By Olivier Knox
Yahoo! News
Call it “too much substance, not enough style?” President Barack Obama says his biggest mistake since getting to the White House three and a half years ago has been his tendency to tackle the job as national policy wonk rather than the inspiring figure he cut in the 2008 campaign.
“When I think about what we’ve done well and what we haven’t done well,” the president told CBS television in an interview, “the mistake of my first term – couple of years – was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right.”
“And that’s important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times,” Obama said in an excerpt of the exchange with Charlie Rose.
Presidents — politicians in general — tend to sidestep questions about their biggest mistake in office, though they sometimes stumble spectacularly over them (as George W. Bush did in April 2004), or offer up a self-serving answer that might be lampooned as “I just love America too much.” Obama seems to be saying that, dagnabbit, he just took the job too gosh-darn seriously. Republicans wasted little time in mocking the answer. Republican National Committee spokesman Tim Miller tweeted “I’d go w/ utter economic failure.”
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If anyone hass failed it the american voters who have voted back in to office 82% of all senate and congress people who have served 4 to 8 years, 86% of those have ahve served 8 to 16 years and 92% of those who have served 20 years or more. the Lobbyist and lifelong politians own you the voters!
Can’t argue that. Most people don’t even realize that Romney’s #1 campaign contributor is Obama’s #2 source for funds… GOLDMAN SACHS!