Obama stays on message about his messaging problem

Obama sits down for a post-shellacking interview with 60 Minutes. And surprise! The president is claiming that his policies aren’t the problem, but rather he has a messaging problem:

“You know, I think that over the course of two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn’t just legislation. That it’s a matter of persuading people. And giving them confidence and bringing them together. And setting a tone. And making an argument that people can understand. And I think that we haven’t always been successful at that,” Obama replied.

Is he serious about this? Saying that you just haven’t made “an argument that people can understand,” while it may seem like convenient way to avoid confronting the possibility that people do understand your policies and don’t like them, is a terrible excuse and tantamount to admitting you are a really bad politician.