K-Lo, I take this startling revelation (startling, as the Journal points out, because it came in the NYTimes), in conjunction with a few other instances of suddenly responsible journalism (e.g., the Times’s coverage of the fact that Sarah Palin was cleared of wrongdoing (which Jonah noted), CNN’s Campbell Brown’s indignant fit over Obama’s broken promise to campaign within the public-financing limits), as a sure sign that the Obamedia have decided it’s “Mission Accomplished,” the election’s in the bag. Thus, they now need to tend to the important if contradictory business of repairing their badly tarnished reputation and getting Obama re-elected.

I hope they’re wrong, but of course they may not be.

It is a sad but true commentary on today’s Democratic Party that Democrats were never going to get serious about the war unless they were responsible and accountable for it. The first nauseating step in that transformation has to be that the MSM discovers, years after the fact, that Islamic militants really do want to kill us.

If Obama wins, we’ll of course be bombarded with the familiar blather about “root causes” and how we have to figure out what terrible things we’ve done to make them hate us so much. But beneath all that noise, I’d expect, shall we say, a more understanding attitude about surveillance, detention without trial, rendition, targeted assassinations, etc. (just as Dems and the media displayed during the Clinton era).

If we can get beyond the hypocrisy, as well as the fact that the Democrats’ obeisance to the hard Left would necessarily make their control of counterterrorism approach half-hearted and insufficient, it would be an improvement. But it’s worth observing – since there has been so much debating over patriotism for the last eight years — that it would be an improvement because conservatives and Republicans, no matter how much we oppose his policies, would stand with a President Obama if he took responsible measures necessary to protect the nation from our enemies.