President Obama found Republican candidates to be useful props during his speech at the Associated Press luncheon today, while the audience proved a reassuring and laugh-happy crowd.
“That renowned liberal Newt Gingrich, called the first version of that [Paul Ryan] budget ‘radical,'” Obama sarcastically told the assembled reporters. “This is coming from Newti Gingrich!” Obama was referring to Gingrich’s description of the Ryan budget as “right-wing social engineering.”
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Obama moved from the Gingrich dig to mocking Romney for using the word “marvelous”. “One of my potential opponents, Mitt Romney,” Obama observed, “said that he’s very supportive of this new budget. He even called it ‘marvelous,’ which is a word you don’t often hear when it comes to describing a budget.”
When the press laughed at ‘marvelous,’ Obama went back to the well, adding that the word “marvelous” isn’t used very often even in other contexts.
The reporters laughed again.
