My husband and I watched the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this year and loved it…..we laughed until we cried at Bush’s performance and the Scottsman/new US citizen.

Was Ingraham one of the folks who criticized Laura Bush for making jokes one year at the Dinner? Nobody likes a humorless scold.

funky chicken on May 19, 2008 at 9:44 PM

Reagan also appeared frequently on Dean Martin celebrity roasts, as roaster AND roastee.

sulla on May 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM

Wow, used to watch those with my parents. I assume most of the jokes went right over my head….remember thinking they were boring old folks. :-) Deano seemed to have some kind of unfortunate medical condition lots of times LOL

funky chicken on May 19, 2008 at 10:39 PM

McCain Sings Streisand

SnarkVader on May 19, 2008 at 10:38 PM

Damn funny!

funky chicken on May 19, 2008 at 10:39 PM

As a Republican candidate for the House in 1994, he rose to national attention when reports alleged that he had licked whipped cream off the breasts of two women at a charity event.

As a congressman from Georgia, the thrice-married Barr returned attention to the whipped-cream episode when, speaking in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, he argued that “the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society.”

As one of the managers of Bill Clinton’s impeachment, Barr gained enough prominence to attempt a run for the Senate in 2002. But that effort fell apart at about the time Barr accidentally fired a .38-caliber pistol through a glass door at a fundraising reception. ….

He listed his grievances: government eavesdropping, suspending habeas corpus, runaway spending. Americans “deserve better,” he said. “I believe they deserve better. And the Libertarian Party deserves they believe better.”

Barr could be forgiven the slip-up, and problems with subject-verb agreement throughout his speech. He could also be forgiven for going on too long, to the point that his wife consulted her watch and Verney studied the campaign banner. His flushed face and gyrating body made it clear that he was fired up — and ready to exploit McCain’s troubled relations with conservatives.

Barr has more problems than a little whipped-cream licking to overcome. Based on his own platform, Barr will have to conduct a John Edwards campaign, running against pretty much his entire voting record during his Congressional career. On every issue Barr names, he voted in the manner in which he now criticizes.

Bob Barr is what you get when you cross near terminal cases of Clinton Derangement Syndrome and Bush Derangement Syndrome. Insanity.

funky chicken on May 19, 2008 at 11:15 PM

Did Bob Barr swipe his immigration policy from Barack Obama (or Bush, McCain, Clinton,…)?

Libertarian Party contender for president Bob Barr was interviewed by Neal Boortz a few days ago, and the audio and a partial transcript is here. Part of the conversation involved immigration matters, and based on that I have trouble seeing any major difference between Barr’s positions and those of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush, Teddy Kennedy, and on down the line. In fact, it’s like his campaign was the recipient of a blank cardboard box with just the word “POLICY” stenciled on it.

On the audio, he implies that he supports a form of amnesty where illegal aliens who are caught in the interior, as long as they passed a background check, would get to remain. He doesn’t specify whether that would be as a “guest” worker or whether they’d get on the “path to citizenship”. Asked about this, he says:

“I think as a practical matter, that makes a lot of sense. I’m not sure how you would go about rounding up millions of people and trying to deport them. The key here is security…”
Now, compare that to BHO:

“We are not going to send [illegal aliens] home… I want us to have an honest conversation about this.” …Mr. Obama said many illegals have “settled,” “bought property” and have children who are U.S. citizens. He said the country would have to devote “all our law enforcement resources to rounding up people without papers, even if they weren’t causing any trouble,” and once that’s done, the country would have to “empty out our jails…” …”Imagine what that would look like, basically detaining, putting in jail 12 million people. We’re not going to do that…”

So, McCain’s not far enough left on immigration? Why vote for Barr? He’s a lunatic, and I have very poor memories of him from the Clinton impeachment

funky chicken on May 19, 2008 at 11:22 PM

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGUyZTllM2IyY2RmZGNhNzc1NTA4ZWQxNzE4Mzc4NTY=

The point of a candidacy like Barr’s is at least to highlight and defend a worldview. But Barr has never been a particularly effective spokesman for his views, even views that were long-held. The new Barr is a non-interventionist anti-government purist committed to a thoroughgoing civil libertarianism. In Congress, he voted for the Iraq war, an early version of the prescription-drug program, and the Patriot Act. As the Cato Institute’s Daniel Griswold has pointed out, he voted with protectionists to secure the interests of cotton farmers and the textile industry in his district.

The old Barr was a scourge of illegal drugs. He was a member of the Speaker’s Task Force for a Drug-Free America and authored the Barr amendment, which blocked implementation of a voter initiative to legalize medical marijuana in the District of Columbia. Last year, he signed on with the Marijuana Policy Project to work to repeal his own handiwork, explaining that the expansion of governmental powers after 9/11 had transformed his view on the war on drugs.

funky chicken on May 19, 2008 at 11:35 PM

Were you a Clinton fan?

Johan Klaus on May 19, 2008 at 11:38 PM

NO I am a military spouse and got to see the Clinton trashing of the military (and Merrill “Tony” McPeak) up close. I despise that Clinton sold secret missile technology to China and secret communication stuff to Syria.

BUT CDS is just as bad as BDS in its irrationality. And I think the Clinton impeachment really hurt the GOP. Gingrich and Livingstone (?) got nailed for being in extramarital relationships the same time they were all firebreathing mad about Monica.

And folks who managed the hearings…Lindsay Graham and Bob Barr….not my favorite guys by a long shot.

funky chicken on May 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM