OBAMARAMA

The best indicator of how frightened the right is of an Obama candidacy is to look at from where the attacks start coming. And with the first real salvo arriving this week from disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom Delay — who called Sen. Obama’s views those of a “Marxist leftist” — it’s clear their knees are knocking.

As well they should be. A Marxist leftist? I understand Delay has been busy censoring comments on his new “blog,” but I’d expect a little better from the man who threatened to steal the lunch money of the United States Supreme Court.

Sen. Obama’s response, of course, was all class: “Former Congressman DeLay’s rhetoric is exactly the sort that the American people rejected so resoundingly in November,” Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement. “They want us to move beyond the name-calling and slash-and-burn politics that have served this country so poorly and deal with the real challenges we face.”