You heard it here first

Back in March, as Barack Obama’s primary campaign gained strength, I took a little stroll down amnesia lane and explored how Obama’s rise reminded me of Al Smith’s 1928 presidential candidacy. I noted at the time how Smith, as the first Catholic major-party candidate for president, was essentially torpedoed by his fellow Democrats, who quite obviously lied about their devotion to the Smith campaign during the run-up to the election, giving Smith a false sense of his electoral strength.

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal ponders the same dynamic vis-à-vis Senator Obama. Although the WSJ's Ellen Gamerman does not reference Smith, she is quite clearly bringing up the same set of concerns that I talked about last winter. It is worth a read.