Obama jokes about radical changes, hairstyle at Correspondents Dinner

President Obama took shots at his Republican foes — as well as his own presidentially-stressed visage — during at annual star-studded soiree for Washington power brokers and media elite.
Obama admitted at the White House Correspondents Club dinner that the rigors of being president had worn him down.
“I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be,” he joked towards the beginning of the speech.
So he showed off a new hairstyle with bangs fashioned after his wife’s.
“I thought this looked pretty good, but no bounce,” he said.
Obama took a few swings at his Republican counterparts.
“Some folks still don’t think I spend enough time with Congress. ‘Why don’t you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?’ they ask,” Obama said. “Really? Why don’t you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?”
The president also said he was going to take his “charm offensive on the road” — which would include “a book burning with Michele Bachmann.”
And he joked about rapper Jay-Z’s recent trip to Cuba.
“I’ve got 99 problems and now Jay-Z’s one,” he said, spoofing a Jay-Z lyric.
Sheldon Adelson, the big-money conservative who sunk tens of millions of his own cash into the last election, was another target of Obama’s humor.
“You’ve got to really dislike me to spend that much money,” the president said. “I mean that’s Oprah money. You could buy an island and call it “No-bama” for that kind of money. Sheldon would have been better off offering me $100 million to drop out of the race.
“I probably wouldn’t have taken it — but I’d have thought about it. Michelle would have taken it,” he said, to laughs.
“You think I’m joking,” he added.
Obama, who last week helped open President George W. Bush’s presidential library, took a jab at critics who claim he was born outside of the country.
“I’m also hard at work on plans for the Obama library and some suggested that we put it in my birthplace — but I’d rather keep it in the United States,” he said.
Conan O’Brien joked that a lot had changed in the 18 years since he last headlined the event.
“If, in 1995, you told me that in 2013 we’d have an African-American president with the middle name Hussein, who was elected to a second term in a sluggish economy, I would have said, ‘Oh, he must have run against Mitt Romney,’ ” O’Brien quipped.
“As a late-night comedian, I was kind of pulling for the rich guy whose horse danced in the Olympics.”
A video sketch with Kevin Spacey playing cut-throat congressman Frank Underwood. his character in the Netflix TV show, “House of Cards,” took a swing at Mayor Bloomberg — with the fictional pol talking him down from a fourth term
“You can’t run for mayor again, Mike that will put Anthony Weiner in a pickle and then he’ll tweet that pickle,” Underwood said.
When Underwood suggested he take over as president of the White House Correspondent’s Association, Bloomberg complained, “Doesn’t that position only last for a year?
“Well, since when have term limits ever stopped you?” Spacey-Underwood quipped.
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