But I will say that some in the liberal press are beginning to catch on and to point out -- in their own way -- Obama's weaknesses and inconsistencies and the ludicrously special treatment he's been receiving from their colleagues in the media.
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz has strongly criticized the unbalanced coverage favoring Obama. But even more surprising was Tom Brokaw's interview with Obama on "Meet the Press." It was in the Brokaw interview that Obama's stubborn refusal to deal honestly with his mistaken judgments on Iraq most strikingly surfaced. Let me give you just a few of the many examples.
In response to Brokaw's charge that he has been engaging in "verbal kung fu with reporters … about the surge," Obama lamely attempted to dissociate the surge from the "Sunni Awakening" and other positive political developments that have occurred or flourished in Iraq as a direct result of the surge. He then robotically repeated the puerile Democratic talking point that but for our "distraction" in Iraq, "we would be further along" in "hunting down al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan."
It's one thing for liberal commentators to slavishly compartmentalize the war on terror to Afghanistan alone, but it's scary that would-be President Obama trumpets this nonsense. Why, Sen. Obama, must we relegate ourselves just to hunting down al-Qaida in Afghanistan when they have volunteered themselves as targets in Iraq? Or do you believe they're off-limits in Iraq because the Democratic position requires you still to deny they're there?
When asked how he would combat the public's overwhelming perception that Sen. McCain would make a better commander in chief, Obama further embarrassed himself with non sequiturs about his promise to deliver "change."
And when Brokaw pinned Obama down about his threat to go after al-Qaida in Pakistan with or without the blessing of that country, in view of the risk that it could cause a "conflagration" with Pakistan because about "50 percent" of Pakistanis "are sympathetic to the terrorists," Obama stuttered into the evasion that "the situation in Pakistan is complicated."
It's no wonder that Obama is studiously avoiding unscripted town hall meeting appearances with McCain. That's the only wisdom he's exhibited lately.
In response, McCain should relentlessly call him out. McCain's main election strategy should be to expose more of the real Obama to voters every chance he gets.