But I suspect that backtracking will be hard.
But, apart from Darling's backtracking on the death tax, there were no bombshells and little to stop the apathetic voter switching to Coronation Street, EastEnders or Raymond Blanc's kitchen secrets.
He also accused ministers of recently backtracking on a pledge to require hospitals to always tell a patient or relatives when a blunder occurs, which could let mistakes be covered up.
Milan Baros charged at the backtracking Poland defence and incredibly, for the first time in his career, he lifted his head up and found Jiracek to his right.
Leading German publications such as Der Spiegel, Bild and Frankfurter Allgemeine had published editorials condemning Merkel's wavering course and suggested that backtracking on the open nomination process in favour of a backroom deal would amount to deceiving the electorate.
Now it is reluctantly backtracking.
Whether or not backtracking on his promise will hurt Mr Obama remains to be seen.After the briefest of breaks following his primary victory, Mr Obama began a tour of swing states to court wavering independents.
This process might have been a good idea helping to rebut the charge that the party had few policies if it hadn't been for the backtracking and arithmetical embarrassments it has entailed.
In Japan, newspapers reflected a mixed reaction: the liberal Asahi Shimbun said Mr Koizumi's handling of the visit was "not worthy of praise", while the conservative press accused the prime minister of backtracking on his election promises to visit the shrine on the anniversary of the surrender.Mr Koizumi did not make it clear if his visit to the Yasukuni shrine was an official one.
Elections may be closed and phoney, but Russia's rulers are responsive to the popular mood in their own way, as in the nervous backtracking that followed big street protests against a reform of the benefits system in 2005.But there are risks in a situation in which all politicians owe their positions to the Kremlin, not to the voters.
Yet Mr Kim now says that North Korea has "no programme, no equipment, no scientists trained" in uranium enrichment.Why the backtracking?
