All eight presidential candidates have snubbed the moderate Democratic Leadership Council’s “National Conversation” in Nashville, TN.  However, most are slated to appear at the YearlyKOS conference in Chicago.  Consider U.S. News and World Report’s write-up:

The candidates’ snubbing of the centrist Democratic nonprofit group seemed bound to yield speculation that the 2008 front-runners and the Democratic Party in general are moving decidedly to the left and that the DLC’s influence might be waning. While not attending the National Conversation, many of the candidates - including Hillary Clinton - are slated to appear this coming weekend in Chicago at the YearlyKos conference, hosted by a slew of liberal bloggers.

A handful of candidates also attended the progressive “Take Back America” conference in June, where candidates Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich, and others roused the progressive and antiwar crowd with equally progressive and antiwar messages.

This is even more proof that the current Democrats have moved far left of their own party and are now standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the kook fringe.  What has happened to the once great Democratic Party?