Kneecapping?

Shorter David Brooks: Now watch me pull a rabbit out of my ass.

As the trench warfare stretches on through the spring, the excitement of Obama-mania will seem like a distant, childish mirage. People will wonder if Obama ever believed any of that stuff himself. And even if he goes on to win the nomination, he won’t represent anything new. He’ll just be a one-term senator running for president.

Right. He'll look old and corrupt and all-Democraty against that stalwart man of integrity and maverickiness, John McCain.

Please. Tempers should cool all around, but arguing that Clinton should release her tax returns and wondering aloud about donors to the Clinton Foundation are hardly "attack politics." Of course, if Obama maintains the high road, Brooks will write a column three months from now saying that Obama's "new style politics" will look soft to our "enemies."

And Clinton has got to stop saying shit like this.