Pom poms for Chris Chilliza

One enthusiastic member of Obama's booster squad is Chris Cillizza, political reporter from the Washington Post. On Tuesday PowerLine provided this analysis of Chillizas pom pom skills:

The day after Barack Obama said that the troop surge in Iraq has worked but that he was right to oppose it because “we had to change the political debate,” Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post proclaims that Obama has, by virtue of his trip to the Middle East, demonstrated his “gravitas.” Obama did so, according to Cillizza, at a press conference in Jordan, which Cillizza chooses to designate “perhaps the major moment of the trip.”

But one man’s mush can be a fawning MSM member’s indicia of gravitas, so let’s examine the statements that Cillizza claims are so impressive. Here’s one:

Regardless of who becomes next president we are going to have to strip away ideology, strip away the politics.

Gee, I never heard that from Obama before.

Here’s another:

The next president is going to have to make a series of very difficult judgments.

Heavy.

Read the whole thing here.