In Commentary’s Contentions blog, Jennifer Rubin notes how press was aware of Obama’s leadership deficiencies during campaign, yet downplayed them: “The press went to the mat for Obama, yet now we learn that even during the campaign, there were signals that he lacked some important presidential qualities…This is as much an indictment of Obama as of the sycophantic press that raised nary a critical word during the campaign and instead spent its investigative energies and venom on Sarah Palin…”