Clegg, who joked at the beginning of his speech about the success of the spoof song created from his apology over his party's pledge on tuition fees, conceded that during the first two and a half years in power, mistakes had been made by the Lib Dems and some hard lessons had been learned.
The country's president does not have all the power (the mistake so often made in the West about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his theatrics was to assume he was an autocrat).
And why not celebrate a new term by actually recognizing what an inauguration in America is – not an investment of power (a mistake the speakers kept making), but an assumption by the executive of a responsibility, an obligation, contracted in an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States".
In a recent interview, Mr. Ketchum spoke with DealBook about Finra's bid for more power, its mistakes leading up to the financial crisis and his obsession with the Boston Red Sox.
He remembers the evening his father returned home from the camp, a bent, gray-haired man who, in the dimness of an apartment without power, he mistook for a beggar.
A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death".
A gaffe he made today will not have the staying power of that mistake, but it did cause great hilarity in the Metrodome.
What happens to power when we mistake it for our own creation and forget the water source from which we borrow, upon which we run our technologies?
Don't mistake power drain for the bubble shield, don't think tapping RT fires the spartan laser, get to know your weapons first.
Beset by IRA bombers, quadrupling oil prices and, most damagingly, striking miners, dockers and power workers, he made mistake after mistake: U-turns in economic policy, a bad industrial-relations bill, support for internment in Ulster, and so on.
