As always, people's impressions of reality are mainly formed by their instinctive likes and dislikes. I have pointed this out before.

And yet, some people are somewhat objective...

I basically like Obama (as a person). I can't say what he would be like as a president or if he can win. I simply don't know.

I would say that he was given very gentle treatment by the media early in the campaign...probably because he was seen as the "underdog"...and they were way tougher on Hillary, because she was seen as unbeatable.

By about the middle of the campaign Obama started to get some very rough treatment by the media. That was partly because he was beginning NOT to look like the underdog, and partly because they were feeling rather guilty for their prior kindness to him and toughness on Hillary. ;-)

Then he made that great speech after the Wright fiasco, and the media decided that he was pretty cool after all. They got friendly again.

Then awhile after that began another period of rough media treatment for Obama...again, probably because Hillary was now starting to look like the underdog.

Now we're entering the phase where the media are getting a little sarcastic about Hillary not facing facts and bowing out, but they are also suggesting that Obama needs her help to win the election...

What does all that look like to me? It looks like a bunch of game-playing designed to pull public opinion first one way, then the other, like a soap opera.

And I think it's silly, frankly.

People should be elected on their policies, intelligence, and character, not on a bunch of hysterical innuendo about race issues and what their preacher said on some occasion when he was in a bad mood and went on a tirade.