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Smith does not necessarily refer to a blacksmith but to a worker, possibly in metal ( smite , as in beating with a hammer or such?).
The story reverses a fairy tale that these guys aren't that many years distant from: The hare is beating the four-wheeled gadget--the rich tortoise of the '90s.
Seattle's self-image as a big-league city had taken a separate beating two years previously, when its major-league-baseball franchise--the Seattle Pilots--fled to Milwaukee (!) after just one season.
Try them and I promise you'll be beating chix back with a stick!
But Bush isn't biting, and congressional Democrats, more interested in beating their Republican colleagues than in beating Bush, have welcomed and exploited his indictment of the GOP.