President Obama said his greatest strength was "bringing people together from different perspectives" and his greatest weakness was being messy and disorganized in a 2008 Democratic primary presidential debate:
BARACK OBAMA: "My greatest strength, I think, is the ability to bring people together from different perspectives, to get them to recognize what they have in common and to move people in a different direction. And as I indicated before, my greatest weakness, I think, is when it comes to -- I'll give you a very good example. I ask my staff never to hand me paper until two seconds before I need it, because I will lose it. (Laughter.) You know. The -- you know. And my desk in my office doesn't look good. I've got to have somebody around me who is keeping track of that stuff. And that's not trivial. I need to have good people in place who can make sure that systems run. That's what I've always done. And that's why we've run not only a good campaign but a good U.S. Senate office."
In light of the bipartisan outrage over what can only be described as the most calamitous rollout of a federal program ever, the Washington Free Beacon rates both statements as true.
(H/T The Weekly Standard)
