I caught the last part of a report on BBC Radio 4 tonight that "explored" the reasons why Obama isn't getting the love they think he deserves.

Apparently there have been some deomonstrations and anger at Mr Obama.

How can this be? What is there about Mr Change not to like?

There was no mention of his continuation of Bush policy with regard to;

the prisoners still held in Cuba,

the war still going on in Afghanistan,

the continuing occupation of Iraq,

the bailing out of failing businesses,

the unimaginable amount of debt,

the increasing unemployment,

his plans to increase the state's involvement in healthcare,

etc.

No the last line of the report went something like this. In a country where race relations have been bad from the civil war to the civil rights movement it is unreasonable to believe race hatred would have gone away.

In other words don't listen (and we won't report anyway) to those on "the right" as they are just racist bigots.

Our own MPs haven't been getting much respect lately either.

The BBC needs to work a lot harder. Respect and trust of the "right honourables" just isn't what it used to be.