What I learned at Joe Biden's SuperSoaker party...

By the chief political consultant to CBS news, who was excited to be invited with the children to Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel's watergun party at the White House.

(You think I make this stuff up...)

What bemuses insiders is the idea that Obama is somehow a stoic. That's laughable. There's a healthy amount of dopamine in the president. In private, the president can be witheringly sarcastic and profane. He can also be light, playful; he is rarely sad, occasionally angry, and always upbeat. This Spock has emotions. What he does not do -- and what he is poor at doing -- is fake an emotion simply for the sake of appearing to display an emotion.
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When Obama is angry, when he is frustrated, he begins to take stock of arguments; his anger shifts him into law professor mode. He struggles to pack facts into his pre-frontal cortex. He wants to get the decision right. Now, sometimes, he gets paralyzed by analysis ... but even here, we make the mistake of separating rationality from emotion. Unless the man's brain is wired differently, even the process of weighing evidence is washed by the emotional processors of his limbic system.

And they say Maureen Dowd looks silly and needs a Daddy figure. Based on this kind of insider access and, ahem, prefrontal cortex packing ...

Is it any wonder this fella works for the same journalistic organization that employs Andrew Sullivan?? The new journalism, indeed.

Do you think David Halberstam would have played water sports with Rahm Emanuel and then proudly giggled about it afterward on his Twitter feed?

Well, do ya punk?