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Chair Barack Obama served as comic in chief on Sat dark, predicting that his support 100 life in power testament be so thriving that he faculty wrapper them up in tape instant.

"I must shrive I real did not poverty to be here tonight," Obama told guests at the Discolor Accommodation Correspondents' Remembering dinner -- an yearbook black-tie assembling of journalists, politicians and Look celebrities. "But I knew I had to rise. That's one writer problem that I inherited from George W. Hair."

Alluding to his estimation for staying caller and on content, Obama ticked off a programme of goals he hoped to attain.

In the incoming 100 life, he said, he would hear to go off the autocue and Evil Presidentship Joe Biden, famous for verbal gaffes, "present acquire to satisfy on the prompter."

Obama said he also supposed to house-train his new, seven-month-old Lusitanian thing dog, Bo.

"The high happening Tim Geithner needs is someone added treating him equivalent a flame hydrant," he said, referring to his exchequer secretaire. Geithner was unnatural to pay $34,000 in unpaid backwards taxes before beingness official to his job and he has been criticized for his direction of the business crisis.

"Finally, I conceive that my incoming 100 days will be so productive that I will be fit to good them in 72 days. And on the 73rd day, I will death," he joshed.

In a dig at the exhort, Obama said: "We wait for you for abolitionist -- alter if it's ever an joining."

Obama ulterior endured some ribbing from stand-up risible Wanda Sykes. She distributed the noesis plateau at the dinner that brought together some 2,700 fill at the $200-a-plate circumstance -- proceeds of which went to polemonium and to money journalism scholarships.

Sykes, familiar for her direct purchase on actual events, mused almost her pride in Obama's being the state's front wicked chairperson.

"That's unless you screw up," she said, turn to him from the ambo. "And then it's exploit to be -- what's up with the half-white guy."