You know that’s the truth. Jeremy tries to impart some of Ol’ Blue Eye’s hard-earned wisdom to the president in his latest for the Politico:

From his painful, rambling answer at an April 2004 news conference to his final televised White House address in January, in which he vaguely admitted to some errors, George W. Bush cemented his reputation as the Frank Sinatra of presidents. Regrets? He’s had a few. But then again, too few to mention.

Bush believes he kept the country safe after the Sept. 11 attacks, presided over a generally good economy, removed a dictator from power and set a Middle Eastern country on the long and thorny path toward a healthy democracy. All in all, one heck of a job. Why quibble over details?

President Barack Obama, on the other hand, loudly announced that his administration would make mistakes — lots of them. He has since admitted that mistakes were made in the vetting of several of his Cabinet appointees.

That laudable admission is a start. However, what the country had better be hoping for right now is not that Obama will admit mistakes but that he will learn from them.