staff writer for the washington post. how does the president top last year s performance. i expect he will be slow-jamming the speech this year. it will be able to start because the republicans will be looking at each other asking what he s doing. we re talking about an unhip audience here. this is washington s annual country come to town dinner. it looks like the oscars, but they don t have as many movie stars in the audience. but president obama will be tellingรง jokes, the republican will rush to the cameras to express disapproval, and then we ll go to the next one. emily, what will be the president s what material will he work with this year? there is so much comedic fauder out there this year, that i don t think he will have a