TheHeretic
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Joined: 3/25/2007 From: California, USA Status: offline
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Sanity, what you need to keeping in mind here is the setting. This is a traditional event, and the rules are different. We don't pay the President to be an edgy political stand-up comedian, but once a year, the staff write jokes, and he runs with it. What gets said at the Correspondents Dinner, stays there. Last year (iirc), Bush II had a look-a-like up there, playing his inner voice. He would mouth the usual pc muck, and the impersonator would say what he was really thinking. Did you catch the part of his speech where Pres. Obama accused Hillary of wanting him dead, and maybe trying a little? Did you notice the inside jokes that bombed (but a few rofl'd)? How about where he announced he was just going to speak off the cuff, and the teleprompters came up? He was good. We should cut him the slack the audience does, if we want to catch his act on this night. Of course, the same should apply to Shrub's hunt for the WMD, but I've given up hope of intellectual honesty in some quarters.
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If you lose one sense, your other senses are enhanced. That's why people with no sense of humor have such an inflated sense of self-importance.
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