President Obama showed that it was possible to apologise with good grace over his appointment of Tom Daschle and now the masters of the financial universe are falling over themselves to follow his lead. Somehow he turned the fact that he “screwed up” to his advantage, though how many times he can get away with this ruse in future is open to question.
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Hardeep Singh
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The sight of the men from RBS and HBOS making their excuses for “screwing up” the economy of an entire country was pretty hard to watch. The difference is that people like Obama.
At times like this you have to turn to the tabloids to fnd an expresssion of real fury. Sue Carroll put it rather well in her Mirror column today. I wonder if the bankers were reading her before they went before the Treasury Selct Committee today.
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