Of course he doesn’t.   President Obama does not accept responsibility for anything.   He can waste a trillion dollars on a stimulus plan with no results.  He can propose a budget that Democrats laugh at, and get zero of his own party votes to support.  He can thumb his nose at his own deficit reduction committee.  He can demand structural reform of medicare and social security in 2010, then belittle Paul Ryan for proposing structural reform of medicare and social security in 2011.

He can claim in 2008 that we are in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the great depression, then claim he didn’t know how significant the financial crisis was in 2012.  He can call President Bush unpatriotic for requesting a raising of the debt ceiling in 2007, then demand that not raising the debt ceiling is dangerous in 2011.   He can oversee the first ever downgrade of the United States bond rating, yet claim no responsibility for deepening American debt.

He can proclaim his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, then demand the largest increase in structural deficits ever.  

So why would he take responsibility for instituting illegal drilling moratoriums and bans in the gulf, along with revoked leases for oil exploration, and eliminating the keystone pipeline project, and accept responsibility for increasing costs gasoline? 

Silly sheeples.

From Today via Jay Carney:

“The president accepts the responsibility that he identified the next president should accept, back in 2008, which is the need to develop a comprehensive energy policy,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today when asked if Obama “accept[s] responsibility” for the high price of oil and gas. “If you’re suggesting that there is responsibility for a rise in the global price of oil, it’s certainly not because of anything he hasn’t done to expand domestic oil and gas production,” Carney added