Obama Regrets ‘Optics,’ But Not the Golf, After Beheading

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This morning in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, President Obama defended his decision to golf immediately after making a statement on the beheading of American journalist James Foley. “[T]here’s always going to be some tough news somewhere,” he said. 

But the president did have some regret. He should have, he admits, better “anticipated the optics.”

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