Barack Obama Needles Critics & Skeptics Of His Faith In Humorous Correspondents' Dinner Speech [VIDEO]
Article By J.E. Harris/ Photo Credit: AP
President Barack Obama is Comedian-In-Chief.
During his hilarious annual White House Correspondents Dinner speech Saturday, the president poked fun at lots of folks, especially those who doubt his faith as a Christian.
“Just this week, Michele Bachmann actually predicted that I would bring about the biblical end of days,” said Obama, hardly able to contain his laughter.
“Now that’s a legacy. That’s big. I mean, Lincoln, Washington—they didn’t do that.”
The president is referring to the former Minnesota Republican Congresswoman’s claim on a radio show last week that Obama’s policies on Iran’s nuclear program and marriage equality would bring about the rapture.
“We need to realize how close this clock is getting to the midnight hour,” Bachmann said on "End Times" with host Jan Markell.
“We in our lifetimes potentially could see Jesus Christ returning to earth and the rapture of the church. We see the destruction, but this was a destruction that was foretold.”
Bachmann also claimed, “If you look at the president’s rhetoric, and if you look at his actions, everything he has done has been to cut the legs out of Israel and lift up the agenda of radical Islam.”
For those, like Bachmann, who believe Obama is a covert (or overt depending on who you ask) Muslim, he had a great one-liner for them.
"Being president is never easy. I still have to fix a broken immigration system, issue veto threats, negotiate with Iran, all while finding time to pray five times a day," he said.
Results from a University of a 2014 California poll revealed as recently as February showed that 54 percent of Republicans answered "Muslim" when asked what Obama believes “deep down”; only nine percent said "Christian.”
Watch the full speech below.
*Warning: Mild profanity included
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