Obama, "you can't change Washington from the inside"

[Jim Johnson]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/obama-change-washington-inside/story?id=17284397#.UF75l1Gmhdg

The president was speaking at a "Meet the Candidates" forum hosted by the Spanish-language network Univision when he was asked about his biggest failure.

The president said not enacting immigration reform legislation was his biggest failure, but went on to discuss his 2008 promise to bring change to Washington.

"The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside," Obama said.

[Russell Kanning]

Send in the drones

[KBCraig]

The only thing he's ever cared about changing in Washington, is who's running it.

[MaineShark]

If you can't change Washington from the inside, and he wants to be inside, then that must mean he doesn't want Washington to change, right?

[Jim Johnson]

If you can't change Washington from the inside, and he wants to be inside, then that must mean he doesn't want Washington to change, right?

Good point.

I wonder when Al Franken is going to write his new book about Obama: Lies and the Lying Liar Who Tells Them.

[Jim Johnson]

SNL   http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/politics/2012/09/23/nr-snl-obama-stop-talking.cnn

[Russell Kanning]

If you can't change Washington from the inside, and he wants to be inside, then that must mean he doesn't want Washington to change, right?

right
But you say that like it is a bad thing;-)

[MaineShark]

If you can't change Washington from the inside, and he wants to be inside, then that must mean he doesn't want Washington to change, right?

right
But you say that like it is a bad thing;-)

Pokes a hole in the "hope and change" thing.

Maybe it's "hope for change?"  If so, it's a rather forlorn hope...