I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.
For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.
Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.
I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.