Soap Box Session 5-Why can't he just say it?

Whats up folks. I hope this new installment finds you healthy, happy, and ready to think. It took me a while to decide what to opine about this session and I never ever want to start reaching for material. Not so much even material, but how to convey it in a way that is clever, and funny, and makes sense because lets face it...there are a million people out there at least, doing what I'm doing and I really am, at this point just trying to keep up and ask some thought provoking questions. I'm also attempting to do some original thinking so I don't sound like the million other people doing this. I guess we'll see soon enough how successful I am. To the business.

You know I watched Mitt Romney do an interview a few weeks back and it has nagged at the back of my small but serviceable brain since then. He was, of course, asked about Romney care, the basically socialized health care that was instituted in his state and for all intents and purposes has been a miserable failure. Listen friends, I don't care which way you lean here but if you haven't looked at the new health care bill coming down the pipe, you should. That's another point for another day though. Now I like Romney. I think he's a good man. Presidential material, maybe, although I think his being a mormon will keep him out of that race. It doesn't matter to me. I would like to see a moral conservative in the White House because I think that a true moral conservative will, by the very fabric that he's made of, govern in a way that is beneficial to the entire country. I like him, enough said. What lowered my respect bar a couple of notches is he could not say he was wrong. He just couldn't say "yes, we grossly miscalculated on that, and we need to go back to the drawing board". I mean it's obvious that the program is a failure but it seems to me that the worse the debacle, the more these leaders, who we elect, stand firm on their decisions. Now, a guy who I think is a good man, can't have my vote. Why can't he say it. "I was wrong, I'm sorry" I've never respected ANYONE because they were always right but I have gained respect for many who were big enough to admit that they were wrong.

Now we are on day 52 of the oil spill and our President, who we elected, is still trying to hammer away at the fact that our federal government was there "day one". No they weren't, or day two, or day three and every time I hear anyone in the administration repeat it almost drives me apoplectic. (big word of the day) Now there are some fairly concrete indications that President Obama was briefed, day one, on just how bad this was going to get. He continues to deflect and dodge any mention of shortcoming on his administration's behalf. Folks I could go on and on produce a long list of shortcomings but I'm trying to stay on point here. I know that our current president was never in charge of anything. I know he's never run anything. I know he has zero experience in handling any crisis because he has never been in any position to handle one. He's never been a leader but he has been a follower and some of the people who, by his admission, he has followed have dubious track records to say the least. My point is I know all of these things about him. It's public knowledge and whether you like or dislike him, I'm sorry, they are facts. There is one person, one person who is probably the most important person in this whole equation that also knows all of this about him. He knows this about himself. My question now is Mr. President, what are you going to do with this information? Incorporate some self awareness? Probably a good idea. Why can't you just say it? Why can't you just say "yes, we have grossly miscalculated on this and I'm sorry. I didn't move quickly enough on this and I'm sorry." Do you really have so little faith in your people that you think we don't forgive? Oh, yes you probably do, because you said we are not a christian nation. Be that as it may, I don't think I am so very different from most Americans. I, for one, would view it as a breath of fresh air to hear you say you were wrong, and you wouldn't have my agreement with most of your policies. You would have my, and I believe many others, life long respect though. That's Charlies Angle. What's yours?