No shit, Sherlock…

(Politico) — In one of four TV interviews he gave Monday, President Obama questioned whether he’s been an effective president, and he said Americans “feel that Washington still is dysfunctional.”

“I don’t think there’s a sense that I’ve been successful,” Obama told Colorado’s 9NEWS. “I think people still feel that over all, Washington is about a lot of politics and special interests and big money, but that ordinary people’s voices too often aren’t represented, and so my hope is that we’re going to continue rebuilding a trust in government.”

He added that Washington is a “very closed place” where there is “a lot of obsession about who’s up and who’s down politically at any given moment,” and that the focus needed to shift to the lives of ordinary people.

Obama said he understands frustration with “constant partisanship,” and that it’s his job “to ensure I’m rising above that and sending a message that we’ve got to do better than we’re doing right now.”