Ok, so after a brief detour (!), good article. What impressed me is that as he alluded to in the article, Obama has clearly thought about this before. I think a lot of time we tend to think of politicians as being given buzzword info from their advisors on a given topic in order to cover all bases (like if a debate is happening in Milwaukee, Obama or Clinton's advisors will give them a issue very specific to the Milwaukee area, so all the people can say, "Oh, they know all about our situation up here, they will get my vote".). What is clear is that Obama has questioned, and debated this,and as Amos said-he speaks rationally and reasonably.