I've seriously never heard of John King.

But he's kind of an idiot, isn't he?

--Anonymous

I'd never heard of him either. And, having not been caught up with Glenn's recent posts, this was my first introduction to him. That's unfortunate for Mr. King. All I know if him is that he's a petulant whiner with a fragile but massive ego. He clearly believes that he should not be criticized ever, for any reason, despite the fact that he gets paid (and well, I'm sure) to put himself in the public eye. What a hack.

And, to those who think Glenn should have looked to see if there were any hard hitting questions on the cutting room floor: would you suggest that regular viewers do the same research for every interview ever aired on TV? That's the beef here - that softball questions lead to an uninformed populace. The crux is, are the viewers being exposed to the adequate information? Here, they were not. Had all of King's questions been serious, we wouldn't have this editing issue.

Plus, I don't believe King. The inaccurate way he described the questions that were aired/published tells me that he's not describing the unaired/unpublished questions (to the extent there were any) accurately.

I'm interested in the comment above regarding groups of people on the "left" who hate Obama.

First of all, you can refuse to support a candidate without hating him/her. Secondly, if you describe yourself as being on "the left" are you, then, forever prohibited from failing to support a Democrat? (I'm not even registered Democrat. Can one be a "leftist" and not a Democrat? One wonders.) What if that Democrat is spewing religious rhetoric on the campaign trail antithetical to your beliefs?

I guess my failure to support Obama and my dismay at this tactic makes me a failed leftist, since Obama is a Democrat. Or something. Tell me, what does a non-religious leftist do when the Democrats are spewing religious rhetoric directly antithetical to her beliefs - vote for one of them anyway so as not to bring down the wrath of their supporters?

I have never supported Obama, because I haven't been able to really figure out what he stands for except for rainbows, puppies, lollipops and butterflies. Seriously. I hear he's all about "change" and "hope," but those are nebulous concepts. I have no idea what kind of President he would be or how his platform would play out. (I hear from "insiders" and "experts" that his way is the way a successful campaign is run. Facts are boring to voters, apparently.)

And, this brochure he's putting out makes me physically ill. I feel VERY strongly about the separation of church and state, and I don't understand how I'm supposed to read this brochure and take away from it, "Yeah, but won't inject his faith into his policies on a regular basis." How can I believe anything else? Or am I just supposed to accept that all presidents are going to do just that because, as one commenter said, "they've all been Christians" (which is, of course, not strictly true, anyway).

I cannot understand the kneejerk comments made here about Glenn being anti-Obama. They're absurd. But, what they demonstrate is one thing: Glenn called it. There's an absolute double standard. When Obama does it, it's different and there are a million rationales for why.

I don't find it different at all, and I'm going to have a hard time pulling that lever for Obama if he's the eventual Democratic nominee. I guess his camp made a business decision that it's better to alienate people like me (or Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc.) in order to pander to the Christian element of the populace.

Of course, all that being said, I DON'T HATE HIM. But, I'm sure someone will come along and claim that my post is full of hatred. Because that's how party loyalists roll.

I frequent another message board which requires that posters read through a certain number of pages before posting to make sure that the point they want to make hasn't already been made.

It looks like this comment section could use a dose of that. How many times has the "but they called him a Muslim!" justification been raised?

Okay, we get it that that's the standard response, but, at least for this failed leftist/Obama hater [/sarcasm], the why is irrelevant.

Clintonistas and Obamianiacs are just as awful as their right wing counterparts.

-- Alan Bennett

Amen! (Pun intended.)

Is that we have a political atmosphere in which presidential candidates are campaigning on being a particular religion.

-- Hume's Ghost

Absolutely.

But, I expected that from the Republicans. Not so much Obama; at least not to this extreme. That might be why I find his brochure so disconcerting. The defense of it is even more so.

Get over it.

-- markg8

Never mind that Glenn has said over and over again that he doesn't think there's anything wrong with Obama's brochure.

He's only speaking to the consistency of the public/media's criticism of Huckabee's ad versus Obama's brochure. It's a really narrow point.

There's nothing to "get over."