The men who went in and did their job should get a lot of credit.
But so should the man who made the order, because in a political sense, he went "all in" because if the mission was a failure, the men who went in would be lionized as heroes doing their job (as they should be) and the man who sent them into harm's way would be the next Jimmy Carter. One can make the argument that Obama was the "beneficiary" of all of the anti-terrorism activities of the preceding administration or that we were only able to make the raid because of waterboarding. I think those are fallacious arguments, but they're at least facially debatable. There's little doubt, however, that Obama would be viewed as a weak-kneed incompetent lefty wimp if those copters got shot down when they crossed the golf course to his hovel of a mansion. Right or wrong, he'd be a one-term president.
As it is, he's got a field of mutts to defeat in 2012. Bring it on.