AEHQ: Putting Aside Politics For a Night of Laughs

For a few hours tonight, the Presidential candidates will share the same stage and politics will be off-limits.  President Obama and Mitt Romney will both attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, an event held in the weeks leading up to every Presidential election, where partisan jabs are replaced by rib-splitting laughs.

FOX News Radio’s Rich Johnson has more from Washington in this Election Update:

From America’s Election Headquarters…

Back in 2008, they said the more talk about the economy, the worse it would be for John McCain.

(Obama) “So, tonight I’d like to talk about the economy.”

Then-Senator Obama getting a laugh at the annual Alfred E. Smith Dinner in New York.  McCain got his turn, noting that his opponent was indeed benefiting from the failing economy.

(McCain) “I’m told that at the first sign of recovery, he will suspend his campaign and fly immediately to Washington to address this crisis.”

Tonight, it’s President Obama and Mitt Romney headlining the Smith Dinner, named for the New York governor who ran for President in 1928 – the first Catholic to do so.

In Washington, Rich Johnson, FOX News Radio.