Today on the Dish, Andrew rallied Obama to step up to his moment of truth on jobs, and he brought it, hard. Readers had the same reaction as Andrew: meep meep motherfuckers, and the blogosphere agreed.
On last night's GOP debate, Dish readers offered their own reax on our Facebook page, and Sally Kohn couldn't see the resemblance of any of the candidates to Reagan. Andrew assessed the Catholic response to the GOP cheers for the death penalty, Huntsman showed his true conservative colors, and Bernstein backed Andrew's (and the GOP's) fear of a Palin candidacy. Bloggers debated the source of Perry's achilles heel, which could very well be foreign policy, but he didn't lose any Tea Party votes on global warming. Edward Glaeser didn't want to credit Huntsman or Romeny with creating or losing jobs, and we wondered if Americans were hungry for the red meat Perry offered on Social Security and Medicare. Weigel wasn't sure Americans know what a Ponzi scheme really is, we were kidding about the corndog photo ops, and male candidates can get fat.
Susan Jacoby warned against sacrilizing 9/11, the internet debated whether al-Qaeda has been defeated, and your 9/11 emotional time-suck here. Egyptian activists might boycott the election, and Jeremy Scahill recounted how we helped create the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab.
Andrew credited gay marriage with helping the rise in monogamy, and we examined Mike Lofgren's lessons about obstructing justice in Congress. Casey Mulligan mulled over the hours worked by different age groups, deregulating food trucks makes sense, and infectious disease appears to be a primary cause of the global variation in human intelligence. We assessed the politics of Che and Hitler for hipsters, analyzed Amazon's requirement to pay taxes, and updated our blog etiquette. Megan H. MacKenzie made the case for letting women serve in combat, and a First Class passenger gave his seat up to a serviceman.
App of the day here, MHB here, VFYW here, and FOTD here.
–Z.P.
(Photo: U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol September 8, 2011 in Washington, DC, to highlight his plan to create jobs for millions of out of work Americans. By Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images)
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