Fair enough, but people were laughing about Obama’s chances in early ‘07.
Obama didn’t have a one-term former president father and a two-term former president brother who both had the misfortune of being HATED by the left, and the perception of having betrayed their own party (Bush 41 by breaking the No New Taxes pledge and Bush 43 by massively expanding Mediacare and Federal Education and pushing an Amnesty for illegal aliens bill.)