Rachel Maddow interrupted her show to show the live feed from the Al Smith Dinner here in New York City.
Both Obama and McCain appeared and spoke.
The Al Smith dinners are like Friar's Roasts for politicians.
McCain was funny. Really funny. And at first I was really worried, because, well this was the McCain I kind of liked many moons ago.
Could Barack be funny?
Yes. Yes he could.
And he did a solid bit of one-liners and good jokes.
And then he went somewhere else. He got serious. And it was like the New Hampshire speech. It was beautiful and he brought it up at a high-roller dinner let's-pretend-that-everything-is-great-because-we're-rich kind of event.
It was genius.
I hope I can find video of them both. Because you should see the whole thing.
First video here:
http://www.youtube.com/...
Thanks Bouwerie Boy!