The Failed Pacifist

It's Not a Game

So the new White House phrase is blame game. Today's less-than-friendly press conference had Mr. McClellan repeatedly using the word blame as if it were somehow inappropriate. So I checked Webster and found this:

blame:
1 : to find fault with
2a : to hold responsible
2b : to place responsibility for

Is that a bad thing? Shouldn't we find out what went wrong and who might be responsible? Who will ask Mr. McClellan why the White House thinks it's a game?

If the Administration is willing to tell us what a great job they've done. Then people are justified in pointing out the failures. Avoiding responsibility, or blame, or whatever you want to call it, cannot be tolerated. Especially if they insist on telling us how brilliant they were.

posted by Doran @ 7:52 PM