If reporters treated President Obama the way they treated President Bush, some reporter would ask the current president whether he would allow CIA interrogators to deprive suspected terrorists of food, water, and medical care, and whether forcing a suspected terrorist to live the remainder of his life in a trash dumpster constitutes torture.

The reporter’s follow-up would be a request that President Obama explain his vote against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

. . . and the questions would be posed as the president was leaving the stage at Notre Dame’s commencement ceremony.