Friday Morning News & Notes

TGIF

-Ari Fleischer ups the ante and says he'd be more than willing to testify on water boarding. I'm starting to really hope the Dems chase the "torture" issue and they do get Cheney and others on the stand. The American people will get the real facts and the House and Senate will look more inane than ever.

-Remember when W called himself The Decided and was always so sure of himself? Remember that people got on his case because he wasn't nuanced enough and was always so sure in his position? He was ridiculed. Obama makes Bush seem wishy-washy by comparison.

-ABC outs the men who developed the water boarding strategy. Our intelligence-gathering capabilities take another hit thanks to the media.

-Gates says it's too late on Iran and nukes regardless of what we do. Thank you IAEA and the UN for protecting the world.

-The media have greatly over-hyped the swine flu. I'm not surprised but it has caused almost as much panic as the photo op last week in NYC by Obama's plane.

-Pakistani singer murdered in honor killing in Taliban-controlled region.

The Palin Interview

She's doing fine. Obama makes a mistake at least once per interview and it goes uncommented upon. Palin makes a blunder and it proves that she's a doofus and incapable of running a landscaping supply company or something.

Relax, people don't even watch the nightly news and if they did perchance catch it, they will say exactly what I would if I was just tuning in, she is good and speaks confidently. She is learning to grasp issues Obama has been discussing fro twenty months and lastly, she's running for VP.

Too bad old Charlie Gibson didn't ask her tough questions like he did Obama last year where he all but performed a Lewinsky on The One.

ABC: Obama Real Candidate, Not Black Dude Anymore

Terry Moran of ABC said something quite revealing:

APPLETON — A dramatic race for the White House has left candidates bruised and bloodied — but also has brought the country on the verge of overcoming racial roadblocks, the co-anchor of "Nightline" said Thursday at Lawrence University.

Terry Moran, the co-anchor of the ABC News show and a 1982 graduate of Lawrence University, said the presidential race has been laden with racial and sexual discrimination.

But while political pundits once asked abstractly whether America was ready for a black president, they're about to push aside racial analysis and begin scrutinizing Democratic candidate Barack Obama as concrete politician, Moran predicts.

"We are witnessing the drama of democratic self-government being played out at very high and very low levels," he said.

So they've been "scrutinizing" Obama as a black guy running for President rather then just a candidate running for President? What exactly does that mean, were they intentionally easy on him because he is black? That's liberalism in a nutshell, isn't it? They admittedly treated the man different because he's a minority while putting the screws to Hillary on a daily basis even though she's breaking new ground.

The media did Obama a huge disservice by not digging and it has hurt him badly. There's more in his closets and McCain will drag it out for the world to see whether or not ABC covers it or not. Well, at least they'll cover Obama's downfall as a candidate and not as a black man.