As many of you know, the DLC held it's Annual Conversation in Chicago on Sunday and Monday. Though no one would say it publicly, there was a fairly significant sense of disappointment that Barack Obama did not attend the event - especially after news broke Monday morning that Obama spent all day Sunday in Chicago getting his haircut and playing hoops.

Understandably, the DLCers felt insulted that Obama couldn't find 10 minutes to swing by and at least say hello to the roughly 600 elected officials from around the country who were gathered, ironically enough, less than a block or so from Obama headquarters.

One of the excuses I heard was that the organization is too closely tied to the Clintons. But isn't one of Obama's primary objectives over the next few months to win over Clinton voters? A tiny show of respect to the DLC would seem like a good place to start, but apparently the Obama high command didn't feel it was necessary.

The move to publicly eschew meeting with the DLC is especially interesting since Obama seems to be more or less running his campaign from their playbook, tacking to the right on the death penalty, guns, and picking spots in the heartland to aggressively court evangelicals and profess his love of country. It does seem to be, to quote the great Yogi Berra, deja vu all over again.

I'll have more notes from the DLC later.