[Cowperson]

In the run-up to this year's presidential debates, some in the media are once again playing the "expectations game" in favor of President George W. Bush against his Democratic opponent -- the same thing that happened four years ago. In the lead-up to the 2000 presidential debates, the press downplayed expectations for then-Governor Bush, enabling the Bush-Cheney '00 campaign to easily create the perception that Bush "won" and then-Vice President Al Gore "lost."

The amusing thing here is that every network - and even our own friend CommodoreAfro - is saying in the last week that GW Bush is a vastly underrated debater.

Therefore the bar has been set impossibly high for Bush, the challenge far graver, the direct opposite of 2000.

Which kind of defeats the premise of that entire article Afro posted about media bias.

Cowperson