Obama Jokes – Here are the best jokes from President Obama from the White House Correspondents Dinner with the Prez giving as good as he got at the annual roast.
President Barack Obama joked that former vice president Dick Cheney was busy, working on his memoir “tentatively titled, How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People.”
As the star attraction of Saturday night’s star-studded annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Obama enjoyed poking fun at his critics and the Republican Party. But his own administration, in power for just over 100 days, was also a target of the president’s playful digs and one-liners.
“I believe my next hundred days will be so successful that I will be able to complete them in 72 days,” he said to a roar of laughter. “And on my 73rd day, I will rest.”
His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, Obama observed, always has a hard time on Mother’s Day.
“He’s not used to saying the word ‘day’ after ‘mother,’ ” Obama said.
The chairman of Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, was “in the house tonight,” Obama noted. “Or as he would say, ‘In the heezy.’”
“Michael for the last time, the Republican Party does not qualify for a bailout,” Obama told Steele. “Rush Limbaugh does not count as a troubled asset, I’m sorry.”
Obama made light of his frequent use of a teleprompter and poked fun at Vice President Joe Biden’s habit of speaking off the cuff. And about the Democratic Party, Obama said his administration has helped in “bringing in fresh, young faces — like Arlen Specter.”
Obama noted that he and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had once been political rivals. “These days,” he assured the gathering at the Washington Hilton ballroom, “we could not be closer.”
“In fact the second she got back from Mexico, she pulled me into a hug and said I should go down there myself.”
And those are all the White House Correspondents Dinner Obama jokes.
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May 10th, 2009 at 9:13 am
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May 10th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Wanda Sykes jokes at White House Correspondents Dinner:
“The first black president! I know you’re bi-racial, but. The first black president! That’s unless you screw up. Then it’s gonna be: what’s up with the half-white guy?”
“I thought when you got in office you’d give up playing pickup basketball. That’s one step forward, two steps back. You probably think you got moves. Nobody’s gonna give you a hard foul with the Secret Service standing around.”
“You and Joe Biden gettin’ burgers together? You guys can’t hang out together. Who’s idea was that, Nancy Pelosi’s?”
“Sarah Palin was supposed to be here but pulled out at the last minute. Someone should tell her: that’s not how you practice abstinence.”
“Shut up, you’ll be tellin’ that one tomorrow.”
“You were over (in England) patting the Queen on her back like she just slid into home plate. And who’s idea was it to give the Queen an iPod? What’s she gonna do, get down to Lady Gaga?”
“What’re you gonna give the Pope, a Bluetooth?”
“Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.”
May 11th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I think the joke that President Obama told about Rahm Emanuel is crude and beneath the dignity of the office of the President of the United States. It was offensive to listen to.