Sounds like President Obama gave somebody a tongue-lashing:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said he had misspoken in calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran’s elected leader and that Washington will let the Iranian people decide whether Iran’s election was fair.
“Let me correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader of Iran. I would say that’s not for me to pass judgment on,” Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One.
“He’s been inaugurated. That’s a fact. Whether any election was fair, obviously the Iranian people still have questions about that, and we’ll let them decide about that.”
Well, good. That’s what the administration’s position should be. Whether the damage from Gibbs’s misstatement yesterday is already done, I’m not sure, but I’m certainly glad he corrected it.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, there’s this:
Heh.
P.S. As an aside, the reason Gibbs was speaking from Air Force One is because Obama was in Northern Indiana today — proving once again that the Greater South Bend Area became the center of the political universe just as soon as I left. Argh.
Be still, my son. I have no designs to confound you by bivouacking in Elkhart.
Although my next stop is Knoxville…
When are you leaving Denver?
LOL