For one of the first times in several decades, one arm of the elite media actually did its job…asking the tough questions of the two contenders for the Democrat nomination for President of the United States.  ABC’s Gibson and Stephanopoulos began their questioning exactly where it should have started.  Everyone knows that questions concerning the “big” issues like Iraq and the economy bring about memorized responses, prepared by high paid writers and strategists.  ABC’s commentators actually went against tradition and asked questions that made both Obama and Clinton a bit uncomfortable.  THAT IS A GOOD THING! 

Obama has yet to come up with a logical and honest response to serious questions about his friends, his character, and his patriotism.  Questions about his relationship with Jeremiah Wright and about his apparent contempt for rural Americans were asked that attempted to get answers about these things.  Clinton has yet to really respond seriously to her lie about being under fire in Bosnia.  Again, questions were raised that tried to get an honest response.  Of course, both candidates continued to dodge and weave.  But the right questions were asked.

So what is the response?  Surprised that their own personal media service didn’t follow the “script”, the leftists were on attack within just minutes of the end of the debate.  Will Bunch, Tom Shales, and Greg Mitchell were aghast!  MoveOn.org threatened to put another ad on television if 100,000 people signed their petition.  How dare they ask those questions “that no one cares about” when the big issues were not brought up for 45 minutes?  How dare the liberal, elite media actually do its job and hold leftists’ feet to the fire like they have done to conservatives for decades?  THAT is just not fair!

Yeah, right!

What is really scaring the Democrats was “diagnosed” by Hugh Hewitt tonight on his radio show.  Risking my tendency to paraphrase and, in this case, to blatantly add my own opinion and words, this is the issue.  At the very beginning of this campaign, the Democrats were enthralled by the new messiah.  They were mesmerized by his oratorical skills, by the fact that he is a representative of a minority, by the fact that he was raised by a single mother, by the fact that he was a fresh face and basically unknown to the nation.  But then, as luck would have it, they soon began to see the flaws.  Not little scars…big, huge flaws.  So, like all good liberals, they decided to ignore the facts and generate their own reality.  It is all about feelings and in their feelings he IS the ONE…the savior…the one who can bring liberals back into power.  AND NOTHING WILL GET IN THE WAY OF THAT.  NOTHING!

So MoveOn.org will do its thing, the strategists and writers will do their thing, the elite media will revert to their usual ways, and the people will decide, eventually, who will be President. 

The only thing that could get in the way and ruin the script is Barack Hussein Obama.