There’s no doubt that Barak Obama is a media darling, but Howard Kurtz points out that he should enjoy it while it lasts:
Let’s face it: The minute Obama gets into the race–a prospect that Newsweek now puts at 80 percent–the gloves come off, the investigative reporters start crawling over every piece of paper he ever signed, and he begins the long descent toward ordinary mortal. Because right now, the freshman senator is up in the media stratosphere, far beyond the slings and arrows of news organizations and potential opponents. Almost no one, for example, is asking whether a guy who has been in the Senate for all of two years is a plausible commander-in-chief.
Trust me, that will change.
How Obama handles himself when it does will tell us alot about whether his rising star will turn into a falling comet.
