So now you just be quiet, you big meanie. He WON. That means the rest of you just need to shut up and leave him alone.

Our friends are just not paying attention. In this part of Wisconsin, we’re still relatively well employed…the pain hasn’t been felt….other than the paper money of our 401ks which have another 20 or 30 years for us to return (myself, I’m beginning to hope even that’s long enough with each new bill that comes out of congress).

Frankly, they just are not paying attention. The best I’ve come up with is to plant seeds of knowledge…so that as the house of cards falls that is the current Congress+Administration…they will hopefully understand it’s BHO’s mess.

And the trend for Slobama is *straight down* right now.

There’s a reason that I chose June or July as the benchmark for Obama’s approval ratings - it will probably take that long (possibly longer) for the idiocies of this Administration and Congress to seep into the thick skulls of the generally uninformed ‘mushy middle’ and the self-proclaimed ‘moderate’ and ‘conservative’ Democrats out there.

So let’s see what his numbers look like in 3-6 months…

Lincoln may have split rails at one time but he was quite good at splitting hairs as the attorney for several major railroads at a time when Chicago was emerging as America’s railroad hub to the West. My heritage militates against “holding much for Mr. Lincoln” but he was tested both in the rough and tumble world of 19th Century law on behalf of powerful but controversial clients and a long series or REAL debates with Douglas. That is infinitely more testing and seasoning than The One has had. And even with that, he made more than his share of mistakes.

A marshmellow like the Big O and his gang of circus clowns and tax evaders aren’t up to it, and the Big O isn’t up to or interested in asserting leadership or his limited attention to the problems that actually threaten America and the world.

The selection process is ok,the media and too many citizens are or have gone down hill in a civic and intellectual/moral sense.

We got very, very lucky as a nation with Lincoln. Obama needs to be Lincoln to succeed, and he’s just not.

I guess the point is that NO ONE is fully prepared for the task of presidency, not even George W. Bush. The real test is how a newly elected president is able to manage his time and be able to stand up on toes making tough, decisive decisions on all domestic and foreign policy issues. The presidential selection process is fine, it’s just that it happens a slight majority of Americans disagree with you and elected Obama, for good or ill.

We all like to blame on liberal media for making it as easy as possible for Obama to sail in to Whie House. But on deep inside, I think the real blame belongs to Americans going to booths and electing whom they think is the best candidate for president. At the end of day, it is sole responsibility of every American out there to check out on his or her preferred candidate and make a wise decision on whom to elect.

The liberal media didn’t force Americans to elect Obama. In fact, I am reminded of a verse in the Bible where it says the devil cannot force you to sin, the desire to sin always starts with your inner self. The devil simply entices or lure you to sin in flesh, but forcing you to sin? No way. That’s the same case with liberal media, Americans, and Obama.

Americans hath spoken, and behold, Obama is our new King.

There is an old saying, which I think is applicable here, that Americans always get what they deserve in electing leaders. They elected Obama, and that is what they deserve to have, again, for good or ill.

Other than that, I agree with the basic premise of your article.

NYT is going through some legal and financial process to remain viable. Many newspapers are folding (ok…pun intendied). MSM News organizations are struggling. The market is taking care of it slowly. And blogs like RS are growing in popularity.

I think it’s going to take a lot at this point to earn trust again, if at all, since most of us have found other credible, fact-based outlets for our news.

The system is relatively fine, and I think this is the election that has woke up a lot of people to the bias in the media and other stuff…

1) They reform, and make themselves an important part of the process again, by retaking on their proper role. Or,

2) They continue to behave as they have, are totally discredited, and are effectively removed from the process.

Either way, people will have long memories of this little abject lesson of 2008, and they won’t too soon forget the lessons learned.

The Press is rapidly coming up on a choice - they can actually do their jobs, or they can continue to cover for and fawn over this disastrous mediocrity and will go ‘down with the ship’ with him.

It’s their choice.

But, either way, the process will inevitably improve as a consequence of this ‘bad result’.