I was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night and think the president did a perfect job. As we’ve discussed after other such dinners, I’m not a huge fan of these president-as-comedian nights. But he struck the right balance. He was charmingly funny (his natural state, from my observations) and poignantly serious. And Jay Leno, the comedian, was very funny, in a good-guy way.

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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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