Do you think it's a bad-looking thing for him to be seen as saying "I take responsibility"?
I think he sounds like a grown-up. I don't think this is going to sting him at all. I think it makes all the other whiners in govt and the media look like children.
Oh, my comment wasn't about the President's comment. I was responding to the observation that after Talabani expressed such gratitude and optimism, the first question and only headline from the event was 'Bush takes responsibility for disaster'. I don't think it will hurt him at all.