Iraq's January 30 elections were a success. Iraqis braved the threat of violence and turned out at the polls. Pride in participating within Iraq was obvious; there was literally dancing in the streets. Back in the United States, however, the leadership of the party that calls itself by the name of "Democratic" seemed strangely unable to take any joy in a democratic moment of historic proportions. The morning after the election, John Kerry, the Democrats' most recent nominee for President, reacted by saying "no one in the United States should try to overhype this election". The day after that, Democratic...