While the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is now overly long, overly tedious and overly laden with self-important celebrity sorts, some funny lines do emerge. There will always be political potshots that elicit more winces than laughs, but those served up by President Barack Obama were well delivered and well received. Especially the self deprecating variety.
*“No president in history has ever named three commerce secretaries this quickly. Is Judd Gregg here? Your business cards are ready now.”
*Re: The next 100 days. “My next 100 days will be so successful, I will complete them in 72. On the 73rd I will rest.”
*“I will strongly consider losing my cool.”
*“I will learn to go off the TelePrompTer, and Joe Biden will learn to stay on it.”
*Re: GOP Chairman Michael Steele: “No, the Republican Party doesn’t qualify for a bailout. And Rush Limbaugh doesn’t count as a troubled asset.”
*Re: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “The second she got back from Mexico she pulled me into a hug and gave me a big kiss and told me I needed to get down there myself.”