Category: The Dish

A pretty awful few days for the Clinton campaign comes to an end.

The federal government was not involved in the recording of this campaign ad:

From the Grauniad:

"We misspelled the word misspelled twice, as mispelled, in the Corrections and clarifications column on September 26, page 30."

God bless the MSSM.

Callimachus nails it:

I am willing to see her as president, but not after George W. Bush.

It’s executive power, stupid.

Is there some scientific basis for the intuition that we experience time more slowly in an emergency? After some extreme testing, the answer is no:

When a person is scared, a brain area called the amygdala becomes more active, laying down an extra set of memories that go along with those normally taken care of by other parts of the brain. "In this way, frightening events are associated with richer and denser memories," Eagleman explained. "And the more memory you have of an event, the longer you believe it took."

But it didn’t. No word on whether anyone got stoned.

It all began in 1968, apparently. He really needs to get out more.

Ambers says Edwards and Clinton did better than Obama:

Because Clinton and Edwards repeatedly wove their answers into a larger argument, and Obama generally kept his answers to his answers. He did well though. No calls, Chicago. No calls.

Heading Right demurs:

1:34 – Chris Cillizza wonders whether Hillary has a do-or-die moment today. If so, she’s dying. Dull, unimaginative, and somewhat cold.

The focus group seems to love Obama. Chuck Todd says Obama got the YouTube moment and Clinton failed to break out:

Obama looked genuinely stumped by that question from the moderator regarding all of the Clinton advisers he has on his team and wondering if that was truly a "break from the past." It was actually an interesting question, which he dodged, but Obama won the moment when Hillary was heard, "I can’t wait for this answer," and he jabbed, "I look forward to you advising me too."

Sorry: I walked the dogs.

How on earth did he get on stage? Love this York-Keyes snippet:

“Ambassador, I’m going to ask you one more time. Have you personally been doing campaign events here in Iowa in the last few months?”

“I have had several campaign events here in Iowa, but I will not define those events as you do,” he said.

“In the last few months?”

“I don’t define those events as you do."

Well, he is a Straussian.

Exposing the evil denialists.

Huckabee better hope it doesn’t get off the ground. Chris Mooney explains that POTUS has a $150 billion research budget. But can’t we leave the rest to, you know, scientists? Just quit doctoring their reports, and I’m happy to leave the president out of it.