Obama Needs To Admit Mistakes (I’m talking out of both sides of my mouth here.)

Yesterday I bragged on President Obama’s leadership trait of admitting mistakes.  The post wasn’t about politics, but instead it was an observation of leadership.  I believe people respect a leader who can admit when they have done something wrong. I even said that as long as he continued to be honest with people, he would remain popular, even when people disagree with his policies.

The President is hurting the credibility of my last post. In order to be fair I have to share the news story I read tonight.  President Obama apparently refuses to take credit for the huge budget deficit he “inherited” even though Congress ultimately approves funding, not the President.  He was in Congress during many of those deficit-building years. So I stand somewhat correcting to my previous post, perhaps the President still has room to grow in the admitting to mistakes in leadership trait.

What do you think?

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