Barack Obama is destroying the Democratic party & it may not recover for a long time. He most closely resembles a synthesis of the failed George McGovern and the catastrophic Herbert Hoover presidency. The damage he is doing to his partys image and prospects resembles the harm Hoover did to the Republican party from which it did not recover for 20 years after he left office. And the extent to which Obama is discrediting the Left parallels the damage McGovern did to his ideological confreres in 1972 when he went down to flaming defeat.
-- Dick Morris former advisor to President Bill Clinton
