The slime has not yet begun to fly in anything like the screeching, caterwauling, cafeteria-food-fight dimensions it will attain. The swift-boaters have made a couple of trial runs on the Wright and Ayers business and the observation about blue collar bitterness. All those issues were inflated and hyped to the point of complete falsification.

Obama is going to have to get quick, and bright, in order to stand up and deflect the crap these assholes are throwing and will be throwing more. He has to do it without descending to their level of bestiality and lizard-brained pushbutton hate.

It is a challenege he is basically up to if he can find time to catch his breath.

That remains to be seen. He has a lot of patience with stupidity, it seems, but everyone has their limits.


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