Worst Lede of the Year (so far)

Katharine Q. Seelye starts off her obligatory article on the race question directed to Obama at last night's presser with:

Americans got a rare glimpse Wednesday night of what it means to have a black president in the Oval Office.

What in Hades could she have meant by that? Didn't anybody's alarm go off when they read that on the copy desk? The longer you think about it, the worse it gets.

Update: Josh Marshall thinks it's only the Lede of the Day. I challenge anyone to find me a worse one in 2009.

Booman Tribune expresses its consternation a bit more colorfully than we like to here, but is exactly on target.