Obama's Economic Regrets

Contending that on most issues he did “the right thing,” those were the only two negative areas he cited in response to a question posed in Twitter’s trademark brevity (using only 46 of the allowed 140 characters): “What mistakes have you made in handling the recession?”

There are, he said, “probably two things that I would do differently. One would have been to explain to the American people that it was going to take a while for us to get out of this.”