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| Obama a tough critic - of himself |
| Obama a tough critic - of himself
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 27-October-2009
5:57:48 AM |
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"I wish that we had come back with better news from Copenhagen," President Barack Obama said a few weeks ago after an unsuccessful trip across the ocean to try to snag the 2016 Summer Olympics for Chicago.
It wasn't the kind of happy spin that politicians typically come up with after a failure.
Call it a breath of fresh air or a turnoff. Either way, the man in the Oval Office is making a habit of confessing, apologizing, revealing and regretting.
Don't mistake it: Team Obama doesn't miss many chances to try to put its actions in a favorable light. The president's frank talk turns out to dovetail nicely with that effort. It's a tool he uses to lessen negative fallout from bad news by pre-empting criticism and draining energy from controversy.
Still, it's also a genuine Obama personality trait, all the more notable because his predecessor, George W. Bush, was parodied for a reluctance even to utter the word "mistake."
When Bush was asked at a 2004 news conference to name his biggest error since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he puffed out his cheeks, stammered and stalled, and then ventured: "I'm sure something will pop into my head." If it did, he didn't choose to share it.
There is a long tradition of presidents and their aides taking a hands-off "mistakes were made" approach in the blame game
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