and if you make great points. there is always room for a good joke that makes a substantive argument that will breakthrough in a way, a dry policy speech, not that the president gives those, would ever breakthrough. great presidents like roosevelt, kennedy, were really good at this, and they used it to win the fight with their rivals. i think this president does that too. he has often used humor on the trail in theç white house. i respect what you have done and trying to make it in hollywood as a writer. i want to send my wishes to my friend who was a top speech writer, go rick. you re watching hardball.
[ laughter ] wow, that was president obama poking fun at fun at himself at last year s white house correspondent event. this year it will be held tomorrow night, you can watch it right here on msnbc. up until six months ago, john lovett was a speech writer for president obama. we have to look at a couple of them, let s look at some of the president s jokes. just days before last year, president obama e leased his long form birth certificate putting a lid on the birther movement. here is some birther humor, let s watch. my fellow, americans.
i think that there s always room for a good joke that makes a substantive argument that will breakthrough in a way that a dry policy speech, not that the president gives those, would ever breakthrough. the thing is that the great president s like roosevelt and kennedy and reagan were always really good at this. they used it like the president then will trump to win the fight with their rivals. i think this president does that too. he s often used humor on the trail and in the white house to make a point here. i respect you a lot for what you ve done but most importantly trying to make it in hollywood as aç writer. go rick. i told you i d do. let me finish with why the subversive influence of angry right wing is bad for the country. he national math and science initiative. .which helped students and teachers
why he crossed the delaware and turned the tide of the revolution. ladies and gentlemen, pennsylvania and half the other people in this country have yet to be heard, and we re going to go out and campaign here and across this nation to make sure that their voices are heard in the next few months. go rick. go rick, go. we know who we are here in pennsylvania. we know the stock that we re made of. we ve contributed a lot.
in 1976 ronald reagan didn t get out. he was able to stand tall in texas and win, which we have every intention of doing. [ applause ] go rick go! go rick, go! go rick, go! go rick, go! he took that race the entire way to the convention and he fell short and in the fall republicans fell short because we nominated another moderate who couldn t galvanize our party and bring those votes to our side to bring the change we need in america. four years later they fought him