Cheri Jacobus

Holding my nose, I engaged in RNC bean counting. It isn’t pretty.

The reaction to the naming of Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to the U.S. Senate compared to Barack Obama entering the Senate and subsequent appointment of Roland Burris to the body four years ago is an interesting and revealing study in contrasts — and hypocrisy.
When the Democrats have a black man in the Senate, they make him president in about 10 minutes, the left calls him “savior,” bestows the Nobel Peace Prize on him, names him Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” and shrilly tags those who disagree with him as “racists” and other ugly invectives.

The cavalcade of post-election autopsy analysis as the GOP and detractors attempt to make sense of it all has been interesting and instructive.

It’s hardly a new meme that the mainstream media are comfortably snuggled in the pocket of President Obama.

There are few things more uncomfortable to witness than a fading rock star in the process of slipping down the ladder he seemed to scale so adeptly and nimbly what seems like not so long ago. 

While many Democrats are stammering around looking for an excuse — any excuse at all — for their embarrassing defeat as Wisconsin roundly rejected their recall efforts of Republican Gov. Scott Walker, the Obama White House is breathing a sigh of relief.

In the run-up to Election Day 2008, much was made of candidate Barack Obama’s astonishing lack of foreign-policy experience (or useful experience at all, save for campaigning for office) — and appropriately so.

Harry Reid’s Democratic majority Senate dodges, punts, hides and fails on a budget. Fear? Wimpiness? Deer caught in the headlights?

The West Virginia Democrats who voted for an imprisoned felon instead of President Obama are accused of being racists by at least one national Democrat, according to ABC News, which declined to name the high-profile Dem.

In 2008, the media largely put their fingers in their ears, closed their eyes and covered their mouths, choosing to ignore warning signs that perhaps the untested, unknown, inexperienced senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, was not quite ready for prime time, and not quite right for America — at least, not as the occupant of the White House. They played deaf, dumb and blind, but some might now have a regret or two, opting to put a toe in the water and experience what objective journalism feels like.