Obama's Top 10 List for Dave

'Campaign promises' include renaming 10th month 'Barack-tober'
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 24, 2008 10:12 PM CST
Obama's Top 10 List for Dave
In this image taken from video and released by CBS, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, delivers his "Top Ten Campaign Promises" via satellite on the set of "The Late Show with David Letterman," in New York, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/CBS)   (Associated Press)

Barack Obama tonight became the latest presidential hopeful to appear on David Letterman, where he counted down a list of campaign promises we can be pretty sure he won't keep, the Chicago Tribune reports.

  1. Three words: Vice President Oprah
  2. Pronounce the word nuclear, nuclear
  3. I'll find money in the budget to buy Letterman a decent hairpiece
  4. I won't let Apple release the new and improved iPod the day after you bought the previous model
  5. I'll rename the 10th month of the year "Barack-tober"


  1. I'll put Regis on the nickel
  2. If you bring a gator to the White House, I'll wrassle it
  3. Appoint Mitt Romney secretary of lookin' good
  4. I will double your tax money at the craps table
  5. To keep the budget balanced, I'll rent out the situation room for sweet sixteens
(More Barack Obama stories.)

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