On my list of things that I wish Barack Obama would do (or not do), this is about at the bottom. Would I have liked for our fourth estate to looked at Obama with a more skeptical eye, and demand the same kinds of things from Obama as they did from Bush/Kerry or Bush/Gore? Sure. But, that’s over. I’m looking forward, not backward.
With respect to why he doesn’t, that’s simple. It drives his most ravenous critics mad, while painting them as out of the mainstream. For him, it’s a winner, anyway you cut it. I suspect this is another reason Mark Levin, a very bright man, doesn’t go near it. Obama loves it.