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President Obama (and Sandra Day O'Connor & Jeb Bush) cracks jokes at elite Alfalfa Club dinner
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... The president usually speaks last at Alfalfa, but the White House got him booked in the middle of Saturday’s dinner. (He also joked that he had “about 45 more minutes on the State of the Union that I’d like to deliver tonight,” and mused about his own “promising future — as an Al Green impersonator.”) After his speech, he and Michelle Obama (in a flowing, violet dress) got the heck out of there, which left some guests grumbling and some speakers scrambling to jettison jokes that needed POTUS in the room to work.
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It’s ironic, the retired Supreme Court justice quipped: Mitt is the Mormon — but Newt is the polygamist. (Paraphrasing here, via guests who leaked the night’s best gags.)
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With two presidents in the family, he (Jeb Bush) said, you got to deal with a lot of bossiness. “If I say, ‘Who put you in charge?’, Dad says, ‘The American people.’ And George says, ‘The Supreme Court, five to four.’ ”
Musing about the 2012 GOP hopefuls, Jeb went on, “The field was so muddled, at one point my brother was thinking about running again. ‘George,’ I said, ‘The Constitution prohibits you from running again.’ He said, ‘Wow, they put my name in the Constitution?’ ”
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Full article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/president-obama-attends-elite-alfalfa-club-dinner/2012/01/28/gIQATk33YQ_blog.html?wprss=rss_lifestyle
... The president usually speaks last at Alfalfa, but the White House got him booked in the middle of Saturday’s dinner. (He also joked that he had “about 45 more minutes on the State of the Union that I’d like to deliver tonight,” and mused about his own “promising future — as an Al Green impersonator.”) After his speech, he and Michelle Obama (in a flowing, violet dress) got the heck out of there, which left some guests grumbling and some speakers scrambling to jettison jokes that needed POTUS in the room to work.
SNIP
It’s ironic, the retired Supreme Court justice quipped: Mitt is the Mormon — but Newt is the polygamist. (Paraphrasing here, via guests who leaked the night’s best gags.)
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With two presidents in the family, he (Jeb Bush) said, you got to deal with a lot of bossiness. “If I say, ‘Who put you in charge?’, Dad says, ‘The American people.’ And George says, ‘The Supreme Court, five to four.’ ”
Musing about the 2012 GOP hopefuls, Jeb went on, “The field was so muddled, at one point my brother was thinking about running again. ‘George,’ I said, ‘The Constitution prohibits you from running again.’ He said, ‘Wow, they put my name in the Constitution?’ ”
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Full article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/president-obama-attends-elite-alfalfa-club-dinner/2012/01/28/gIQATk33YQ_blog.html?wprss=rss_lifestyle
Edited to add...
MORE remarks from President Obama at the dinner here: http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2012/01/excerpts-from-president-obamas-remarks.html
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I can imagine Dubya saying that 
