Quote Originally Posted by apb View Post
Well, sort of. Probably as good as you'll get from a politician. Was at least decent enough to call Crowley in person and talk with him for a bit.
"At an impromptu appearance at the daily White House briefing, Obama said he spoke with Crowley over the phone, and said he wanted to share a beer with Crowley and Gates at the White House.
"Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically and I could have calibrated those words differently."
"My sense is you've got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve it the way the wanted to resolve it," Obama added."

Rest here:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...upidly-remark/
"I could have calibrated those words differently."

Beautiful. A tap dance that will likely make the situation worse. He could've at least substituted should for could.

Never calibrated any words before, but next time my wife is mad at me for fishing too much, I'm danged sure gonna try it.