How the press was dealing with waiting to have Obama replace Bush back in 2008

They weren't dealing with it very well at all.  In fact, they wanted their savior sworn in right damn now!! This makes nauseating reading now that we know how the Lightbringer performed in office for eight long years, and how much bed wetting they are all experiencing now that Trump is on the way. “We can’t afford to waste an hour, much less a day or a week or a month. And this business of being a lame duck President and saying, you know, ‘Adios. I’m going to the ranch. I’m just not going to do very much during this period.’ We can’t afford it....We’re in possibly, possibly the biggest crisis we’ve been in since December 7, 1941, and maybe since the time of the Civil War. So, we can’t afford to have this interregnum.” — Ex-CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, December 5. “If I had my druthers right now, we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day....Just get me a Supreme Court justice and a Bible, and let’s swear in Barack Obama right now — by choice — with the same haste we did — by necessity — with L.B.J. in the back of Air Force One. “ — New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Nov. 23. “Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously....Just to be on the safe side, the Vice President ought to turn in his resignation first. (We’re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become President until Jan. 20. Obviously, she’d defer to her party’s incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama could begin governing.” — New York Times columnist Gail Collins in her November 22 column, “Time for Him to Go.” Host Gwen Ifill: “Maybe what people are beginning to say is that this President-elect should be President now? ...” New York Times reporter Peter Baker: “That’s right, exactly. People voted for change and [there’s] this strange, odd 77-day waiting period that we impose, in effect, between our election and our inauguration.” — PBS’s Washington Week, December 5.