GWB and Al Gore in 2000
Posted on 10/18/2012 4:28:24 AM PDT by iowamark
Angry e-mails from conservative Christian organizations flooded Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan’s in-box in August, after he announced that he had invited President Obama, along with Mitt Romney, to speak at the New York Archdiocese’s biggest charity gala...
But something else also kept flooding in: donations. The archdiocese’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, which will host the glittering dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue on Thursday, is on track to raise more than $5 million in a single night for charities that assist poor and needy children in the archdiocese, a record for the event, said Alfred E. Smith IV, who is the master of ceremonies in honor of his great-grandfather, the first Roman Catholic to be nominated by a major party for the presidency...
Through its 67-year history, the annual Al Smith Dinner, as it is known, has attracted attention every four years as a lighthearted pit stop for presidential candidates in the heated final weeks of the campaign. For one evening, the candidates are supposed to put aside their differences and showcase their ability to vie for laughs, as well as votes, as they poke fun of themselves and each other to benefit charity.
The dinner, which this year comes just after the two candidates aggressively debated Tuesday night, will give Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney a chance to show voters that they can also be gracious and human...
In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon became the first pair of candidates to attend in an election year, trading self-deprecating quips as television cameras rolled. Since then, five other sets of presidential candidates have taken the stage, including George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000 and George Bush and Michael S. Dukakis in 1988...
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GWB and Al Gore in 2000
The arrogant first prick should wear a “NO FETUS CAN BEAT US” button on his jacket. (Just to make it perfectly clear.)
NYT searched for a way to place this misleading headline.
The visual is Romney and his campaign staff eating pizz in a hotel suite, groaning and dreaming up ways to smear O; doing what the Times does to Romney, in other words.
It takes reading it, then wondering “the archbishop is running for president?”, before one gets to nothing.
This is just an excuse for a headline.
How do they stay in business?
and I say that because Al Smith i am sure, never dreamed that politics would be taken over by a fight for the legal right to kill innocents.
He certainly never dreamed it would be his party that would’ve allowed itself to be taken over by these horrible people.
Fraternizing with the press & politicians...I was hoping Dolan would put a stop to this nonsense.
I do not believe the first sentence of the article. Just NYT’s attempt to smear Christians,
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