My reading of Obama is that he is willing to make meaningless small changes in how he implements things just to make those who disagree with him feel better. He did that with making a change in abortion funding on the next day instead of on a day when anti-abortion protesters were marching. The one day's difference in implementation was appreciated by the anti-abortionishts.

In this case the change is similarly meaningless, but it will make some people feel less stampeded.