"There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics."

The President attempts to pretend he's not part of what's wrong with our politics.

The man's got balls:

Aligning himself with a public fed up with economic uncertainty and Washington gridlock, President Barack Obama declared Thursday: "There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics."

His toughly worded message - he said there was frustration in his voice, in case anyone missed the point - came amid a series of polls showing that people are disgusted with political dysfunction and are dispensing blame all around, including on Obama.

Obama aired his frustration with the ways of Washington at an event in Michigan before pivoting to his re-election campaign and a pair of big-money fundraisers in New York City.

He delivered a condensed version of that message at a fundraiser at the lower Manhattan home of movie producer Harvey Weinstein, where celebrities Gwyneth Paltrow and Jimmy Fallon, were among the approximately 50 guests who paid $35,800 each to attend.

Obama said he told his Michigan audience that it deserves better than what it's been getting from Washington.

"They look at what's happening in Washington and they think these folks are really from outer space because they don't seem to understand how critical it is for us all to work together, Republicans, Democrats, independents, in order to move this country forward," Obama said.

He added that the country is realizing the need to get involved.

"We're going to have to get engaged and we're going to have to speak out," Obama said. "We're going to have to register the fact that we expect more and we expect better."

So now Obama's an outsider.  Now he's one of us, disgusted with what goes on in DC.

I can't begin to describe how loathsome this is. 

Perhaps you can.  Leave it in the comments.

Crossposted at Wizbang.

Comments

[Locutisprime]

Obama is playing to the polls, no different than Clinton use to. The big difference? Clinton was actually successful at it from time to time.

Obama won't be

What is amusing? Here is a man who has gone on record time and again expressing his disdain for middle America and their clinging to their bibles and their guns. He has continually set himself apart and now he suddenly wants us to believe that he is one of us and is actually listening to us?

Stand by Barry. You've got mail........

[LYNNDH]

Not far enough outside.

[Clinton]

So is this president arguing that for the last 2 1/2 years he's
been an outsider and not part of the political process? Did
he just admit that he's been disengaged from the whole
national political process since he was elected? I mean, he
has played more golf in 2009 than Pres. Bush played
in eight years, but this is ridiculous.

He was elected promising to be part of the solution. If he's not
part of the solution, then he's part of the problem.

[RandomThoughts]

Since he apparently wants to be an outsider now, America should give him what he wants. Get his sorry incompetent useless ass out of Washington in '12.

[Lou222]

Apparently he is not to blame! Can't anyone see this? After all, he is one of us. I am from Illinois and he is just like me (not), but that is what he wants us to believe. The problem is, there will be many that will swallow what he is telling them. Those are the ones that believed him before. Some people never learn, do they!?!