I'll give credit to Obama for unnecessarily endangering the life of this captain, and for waffling in his decision making. I also give him credit for not allowing the navy to execute their rescue plan when Phillips first jumped out of the boat, for negotiating with terrorists, for being a hypocrite by trashing Bush yet in the end pulling the same kind of strategy. I give Obama complete credit for taking several days to finally let the navy to do its job.
Obama has demonstrated that he is no leader. He might not be so lucky next time when terrorists decide to kill their victims a lot sooner.