Capehart: Obama Has Been Scarce Because Everyone’s Looking for Him to Save The Day

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CAPEHART: “And I think that’s why one of the primary reasons why I think President Obama has been scarce, is that he — everyone’s looking for him to save the day. And what they keep saying is, 'No, no, no, no, it’s not about us. It’s about you.' And it seems like the party can’t seem to come to grips with that and deal with that. But then when you come to the staff, one of the things folks have to remember is that the Obama team were the first Democrats to be in power who weren’t Clintons. And so remember, folks used to complain after the Clinton years, 'Oh my God, the Clinton folks are running all these things and can’t we get new blood?' The Obama people come in, they’re the new blood, and now people are starting to complain, 'Oh my God, the Obama people, they’re running everything.' Some of the criticism, I think, is valid. There is — sometimes you get a sense that they think they know everything, they run the world, and in some cases you can understand it because, well, they did win two presidential elections. But at a certain point, that class of folks has to start listening to the next generation coming up because they have ideas, they have ways of reaching out to the voters, to men, to the Obama coalition that they just don’t have — they don’t have the feel for it because they’re not from that generation."