[twoodfin]

This was the signature accomplishment of his first term and a substantial part of his legacy as President. He was out on the hustings making speech after speech about how buying health insurance on the exchange was going to be as easy as shopping for a plane ticket on Expedia.

It would not have been "micromanaging" for him to have done what was necessary to be sure that what he was saying matched up with reality. Yes, it was a giant IT project of the sort governments usually suck at. But that was the bill he got passed and signed. If his administration wasn't capable of leading that project to successful, timely completion, he has to shoulder much of the blame.