Obama speech at the presidential roast yesterday...

[SteppingRazor]

Freaking hysterical! Some gems:

"Nice to see you Mr. President and Mrs. Bush. I think it takes a great spirit for the President, who we all know is an early riser, to sit here until midnight and hear himself lampooned, when he could be back at the White House enjoying a quiet, peaceful night, watching TV and approving secret wiretaps."

"A lot of folks want to be President, but, I mean, wow, it really has been a rough period for you, Mr. President. I missed the Oscars, so when I picked up the paper the next morning and saw “Crash” in the headlines, I just assumed it was another Bush poll story."

"I was told that this dinner is off-the record… no taping or recording of this event, unless, of course, secretly authorized by the President. I completely trust the President with that authority, by the way. But just out of an abundance of caution, and not implying anything, I've asked my staff to conduct all phone conversations in the Kenyan dialect of Luo."


Full speech:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/03/best_of_gridiron_obama_lynne_c.html#more

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Fine, he can do stand up. But he won't stand up on the issues.

Obama is turning into a tool. and not a nice one.

[mtnsnake]

3. Yeah, that's why he's one of the top Senators in voting progressively

on all the issues.

[GoneOffShore]

9. He voted for the bankruptcy bill

That's progressive.

:sarcasm:

He's not standing with Feingold.


That's progressive.

:sarcasm:

[mtnsnake]

10. So that means he's not 1 of the top Senators in voting progressively on

ALL the issues?

[Withywindle]

11. He did NOT vote for the bankruptcy bill...

...Where is this lie coming from? I'm sick of seeing it. Go to senate.gov, look up the bill on the search engine, and you will see him listed as NO, nein, não, nyet, etc. Watched it with my own eyes on CSPAN2. Both IL Senators voted against it, I remember that very clearly. (I'd do it for you, but the search engine doesn't maintain results for links).


I'd *really* like to find the source of this big honking inaccuracy, because I'm tired of correcting people on it.

Edit: I looked it up again anyway. Its number is S.256, for future reference. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00044


Copy and paste, unaltered I swear (accuracy my only agenda here):

NAYs ---25
Akaka (D-HI)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Wyden (D-OR)

[pnwmom]

13. Obama's overall record in the Senate puts him in 8th place on

progressive issues, according to Progressive Punch. Feingold, for example, is 18th.

If you go to the site you can see the issues they were ranked on:

http://www.progressivepunch.com/members.jsp?member=ILIII

[SteppingRazor]

7. Yeah, cause there's soooooo much...

that a member of the minority party ranked 98th out of 100 in seniority can do. Sheesh, take some time to breathe once in a while and enjoy the funny, before your head explodes. If you spend your entire life like this: :argh: Or like this: :banghead: , you'll be dead from high blood pressure before you hit middle age.


In any case, I disagree that the man's a tool. He's tried to do a lot for education, and his committee votes in all of his committees -- Environment, Foreign Relations and Veteran Affairs -- have been consistently good, with a few notable exceptions.

[LiberalVoice]

2. I'm glad he can joke about it.

Perhaps IF HE wasn't up so late he could have taken a look at Sen. Feingold's bill!

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

16. I love that howard dean picture! Where is it from?

[LiberalVoice]

17. Was posted in the New Yorker a while back. nt

[AndyA]

4. I'm beginning to not like Obama very much

Is this just a big joke to all of them?

Personally, I couldn't stand to roast the President right now. I'd use my time to ask him some important questions, like why he's ruining America, for one.

What he plans to do about this war in Iraq, for another.

And the deficit.

And health care.

And outsourcing of American jobs.

And cronyism in his administration.

And the people who still don't have a place to live after Katrina.

And the obscene oil company profits while Americans can't keep their homes warm.

And why he gives the finger to protesters as he rides past them.

And why he lied to us about the weapons of mass destruction that never existed.

And could he explain his statement that wiretaps required warrants when they didn't.

That should get us started.

[hippiechick]

5. Yes, thank you.

:applause:

[leftstreet]

6. People are DYING IN IRAQ - and these asshats are yukking it up?

Disgusting

[leesa]

8. Why is this weak man playing the fool for this criminal?

[AtomicKitten]

12. Kudos to Obama.

Satire cuts the deepest.

Well done.

[Disturbed]

14. People are DYING IN IRAQ - and these asshats

are yukking it up?

People are being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and dying in Dafur and Dems participate in this crap. No shame!

The all time disgusting yuk fest was the one where shrub thought looking for WMDs in his office was a laugh riot.

[AtomicKitten]

15. well, so are we

when we watch Jon Stewart, the Colbert Report, Countdown, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

Lighten up.