These people really don’t think highly of our intelligence.

(LA Times) — The White House maintains that President Obama still is not in full-bore campaign mode yet. But in Chicago, his reelection team is marking a milestone and declaring itself “ready to go.”

Fired up, too.

“Happy bday OFA!” campaign manager Jim Messina announced on Twitter, using the shorthand for Obama for America.

Indeed it was a year ago Wednesday that the campaign to reelect the president was launched, an announcement that came not from Obama himself, but in a YouTube video that aimed to present the effort as one driven from the grass-roots, not from the center of power in Washington.

To mark the year that’s passed, the campaign released yet another Web video featuring a star of the president’s initial 2008 run for the White House.

Obama would punctuate each of his events with the story of a visit to Greenwood, S.C., where he met a woman named Edith S. Childs, who proceeded to enliven an otherwise downbeat campaign stop.

“I’m the one that got Barack Obama fired up,” she says in the video, referring to her signature chant, “Fired up! Ready to go!” that Obama soon adopted as his own.