BEN PERSHING: “Barack Obama may have just made the smartest move yet in his (short) stint as president-elect — throwing a lifeline to Joe Lieberman. . . . Of course, it’s not all peaches and cream for Obama. Liberal blogs — AKA the “Netroots” — are not happy about this, and they may not be satisfied with anything short of complete excommunication for the Connecticut Senator. But Obama doesn’t have to run again for four more years, and keeping liberals in the fold probably isn’t his biggest worry right now.”