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Everyone agrees that President Obama was funnier than Jay Leno at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night. But this joke is inspiring some backlash:

"Jonas Brothers are here, they're out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but boys, don't get any ideas. Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I'm joking?"

"Let's be honest, fellow progressives, we'd be all over Bush if he made the same 'predator drone' joke Obama told last night," Philadelphia Daily News' Will Bunch tweeted.


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Yeah, it might have been okay for someone else, but considering that presidents actually do order predator drone attacks that kill people, I think it was kind of in poor taste. In addition, it's not very funny.

This one was good, though:

"By the way, all of the jokes here tonight are brought to you by our friends at Goldman Sachs. So you don't have to worry, they make money whether you laugh or not."
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Originally posted by ferrellj:
For you Obama lovers honestly if Bush had made that statement would it still be funny?


Without hesitation. I can honestly say that I would have thought it funny if Bush had said it. Surely no one could have rationally interpreted the "predator drone" remark as a serious statement of intent to deploy such weapons against the Jonas Brothers or other suitors of the President's daughters.

I find such remarks of Bush's as "Bring it on!" to be among the more offensive utterances from presidents in recent years. That kind of inflammatory, cowboyesque, in-your-face language had no place whatsoever in the development of events leading up to the most unjustifiable war of our era.

Bush was capable of humorous utterances, but all too many of his public statements were in the realm of tragedy!
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We have young men being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have millions of people out of work and not able to support their families. We have possibly the largest oil spill ever threatening our coast. We have illegal immigrants flooding our country. We have national debt rising faster than any time in history. We have a government growing faster that ever. We have radical progressives pushing socialist agendas down our throats. Thank God we have a funny HYSTERICAL president leading us.

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