Post by America and Politics on Jan 24, 2008 23:41:35 GMT -5
>:(Politicians make a lot of ambitious election-year promises, but Thursday night, Barack Obama is making a few he might have some trouble keeping: if elected president, he’ll rename the tenth month of the year "Barack-tober" and choose Oprah Winfrey as his vice president.
The Illinois senator floats these and eight other "campaign promises" tonight as he counts down the daily Top Ten list on "The Late Show with David Letterman."
The most recent in a series of candidates to yuck it up on a late-night talk show, Sen. Obama will also propose putting Regis on the nickel and appointing Mitt Romney "secretary of lookin' good."
In the pre-taped segment of The Late Show, Obama warned Letterman not to try to "muss [his] hair," like the talk show host did to John Edwards when he appeared on the show Tuesday.
–CNN Associate Producer Rachel Streitfeld
Full list after the jump
"Barack Obama Campaign Promises"
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.
This is supposed to be a joke they say, read into it as you may.
What is America getting themselves into? I really did not find this to funny, i found it to be humiliating to the Americans that really care about our country and are taking this race serious.
Is this who we want in the White House? As for color, gender or age. I could care less, i just want someone we can trust to get us out of the mess the Republicans have put us in. We can't even call ourselves middle class anymore with this recession. We are right down there in the poverty level. People start thinking, and taking this serious, if it get any worse we might as well move to another country. We don't even have the right of freedom of speech anymore. What is free about America? Not much anymore.
The Illinois senator floats these and eight other "campaign promises" tonight as he counts down the daily Top Ten list on "The Late Show with David Letterman."
The most recent in a series of candidates to yuck it up on a late-night talk show, Sen. Obama will also propose putting Regis on the nickel and appointing Mitt Romney "secretary of lookin' good."
In the pre-taped segment of The Late Show, Obama warned Letterman not to try to "muss [his] hair," like the talk show host did to John Edwards when he appeared on the show Tuesday.
–CNN Associate Producer Rachel Streitfeld
Full list after the jump
"Barack Obama Campaign Promises"
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.
This is supposed to be a joke they say, read into it as you may.
What is America getting themselves into? I really did not find this to funny, i found it to be humiliating to the Americans that really care about our country and are taking this race serious.
Is this who we want in the White House? As for color, gender or age. I could care less, i just want someone we can trust to get us out of the mess the Republicans have put us in. We can't even call ourselves middle class anymore with this recession. We are right down there in the poverty level. People start thinking, and taking this serious, if it get any worse we might as well move to another country. We don't even have the right of freedom of speech anymore. What is free about America? Not much anymore.