Please allow us to paraphrase what President Obama said during a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California: “I can’t wait until tomorrow, because I get more perfect every day.”
“If you had to do anything differently during your first four years,” one questioner asked, “what would it be?”
After several minutes of taxing his remarkable intellect (yes, the guy will tax anything) to think of something that hasn’t gone perfectly during his first two and a half years in office, he finally gave up.
“There are all sorts of day-to-day issues where I say to myself, oh, I didn’t say that right, or I didn’t explain this clearly enough,” Obama noted, “or maybe if I had sequenced this plan first as opposed to that one, maybe it would have gotten done quicker.”
But actual mistakes? None. Not one. He referenced the contentious ObamaCare debate and said, “I’ve asked myself sometimes is there a way that we could have gotten it done more quickly and in a way that the American people wouldn’t have been so frustrated by it?”
But that wasn’t Obama’s mistake and he was quick to point that out. “I’m not sure I could have because there’s a reason why it hadn’t gotten done in a hundred years … It’s hard to fix a system as big as health care and as complicated as our health care system.”
After wracking his brain for several more minutes, the President just plain gave up on trying to think of any mistakes and began talking about anything that came to mind. He rambled into a long list of unrelated topics, like immigration reform. And the deficit. And energy. And education.
But mistakes? By this time he was hoping that the audience had forgotten he question.
Which may have been a mistake in itself.
Source: Washington Examiner
