Obama cracks the jokes at annual correspondents' dinner

President Barack Obama joked about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from “strapping young Muslim Socialist” to retired golfer, all with a new hairstyle like first lady Michelle’s.

Obama cracks the jokes at annual correspondents' dinner

President Barack Obama joked about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from “strapping young Muslim Socialist” to retired golfer, all with a new hairstyle like first lady Michelle’s.

Mr Obama used this year’s annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to poke fun at himself and some of his political adversaries, asking if it was still possible to be brought down a peg after four and a half years as commander-in-chief.

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