If Americans think their president is blaming them, they’ll turn off him once and for all.

Obama: blaming America.

In his latest State of the Union, Obama said of our armed forces, “They’re not consumed with personal ambition. They don’t obsess over their differences . . . They work together. Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example.”

Except if we followed their example, we’d all have to salute and say, “Yes, sir” to everything. That’s not democracy. Generals who say the mission failed because the troops didn’t follow orders shouldn’t be surprised when the troops start to mock them. Blame deflection isn’t leadership.

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In his State of the Union, President Obama expressed wonderment that everything doesn’t work like the Navy SEAL raid that got bin Laden. “No one thought about politics. No one thought about themselves. . . . This nation is great because we worked as a team. This nation is great because we get each other’s backs.” Obama sounded as if he was pleading with us to get his back.

“Carter, Clinton and I all have sort of the disease of being policy wonks,” Obama told Ron Suskind in the book “Confidence Men.” He sounded as if he was pleading that he was too smart for the American people.

“For all of us to succeed, we have to have an investment in each other’s success,” he said last month in Bellevue, Wash. It sounded as if he was pleading for us to accept the bill for his failures