Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 19th, 2014, The Spanking Edition.

I'm David Flotz, the Eddirt Large of Slate in Washington, D.C.

On this week's show, our liberals longing, pleading for more progressive candidates, especially for president?

Then is President Obama's response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa enough?

Is it the right response?

And then the Adrian Peterson case ignites a debate about corporal punishment.

Is hitting your kid ever okay? or I should say when is hitting

your kid okay. Plus love cocktail chatter. And in Slate Plus, Emily and I are going to battle about

whether Slate is too liberal. Slate Plus getting extra segments of the Gab Fest. And you can sign up for

that by going to slate.com

slash gabfestplus or by emailing me directly at David.plots at slate.com where you can get the

best offer. Joining me in New York is Emily Bazelon no longer Slate Senior Editor. Now, staff

writer at the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily.

Hello, although I haven't started at the Times yet, but that's okay. So you're unemployed.

I'm unemployed. I am a host. If you need trash picked up, Emily to come do that, you need

babysitting for your kids. Grass mode. Yeah. Legal advice given by a member of the New York bar, the Connecticut bar? No, not. I've retired from the Connecticut and Massachusetts bars because I didn't want to pay the fees. Cut rate legal advice giving. Exactly. I think it's actually against the law to give legal advice without a license. You're only getting me in trouble. John Dickerson, you can tell from the giggling over

there is in Colorado. He's stoned. Now, John, you're in Colorado. Why are you in Colorado?

I'm in Colorado because there's a great Senate race here and then also a race for the governor's

office. So lots of politics to cover in Colorado. Do people in Colorado make jokes about

pot all the time the way people

now make all these jokes about Colorado because we're juvenile? No. The only way it's come up in the

context of my reporting over the last few days is as people try and explain and classify the state

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