I screwed up!

Obamas valg som helseminister, Tom Daschle, trakk seg i går pga av manglende innbetalt inntektsskatt. Det er store nyheter, men den virkelige store nyheten ligger i presidentens reaksjon. Her er hva Obama sa idag:

"I think I screwed up," Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"And I take responsibility for it and we're going to make sure we fix it so it doesn't happen again."

Det tok altså under to uker som president før Obama innrømmet en feil. Hvorfor det er store nyheter? Fordi her er hva den forrige presidenten(hva var det han het igjen?) sa etter åtte år ved makta:

QUESTION: And I'm not trying to play "gotcha," but I wonder, when you look back over the long arc of your presidency, do you think in retrospect that you have made any mistakes? And, if so, why is the single biggest mistake that you may have made?

BUSH: Gotcha.

(LAUGHTER)

Look, I have often said that history will look back and determine that which could have been done better or, you know, mistakes I made.

Clearly, putting a "mission accomplished" on a (sic) aircraft carrier was a mistake. It sent the wrong message. We were trying to say something differently, but, nevertheless, it conveyed a different message.

Obviously, some of my rhetoric has been a mistake.

I've thought long and hard about Katrina; you know, could I have done something differently, like land Air Force One either in New Orleans or Baton Rouge.

The problem with that and -- is that law enforcement would have been pulled away from the mission.

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