Worth repeating

I could not see the Obama press conference live today but I have read the transcript. My first reaction was that Obama's claim to have been on top of the gulf problem since day one was a howler he would live to regret. then I read the take of Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics. His view: "stepping up to the teleprompter 38 days after the initial spill, with all the intervening time and press coverage of the event, and asserting that he's (Obama) been on top of it like white on rice since Day One comes across very much like historical revisionism from the department of C.Y.A."

A second point about the press conference. In the final quesiton, Obama was asked about the Sestak job mess (Ses-pool). He replied that the administration would give out a full report on this shortly. A friend of mine, Steve Brill,reported to me that the response reminded him of what Mike McCurry said during the Lewinski matter, Namely: If we had a simple explanation for this, we would have released it long ago.

So once again, Obama thinks that, despite the truth, if he says something about the Gulf, it will fly. And with regard to Ses-pool, he cannot even think of what to say. There will probably be some statement released Friday of Memorial Day weekend at 10 pm.