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All of that is true. But Keyes, with his unconscionable vanity and ego, said yes.

And that makes President Barack Obama his fault.

I'm trying to think of an analogy here to what you're saying. It would probably be something like this: The drag-racing parents of a young teen ask him if his young Chinese friend Wang wanted to race their dragster in the big race the next day against Deng the Draggin' Slayer since their driver had been sidelined by an injury (suspected of having been inflicted by Deng and his crew) even though the most driving experience either kid had had was in Grand Theft Auto, and Wang, the young teen who thought he could handle anything, said, "Heck, yes! I'll give it a shot," suited up, went out, totaled the dragster, and lost the race.

Friends of the family questioned about the incident later said that the kid was really the one to blame because if he hadn't taken his friend's parents up on the offer and had not had such an overly high estimate of his driving ability he never would have wrecked the car. When it was pointed out that even if the kid had said, "No way, don't put that kind of pressure on me. I'm not a good enough driver for this kind of race and just because I'm Chinese like the other driver doesn't mean I've got a realistic chance," the other driver probably would have won because there wasn't anyone with the needed background and skill to fill in at the last moment, the same friends of the family responded by saying that, nevertheless, the other driver won because the kid, with his unconscionable vanity and ego, said yes and that makes the other guy winning the race the kid's fault.

Though this doesn't quite work because the winner of a drag race doesn't get across the finish line first because he gets more votes than the other guy from the spectators in the grand stand.