kazuya
04.02.09, 13:57
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday admitted he made a mistake in handling the nomination of Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services secretary, saying Daschle's tax problems sent a message that the politically powerful are treated differently from average people.
Daschle, the former Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, withdrew earlier Tuesday as news that he failed to pay some taxes in the past continued to stir opposition on Capitol Hill.
"I think I screwed up," Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"And, I take responsibility for it and we're going to make sure we fix it so it doesn't happen again."Read more (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/04/obama.daschle/index.html)
Wow,nice words from Obama,"screwed up":cool:.Finaly some normal man in politics:biggrin:
President Barack Obama on Tuesday admitted he made a mistake in handling the nomination of Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services secretary, saying Daschle's tax problems sent a message that the politically powerful are treated differently from average people.
Daschle, the former Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, withdrew earlier Tuesday as news that he failed to pay some taxes in the past continued to stir opposition on Capitol Hill.
"I think I screwed up," Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"And, I take responsibility for it and we're going to make sure we fix it so it doesn't happen again."Read more (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/04/obama.daschle/index.html)
Wow,nice words from Obama,"screwed up":cool:.Finaly some normal man in politics:biggrin: