The Delay

Obama apparently tried to screw up the bin Laden mission but wasn't able to do it.  Ace has some thoughts:

George Bush was relentlessly mocked for waiting seven minutes (actually waiting for his security detail to ready the exit and for his vehicle to be readied) before leaving the school he was visiting. He calmly finished reading My Pet Goat for the kids before going to his now-ready helicopter.

On the other hand, after Obama was told (most likely for the fifteenth time) that the CIA was really, really, really quite confident that Osama bin Ladin was at that compound in Abbottabad, he decided he needed to sleep on it.

Sixteen hours later (hours during which Osama might have fled-- bear in mind, his courier's name had just been outed by WikiLeaks), he made up his mind.

Another website (and I can't find the link right now) suggested that Obama didn't want to do this at all but was basically forced into it by CIA director Leon Panetta. Obama aid Valerie Jarrett actively worked against doing the raid. I find that completely believable, though at this point not verified.