Obama goes on Jay Leno

I like it when politicians go on late night talk shows. You get to see them for who they really are, and the hosts always ask the tough questions. Well, sometimes they have a lot of pre-planned jokes that the host knows to set up. And sometimes, they want to get the joke in so badly, that they use it, and it doesn't really make sense as a real response.

Like Obama on Leno last night (video, courtesy of Time Magazine).

Of course, news outlets have to cover what was said on a comedy show interview. Like The Boston Globe:

Obama downplayed Clinton's growing lead in the national polls -- and the pundocracy asking whether she is the inevitable nominee -- by referring to President Bush's premature declaration of victory in Iraq with the infamous banner on the carrier deck.

"Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declared, 'Mission Accomplished' a little too soon," Obama said.

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"You would leave your wife alone with Bill Clinton?" Leno teased. Obama laughed loud and long with the audience before replying, "Michelle can handle herself."

Full article from The Boston Globe.