Considering the kind of retards who are likely to read the WSJ and take it at face value, I think it's more likely that the WSJ is being paid to say what they already think, rather than trying to shape their opinions.

It's an interesting insight into Bubble World and the mindset of the perpetually shrinking twenty-x-percent.

This is as clear an admission as you'll find that the US values fantasy - especially warrrr porn fantasy - over reality.

It's only in comic books and Dan Brown novels that the president is all knowing and wise and must be supported at all costs, lest the Other get in.

Oh - and the WSJ, apparently.