Agreed. Unfortunately, Obama delivered his lines much better than McCain. I'm not sure McCain can tell a joke or read an index card, whichever it was, without stumbling through it.
Regardless, I thought it totally classless that these two men were at a white tie dinner, making jokes about the recession and bailout, while the taxpayers are in distress about what the damn government is doing.
They are all seriously out of touch with the people and the realities of being a peon taxpayer.
You have got to be kidding!
McCain got twice the applause as Obama even in that liberal atomsphere! McCain's timing was perfect...Obama read from his cards the entire time.
Huh? McCain wowed them.
BTW, the dinner is for charity. Presidents have spoken there. Churchill spoke at one, via telephone.
http://www.alsmithfoundation.org/thefoundation.html
http://www.alsmithfoundation.org/thedinner.html
Sorry, but I think I disagree with everything you just said.
McCain was much funnier than Obama, both in the jokes and in the telling. The majority of the jokes were either self depricating or about the other one or about the campaign itself.
Would you also criticize them if they went to see a movie or a football game?
And your comments about him being out of touch etc., please spare me the sound bites.
Are you nuts? McCain was extremely funny and much better than Bozo. As for making a joke and saying "who ever gave me that name" is very telling, it says he a:)He either doesn't know who named him, or b:)He doesn't want to say who named him. What we say in times of stress even in jokes is very telling and this statement was. If you believe Bozo was so much funnier than McCain then perhaps you are voting for him, because only an Obamabot would think they were even close.
You apparently did not watch the same clips I did. McCain was immensely funny and Barach was mildly amusing. I have seen many commentaries lauding McCain’s humor and timing.
And it is rather humorless for you to object to gatherings where people of different political persuasions get together. This is the way to reduce the terrible hostility that we see in politics.
And, what is wrong with the economy is that one party (democrats) participated in destroying the credit markeet and the mortgage market. How not having a dinner to benefit charities will help with that problem is very unclear to me.
Big charity dinners is what rich people do. Sometimes it may even help charities.
Said the same thing here a couple of days ago on another thread, had a couple of FReepers jump on me.
I don’t recall McCain made any jokes about the economy or the bailout.
He joked that Joe the Plumber got a lucrative contract on 7 houses (or some such, about the Mccains’ houses). He made a bunch of funny jokes about Bill Clinton. He made lots of good jokes about Obama. Then he paid Obama a bunch of compliments, and then got him again by raising (jokingly) expectations of how funny Obama would be.
In fact all of McCains jokes were either self-deprecating ones about himself, or about Obama & Clinton that I recall. The only one that could be construed about the bailout was one about suspending a campaign.
McCain is not a smooth talker but his jokes were very funny and everyone was laughing hard.
I agree. I remember watching him in white tie, reading a precanned, humor sketch, which IMHO was written by a comedy writer out there somewhere, about how so many Americans had just lost their life savings and retirements, then trying to get some laughter about it, in their white ties at an elitist $1000s/ plate dinner.
I don't think such an audience chuckled so hard since Marie Antoinette played the Forum with her infamous, "Let them eat cake" punchline.