Barack Hussein Obama

Josh Marshall describes the Republican primary method of attack.. racist lying.

But that's not the core. The core is to drill a handful of key adjectives into the public mind about Barack Obama: Muslim, anti-American, BLACK, terrorist, Arab. Maybe a little hustler and shifty thrown in, but we'll have to see.

And Juan Cole explains why it's all so much bullshit.

I want to say something about Barack Hussein Obama's name. It is a name to be proud of. It is an American name. It is a blessed name. It is a heroic name, as heroic and American in its own way as the name of General Omar Nelson Bradley or the name of Benjamin Franklin. And denigrating that name is a form of racial and religious bigotry of the most vile and debased sort. It is a prejudice against names deriving from Semitic languages!

Vile and debased? The "family values" crowd, vile and debased?

You bet.

It's going to be so much fun to see Obama crush McCain.