"Perception is reality. "
Your perception is reality?! . . . I don't think so.
The President stated his position clearly and precisely. That fact that you have chosen to accept AP's agenda-driven 'spin' of the President's position says more about your 'perceptual predispositions' that it does 'reality'!!
How many people do you think are going to read the full article and realize the headline is BS?
Now, how many people are going to take the headline as full truth, and start launching it across all of their lefty blogs?
There you go. Perception. Not yours, not mine, but everyone's. He needs to be very careful with how he says things, and his advisors need to tell him that. The media is LOOKING for holes like this to exploit. It sucks, but that's the way it is.