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How the president's own quotes could haunt him in the debates
Politico Playbook: Going into the debates, President Obama will be required to defend a first-term record that "looks strikingly different than the one he imagined" in 2009. What will be some of the president's own quotes that will haunt him? And how effective is Karl Rove's new swing-state ad against the president? Politico's Jim VandeHei discusses.