Politics (Un)Seriously

Moving their roadshow from Hofstra University on Long Island to the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, John McCain and Barack Obama, faced off at the venerable New York institution - the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation where they swapped jokes about themselves and each other, starting with McCain announcing that he had replaced his whole team of senior advisers with Joe the Plumber.

As for Obama, he nodded his recognition of the luminaries in the crowd - the McCains, Cardinal Edward Egan, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Michael Bloomberg and others - and said, "There's no other crowd I'd rather be palling around with right now." And while he appreciated the digs at the Waldorf, saying, "I was originally told we would be able to move this out doors to Yankee Stadium...and can somebody tell me what happened to the Greek columns I requested?