re: #79 ralphieboy

Obama can go back and point out what he said. This will be seen as condescending and talking down to us. Or flip-flopping.

What he said was considered and nuanced. In other words, fodder for the soundbyte-driven news cycle.

Well, the thing is, the 1967 comment *wasn’t* all that nuanced. It was, at least in the text on the White House website, just a quick repeating of long-standing American policy that merited only a single line.