Obama will say it was bad ‘optics’ just like his playing golf. It was not bad it just looked bad in his mind.
Well, after the polling data came out, THEN it became “bad optics” ... Before, he didn’t care. To him, it DID mean “nothing” - just like ordering a Marine to hold his umbrella meant “nothing” to Obama.
And “the best use of the military while cutting their budget during a war against terror” is ordering the Army to go to Africa and build isolation huts for the Ebola epidemic . They mean “nothing” to Obama. Or anybody else in the White House.