President Obama comes to work, conducts a few conference calls on Hurricane Sandy, holds a press conference, and later travels to New Jersey to survey the damage caused by the storm. In doing so, he performs a job expected of him as president.

But does this qualify, as the Washington Post declared today, as Obama’s “commander-in-chief moment”?  Did the president really pivot “from candidate to commander-in-chief,” as the Huffington Post says?