On MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, former Director of the Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes defended Obama’s suggestion that change doesn’t come from inside Washington.

Barnes insisted that Obama believes that “Change comes

“The President is reflecting the tough battles that he’s been through with health care and other issues,” Barnes said insisting that the reason that the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ repeal and the Affordable Health Care Act passed because of “the will of the American people.”

Change outside of Washington, Barnes noted “is that coalition of the American President linking arms with the will and the desire and the aspiration, the optimism of the American People to get things done that will actually break through and make that change,” she explained.