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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
But part of his strategy seems to be to insist that he's always getting exactly what he wants, rather than acknowledging that he would have liked more. This can be maddening.
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Agreed, and I don't understand it. I guess they think it would be showing weakness (or lack of leadership) to say, "this isn't exactly what I wanted, but it's what we could get." If so, I think they are wrong.
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Also, on the big economic issues, I think -- per Delong -- that Obama has been listening to the wrong people (Bernanke and Geithner) with the wrong advice.
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The truly strange question is why Bernanke, a student of Japan's situation, is in the group of the wrong.
