Pawlenty Plays For Laughs At RNC

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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty included a number of jokes in his speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, which he called “Barack Obama’s retirement party.”

First, Pawlenty went after Joe Biden: 

[Joe’s] taking notes because when Paul Ryan speaks, Joe will finally get to hear what a real vice president sounds like!

There was a tattoo comparison:

I’ve come to realize that Barack Obama is the tattoo president. Like a big tattoo, it seemed cool when you were young.

 

But later on, that decision doesn’t look so good, and you wonder: what was I thinking? 

 

But the worst part is you’re still going to have to explain it to your kids.

And he mocked Obama’s golf hobby: 

The president takes more vacations than that guy on the Bizarre Foods show. 

 

And I’ll give Barack Obama credit for creating jobs these last four years for golf caddies.

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