"Maybe waiting for someone to call him up asking him to be Commerce Secretary"

[CatWoman]

**SNAP**

:rofl:

[MrSlayer]

1. That was hilarious.

President Obama knows how to deliver a line.

[wndycty]

2. LOL Obama has jokes, in college we called that a . . .

. . ."take that motherfucker boom, boom," moment.

:kick:

[maddezmom]

3. LOL!

:applause: His little laugh at the end was classic.

[Parker CA]

4. That was the best part. He tried to move on, then everyone started laughing, then he laughed more.

This is our President. Love it!

[EffieBlack]

13. That big, wide open, disarming smile makes all the difference in the world, doesn't it?

Bush used to crack on people but he always looked either mean or petty. President Obama can crack little zingers but then he smiles like that and it's clear to the world that he's just teasing and it takes the sting out of it.

I love having this man as our president!

[LynzM]

5. Man...

I haven't had cable in years, but every time Obama does something like this, I inch a little closer to buying it again... :D

[Cha]

7. I hope we can get that on youtube..

I missed it too. Gotta see it!

[jenmito]

8. It'll probably be on the WH website by tomorrow...and C-Span's, too. n/t

[jenmito]

9. On C-Span's website it says it will be available shortly:

http://www.c-span.org/

[Cha]

10. Thanks, jenmito~

I can't wait:bounce:

[jenmito]

11. My pleasure!

:hi:

[jenmito]

6. Keith thought it was brilliant the way he weaved that into the story. Finemann agreed,

adding he thought tonight's speech was even better than the one he gave when announcing his presidency!

[JayMusgrove]

12. I know something about commerce.....I buy stuff

Sarah Palin should qualify, too!

I love her outfits, and they boost the American economy.........Sarah Palin for Sec of Commerce.

Get her out of national press for four years.

Any other Republicans?

[Spazito]

14. Here is a link from msnbc....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/29170751#29170751

Edited to add:

I just watched the speech at the above link and President Obama's speech really was incredible. It made me realize that Obama, with his great human touch, brought to the fore Lincoln's humanity as well. In doing that he gave me a picture of Lincoln I did not have before. I knew of Lincoln as "the Great Emancipator" which, even that alone made him a great man but Obama spoke about the things Lincoln did and said, outside of the civil war, that makes him an even greater man than I had thought him.

Obama seamlessly wove both the state of the nation during Lincoln's time and the state of the nation today together, using Lincoln's words and his deeds, in a masterful way. Even the insertion of the "commerce secretary" joke was seamless and very funny.

[KittyWampus]

15. whaaaaaat? what? come on what did I miss WHAT?!

[roguevalley]

16. I think on Keith, someone said they had phone type contraptions

back then. I loved that statement and the cute little chuckle. I love his chuckle.