Strassel: Four Little Words

[MountainMan]

What's the difference between a calm and cool Barack Obama, and a rattled and worried Barack Obama? Four words, it turns out.

"You didn't build that" is swelling to such heights that it has the president somewhere unprecedented: on defense. Mr. Obama has felt compelled—for the first time in this campaign—to cut an ad in which he directly responds to the criticisms of his now-infamous speech, complaining his opponents took his words "out of context.

WSJ link

I don't care who you are but their is something in the air and it smells an awful lot like 1980 all over again.

[Hubie]

...complaining his opponents took his words "out of context.

No, Mr. President, they didn't. Unlike liberals, we listen to a person's full statements in order to glean the context. How we have been responding to your idiotic statement is a direct result of accurately understanding your context. Please stop trying to walk back your boneheaded statement by blaming your opponents.

[Janice]

Now were reduced to the meaning of words again.

For Clinton is was 'depending on what the definition of "is", is'.

For the man/child/king its 'depending on what the definition of "that" is."