Which brings me to Ben Smith's Politico piece this morning. Ben's an able, affable fellow and writes good copy, but he's Obama's guy through and through, one of the most aggressive partisans at Politico. He's not as blatant as Jonathan Allen, the Politico "reporter" who did his time as an employee of the political action committee for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, now the hyper-lefty chair of the DNC, but Smith does his best to be the Avis of the left to Allen's Hertz within Politico.