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President obama didn t know the health care website was a mess until after it launched and that he didn t know the u.s. was spying on leaders like the german chancellor. is i don t know an acceptable answer for a u.s. president. it is not a consistent pog. i think you have two cross currents here. i think cabinet officers and white house officials are expected to taken a assume full responsibility as andy noted and take criticism and heat. perhaps sometimes when it is not fully justified. i think harry truman had it right. the buck stops in the oval office. i think that s the way the majority of the american people look at it. other presidents had said, i don t know. top staff, top aides, could say, the president doesn t know details of how a policy is being carried out, david? yeah, of course, that s a ....
Republican legislative policy. that even though it cost the party in its polls, really hurt the administration in implementing these bills. i m going to coin phrase i just want to say, that opposition is not responsible for the lousy execution here of the health care bill. right, right. thank you for that, david. again, i will coin the phrase, powerhouse panel. because that s indeed what this is. i want to thank julian zelizer, andrew card, mack mclairty and david goergan. thank you very much. ....
Judgment call. they are the gate keepers not only for people coming in but also for the what the president is told. andy and mack have been there and keeps the president informed. look at the famous picture of andy card on 9/11 whispering in george w. bush s ear immediately to let them know there was a plane crash in one of the world trade center. that s what a good chief of staff does. david, one more question, supporters see president obama as cool and collected. critics say he is aloof and out of touch. do you think his personality helped or hurt his presidency? i think his personality has not been a good fit with the presidency, i must say. in fairness, let s put one proposition on the table. seven presidents tried to get ....
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Universal health care passed. mack and i were there with president clinton. seven failed. president obama came along. he is the first in history to get it passed. you have to give him credit, legislatively, for a big milestone. but the execution has been lousy. as andy card pointed out, we were grossly misled as a country and the passage of that bill might have been threatened if they told us straight that 10 million people would lose their health care policies and were assured they would not. david, many americans feel misled about that. will it go down that he misled the american public when it comes to health care? i think there s two parts of it. one is just the immediate impression that what he said was not true. ....