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Obama time:

“This is the exact time when the American people need to hear from the person who in 40 days will be responsible for this mess,” he said. “It is more important than ever to present ourselves to the American people.”

Comments (14)

1

You should add the "we can do more than two things at once" part of the quote. That's the smackdown part.

Posted by Greg F. | September 24, 2008 2:18 PM
2

BooYasaah!

A Democrat with Testicles? Is America ready for that?

Posted by DavidC | September 24, 2008 2:21 PM
3

Here's the longer quote (not in the linked story, but on cnn.com):

"It's my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person will be the next president," Obama said. "It is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once. It's more important than ever to present ourselves to the American people."

Posted by Greg F. | September 24, 2008 2:21 PM
4

This has been your daily "Fuck Yeah! Moment".

Brought to you, as always, by the Obama 2008 Campaign.

Posted by Mike of Renton | September 24, 2008 2:32 PM
5

Isn't this debate supposed to be about foreign policy?

Obama should go a step further and propose that the economy debate be moved to tonight.

Posted by w7ngman | September 24, 2008 2:40 PM
6

the inaguration is more than 40 days away.

Posted by maxsolomon@home | September 24, 2008 2:42 PM
7

Realizing that polls on teh internets aren't exactly scientific...this still seems pretty damning, with 79% of 85,000 votes disagreeing with postponing:

http://james-eng.newsvine.com/_question/2008/09/24/1906168-agree-or-disagree-fridays-presidential-debate-should-be-postponed-so-the-candidates-can-focus-on-the-economy-instead-of-campaigning

Posted by bohica | September 24, 2008 2:43 PM
8

Not tonight, Friday.

Posted by w7ngman | September 24, 2008 2:45 PM
9

@6: Lame duck presidents often go into cruise control after the election. At that point, especially after a two-termer, the elected president starts to be briefed on state matters and becomes increasingly more involved and visible. The only thing they can't do is sign things. The sitting president will generally get to work on "eff you" policies and presidential pardons.

Unless it's a contested election, in which case, discretion is the word of the day.

Posted by AJ | September 24, 2008 2:53 PM
10

You know, I was kinda wondering all week long about the possibility of the proverbial "October Surprise".

Except I was thinking in terms of what is Obama going to do/say/get busted for? Or what totally insignificant bullshit is everyone going to latch onto?

Anyone else still not totally comfortable about this? Am I just paranoid/cynical to think things are going too well for our side?

Posted by Mike in MO | September 24, 2008 3:34 PM
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@9 I shudder to think what a lame duck "eff you" policy would even BE from Bush. His entire fucking presidency has been an "eff you." Well at least the pardons won't be necessary since EVERYONE GOT AWAY WITH EVERYTHING.

Posted by threnody | September 24, 2008 8:39 PM
12

Obama's in your face, Republican Socialists!

Get USED to THAT!

Posted by Will in Seattle | September 24, 2008 11:16 PM
13

We won't support spine-less NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November !! Go Hillary 2012 !!

Posted by clintonsarmy | September 25, 2008 1:32 AM
14

@10: I'm with you there. Maybe they'll go overtly racist, and try for a hail mary pass with their base. Is it just me, or has Obama had more Secret Service incidents than any other nominee? And we thought the Rodney King riots were bad...

Posted by Lavode | September 25, 2008 9:22 AM

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