When I first heard that McChrystal voted for 0bama, I searched the internet to confirm it, but it all seemed to be 2nd or 3rd hand information. Have you ever seen anywhere where McChrystal himself says he voted for 0bama? Sometimes I think the whole thing was fabricated to give 0bama his “Truman firing McArthur” moment.
You know, you’re right. I’ve not heard of one first hand account.
McChrystal would have voted for Obama not because Obama was a democrat but because Obama is a Foreign Policy Realist who campaigned heavily on realist foreign policies, while McCain is a foreign policy neocon who campaigned heavily on neocon foreign policies.
Likewise with Colin Powell. When he served as Reagan's NSA Powell was a politically unaffiliated realist. Powell was recruited by democrat realists and republican realists and he became a republican. He voted for Obama not because Obama was a democrat, but because Obama is a realist.
The real problems between Obama and McChrystal had nothing to do with Obama and McChrystal. Those problems arose because Powell convinced Obama to invoke the Powell Doctrine in Afghanistan, to force McChrystal's Afghanistan Plan conform to the Powell Doctrine, that if Obama let Afghanistan go forward without an exit strategy, Obama would end up like Bush, stuck in Iraq with no exit strategy.
Damn good question.
I searched the web when I first heard about this "voted for Ubama" rumor and couldn't confirm it then. Hopefully, McChrystal will address this rumor in his book.