Snapits,
It's becoming more and more evident, now, that the photo to which you are referring was staged. But, when I called Obama a "reluctant participant in the final showdown with Bin Laden," it was not in reference to his willingness to sit down in front of a TV screen and be photographed ... rather, it was in reference to his usual modus operandi of not being able to make a decision and allowing others to make the decision for him. When it comes right down to it, Obama doesn't have the intellectual wherewithal to extricate himself from a wet paper bag without someone else around to tell him what to do. Even though Hillary Clinton is a dim bulb, herself, she (or, more probably, one of her campaign consultants) got it absolutely right with her 3 a.m. phone call ad against Obama back during the 2008 campaign for the Democrat nomination.
B.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence