FOO (Fan of Obama's) David Brooks is starting to realize that Obama may not have all the answers.

Brooks:

Readers of this column know that I am a great admirer of Barack Obama and those around him. And yet the gap between my epistemological modesty and their liberal worldviews has been evident over the past few weeks. The people in the administration are surrounded by a galaxy of unknowns, and yet they see this economic crisis as an opportunity to expand their reach, to take bigger risks and, as Obama said on Saturday, to tackle every major problem at once.

He adds:

President Obama has concentrated enormous power on a few aides in the West Wing of the White House. These aides are unrolling a rapid string of plans: to create three million jobs, to redesign the health care system, to save the auto industry, to revive the housing industry, to reinvent the energy sector, to revitalize the banks, to reform the schools — and to do it all while cutting the deficit in half.

For the record Obama and his aides aren't promising to create three million jobs, they are promising to "create or save" three million jobs. The difference is quite significant, in so far as, the claim is and will be unverifiable. There is no way to measure the number of job "saved" by any economic plan. And so it is simply a weasel way to avoid responsibility for not living up to a bogus promise.