McCaskill: Failure to See World Through Other People’s Eyes an Obama ‘Shortcoming’

McCaskill: One of Obama’s ‘Shortcomings’ Is His Failure to See World Through Other People’s Eyes (The Washington Free Beacon)

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) told former White House advisor David Axelrod that one of President Obama’s “shortcomings” is his inability to see events through the eyes of others and be “empathetic about how other people do things.”

In an interview for his podcast posted Thursday, Axelrod brought up a quote from McCaskill where she discussed the dynamic facing politicians being both “attention junkies” and wanting to the “right thing” to change policy. The tensions between Obama’s defense of ObamaCare, his unpopular health care law, and Democrats facing tough 2012 election efforts came up.

Axelrod described a story where Obama fretted about Democrats being “scared” to back ObamaCare, and Axelrod replied that Obama was misreading the situation.