Inexperience?

I was reading on MSN.COM and I came across this story and was I astonished to find out that our President is having problems due to inexperience.... We knew this months ago when everyone understood his experience was nothing more then running a neighborhood. So why is this making news now? And that comment of ON-THE-JOB training... these are things most people that I know had hit on months ago....... This article just bothered me, like its an excuse now, that he doesn't know what the heck he's doing. Anyway, I think this is a train wreck waiting to happen........

Obama may learn from slips on stimulus

On his first big test, the new president made some rookie mistakes

By TOM RAUM

updated 12:28 p.m. ET, Sun., Feb. 8, 2009

WASHINGTON - On his first big test, Barack Obama made some rookie mistakes and strategic missteps. But he still appears headed for a win on the centerpiece of his agenda, a huge economic recovery program, with the fresh striking of a bipartisan deal in the Senate.

Legislative leaders, including some fellow Democrats who support him, chalked up his problems to inexperience and some initial miscalculations over the lack of GOP support, and they suggest he'll learn from the rocky start.

Americans have learned, too, a little about how their new president works He's swung from being conciliatory to badgering Congress to act, from courting the opposition to taking partisan swipes. He's had to fight to keep from losing control of the message. And all this is playing out against a background of Cabinet problems, economic distress and global distractions.

Could have made it easier
Some veteran Democrats say Obama could have made it easier for himself.

"I think it is important that he reached out. But lesson learned: It would have been better for him to send up his idea of a bill," instead of having House Democratic leaders initiate the process, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Leaders of both parties agree the nation's slumping economy requires strong stimulus, an argument reinforced by a government report showing soaring new job losses. Obama will likely get most of what he wants. On the job under three weeks, he still has a large reservoir of good will on Capitol Hill.

But things haven't gone quite the way the new Obama team expected. It's been a rough two weeks of on-the-job training on the legislative process from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for the former one-term Illinois senator.

"You know, it's referred to as sausage-making and probably for good reason," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.

Still, Obama aides claimed they were satisfied with the results, given the enormity of the challenge. "In a matter of weeks, we moved through both houses of Congress a very complex piece of legislation," Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Saturday in an interview. "I don't know if there is a parallel in history."