HEEEERE'S JOHNNY!

If you ever wanted evidence of why John McCain has such devoted followers, witness his performance at last night’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in Manhattan. The charity event, held at the dowager empress of hotels Waldorf Astoria, was attended by both Presidential candidates and a plethora of social and political A-listers. John McCain took the stage and delivered a brilliant comedy routine. Not only were the jokes well written, they were delivered with a comic timing that any stand up professional would envy. Barack Obama, by contrast, delivered a clumsy routine, that was met with more groans than chuckles. Viewers were left with the images of McCain as a regular guy that anyone would want to have at your next neighborhood barbeque and Obama as a guy that would bore you to tears if you had to sit next to him at a ball game. Who knew that the old guy the media portrays as slow and tongue tied would be so wickedly funny or that the guy pundits revere for his masterful rhetoric would be as clumsy a joke teller as your great aunt Martha after three glasses of sherry?

Perhaps Obama was intimidated by following McCain’s performance or perhaps the politician with the most extreme view of the right to an abortion felt a little uncomfortable sitting next to the Foundation’s President, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, his Eminence, Edward Cardinal Egan. Lest readers think me non-objective, watch the video of the two candidate’s speeches and decide for yourself. Unless you do laugh at Great Aunt Martha’s jokes, we think you will agree with us.