...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

Besotted by Bambi: So enamoured are the media of the Obamessiah, so caught up are they in the fizzy magic of his campaign, that despite his flip-flops, “clarifications” and dubious associates, he would more or less have to be caught in flagrante with a hooker or Al Gore—or both—for  the media to begin questioning his character.

Here’s a wry Charles Krauthammer on the subject of Bambi’s about faces, and on the media’s unquestioning adoration:

…As public financing is not a principle dear to me, I am hardly dismayed by Obama's abandonment of it. Nor am I disappointed in the least by his other calculated and cynical repositionings. 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.

The truth about Obama is uncomplicated. He is just a politician (though of unusual skill and ambition). The man who dared say it plainly is the man who knows Obama all too well. "He does what politicians do," explained Jeremiah Wright.

When it's time to throw campaign finance reform, telecom accountability, NAFTA renegotiation or Jeremiah Wright overboard, Obama is not sentimental. He does not hesitate. He tosses lustily.

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. Yesterday, granny was the moral equivalent of the raving Reverend Wright. Today, she is a featured prop in Obama's fuzzy-wuzzy get-to-know-me national TV ad.

Not a flinch. Not a flicker. Not a hint of shame. By the time he's finished, Obama will have made the Clintons look scrupulous.

In the Bambi campaign, shamelessness is next to godliness.

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