Timing is everything, along with location; for President Obama and Hillary Clinton, it has now become toxic, beginning about midday May 31.

That was when Obama arrived in the Rose Garden with Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl‘s parents to announce he had exchanged the Taliban prisoner and possible deserter for five of Guantanamo Bay‘s most dangerous terrorists, which he thought ought to make the country euphoric, but made much of it angry as hell.