Andrew Romano
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May 6, 2008 08:29 AM
With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fighting each other to a draw over the last few weeks in the riveting battle for blue-collar ordinariness--Clinton:
Crown Royal, Mauser rifles, red pick up trucks, NASCAR; Obama:
Budweiser, apple pie, P-I-G, hay bales--Stumper hereby proposes a new
way for the good people of Indiana and North Carolina to decide which
candidate they prefer:
Who delivers a funnier Top Ten list?
Last
night, the former First Lady appeared on the David Letterman Show via
satellite to rattle off her "Top Ten Reasons Hillary Clinton Loves
America." Watch it and weep:
Incidentally, Clinton's appearance
came a little more than three months after her rival gave Letterman his
"Top Ten Barack Obama Campaign Promises." Get it while it's hot:
Who's funnier? We'll let the Tar
Heels and Hoosiers decide. But it's at least as relevant as who can
down a boilermaker with the most gusto.
By the way, our pick
for funniest Top Ten list: Mitt Romney. Here he is last week at D.C.'s
Radio Correspondents Dinner with the "Top Ten Reasons I Decided to Get
Out of the Race":
Mitt Romney? Funny?
We never thought we'd say those words in the same sentence. But with
Obama and Clinton as the competition, "I took a bad fall... and broke
my hair" might actually take the cake.
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