Cheap shots, bad jokes from Bush: The Gridiron Club 2005 Dinner

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7170429/

WASHINGTON - President Bush poked fun at himself and at the press corps Saturday night and offered a new reason for overhauling the Social Security system. Raising the name of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush said, “We have to fix it or Rumsfeld may never retire.”



Bush said anyone looking for a transcript of the evening’s program should call Doug Wead, the longtime Bush family friend who recently made public tape recordings of private telephone conversations he had with Bush before he started running for president. The president noted that former President Clinton was recovering from surgery and said that “when he woke up he was surrounded by his loved ones” — his wife, daughter and “my dad.”

Earlier in the evening, a woman pretending to be John Kerry’s wife sang about how happy she is that he wasn’t elected. Karl Rove revealed his successful strategy for winning President Bush a second term. Wannabe presidential candidates pressed for advantage in the 2008 race.

One sketch had Massachusetts Sen. Kerry singing a lament about “why, oh why, oh why did I ever lose Ohio?” while in the next scene wife Teresa Heinz Kerry appeared positively giddy over her husband’s loss to Bush. “Thank heaven, he lost the race,” her character sang to the tune of “Thank Heaven for Little Girls.” “Now I can tell the press just how and when and where to go, and I’m allowed my wine and escargots.”

[MrModerate]

1. C'mon, I'm sure Schimpanski's handlers wrote a very funny script . . .

For him to stumble over.

And the Gridiron Dinner is supposed to be made up of cheap shots and bad jokes. Its cheesyness is its charm. If you try anything else, they throw you out.

[Radio-Active]

2. I missed the part where he poked fun of himself?

[kentuck]

3. Out-of-touch elitists.....

pull the string, I'm your puppet....

[Guckert]

4. Did he repeat the hilarious "where are the WMD" skit?? or did he replace

It with the equally funny, "where did i leave my leg, arm and eye" skit?? Did he use the unarmored hummer prop. :puke:

[madmom]

5. Bush's joke about his dad...

being one of Clinton's "loved ones" could back-fire on him. H.W. wishes his son could be as good a prez as Clinton even when he was impeached, and as much of a man over the other shit.

[NYCGirl]

6. This is, actually, a very funny line:

In a nod to 2008, they parodied the White House aspirations of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, featured speakers at the white-tie dinner.

{snipped)

Having observed their routine, Bush called Richardson and Hagel “a couple of independent thinkers, which in my book is a negative.”

[etherealtruth]

7. I have a great sense of humor...

...my children claim I "think everything is funny". Let me clearly state: Nothing that comes out of that jack a$$' mouth is even remotely funny.

[applegrove]

8. That photo of Bush is funny.

[adigal]

9. Even 41 prefers Clinton to his own son!!!

n/t

[newyawker99]

10. LOL!! It looks like he is telling jokes again!