"There were a lot of considerations," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today. "And, obviously, one debate of many that's on one channel of many was not enough reason not to have the speech at the time that we decided to have it."
Politico and NBC News are sponsoring the debate, one of three among the GOP presidential candidates scheduled for September. The organizers have not yet announced what they intend to do about the President's request for airtime during their debate.
Carney suggested the organizers could move it.
"The network could make a decision to alter of timing of the debate by an hour if it so decided," Carney said. "There is no perfect time."
"There has not been a time in my short period of time of this job where I called the networks and said, 'How about now for, does this time work for the president to speak?'" Carney added. "There is always, 'well, it works for two of us but not the other three.'"
It'll be interesting to see what kind of pushback the White House gets on this. It'll be even more interesting to see what the Republicans have to say, and if the Village goes along with it. But we'll see what happens.
Oh, and I like this new White House going after the GOP. Like I said, this was absolutely not a coincidence. Meanwhile, Orange Julius says the President needs to move his address to preempt next Thursday's NFL season opener, because the Republicans you know, hate the President enough to publicly disrespect him like this. When's the last time a Speaker of the House told the President "hey, just reschedule, we're too busy trying to ruin you to deal with you speaking to us."
Nice guy.
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