Obama's Economic Advisor Jokes: President Was Born In Kenya

The president's economic advisor Austan Goolsbee won the "DC's Funniest Celebrity" contest last night.

Top Obama adviser jokes that the president was born 'in a village in Kenya' (10/1/09 Washington Examiner)

The article has the video (originally posted at Politico) of the funniest guy in Washington DC.

Some choice moments as cited in the article:

Goolsbee said that veterans of the Obama campaign "share this bond, and we came here because we knew that the president had a lot of things to do. Number one on the list, we wanted to make sure -- all the Clinton people got their jobs back -- that we were going to do something to help the country."

"The president, I'm happy to say, is still pretty much the same regular guy that he always was in Chicago, and that makes me feel good."

(I wonder what's regular in Chicago means these days...)

"Look," Goolsbee joked, "I'm not saying that in 1961 we were, like, separated at birth -- in a village in Kenya -- what I'm saying is that we're friends."

"When we came in office, it was not that fun of a time to be here in the economy," Goolsbee said. "But it was OK, because as we took office, it was an all-star team of economists and we basically knew what to do -- panic -- what we were coming in, was let's react the right way when things happen -- AAAAAAAAARGH! -- let's just sort it out and start from the fundamentals -- how do we throw money at this problem? -- and the thing is, most of the lessons aren't recent…so we kind of had to go back and look at the old textbooks -- Karl Marx, Trotsky -- "

(The inner voice sounds more plausible than the 'tatemae' - Japanese word for 'pretence, facade'.)

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