It's not just that he got caught winking and nodding to the Russians- It's that he openly showed his hand as to his arrogance- As Krauthhammer says below- He has shown he believes, as it is his last election, he can do and will do, whatever he wants. Remember how he shoved his unconstitutional Obama-care bill down the throats of American's? How he promised open transparency and instead he stuffed it full of crap and passed it before anyone knew exactly what was in it! Imagine this guy with even more arrogance! Obama on reelection steroids as it were.
KRAUTHAMMER: I think that the key word here in that exchange was Obama saying to the Russians, 'this is my last election.' It's not just that 'I have another election and I'll be occupied with other issues, let's talk about this. It's a complicated want in December.'
'This is my last election.' That's his way of saying with a nod and a wink, 'Look, you guys have a free hand because you run a dictatorship, your elections are rigged. Well, ours aren't rigged, but once I get passed my last election, I'm unleashed. I can do anything I want.
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That's how I took it.