Empty suit (Democrat): " Barack Obama? Contrary to the rumors you may 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."
“But for one night they showed that even the two most recognizable people on the planet, vying for the most important job there is, have a human side”.
...yeah. Uh huh. Did Stalin or Marx ever do any stand up?
There are links on drudge to part one and part 2 of each speech...they are much clearer than the links originally posted here last night.
McCain hit it out of the park, Obama was so so. My husband and I wondered who wrote McCain’s monologue it was brilliant, and McCain’s delivery was that of a seasoned comedian.
NObama had a couple of good lines, but he was a dud. No humor at all in the empty suit. Guess that is because he is a joke to begin with.
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McCain was fabulous. If he’d have done as well in the debates, this would be over. The good news, I guess, is that this event seems to be getting a whole lot of coverage.
Empty suit (Democrat): " Barack Obama? Contrary to the rumors you may 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."
I watched McCain’s monologue on Youtube last night and it was absolutely brilliant.
First off, it was very, very funny. Every single joke got big laughs.
But, more importantly, he got many key talking points out, in a very positive way.
1) The Clintons are really for him.
2) Obama is the “messiah”
3) MSM (especially MSNBC) is biased against him.
4) Keith Olbermann belongs in a mental institution.
5) ACORN is trying to steal the election.
I watched this last night on FOX. McCain clearly gave the better delivery and had the better writer. He was a natural and got in some well humoured shots at Obama. Obama did a credible job. I even liked his line about how McCain and Al E. Smith were friends and did shots together before prohibition. It was, after all, a charity event.
First, at the Al Smith dinner McCain received loud, sustained applause when he said "Even in this room filled with proud Manhattan Democrats, I have a feeling some of you are pulling for me."
Second, McCain was on for nearly all of Letterman's program and his jokes hit their marks (most self-deprecating) was applauded repeatedly. I heard no boos.
I'm encouraged.
I thought Obama was terrible. He delivered the speech as if he had never seen it before — reading directly from the cards and laughing at his own jokes. He had some good lines, so maybe it was the delivery.
McCain was spot on, especially the Clinton stuff - hysterical.
McCain and Cardinal Egan shared some great conversations. Then, along came Obama ....
And the mood immediately changed.
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McCain was much funnier than Obama! Obama really looked uncomfortable when he was trying to be funny. It really didn’t come off that well even though the audience tried to make it look good!
Obama's jokes about his origins and name weren't "self-deprecating". They were merely symptomatic of his true evasiveness on his subject and bordering on the weird.
Obama showed little sense of humor, although he felt he had to try because of the venue. Humor and playful humility are not in his arsenal. He is a wooden egotist and it shows. My wife thought he had an evil and insincere smile and she's pretty good at reading people.
Hussein Obama may have a human side, although it doesn't show, but his other side is anything but humanitarian. For just one example, he went to Kenya last year to campaign for his cousin, the communist Raili Odinga who was running for president of Kenya, and gave almost a million $ to the Odinga campaign. Then when Odinga lost he advised him to publicly contest the election result.
That led to weeks of rioting by Odinga's mostly Muslim supporters and attacks on Kenyan Christians who supported his opponent. Hundreds of Kenyans were killed and many thousands were displaced by the rioting, and Hussein Obama's vaunted humanitarianism was nowhere to be seen after 50 Christian Kenyans were locked in their church building by pro-Odinga protesters and burned alive when the building was set on fire.
If anyone is interested you can read more about itHERE, including a letter from American missionaries in Kenya who are convinced that Hussein Obama is still a Muslim in spite of his claim to be a Christian.
Here are links to both speeches.
McCain, parts 1 and 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goaj5V4tZoc
http://showhype.com/video/john_mccain_brings_down_the_house_al_smith_dinner_part/
Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5SWQJWm6Tg
“It’s been that kind of contest and I come here tonight to the Al Smith Dinner knowing I’m the underdog in these final weeks, but if you know where to look there are signs of hope, even in the most unexpected of places, even in the room filled with proud Manhattan Democrats. I can’t shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me.
(INSERT THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE AND HOWLS OF SUPPORT FROM THE AUDIENCE)
“I’m delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.”
(MORE THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE AND LAUGHTER AS HILLARY NEARLY PEE’S HER PANTS)