Obama's entirely mild prayer breakfast speech

Chuck Todd may be right: Obama doesn’t like the National Prayer Breakfast, so he uses his speech to stir up trouble there. I don’t like it either. But it’s astonishing that this counts as trouble.

At the breakfast, Obama said that multiple religions have been used to justify terrible violence, and that people of faith should work to, you know, not do that. He didn’t say that American slavery or the Crusades were worse than or even as bad as ISIS, just that they were bad, and done “in the name of Christ.”

Yes, the Crusades were complicated. So is ISIS. “Complicated” doesn’t mean “less bad.”