Obama Hero Worship item of the day

At the WaPo, Anne Kornblut slobbers all over the story:

"It was a moment neither the senator from Illinois nor his advisers had anticipated, but one for which they were uniquely prepared. In the days that followed, the newly chastised Obama team became more aggressive, with a message they had refined over the summer. The candidate himself, criticized as too cool, too cerebral and too detached, suddenly had the opportunity to show those qualities to be reassuring and presidential."

Gag me with a spoon......

Power Lines's Paul Mirengoff comments:

"Though I don't subscribe to it, one can make a case that the fact of the financial meltdown in September cost John McCain the presidential election. But Anne Kornblut, still in high Obama worship mode even after the election, wants to claim that it was Obama's 'measured response' to the crisis that 'sealed the election.'

She contrasts Obama, 'so steady in public,' with McCain who acted 'erratically,' particularly when he suspended his campaign. Kornblut provides no evidence for her claim that Obama's allegedly superior response to the financial crisis sealed his victory, and the claim cannot withstand scrutiny.

McCain's announcement that he was going to suspend his campaign and return to Washington came on a day when a Washington Post poll showed him trailing Obama by 9 percentage points. Indeed, that evening some of my liberal friends insisted that McCain's decision was a desperate response to bad polling news. Whatever the validity of that suggestion, it is clear that Obama's gain and McCain's slide pre-dated the 'erratic' behavior that Kornblut and others blame for his demise.

Even in the absence of the polling data, it would be implausible to claim that Obama's approach to the meltdown, which consisted essentially of 'watchful waiting,' was particularly impressive or inherently superior to McCain's. The meltdown simply enraged many voters, causing them to lash out against the candidate more closely associated with the status quo which, in this election, was always going to be McCain."

Indeed.

More than any of the nonsense propagated by the Tank Media, the Nutroots, and the candidate himself, the indisputable major reason for the Obama victory was the economic downturn.

This occurrence is the proximate reason for the prolonged doom and gloom economic picture painted by Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" pundits and their tag team Tank Media allies for the last 15 months.