Obama Delivers Letterman's Top 10 List

Sen. Barack Obama is making some campaign promises we can be pretty sure he won't keep. Appearing Thursday on the "Late Show With David Letterman," the Democratic presidential candidate delivered a tongue-in-cheek list of his top 10 campaign promises, including a pledge to rename the tenth month of the year "Barack-tober."

Obama, the latest in a string of candidates to show up on Letterman's show, appeared just briefly to deliver the night's list. Earlier this week, candidate John Edwards came on the show only to have his carefully coifed hair messed up by the host.

On Thursday, Obama joked that Lettermen couldn't repeat that prank, telling him: "you can't muss my hair."

Watch, or scroll down for the text:

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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.

Comments

[Average]

08:39 AM on 01/29/2008

It is PATHETIC that ANYBODY running for president will stoop to this level. They are not running for CLASS CLOWN.

[flashlight]

09:19 AM on 01/28/2008

That was funny. His nice comedic delivery comes from being so genuine and down to earth.

Anyone who doesn't like this guy is really trying hard not to.

[DonRoberto]

10:33 PM on 01/26/2008

Reading thru the tit for tat garbage posted by the Clinton and Obama "true believers" is incredibly depressing to me. That kind of hatred and vitriol used to be confined to the GOP's attacks on *us*.
At this point, it hardly matters who we nominate --- there has already been so much division some Dems may cross party lines to avoid voting for Clinton or Obama.
To paraphrase Walt Kelly, We have become the enemy... and he is us.

[whamtwo]

08:45 PM on 01/26/2008

Rezko is # 11 - Obama will appoint him a (Chicago land developer now under indictment) for deal making in real estate - Obama gets a property for $300,000 less than asking price while Rezko's wife pays the asking price for the adjacent lot. Then sells a part of it to obama. HHMM!!!!

[Boobaloo]

10:01 AM on 01/26/2008

This is utterly unbelievable to me, this is like a horror show.

Ambassador Ginsberg is a Zionist, born in New York and raised in Israel. He wants and works dilligently to make America invade every Muslim nation & use our blood and money to kill more Muslims, destroy their nations and disarm them because its good for Israel domination and tyranny.

After Israeli lobbies got us into Iraq, they began their rhethoric about Iran and now that they've got America on course to attack Iran, these Zionists have begun their lies and fear mongering and war monger and lies to convince America to attack Pakistan. Every three days or so, Huffpo posts an article by this traitor Ginsberg who is an Israeli shill and treasoneous American, he is loyal only to Israel and he has started the whispering campaign of lies via media outlets to manufacture a Pakistani threat where none exists.

Huffpo then cherry picks the replies that do not tell any truth or crisize Ginsberg or question why is it every time there is a false Muslim threat and calls for invading Muslim nation, it's always some Zionist Neocon. Are we really so blind that we can not see what's right in front of our face?

The agenda of these Zionist Neocons is war for Israel forever paid for with American blood and money and now Huffpo, after several years of critisizing and skewering the MSM for lazy reporting and colluding with NeoCons to promote war, is now doing the exact same thing.

This is the same vile people telling the same vile lies for the same vile agenda.

****Cut and paste this comment or write your own and repost it all over Huffpo to let them know that you know what Ginsberg is upto and that Huffpo needs to get its sh*t together.

[warpspeed9]

10:49 PM on 01/25/2008

like Obama -- But why has the press GROSSLY DISTORTED HIS ATTACKS ON HILLARY???

Obama has hit both harder (with big distortions) and earlier than Hillary has ever hit him!

Examples:
#1 --last October 2007 --Obama personally acted on a Saturday Night Live skit that outright called Hillary a "witch". A female actress for Hillary put a WITCH costume on the character of Hillary to illustrate the point??

**Turn this around. Can you imagine if Hillary had done such character sliming to Obama??? --- And this was last October***

The PRESS ignored it-- Hillary turned the other cheek.


(2) Obama distorted Bill Clinton's position on Iraq saying Clinton supported the War in Iraq -- but leaving out "details" like Bill Clinton said he ONLY supported the war "IF" the UN inspectors found evidence of WMD.

There is a CNN interview before the invasion that proves this.

Bill Clinton complained. Obama just repeated the distortion.

(3) Obama insisted Hillary was for the war in Iraq and he was against it. Yet their voting records while both were in the Senate were essentially identical on Iraq??

Obama could have just said his position was superior. Instead he distorted the record to state Hillary was an ally of George Bush.

(4) Obama implied Hillary was a racist in her remarks on Martin L. King
I heard him say this plus heard Hillary's original speech.

The press again gave Obama a free pass.

This was an outright lie.
Add to this, Obama was now holding himself as pure with Hillary unfairly attacking him.
The only reason SOME in the media decided to stop saying Hillary was a racist was because Obama was ready to sign a truce.


(5) Obama did extol Ronald Reagan's "charisma" – but he did not say one way or the other whether he admired Reagan's policies.

I think Obama was hoping to pick up a few conservatives by acting vague in this.

This is a much different economy. Evoking Reagan's "charisma" isn't going to make any progress in this environment.

So why is the media distorting this???

[NicoleAnonymous]

09:16 PM on 01/25/2008

That was really funny. Except the joke about the gator - I didn't get it.

[dr4Will]

09:05 PM on 01/25/2008

Remember number 11--black is black and white is white

[sam122]

08:25 PM on 01/25/2008

Hillary Clinton has never really been threatened in this campaign and she should be smart enough to know it. That’s why I’m a bit concerned that they pushed the panic button so quickly. It made them look a bit desperate. I have to wonder if many of the ardent Hillary supporters here hail from solidly blue states where they don’t have to worry about any backlash from Clinton haters hurting the party down the ticket. I’m ok with another Clinton presidency if that’s what happens, but I do know that a lot of work went into turning many statehouses blue and recapturing many governorships in states where the name “Clinton” isn’t a strong asset to the party. I hope I’m wrong, but I do know that the plight of the poor, the unemployed, the uninsured and the undereducated is just as dependent upon what happens at the state level as the national level. This is a federal system. It does disturb me, however to see that so many Hillary supporters have started to sound like Rovian Reps. when it comes to Obama. As Jim Clyburn would say – “Chill out.” Hillary is in no danger of losing this thing. But we better remember that the Clintons only have 8 more years and then what? I thought Obama had a bright future in the party, but that might be gone now with the way the party establishment and the base have turned on him. Campaign against him, argue for Hillary’s cause, but don’t destroy this man’s fine character. We need him. He was the biggest asset as a campaigner that the party had in 2006. He deserves respect for that alone. Eight years from now Bill Clinton won’t have the star power anymore and Obama could have been a real force, but we always trade long-term goals for short-term satisfaction. Obama can’t beat the Clintons, but he needs to be nurtured, valued and respected by her supporters unless we want to keep getting beat by the Reps. in the future.

[starrianna]

08:14 PM on 01/25/2008

10 Reasons ******* NOT ******** to vote for Obama! We do NOT need another "Jokester in Chief"!!!

[detwob]

07:48 PM on 01/25/2008

Barack O-publican says Florida and Michigan voters can piss off because of what a handful of Democratic office-holders-for-life decided to do with the primary.

There's a strategy for ya. Take two big swing states and say -- not interested.

Would have been too much to John Edwards advantage for the Dems to have to talk about NAFTA, the exporting of the economy, the effect of war on domestic issues, unimportant stuff like that in these unimportant states.

Canada is just a little ways south from here. Wonder how they fell about immigration.

[BUSHsurvivor]

06:35 PM on 01/25/2008

Oh what fun, yet another fluff piece on B. O.

[EvoMan]

06:15 PM on 01/25/2008

Hey Clintonistas. If you're going to make a mountain out of the Tony Rezko molehill, perhaps you should read this first:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/26/hsu_raised_big_money_for_clinton_supporters/

[longislandlol]

05:39 PM on 01/25/2008

I'm Jewish-- and at my synogogue-- about 50 of us are for Obama- the other 50 for Clinton-- so we are split-- probably a ny, calfornia, nj-- and other States with jewish populations-- we don't split because of gender, race, etc.. - maybe we split 50-50 according to our education levels...

[mcearlgrey]

05:07 PM on 01/25/2008

Commenters, you all really need to lighten up.