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I qualified my comment by detaching the question from Obama and looking at this sort of command relationship outside of the reality of Obama. It is entirely credible for a POTUS not to have a personal relationship with a theater commander

I can't think offhand of a recent POTUS who developed such a close relationship as Bush 43 had with Petraeus. In fact the only one that comes readily to mind is the positive relationship Jefferson Davis had with Robert E Lee, and conversely the truly negative relations he had with both Joe Johnston and Braxton Bragg.