[khnyny]

...he has handed out the key to his own destruction: ridicule. Obama cannot handle ridicule. Crises don't deserve his attention, but ridicule has his instant focus.

I agree, Obama seems to not handle ridicule well. Guess what? That's part of the job. It would actually have been better if Obama had accepted McChrystal's apology and moved on. We are in a war - ego and hurt feelings have NO place. This move is short sighted, unless of course, someone else manipulated this situation to get McChrystal out of the way.

[Nepeta]

I agree, Obama seems to not handle ridicule well. Guess what? That's part of the job. It would actually have been better if Obama had accepted McChrystal's apology and moved on.

But to have done that, he would have to be someone other than the weakling, sissy, self-worshipping Lighter-Messiah in-his-own-mind incompetent who needed to be dragged through a whole lot of doors left propped open for him to get anywhere. Has he been a success at anything we know about???

George Bush, who is not a hero of mine, never rose to the bait of ridicule. Sarah Palin is a master of turning ridicule aside against her critics. But then, they're adults.