Bob McCarty Writes

President-elect Barack Obama

Albeit late and in a far-too-abbreviated manner, at least one member of the mainstream news media has finally admitted that he and his brethren in the Fourth Estate failed to properly vet President-elect Barack Obama when he was a mere candidate for the highest office in the land.

In an otherwise left-leaning commentary published Thanksgiving Day, CNN’s Jonathan Mann opined that the way some Americans talk, they’re getting five presidents in one before going on to list John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton and — of course — Obama.

At the end of his 339-word piece, however, he concluded that Americans who are comparing (Obama) to those remarkable predecessors are putting a lot of faith in a man they barely know.  I repeat:   Americans who are comparing (Obama) to those remarkable predecessors are putting a lot of faith into a man they barely know.