Posted on 10/16/2008 6:17:30 PM PDT by Blogger
Obama present
I'd read that Kerry wasn't invited because of his stand on abortion, and so to be fair, President Bush didn't attend either.
Obama is bombing. He keeps waiting for the applause and laughs, and it is all so strained. McCain was very good.
LMAO!!!
ROTF!!!
Sounds painful...i cant stand to watch people who are trying to be funny and are embarrassing themselves.
yuk
ABC News’ Jake Tapper, Andy Fies and Sunlen Miller Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., hit a bit of an introduction snafu this evening while attending the Al Smith dinner with presidential rival Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
Cardinal Edward Egan, Senator McCain, and Senator Obama were staged for their grand entrance in seating order. However, all did not go as planned.
McCain’s name was called, and the Republican nominee took the stage. Obama’s name was called in the midst of the applause and he appeared to not hear and did not take the stage, producing an awkward moment where the Democratic presidential nominee was chatting unknowingly as people waited for him to take the stage.
The announcer then went on to introduce Cardinal Egan instead.
Obama was then introduced - for a second time - and he finally took the stage to sustained applause.
In his remarks, Al Smith said in order to maintain an air of non-partisanship the “dinner will not include Chicago Pizza or Baked Alaska.”
Smith said Obama proved he would sit down with “despots” by “doing an interview with Bill O’Reilly.”
He went on to joke that debates have so taken over the candidates’ lives that when Michelle (Barack Obama’s wife) made a suggestion at the breakfast table this morning Obama asked for “90 seconds” to answer and rebut.
Smith said he wished the VP candidates could be here but Sarah Palin was at a “State Trooper ball” and Joe Biden “couldn’t find white tie and tails at Home Depot.”
Liberals just are not funny people. Extreme liberals are dour.
I walked away from the Obama speech after I saw the slow start. He should have cut his speech short and walked away when he saw the poor response.
God afterwards Sean had to say he was funny when he TOTALLY SUCKED!!!
Our media overlords bow in devotion and so must we.
Obama does not have a very good sense of humor.
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And the enabling media have not given him any occasion to have to laugh at himself. A survey of the late night shows reports that about 860 jokes against Republicans versus 50 jokes against Democrats is the recent ratio.
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp
McCain says he fired all of his campaign staff; “All of their positions will now be held by a man named Joe The Plumber.”
Says that Joe Biden falsely claims that Joe The Plumber isn’t rich enough trigger the Obama tax hike; “What they don’t know is that Joe The Plumber recently signed a lucrative contract to handle all the work on all seven of their houses.”
Says his pet name for Obama is “The One”; Obama’s for McCain is “George Bush.”
“I can’t shake the feeling that some people here are voting for me. Nice to see you, Hillary.”
Bill Clinton “has been hammering away with me with epithets like, “hero.”
“It’s going to be a long, long night at MSNBC if I manage to pull this thing off. I understand that Keith Olbermann has ordered up his very own Mission Accomplished banner. They can hang it up in his padded room”
“We know the press is really an independent-minded, civic-minded, non-partisan group, like ACORN.”
A nice tribute to Obama at the end, saying that he can’t “wish him luck,” but he does “wish him well.”
I thought that line was pretty funny.
Obviously this crowd doesn't do "nuance".
Obama even looked like he was straining. Just wait though, the FOX news guys will be fawning all over him, just after the debate.
It was fascinating to see that it was actually painful for That One, to read the self-deprecating humor script.
Looked like he hated every minute of it.
This is Archdiocese’s Al Smith Dinner. It is by tradition and expectation collegial and non partisan. The Archdiocese of NY insists that the guests leave their partisan conflicts at the Waldorf’s front door.
This is Archdiocese’s Al Smith Dinner. It is by tradition and expectation collegial and non partisan. The Archdiocese of NY insists that the guests leave their partisan conflicts at the Waldorf’s front door.
I wish Sarah was able to speak at this dinner - she would have just had them rolling!
McCain was awesome!
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