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Video: Obama tackles comedy at Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner

3:50 PM Sun, May 10, 2009 |
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{Part 1} President Jokes @ White House Correspondents Dinner

 

 

{Part 2} President Jokes @ White House Correspondents Dinner

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Alfred Masciarelli said:

This man is a fool. Jokeing about a flyover over Manhattan. A lot of people still have horrible memories of 911 and this jerk jokes about it. I can;t believe that so many people even listen to him.

Link | May 11, 2009 12:19 AM
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Sheila Lennon said:

Many felt the same way you do about George W. Bush's appearance at the Correspondents Dinner in 2004. Here's David Corn (MIA WMDs--For Bush, It's a Joke):

But at one point, Bush showed a photo of himself looking for something out a window in the Oval Office, and he said, "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere."

The audience laughed. I grimaced. But that wasn't the end of it. After a few more slides, there was a shot of Bush looking under furniture in the Oval Office. "Nope," he said. "No weapons over there." More laughter. Then another picture of Bush searching in his office: "Maybe under here." Laughter again.

Disapproval must have registered upon my face, for one of my tablemates said, "Come on, David, this is funny." I wanted to reply, Over 500 Americans and literally countless Iraqis are dead because of a war that was supposedly fought to find weapons of mass destruction, and Bush is joking about it.

Politicians can be such mirrors...

Link | May 11, 2009 12:55 AM
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joyce said:

Too bad, Alfred. We lived through eight years of your guy driving the country over a cliff, you can tough it out with eight years of our guy trying to put things back together.

Link | May 15, 2009 11:26 AM
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