I wouldn’t be surprised if Gration has been pushing to get into VP consideration. The Obamessiah really needs someone with strong military and/or other national security credentials b/c everyone knows he is such a lightweight. Speculation here, Gration may have so much invested in trying to salvage Obambi’s credibility and standing related to military issues that he went ballistic when the DoD was not going to fold and allow them to do the kind of campaign stop they wanted.