Well, so far we've had two smear campaigns against the Clinton this week, both extremely unconnected to the aboveground* Obama campaign and yet, almost incredibly, breaking just before another major primary: Smear #1, WVMV (for NC); and smear #2, the doctored "War Room" clip (for IN). Gee, it's great to see a new kind of politics in action, isn't it?

Interestingly, the modus operandi was the same for both campaigns: Smear Hillary by smearing her associates**, then get the false claims "in the air" by propagating them on the A list. Both operations were also designed to delegitimize a (potential) Hillary win, through charges of voter suppression in NC (a tactic used by the OFB, though quickly forgotten, after Obama losses in NH and NV), and through baseless charges of racism and hatred (a tactic used by the OFB in all times and all places for any or no reason).

So, I'm guessing that smear #3 is already on the launching pad, and liftoff will be achieved just in time to ruin everybody's Sunday (Hillary's Town Hall, and Barack "No Mas" Obama's MTP appearance. Barack, of course, will be given the opportunity to invoke plausible deniability and express regret at the tone of the campaign; Hillary, of course, will be grilled on every detail by outraged persons of conscience and our tribunes of the people in the blogosphere.)

Readers, what do you think smear #3 will be?