The flibbertygibbets and the Lower 40 Percentile types will continue to spew; Obama has the grace to tolerate a lot of noise, out of respect, while staying clearly focused on the real signals and doing well and sifting out the important ones.

The big danger is our sturdy homebred rednecked superpatriots who are yearning to dramatize the American Revolution or the Civil War and think they have the firepower to make the world better by resorting to mindless violence.