What did President Obama really really mean to say?

On Thursday, our blog was about President Obama's criticism of people who send their children to private schools, even though he attended a private school himself and he is sending his two daughters to a private school. Apparently, other people noticed this "inconsistency" and so a spokesman appeared on Morning Joe to try to explain it away. Here's Jay Greene's report.

It's a little hard to understand what the spokesman is saying, but it seems likely that he is explaining that what President Obama really meant to say was that we still aren't spending enough on public schools. (If this is what President Obama meant, it's a bit surprising that he didn't just come out and say it - it's a fairly simple concept - but let that rest.) In any case, Jay Greene points out that there is no evidence that more money is what ails public schools, and we too addressed this point in a recent blog.

Perhaps a second Obama spokesman needs to appear on Morning Joe to explain the first spokesman's explanation.

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