Mr Indyk used to work for Mr Obama so he's partisan, but there are plenty of people who agree that the State of the Union-esque speech was somehow unseemly in a foreign leader.
He gives as good as he gets, leading some to accuse him of being a left-wing troll, but he's partisan as he feels his home is being threatened by something that will do it more harm than good.
Is there any other democratic country where a right wing politician could unilaterally take over the brief of a left wing politician (or vice versa) because he thinks he is "partisan"?
The president was being rude; he was being partisan; he was being a big meanie.
"He was as partisan as Newt was partisan," Wilma Goldstein, a former Republican National Committee official who worked closely with Mr. Gingrich, said of Mr. Wright.
How "chicken and egg" is this – if he hasn't read it, how does he know it is partisan?
But sometimes he likes to be partisan.
"In my judgment, he was clearly partisan.
He was a partisan without being a bigot.
"Even though he was a partisan figure, he was never treated as the enemy".
