In a Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace, President Obama said his worst mistake as president was Libya, especially the aftermath of Muammar Gadhafi's dethroning and death. Well, at least "probably":
Probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya.
Prior to this admission, the first time Obama has taken any responsibility for the disaster, he preferred placing the blame for the failures on British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Just last month, he complained to The Atlantic that Cameron was "distracted by a range of other things" during the 2011 operation. As CNN notes, Obama dubbed the "mess" in Libya a "sh*t show" in private circles.
As CNN also reported, the National Security Council quickly stepped up to "qualify Obama's remarks" in assuring that the U.S.'s relationship with the UK has never been stronger and added that the two countries share in the joint security efforts and "foreign policy objectives which reflect our special and essential relationship."
Pamela Geller responded to Obama's admission, calling it "the quintessential pig flying moment":
President Obama actually admitted to his failure in Libya. Considering his considerable failures spanning the past 7 years and his refusal to take responsibility for any of them, this is truly a defining moment. Last month, President Obama blamed Cameron and European leaders for the Libyan disaster. He has never taken responsibility for any of his long, long string of disastrous failures. So it is a shock to the system that Obama admitted that anything he did actually worked out badly.
It will be perhaps the single statement he has ever made that is obviously correct and supported by a massive amount of evidence. It could stand as the single most important statement of his presidency, which will certainly be seen as a catastrophe by historians: the full effect of what he has done hasn’t been seen yet, and it will be terrible.
Obama's best day(s) as president? He told Wallace "saving the economy from a great depression" and of course, the day Obamacare became the law of the land.
The massacre of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary he lists as his worst day in the White House.
