Funny guy

Regardless of your political opinion of President Bush (as an independent in the middle, I disagree with some of his policies but refuse to believe he's the devil incarnate or as ill-intentioned as left-wingers like to believe), you've got to give the guy credit for his self-depricating humor at the last two White House Press & Broadcast Correspondents dinners. You can find this year's speech at various Web sites with online video.

It's still not as good as last year's in which he worked side-by-side with a Bush impressionist who represented the president's inner monologue, a far funnier performance than Stephen Colbert's, although I'm a fan of "The Colbert Report." You should be able to find last year's hilarious performance on You Tube.

I know he doesn't write his own material, but he still delivers it well, unlike most of his serious speeches. Maybe he'd be better with his own talk show than the presidency. Still, it's my view that a guy with a good sense of humor can't be that bad or stupid.