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Roasted, In Absentia

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 23, 2009

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama didn't have time to join a roast of prominent officials by the journalists who cover them, cracks Vice President Joe Biden, because Obama is getting ready for Easter.

"He thinks it's about him," Biden says.

No, that's not the reason, counters California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "He's just not that into you."

Obama may not be the messiah or even stuck-up, but he is the first president in decades to skip the Gridiron Club dinner during his first year in office. Instead, the president spent Saturday night at Camp David with his family, missing out on the 124th annual event in which journalists use jokes and songs to skewer politicians - a few of whom get to throw back some jabs of their own.

"Here you were expecting 'Yes, we can,'" Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said during the festivities at a downtown hotel ballroom. "And instead what did you get? 'Hasta la vista, baby.'"

The Associated Press

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