I just browsed news accounts of a charity event in New York attended by the Republican and Democratic nominees of this year’s American presidential election.
At the event they both got to speak, and apparently both their pieces had a lot of humor, directing at each other as well as at themselves. That made for good reading.
For more on what they said, see here
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/us/politics/17smith.html?ref=us
and here
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122421158010543749.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
One of the things McCain said about Obama was this -“I can’t wish my opponent luck, but I can wish him well.”
I thought that was a classy thing to say.
An Indian Kitchen in France 