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Ok, So which one of you is pro-life?

McCain, Please vote for me I really want to be President.... Obama, Thanks for early voting for me!!!

So, I guess my vows of poverty and chastity were not enough. Why me?

McCain: you think I can get some days of indulgence for all those funny comments I made on stage?

Thank god the Cardinal is in between us or I would sick my bulldog on you....

Lord, are you as tired of listening to all this political nonsense as I am?

"Hey Barack, have you heard that one about the cardinal and the choirboy?"

Cardinal Egen says, "Help get me out of here"!

Boy would I like to get these two into a confessional!

Okay, a priest, a rabi, and Joe the Plumber go in.....

What a world we LIVED in ...

Let's hope it GETS better.

Shhh! Barack, put some cotton in your ears
McCain: Father, I come become you a sinner. I confess that I lust to sleep in the presidential bedroom of the White house.

"You obviously have me confused with a plumber."

Barack-" By the end of the night I'll turn it into a blue cape!"

John McCain says to Cardinal Egen, "Did you hear about the priest who try to save a hooker?"

"Can't these two guys agree on anything"?

Cardinal Egan does his best McCain impersonation by repeatedly rolling his eyes and sighing.

I don't think dressing up like a pumpkin in October is all that funny.

"John, enough for the jokes, can I eat my dinner"?

McCain and Obama with Ron Paul in his new costume.

They knew what they were doing when they planned the seating. McCain is even further on the right than I am!

Cardinal Edward Eagan's silent comments at dinner Thursday evening at the Waldorf Astoria:

"Sure, you can laugh! You're not sitting between the two of them! The tension is so thick, I just tried to cut it with my knife!"

"Did you hear the one about the guy who wore a red cape to a formal dinner?"

I believe the term "baked Alaskan" refers to this dish...not my running mate.

"I'd better get two desserts for having to sit between these two."

Barack, I'd like you to meet the new mascot for the Arizona Cardinals.

"I'm not kidding Barack, this is Hillary in her halloween costume."

Obama: Hey McCain, I like your joke, that is so funny about Joe the Plumber.....
McCain: Thank you for that, But I am not president Bush!!!!!

Get me out of here!!!!!!!!!

John McCain: " If I was a rabbi, this would be some kind of bad joke!"

Jim Saisakorn
New York City, NY

So did you hear the joke about the priest, the Vietnam veteran and a… ah never mind, that joke ISN’T POLITCALLY CORRECT.

"Admit it Barack, your tax plan will keep "Edward the Cardinal" from ever becoming Pope!"

I guess they misunderstood me when I said that I was a Cardinals fan.

Father: (thinking) I can't sit between Obama and McCain in the middle, it made me annoy!!!! I can't stand each other......

"Please God, get me out of here".

Cardinal Edward Egan thinks to himself... "Did I remember to Tivo Ugly Betty?"

Cardinal Egan regrets his role as moderator in the Dinner Table Debate.

McCain to Obama.. Tell the truth Barack, you like me, you really like me. You can't lie because Cardinal is listening.

Egan: "Senator McCain you time is up, next question is to you Senator Obama, why did you get the last chicken entree, I requested one and got fish."

"Did you hear the one about "the boys club and the preist"?

Richmond, VA

New York Cardinal Edward Egan is listening to the devil on his left shoulder and the angel on his right shoulder, and is confused to which he should listen to...

"Even though I walk through the shadow of death, I will fear no evil"

Hey guys, hey guys......what do you get when you cross a religious zealot with a KKK member? I don't know either, but I sure hope he votes!

John, at least when you were an Episcopalian, you had a potential of getting my endorsement.

omg. thoses guys are going to make me blush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See, Barack. It's not just me...the cardinal can't look at you either!

"Forgive me Father, but if he brings up Joe the Plumber ONE
MORE TIME!!

McCain: I'm a hell of a lot funnier than you are Barack.
Obama: The hell you are!
Egan: I'd like to lock you both in confession lockdown.
McCain: That's funny!

I hope he doesn't ask for my wine, too.

oh<oh i think this is going to be a fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Republican, Democrat, and a Catholic priest were sitting at a bar.....

"Did you know that Cardinals start off as Swallows"?

Walt
Richmond, VA

"Please God, get me out of here."

Hey Bob, I think you might want to call Joe the Plumber! John seems to have let is mouth overload his ... again!!!!

McCain leans toward the Left and tells Obama "I learned how to tie this bowtie from the great Paul Simon. He was a senator from your state of Illinois, and he leaned across the aisle and showed me the way. This of course was before my friend George Bush was President."

Gentlemen, gentlemen, I am eating my dinner–this is NOT a confessional!

McCain: I will win the comedian contest!!!!
Obama: No! I will win comedian contest!!
Father: Please stop argue each other about contest!

Don't tell it to me. I'll move tell him your own self. Collinsville, OK

God won

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil"

God, you've put me in difficult situations, but this is rediculous!

Cardinal Egan: "Did Joe the Plumber make the seating chart?"

These earplugs are a gift from heaven!

"All of this negative rhetoric is enough to turn me into an atheist."

Oh Lord, did I have to be piggy in the middle?

Ok, so a Democrat, and Republican and a Priest go into a bar...........

I can't believe McCain is talking about this at the dinner table. I know, I'll give him 'you better knock that off while we're in public' look! It works with kids, I bet it'll work here too!

"I understand that you each have a tremendous amount to confess, but, please, one at a time."

"Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do"

Oh great, now I'M the moderator to a fourth debate.

After hearing their face-to-face confessions simultaneously, Cardinal Egan cringes as McCain boasts to Obama that he got a lighter penance.

*Yikes, I'm surrounded by politicians! Okay, stay calm, now think... what would Jesus do in this predicament?!*

McCain: That's funny...my next set of ads just happen to say that you're from Krypton...

Thank you Lord, I finally mastered the art of sleeping with my eyes open!

"This One has a red cape, Barack, I guess yours is red too!

Obama"is that the face of the christian right your trying to win vote's of?"

"No, Senator McCain. I am not Charlie Brown or the great pumpkin."

The candidates present their cases for whose economic policy would be better for 'Ed the Cardinal'.

" The way these two have been going at it these last few weeks... all three of us will have to bathe in Holy Water for a month!

Do you think God will forgive me if I just let one rip?

Cardinal Egan: "OK, just don't make any sudden movements"

John McCain asking the New York Cardinal for a prayer, while Obama leans over to say 'Not even God can help you'.

Who are these two guys? I thought I was going to meet the Pope.

I'll trade you a scallop for a "red state".

That's the last time I'll agree to do vote for the "best" confession.

Forest Hills, NY

I don't care how much you've come to admire each other. Marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman.

As long as you're so good at reaching across the aisle, how about passing me the ketchup.

No kidding, Barak, Pope Benedict told me that he won election by going negative!

Yeah, I think the orange cape and cap look funny too!

John, informs the Cardinal that he's dropping Sara Palin from the ticket and replacing her with Rudi Giuliani.

"So a maverick, a terrorist, and a Catholic priest walk into a bar..."

McCain, just as oblivious to his surroundings as he is the issues, was overheard at a fundraiser asking: " Did you hear the joke about the priest and the black man?"

(Cardinal thinking) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Once again, the Skipper is caught unhappily between Gilligan and the Professor.

Where are the bank CEO's? Why haven't we seen any of them making a public statement about one of the worst banking crisis we've ever had. They're probably to busy managing the fortunes they amassed while running their firms into the ground.

Hey Barack, we sure know how to get down with the people. I feel their pain, and I know you do too.

Egan : Oh.. Oh.. I should have brought the Cheek guard with me..

Ram
VA

Hey Barack, any idea which one of these glasses I'm supposed to drink out of?

Senator Obama, Can you pass me a "Red" state please!

Barack, I'm going for the Hail Mary with the Cardinal's blessings!

Hey Obama, I like that idea. I think we should tax the church too. This guy doesn't look too happy about it though.

Gentleman be nice and stay in your corner: because the plumber is not God.

lisa from Beaufort,SC

Nevermind Jesus, I want a second coming of this dessert.

"Could I please have some elbow room, John!

The Surly Mate, The Pearly Gate and The Surely Great...

My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.

Fistful of humour through the Cardinal

Ahh, that was funny! But, maybe I shouldn't be telling that kind of joke here?

"Why do I always get sat at the kids' table?!"

Williamsburg, VA

McCain as Obama listens in : Cardinal Egan to you think the big guy will over look the nastiness of these campaigns?. Or will we burn!!!

McCain: "So an Archbishop and a Democrat walk into a bar..."

Cardinal Egan chimes in with the Lord, "Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right, here am I stuck in the middle with you."

Obama to Cardinal Edward Egan should i call joe the plumber

Okay have you heard this one, Three men go to a dinner, the first an older white male, the second a cardinal, and the third an African American....

Caption for today's photo –
"In one ear and out the other"

"I told you Cardinal, Obama still sits left of center".

Well I don't know about you Barack, but I feel like a penguin. Of course, it's not as bad as Mr. Halloween here.

Hey, Steve. Everyone thinks I’m a hot head. Would you please tell everyone I just had a little gas at debate and that’s what you were laughing at. You can’t lie in front of this guy. Hey pal your gonna be 72…

McCain- Didn't the cardinal get the message about the White ties.
Obama- I guess not.

Cardinal Egan thinks to himself "I am the
only maverick around here"!!!!!

McCain: Father please pray for me its the only chance i got left

And I thought the vow of chastity was bad...

Lord, I know I have to do penance for eating that extra piece of cake but this is ridiculous!

McCain: "Ok guys, stop me if you've heard this one before,"
Cardinal and Obama: "STOP!!"

McCain- I thought we were supposed to sit next to Joe the Plummer.

Go ahead, Barack, show Cardinal Egan your water-to-wine trick!

YO BARACK! did you see the bleepin Cardinals kick the bleep out of the bleepin Cowboy's last... oh... uh... sorry your Eminence, I meant the ARIZONA Cardinals.

What do you get when you cross two penguins with a Cardinal???

Senator Obama to Cardinal Egan: Can I borrow your cape?

Cardinal Egan getting ready to say "Don't make me
separate you boys again"......

I know it took a miracle for these two to be civil for one night, but why do I have to be seated between them

Cardinal Egan pondering.....why did I have to draw the short straw???

And who do I need to speak to about the seating arrangements for next year?

Harrison, AR

Charlie Brown and Linus are finally visited by the Great Pumpkin.

"Hungry? Why Wait Grab a Snickers!"

I "feel" it's time to exorcise the demons!

Religion always gets in the middle of politics.

McCain: "No...I'll be Moe, Barrack will be Larry, and Cardinal, you can be Curly."

Hey, Cardinal, would you tell That One to pass the salt?

Okay, i admit, it was me that time!

Why don't I wear a white tie?

What happened to the separation of church and state?

(It's my 19th Birthday! If Anderson wished me happy birthday on tonight's show that would be the greatest gift ever!!)

I said thhis really is for the birds – a hawk, a cardinal and a dove!

Cardinal: Dear God haven't I done enough...Now I have to baby sit the candidates!

Cardinal Egan– any word from above who is going to win on Nov 4th?

Riverview, Michgian

You're wrong Barack...he's on my side!

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

Now I know what Lehrer, Brokaw, and Schieffer went through.

Sorry gentlemen but i have already voted for Ralph Nader.

McCain: "Cardinal, my friend, let me tell you why I think God should vote for me in november..."

I hope neither one of "these guys" starts projectile vomiting while I'm inbetween!

Obama and McCain meet without preconditions the New York Cardinal

What the HELL?????

Lafayette, LA

So, a republican, a democrat, and a cardinal walk into a bar...

Dear Lord,
We give thanks for this food and please keep these two heads from "spinning" around in my presence.

McCaine to Obama: "I tried making a deal with the devil today, but he said he was already endorsing you!"

This wolf meat is delectable. Did Palin bag this?

All right...let's go out back and settle this right now!

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

"Hey John.... what are you complaining about??? I could have nicknamed you Dick Cheney instead!!!"

Dear Lord,
We give thanks for this food and please keep these two heads from "spinning" around in my presence.
Amen!

Cardinal: OK, Sen. McCain, I forgive your sins. But you Sen. Obama, YOU ARE THE ONE!!!!

From Left To Right,

Servant of Man, Servant of God, "Messiah"

"John, how am I supposed to take you seriously
when you expect me to believe that Joe the
plumber was a pitbull in a past life"?

"John and Barack, nothing personal. But sinning is everything! Me and my gang are voting for the one who's hand is under the table ...

Guys this is not the time for forgiveness, " too late ", you all are going to hell.

Senator McCain tries to convince Cardinal Egan not to give his cape to Senator Obama because it would ensure Obama the Presidency.

Sen. Obama explains, "That's not how it works, John. You confess your sins and I confess mine."

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

I don't care WHAT you promise...I'm not going to put in the good word for either of you!

The guy in the back finally got the joke McCain told half an hour earlier.

So, who do ya like in The Series…

You know why I'm smiling, Barack? I had the Cardinal's confession chamber bugged...Wait till you see tomorrow's campaign ad.

Sandy
Arkansas

"Senator Obama, I know you are planning to raise taxes on potatoes like the ones on our plate tonight. But in these tough economic times, that's the last thing we should do. What will Joe eat for dinner if you are elected?"

OBAMA: YOU KNOW MACAIN USED TO BE AN ALTER BOY!

VINNY URIEGAS
SAN ANTONIO TX

dear lord please save me from idiots!!!

Excuse me Cardinal, would you give me the last rites?

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

Coming this fall on CNN...Two Candidates, a Cardinal, and a Pizza Place

OH MY GOD WILL YOU TWO JUST SHUT UP:

VINNY URIEGAS
SAN ANTONIO TX

Excuse me Cardinal, would you give my campaign the last rites?

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

So then St. Peter says – "We have lots of Cardinals up here but only one politician."

Cameron Cox
Winnipeg, Canada

Trapped between the two candidates, Cardinal Egan eyes the nearest emergency exit.

That was not funny, and I know funny, I am a clownfish.

OH MY GOD, CAN I GET SOMETHING A LITTLE STRONGER THAN THIS WINE!

VINNY URIEGAS
SAN ANTONIO TX

Hey Barack...do you think it's coincidence that the "salt and pepper" shakers match our seating arrangement?

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

Egan to himself, "God, can you please make time go faster? I want this dinner to be over now."

McCain to Obama: “I tried making a deal with the devil today, but was told he was already endorsing you!”

CardInal Egan and Sen. Obama listen as Sen. McCain tells his "Jesus playing golf" joke again.

Hey, Barack, he said the Pope thinks you haven't got a prayer!

Shut the hell up already!!!!! You're both causing me to think evil thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1) Senator Obama I bet my plates got less pork than yours.

2) Senator Obama did you know they had a special on pork-barreled earmarks? You would have loved it.

Come on Barack...pass the salt!

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

Ok, John joke time is over

Egan, "Abra, cadabra, POOF!! Shucks! I'm still here."

Yeah Barack, I do feel stupid for turning you down. But when you asked to be my running mate I didn't think you could beat Hillary either. And I swear I didn't Rudy was a cross dresser!

Obama: If you don't believe in abortion, don't have one!
Cardinal: So Senator McCain, tell me again how it is that you are pro-life and pro-war?
McCain: That's right, this makes 72 years that I have served my country.

Now I understand. God bless the guy who sat between Bill and Hillary.

I'm for every working man, even "Joe the Cardinal". Er...your name is Joe, isn't it?

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

"help....who's hand is that I feel? The left- or the right-wing-hand?"

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.....the problem is who's the bad cause their all ugly

Cardinal Egan: (thinking) If McCain tries to lick Obama again, I'm outta here!

"Pssst. Green Party Candidate? Get me outta here!"

So Then I Said.. "Does A Bear Wear Little Red Shoes!?!"

N.Y Cardinal: Am I going to be in the new SNL skit on Saturday?

McCain: Man, I wish his name was Joe!

Obama: No McCain, his name is not Joe the Cardinal.

The Cardinal "I'm like Sgt. Schultz..."I know nothing' and I don't think these two clowns do either."

Sandy
Arkansas

ok-if I slip under the table I think I can make it to the safe zone...

When you hear the bell let the low blows fly.

Mike
Kinston NY

His imminence begins to question his faith, thinking quietly to himself, "Lord, why must I continue to endure this campaign? Make it end, give me my salvation"

Hey Ed, you thought my jokes were the Mavrick-ey-est, right?!

Cardinal Egan is reacting to McCain telling Obama that Bill Maher will be rating their performance tonight on Larry King.

No Barack, you don't get a choice. It's roasted chicken or nothing!

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, and here I am,
stuck in the middle with you.

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah There must be something else we could talk about guys.

This vow of poverty thing is catching on.

John McCain whispers across to Senator Obama, "Have you told his eminence your plan to raise taxes on the catholic church?"

Hmm... If they only knew what my agenda was....HA HA HA

Anika Mshuja
Sunnyvale, CA

.....hmmmmm....now I know where I've seen these two.....Genesis.....'Cain and Abel! This can't turn out good.

"Alright, who's playing footsies?"

You see Barack, that's how you work a crowd!

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

(San Jose/Canada)
(Cardinal) Angel & Devil are playing havoc with my appetite

Forgive me father for I have sinned....(Mccain) ...it has been to long since my last earmark.

Forgive me father for I have sinned....(Obama)......It has been just a few weeks since I ignored Hillary as a running mate.

Father, He will tax your tithes.

The father, the son & the holy priest

"Seriously," notes Obama, "the cardinal looks as though he will need a bit more of that scraficial wine."

Senator McCain whispers to the Cardinal, nodding towards Senator Obama, "Do you know who pals around with atheists? That one!"

(San Jose/Canada)
(Cardinal: "Please don't let them do to me what they did to Joe the Plumber" )

McCain is teasing Obama with the following statement, "I 'm catching up with you in the polls."

You know what I should have said at the end of my roast, "I'm John McCain and I approve this message."

Bless us father, for we have spinned.

McCain is speaking in tongue's again! Bring me the Holy Water......

In this corner the Irish hammer from Arizona and the other corner The new comer, the bride of chicago, the thrilla from DNC, the Clinton killa
Barack "STEVE" Obama. Let get readyyyyy to Stumble.

Mike "Flan"
Kingston NY

Barack did you here the one about the traveling salesman?

"Take my word for it, don't order the moose."

Yeah, you're right, the fish does taste a little gritty. Just dip in the butter sauce and smile.

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

How to stop two politicians from fighting? Bring up religion.

(Cardinal Egan to himself) – "I seriously wish McCain would quit talking about how great "Religulous" was..."

"Quick Barack ! You take the cap, I'll grab the cape, and we'll rule the world as the NEW Dynamic Duo !"

McCain asking a favor to Cardinal Egan: if I win in November, please "talk" to your boss so that we don't have Palin becoming the President!.

Cardinal Egan: Lord, You have a great sense of humor, but can i wake up now!

Da Vinci's "Last Supper" for modern times...

Chris Chase
New Brunswick, Canada

Someone get my exorcism handbook!

How do I get one of those cool orange capes in time for Halloween?

Hey Cardinal ," Go ahead ask him about his chumming around with Rev. Wright, and those Taliban types he hangs with."

Go on ignoring me you two politicians, wish I could tell you what I'm really thinking! This was not supposed to be a" roast "but a charity event, besides,I faked laughing at your jokes. Oh God I'm miserable, let this end soon!

right to left: Potus, Pontiff, Poser

I guess nobody told the Cardinal this was a WHITE tie event.

"Seriously, we should dress up as the Jonas Brothers for Halloween. Seriously."

Hey Senator Obama, I bet you I can chug this glass of wine. Care to join me?

Mission Viejo, CA

Check please!

Cardinal Egan "Pontiff-icating" on "Exorcising" his Wrath after seeing both Obama and McCain bigger pieces of chicken and extra dinner rolls.

One at a time, I can't listen to your confessions at the same time, this isn't the view!

Sarah Palin make our pit bull (Joe Biden )very mad

Hey Cardinal, Rudy Giuliani wants to know if he could borrow your cape – he has the perfect dress to match it!

Hey who did you say is paying for this dinner, cause it's not my campaign we've got ads to run.

That's right, fellows, play fair, make peace with each other.

Caught between Barack and a nut case!

omg, I knew I should have left those cucumbers alone!
Sandi Mansfield Ohio

"No, Senator McCain, "Pope on a Rope Soap" would probably be frowned upon."

What's that smell?

My speech was funnier than your speech...Na Na Na Na Na Na!
Judy Zeller
Seattle, Wa.

I'm a pumpkin for halloween, what are you two? a salt/pepper shaker set?

Hey Barack, what say the winner of the election has to wear this Halloween get-up to the inaguaration?

So, my friend, guess who taught me my eye-rolling techniques?

"......thy rod and thy staff they comfort me....."

From Great Bend, Kansas

Never one to outwardly show favoritism, the Cardinal votes with his eyes.

"All this spin is making me dizzy!"

Can't you two guys please just get a room? The sexual tension is palpable.

Yeah.....You two truly need to be blessed.

Fools on the left of me – Jokers on the right;
Here I am ,
stuck in the Middle with YOU

I should have asked them to take a vow of silence.

Have you ever heard of a orange and black cardinal before?

Whoever smelt it dealt it.

Jeeze, soap ain't strong enough to wash these guys mouth out. Wish I had a Tic Tac!
Sandra L. Mansfield Ohio

I better stay in the middle or these two will duke it out...

Lilibeth
Edmonds, Washington

I can usually tell the little angel form the little devil?

"Are you familiar with the term 'dine & dash?'"

Cardinal Egan finally encounters the age old 'good v. evil' on his shoulders. Which one do I choose? McCain pitches- "C'mon Cardinal, I grew up with your Boss– pick me! "

"Ok, which one of you guys "tooted"?

Why do I have to sit between these two. Haven't I made enough sacrifices? Lord be with me, or can I at least have sex now?

'

enough of the POW stories,
I WANT to eat!

"Is that McCain or myself that smells of spoiled milk, vitamins, and peas?"

FATHER: "is the devil over my left or right shoulder?"

Listen Obama,I'm way ahead in the electoral college of cardinals.

Cardinal's thinking of a way to sit next to Charles behind him. I've had it with these two!

John, the Cardinal doesn't want to hear THAT joke...

Not another joke about the pope in the woods....

Hey lets play a joke on Hillary and tell her that Biden pulled out and she's the new veep nomination, you'll back us won't you Cardinal, she'll have to believe a priest.

John McCain: Double or nothing. I bet the people over at CNN will get a kick out of this.

"Oh Lordy...John McCain doesn't have a prayer!"

Mark S.
Sacramento, CA

Two cards and a cardinal

"I should have ordered the locusts...this is too cruel."

So, this Cardinal walks into a bar....

Cardinal Egan is stuck in campaign purgatory.

Egan: Hmm... so this is what it's like to be on the right hand of the Messiah.

"Did someone forget to tell 'that one' the Halloween Ball isn't for another two weeks!

Egan: Hmm… so this is what it’s like to be on the right hand of the Messiah.

Let me introduce you to my friend, Joe the Priest !

McCain says "hey Barack; lets hear how your tax plan is going to hurt Ed the Cardinal"

Hey Moe!

The Cardinal fears he is caught between Obama's stare down and McCain's tickling attempt.

barak, the cardinal jjust wispered to me earlier that he is not voting for you coz he is affraid that uoy might tax his church..

Enough of this chitchat– when are you turning my water into wine?

I got God on my side so now what ya gonna do Barack? !!!

The priceless reaction of Obama and the Cardinal after McCain tries to jokingly make the statement, “Cardinal just remember to vote for the white guy on Nov. 4th"

what's their names again?

Tammy
Plainfield NJ

" I can not believe I am between a maverick and a hard place...."

New York City, NY

"It's because of YOU we had to line up for them to check our bags"

Cardinal's prayer," What did I do to deserve this?" "I'm outa of here ASAP!

New York Cardinal Edward Egan realizes he should have promptly asked for take out upon the realization that he was seated between "The Next George Bush" and "That One."