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Sometimes I wonder how it would be if the Republicans stop being bigots, close-minded, haters, hypocritical, self-righteous and know-it-all-but-no-proposal-at-all. It would not be good. If they become tolerant, open-minded, truthful, self-analytical and proposed better solutions, then the Democratic Party would lose its single best recruiter. So... thanks for all the absurdities and unbelievably un-Christian comments, right wing nuts.

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Please stop deifying this man. He's a politician and a lawyer, not the Dalai Lama or the Buddha. He is representing his personal view of the way forward and pressing his current perceived political advantage to the maximum total yield. He is however beginning to run into the washington wall. His proposed budget cuts are not sitting well with any one and there will be plenty of begging and backroom dealing to get any of them implemented, even if they find the funding down the road as long as the press can say he cut these programs their job will be done, like the bonuses paid to wall st execs at christmas. Obama and geithner knew the bonuses were going out, they inserted language into the bailout legislation specifically allowing those bonuses, then acted outraged when the media picked up the story. They let the bonuses go forward, they knew and then acted indignant on behalf of an angry public, typical washington politics, not any sort of change at all, but then what would you expect from a politician and a lawyer.

I'm a 72 year old white guy that grew up in the deep south when it was cool to be a biget. I have lived under U.S. Presidents since FDR. Barack Obama is the most intelligent, thoughtful, hardworking President since Thomas Jefferson. It does not mater that he is (half) black. It maters that he is a good man and that he WANTS to do well....and what it right and good for this country.

I am one WHITE GUY that is finally VERY PROUD of my country for a change. And what a change it is, following 8 tears of the "Village Idiot" from texas....my state. So, while I'm also proud of Texas, I am not all that proud of our late President.

Ladies and gentlemen, I love this President and his wonderful little family. They are just perfect to present America to the world. (My Opinion)

Teleprompter? President Obama has given many many speeches without a teleprompter. One in particular on the night he won the Presidency. Brillant. But of course you republicans didn't see that.

A Lot Of You People Are So Right, President Obama Is A Very Good,
President, Look At what He Has Done In His First 100 Days,Those Clowns
On Talk Radio , and The Republican Losers, Just Hate That A Black Man
Is Leading The Country,If They Know So Much Why Don't they Shut Their
Big Mouths Do Something In Their own Communities,How About Ideals,TheyThink They Are Smarter Then The People, That More Half The Nation Voted for.Now Run And Tell That,Put That, In Your Pipe And Smoke It.

The only skill he has is lying. Name one campaign promise that Uncle Tom has kept? Better yet, when has he once listened to the people? Adress the issues. Bush's War Crimes, the War in Iraq, illegal alliens we don't want in Our Country, Legalizing weed, punish Big Oil for screwing us so long, Haliburton's missing 8 Billion, no Social Security cost of living increase and the shaft we're taking to bail out the Special Interest Groups (who will be there in force tonight).
Maybe he should go on TV less + start listening to what the majority of this Country has to say. The way he listens you would still think Bush is in office.

You'll have to give the President time. Let's not forget that the elephants have been in the White House for 8 years now. That's a lot of **** to clean up. If anything I think he needs a bigger shovel and some waders.

He is a JOKE all the way!!!

All you frickin haters!! Obama is intellectually brilliant, he's articulate and funny, and has an actual personality, which is more than can be said about most politicians. America is still so racist, yeah, that's why folks don't like him. A black man outshines a bunch of white guys, people can't deal with that. He is top notch, so lay off, haters. This written by a middle aged white female.

I thought the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York City last year was very funny. I am sure he will have something up his sleeve. But humor is the last thing i require in my president.

Of course Barack will be funny tonite. He's got a wonderful sense of humor. He is intelligent and humble. Most important, perhaps, he's the one who took on the challenge to lead this country out of the crisis state resulting from 8 long humorless years. Anyone who can clean up the mess left behind from the Bush / Cheney administration and deal with negative right-wing neo-con nay-sayers has got to maintain
a sense of humor.

I can't wait to see the highlights on the Sunday talk shows.......

I find it to be bizarre that writers (comment posters) take the time to quibble and argue about nonsense, and the big picture gets lost. No wonder that the USA has an education deficit, the proof is abounding.

Seriously? Teleprompters. That's all you've got huh? Sounds like a pretty good President to me when all those who want to hate him can only think up crap like that.

After 8 years of Bush, we all need a little laugh.

Whatever the president says tonight, it cannot compare with our last president, who made a "joke" at this very dinner about not being able to find weapons of mass destruction. There's nowhere to go but up after that.

And he actually is a funny guy, we just don't get to see it often. Because he actually is taking his job seriously, what with the economy, two wars, unemployment rising, Pakistan, etc.

I hope he has a great time tonight, he deserves it!

A word to the unwise: If you cannot seem to formulate an articulate, gramatically sound statement, then you have no business bashing a president that has your best interests in mind. Stop twiddling away at your keyboards and pay some attention to the further mockery you are making of your flailing party. Yes Republicans, I'm talking to you. Take a break from your hate-mongering and get hooked on phonics. Your mothers would be appalled. If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything!

President Obama is very funny.At least we can laugh with him and not at him,like the moron before him and the children that post their hate speech here.

I can understand why some very disappointed Republicans and
right-wingers make disparaging remarks about President
Obama. They lost, they lost big, and their party "leaders" are
wandering around trying to figure out who they are and what they
believe in. It seems all they are left with is vitriole, nastiness, and
outright lies. The president works. The president works hard. He puts in more time than most and has many more problems to deal
with than most did in their early days in office. If the naysayers want
their voices to be heard, they might try speaking in a way that would
make people want to listen. For right now, most anti-Obama posts
sound like bullies trying to start a fight on an elementary school
playground. Former Republicans like myself walk away and will
continue to do so.

When a highly intelligent man speaks, there are those who try to denigrate him in defense of the fact they do not understand him since he speaks above their level of understanding, and they hide that fact with vicious criticism..

Bush looking for WMD's in the Oval office wasn't funny either. You haters need to stop whining although I know that won't happen.

Guess what Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States of America and as such he can and will participates in all the same activities that all other Presidents before him have. He will use the White House, the Presidential airplanes and helicopters and security just as all other Presidents before him have. He Will take vacations, travel overseas and live in luxury just like the previous President and all the other Presidents before and after him. His wife and children will also be afforded the same privileges and luxuries and security as all other First Families have had. That being said people get over your hatred it is really petty.

I'm sure by now Weary Barry can find SOME ONE that has skill and a sense of humor to write him a better skit than all his past speeches, or bits.

And as long as he uses his teleprompter, I'm sure he'll read the words well. As he has said, When it comes to reading someone elses written words, "I'm gifted".

mmmhmmm...now that's funny.

It won't be a long speech because they probaly don't use a teleprompter. Obama couldn't get the inagural swearing in right, so tonight ought to be funny.

the best thing he could do for his career is sit there and shut up.

What the Whitehouse needs more comedians.

He'll be himself and he'll be fine. He's got a great sense of humour/humor and it is wonderful that he is natural about it.. His twinkling eye is natural, his smile is natural, he smiles and laughs naturally when he is amused. Let's be thankful that our President sets a good example. It's good medicine for everyone..

The president will be funny . Ronald Reagan used a telaprompter as did most of our presidents. So what's the big deal? If that's the best the repos can do let them have at it. Most are a bunch of ill informed illerate Rush Limbaugh groupiesanyway. What can you expect from the no we can't party anyway. Christianity apparently means we are good and if you don't agree you suck and will go to hell. Texas should seceed. Either seceed or permently move the special olympics to texas.

Can't see why he needs to be comedian now. The fact that he fooled so many people into thinking he was the next "Martin Luther King" and talked his way into office was the biggest joke he could have ever made!

Woo Hoo they say "Proceeds from the dinner will help feed the hungry and fund journalism scholarships."

I'm HOPING that they'll send those clowns over at Fox to cash in on the journalism scholarships. Lord knows they need it.

Bush always used the telepropter but still could not deliver eligible speech to the world! Presid. Obama knows how to work it that is why you think no other presid. has ever used it! Call a spade a spade...POTUS is good...We all know it is typical "Jealousy" and "Spin" from the likes of 'Texas voter'.

TCM: It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Perhaps the reason George Bush skipped this event is that HE always ended up being the joke whenever he spoke. He put his foot in is mouth so many times that we learned a new word... "Bushisms". It's good that Obama has the presence to take a break from cleaning up the mess of the previous administration to lighten up and laugh.

CORRECTION:

TCM: Every mule has to bray one in awhile and this is your time.

AWOL from the military. Drunk Driver. Cannot read even from a teleprompter. Did almost NO public appearances without being on a military base (wish someone would actually count those up...). LIED to us to get us in a war. Betrayed us all by flying the Bin Laden family back to Arabia secretly before letting us know what was up. GEORGE BUSH! BOBBLE HEAD PRESIDENT! I cut my list short cause my wife called me to eat supper. Wish BUSH and his fans would be called up to EAT SOME CROW!

Sue May 9th, 2009 4:26 pm ET

Dear Professional Liberal Blogger "GOP RIP",
How do you know that Obama is intelligent, intellectual, analytical, articulate, and Finally well-educated?
He spent high school in a drunken, drugged haze(as per his own words), he won't give up his grades from college(Occidental or the Ivies), he seems analytical b/c he has to get his hundreds of advisors to tell him the answer, and he's articulate b/c then those advisors put the words on the teleprompter.
Finally well-educated? You need to get out of the hypnotic state you're in!
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Sue, he has accomplishments to prove it. Similarly, you have this post to prove you're an idiot!

I voted for Obama, even though a Rebublican. He has what it takes to lead this troubled world, and he is doing it. He is Zen, has the presence of the Divine, and will go down in the history books as changing this pathetic world to a more respectful, diverse, Equal-Opportunity, and not bigoted.

Wow- sum folks r just imbeciles...President Obama has been in office just under 4 mos and he is a failure and has ruined the country?!!! That's priceless...we had Dubya who though he was Napolean Bonaparte of the 21st century that ran wild starting a war that BANKRUPTED us because of some vendetta he had against Hussein...Bin Laden is still running around and because of his deregulation of wall street we r facing utter devastation and so Obama comes along trying 2 do the best he can with the pile of dung he was left 2 fix and retardlicans r complaining that he ddnt fix the world in 180 days!!!! Then they say that the president's supporters think he's Jesus!!! WOW...President Obama could find the cure 4 cancer and AIDS and end all poverty in the world and the repubs would complain that he didn't do it quick enuff! Those ppl r impossible- exile them! Give the 500 repubs left yheir own island- let Mccain and Palin run it and take all of the wall street execs and let them bankrupt their own economy!!!

Every mule has to bray one in awhile and this is your time.

All these complaints about progress? Everyone wants instant gratification instead of doing some hard work and making a change in their own life that could make a difference. It's easy to blame a hundred day old president for all the problems his predecessors have created. I think all the critics should take a good look at their selves instead of looking for a government hand out.

wow people, this is a light hearted event. don't take it so seriously.

Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!

Okay well where isi t then? I mean I really wasn't that rough on the GOPwhat gives???

How can he miss with a team of joke writers to rival Jay Leno and, of course, a couple of teleprompters to keep him on script. Watch for a lot of George Bush jokes as Obama always blames him for everything.

Our president is both gracious and eloquent.Smart and funny. I think all these peope that have nothing but nasty things to say are unpatriotic. The fact that the man is intellegent and working his tail off seems to fly right over these morons heads. Most seem to be good ol boy Rush limbaugh fans who profess being christians but make fun of every other race and religion. They panic when they hear his middle name. Like by just saying it they will all turn into muslims or something . Get a grip people. He is doing a great job durning a very bad time. Let's move forward for a change.

Obama is such a breath of fresh air. Not much is said about his 10 years teaching constitutional law without a teleprompter, must have faked it. I mean graduate from Harvard Law School piece of cake, what dumb-ass couldn't accomplish that. He sure fooled Michelle, maybe she was a quota graduate. Hmm, maybe she wrote his books obviously he's not literate enough.

Let me see pro-choice, shift balance of power in the Supreme Court, Stem Cell revitalized, global warming acknowledged, closing tax loop holes for tax avoiders, putting limits on banks to keep them from looting their patrons, gay rights being addressed, especially in the military , separation of church and state. -

My prayers have been answered which would lead me to believe God has chosen sides at last and allowed evolution to prevail. The black race is the chosen few and Darwinian Theory is prevailing. Fortunately, the Republican Party’s embracing the Christian right has alienated God at an appropriate time in history to allow natural laws to prevail.

I feel blessed to be one of the superior minds that is able to see the irony of Gods work as it unfolds, 2012 will be the turning point in mans history. Gays, Blacks, Mexicans and all other minorities will join together and embrace whites and ask them to join together for a more compassionate, unconditional loving, tolerant and peaceful 21st Century.. American and un-American will join God. HE, in his wonder, has found new meaning in "Cosmic Joke". May we all be in on it too!

I REALLY like Obama ... but after 4 months of unemployment, I really don't have a lot of humor left.

This highly intelligent, exquisitely educated man and his wife Michelle are the best thing that has happened to this country since it broke from England.

Comedian! not the best, but comedian.

Man, "mike" people like you make me vomit. The man's been in office for less than a year and you put all of GW's bull crap into Obama's lap. Should be get GW and Cheney back into office to finish off the crap that they started 8 yrs. ago? Get your head out the sand.

I cant wait to see this! Barack has always shown great humor throughout his campaign and presidency!

I've only seen 3 presidents in my lifetime and Obama is by far the best one! hands down!

I'm looking forward to next 8 years of greatness here in America..under President Obama of course!

Thank You!

Yo Obama, are you going to tax me via cap and trade for expelling CO2 when I breath?

Carolyn McLuskie – First of all, Bush never tortured anyone and certainly those individuals that were subject to enhanced interrogation techniques were not and are not "innocent" as you put it. But if you want to believe it was torture, then Speaker Pelosi stood by and did nothing to stop it. Next, if Bush lied to get us into a war with Iraq, then Bill and Hillary Clinton lied, so did John Kerry and Al Gore, Madeleine Albright, the United Nations, the British, German, and French intelligence agencies, and I could keep going. If Bush lied then he was the smartest man in the world because he got everyone else to say the same lies while he was Governor of Texas and before when he owned a baseball team. Next, we could debate for days whether the federal government was responsible for the aftermath of Katrina, but the fact is that thousands of people didn’t die in New Orleans, the actual number was 1,464, of which over 90% died due to the actual hurricane and drowned due to the levy breach, not of thirst hanging out waiting for FEMA to save the day. So if you expect your President to save people from Hurricane’s, then good luck. The rest of your diatribe isn’t worth responding to, as your intelligence, or lack thereof, speaks for itself.

Certainly Obama will be funnier than Bush, who joked about looking for WMDs under his desk with thousands of US soldiers killed, tens of thousands wounded, and hundreds of thousand of Iraqi's killed, wounded or displaced.

Carolyn McLuskie – could you possible write something with more falsehoods and lies. Actually, I don't think you lied, unfortunately, I actually think you believe what you wrote, which is a shame, since there are many people out there, like yourself, that vote. First of all, Bush never tortured anyone and certainly those individuals that were subject to enhanced interrogation techniques were not and are not "innocent" as you put it. But if you want to believe it was torture, then Speaker Pelosi stood by and did nothing to stop it. Next, if Bush lied to get us into a war with Iraq, then Bill and Hillary Clinton lied, so did John Kerry and Al Gore, Madeleine Albright, the United Nations, the British, German, and French intelligence agencies, and I could keep going. If Bush lied then he was the smartest man in the world because he got everyone else to say the same lies while he was Governor of Texas and before when he owned a baseball team. Next, we could debate for days whether the federal government was responsible for the aftermath of Katrina, but the fact is that thousands of people didn’t die in New Orleans, the actual number was 1,464, of which the majority died due to the actual hurricane and drowned due to the levy breach, not of thirst hanging out waiting for FEMA to save the day. So if you expect your President to save people from Hurricane’s, then good luck. The rest of your diatribe isn’t worth responding to, as your intelligence, or lack thereof, speaks for itself.

Yes, Osama Obama's a joke alright. His spending like a drunk sailor is an even bigger joke and the way he is trashing the Constitution and endangering the security of the country is an even bigger joke! What's the ultimate punchline? Another 911 by his Islamist buddies? I can hardly wait.

Does everyone truly believe that this "mess" that we are in just happened overnight? People wakeup, this was coming and those of you that praise Bush walked though 8 (EIGHT) YEARS with you EYES CLOSED SHUT. Why weren't you complaining when we didn't find all those WMD? Why weren't you complaining when gas prices were $4+? Why weren't you complaining when they tortured all those people over there? Why weren't you complaining about all the soldiers that were getting killed 'for Bushes'. Why weren't you complaining when all the nations of the world practically turned their backs on us (Name 7 countries that would come to our aid in the next hour if we needed them). The problem was there and no one wanted to see it or hear about it. Everyone just went "ah, the new president will straighten everything out". Well, it doesn't work that way.

We as a country don't get this way in a month, 6 months or a year. It was slowly coming year, after year, after year and everyone of us, YES ALL OF US, are to blame for sitting on our butts and not raising our voices to change a dang thing. In the 60's and 70's we were heard, but now, just a bunch of prissies – who cheat and want it all – don't want to work for it – would rather steal from those of us who've worked hard all our lives and now some of us have lost it all – and YOU – all you want to do is point fingers instead of trying to be the solution to the "problem". Remember, the elected officials work for US! WE voted them in.

If you all sit back and think about how bad our own government shafted us in the past eight years and we did NOTHING.................. then you'll see how stupid we all look complaining about a dinner that Obama is going to.

The Republican is join the Democratic party like a stampede herd of Texas Longhorne. Way to go Democratic.

Stuff it Mike. Obama didn't make the mess this country is in in the span of just over 100 days. This is the result of eight years of the Bush Republican Administration and Big Corporate greed. Pipe down and crawl back in your hole. This country doesn't need the ignorant poison that people like you spew. Now THATS FUNNY!

I always thought his best comedy act was hook winking people to vote for him. LOL, LOL, LOL.

Reply to: whaley41.

President Bush is a completely different kind of guy; he is expected to make not goofs big huge blunders. He had a way about him that the comedians loved "open mouth, stick foot in" Every time he open his mouth, a blunder came out but ask any GOP and they'll tell you they love him any way.

With this President, it seem no one expects a mistake as they bash him using teleprompters and ever reading from a script. Well...too bad, Senor Bush made mistakes read simple script and NO he could not use a teleprompter either; he makes a goof ball if he ever tried to use one.

My comments were that he President is human and there's nothing wrong making mistakes once in a while; after all he is not in a straight jacket and should time to laugh at himself. That's human!

Take a look at his grin...is it not funny and fun to have a real guy in the White House instead of one who is far withdrawn from the human society?

If I was in DC when he and the VP stopped for burgers; I'd have loved to buy them both a couple. That's change!

We Obama supporters have nothing to worry about, Barack will be good and deliver like always, I'm pretty sure the only way he could give the GOP some fire power in this issue if he choked on pretzel or went on a hunting trip and accidently shot one of his friends in the face, oh wait.

Carol L should take a chill pill with her attack on a contributor – and so should those who are so negative towards the president. I'm a Republican, I didn't vote for him, and I don't like all of his policies and actions but I'm not so blind that I can't see that we needed a change. It'd be better if he didn't have to kow-tow to the left leaning side of his party and would be even better if Reid and Pelosi got trapped in the Yucca Mountain when they close it down so they couldn't try to press their agendas (OK, maybe I need a chill pill) but overall I'm giving him a chance. Certainly being focused on the green economy, ending tax cuts that support moving jobs overseas, and being less confrontive in our foreign policies are things I see as being good. GM, Chrysler, AIG, Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac bailouts and support for unions... well, not so much. But in general I'm giving him a chance – a chance that I hope both Republicans and Democrats give to each other rather than keep up these attacks.

The CNN live coverage of tonights gala affair really is lousy live coverage.

It's a lighthearted evening...everyone needs this...even the President who has had such a huge agenda since taking office. He deserves to enjoy an evening such as this!

For all you guys who've finally come down to complaining about a Teleprompter -

ALL Leaders use it! Go back to all the way to Moses! He had but 10 simple commandments to read out and was so scared of screwing it up. So what did he do?

He carved it on a frekin' stone!!

I bet they don't make any jokes about monkeys.

It will be hard to top his biggest joke.....his economic plan.

He is both and isnt good at either. Look at the Job Market, Look at the Economy, look at the overall health of the USA. Obama;s only comic relief would be to be Leader and his leadership is a JOKE,

So I Guess Obama Is A Comedian.

A great man is leading our country for a change. He and his wife are both smart, role models who will do more for this country than any president in recent years, and more than that, will make a difference in the world. People who want the "old ways" that didn't work, and who are bigots, need to get a life somewhere else. Our country doesn't need you.

"For the first time, I am not proud of my country" from Texas voter. Why is it when liberals say that, it means they hate America, but when you say it, you're a proud American? Hypocrisy, thy name is Texas Voter.

Unemployment would be a lot higher if Bush was still in office. Businesses tend to do better when a Dem is in office. Know your history

I voted for Sadam Hussein Obama....!!
Did I get ripped off?

Of course it will be funny. The jokes will be written by comedians and professional writers. Anybody can be funny when they have jokes written for them. This story really isn't all that interesting.

"Obama, Democrats and 9% unemployment. Funny?
I think not."

Clearly Mike has no understanding of cause and effect. Eight years of disastrous economic policies and one should expect a year or two of cleanup and hardship by a competent president.

The laugh is on you! For the sake of being serious though "mary smithy" said the President is one big joke!

This is so funny; how is he a big joke? He did not cause the finincial markets to crash, nor did he cause the housing crash. I am quite sure no President and that means DEM or GOP could have done better than he is trying to do.

It is impossible for any human who has one ounce of common sense to blame this President for the dismal state we are in today.

He is doing more than is expected to help those who are out of work and to rebiuld the trust needed in the finincial markets.

As you stated he being a big joke; take a close look at yourself and you'll see the joke is on you.

Even my 19 year old daughter who found work last year; just after her 18th birthday, is not complaining. She began college and is doing fine, plus making money for her own affairs.

Yes, it is bad all around to to blame the President is a sin; in just over 100 days in office, he could not do more than he has done so far.

At least, he is not chopping bush as our previous President did while taking vacations once every month.

All you idiots! Did you elect a comedian or a president? Why does the president have to be funny, drink with the 'Joes', pack a gun or all the foolish prototypes that people have come to associate with a prsident? He only has to know how to lead a group of intelligent people. Thats all he needs. And he does that excellentlt well.

Maybe he can make more jokes about the disbled who participiate in the Special Olympics...

Stop criticising the president. He inherited the mess from the previous incompetent administration. He is doing tremendous job in trying to fix the mess that he was left with. He is the best one we had since Clinton.

If you think the democrats are to blame for 9% unemployment or ANY part of this recession, you obviously weren't paying attention to the previous 8 years of cronyism and pandering to the rich that went on while the worst president in the history of the United States of America was in the office. The Worst President in the History of the United States of America ruined what the democrats created...a surplus, decent standing (politically and militarily, if not morally though they sure didn't help that either) in the world, and the idea that the American people vote based on the quality and competence of a candidate for president, not on manufactured fear. Bush was an abomination. Republicans are an abomination.

You are absolutely right Carolyn. Anyone who has a basic understanding of economics should realize that all economic policies have roughly a 12 to 18 month lagged effect. Ergo, the mess we are still trying to dig ourselves out of is still the product of the prior administration. There is no quick fix, and if you think tax cuts are the solution when consumer confidence is at an all time low, you are as ignorant and provincial as our last president. Let's take another look at the state of the economy in early to mid 2010 and begin to judge Obama's approach at that time. Many of the critics will be very surprised. Those of us that are educated and/or take time to actually think about the issues won't be surprised at all.

As Funny as Kraimer.

Lamar in Dallas, TX May 9th, 2009 4:35 pm ET

Obama Rocks!

Of course he will be funny!

And you hate mongers who keep dissing our president, you need to watch a little less Fox News!

You Rock, Barack!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

AMEN BROTHER!!!!!!

Lori,

What's even more funny is that the Democrats are no better than the Republicans. lol. Time to wake up.

It really seems distasteful how the elite are out there once again flaunting their wealth while millions upon millions of people are struggling to put food on their table and keep their homes and jobs.

This is a perfect example of how the President, Politicians and the Media are so out of touch with this nation.

We are going through one of the worst economic times in recent history and yet this White House seems to spend so much money and time partying oblivious to the rest of the nation.

It is really disappointing ......we thought this President was going to be different...instead he is more of the same!

Just ask all the people who have lost there jobs and see how funny it is.

There is nothing more amusing reading comments bashing Obama based on his teleprompter use, comments stating that he is inarticulate (come on, really?) and then laughing to myself at how completely poor the grammar and spelling are in each and every comment attempting to drop him down a notch. From what I can tell half of CNN's comment posters should live their lives with a teleprompter or at least someone to write and edit their comments for them. An example...
"He have earned his PHD on how to use teleprompter properly."
I also heard racism and bigotry are funny again, so that's kinda cool. I also don't know why we care what Texas voters think anyway; if they have it their way, pretty soon they won't be a part of the United States at all. I don't see too many Canadians writing on here, do you?

And in all fairness, most of you guys from the super left: Please, please, please! Go get your English 101 notebooks, re-learn what a comma splice is and start spell checking your comments first. There is no country called afghan (uncapitalized).

Boy, I have never seen such unwarranted animosity! Barrack Obama is a fine man and a fine president!!

I'm all humored out at the way everything is analysed. Nothing is spontenious anymore, and when someone is spontenious, they're dragged over the coals for it. Isn't it about time this great country relaxed a little bit and started to have fun? In the words of the Joker...'why...so....serious?'

To respond to someone else's comment about Obama "thinking things through for a change". Gitmo is a great example of how Obama doesn't think things through. Ge goes off half-cocked about "closing Gitmo in a year" without coming up with a plan first on what to do with detainees, which we are still waiting on.

Obama thought he was going to embarrass bush by revealing torture memos to the public. Obviously his staff didn't read them over, because if they did, they wouldn't have egg on their faces having to publicly admit the "torture" got us vital information to protect the country. Obama didn't think that one through.

Then he gives the British prime minister a totally thoughtless gift, obviously not doing his homework before his two daughters recieve lavish dresses, and a leatherbound winston churchill biography from the brits.

then he goes off half cocked about bombing pakistan even though Musharraff is an ally of ours, but then talking about "mutual respect with iran." Obama appears to be tough on our allies, and soft with our enemies, which just ends up rewarding those who treat the US like garbage, and punishes those who treat us well. Obama needs to think through his foreign policy statements before he says them.

The funniest thing is the republican party falling apart and Limbaugh, Hannity and Paling falling with it.

I think Obama has many good ideas, one is educating our childern and the stupid rednecks from down south so some day a generation will learn how to spell and write complete sentences. Talk note you bunch of hicks...there is more to life than fishin´, huntin´, and hatin´ . Go to school, learn a trade, get a real job and stop crying.

It is a shame that The president will allow the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a tradition that dates back to the 1920's. It's also a tradition that the president attends the dinner and not allow the Day of Prayer like all the rest of the good presidents of the past. Why is this any different unless the president not only this and uses our tax dollars to try and be funny when it is already funny he is even in the WH.

I am tired, tired, tired of these right wing comments about Obama. 8 years of a declining society, privatization, torture and deregulation that has put Americans at risk, finacialy, Economicaly, Enviromnetaly and ethicaly. It is no longer the power that anyother Country looks up to. The country would be in ruins had it continued on with the path of right wing extremist.

It amazes me that folks sit down and bash a president that has taken over the worst American state of affairs EVER. Yes some presidents had depressions and wars, but no president has ever has taken over with these kinds of multiple problems stemming from pure greed and irresponsiblity.

Ask yourself if you just vote and argue for one party no matter what they do are you supporting a democratic system. I think they need to start handing out some IQ pills for these Obama bashers.

Mike...you an idiot! If it wasn't for Bush and the republicans we would not be in this mess.

You may want to start using your head instead of following (like sheep) the Republican Party.

Unfortunately what is not so funny is the arrogance and ignorance, likely bigotry comments of some clearly Republican ( read "Repugnant" ) posts here that is breathtakingly sad for the rest of America. Some Republican ideology, administered in a small, measured way is part and parcel of a capitalist society. However what we see in these posts is a scary ideology of hatred that seems to have become well associated with the Republican party. As a Canadian, I wish Mr. Obama was the Prime Minister of Canada. In fact, I suspect most western countries are also green with envy.

You so-called Republicans should thank your lucky stars that you have a Great President. The BIGGEST JOKE that is NOT funny would be to see your beloved Palin serve as VP or some day even President.......God – or someone with tremendous power – help us all!

I thought his entire candidacy and presidency were both jokes. Zing!!!

The majority of the comments made below this article constitute the reason that President Obama will find it difficult to deliver any humorous material.

Bi-partisan extremists on both the left and right will use every syllable he utters into a microphone as evidence for or against both his effectiveness in office and his character in their embittered and pseudo-intellectual political slap-fights.

This, of course, is ridiculous in its own right. Many of the liberal/conservative bickering already taking place within the comments here are only the precursor to the oncoming media storm. Inevitably, something that the President says this evening will be misconstrued by leftists or rightists, and this intentional distortion of innocent humor will be propagated by most major media outlets.

This is the real country we have sunk to becoming. The one in which we judge a man's economic policies, his attitude toward war and intercontinental conflict, and his domestic policies based on the jokes he tells at a dinner party.

Until we "lighten up" as a nation, we won't see even the faintest glimpse of the true Barack Obama. He's going to have to stick to knock-knock jokes if he wants to leave the dinner with his public approval unscathed.

I prefer Nipsy Russell.

9% unemployment? Seriously, you think that was created because of this year? You can thank the past 8 yrs for that. Please do some reading before posting comments like that...

In which one of the 58 states will he be doing stand-up?

I could care less how funny Obama is. Obama needs to focus on what he needs to focus on and stop parading around the talk show circuit like a celebrity. North Korea just test fired an ICBM warhead, and Iran is looking to enrich uranium. Those are problems that need attention right now, not Obama's love affair with the spotlight.

I don’t understand liberals they don’t have moral problems with letting child molesters out of jail, or a democrat from CA profiting form government contracts, or letting underage girls have abortions; however, but poor some water on a terrorist face or put a caterpillar in his cell and they suddenly have all the morals in the world. Loose the politics, you don’t have any moral to hold on to unless they are politically motivated.

I don't like Obama.
You can make me like him>.
In the next four years, we all see if he did well>

All these hateful comments really get us no where. People need laughter, people need to smile. If all you have to contribute is hate, judgement, and rude comments, then nothing in any of our lives will improve.

Our President has a real sense of the big picture and where he fits into it. I appreciate his humor and his understanding and I, for one, am excited to hear what he will say.

I'm wondering a what point libs will stop blaming Bush for everything. He's gone people. You've got the House, the Senate and the Presidency. If the economy is still in the state it's in November of 2010, you'll have no one, I repeat NO ONE to blame but yourselves. Thankfully the one good thing that might come out of this is people will hopefully come to their senses and get rid of this do nothing Congress.

I dont care if hes funny. How much does the Dinner cost and whos. paying for it. enough is enough. Bush put us in the mess were in and If you think obama can fix it. I would like to know the what planet you live on. the fact is no one can fix this buy throing money at the problem.. So stop spending my taxes to bailout every one who comes crying.. I voted for the Obama and i have not seen any help to the problem. So i will now be both ill cry like the GOP and not pay my taxes like the DOC. To hell with all of them.

Looks like the anti-President Obama cadre is in good spirits tonight.

Guess they didn't mind former (what a blessed word) president Bush looking under the tables for the WMDs ... which a lot of us didn't think was very funny.

These 20%ers are mad because no one is paying them the slightest attention to the endless babbling. Nothing President Obama has done, is doing or will do will make them happy... enjoy a long, long 8 years ye unhappy few.

Yeah! Finally a President who I can laugh with and not AT. Also, he's not bad to look at either.

Republicans – you're pathetic! We finally have an articulate, intelligent and thoughtful president after eight years of citizens of this country and other countries around the world laughing AT Bush and you have the nerve to make negative comments. Shut up!

Mike, Flybyshoeing and Mary Smithy: Re-educate yourselves. Not even 4 months into his presidency and you think he should have it all fixed. Some advice: pull out your Econ101 book, or go buy one if necessary, and READ. There is no way this could have turned by now. You are choosing to be negative. Situations like we are in are not created overnight, nor are they fixed overnight – not even in 100 nights. This is not just a Barack Obama problem. Congress needs to get it together, too. John McCain would not have had the economy turned around by now either. However, I venture to guess that if he were in office you'd be saying "It takes time" and defending him. Party loyalism is not going to fix the problem. Join the conversation, don't just complain on the CNN sidelines.

Enjoy the fact that tonight is about tradition..GWB and his Dad did it, too. GW was actually funny at some of his!

You can't be serious all the time, take the dinner for what it is. The media criticizes Obama everyday and their gonna get upset about one night of fun. What gives?

if you really believe that the economy faring worse than it would have under McCain, then you are truly oblivious to reality. The majority of economists think the stimulus wasn't big enough, yet the Republicans in Congress have offered nothing but obstruction and old failed ideas, like tax cuts for rich people.

Have all the Obama-haters on this post forgotten that this man has been president for just over 3 months? It was YOUR administration's policies that got us into this mess.

I'm so weary of the pinhead, narrow minded, prejudiced, whiny, hostile, ignorant, barely literate, stupefying, loathesome, degenerate, ultra fundamentalist and hypocritical repugnicans. Other than that, they are quite intolerable.

The anti-Obama folks posting here are lemmings of Limbaugh, Coulter and Hasselbeck, and completely ignorant of what their own party USED to mean before the yahoos flocked to it and destroyed the party after passage of Civil Rights Act in 1965 (Lott, Specter, Duke, etc.)

It's so sad, but the good news is they are now easy to identify and step away from. Look @ them, laugh, then let them play w/each other, don't waste your time going back and forth with them. Smile while laughing because their misery shows with every post. What more revenge is needed. All that is left is for their heads to explode like Scanners movie. :-p

They'll then start turning on each other because they are miserable & can never be happy. These folks who have the luxury to sit and obsess about Obama are CLEARLY doing well – all their priorities are in order (house, car, food, health, etc.).

Meanwhile there are kids in hospitals wishing they could just have a basic day but can't, or only have a limited time on earth. And if they could have just one basic kid day, they wouldn't waste their time spreading hate about someone the head of the lemmings provided info about. The Limbaugh lemmings ARE afraid. They don't know what to think or how to act unless told, so they dress the same, talk the same and follow leads of others because they are so afraid of not fitting in with other crap.

So fugedaboutem! Let them follow their leader off a cliff while the rest of us just move on with our lives which involve humanity and a society which cares about god's most precious assets: people. Ironic given the titles consistently used next to their name are "conserve" and "christian" huh?

Nothing funny in the incompetence of this Administration and the media fawning over him is just disgusting. We need real investigative reporting before he destroys America and we look back and say how did that happen in this country with all of the Freedoms that we have.

How can the media and public buy anything these clowns try and sell?
Its like Shaggy's song "Say it wasn't You"

1. I never knew that Jeramiah Wright was so divisive
2. I never knew that Bill Ayers was radical and besides that stuff happened when I was a kid.
3. Tony Redzko was just an associate, nothing to see there.
4. Close Gitmo because I said so.
5. We will do everything in our power to protect the American people from a repeat of 911 except, We won't do that...
6. I will appologize to Europe for American Arrogance even though Europe would not exist today if it were not for American sacrifice.
7. What Bow to the Saudi King? That was a handshake don't believe your lying eyes.
8. I will appologize to Latin America for American dominance, even though it is false to suggest that America has dominated Latin America at any point in its history.
9. I bowl like a Special Olympics champ but I will beat them suckers at b-ball everytime.
10. AIG paying bonuses with the bail out funds, I am outraged, outraged even though I signed a bill that authorized it.
11. You can't listen to Rush Limbaugh, he doesn't agree with the Radical Liberal Progressive and socialist policy that I am going to implement because I won.
12 Did I mention I won and its gonna be my way, but hey about that bi-partisanship, I am trying my best to be bi-partisan you just need to agree with me because like I told you I won and you lost so get over it.
13. Has anyone seen the keys to AF1? Maybe my cabinet members should communicate amongst each other before something real serious happens, oh it don't matter the public will forgive me because they LOVE OBAMA....

Best of luck to him. He's doing a very hard job, and it's good to see he can keep his sense of humor.

I'm dumbfounded at the comments on this blog about unemployment and "lack of progress" somehow being the Democrat's fault. George and his buddies had the helm of the country for 8 years. Their policies and stupidity got us where we are now. Obama has been in office 120 days. Fixing these problems is not like balancing your home checkbook. What is the matter with you people?!?!?! Do you really think he can turn around this economic catastrophe in 3 months? And the best thing you can do is snivel, and attend an RNC-funded event called a "tea party", that was an obvious event for every nut case to make a mispelled sign and stand in front of TV cameras, spouting hate and stupidity. That's the best you can do?!?!?! Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Stop sniveling. Do something. Sniveling is what the Republican Party is doing right now. What is it getting them? The total disrespect of the American people. 21% and falling. Any clue why that might be?

You want to leave the country? Can I help you pack?

I did not support Obama in the primary and reluctantly voted for him in the general election and I still find if DISGUSTING that republicans are blasting him for unemployment rates, teleprompters and the national deficit. Where the hell was their outrage when Bush fumbled to create jobs, coherent sentences and national surpluses. On his worst day Obama is still twice the president, and man, that BUSH could ever be. I hereby request that every republican shut his mouth until he or she come up with a better plan than Obama is implementing. Its really easy to judge from the comfort of your lazy boy in your mobile home.

You know, just reading any of these blogs just make me sick. ALL of you are haters. One side isn't any better than the other. One side says hateful remarks about the President and the other side says hateful remarks about the first side. EVERYBODY grow up.

Mac

If it isn't enough that I have to listen to ignorant hillbillies making fun of Barack Obama, I now have to listen to grown-ups doing the same thing.

Kind of makes me sick to my stomach to think about it.

Jonathan Wolf
Pulaski, Tennessee

All he has to do is just stand there, he is one big joke all by himself

I love what Obama is about. We are so fortunate to have such a quality guy leading our nation. Little is made of his ten years teaching constitutional law classes, undoubtly, without a telepromter.

I'm excited to see someone take a position on the looting of bank customers, stem cell, separation of church and state, pro-choice, balancing the supreme court, eliminating tax havens for tax avoiders, reaching out to leaders of other countries with compassion and understanding that we're all in this together.

There must be a God – many of my prayers have been answered with many more on the way. I think the republicans deserve most of the credit for our blessing.s There incompetence has eased the path for most of this to occur. Please keep your negativity going it is lighting the path for evolution to take its natural course.

May you continue to blast away while we reap from what you sow. Thank you! – Thank you! Thank you !

I may become religious if this continues although it seems the power of the religious rigtht is creating most of this mess – right now I like the way it is going -go figure!

It's funny how many of you speak of President Obama using a teleprompter when so many other presidents used them. It's even funnier how George Bush didn't use one when he, more than any president since George Washington needed one.

We have a President now that communicates with us openly. He is a President we can laugh with unlike the last President we are still laughing at. I have no problem with him using the teleprompter but to all of you that have a problem with it please tell me where the teleprompter was when he so soundly defeated Senator McCain in the Presidential debates.

he already IS a funnyman. have you seen his budget? as long as the teleprompter doesn't malfunction, he'll be just fine.

You people who are hurting and complaining about the government not saving you deserve to be where you're at. You might have been dealt an unfair hand but whining about B.O. isn't going to fix it. Take some personal action and do what's necessary to get by. Not enough money? Get a second job. I've done it. I've worked three in a day MANY times. I voted for Barack, but I don't expect him to fix all of my problems, nor do I want him to. The government isn't responsible for your situation: you are. Life isn't fair, and all the entitlement programs in the world won't make that cold fact go away. I know there are people hurting out there, but with such a decline in our social and cultural value system, maybe that's a good thing in the long run. Stop whining and do some work!

We ,the common people of America, would like to be invited regardless whether our President tells a joke or just tells a story.
There are some other people we would like to see such as: Soledad, John Roberts, Kyra Phillips, John Hardwood, Wolf Bliltzer, Carville, Donna Brazille, John King, David Axlewood, Joe Scrabrough, Mike Barnacle, Valerie Jarrett, Robert Gibbs, Maria Shiver, Secretary Hillary Cinton, Secretary Eric Holder, Harold Ford, Senator Sherrod Brown, Chuck Todd, Ann Mitchell, Keith Olbermann,Chris Matthews, Colin Powell, Pat Buchanon, and Major Garett.
Smile for the camras- we, the common folks are watching and happy for you all. Be Blessed.

republicans please go to hell where you belong. take bushi ,cheney and all your tortureres.i respect osama bin laden better than you.you and your cronies created bin laden therefore you are responsible for 9/11.bush took from the poor to give to the rich and your majority back then in congress agreed.it is time we took over this country to punish all those rich individuals that stole to become rich

September 11th happened on (REPUBLICAN!) George W. Bush's watch. Go read the 911 commissions official report, I didn't need to... I work for the government. I know the former President was given a security briefing on Aug 4th 2001; It said this "Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are planning an attack in NYC involving airplanes." How much more info do you need?

And nothing AT all was done. I don't believe it was an inside job, I don't think the man even read the briefing memo. The funny thing is that all you moron Republicans say the same exact cut and paste answer "If was probably one memo that wasn't that important and one of many that morning." IT WAS THE DAILY INTEL BRIEFING!!!!

All you hating, cynical Republicans should really take a step back from the hate you feel for the Democrats, because it's us that saves your ass every time you screw the country up.

And by the way, I wanted to see President Bush succeed and do well. If he did well, we all did well. Thats the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. We are patriots no matter what party is in power. At the very least reserve your judgements of President Obama until you have reason to warrant your childish, petty behavior... Like we did, when President Bush began torturing people and getting troops killed for no reason... Did you see us on Sept 12 waving pitchforks and crying bloody murder that this man got the country attacked with his eneptness? Nope, we stood behind him and his leadership... Look what happened. We had ever right to complain, we had Nixon back in the White House. You have no right to complain, we are fixing the problems that you created.

It's amazing how you people naively act like the problems this country is facing mysteriously started just 3 months ago. NO PEOPLE! GW Bush started this mess, so quit with the selective memory and amnesia. No one with any sense thought Obama would fix Bush's mess in just 3 months. Now, a year from now, if we're still in this predicament, B.O will have earned half of the blame. But now yet! This is still Bush's mess!

Finally a wonderful president that can lead this nation. That alone is enough to be happy about. I love the guy. He was left a terrible mess by I am confident he can clean it up.

It is inaccurate reporting to say that Obama compared his bowling to the Special Olympics. He was reacting to the mock cheering that Jay Leno initiated (and the audience added to) upon hearing of his 129 score. Obama reacted spontaneously to the showering of mock applause, saying it felt like the Special Olympics. That was unfortunate of course, but not as bad as if he had somehow spontaneously compared his bowling to the Special Olympics. That would have been downright pernicious coming from a POTUS. It should simply be not be reported that he did so, because that's not what happened. Please correct your story!

Mike, did all of our problems begin in January, 2009? I THINK NOT!

Actually, all prior comments considered, nothing about this horrific president and his team is or can be funny.

Again, can we focus on news? Or are we to continue with the bread and circuses? And many of you have an unatural hatred of him, while others are using hero worship. There are so many problems now and we focus on this? Our biggest problem is a completely ignorant citizen base. Reading the comments proves it.

Carolyn, your head is not going to explode if you ween yourself off the DNC/MSNBC/Moore-on.org talking point and actually think for yourself.

Doesn't it bother you that you are conditioned to get hateful, angry, and mean when someone simply tells you the truth?

You can keep on hating us as long as you want, but when we decide that we don't want you libs to steal our money any longer, what will you libs do then?

Obama is an AWESOME president, and he is a funny guy at times...I think Michelle would be good to talk, she is always funny too. I love her, and am SO proud of them both, and I know he will do great tonight and make this country and others respect him even more than they already do. How blessed we are to have such a great family in the white house! AWESOME!!!

Wow, just look at my stupid Republican friends. Just say the name Obama and they go nuts.

Obama will be the one who pulls us out of the Republican created 9% unemployment.

Lets get our money out of 14 unnecessary Military bases in countries like the UK and put it into rebuilding our own home. If thewy want protection, they can pay us for it.

Time to take care of our people at home.

I'd like to see Stephen Colbert re-invited as keynote speaker. He had an excellent... 'speech' for Bush Jr. a couple of years ago, I think it's only fair to treat Obama to the same expose.

I think he's about the funniest thing we've ever had in the White House.

When are you sore losers going to get over the fact that Obama beat McCain? I've never seen a bigger bunch of whiners and complainers than those of you that put yourselves ahead of our country. Get over it – you lost. If you think we got a lemon, make lemonade, and enjoy the ride.

For everyone that keeps talking about the teleprompter thing .....
First .... ALL presidents use teleprompter ... get used to it. He's no different than other president ... except he does it BETTER.

Second ..... the only reason this is a issue is because the FOX news media created this thing about the teleprompter. Have you ever heard bush talk without a teleprompter? It's a complete joke. It's not even grammatically correct. Plz .... spare me the insults.

Why don't people just accept the fact that this guy is truly talented. You know, like he can make speeches, write book(s), and a great leader.
None of which Bush can do. Do you really think Bush can write a book without "coauthoring" it? Give me a break.

You don't have to like his policies or his ideas, but to criticize him for not being intelligent is just wrong. Not even the GOP have ever accused him of being "not intelligent" ..... well Bush ... that's another story.

The last four months have been a joke.

He's a man of the people.

Why do articles like this, intended to inform and mildly amuse, become platforms for political criticism. Read this article and take it for what its worth: O'Bama is participating in a tradition that often encourages light hearted self mockery. Bush did the same thing as did all his predecessors since 1920. Is this grounds for indicting O'Bama? No. Is it a place to sing his praise? Not unless you really like his jokes tomorrow. Readers, please put political perspective aside when reading the news. Don't take simple articles and force personal perspective into your reading of them. If you don't agree with a certain political decision, feel free to offer criticism, but the notion that this article could somehow be an indictment or promotion for O'Bama is absurd.

Love you Ted!

Let's hope those haters follow your guidelines and solve their mental problems!

obama is not really a comedian, however, he is a BIG JOKE and there is nothing about him or his intent desire to destroy our country that is funny.

Obama, Democrats and 9% unemployment. Funny?
I think not.

just to ask Texas voter a question who seems to think the president should NOT attend the dinner tonight - how long have these dinners been going on and how often have presidents missed them. Also TX voter did you complain when GW seemed to spends weeks clearing brush down your way?

nothing-else... May 9th, 2009 2:49 pm ET

nothing else really going for bo so he must turn COMEDIAN to cover
up th lack of progress on: jobs. banking and so on; everthing is getting worse no better and no joking and will make it so..????

Nothing-else is a good name for you because you having nothing else but hate. All this started on your boys watch. What did he do about it other than hide in the WH. He didn't even have the guts to talk to his country after the banking crash until he was forced 3 days later and then only spoke for 2 minutes. Stop with the BS

80% of cannot be wrong!!! *LOL*

Obama is ONE BIG JOKE!!!
Only none of us are laughing....just really really hurting.

Barack Obama has a sense of humor... .and that my friends is killing his opposition because THEY are the JOKE!

I love that our President has a sense of humor... unlike Cheney, he does not think he is the President of the World!

anyone who makes a joke at obama is a racis!

Agree with all the other comments - he could simply unplug the prompter, or talk about his $18B in cuts for his $500 trillion budget, and how every little bit counts.

I find it so ironic that all of these anti-Obama posts focus on his supposed dependence on the teleprompter, despite the fact that he has been cogent and fluid in countless unscripted debates and news conferences. Say what you want about his policies, but the man is NOT dependent on a teleprompter for eloquence. Or are we nostalgic for Bush and observations like "too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country"?

It will be a nice change to have a president we can laugh with,instead of at.....

I simply must comment on "Texas voter's" comment: "For the first time I am not proud of my country." So Texas voter is proud of a president who tortured innocent people, proud of a president who lied to get us into a war with the country that DIDN'T cause 9/11, proud of a president who did nothing while thousands of innocent people drowned in New Orleans, proud of a president who gave tax cuts to the rich and billion-dollar contracts to his military contractor friends, proud of a president who created the largest debt in history, and NOW he's not proud of his country. I've got some advice, Texas voter: Move to Saudi Arabia. That's where traitors like you belong. You don't deserve to be an America citizen. Those of us who are TRUE patriots will work side by side with our president to help rebuild our country and repair the almost irreparable damage that George Bush has caused to citizens here at home and to our reputation in the world. Bye-bye, Texas voter. You're going to LOVE Saudi Arabia - they have EXACTLY the same beliefs that you do - you'll feel right at home. Meanwhile, we're going to enjoy seeing a REAL president lead us back into the light, and yes, we will laugh again with joy to see the return of democracy to the U.S.A.

somthing else. when the quip about the special olympics is written, it is capitalized. When the quip was spoken, was it capitalized in the way Obama spoke? I think Special Olympics is great. But consider a moment how he said it. It was the media that jumped on it and made it more than it was. Stupid media.

So I guess he used a teleprompter when he soundly defeated McCain at every single debate huh? lol Honestly I think Republicans get more delusional by the minute. lol

TCM: Your anti-Obama brain is warped.. Do you recall your HERO George BUSH looking under the desk and behind the curtin to find WEPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION while 4500 GIs were geting killed and 1500 lost limbs, arms, eyesight and brain damage? HA, Ha that was a real funney act. Come on get a life you bigot

To Richard A. Spomer, of Alexandria, VA

What century are you living in? Your comments are stereotypical and hateful, and very outdated.. Even Marc Levin and Rush Limbaugh have updated their arguments beyond this message. President Barrack Hussein Obama... Feel how the words just roll off the tip of the tongue.

some of the comments got it exactly right . . . teleprompter!

To Richard A. Spomer, of Alexandria, VA

What century are you living in? Your comments are stereotypical and hateful, and very outdated.. Even Marc Levin and Rush Limbaugh have updated their arguments beyond this message. President Barrack Hussein Obama... Feel how the words just roll off the tip of the tongue.

Obama Rocks!

Of course he will be funny!

And you hate mongers who keep dissing our president, you need to watch a little less Fox News!

You Rock, Barack!

Do you all think that Obama is the first President to use a Teleprompter or something? All presidents use them, even youre beloved republicans, its the only way to deliver a proper speech when the entire world is watching you. You all hate on the teleprompter because you have nothing else to dislike about the man, good job!

@TCM

the real idiots in this country were people like you....who supported a president that destroyed everything we worked for...so what if it is scripted...IT'S NICE TO HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO THINKS STUFF THROUGH FOR A CHANGE....then some dude who makes irrational decisions.....i rather have him script everything he does...........stop worrying about people who support him and worry about the state of your party.......b/cuz right now.....there is one party in the US......and im glad it's that way...b/cuz it will take 20+ years to fix this country

ib and moses (not named for the "great" one obviously or at least you are mindless)
far left wingnut as opposed to the far right wingnut real nut who buried this country in the last eight years?
I am sure, moses, that you have never watched a televised press conference where the President answers questions without a teleprompter. Then again you are used to the pinhead we had who couldn't put one thought together.
Give it up! You lost the election and it had nothing to do with who can read better.

Hey Barack, here a joke I heard the other day, try it:

Levi Johnston, the former fiance of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol says he hopes they can reconcile at some point. He cited a popular Alaska phrase: "Four words: Make up sex."

His intellegence, his wit, his humor and last but certainly not least, his PLANS.

Get it you reptilious Repubs. PLANS.. Shed the cold blooded hate scales and skin for someone with PLANS to make our country great again! Don't miss the operative word here... PLANS... not silence!

The warmblooded among us... the human factor... with a sense of humor, unite!

Texas voter : What do you mean by work? Sitting in isolation at the WH and delegating everything to VP and the cabinet? You can call Obama many things but not working is the most hypocritical comment you can ever make. Bah!

Right-wingers who go on and on about the teleprompter (which every President uses) because they're defensive about the fact that their guy was a blithering idiot, and our guy is not.

Carry on.

For a change, we have a President who is intelligent and funny (as against Bush who was unintentionally funny but dumb as a tumbleweed). We're going through another Camelot with a newer, hipper, well-tanned JFK respected throughout the world and loved here at home by a majority of Americans. The conservatives of course are the only ones who still miss the humor of the evil three stooges, Bush, Chaney and Rumsfeld.

He's lucky he's a good president. I saw footage of the Al Smith dinner and he is NOT a good comedian. His material was good, but his delivery left much to be desired. He laughed at his own jokes–a no-no.

Stick to leading the free world, Mr. President. That's what you're good at. You have no future in comedy, no matter what the MSM says.

If you aren't going to give him credit for doing things right. Than why should we listen to you whine and cry when he makes mistakes? You all seem to act like he can't have any free time. Most Presidents have 3 things on their plate when they enter office. Obama has about 15 fol;lowing the worst President in history, He still find time to wipe of the ugly Bush caused us.

Dear Professional Liberal Blogger "GOP RIP",
How do you know that Obama is intelligent, intellectual, analytical, articulate, and Finally well-educated?
He spent high school in a drunken, drugged haze(as per his own words), he won't give up his grades from college(Occidental or the Ivies), he seems analytical b/c he has to get his hundreds of advisors to tell him the answer, and he's articulate b/c then those advisors put the words on the teleprompter.
Finally well-educated? You need to get out of the hypnotic state you're in!

Apparently in Texas you only have to be four months old to vote.

President Obama will be funny but he should not give republicans something to use against him... They will be there smiling but plotting at the same time... But guess what republicans and all those haters... No weapon formed against him shall prosper.

And texas voter tell me this you say for the first time you are not proud of your country. Tell me what's different. Cause unless you are very young you have had a democrat president before right? So what's changed?

Ask all these saps on here trashing Obama who they voted for in 2008 and 2004. I rest my case.

Obama is already a joke. His walking up to the podium will be nothing more than the punch line.

Obama has put in more hours in first 100 days than all 8 years of Bush, 4 years of the other Bush, and that senile Ronald Reagan combined.

But much, much, much, more of a Joker.

Why is everyone so worked up over this one President? (Here it comes) ... Is it because he's half black?..... I tell you, a lot of people are looking pretty unsophistacated in my opinion. I don't even understand why this is news haven't other Presidents joked in the past? We have a president that is actually TRYING and it seems to freak some people out. Do we not deserve better then that last 8 years? Or maybe some can't believe that he's actually doing so well? Whatever the case may be I'm glad to have a President that's TRYING!

I'm looking forward to watching tonight's dinner. President Obama has a great sense of humor that is obvious in a variety of settings.

President Obama is a genuinely caring, intelligent, articulate, peaceful, well-humored person who puts his beautiful family first. I think we'll see more of President Obama's humor tonight that I know he's excited to engage in.

Barack Obama has made me proud to be an American again like so many others I know. He has restored America's positive world image and I am proud to call him President Obama.

Thank you for all the incredible triumphs you have completed so far, Mr. President. Thank you.

Those of us who know he is such an improvement over what we had before can see that he has charm, intelligence and a sense of humor. Those (the minority) who also know he is better than what we had before, but cannot admit it, will find fault with any thing this man says. Who needs their opinion?

You know we knew during the elections that there were going to be people out there that would not like Obama no mater what he did. Even if somehow he took the entire earth and revered global warming and make it so every one lived in the garden of eden. He would still have hatters. But I have one thing to say since you say people that don't support torture and war and rich elite theives are brainless and whatever. Why won't you guys be real with yourselves and tell the real reason you don'tlike him. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

It's really frightening that someone as ignorant as "Texas voter" actually has a vote. For the first time in your adult life you're "not proud of our country?" Based upon your blog I wouldn't have guessed you were an adult at all.

Obama was terrific at the Al Smith dinner. McCain was even better.

President Obama will be what he always is – intelligent, genteel, kind, compassionate, gorgeous, charming, and a wonderful world leader!

The haters will continue to hate no matter what he does.

Hmmmmm wonder who will keel over dead first from too much cortisol and adrenalin?

Actually he is no joke. Graduating magna cum laude from Harvard law takes brains....and just for the books, if he uses a teleprompter at least (so far) he dosen't sound like a uneducated texan' that laughs at his own jokes and babbles non-existant words in his speeches.

Hey Otto, did liberals and the media say Bush was only human when he made a goof. Nope! They made fun of him for weeks and weeks.

I think his Special Olympics joke was his best one yet! I think it would be funny if he said something about the Republican party being a very "special" party, and then winked at the camera! haha hilarious!

Pres Obama has done an excellent job & people who say otherwise are from the party of "no" & no matter what Obama does they are out to tear him down. I am confident tonite will be another outstanding event for Pres Obama who will do a fantastic job.

With everything the Republicans have done to this country, he has a ton of fodder to rely on. It would be pretty funny, though, to read some of these racist, pathetic comments from these morons who have issues with grammar, and the truth.

CNN, get your facts right. Instead of recycling the talking point about how no president has gone on the Tonight Show and that Obama is the first, look back in history to confirm this. You don't even have to look that far. President Kennedy was on the Tonight Show in the 60's. The media is so lazy they wouldn't know what responsible journalism is if it hit them in the head.

hey, i have an idea..why don't we invite the italian clown Berlusconi as a foreign dignatary. nobody is funnier and more ignorant than him for now. he will definitely make our belly ache.

Texas voter or what did you call your self,are you better of the past 8yrs? you will never be proud of your country till you die haters get over it or go to afghan

Lori... you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You are what happens when someone has no idea about anything, then stumbles upon someone whom they think is a "saviour". The grand part is that this is precisely how they draw it up in the marketing before the campaign. Then sheep like you get suckered in. No President before or now ever cared about you individually, they have a Nation to run. The only legitimate position to take is in opposition to any administration, because unchecked power will always corrupt. Obama-ites now and Bush-ites before should learn that somewhere along the line. There is little difference between the parties, but they make it look so big. At the end of the day money motivates, and your idealism goes out the window.

@ HAD IT -

Hah! that's great! CNN = E GOSSIP....that sums up the credibility; puts them neck and neck with the National Enquirer, reporting on some woman giving birth to a alien...

all this public dislay of affection for a man drowning the country in spending, debt and waste.
yes, he is the same type of government man than means, "do as I say, not as I do"

Actually, President Obama is lying. He was indeed born in a manger. I know 'cause I was there. You see, me and two of my brothers were following this big, bright star that had suddenly appeared in the sky. It was late one night and we were looking for a motel. We came upon this barn-lookin' kinda thing, that was already occupied by a small family with a baby. The baby's name, as it turned out, was Barack. When we asked if we could share the barn with them, the baby, much to everyone's amazement, sat up in his crib and shouted "Yes you can!" The rest, of course, is history.

Ya, he is a big Joke!

Just a empty suit...

Geez what is it with you people all concentrating on Palin, get over it all ready.

He's a joke alright; and I'm sure his teleprompter will deliver the comedy...and the MSM will swoon, and his brainless supporters will giggle....yawn...how trite of an article CNN...how's those last place ratings feeling about now?

When does he ever work for America??? All he does is PR and continued "speaking engagements." He is not a public servant working on the behalf of the people. He is all about himself, the limelight and MORE POWER. For the first time in my adult life, I am not proud of my country.

Thank you, God, for giving us an intelligent, intellectual, analytical, articulate, (genuinely) well-educated, charming, engaging, handsome and confident POTUS...this time. President Obama is also an outstanding husband and father. The United States of America and the rest of the world are truly blessed!

OBAMA/BIDEN '12

I'm sure he will come up with some good lines, perhaps his team will help him some what. Obama has a dry sense of humor, hope they catch on. Of Course Bush was able to be a lot funnier even if it was not on purpose as there was a lot more for him to choose from.

Yeah, with scripted comments we won't find out what he really has on his mind;definitely safer for him.

all the funny moments out weighs the one Jay leno moment--media media tisk tisk.

It's scripted? Then it'll be funny and fine–the only ruffled feathers will be the grilled chickens'.

It's Obama sans teleprompter that's problematic.

President Obama does have a keen sense of humor that he uses publicly and not behind closed doors. That's what I call keeping it real and not being phony.

There needs to more openness, and education on the issue of Disabilities and the Inclusion there of. It is clear that race is taking a much larger; and more important roll than that of Disabilities, where as blacks are readily using disabilities as a form to get cash, medications, and other resources.

WOW! some of you guys are in a real HATE mood?

you are ready to pounce on whatever is said about this President

Here are some suggests to help you with your anger!

1. Go in front of a miror and yell as loud as you can – "my moma loved me no matter what people say" cry a bit and you should be ok after 20 minutes

2. Join the Taliban – they think like you do – and let them know you are working undercover for the CIA – that should do it!

3. Find a roof – at least one storey but possibly more if you can – then JUMP and see if you can land on your head – then as fast as you can come back to this chat line and tell us how much better you are feeling.

In all three cases you will find that your problems have all cleared up!

He will be funny only if the almighty teleprompter allows him to be...

CNN tried to make a big deal of it, otherwise, it would have gone unspoken.

CNN = e-gossip.

I would say 100% comedian.

At least hes funnier than all the republicans put together.They have a sick sense of humor,like kids torturing animals and things.

Intelligence is the key to great humor. Of course the night will be a success.

Obama won't have to be funny

The biggest joke all night will be Todd Palin sitting in for Sarah

Her being there would have been laughable in itself ... but Todd

Republicans ... LOL ... The Party Of No ... solutions

nothing else really going for bo so he must turn COMEDIAN to cover
up th lack of progress on: jobs. banking and so on; everthing is getting worse no better and no joking and will make it so..????

Yes he does have sense of humor but does he always have to use a telepromter. It comes across as his weakness, a crunch. That does not come across as good for america. Why would he be afraid to talk without it?

He's not presidential nor is he a comedian. There's nothing special about the guy, except he's articulate with telemprompter. He have earned his PHD on how to use teleprompter properly. But he's progressing now, he has move towards using wide screen TV to read his speech, isn't that great?

What did secessionist Tod ( First Dud) have to add? What no mention of the Wasilla Hillbillies?

He's very funny !!! Intelligent happy guy !!! I love him and I'm very,very proud having him leading my AMERICA !!!

I only hope the media isn't too critical of his attempts at humor, as the President needs to lighten up occasionally, the media needs to overlook their profit mongering over every syllable for another ad revenue opportunity and simply allow our President a little slack. It's a far cry from the days of an "honorable press" which overlooked a President in a wheelchair for the good of our nation to a "tabloid press" of today berating our President for a harmless self-deprecating comment over his low bowling score!!! If the media is so hard pressed for revenues they should air better programming instead of news reruns constantly!!!

All Obama has to say to tell a good joke is what he wants to do.

He Will Rock.

Uh....neither.......

Far left wingnut that is destroying this country ( no common sense) not comedian is what this guy is.

He will be funny as long as he does not scare us by joking about becoming a republican.

I know his budget was a joke. Not laughing.

He will be funny, the president does have a sense of humor. I understood the one he made aoubt the Special Olympic. It was not made to make fun of people but one would understand it, if one of the Special Olympican bowl a 129 score.

If he IS funny, GOP'ers will say he is ignoring the country's problems. If he is NOT funny, GOP'ers will say he is ignoring the country's problems

I suggest a dialogue involving the used snowmobile salesman now artic diplomat who will be at the dinner because his wife won't send an actual elected official since she alienated them all. I think Barack can get quite afew jokes out of THAT!

As long as he continues to fix the economy and my 401K stays on track for recovery and health care becomes more available and less costly for scant coverage. So far so good given the total crash preceding him and he's been definitely hard-working and hands on. What was the issue again? Yes comedy.

I'd like him to make a big boo boo or something of the magnitude that reminds people that he is only human.

There can be no fun if he does not screw up and at least make mistakes. On the other hand, there will be many opposing his views and seek to place his every word under a microscope.

Hey, Mr. Potus, be yourself even if you make a big blunder; most people will understand you are only human.

This dinner is always hillarious. And this president has a great sense of humor especially when he makes fun of himself. Gee, can't imagine why Sarah Palin chose not to attend. Can't take a little ribbing..hmmm?

What is actually funny is the fact that there are only 21% of Republicans left in America!!! Or what's also funny is the Republican budget that they proposed a few months ago. Or how ridiculous they looked at those Tea Parties a few weeks ago. Or that they actually feel as if they will actually have a 'comeback'. Hey guys, so much for the 59 million that voted for McCain a few months ago, huh? Lol. President Obama has plenty of material with the GOP around.

I love this man. He has it all!