focus on getting your head around a different reality

To him, this is a game.  He did  not technically lie because his advisers came up with his advertisements and speeches...  I think he has demonstrated a big disconnect between his actions and his words.  

I will be surprised if there is a contraction.  This issue was a big way to attack Hillary this week and I doubt that Krugman's challenge will be covered well before the polls open tomorrow.  The timing was impeccable to put out this ad.  People may vote before they know the whole story.

"My wife and I were talking the other day, and she said, 'We're not doing this again,' " Obama said. "Those of you who have met my wife or heard my wife, you know she doesn't mince words. I mean, she's a tough cookie."

Obama said their stance has less to do with the grueling campaign schedule that separates the family for large swaths of time, and more with the couple's belief that eight years from now, they wouldn't be the "same people."

Washington insiders, Obama said, lose touch with reality because "you think your worth is tied up with a title, or a chauffeur or people opening doors for you." Obama regularly portrays Clinton as a Washington insider.

Just five years ago, the family was living in a condo that was getting to be too small. Obama, not yet a senator, regularly bought the groceries and his wife was "still shopping at Target." (Obama noted that "she still does.")

"Eight years from now, we will have lost a little bit of touch with what ordinary families are going through," Obama said yesterday.

Washington insiders, Obama said, lose touch with reality because "you think your worth is tied up with a title, or a chauffeur or people opening doors for you." Obama regularly portrays Clinton as a Washington insider.

Just five years ago, the family was living in a condo that was getting to be too small. Obama, not yet a senator, regularly bought the groceries and his wife was "still shopping at Target." (Obama noted that "she still does.")

"Eight years from now, we will have lost a little bit of touch with what ordinary families are going through," Obama said yesterday.

there was a remark by Todd that Obama has said that this is his only run for the WH.

he promised not to run this time?

On a conference call to prepare for a recent debate, Barack Obama brainstormed with his top advisers on the fine points of his positions. Michelle Obama had dialed in to listen, but finally couldn't stay silent any longer.
"Barack," she interjected, "Feel -- don't think!" Telling her husband his "over-thinking" during past debates had tripped him up with rival Hillary Clinton, she said: "Don't get caught in the weeds. Be visceral. Use your heart -- and your head."

Mrs. Obama said her husband's effort to bring people together is grounded in the lessons he learned growing up. "You don't rip your opponents apart, because you never know when you're going to have to sit right down next to them and figure something out," she said. "That's how he was raised. Imagine a president of the United States who is trying to bring those values to the Oval Office."

It's now or perhaps never, Obama and his wife, Michelle, concluded, because, "We still remember what it's like to be normal," he told a crowd here six days before Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses..snip...    Obama said their stance has less to do with the grueling campaign schedule that separates the family for large swaths of time, and more with the couple's belief that eight years from now, they wouldn't be the "same people."

He's the one who wrote that.  And he and people can point to the whole thing all they want, but there was never any reason at all to have the offending paragraph or sentences in there in the first place.