for some reason gayle king appears as a political panelist on "morning joe." as far as i can see, she has no purpose except that there's not enough oprah to go around, so they send oprah's personal assistant to give you oprah's take. i don't want oprah's take on anything. but if i did, i'd want to hear it from oprah. the next stage would be that gayle king becomes inaccessible, and we have to interview gayle king's hairstylist because that's as close as we can get to oprah.
at any rate, her absolute devotion to obama is lovely in its scary stupidity. so she's still saying "i want a president who takes the time to make the right decision," and she'd be saying the same if it took years to get to a policy on afghanistan. (i might just remark that if it takes you months, while people are dying etc, to come up with "split the difference," you are a worldclass ditherer.) anyway, then king comes up with this, just like she was born yesterday: "they're privy to information i don't have, so i trust them to make the decision." i guess the left was never suspicious of unilateral power at all: really all they want is someone who's vaguely in their camp making all the decisions for them secretly.