reporter karen tumblty. harry reid weighing in on this topic, saying he proposes the mosque being at that site. making it harder for the democrats to stay out of it, isn t it? between the fact that the president has now commented on and harry reid has commented on it. it will make it harder for those democrats who had wanted to sort of step around this issue, say this is just a local concern for people in new york and get back to talking about what they really want to talk about, which is the economy and their plans to, the democrats had a whole set of talking points that they wanted to be talking about in this august recess. and, believe me, this mosque was not one of them. this certainly has changed the conversation. karen, the new york daily news said they were blindsided by president obama s comments on this topic. they didn t have time, as it s noted, to war game how to handle questions from reporters or talks by the gop and then rahm emanuele has been working the