might they, every now and then, provide a quote? Please?

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[japa21]

Actually, I think Obama has changed Washington. It used to be a mostly partisan but with occassional bursts of non or bipartisanship showing through. Now, thanks to the GOP hatred of him and the Dems, it has turned into a totally partisan place.

This may, long term, be for the good, if the people actually realize how little the GOP cares about the country and turns them out until they actually come to their senses.

And that may have been Obama's plan all along, although I doubt even he predicted the degree of obstructionism we have seen.