People make mistakes, Presidents make mistakes.
Only two weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama has just admitted to one: Tom Daschle’s nomination.
Granted, some will say that he has made many other ones—yet to be recognized and admitted to.
Some will say, “Look, Obama has only been in office for a few days and he has already had to admit that he screwed up.”
Others will say, “Look, Bush screwed up royally and frequently for eight years and he never admitted doing so,” or, at best, he drudgingly admitted that “mistakes were made.”
The general consensus—and the truth—lie somewhere in between.
Now, as a Democrat and an Obama supporter, I could continue and say, “It takes a big man to admit his mistakes,” or to be entirely correct, ” It takes a big person to admit when he, or she, is wrong,” but I won’t.
I just want to go on record to say that I am disappointed by the pathetic vetting process thus far used by the Obama administration and join Maureen Dowd (in her New York Times column, “Well, That Certainly Didn’t Take Long “) in rebuking him for this.
But, I also join Dowd in criticizing Mr. Obama for his handling of the stimulus package.
Both for not having “taken a red pencil to the $819 billion stimulus bill and [slashing] all the provisions that looked like caricatures of Democratic drunken-sailor spending.,” and for the fact that he “has been spending so much time trying — and failing — to win over Republicans that he may not have noticed the disillusionment in his own ranks.”
And now, as Ms. Dowd concludes, “Aux barricades!”
