Bush, Kerry Not Invited to Annual Dinner

[Spiffarino]

A sad commentary on the state of this election, and perhaps the country...

NEW YORK - Neither President Bush (news - web sites) nor Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) has been invited to this year's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a traditionally lighthearted affair held just before the elections, because issues in the presidential campaign could detract from the spirit of the event, its sponsor, the Archdiocese of New York said Thursday.

Instead, the 59th annual dinner will feature the Republican president's father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former Democratic New York Gov. Hugh Carey, as speakers, said archdiocese spokesman Joseph Zwilling.

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"The tradition of the Smith dinner is to bring people together," Zwilling said in a statement. "Given that issues in this year's campaign could provoke divisiveness and disagreement and could detract from that spirit, it was felt best to proceed in a different direction while maintaining all of the ideals and values of the dinner."

[Justice]

1. Bad Link

[Spiffarino]

2. Thanks

It's fixed now...I left in the "http"

On edit: I had hoped my 900th post would have been better than, "Thanks. I fixed my own screw up."

[grasswire]

3. this dinner is...

...where Bush said "Some call you the haves or the have-mores. I call you my base." I think so, anyway.

[Sputnik]

4. You're right

I remember that too.

[yardwork]

5. A-ha! So that's why they didn't dare invite either of them

Instead they invite Poppy and some other Democrat. Uh-huh.

[yardwork]

6. I think W said:

"The haves, and the have-mores. Some call you the elite. I call you my base."

[0007]

7. Perhaps the;y were afraid the two would get in a knock down

walled eyed fight and Kerry would kick the shit out of junior?

[speedoo]

8. Oh so it's fair to invite the man who helped bring the coWard to us?

Unbelievable.

[sonicx]

9. i wouldn't hold it against kerry...

to knock bush out.

[malachi]

13. I'd pay a 100x the $54.95 that they're charging on PPV to watch Hopkins

and DelaHoya, to watch the chimp get knocked into reality.

[LosinIt]

10. Hugh Carey, are they kidding?? I thought he was dead.

I wonder where they found him?

[MrBenchley]

11. Breslin used to have lots of fun with Hugh Carey

and Carey did his best to help...remember when Carey drank a glass of "dioxin" to pretend the Hudson didn't need cleaning up?

Remember his wedding to the Greek heiress and widow (her ex-husband turned out to be alive and middle-class, running a pizzeria in Utica)?

[GalleryGod]

12. Hugh Carey? I sn't he Dead!? What King Tut wasn't available for the Dems?

Poppy is allready friggin' DEAD!

So sad...the Smith Dinner falls by the wayside in Newt-Karen-KKarlK-Delay "scorched earth" politics.