And when we got to our new house, I remember unpacking with the black-and-white TV on, as I watched RFK's funeral train make its grainy, slow way up the Northeast Corridor to New York.

A line had been crossed: MLK's assassination, RFK's assassination, the war, the Democratic Convention in Chicago, all the lying, and of course, my own childish loss of friends and home... A line had been crossed. Nothing was solid; everything was permitted. And once you're over the line, there's no way to get back.

Like now.

Like now, I feel, as do, I suspect, others. The way the Obama campaign, (many of) Obama's supporters, the OFB, and our famously free press smeared Hillary on her Argus interview crossed the line.

Now we know where we are.

We live in a political system where Obama's faction of the party -- the Democratic Party -- enthusiastically endorses the vile and baseless accusation that Hillary Clinton wishes, indeed has called for, Obama's death; that she wishes for Obama to be assassinated, just like RFK was, in June 1968. Never mind that this same faction also believes that every word of Hillary's is calculated, and that only an idiot -- and whatever else these lunatics believe about Hillary, they don't believe she's that -- would announce, in advance, that she'd prefer for a political opponent to be shot. And never mind that this same faction is also trying to buy off this supposed would-be murderer with offers of any other office than President -- like Senate Majority Leader, or a position on the Supreme Court. That's doublethink, the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one's mind at the same time, which is becoming an increasingly prominent feature of the political landscape on the side that I thought I was on.

Never mind all that. The key point is this: Hillary did not say what her enemies claim she said. She simply did not say it. The accusation is not true. The people who propagate it are lying liars. In fact, they are propagating a Big Lie, just like the Republicans we thought we were the only "real enemy." Remember this classic from Ron Suskind? Years ago, it seems:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

So, read the Howler how the Obama campaign and the press propagated this latest Big Lie. It's instructive and very familiar: