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Evidence of that can be seen in the most refreshingly candid admission of error in a familiar slang term by any American president: Barack Obama assumed responsibility for the bungled vetting of Tom Daschle for a cabinet position with a disarming "I screwed up".
The first time I used the term "STEM education" in a talk, I screwed it up.
Or as Obama himself sheepishly admitted in an interview, "I screwed up".
With a sexual partner, I screwed all over the floor.
He just had a short temper, I screwed up one direction we were going and he wouldn't speak to me for three hours.
After a night of "I screwed up" apologies delivered to the press, he was cutting the exorbitant salaries of senior executives whose companies are borrowing money from -- well -- us.
Correction: In an earlier version of this post, I screwed up a couple of key details.
"I had a good life and I screwed up," he writes, "plain and simple".
"Hannah and Her Sisters is a film I feel I screwed up very badly," he said later.
"She worked hard to get us to Long Island to provide a better life, and I screwed it up," he explained, referring to youthful scrapes that did not make him deportable, like a bar fight, as well as the winter night he crashed into a parked car on his way home from a party with a joint in his pocket.
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