Obama pokes fun at the war on dogs, drunk texts from Hillary Clinton

Obama pokes fun at the war on dogs, drunk texts from Hillary Clinton
By Jamie Klatell - 04/28/12 11:50 PM ET


The jokes covered familiar topics: The Republican primary, super-PACs,
Joe Biden, the GSA scandal and even the president's admission that he
ate dog as a boy.

What was different Saturday night was the joke teller.


President Obama made the annual pilgrimage to the White House
Correspondents' Association Dinner, where Washington's media and
political big thinkers are joined by some of Hollywood's bold-faced
names for a meal and a few laughs.

Without Donald Trump in attendance to be the butt of most of Obama's
jokes — as he was last year — the president laid into a wide range of
targets with his 2012 speech.

Obama did manage to work in a reference to the real estate mogul and
one-time GOP presidential hopeful.

"We gather during a historic anniversary," he said. "Last year at this
time, in fact on this very weekend, we finally delivered justice to
one of the world's most notorious individuals." But, what should have
been a reference to the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, which was in
its final stages one year ago, ended with a picture of The Donald's
trademark scowl.

Obama moved on from there, spraying shots at everyone, including
himself and those who came to see him.

Mocking his own troubles with live microphones, the president's voice
drifted in from off stage with an opening question. "I'm the president
of the United States and I'm opening for Jimmy Kimmel?" Obama asked in
a supposedly private conversation. "That's it, next year we send
Biden. Nah, you're right too risky."

His jokes' reception, like their aim, was a bit scattered. Obama drew
the biggest laughs when he was taking shots at himself or other
politicians.

He pointed out that his onetime rival in the Democratic presidential
primary was now secretary of State and one of the most popular
Democrats in the nation.

"Four years ago I was locked in a brutal primary battle with Hillary
Clinton," Obama said. "Four years later she won't stop drunk-texting
me from Cartagena."

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He took also took aim at the legislative branch.

"I want to thank all those members of Congress who took a break from
their exhausting schedule of not passing any laws to be here tonight,"
he joked.

He even worked Jimmy Kimmel, the professional entertainer for the
night, into the act.

"Jimmy got his start years ago on 'The Man Show,'" Obama said. "In
Washington, that's what we call a congressional hearing on
contraception."

The president largely shied away from his likely opponent in the
general election, but he did get in a few cracks about Mitt Romney,
who did not attend the dinner.

"It's lovely to be here in the vast, magnificent Hilton ballroom,"
Obama said of the opulent setting, "or what Mitt Romney would call a
little fixer upper."

He also compared the dinner's trappings to another extravagance in the news.

"I'm just glad to learn that this wasn't a GSA conference," he said.
"Unbelievable, even the mind reader didn't know what they were
thinking."

The GSA spending scandal was just one liability which Obama tried to
turn into a punch line.

As Romney has often critiqued the president's affinity for the Harvard
faculty lounge, Obama noted that the former Massachusetts governor and
he both had Harvard degrees. "I have one and he has two," he said.
"What a snob."

Obama also brought up a theme that has hounded him recently.

In retaliation for Democrats harping on the old story of Romney tying
the family dog to the roof of the car, many conservatives have pointed
out that Obama ate dog when he was a boy in Indonesia -- an admission
he wrote in his memoirs years ago. The president tied the dog issue
into jokes about a few other popular topics.

In reference to Sarah Palin: "What's the difference between a hockey
mom and a pit bull? A pit bull is delicious."

About politics being a rough game: "My step father always told me it's
a boy eat dog world out there."

On the rise of super-PACs: The president came equipped with his own
mock super-PAC ad that promised "America's dogs cannot afford four
more years of Obama; that is 28 years for them."

Obama also took on the oldest thorn in his side: his birthplace.
Shortly before last year's correspondents dinner, the White House
released the president's long-form birth certificate in an effort to
quell questions about where he was born. His theme music for last
year's speech was "I am a real American."

This year he was a bit more subtle as he "reintroduced" himself for
the reelection campaign.

"My name is Barack Obama. My mother was born in Kansas, my father was
born in Kenya, and I was born, of course, in Hawaii," he said, pausing
and turning to the camera for a theatrical wink.

The president closed with one last barbed reference about his own
administration.

"I had a lot more material prepared," he said, "but I have to get the
Secret Service home in time for their new curfew."

Obama took his seat and was met with a series of jabs from Kimmel.

"Mr. President, remember when the country rallied around you in hopes
of a better tomorrow," asked Kimmel. "That was hilarious."

More:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/224393-obama-fights-the-war-on-dogs-drunk-texts-from-hillary-with-corespondents-dinner-jokes

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Tommy

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