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For once I'd just like to be able to have a President that tells me what he honestly thinks instead of whitewashing all the un-P.C. controversial stuff. We all have some opinions that are controversial and as soon as we start expecting to get a President who never offends us by something is the point that we end up with a mouthpiece-President that (a) doesn't have anything going on upstairs, or (b) baby-feeds us what we WANT to hear.
The bottom line is that I think there is some truth in what he said. I live in one of the states filled with negative backlash that he is talking about, and that is what I see as a cause of it all, in part. I don't think Obama is foolish enough to think it is the only cause -- it is simply one of them. I think if he could pick his words differently in hindsight he would have clarified the "religion" bit because I know from his other speeches and writings that he values religion a great deal and he did not mean it in a way to knock religion itself, but merely suggest that it is often manipulated for political gains.
He had an idea that itself is simply a reflection on one of our nation's problems. He probably could have worded it better, but a simple look into anything else he's said on the subject before or since the incident clarifies what he meant.
My prediction is that in 2 weeks this will have dinged him about as much as the whole Jeremiah Wright fiasco.
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