Marc Ambinder has become the go-to guy for the most ludicrous pro-Obama spin in the blogosphere. Try this one out:

I think we’ve misread Obama’s opinion. He suggested Saturday that there’s a difference between objecting to the placement of a mosque and objecting to the right of a mosque to place itself wherever it legally can. In other words, one might have an objection to that mosque, or might be suspicious of the motives of the imam, but one can simultaneously accept the need for sensitivity and still find it offensive to use the instruments of government to enforce that sensitivity — the freedom of religious practice is the paramount value here. This is a sophisticated position, but in attempting to be careful about how he expressed it, the President confused rather than clarified.

So sophisticated it bears an uncanny resemblance to gobbledygook. If you think I’ve taken something out of context, read the rest (or don’t) for the complete, incomprehensible “analysis.”

Meanwhile “second America” (shall we make up T-shirts for 68% of us?) is not amused: FDNY firefighters are protesting the mosque, Ambinder tells us. Ambinder terms this kind of activity “soft bigotry.” Then there is brave, lonely Obama:

He’s pushing against a resurgence in anti-cosmopolitanism, against the constructed identity of America as a collection of white ethnic immigrants, against the forces that fear a majority minority nation — AND against the emotional scars that New Yorkers, even cosmopolitan New Yorkers who couldn’t care less if their daughters marry other women, carry on a daily basis.

We’re really not worthy. Americans may discover they only deserve a representative of “second America” as their president. They’ll get their chance in 2012.