The most unconvincing backtrack of the year

Speaking at the iftar dinner held at the White House on Friday to mark the breaking of the Ramadan fast, Barack Obama abandoned his administration's previous stance that there would be no comment on the "local" issue of the 'Ground Zero mosque':

"As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country... And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances."

A clear enough statement I would say.

Within 24 hours, Barack Obama was insisting that he had not meant to indicate that he supported the building of the community centre, but was simply making a legal point:

"I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there," he said. "I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding."

So the genius Barack Obama managed on Friday to upset a large number of people who understndable oppose the building of a mosque on the 'captured ground' at Ground Zero and then within 24 hours to anger those who think that a mosque at the site of the 9/11 massacre would be a good idea. And yet the left call George W. Bush a fool!