Wow! What a Momentum Shifting Day!

[DrFunkenstein]

I must say that I was a bit nervous about the fallout of South Carolina. I thought maybe the Clintons could pull off one of the nastiest political tactics since McCain's illegitimate black baby. You'd probably have to go back to Johnson's "Daisy Nuke" ad to find something so bad on the Dem side.

Add to that the momentum clinton got from New Hampshire from the faulty polling - what should have been a story about her crumbling firewall somehow became a come from behind win.

I got anxious because the media floated several stories about the racial mix of the South Carolina win. But the media narrative has already moved beyond that and the shorthand has become the hellacious ass-handing it now represents. I've read several articles today with "landslide" and "trounced" featured prominently.

With Clinton campaigning in Florida under the radar, I was worried that her win would give her some spark. But the media has already begun priming the story as another in the long list of underhanded tactics by the Clintons, who are beginning to see their dirty campaigning techniques stick like toilet paper on a shoe.

Finally, I also feared that Obama got off message by taking the Clinton bait and starting a tit-for-tat dustup. I didn't know where he was going to regain his momentum before Super Tuesday.

Well, you couldn't ask more than a luminous endorsement by Ted and Caroline Kennedy. I wasn't sure how much it was going to mean until I heard Teddy speak. He rips apart the Clintons for their tactics and really gives a Kennedy glow to Obama (who already shined).

Toni Morrison's same-day endorsement only adds to that. She also subtly tears at the Clinton campaign's legacy and gives a ringing, poetic tome that comes off like Oprah with some intellectual heft.

The thought that Kennedy sounds fired up and will be campaigning vigorously for Obama in some of the trickier communities replaces my earlier jitters with a real sense of excitement.