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MadBadger

(24,089 posts)
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 09:45 PM Sep 2016

2016 Al Smith Dinner

Can you imagine what that will be like?

For those who don't know, it's a white tie dinner a few weeks before the election where the candidates take turns roasting each other.

I imagine this year's dinner will make Don Rickles blush.

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2016 Al Smith Dinner (Original Post) MadBadger Sep 2016 OP
Trump won't go. VMA131Marine Sep 2016 #1
JFK in 1960 book_worm Sep 2016 #2

book_worm

(15,951 posts)
2. JFK in 1960
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 11:17 PM
Sep 2016

"Cardinal Spellman is the only man so widely respected in American politics that he could bring together amicably, at the same banquet table, for the first time in this campaign, two political leaders who are increasingly apprehensive about the November election [laughter] who have long eyed each other suspiciously, and who have disagreed so strongly, both publicly and privately, Vice President Nixon and Governor Rockefeller [laughter]."

Here's his entire Al Smith speech, very funny...

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=74114


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