Gen. McChrystal Expected to Step Down Over Remarks Made in Rolling Stone Article

Hmm.....remarks in the article that seem to have gotten the attention of our thin-skinned Commander in Chief.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that McChrystal displayed "poor judgment" and summoned him to the White House on Wednesday to hear from him first-hand and consider whether to fire him.

"I think it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared showed a poor — showed poor judgment," the president said Tuesday, surrounded by members of his Cabinet at the close of their meeting. "But I also want to make sure that I talk to him directly before I make any final decisions."

According to two senior administration aides, McChrystal informed his superiors that he is prepared to offer his resignation but had not done so, NBC News reported.

Does anybody else see the irony of our golfing, concert-going, lawsuit-happy commander in chief saying that somebody else expressed 'poor judgement'? Gee, if only the Rolling Stone article had been published back in October- when McChrystal was asking for a troop surge in Afghanistan- maybe then he could've met with the President for more than 30 minutes while Air Force One was on the tarmac at Copenhagen.

The bankrupt-in-more-than-one-way Newsweek is calling for McChrystal's head on a pike, which is all the more reason for me to give the General the benefit of the doubt. According to the article, the General bluntly referred to a counterterrorism strategy advocated by vice-president Joe Biden as 'short-sighted'- the same Joe Biden that said the Iraq war was lost in 2007, opposed the troop surge and then took credit for the turnaround in Iraq.

Outside of the insubordination aspect, I really fail to see the controversy here. And truth be told, I don't remember Newsweek or other Democrat Party Mouthpieces mainstream media outlets working themselves into a frothy, self-righteous outrage over General Shinseki's undermining the civilian leadership during the Bush Administration.

This all smacks of a nice big juicy distraction while oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican smugglers and cartels traffic narcotics and humans into this country unimpeded- issues that the current commander in chief has failed miserably at even addressing, let alone solving.

UPDATE: McChrystal has officially stepped down.