Beltway Snark

Another day, another “clarification” of the words that came out of Barack Obama’s mouth. I guess Obama heard that Hamas wasn’t thrilled about the statements he made to AIPAC, so out comes the A squad to spin what he said meant:

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama did not rule out Palestinian sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem when he called for Israel’s capital to remain “undivided,” his campaign told The Jerusalem Post Thursday.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama addresses AIPAC Policy Conference 2008, Wednesday.

“Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided,” Obama declared Wednesday, to rousing applause from the 7,000-plus attendees at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference.

But a campaign adviser clarified Thursday that Obama believes “Jerusalem is a final status issue, which means it has to be negotiated between the two parties” as part of “an agreement that they both can live with.”

Feel free to contemplate the stupidity of that statement. Obama is for an undivided Jerusalem, but is OK with dividing Jerusalem up into Israeli and Palestinian controlled sections.

Barack, you’re in the big leagues now. I would think that at some point during the last year or so you would have come up with a foreign policy plan and stuck with it. If by chance you haven’t, now would be a really good time to get on that.