Of course by law he can’t anyway, but wouldn’t it be rather symbolic if he revealed that he didn’t know that? Or had changed his mind? Of course, there’s always President of Assyria.
I just meant being in the place of LBJ in the public’s eyes that led him to not run again, a unique situation indicating the level that a sitting president can fall to during war.
A few weeks of TV coverage, and Obama would be finished politically, a republican could be driven out of office with it.