“Bluntly declaring that the “day of reckoning has arrived” after years of financial irresponsibility, President Barack Obama told Americans on Tuesday night that “we will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.”

Comment:

Hmm……some of that reckoning talk sounds suspiciously like the language that Nina Totenberg as well as some NY Times writers were using a while back….shortly after NPR cited “Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets”…..shortly after we sent them the book……..

(Coauthor of said opus is the principle writer and creator of the Daily Reckoning....a newsletter very familiar to Beltway and non Beltway critics of empire as well as libertarians of all stripes, left and right….)

Meanwhile, here’s another headline that caught my eye for a different reason:

“Can Obama Save the Planet?” asks Robert Roy Britt at MSN.

Quite a mandate.  Not only is the president going to “fix the economy” (as though the economy were some wretched stray in need of neutering), heal racial tensions, win the “war on terror,” – now he’s going to save the planet too. Last time I looked a certain rabbi had that job…

Erk.  How do journalists come up with this stuff?