Obama is coming out hard and strong against this, because he does not want others to define him as an appeaser. Of course he has already defined himself as such, but that is besides the point.
Due to an irrational fear of what the rats call "Swift Boating", Obama has assembled a "rapid response team" that reacts immediately to everything that may possibly be directed at B. Hussein. The kind of overzealous "thou doth protest TOO much" reaction they have demonstrated the past two days makes Obama look like the fool he is.