And he tells jokes too.... Romney roasts Obama at Al Smith dinner

[JLawson]

Some very funny lines in here...

[jaybet]

I watched the whole thing last night...just stumbled on it. I have to say for all his faults, Romney is growing on me. He shows poise and a quick wit under duress, and he was pretty funny at times.

On the press..."I saw some reporting on this event from tomorrow's press...NY Times headlines....Obama embraced by Catholics, Romney dines with rich people".

"....and IN the spirit of Big Bird, President Obama's remarks are being brought to you tonight by the letter O and the number 16 trillion".

NICE.

[tombogan03884]

I actually laughed out loud a few times watching it, but can some one explain to me what the "Al Smith Dinner" is all about ?
I know Al Smith was a NY politician back in the 30's IIRC.

[fightingquaker13]

I actually laughed out loud a few times watching it, but can some one explain to me what the "Al Smith Dinner" is all about ?
I know Al Smith was a NY politician back in the 30's IIRC.

He was Governor of New York, and the first serious Catholic to run for president (he lost to Hoover). He was also a Democrat, and ran on an anti-prohibition platform. Still telling me you'd never vote for a Dem?

[Jrlobo]

More on the Al Smith Dinner: It's an event to raise money for Catholic charities, hence the presence of His Eminence, Cardinal Dolan, who sat between BHO and Mitt. In recent years it has become a must stop for presidential candidates to show off their humorous side and solicit the Catholic vote. Politics makes strange bedfellows: BHO and Catholics!

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

He was Governor of New York, and the first serious Catholic to run for president (he lost to Hoover). He was also a Democrat, and ran on an anti-prohibition platform. Still telling me you'd never vote for a Dem?

I don't drink, so no, I'd never vote for a dem.

[fightingquaker13]

I don't drink, so no, I'd never vote for a dem.

Aww c'mon Tom. Its the party of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. What's not to love?

[tombogan03884]

Rum makes me puke, it's not "Romanism", it's a bunch of Francophiles, and rebellion based on flawed logic is stupid.

[fightingquaker13]

Rum makes me puke, it's not "Romanism", it's a bunch of Francophiles, and rebellion based on flawed logic is stupid.

Review your history notes, then respond. Rum is for being "wets" during prohibition, Romanism is for accepting the Irish and Italians, and Rebellion is because the Dem party base was in the South during the Civil War.

[tombogan03884]

So, they opposed morality, favored changing the primarily English national demographic with poverty stricken immigrants who violently opposed capitalism, and fought a war to keep blacks subjugated.
Nice people.