Bottom line is this, regardless of what Obama may have meant, this is a big distraction for him. He is already off message, floundering around, grasping as trivial issues.
This will run the 24-48 hour news cycle. Obama or his hackeys in the press will have to come out and defend him. Which just gets the story out to more people.
This is a HUGE distraction, when he is already on the ropes.
I’ll bet you Obama apologizes before end of day Wednesday.
I'm sure it will be the typical "non-apology apology", "I'm sorry if my words were taken out of context....blah blah blah..."