The Young Turks

Rich made a great point sure, but Obama couldn't say it in this context, because he would be calling General Petraeus out for being a yes man.

Is the good general a yesman?...

of coooourse!

But this would have gone over like a lead balloon in that context. It would have come off as a cheap shot. He would be politicizing the military chain of command. Instead his answer asserted executive powers that no one can reasonably argue. One of the things that's great about Obama is he gives concise, direct answers. He doesn't duck questions. So I think its a great point, and one he should make somewhere, but this wasn't the right context.