Dan Senor says there's a distinction between Bush using 9/11 and Obama

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6. Obama did it all wrong

You're supposed to delay the arrival of an aircraft carrier by an extra day, position the carrier so it doesn't show how close to land it really is, get the major media to play along with the landing stunt on the pretext that your photo op cum speech for the ages actually matters, prance around on the flight deck as something you're not, then give a premature self-congratulatory speech under a banner that you come to regret, and blame the banner as well as every other carefully choreographed maneuver on everyone else when people have had a chance to review the whole magilla.

So yeah, a distinction between a premature congratulation and running on one's record of something actually done.