Renda, I still stand by my opinion that the President (calculated or otherwise) used personal pronouns too much in his narrative about what happened. However, I'm considering what would have happened if the operation had gone horribly wrong in the worst possible ways. Would we be as insistent that he not take personal blame and responsibility. Would we not hold him ultimately (and personally) responsible? What would our reaction be to a speech in which he took no personal responsibility and instead gave the credit for the failure to his advisors and those who carried out the actual mission?
I know that's the nature of being the President and that you have to be gracious in victory, but it is something to consider.
The ironic thing is that those who are most vocally opposed to him taking personal responsibility would probably be the loudest voices to attribute personal responsibility in the event of failure. It's the nature of the beast and it would happen to either side.
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