If Obama wins it all-- predict the extent to which the DLC will be hurt.

[ncteechur]

Personally, I think the DLC has done more to hurt the party in the last 8 years than help.

[MadMaddie]

1. I hope beyond repair. Groups like the DLC have done more

harm to the Democratic party than the opposition.

[TexasObserver]

2. Al From will have to get a real job.

[Enrique]

3. the DLC won't be affected

Obama isn't particularly anti-DLC.

[madrchsod]

4. they will be down and out but they won`t go away

neolib with a neocon chaser.....

[Double T]

5. The DLC has done a great job...........

of shooting THEMSELVES, and by extension 'US', in BOTH feet. ONLY thing left to do is rearrange the deck chairs on the DLC titanic.

[bellasgrams]

6. Well there better be a shake up at the DNC after the screw up

in FL & MI.

[JCMach1]

7. Not at all- Obama is DLC in all but name

Just check his economic advisors to see this. :(

[Mezzo]

9. not to mention rham emmanuel's close relationship with Obama

along with the fact that they have senior staffers who are married to each other (spare me the Carville/Matalin bullshit, it's a different game now) It is very clear to see that they are helping each other out.

[JCMach1]

12. I have always argued DLC is not necessary any more because their ideas won!

Just look at most of the candidates this time.

You don't need a special lobbying group if the party leadership now operates by your creed.

(Please note there are exceptions to that in the party)

[Mezzo]

15. true, it's just that there are some duers who

think calling the dlc in Hillary's pocket is a slur. Truth be told, they're in Obama's pocket, and always have been.

[JackORoses]

8. swept away like Pharoah's men

[billyoc]

10. Unfortunately, they won't miss a beat. They'll just chalk this one up and keep on truckin'. nt

[LadyVT]

11. Beyond repair.

[VotesForWomen]

13. you think obama's anti-DLC? heh. nt

[pingzing58]

14. It's OK he'll listen to the DLC and DNC and I suggest create a shadow group of honest adivsors.

George Bush had his clergy advisors who confirmed that God had appointed him our saviour and he will not go against God's will for him and our country. Unfortunately, Cheney, is being allowed to pursue his own policies while supporting Bush's lunacy. (I'm saying lunacy because it's an eclipsed moon tonight.)

[Independent-Voter]

16. I hope it's fatal. The DLC hasn't done you guys any favors

[MethuenProgressive]

17. Obama IS a DLCer. A closet DLCer.

Everything about his "centerist reach out to GOPers Hope/Change crap" is DLC.

[bklyncowgirl]

18. Not much, they'll claim credit for his victory. Bye Hillary, nice to know you.

These guys aren't going away. They'll adapt to the new reality faster than you can say "Bye Hillary". They are politicans after all.

[Khaotic]

19. The DLC-Landos of the party

... are dismissed and told to go home.

Bye bye!

Don't bother stammering and telling us you had no other choice but to make your deal w/ the "empire."

Fuck off DLC.

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. It will give them a perfect opportunity

to repackage, reinvent, and reassert themselves by embracing Obama's campaign rhetoric. Obama is in many ways a "third way" Democrat, with his focus on a purple America. He gives the DLC perfect ideological cover for their agenda, and an opportunity to sell it with an updated PR campaign mimicing Obama's campaign oratory. If Obama wins the DLC will procalaim he won because he moved away from the traditional Democratic class warfare and oppositional politics by seeking new solutions from the vast center of American politics where Democrats and Republicans can find commonality. The DLC were the originators of that creed. Obama would give them a new lease on life.

[Marrah_G]

21. It won't be hurt in the least- Obama is not anti-DLC.