This is unsettling:

And then Al From, the D.L.C. founder, said he was “very happy about the two candidates” Americans are considering.

i.e. stick your fork in Edwards and your finger in a Liberal's eye. I happen to agree that Edwards is cooked, but if the DLC says that's good, it must be bad. My impression has been that Obama is a sort of inverse Howard Dean: he sounds more conservative than he is, rather than the other way around. But Al probably knows more than I do, so maybe I'm being too optimistic...