You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to assume that the right-wing will not go quietly into that political good night.
Obama is the right-wing's worst nightmare. Everyone from the KKK to The Boys From Leo Strauss knows what he represents. They also know that he is no Mondale, Dukakis or Kerry. If you punch he punches back hard. He has a left hook that KO'd the Clinton machine. This is not your father's Democrat.
That's all well and good, but don't expect the right wing attack machine to roll over. The question it's asking itself is, I'm sure, whether the brass knuckles will be enough. The s#%t is already out there in the form of a spurious rumor of a mystery tape of our presumptive First Lady uttering racist things. And the whore-media is already taking the bait. This is an ominous and odious beginning to the campaign.
If you were a cornerman for Obama, what kind of s#%t would you be telling him to look out for, and how should he counterpunch?