Serious Question ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

President Obama said to Univision something to the effect that his biggest mistake/miscalculation was believing that Washington could be changed from the inside ... He now says that it must be changed from outside, using the power of the people.

The day he said it, I thought FINALLY ... Not that he had come to the revelation - I think he has always been there; but that he finally SAID it ... OUT LOUD and DIRECTLY!

I thought I was pretty politically astute; but I'm apparently missing something that the media finds obvious ... because the media immediately cast this statement as ... well ... something bad.

So someone ... please explain to me how that statement is a damaging admission or evidence of vulnerability?

{Please feel free to write at a 1st grade level and in crayon if you believe it'll be helpful.}

[Scuba]

1. It's bad because Obama said it.

Gotta remember who the media works for ...

[BlueToTheBone]

5. Thanks Scuba, that was succinct.

I didn't know Bain owns Clear Channel.

[a geek named Bob]

2. for a first try at this question...

I think such a statement upsets "The Villagers" of DC. THEY think all is right with DC, if those pesky citizens would just shut up and do as they're told.

This is one of the reasons my wife and I left the DC area.

[1GirlieGirl]

3. I learned the answer from Seth Meyers last night

On SNL's "Weekend Update".

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2012/09/saturday-night-live-asks-pres-obama.html?m=1

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Okay ...

that SNL clip was kind of funny ... until he got to the very end, where he unwittingly(?) stated exactly the problem ... President Obama is NOT solely responsible for the Change part and we, as citizens, can do a hell of a lot more than merely "like" the facbook page, we can and should be pressuring our legislators!

[Jennicut]

4. Because Obama was magically supposed to change the Repub assholes in Congress over night.

Obama gave it the old try too. He even tried with the idiot bluedogs for the first two years.

For more DC insider bullcrap look no further then Bob Woodward's new book about the budget process. He blames Obama for the debt ceiling fights. As if he was the one that had to cave in. Those poor Repubs.

[lunatica]

7. This gif says it all. It's just spin to keep the race feasible