Obama schedules joint session job speech at same time as GOP Debate.

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Thursday night is, of course, the start of football season.

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Apparently Obama is indeed doing Thursday.

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Apparently Obama is indeed doing Thursday.

What...but.... FOOTBALL!!!

The game is scheduled to start at 8:30, my guess is Obama will start at 7 or 7:30 and finish by game time.  NBC (and NBC's advertisers) will still be furious that they only get ~30 minutes before kickoff to celebrate the season and get easy ratings, but as a viewer I can live with that.

Whether it is the White House's incompetence or Boehner being a jerk by agreeing to Wednesday and then reneging, Obama shouldn't have gone up against the Republican debate.  He pretty clearly "started it" and lost.  Now the Republican candidates get to joke about his failure on national television and a bunch of people excited for football are going to have politics injected into their fun.  And if Obama does all this for "we're going to rebuild our nation's infrastructure" it'll just be sad.

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or maybe the POTUS shouldn't have waited 32 months into his term before focusing on jobs

or maybe Obama should have come back from vacation a few days earlier.

or maybe he should have given the speech from the White House instead of from a joint session of Congress.  Could have done it Wednesday then.