Obama Killed The Boogey Man, Do Not Discount The Symbolic Significance of that event.
This would be Obama as Beouwulf. The archetypal hero who slays the beast. There are deep, deep group psychosocial implications to this. And I think Obama understood that going in.
That's why he's ALWAYS been so insistent on getting Bin Laden. He realized it's deep symbolic significance. This was a "deep game" he was playing and he got into it a LOOONG time ago. And it was a "game" the Repubs started and that he made his own and then he beat them at it.
Remember. The Repubs created the boogey man. They filled him with power and significance. Obama took that totem and owned it. And defeated it. In doing so, he now OWNS them. He's taken their power and potency.
Obama played a very deep, group fantasy , psychosocial symbolic "game" here. And he won.