President Obama has begun nearly every outside-the-Beltway appearance since taking office with a derisive nod to his place of work.
“It’s good to be out of Washington,” he tells the crowd, inevitably getting some laughs. He goes on to explain that it’s not the people who live here so much as the dysfunctional politics and the thick walls, high fences, and men and women with guns who protect him, sealing him off from ordinary people who could be giving him even better advice than he receives now.
So now, this famously insular president is spending an increasing amount of time outside the White House, trying to burst out of his Washington bubble and reconnect with the country.
Although he maintains the same tight circle within the White House, he is paying increasing attention to what supporters tell him on the campaign trail and to bloggers, writers and long-form journalists who vary in their political outlook from the left to center.
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He ought to know how awful it is in Washington, as he is the cause for most of it.
he is never in the white house so Let’s change the locks for good