All day, I’ve been furious at the whole “Clinton Supporters Hate Barack Obama” storyline. My rage boiled over when the despicable founder of “Clintons 4 McCain” propagated disgusting, racist lies live on Chris Matthews.

But I’ve come to peace with the whole thing tonight. In fact, now I think it might be a huge stroke of genius.

Four days from now, we’ll have heard awesome pro-Obama speeches from Bill and Hillary Clinton. We’ll have heard the first presidential roll-call vote in American history pitting a black man against a strong and powerful woman. We’ll also have an awesome Democratic candidate who will make a terrific and transformative president.

Then - I bet you - we’ll have another flood of stories about the amazing reconciliation and joyous catharsis of the Democratic convention, with lots of good Barack and Hillary victory-pose photographs. Which will make us all forget about everything we’ve spent the last few months worrying about.

I’ve become convinced that you can predict press narratives weeks in advance and that virtually nobody does. The tough part is that the media itself doesn’t seem to have any notion that two weeks from now actually exists, so you still have to play their game in the present.

I’m not sure that made any sense, but the idea is that if you know where the press is going, you can lead them there like the fabled Pied Piper. You’ll see what I mean at the end of the week.