You see Barack Obama's touch everywhere — in the new generation of voters he's moved to register to vote and support his candidacy, in the smiling faces of elderly blacks, in the starry-eyed gazes of political pundits, and in the message boards on white supremacist sites. Wait, what?

Barack Obama's candidacy has supposedly inspired a flurry of white supremacist internet activity, with hopping-mad/shaking-in-their-boots racists heading to the net to express their frustration and abject fear and attempt to empower themselves, even though they represent a marginal fringe group that even normal, assimilated racists find distasteful. But really, if they're this scared now, wait until after election day. [JJP via BAW]