Mean Tweets. President Obama Edition.
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I highly respect a President who displays the ability to occasionally laugh at himself and not take everything too seriously. (Ms Mod, please pass this post onto the NSA, DOJ and IRS. Thank you.) 
....and the White House Security Team (aka Keystone Cops)....I highly respect a President who displays the ability to occasionally laugh at himself and not take everything too seriously. (Ms Mod, please pass this post onto the NSA, DOJ and IRS. Thank you.)
Do presidents usually do this kind of stuff?
If I’m not mistaken, in the past Presidents usually only poked fun of themselves at special dinners like The White House Correspondent's Dinner and The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner. In recent years you see more and more of it on the Boob Tube's late night entertainment shows.
George Bush senior did this kind of stuff once in a while. I think it was right after he lost his reelection bid to Clinton, he did a cold opening on Saturday Night Live where he was saying all the things that Dana Carvey would say in his imitations of Bush. It was very funny. It was like he was doing Dana Carvey doing George Bush.
Canadian politicians have been poking fun at themselves for as long as I can remember. Love seeing Obama do it. Isn't Between the Ferns like that too? Him making fun of himself.
It's especially funny when President Obama makes fun of himself because he has such a serious personality. I loved hearing him sing a few bars of an Al Green song a few years ago… someone dared him to do it and he did. 
He was actually quite good!
He was actually quite good!
That was really pretty good.
Three congenial memories I have:
1. After his first election, when he had to make good on a promise and get the kids a dog, he was asked what kind, and he said, "Probably a mutt, like me."
2. On David Letterman, talking about the home brew beer that was being made in the White House.
3. The Press Correspondents dinner where he noted that Speaker Boehner was getting a lot of heat from fellow Republicans, and he said, "I guess orange is the new black."
The Press Correspondents dinner also once featured Bush doing a double-take on himself using a Bush double. It was hilarious, and Bush was really a good sport to participate in it. ("nuke-u-lar")
Three congenial memories I have:
1. After his first election, when he had to make good on a promise and get the kids a dog, he was asked what kind, and he said, "Probably a mutt, like me."
2. On David Letterman, talking about the home brew beer that was being made in the White House.
3. The Press Correspondents dinner where he noted that Speaker Boehner was getting a lot of heat from fellow Republicans, and he said, "I guess orange is the new black."
The Press Correspondents dinner also once featured Bush doing a double-take on himself using a Bush double. It was hilarious, and Bush was really a good sport to participate in it. ("nuke-u-lar")