Redneck politics

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22319.html

Obamas White House Correspondents 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.]..........>>>>>>>

That was the classies part. He was ROFL at Wanda Sykes' spiel which was just a bash of Rush, Bush et al with classy items like saying Rush should be waterboarded and she hopes his kidneys fail --if ref. to Rush's position that he hopes O fails to get his socialist fantasy implemented.

So as a conservative and generally wanting to feel good about the president of my country it is a bummer. BUT there is the silver lining in the cloud that I and rednecks all across the country can now go "Yee Haw, thanks to B and M, we or our spouses are not ineligible for the highest office in our country just cuz we don't know that etiquette shit"