Before departing Washington, D.C., President Bush left behind a confidential letter for President Obama. It’s a time-honored tradition. (We did the same thing when we left our previous job, but it was decidedly less confidential.)

Obama reads the letter to the American people in a new video from FunnyOrDie.

FunnyOrDie.com sent two team members — Jake Szymanski and Bob Turton — to Washington for the presidential inauguration this week. Their mission: to film another installment for the site’s popular High-Five series.

Not dorky high-fives like that one Seacrest tried to pull off with the blind “Idol” contestant. These are smooth high-fives.

Will Ferrell is reprising his role of George W. in this FunnyorDie video.

But you’ll have to surf over to FunnyorDie.com to watch it because we can’t embed it here. Sorry.

Who loves musicals? We sure do!

This one in response to Proposition 8 — starring such celebs as Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Sarah Chalke, Jack Black and Neil Patrick Harris — is entertaining and has a message about hate and the recent passage of the anti-gay-marriage amendment in California.

Unfortunately, our blogging platform dislikes embedding videos from FunnyOrDie, and all copies of this video that make it to YouTube are removed about as fast as they appear. So, you’ll have to link here to watch it.

Also, enjoy this commentary from “The Rachel Maddow Show”:

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