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Friday Night Obama Blogging

Knowing full well that his lack of Barack Obama's comic timing is surpassed only by his lack of Obama's intellect, charm, empathy, honesty and stamina, Donald Trump will fail to show up for the third year in a row this weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. So, to fill the void that's admittedly as tiny as Trump's hands, enjoy some barbs from the master through the years…

2009  ”Dick Cheney was supposed to be here but he’s very busy working on his memoirs, tentatively titled: How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People.”

Not many presidents with better comic timing than this guy.

2010  "A few weeks ago I was able to throw out the first pitch at the Nationals game. I don't know if you saw it, but I threw it a little high and a little outside. This is how FOX News covered it: President panders to extreme left-wing of batter box."

2011  “Where is the National Public Radio table? You guys are still here? I know you were a little tense when the GOP tried to cut your funding, but personally I was looking forward to new programming like No Things Considered or Wait, Wait…Don't Fund Me.”

2012  "Congress and I have certainly had our differences—yet I’ve tried to be civil, to not take any cheap shots.  And that’s why I want to especially thank all the members who took a break from their exhausting schedule of not passing any laws to be here tonight."

2013  "I know CNN has taken some knocks lately. But the fact is I admire their commitment to cover all sides of a story just in case one of them happens to be accurate."

Reminder: Won 365 electoral votes in ‘08 and 332 in ‘12. Trump got 304. Sad!

2014  "I'm feeling sorry, believe it or not, for the Speaker of the House. These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me, which means orange really is the new black."

2015  “Just this week, Michele Bachmann predicted I would bring about the biblical end of days. Now that’s a legacy. That’s big. I mean, Lincoln, Washington, they didn’t do that.”

2016  “And then there’s Ted Cruz. Ted had a tough week. He went to Indiana—Hoosier country. Stood on a basketball court and called the hoop a ‘basketball ring.’ What else is in his lexicon? Baseball sticks? Football hats? But sure, I’m the foreign one.”

I don’t give two coconuts if they're doing a WHCD this year or not. But I know Samantha Bee is doing a NOT the White House Correspondents’ Dinner  on TBS. That’ll be worth a look, at least.

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