This is actually admirable

I found this over on Common Dreams. It's part of somebody's comment:

A modest but important note to the refreshingly frank assessment by President Obama in the Tom Daschle fiasco that, "I screwed up." Obama didn't say, "Mistakes were made," the favorite dodge of errant leaders who hope the passive verb somehow thrusts the burden of the crime to an amorphous, distant other. He said, "I screwed up."

-- Abby Zimet

That's right. He used the active, not the passive voice and he put it in first person.

Refreshing, isn't it?