The Atlantic Wire posted a story yesterday about President Obama’s scheduled press conference today. This is the President’s first press conference in five months, and it just happens to fall on Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the Republican primary.

The article reminds us:

USA Today speculates that the topic(s) will be Iran and Israel. Or the economy. Or the GOP race itself. But that’s all beside the spotlight-swiping point. We saw Obama create a similar scheduling conflict last Tuesday, during the Michigan and Arizona primaries, when he gave a chest-trumping speech to UAW workers. (A speech that, Carney insisted, was “not at all” a campaign speech, even though no one—including us—treated it as such.) Then again, it’s not like the president hasn’t shown a willingness to step aside and let his rivals have the stage: In August the White House announced a major jobs speech scheduled against a Republican debate, but later rescheduled it. That was nice of them.

This is just bad manners on the part of President Obama. He just can’t stand the idea of the Republicans actually having the spotlight for a day unless he controls the narrative.