a) Does Obama really not have an intuitive feeling for how much he’s been spending? That’s a little like not remembering how much sex you’re having. He’s the one doing the spending, after all. Even if he wasn’t, you’d think an ordinary BS detector would kick in. It’s one thing to expect MSNBC viewers to be credulous. It’s another thing …

The ad packs a punch because it’s true (Obama’s brand of favoritism has been widely covered) and undercuts Obama’s claim that he occupies the high ground when it comes to investment while Romney is somehow debased by all that profit-seeking.

In November, the tide of daily cable traffic to the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan brought a chilling message for Ambassador Matthew Bryza, then the top U.S. diplomat to the small Central Asian country. A plot to kill Americans had been uncovered, the message read, and embassy officials were on the target list. . . .

TAPPER: There are massive mandatory budget cuts heading your way — I know you’re more than aware of this — if Congress doesn’t come to an agreement on deficit reduction. You’ve said that defense cuts would lead to a hollow military but in a recent interview, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this: “So now see the Republicans scrambling to do away with the cuts to defense that would be required by this agreement. I will not accept that. My people in the state of Nevada, and I think the country, have had enough of whacking all the programs. We’ve cut them to a bare bone and defense is going to have to bear their share of the burden.” Is that language okay with you, that language from the Democratic leader of the Senate?

Lo and behold, conventional wisdom has now changed. The Associated Press writes: “Warning signs for Obama on tight path to 270.” The AP explains: