“You can’t walk away from your responsibilities because it’s good short-term politics,” says Obama in New Hampshire.

And taking those words to heart, President Obama apologized for not holding all health-care bill negotiations on C-SPAN, for not being more upfront that the health-care bill might have forced some Americans to give up their coverage; for promising to not raise any taxes on anyone making less than $250,000, and then turning around and immediately raising tobacco taxes; for pledging that everything on his spending list is “shovel-ready,” and then later admitting that large numbers of the projects aren’t actually ready; for making unrealistic promises about the stimulus as unemployment rises well beyond his worst-case scenario; for not posting bills online for five days before signing them; and for promising an innovative, groundbreaking web site to help track the spending, and then delivering a web site full of bad data and nonexistent congressional districts,

Nah, just kidding about that last part.