C-J disingenuous or too easily impressed

Here's today's "100 days" editorial from the C-J...

It gets off to a good start:

...the most important thing to come out of President Obama's first 100 days — proof-certain that he has the temperament to do the almost impossible job...

I agree with their assessment of Obama and the importance of this attribute. They're so impressed with this point, they revisit it again a few paragraphs later:

President Obama has shown, in broad strokes and smaller details, that he has the temperament for the job of leading...

But then, when they decide to discuss specifics, it gets really weird...

Already he has made significant foreign and domestic policy changes, ranging from closing Guantanamo and outlawing water boarding, and appointing credible, competent people to his cabinet and staff. He has also owned up to mistakes (something his predecessor was unable to do, to disastrous consequences), planted a vegetable garden at the White House and invited gay couples and their children to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.

This far-reaching and inclusive vision, this steady and reasoned self-assurance, and these decisive steps to a different tomorrow are most welcome, indeed.

Huh? Such glorious language for those things-- and no mention of other, much larger, issues?

-The foreign policy changes have been, at best, exceedingly modest-- and a far and disappointing cry from what he promised us in the Democratic primary.

-Making silly mistakes and owning up to them is a very mixed bag.

-Planting gardens and running a broader Easter Egg Roll? Are you kidding?!

Why would the C-J compile this particular list of "accomplishments" with excitement and applause-- while ignoring other things? Disingenuity, ignorance, naivete, or other? Is there a more charitable explanation?