Via Politico....forget he was out campaigning about continuing his work.
Obama: Election wasn't about me
By
SARAH WHEATON
11/14/16 09:29 PM EST
Sure, the Democrats suffered crushing losses last week, President Barack Obama acknowledged Monday.
But, he argued, it wasn’t any sort of repudiation of his party leadership or presidency.
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Given his expertise, Obama said he regretted that he hadn’t done more to help elect more Democrats — over the course of his presidency, his party has lost ground at virtually every level, from statehouses to Congress to the White House -- but there was
only so much he could do.
“Look, one of the challenges that I’ve discovered being president is I’d like to be organizer-in-chief, but it’s hard,” Obama said. “You got Syria, and you got NATO, and you have summit meetings and economic issues that you have to deal with on ongoing basis. You try to get legislation done.”
Obama did work hard this to get out the vote for Clinton and Democrats, even taking the unusual step of endorsing more than
150 down-ballot candidates. And he gave his loyalists the hard sell, warning the Congressional Black Caucus in September that it would he would take personally an “insult to my legacy” if African Americans didn’t turn out.
On Monday, for one of his top strategists at least
, that was merely another sign of Obama’s exceptionalism.
“The Obama coalition,” David Plouffe said on the OFA call, was simply that: “the Obama coalition. And not all parts of it were as committed to showing up every time."