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And here is your sad example.

Women seeking: A man like Barack Obama
Have you found your Barack? President is new code for Prince Charming

NEW YORK – Monica Weeks has met many men, but at age 51 she says she still hasn’t found her “Barack.”

Among Weeks and her friends, President Barack Obama’s name has become shorthand for a black man with integrity, character and spirituality, one who loves and values his wife and makes his family a priority — in other words, the kind of man that many black women had despaired of finding.

Weeks said probably every single woman she knows is looking for her “Barack.”

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The story is the same elsewhere among black women, who say the new code word for Prince Charming has become so commonplace that they have been asked “Have you found your Barack?” or told others “I’m looking for my Barack.”

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“There’s no denying the love between them, and it made me feel like ‘Wow, there’s still hope for me,’” said Breeden, an administrative assistant and online radio talk show host in New York. “There is still someone who is going look at me and see my value.” (more–if you can stomach it)

Anybody who thinks like this truly is a full time resident on Fantasy Island (tell Tattoo I said “wassup?” for me).

Robert Samuelson for Real Clear Politics recently did a piece on the favorable coverage Obama has been getting in the media.

Obama has inspired a collective fawning. What started in the campaign (the chief victim was Hillary Clinton, not John McCain) has continued, as a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism shows. It concludes: “President Barack Obama has enjoyed substantially more positive media coverage than either Bill Clinton or George W. Bush during their first months in the White House.”

The study examined 1,261 stores by The Washington Post, The New York Times, ABC, CBS and NBC, Newsweek magazine and the “NewsHour” on PBS. Favorable stories (42 percent) were double the unfavorable (20 percent) , while the rest were “neutral” or “mixed.” Obama’s treatment contrasts sharply with coverage in the first two months of the presidencies of Bush (22 percent of stories favorable) and Clinton (27 percent).

Unlike Bush and Clinton, Obama received favorable coverage in both news columns and opinion pages. The nature of stories also changed. “Roughly twice as much of the coverage of Obama (44 percent) has concerned his personal and leadership qualities than was the case for Bush (22 percent) or Clinton (26 percent),” the report said. “Less of the coverage, meanwhile, has focused on his policy agenda.’”

Make no mistake about it, the media created Obama. They took a man that would have been dissed by many women for not being tough enough and made him out to be the sex god in-chief. In the dating meat market, he would have been clowned as a broke nerd and in other circles would have been dissed for pretending to be 100% Black. Now that he is the President, according to this article single Black women everywhere have found a new standard that Black men should follow. In the meantime, Michelle was with Barack when most of these chicks would not have given him the time of day. Let’s tell the truth. If another Black man had become President, women would be telling Barack that he should be more like him.

The media fills us with nothing but positive snapshots of the man’s life and apparently that’s good enough for some to determine that he is the ideal husband.

Here’s a simple test: Ask the women in this AP piece to list 10 things 5 things they do not like about Obama. If they can’t complete that list, then there is no wonder why they have not found anybody to meet their fantasy standard.