By Neil Sinhababu

Steve Benen catches this Post article on how al-Qaeda is increasingly flipping out over the Obama presidency, calling him a “house negro”, a “hypocrite”, a “killer” of innocents, an “enemy of Muslims”, and trying to blame him for Israel’s Gaza bombings, which ended before he took office.

Extremists depend on the other side’s extremists to increase their power within their own side. With Bush gone and Obama closing Guantanamo, al-Qaeda has to be worried about the flow of donations and recruits drying up.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.