According to a new survey by the Gallup organization, President Obama has seriously divided the country.

Seventy-nine percent of Democrats approve of the job Barack Obama is doing; just nine percent of Republicans approve.

According to Gallup, Mr. Obama is on pace to be the most polarizing president in history, surpassing George W. Bush.

There are two main reasons for that.

First, the economy.  After six years, take-home pay is down four percent on the president's watch.

And secondly, the jihad, a situation that is rapidly getting out of control.

Over the weekend, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who retired last year as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said this:

LT. GEN. MICHAEL FLYNN: “The strategy that we've had is not -- is not working.  I mean, it's clearly not working.  Just look at the kinds of things we're facing. I mean, I -- you know, in my -- in my world, what I have grown up to have to do is define the enemy that we are facing.  Like I said, if you -- you can't defeat an enemy that you don't admit exists.”

General Flynn was a top advisor to President Obama and joins former Secretaries of Defense Panetta and Gates in lamenting America's poor strategy to counter Muslim extremism.

With ISIS committing atrocities on a daily basis, President Obama's lack of urgency stands out.

General Flynn is not happy about it: 

LT. GEN. MICHAEL FLYNN: “I think what the American people are looking is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of …  passivity or confusion.  I mean, I think there's confusion about what it is we're facing.  It's not just what has defined as 40,000 fighters in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.  It's also a large segment within that radical version of Islam that is actually -- you know, is threatening our way of life.”

To be fair, some Americans do not believe General Flynn.  They do not see a threat to our way of life from the jihadists.

But most Americans do understand the threat according to the polls.

So Barack Obama, who once promised to unite the country, finds himself as a divider.

Not good for America.

And that's the memo.