I don't want to argue with you on a Sunday, my religion says I have to relax.
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I do happen to believe that Obama said exactly what he meant to though. The only thing I could say he should have done differently was to stay out of it in the first place. And even then, we might be bitching about that now.
It was an iftar, for crying out loud - as you say, he'd have been criticized if he had stayed out of it, too. He could have picked sides from the start and stuck with them, though.
But I will ask what you think he said in the first place that he came back on. I think that's the sticking point for me. He doesn't seem to have said it was a good idea, but that constitutionally and Americanly, we had to uphold the decision (as long as it was locally legal). I just don't see where clarifying that he had purposely refusing to comment on the "wisdom" of it is a "walk back." Of course he said it in an artful manner at the Iftar, but sheesh.