[Joe 6-pack]

"Apparently, the resignation announcement was designed to push McChrystal into doing so."

Have you considered the possibility that the resignation announcement was a leak from the McChrystal camp, and McChrystal is keeping BO off-balance?

[sarasota]

McC is “keeping O off-balance”. Yep, that’s his style.

[MortMan]

Possible - But I would imagine Joe Klein is in Rahm or Axelrod’s rolodex, not the General’s.

Also, the announcement was supposedly from “the Whote House”, IIRC.

Time will tell.