What if I told you in 2004 that the Democratic party would run an African American candidate for president in 2008? I tell you National Journal will officially label this candidate the most liberal member of the United States Senate. This candidate will also have served less than three years in that Senate, with no executive, foreign policy, or military experience. Then I tell you that this candidate will lose the party’s primaries in Texas, California, New York, Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Oh, and his minister sounds like Louis Farrakhan, and actually pals around and gives awards to Farrakhan. This is the situation the Democratic party finds itself in, and not only that, but the presumptive Republican nominee has the highest favorability rating of any candidate Gallup’s tracked in the last eight years. It’s a recipe for disaster in a year when the Democratic party could only defeat itself. But that’s the Democrats’ specialty. Glenn Greenwald writes today under the headline, “Obama’s faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public.” Seriously? After almost eight years of whining about how stupid Americans are, that’s where Democrats want to put their faith? His opening graph:
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