Obama's Biggest Mistake was "Not Telling a Good Enough Story?"

I would go with not knowing jack about creating a job or how businesses work and then not getting someone in there that can educate him. Instead he just said this mess:

"When I think about what we've done well and what we haven't done well," the president told CBS television in an interview, "the mistake of my first term - couple of years - was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right."

"And that's important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times," Obama said in an excerpt of the exchange with Charlie Rose.

No you don't "tell them a story" which implies that you are telling them a fairy tale. Instead you simply instill in them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism through deeds and not style. You do this through something other than class warfare and setting fire to a trillion dollars of their money. Also blaming the guy that was there before you even after being in power for an entire term is also such a waste of time.