Of course, this sentiment from the left was from 2004 when statements like the one above from Democrat Anthony Weiner were issued for cheap, political points. If those who issued such calls for restraint were actually serious, they’d say the same things before Obama-palooza III. (or is it IV or V?) From the NY Times in January 2005:

DON’T THEY KNOW THERE’S A WAR ON?
WASHINGTON — ENJOY the party!” a protestor shouted in cheerful greeting to Republicans arriving at a pre-inaugural party here. “People are dying in Iraq. Enjoy the champagne!”
To many Democrats, images of Republicans in sequined gowns and designer tuxedos nibbling roast quail and twirling the Texas two-step in last week’s $40 million-plus inaugural extravaganza seemed inappropriate, unseemly, even unpatriotic, when American soldiers are dying in Iraq.
“Precedent suggests that inaugural festivities should be muted – if not cancelled – in wartime,” Representative Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from New York, chided in a letter to President Bush. Citing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s austere fourth inaugural in 1945, Mr. Weiner suggested that the money would have been better spent on armored Humvees and pay bonuses for the troops.
In a nationwide Gallup Poll released last week, 54 percent of respondents said the inauguration should have been toned down because the country was at war. But both the poll and the Democrats’ protests raise a deeper question: Do Americans really feel as if they are living in a time of war?
The few surveys on the subject suggest that many Americans aren’t quite sure. In a Gallup Poll last year, two-thirds of respondents said they knew of no friend, relative or co-worker who had served in Iraq. And a Pew Research Center report to be released on Tuesday finds that Americans’ political concerns are returning to where they were before Sept. 11, focusing more heavily on domestic priorities like jobs and health care than on national security or terrorism.
Unlike the Civil War, the two World Wars and Vietnam, which were brought home to most people by the draft, tax increases and in some cases rationing, Iraq remains something of a dark cloud on the horizon, not touching most Americans in any direct way.
But if the vast majority of Americans do not feel the economic pinch or emotional pain of this war, the concept of war remains a powerful political theme. Like the cold war, Iraq and the war on terrorism provide an important subtext to American politics without being daily concerns of most voters, said Andrew Kohut, president of Pew.
“The cold war, particularly when it began in the late 40’s and early 1950’s, was an omnipresent force in American political thinking,” he said. “But it didn’t change people’s lives.”
Yet, it is the political potency of the current war that makes it such a tempting cudgel for politicians. Indeed, raising questions about what is appropriate “in a time of war” has let politicians from both major parties assail opponents without appearing, they hope, overtly partisan.