If Obama had been president in 1941, and had to make a speech on that occasion, either the first or second sentence would have included a slap at the foreign policy mess Herbert Hoover had left him with nine years ago.
When (not if) this country is again attacked, and if Obama is still President (Heaven help us), his address to the nation will be composed of at least two elements: (1.) how it was really America’s fault that it happened, and (2.) extensive use of the first person singular tense to demonstrate how the event is really all about him.