Nobody even suggested that Obama couldn't "take" heckling.  He clearly dealt with the interruption and moved on (and accepted the dude's half-apology later).

Now, I do love my Jesse Ventura, but his problem was that he didn't demand respect (and a hostile legislature sure wasn't just going to hand it to him), and wasn't able to get much of his agenda (except the light rail, and bless him for it) passed.  If he'd been less of a crankypants and more of a leader in the spirit of what the public wanted when they elected him, then maybe he would've been more successful, and perhaps even ran for another term.

Public service is honorable at its core.

Excising a talking point is not the same as acknowledging the vailidity of the outburst.

It's really frakking sad that so many of us voted for the guy who wanted to change the tone of Washington, then proceeded to validate the us-vs-them bully politics that Bush was so good at.

because they didn't change the legislation, only added a redundant provision.

A presidential address to a joint session of Congress is, historically, the president's "turf," if anything is.  The building it's in doesn't matter.

Anything Wilson had to say he could say after the President was done.  Heck, he'd probably give a more interesting rebuttal than that silly doctor did.

There are proper ways to challenge authority and improper ways. I am betting you are the sort of person who would refuse to shake hands with a President you disagreed with and would perform other, similarly petty, forms of "challenging those in authority."

In my view, if you behave like a child you should be treated like one.