Mar 19 2009
Thank You Mr. President
I saw a CNN story today that made me proud of our president. He said that he will take responsibility for the fubar situation of AIG and… hold on, you need the quote because it was that good:
“For everybody in Washington who is busy scrambling trying to figure out how to blame somebody else, just go ahead and talk to me, because it’s my job to make sure that we fix these messes even if I don’t make them,” ~ President Obama
Let me tell you what I love about this. Today at lunch someone was telling me how this wasn’t so and so’s fault and blah blah and I’m like dude someone just needs to take responsibility and quit trying to pass the blame to everyone else. That let’s blame anyone but me bullshit just drives me nuts. Obama did that, he didn’t try to blame this politician, that banker, this CEO. He said there were mistakes now we’ll fix them. He goes on to talk about the need to change the culture of the financial districts and that’s all good too.
Mostly though, him just saying yeah…we let them have bonuses and ultimately I’m (him) in charge of the we so blame me makes him awesome in my book. Rock on Mr. Responsibility with your good role model self.
It was definitely refreshing to hear (Heck Bush didn’t own up to things that were completely his fault). Hopefully it rubs off on our congress… I won’t hold my breathe though.
The only thing that could screw up this moment would be an unfortunate reference to the Special Olympics.