Worry about the press? His FISA flip-flop elicited a few grumbles from lefty bloggers, but hardly a murmur from the mainstream press. Remember his pledge to stick to public financing? Now flush with cash, he is the first general-election candidate since Watergate to opt out. Some goo-goo clean-government types chided him, but the mainstream editorialists who for years had been railing against private financing as hopelessly corrupt and corrupting evinced only the mildest of disappointment…
I have never had any illusions about Obama. I merely note with amazement that his media swooners seem to accept his every policy reversal with an equanimity unseen since the Daily Worker would change the party line overnight — switching sides in World War II, for example — whenever the wind from Moscow changed direction..
Why, the man even tossed his own grandmother overboard back in Philadelphia — only to haul her back on deck now that her services are needed..
Charles Krauthammer – The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama – washingtonpost.com
Pretty hard-hitting if I say so myself. Krauthammer is right in this: the media COULDN’T CARE LESS about Obama’s record… they excuse it, they try to justify it, they cover for him… it’s just who these people ar.