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By DAVID ESPO, AP
16 October 2008 @ 10:20 pm EST

NEW YORK - John McCain and Barack Obama swapped self-deprecating jokes instead of campaign jabs Thursday night, the Republican saying he had replaced his team of senior advisers with "Joe the Plumber" while the Democrat claimed his own "greatest strength would be my humility."

Said Obama: "Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth," a reference to Superman.

McCain joked that Democrats had already begun attacking Joe the Plumber, the Ohio man whom he referred to in Wednesday night's debate, and claimed "that this honest, hardworking small businessman could not possibly have enough income to face a tax increase under the Obama plan."

"What they don't know is that Joe the Plumber recently signed a very lucrative contract with a wealthy couple to handle all the work on all seven of their houses," McCain said, drawing laughter with the reference to his property holdings.

The two men spoke at the 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity event organized by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York for the benefit of needy children. An estimated $4 million was raised.

Source: http://snipurl.com/4fwx1 [www_ibtimes_com]

Now that's more like it....

I saw the highlights of this dinner on Anderson Cooper this morning. Pretty self-deprecating. Also a nice change.

No one ever said you had to hate a guy to disagree with his politics.

I don't fear obama as president. I still prefer him to a Clinton. I fear the economic collapse of a nation I was and am willing to fight, kill, or die for.

It would be great if dissolution of nations and universal peace occurred, with TOTAL liberty if individual, but until then, we got the best model for that to happen, steeped under government excess right now.

but our economic collapse happens in every contingency model of socialism since the 1940's. and still does. We are too vested in foreign affairs, and have held the money stick of peace in other regions too long. we pull out that stick, and they will attack each other, and us. Thanks, FDR.

Caught mccain on letterman last night...hard to hate the guy when he can be a funny bastard...all I can say is thank jimi Hendrix that that fucking arseclown Bush will be gone.

blixa wrote:Caught mccain on letterman last night...hard to hate the guy when he can be a funny bastard...all I can say is thank jimi Hendrix that that fucking arseclown Bush will be gone.

McCain is not a bad guy, and he certainly doesn't take this stuff too seriously. Say what you will, and i am sure jig will, but i think McCain is just happy to be alive and not in a hole making flags for people so they don't try to commit suicide in capitivity. He definitely is better off the cuff, and needs to get his campaign going in that style, or he is done for! everyone is skewing this shit in ways that are simply not fair.

Like the Wall Street Journal today, front page center panel, an interview with descendents of slaves owned by McCain's ancestors! WHAT THE FUCK! Obama's not a descendent of slaves, he is a descendent of Slave owners and slave traders, like most candidates for president ever. That is just damn low, and never has that kind of shit been used before.

also...

I am not going to say Bush was the best president EVAR, but he did some good things before he became a wartime president. then he became Liberal to a point. io was there to argue that the national security strategy of the US is unrealistic and liberal soci-fascism. Better to truly wage war, sensibly and economically with proper declaration than go on a fox hunt for a man who is only effective in motivating others. He came to power from past administrations that intruded on politics that don't concern our own economic sovereignty. We have got to stop doing that and let some people in other countries just die, grow, and reform their own damn Governments! And for FUCK's SAKE stop declaring war on ideals or methods. wars of drugs, illiteracy, terror, and obesity are absurd and make us look like fucking fools.

i also think Bush's approval rating is subject to the same idiocy as the youtube vids you posted. He has become a scapegoat for everything that happened in his administration or in the middle east since the second crusade. He fought for the line-by-line veto and couldn't get it. now, it is well apparent both candidates in the running currently plan to go "page by page, line by line" like we never allowed Bush to. In all fairness, he has been handicapped while to get a single bill passed to get vegetarians proper military rations, or to stop sending ham to Iraq, it has 40 million in extra spending projects tied to it by senators and congressmen.