The Telegraph is reporting that senior Obama aides have let it be known that team Obama has been making mistakes.
A source close to Mr Obama’s top team telephoned this newspaper last week to say that White House officials now regard it as “a mistake” to have returned the bust of Winston Churchill that the British government loaned George W. Bush – a story first reported by The Sunday Telegraph – and then to have sent the prime minister home with a gift of 25 DVDs after his visit to Washington.
“Clearly it was a mistake, and they want people to know that they know that,” the source said. “There is a collective desire to learn from the experience. They pride themselves on attention to detail. They didn’t have their eye on the ball… they all know they’ve got to do better.”
They “pride themselves on attention to detail?” Really? Well, I guess it is sort of true. Unfortunately, the details they are focused on are things like coordinating vicious, personal attacks on their political enemies from the White House itself. And coordinating with outside groups to do research and go after political enemies. And coordinating with Obama supporters to suppress dissent against Obama’s policies.
All that governing stuff, not so much.
Via Memeorandum.
UPDATE: Steyn. Heh.
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Brown might have been making a statement himself. After Obama sent the bust of Churchill back to England, Brown gives him the Churchill biography.