This is for the best.

robot-heart-politics:

The Romney campaign thinks they have a winning Obama gaffe on their hands. At a Univision election forum this afternoon, President Obama admitted that one thing he learned in his first term is that “you can’t change Washington from inside, only from the outside.” Within the hour, Romney was blasting Obama in a campaign speech, claiming that Obama “threw in the white flag of surrender.” After all, Obama had promised to bring change to Washington. If he’s admitting that he can’t, then he’s clearly resigned himself to defeat…

Of course, the Romney campaign and its allies won’t mention the context of Obama’s remarks. Context is a pesky thing. Get rid of it, and you can make it appear that a candidate believes anything. Take this line for example:

“I don’t think you change Washington from the inside. I think you change it from the outside.”

That was Mitt Romney, in December of 2007, almost perfectly echoing Obama today.

*snort*

It’s so stupid. If Mitt thinks Washington can only be changed from the outside, then why does he want to be president? If he wants to be president to change things from the inside (which, duh, is what they ALL want), then sit down, and shut up.