Posted on 05/17/2009 8:50:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono
GOP congressional leader John Boehner is brushing off President Obama’s recent joke about Boehner’s famously permanent tan. At the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner a week ago, the country’s first African-American president said he had “a lot in common” with Boehner who is Caucasian. “He is a person of color,” Obama joked before a massive ballroom of celebrities and Washington journalists. “Although not a color that appears in the natural world,” Obama added, barely able to keep his composure as he delivered the dig.
“As I tell my friends, you only tease the ones you love,”
Boehner said responding to Obama Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “Yeah, I enjoy being outside,” Boehner added, trying to explain his persistently tanned appearance. “I’d rather be heckled than ignored,” the Ohio Republican told CNN’s John King.
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...I actually did think that joke was funny.
Yeah, Im not bothered by it, either. Everything else, however..
I think Boehner has spent a wee bit too long in the tanning booth...
If Obama was (considered) white the press would be SCREAMING...
I thought he was half black. Only looks to be about 1/5 from what I can see. And I wish he would keep his fly zipped up.
CrackHead Obama also opened the door on the substance abuse jokes with his belly laugh @ Rush's past prescription dependency.
Lets see... he visited Pakistan for several months with his convicted drug dealing bff in college...
Even though they spend most of every day outdoors, the local cowboys and wranglers around these parts aren't that tan.
Really? You are easily amused.
...whatever. It’s funny.
Until I take my shirt off, I’m darker than Obama.
Boener, you could have responded by saying that you thought Obama’s color was red, because that’s the color of all the policy he creates...
DAMN, the republicans are so freaking weak.
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