Obama Thought Of Going To New Orleans First!

According to spokes child Jay Carney. The historical record proves that he's a liar.

I already put this up as a headline: after Romney announced he was visiting New Orleans, Obama announced plans to visit on Monday.

When the story got around, Jay Carney announced that really, it had been planned all along. They thought of it first.

The only problem?  In the story linked above, Politco notes that …

Obama campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki told POLITICO earlier Friday that the president had no plans yet to visit the Gulf state and review damage from Hurricane Isaac, even though Mitt Romney announced plans to visit Friday.