Media give Obama the Donovan McNabb treatment

Jim Geraghty shows how the media is doing for Obama what Rush Limbaugh said the sports writers were doing for Donovan McNabb.

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Can we acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, Americans as a whole and the press in particular would really like to see an African-American president? And that with all of this enthusiasm, this not-so-subtle cheering, this yearning for an African-American to give us a real-life David Palmer, that maybe it's getting a little silly to ask whether Americans are ready for an African-American president?

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Of course, the inverse of this is the suggestion that if Obama loses, then we are not a good and decent country that has healed its racial wounds.
What happens when people start noticing he really is not as good as the hype? That was Rush's point with McNabb and he got falsely accused of being a racist for pointing out the writers attitude. Prime Minister Howard has already pointed out how ridiculous Obama's Iraq policy is and Obama ducked and changed the subject to the number of troops Australia has in Iraq. That is not a presidential response to a serious question raised about his policy position.

The Belmont Club crunches the numbers on Obama's ridiculous suggestion of more Australian troops. He also makes the point that Obama is being disrespectful to our strongest ally. But John Kerry was disrespectful to all our allies in the 2004 campaign. It seems to be a Democrat affliction. They attack the administration for being "unilateral" and at the same time attack all those other countries that are helping us.

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