Category: The Dish

And a terrorist is trying to get through to the White House. Pretty funny animated cartoon.

Why has this Democratic race been so brutal? Because the stakes are so high:

65,000 new Democrats have registered in Pennsylvania since the fall, compared to 3,000 Republicans.

Is he caving in to the Democratic establishment?

Dish readers are mentioned in this WSJ column today.

We need to find out more about stories like this:

A team from Brazil’s Labor Ministry found "degrading" living conditions for 133 sugarcane workers employed by an ethanol company whose investors include former President Clinton and other high-profile financial players.

Talking out loud with Marc Ambinder yesterday, I realized that I hoped a president Obama would ask Bob Gates to stay on as defense secretary. Gates has been one of the real stars of the Bush second term, managing to guide the military between the rapids of Cheney and the rocks of reality. He’s an immensely impressive, level-headed, pragmatic conservative, and he wouldn’t, I think, be immune to outreach from an incoming Democratic administration faced with extreme challenges in the Middle East. No such arrangement could be made before the election, of course. But I figured it would be worth airing the possibility.

A mind-numbing but impressive analysis. If Clinton wins by the 19 percent she has today (and that has never happened; she routinely loses ground when Obama gets a chance to spend time in a state), it’s unlikely, according to an astute Dish reader, that she could net more than 14 delegates in total. That’s a serious pick-up, but it simply isn’t enough.

Heh:

The man on the street, for the first time, acted on the same foolish principles that have guided the behavior of sophisticated Wall Street traders for the past few decades.

Spitzer is typical of the top 0.0001 percent.

Chris Beam On Pennsylvania:

We’re going to get to know Pennsylvania like it’s our college girlfriend. We’ll grow acquainted with her baggage from past relationships—electing Gov. Ed Rendell over Pittsburgh sports-legend Lynn Swann, perhaps because some were uncomfortable with an African-American governor. We’ll get to know her friends from home—cosmopolitan transplants in Philadelphia, steel-belt workers in Pittsburgh, and wacky, independent farmers everywhere in between. Plus, don’t forget about getting inside her head—nothing’s sexier than probing her feelings on NAFTA, change, and experience.