The shape of things to come

The right wing noise machine has been relatively easy on Obama lately, in an apparent enemy-of-my-enemy calculus. But if Obama comes strong out of New Hampshire, these clips from Robert Greenwald (once you get past the O’Reilly recap) are probably just a small foreshadowing of what lies ahead. We can expect to hear a lot more about madrassas over the next few months. (Not to mention a lot of “Osama-I-mean-Obama-snicker-snicker” and, as Atrios has noted, a whole lot of very thinly-vieled racism …)