So while the New York Times is going with “incorrect promise” (a phrase that has never appeared in the paper before that anyone can find) to describe Obama’s “terminological inexactitude” (Churchill’s famous term for “lie”), Obama is going with “we fumbled.” Fumbled, eh? I know many people like the Evil Genius Deliberate Failure Hypothesis, and I have previously stuck with Uhlmann’s Razor, but it’s getting harder and harder not to credit the idea. It’s starting to look more like one of those old Oakland Raider trick fumble plays, isn’t it?
And finally. . .
