Super funny John McCain asks, Where's Bill? and suggests that some Democrats at the Alfred Smith dinner are really backing him.
"Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats, I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me," McCain said at the Thursday dinner.
"I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary."
Whoa. That laugh from Hillary Clinton must have overlaid a little discomfort.
As for Bill Clinton, whom McCain zinged for his tepid support of Obama -- suggesting that the ex President was actually backing him, McCain -- we don't know what the reaction was.
He wasn't at the dinner.
Here's Obama's spiel, which wasn't bad, though it seems McCain got more sustained laughter. Had a better writer, we suppose. Click this bottom image to hear Obama. [McCain's talk, of course, is the above image and can be heard by clicking it.]
I think that Obama was much funnier than McCain. He used self-deprecating humor to defuse some of the accusations the Republicans have made about him. When you can laugh at yourself, you usually don't laugh at others.
McCain, on the other hand, seemed to take the opportunity to do nasty humour, a la Don Rickles.
I can't help but see Obama as simply smarter, more magnamimous and, yes, Presidential.
Posted by: Johnny Gowanus | October 17, 2008 at 03:58 PM