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Obama Delivers 'Top Ten' List on Letterman
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ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Barack Obama will appear on the "Late Show with David Letterman" tonight, where he will deliver the "Top Ten" list -- entitled "Barack Obama's Campaign Promises."
His appearance was taped from Beaufort, S.C., where he was campaigning today.
Below is the list:
10. To keep the budget balanced, I’ll rent the situation room for sweet sixteens.
9. I will double your tax money at the craps table.
8. Appoint Mitt Romney secretary of lookin’ good.
7. If you bring a gator to the White House, I’ll wrassle it.
6. I’ll put Regis on the nickel.
5. I’ll rename the tenth month of the year “Barack-tober.”
4. I won’t let Apple release the new and improved iPod the day after you bought the previous model.
3. I’ll find money in the budget to buy Letterman a decent hairpiece.
2. Pronounce the word nuclear, nuclear.
1. Three words: Vice President Oprah.
After delivering the list, Letterman thanked Obama. But Obama had one last joke in him. Sen. Obama replied, “Thank you so much, David, but you can’t muss my hair,” referring to Letterman messing up John Edwards' hair during his appearance earlier this week.
This is Obama's third appearance on the "Late Show" -- and second as a presidential candidate. He appeared last on the show in April 2007. This, however, is his first delivery of the "Top Ten" list.
January 24, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis | Permalink | User Comments (10)
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How about Obama being on judicialwatch's top ten list of most corrupt politicians?
That is a serious list! Huckabee is there, too.
Posted by: Apollo | Jan 24, 2008 8:17:32 PM
Judicialwatch.org thinks all politicians are crooked...what's your point?
Posted by: dingodude | Jan 24, 2008 8:35:53 PM
How about we put the top ten corupt acts of the Clintons on. Start with the $20 million from Dubai and the $10 million contributed to the museum. Can we say number three would be the selling out of America
Posted by: cjvwise1 | Jan 24, 2008 8:43:06 PM
Clean, to the point and no mention of Hillary. You know the Clintons could have made his top ten list but Obama did it right.
Posted by: Waggdogg | Jan 24, 2008 11:30:08 PM
Posted by: Waggdogg,
And you know had the Clinton's made this list, it would have been loaded with Obama this or that. It proves this is a classy guy and they are gutter trash filth.
How anyone can call themselves a Democrat and still support Hillary or condone their actions is shameful.
WITH DEMOCRATS LIKE THE CLINTON'S WHO NEEDS REPUBLICANS?!
Posted by: Thomas | Jan 25, 2008 5:32:52 AM
Other than number nine, which is a Clinton reference (in the view of one guy who fully blames the Clintons for all the campaign slime we've seen on the Democratic side), the list isn't that funny.
Maybe it sounds better on video than in transcript.
Posted by: Paul | Jan 25, 2008 10:32:41 AM
I'm sick of hearing everyone whine and cry about poor Obama, how he's being mistreated. He says something disparaging about Sen. Clinton, the majority of people laugh, praise him, salute him, and encourage his rudeness. If she or her family fight back, they are dirt under America's feet. For heaven sake, give it a rest. If he's not big enough to stand the heat go to to a colder climate; that wouldn't be politics.
Posted by: Mack of Texas | Jan 25, 2008 10:44:48 AM
Mack - seems to me Clinton has whined far more than Obama could in a lifetime. "Oh, the men are ganging up on me. Wah, the press is so mean to me."
Tear up, win a few votes. That, name recognition and a former president on the daily campaign trail is all Clinton has going, from what I see.
Posted by: Paul | Jan 25, 2008 10:59:37 AM
I like #8, but number 7 should have been Dick Cheney as Secretary of Hunting. I am pretty he can shoot the crap out of Osama Bin Forgotten.
Posted by: God Bless America | Jan 25, 2008 11:58:23 AM
Obama was widely lauded early in the campaign as one of the least corrupted -- indeed, one of the least corruptible -- politicians in the country. JudicialWatch will say whatever gets your attention; that's their job. They'd call the Pope a Satanist if they thought the backlash would be worth it.
Posted by: Niali | Jan 25, 2008 1:40:47 PM
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