Admitting to mistakes.

We've always had government by trial and error. Feeling our way along. Especially during a crisis. But if you were George Bush, you never admitted to an error. Or if you did, you blamed somebody else for it. Not yourself. So it's very refreshing when Barack Obama admits to making mistakes. Actually, to "screwing up." That makes Obama a relatively honest and knowledeable man. Yes, moreorless the opposite of Bush. For eight years, we had a president who stubbornly steered ruinous courses. Rather than to mend his ways. Rather than to listen to the advice of people in the know. Right up until a few months ago, Bush thought we had a healthy economy. He had no idea that the bottom was about to drop out. His economic and pre-emptive war policies have all but bankrupted the nation. We'll probably be paying off debt for a generation or two to come. Hard to believe that when Bush assumed the presidency, our government was operating in the black. The Bushies thought that the capitalist free enterprise system would regulate itself. It sure did. Widened the gap between the rich and poor. And created the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. The Obama administration is trying to get us out of this catastrophic mess. And it ain't gonna be easy. It's gonna take some trial and error measures. And the restoration of faith in a system left teetering on the brink of collapse by the mistake-prone Bushies. Yes, the guys that still find it hard to admit that they ever made a mistake. --Jim Broede