Well seriously - the timing is just such a tip-off.

For some it's the first day back in school. We've been at it for almost four weeks now.

He is a MASTER politician. To assume that none of today's negatives entered into the decision-making process (or DROVE them, more likely) is to not give the man credit for the very thing at which he is most capable: POLITICS!

ETA: FWIW, I realize the author of the piece I linked likely has his own negative opinions about Obama. That aside, the quotes from Democrats when Bush did essentially the same thing Obama said stand on their own merit.