Now that Barack Obama has been president for seven weeks, we’ve learned a few more things about him. Like every president, Obama has quirks. Or maybe we should call them characteristics or tendencies that we hadn’t expected. Here are a five of them:

1. Delegate and duck. Who’d have thought the fellow famous for his brains and tough-minded leadership would hand over much of his agenda to Democrats in Congress? Not I. This practice began with Obama’s first piece of legislation, the economic “stimulus” package. It was mostly put together by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who touted it as an economic game-changer. The actual result? A wave of fear it won’t work. Even economists friendly to Democrats told Pelosi this week that the measure won’t come close to meeting Obama’s goal of saving or creating up to 4 million jobs. Pelosi is now talking up a second stimulus package.