The one-year anniversary, coming at the end of this month, is the first taste of an issue that is likely to gain an increasing amount of attention on the national stage as the 2012 presidential race heats up. Obama and Republicans will both face the predicament of how to address a serious and somber, yet politically powerful subject…

“There’s a limit to how much the Obama campaign can use it politically and we may be fairly close to reaching that limit,” said Matt Mackowiak, a GOP strategist and founder of the Potomac Strategy Group.

“If he’s planning on using that, it could potentially reach the danger zone in terms of shear opportunism. You don’t know where the line is until the line has been crossed.”…

“Republicans have to give the president credit for calling that shot, for taking that risk, for the way he went about it,” he said. “There were two options and the one he took had greater risk and greater potential reward. Republicans will have a hard time criticizing him on that.”