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Obama Talks Lipstick, Change With Letterman
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Jen Chung
Published Sep 11, 2008
Modified Sep 11, 2008
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Presidential candidate Barack Obama appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and continued to speak out against the "phony outrage" of the McCain-Palin campaign over the lipstick on a pig remarks. Letterman asked Obama if he ever actually put lipstick on a pig at about the 1:00 mark in the clip above. Obama was playful, and eventually pointed out that if one were to actually follow the logic of the McCain-Palin camp illogic, Palin would be the lipstick in the situation. Letterman, for his part, enjoyed the fact that the Republicans actually had to have a meeting to demand an apology from Obama.
Obama also poked fun at himself at not being media darling du jour. But there were some serious questions: Letterman asked whether Obama would have chosen someone different (Hillary Clinton?) if John McCain had picked Palin first (Letterman also called the selection of Palin "calculated...no doubt about it"). Obama said he wanted someone who can give him good ideas and good advice when he's making big ideas--and that's Joe Biden.
In the clip after the jump, Obama discusses Sepetember 11 and gives Giuliani credit and discusses some foreign policy.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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