Sometimes a guy just can't win.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Barack Obama - Brief article

One of the most common criticisms of Obama is that he lacks passion. But when he made a speech in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 8--one that anyone who heard it would have to call passionate--the New York Times chose to place its report of the event on page A20. And even that story declined to explain that Obama displayed the precise spirit his critics said he lacked, and that the audience had responded enthusiastically. Instead, the story by...