George W. Bush could not have apologized for bungling a major initiative in the way that President Obama apologized for confusion surrounding the Affordable Care Act, according to Meet the Press host David Gregory.
“President Bush did deliberately did not apologize for things and that’s because advisers around him. . . felt that the press corps would jump on that and down his throat in a way that he couldn’t recover from,” Gregory told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday. President Obama was careful in how he issued his apology, Gregory said, much more so than in how he worded his public apology for the nomination of Tom Daschle, who had failed to pay all of his taxes, as secretary of Health and Human Services.
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