Maliki has failed to build consensus; so has Obama

WSJ reports:

The White House has signaled to Iraqi politicians that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, should go because of his failure to build bridges to his country's major minorities—Sunnis and Kurds—during his eight years in power.

But what about Obama's failure to build bridges to the Republican Party during his 6 years in power? Is Obama's failure to reach bi-partisan consensus with Republicans really any different? Is the Red-Blue polarization of America's politics really any different than the Shiite-Sunni split? What kind of struggles does this division portend for America's future?

It was Obama who said things like:

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is a United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America, There is a United States of America.

We are not a collection of red states and blue state. We are the United States of America.

I will listen to you,
 especially when we disagree… Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics 
for too long.

How utterly he has failed to heal the divisions of the country.