LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Barack Obama says some of his own supporters have a “revisionist history” about how great his first run for the White House was.

On the trail for re-election, Obama is trying to bring disillusioned supporters back into the fold by addressing their feelings of discouragement head-on and reminding them they signed up for something tough — even if now they just remember the “hope” and “change” posters.

And he’s telling them bluntly they will have to find different sources of inspiration this time around.

His approach is one Obama almost has to take if he’s to reconcile memories of his historic 2008 campaign with the dispiriting realities of governing a divided country.

On Tuesday, he speaks in Denver, the city where he gained his party’s presidential nomination.

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