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Obama: Late-night with Letterman
by Mark Silva
Never mind that Sunday morning run of the news talk shows that President Barack Obama will make this weekend.
Monday night, Obama's doing Letterman.
The president's planned appearance Monday night will mark the first by a sitting president on the Late Show and Obama's first since election.
This also will mark Obama's sixth appearance on Letterman's set -- he last appeared on Sept. 10 (see the photo above).
Back then, he was facing an election contest with Republican John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin and raising eyebrows with talk about lipstick on pigs.
"Have you ever actually put lipstick on a pig?" Letterman asked then.
"The answer would be no,'' Obama said. "But I think it might be fun to try."
He took a turn at explaining himself: "This is sort of silly season in politicsnot that there's a non-silly season in politics,'' he said. "But, you know, it's a common expression in at least Illinois, I don't know about New York City. I don't know where you put lipstick on here... But in Illinois, the expression connotes the idea that if you have a bad idea, in this case I was talking about John McCain's economic plans, that just calling them change, calling it something different, doesn't make it better, hence, lipstick on a pig is still a pig."
The president probably will be attempting to generate a similar, generally good feeling about himself as he presses Congress for health-care reform -- the purpose of his Sunday news show stints -- when he sits down with Letterman again, sans lipstick.
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