O has been wearing Bush/Cheney like a blanket and maybe he is ready to start governing and stop campaigning to be the head of the biggest leftist/liberal agenda.
Remember that O was trained in anti-government, movement politics and he is finding out that he must go around the corner and represent America first.
Maybe O woke up this morning and figured out that he must now be a statesman and choose between lesser evils.
And perhaps he is realizing that "dancing with the one that brung ya" is suicidal and treasonous on this issue.
You’re giving O way too much credit. It isn’t like he went to bed hating America and woke up a patriot and statesman. Someone simply convinced him that this is one case where he can’t throw Bush under the bus, without getting run over himself.
“O” who promised to be able to reach out to our allies and get them to actually help in Afghanistan and take GTMO detainees, is being told by by those allies to take a hike. Releasing these photos would cause even more of our allies to desert us like rats leaving a sinking ship.