At the Univision forum today, President Obama said the “most important lesson” he’s learned since taking office is that “you can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.”
It would have been nice if he’d discovered this piece of wisdom four years ago, before he ran an entire campaign based on a promise to change Washington (via BuzzFeed):
The Obama campaign will undoubtedly defend this by saying he was referring to the power of the people — i.e. real change comes from the American public. Of course change in Washington comes from the American people. But it also comes from the president and the administration, something that Obama staked his campaign on in 2008. Now he says this “can’t” be done. So what was the point of electing him, again?
It’s Obama as the Wizard of Oz: “All this time you were looking for someone to fix Washington, and it turns out you’ve had the power of change inside you all along!” How patronizing can you get? The country elected Obama in 2008 based on his vow to transcend partisan politics and transform Washington. Now he’s acknowledging he has no control over any of it. If Washington has problems, it’s not his fault. All of you outside Washington just didn’t work hard enough to change it.
Everytime Obama comments without a telepromter, it is an absolute (man made) disaster. nLooking more like Jimmy Carter every day. LOL!
But if you read the leftwing rags the ONE has already wrapped up the election… I don't understand how these people can continue to
not only the left wing rags, n nRomney can't open up a decisive lead, and he's just lost Virginia, a decisive swing state, according to the polls. Also the demographics of America have changed in the past twenty years and the Obama campaign keeps throwing elbows that throw Romney's message of the day off stride. Also, according to advisor Ed Gillespie, the top strategists of Romney's campaign saw this as a near sure thing and haven't planned an integrated ground campaign to match candiate and message with the commercials. Nothing is wrapped up but when you see how Obama recovered (with the help of the media) from what should have been, should still be, the disaster of having your Libyan embassy destroyed with the ghastly publicly paraded loss of life of your Ambassador (his foreign policy numbers went down 5 but not his overall popularity) –well, there's some teflon there. n nOh, and Americans now trust him better than Romney with the economy (yes yes, according to polls, we haven't all been asked personally). n nWe'll see. But there's kool aid all over the place nowadays.
I am all in favor of Obama trying to change Washington from the outside — i.e., as a former President.
I've got a feeling that change is going to come to DC, as well as the rest of this country, whether we want it or not and it isn't going to be pretty…
If not all we're going to have left is pocket change.
To someone from the sixties, change from outside DC means change by violent means. Obama knows this….his statement was not made by a stupid lack of teleprompter mistake, it was intentional.
Yet this knowledge does not discourage him from contorting himself to remain Mr. Washington?
Barack Obama's recent gaffe will be ignored by the MSM. Most people will never hear of it. It is shocking how effectively the Pravda like media is protecting their secular savior. And yes, I mean Pravda! That's not an exaggeration.
Well, before Obama became president, I don't think he ever imagined he'd have to contend with a GOP that could be characterized by a statement made by GOP senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock — and I paraphrase — "My idea of compromise is having the Democrats come around to my position."
you mean that man who said "I won' and would not broker a historic deal with the Speaker- that man is your hero?
The damage he did was when he had both Houses of Congress–it is only *after" Republicans were in a position to put some brakes on that we stood a chance of not having, for example, our energy sector regulated out of existence. n nBut, hey, who needs petroleum? There's the sun and the wind and algae. How's the Volt doing?