[caption id=”attachment_134446″ align=”aligncenter” width=”4111″] President Barack Obama pauses during an event with Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative fellows, Monday, June 1, 2015, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Six years into his presidency, President Obama is learning a big lesson — Life’s not fair.
This astute revelation came in a comment Monday as Obama was addressing the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative at the White House.
“As I always point out, democracy is hard. I think many of the things said about me are terribly unfair,” said the adult leader of the free world.
Hearing “terribly unfair” things about yourself is hard.
But so is being told you can keep your insurance plan then having it taken away or spending millions of taxpayer dollars on lavish vacations and golf trips during a weak economy or reverting to blame as the default strategy whenever something you’re responsible for goes south.
Hey, like the president said, “Democracy is hard.”
The Blaze originally reported his complaint and his follow-up statement, “But the reason American democracy has survived so long is because people, even if they are wrong, have the right to say what they think.”
And people do say what they think, which doesn’t always sit well with the President.
In an interview with Vox.com earlier this year, Obama cited the “balkanization of the media” as one of the contributing factors to his being the most polarizing president to date and the divisiveness of politics today. He specifically called out “the Fox News/Rush Limbaugh folks” and the “MSNBC folks” for being a part of the many news sources that contribute to polarizing messages which allow Americans to “narrow our point of view.”
The president’s comments to the Young Southeast Asian Leaders group seemed like less of an encouragement to foster democracy than a warning of the hurt feelings that may ensue and the many downsides to things like free speech and transparency.
Tying in some U.S. history to try and back up his credibility, the patriotic president added, “George Washington, our first president, complained terribly about some of the foolishness that was said about him.”
Washington was unavailable for comment.
