If you change your plan, does that mean you are a liar/incompetent/have no ideas/whatever or does it mean that you are a capable manager responding to changes in the real world?

Nice story - and interesting - and completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

I know that old trick, by the way...the old Star Trek "change the goal". I've had every kind of manager known to man and I know just about every quasi-B.S. technique...but nice try. <s>

Obama was elected on the premise that he had something better to offer, that he had a grip on the details far better than McCain. For someone who is promoting "education", he should really have his feet held to the fire a few times. I still cannot determine if he was an absolute liar last fall, or just incredibly naive. I still think it's more of the latter, but that act will wear thin long before 2012.