"It's not the first time I made a misstatement that was mangled up, and it won't be the last," said Mr. Obama.

Perfect answer - resolves everything and sets it straight. I wish he had just said that from the start.

He has it in hand, now. Back to his long suit: authenticity.

For those some of you who insisted that what he said in that train wreck - air crash - disaster of a sentence was "true" and "sensible" and "rationale," you have just been refuted by Mr. Obama.