The recent attacks on the media and those against Obama are not just signs of an increasingly desperate McCain campaign.  I believe they are a foreshadowing of things to come when the Obama administration settles in this January.  And he will win, handily.

I clearly remember that Bill Clinton was not in the White House more than a few months before I began to see "Impeach Hillary" bumper stickers.  Note that that was before Hillary even took on the health care issue.  The Year of the Woman turned into the Year of the Angry White Male in 1994.  We had House Speaker Newt Gingrich foaming at the mouth about the evils of Bill.  Jerry Falwell released an insane video that supposedly documented the cocaine ring Clinton was running out of Arkansas while he was President.  We had the OK City bombing.  We had Elias Gonzolas.  Richard Mellon Scaife was up to no good whereever he could find some anti-Clinton to fund.  And, before we knew it, Clinton was being impeached in the House of Representatives.  It was attack, attack, attack against his administration for 8 long years.  There were no limits to the histrionic reactions of right-wing nutters. 

McCain and Palin are now the vanguards in a histrionic and bitter reaction we are sure to see to the first African American in the White House.  The people they now represent are a hostile and sometimes violent bunch.  This makes me fear for the future, even in one as hopeful as Obama lays out.  I pray that the voices of the 60% or so who support Obama will speak louder, metaphorically and literally, in the next decade than those 30% of dead-enders who would continue to support Bush even if it were found that he ate babies for breakfast.