That’s a standard spin whenever BHO says something ridiculous.  This time it was when he commented on the function of the Supreme Court.  The spin came from Jay Carney, who is shaping up to be a first-rate Democrat party press secretary.

What I acknowledged yesterday is that speaking on Monday the president was not clearly understood by some people because he is a law professor, he spoke in shorthand.

As a recap, this is what Obama said:

Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress, and I’d just remind conservative commentators that, for years, what we have heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism, or a lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example, and I’m pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step.

Now the casual reader of average intelligence will take it to mean that if Congress passes a law, the Supreme Court has no business overturning it.  And that the margin the law passes by is a factor, just in case the Supreme Court gets a little carried away.  And the fact that Congress is elected and the Supreme Court is appointed give Congress the right to pass anything without question, as long as it was controlled by the Democrat party at the time.  If that’s the case, an appointed senator would have less influence in the Senate, one would think.

But no, according to Carney, it was law professor shorthand and the rest of us can’t comprehend it.  My hat’s off to Mr. Carney.  He’s doing what a Democrat party press secretary should be doing, and that is explaining away his boss’s gaffes with a straight face and without regard for how ridiculous he sounds doing it.  The last one who could perform at that level was Mike McCurry, press secretary for Bill Clinton.