I also wonder whether, at this point, even if everything went better than Obama's/Kerry's best hopes, if the media would even get excited about it or give them a lot of credit.
I suspect that happened and everything calmed down and the middleeast really did become less a powder keg, they would just switch to whatever the new story of the week is. I am not saying that stories that become the story for weeks are not important. I am saying there is a bit of what captures the imagination of at least one media outlet.
Sometimes this leads to an underlying real important story - like racism in regards to Ferguson, but you can always find other similar events that never became more than a small town local story. Not to mention, the story now is the elections and after them will be the Presidential election. In a way, this might be for the good as Obama/Kerry will be able to do the hard work in leading the world on this.
I honestly saw almost no coverage of the UN hearing. I thank you for alerting me to it being on CSPAN. However, even in this Democratic/politically oriented/concerned about possible war DU population, there was no one commenting and no threads but yours. This morning, a DU poster wrote that unlike Turkey, we changed our position because of the hostages - going on to say that is why Obama authorized air strikes, committed aid and personnel. When I commented, they just repeated what they said - ignoring the timeline.
I suspect that for both Obama and especially Kerry, they are more motivated by trying to make the world better. (In fairness, Obama HAS to care about popularity as it could hurt some borderline elections if he is seen as very negative.) I was impressed that many ministers said more than just politeness and custom would require.
As to the Republicans going for sound bites - their biggest problem is that Kerry did not give them anything in response to their nastiness that they could use against him.
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