Straight from the President's Mouth

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11:59 AM, Aug 21, 2009 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

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"Last year, just about this time, you will recall that the Republicans had just nominated their vice presidential candidate, and everybody was - you know, the media was obsessed with it, and cable was 24 hours a day, and 'Obama's lost his mojo,' and ... You remember that? There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all we-we-ed up."

NBC's First Read blog today: "The hand-wringing, doubts, and skepticism of August 2008, however, later turned into Obama's decisive seven-point victory in November."

As NBC blogger Mark Murray goes on to note, however, "campaigning - especially when the outgoing president and his party were incredibly unpopular - is much different than governing." You don't say.