Thou shalt not break Obamawin's Law:

No lessons shall be learned (or even considered) from the mistreatment Hillary Clinton received and/or the uncritical treatment Barack Obama received during the 2008 primaries.

The only acceptable reason to revisit this year's Democratic primaries is for something constructive, like shaming Hillary for not taking evil advice that wasn't offered to her by her campaign director.

Under no circumstances should you look back to recent months to evaluate Obama's electability and the implications of his campaign and platform, the DNC's electoral process, or the behavior of the media, the blogosphere, and Obama's real-world supporters. It's ancient history, it doesn't matter, and a baby pony dies every time you bring it up.

Even people who want to broach such topics are becoming increasingly apologetic, because they know it's consummately gauche to relive such long- and best-forgotten matters that obviously could have no relevance to today's and tomorrow's political situations.

For example, as Lambert notes, Bob Somerby feels compelled to say "not once, but twice, that he’s not refighting the Clinton/Obama primary, because that’s how looking at the actual record of events is consistently framed."

Glenn Greenwald reacts to concerns about Rachel Maddow's role in msnbc's relentless surreality-based trashing of Hillary Clinton thusly:

Amazing that there are still so many people who see the entire world through -- every last square inch of it -- exclusively through the prism of their specific preference in the Obama v. Hillary wars (Hard-core Obama fanatics now think that Chris Matthews and other Hilary-haters are exemplars of great journalism and hard-core Hillary fanatics think that Fox is Fair and Balanced).

While he did agree with me that RFK-gate (in which Maddow was an active participant) was bogus, he took the tack that my real agenda was to get air-time for (what he presumably presumed were) my partisans. And Glenn is among the least reflexively Pro-bama bloggers in the leftysphere.

Go ahead, I dare you: on almost any lefty blog, try to bring up any lesson that might have been derived from Obamamania and Hillary Hate. If you do, I hope you have a taste for STFU, because a big cup is a-comin'!

UPDATE (12/1/08): As the days dwindle down until Bush is flash-frozen and fired into space inside a Big Boy statue, today's most-popular STFU response to would-be Obama skeptics is: "he hasn't done anything yet." With that in mind, by unanimous consent (or else), Obamawin's Law is hereby extended to put off-limits any and all concerns about Obama based on his actions or statements prior to his bodily ascent to the White House. You have been warned.