for President Obama may well have been a planted nugget designed to show how receptive McChrystal was to Obama's worldview. But several people who worked for, and continue to work for, Gen. McChrystal
- say that it's true. McChrystal told his subordinates about his ballot choice in November of 2008.
- More surprisingly, this choice did not surprise them.
McChrystal was a hard core operator, aggressive as hell...--but he was also a social liberal who tolerated, nay, welcomed gay people into his inner circle,
and who grew increasingly frustrated with his reputation as Dick Cheney's hired assassin. "...
