... A few cynics nicknamed Obama “Hopey,” giving rise to blog items with titles such as “Chutzpah on Race from Mr. Hopey"...

Yes, friends, I, lambert, wrote that post. And Wolcott's careless handling -- surely unintended -- bruised my tender and delicate sensibilities in several ways:

1. I'm not a cynic, though Obama calls me one; I'm a realist.

2. Worse, and there's actually some importance to this, Wolcott ignores the work that the post is doing. The subject of the post is Obama's deliberate smearing of the Clintons as racist. Je repete: