A crowd of twentysomething true believers followed Obama from the campaign to Washington. But 18 months in, the "Yes We Can" crowd is losing faith.
...Yet virtually all of the young White House and administration staffers I spoke to (most were unwilling to be named because of the sensitivity of their positions) have grown somewhat disillusionedand say the glamour factor noted in the Times article is overblown. Its cool to my family, or the girl that I meet at the bar, but in terms of day-to-day workam I really doing the change we can believe in? asked one Iowa veteran. Probably not. And it is very much of a shock.
...The restlessness may be the natural way of Washington, but stings more because of the campaign trail togetherness so many young staffers remember. The experience was like the best preview in the world, the movie you want to see so badly, says Boswell. And then you see the movie and its mediocre.
Obama White House Exodus: 20-Something True Believers Burning Out - The Daily Beast
...Yet virtually all of the young White House and administration staffers I spoke to (most were unwilling to be named because of the sensitivity of their positions) have grown somewhat disillusionedand say the glamour factor noted in the Times article is overblown. Its cool to my family, or the girl that I meet at the bar, but in terms of day-to-day workam I really doing the change we can believe in? asked one Iowa veteran. Probably not. And it is very much of a shock.
...The restlessness may be the natural way of Washington, but stings more because of the campaign trail togetherness so many young staffers remember. The experience was like the best preview in the world, the movie you want to see so badly, says Boswell. And then you see the movie and its mediocre.
Obama White House Exodus: 20-Something True Believers Burning Out - The Daily Beast