His AIPAC speech was simultaneously praised and ridiculed. No surprise, then, that a clarification followed.
Hardliners will see (and some have already characterized) that clarification as a waffle, an obfuscation, an all-too-typical, all-too-political attempt to make everyone happy and thus make no one happy. Realists will recognize it for what it is: The delicate, no-rewards balancing act required when you’re walking a tight rope in a hurricane, otherwise known as a U.S. presidential election.