and share a few jokes of his own:
“Michelle jokes about how in the motorcade we have the ambulance and the caboose and the dog sled. … The submarine. A whole bunch of stuff going on”
Being on Jay Leno while still in office definitely makes Barack the coolest President ever.
Los Angeles — President BARACK OBAMA, bantering casually with Jay Leno during a taping of “The Tonight Show” on Thursday, voiced some frustration with life inside the presidential bubble.
The first sitting president to join Leno on the late-night show, Obama also talked about his unfulfilled “campaign promise” on the family dog, pledged to work to recover for taxpayers the bonuses paid to AIG employees and offered his pick to win the NCAA basketball tournament.
He mixed serious policy discussion with tantalizing details about his life as the leader of the free world.
Wearing a dark suit, legs crossed comfortably, Obama said he is getting a level of security that is often tough to fathom.
“Now, they let me walk on the way back” from one event, he said, “but the doctor is behind me with a defibrillator.
“Michelle jokes about how in the motorcade we have the ambulance and the caboose and the dog sled. … The submarine. A whole bunch of stuff going on.”
Obama said he has picked the University of North Carolina to win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. An avid basketball fan and recreational player, the president said he plans to have basketball hoops wheeled onto the White House tennis courts so he and friends can play.
Leno asked whether his friends occasionally let him win. The president mugged for the camera.
“I don’t see why they would throw the game except for all those Secret Service guys with guns around them,” he said.
More seriously, he said, “I don’t think I get the hard fouls that I used to.”
He smiled broadly while joking that the family dog might have been an empty promise, then said that the family will get the dog after he returns from a trip to Europe early next month.
He has hurt many families in America. He needs to say he is sorry in the public, not to an organization.
In addition, someone who claims to have experienced prejudice and stereotypes throughout life, and has written about them in great detail, should be more sensitive and refined from life’s lessons.
Furthermore, Obama claimed he was going to have the world think ‘highly’ of America again. Will this joke help?
For someone who spoke of equality as a creed. Does this joke match that philosophy?
For someone that said he would stand for all people. Does this stand up for those that participate in the Special Olympics?
The fact is Obama claimed a higher standard. To much is given, much is required.
Obama has just showed us that ‘yes we can’ destroy what a campaign stands for with a single joke.
During the campaign for the White House in 2008, the media criticized Palin for being ‘common,’ ‘not-polished,’ ‘not-compassionate’ and ‘not presidential.’ However, compare Sarah Palins attitude in this video created three weeks ago for the Special Olympics in Boise, Idaho.
You decide the more ‘presidential’ among them. Watch: http://tinyurl.com/ccz6nj