Obama has to be judicious here, but his statement just now was pretty weak: 1) he seemed to take the election-review process seriously, when it’s going to be a rubber stamp; 2) there was a sense in which he seemed to be patting the demonstrators on the head and saying, “Nice work — but better luck next time”; 3) he went way, way out of his way to say he’ll basically negotiate with Ahmadinejad no matter what.