what turned out to be his last speech from the window of the white house. he rejected taking any credit for it, put it on general grant and the troops, and then talked mostly about the problems of reconstruction and in favor of black suffrage. he actually did the opposite. he stood up for general george mcclellan. he, earlier in his career, stood up for mcclellan and for his defense secretary who were being blamed. he said, no, no, the blame should be mine. one definition of a great leader is somebody who takes less credit than he should and takes more blame than he should, and that s not what we ve got now. reporter: mukasey also cited general dwight d. eisenhower of a statement accepting full blame of the invasion of normandy s failure. such examples are worth mentioning every time president obama claims bin laden bragging rights. now, we did reach out to the white house for official reaction, no official response as yet. megyn? is. megyn: all right. when we get it, we will bri
and president obama after his election said that the 39 he wanted to be most leak was helping con. if you look at lincoln s record the night after the surrender of robert e. lee he delivered what was his last speech disclaiming any responsibility for the victory, and, instead, looked ahead to reconstruction, and advocated black suffrage something that was what got him killed because of boothe being in the audience and he took responsibility of defense secretary at the time, and one of the generals, constantly, took responsibility for things that failed. gave credit to other force things that succeeded. but, go back to 2004, president obama george w. bush running for re-election ran an ad called tested, which,
and president obama after his election said that the 39 he wanted to be most leak was helping con. if you look at lincoln s record the night after the surrender of robert e. lee he delivered what was his last speech disclaiming any responsibility for the victory, and, instead, looked ahead to reconstruction, and advocated black suffrage something that was what got him killed because of boothe being in the audience and he took responsibility of defense secretary at the time, and one of the generals, constantly, took responsibility for things that failed. gave credit to other force things that succeeded. but, go back to 2004, president obama george w. bush running for re-election ran an ad called tested, which,