Cultural Literacy Note: Buffenbarger on Obama

At Slate, Mimi Sheraton puzzles over Hillary's taste in food, but for raw meat, yesterday Hillary turned to the Buffenbarger--Tom of that Ilk, an Ohio union president who seems to enjoy his duties as an attack dog. Per MSNBC (link), Buffenbarger:

called Obama a “thespian,” and ... sarcastically referred to the junior senator from Illinois as a “wunderkind.”

Those unschooled in political history should be informed that he's recycling one of the oldest of campaign jokes: "in his youth my opponent was a thespian down at the university, where the boys and girls matriculate together.

No idea what they'll make of "wunderkind." Maybe they can repackage it as a lunch special.