I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but this is a national politician managing his public image and selling policy. These politicians you adore don't love you back, and they don't cry for dead soldiers. Obama is stylistically different from Bush here-- but the person in the box is still dead.

It's odd to me how so many of the people who accuse the left of being emotional and irrational have such a childish view of political reality themselves, apparently seeing the whole thing as something like a professional wrestling match between good guys and bad guys.