Obama's Speech at the Correspondents Dinner
phongone
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Been a minute since there was an Obama thread. In celebration of his first one hundred days in office, here's some video of his speech at the White House Correspondence Dinner. He absolutely kills it.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/09/full-video-obamas-white-h_n_201264.html
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It seems like behind closed doors everybody is friends or something.
President Barack Obama's top quips from his after-dinner speech at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner:
???Good evening. You know, I had an entire speech prepared for this occasion. But now that I???m here, I think I want to try something a little different. Tonight, I want to speak from the heart. So, I???m not going to use this script. I???m going to speak off the cuff. [Two teleprompter shields rise slowly from beneath the podium, to musical accompaniment. Laughter.] Good evening ??? [huge laughter]
???I???d like to welcome you all to the ten-day anniversary of my first one hundred days. I???m Barack Obama. Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me. Apologies to the Fox table. [He peers into the distance stage left, doing his Chris Rock thing of grinning at his own funny.] I have to confess I really didn???t want to be here tonight, but I knew I had to come. Just one more problem I inherited from George Bush. ???
???Sasha and Malia aren???t here tonight because they are grounded. You can???t just take Air Force One on a joyride around Manhattan. I don???t care whose kids you are. And that reminds me: Tomorrow is Mother???s Day. This is a tough holiday for Rahm. He???s not used to saying the word ???day??? after ???mother.??? [Brings the house down.]
???David Axelrod is here. We???ve been together a long time. I can still remember when I called Ax a few years ago and said, ???You and I can do wonderful things together.??? And he said to me the same thing that partners across America are saying to one another right now: ???Let???s go to Iowa and make it official.???
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???Michael Steele is in the house tonight. Or as he would say, ???in the heezy.??? ??? Dick Cheney was supposed to be here, but he???s very busy working on his memoirs, tentatively titled, ???How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People.???
???You know, it???s been a whirlwind of activity, these first one hundred days. We???ve enacted an economic recovery package. We???ve passed a budget. We???ve forged a new path in Iraq. And no President in history has named three Commerce secretaries this quickly. By the way, if Judd Gregg is here, your business cards are ready. On top of that, I???ve also reversed the ban on stem cell research, signed an expansion of children???s health insurance, and just last week, Car and Driver magazine named me Auto Executive of the Year!