Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Atlantic Monthly Edition)

Clive Crook accuses Obama of a:

...muddled message exposed him to attack from both sides... incompetent politics...

What Clive Crook says would have been competent politics--what he says Obama should have said about the mosque of lower Manhattan:

What Obama Should Have Said: The Constitution's protection of religious freedom is central to this country's meaning and purpose. Yet many Americans are uneasy about this project. I understand and respect their feelings. The Ground Zero...