[srm913]

I almost feel wistful when reflecting upon just what has happened to the Democratic party, one of our nation's erstwhile great political parties. (The key word here is ALMOST.) The party of Harry Truman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, JFK, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Scoop Jackson has become the party of Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Helen Thomas, Michael Moore, Jesse Jackson, Janet Reno, Dennis Kucinich, and Al Sharpton.
This transformation is simultaneously humorous and sickening.

[iconoclast]

I almost feel wistful when reflecting upon just what has happened to the Democratic party

IMHO, both parties have become warped and unrecognizable.