Obama spoke openly with reporters today about the fallout of what his administration considers to have been "hasty decisions" it has made that turned out not to be the right decisions.
"On Wednesday, my White House Spokesman was quoted saying, 'We've made some hasty decisions that are now gonna take some time to unwind. Closing Guantanamo bay obviously is one of those decisions,'" the President said. "Unfortunately that decision was not the only hasty one I made."
Obama laid out a number of other decisions he has come to regret from the first 100 days of his administration, noting that these are just a few: promising to do things in a bi-partisan manner, promising a five-day "sunshine period" before signing any bill from Congress, and choosing a Portuguese Water Dog for the family pet.
Bipartisanship: "Frankly, I was a fool to believe that I could convince Republicans to vote for my socialist policies. It's obvious they will only vote for those policies when one of their guys is in charge. My bad."
Five days: "Sometimes you're just so eager, you know, so how can you wait five whole days? I mean, maybe on boring bills I could wait that long, but there's just so much government to build up and I'm so excited to do it."
Dog: "Perhaps selecting a Portie was a hasty decision. I mean, should the leader of the nominally-free world be expected to pick up poop for the next dozen or so years? Maybe we should have gone with an Irish Wolfhound or Bloodhound, which generally live about half that long. Plus there's no scientific evidence that the Porties or any dogs are hypo-allergenic anyway."
