If there is one per­son I’d want as my advo­cate, it wouldn’t be Karl Rove, David Axel­rod, or any of the oth­ers out there.  No, it would be James Carville.

Today he offered clear advice on Obama’s error in attempt­ing to sched­ule a pres­i­den­tial address to Con­gress next Wednes­day. (Besides the fact that such a joint ses­sion is at the invi­ta­tion of Con­gress not at the demand of the pres­i­dent.).  On “Good Morn­ing Amer­ica” he explained:

“I do think this is a really big debate, and I think the White House was out of bounds…in try­ing to sched­ule a speech dur­ing a debate.”

Given a “choice between watch­ing a debate and the speech, I would have watched the debate and I’m not even a Repub­li­can or even close to being a Republican.”

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