So here was U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, getting ready to deliver his take-back-America speech for the Democrats, in front of a big banner proclaiming the identity of the luncheon host, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
"So many of us in this room knew what a great comptroller Tom DiNapoli would be," Schumer said. "He has lived up to every expectation." Of course, Gov. Eliot Spitzer wasn't in the room. He was the guy who recently and emphatically reversed his declaration that DiNapoli was inqualified in favor of praise for the former Assemblyman's "absolute integrity."
In full party mode, Schumer exchanged a joke from the podium with Nassau Legis. Roger Corbin, something about the fight he'd been having with party chairman Jay Jacobs, who sat at the same front table. He said only his mother and one other person call him "Chuckie." The other person is Assemb. Vivian Cook.
"Hi Chuckie!" Cook chriped from one of the tables.
In the more sober portion of his speech....
... Schumer called it "a good time for Democrats because America needs us and knows it...You're here because you're patriots. You love this state, you love this country." He predicted "a New Yorker in the White House" and blasted the Iraq war as a $750 billion involvement in a civil war that will not end. He said the U.S. gives $1 billion per day to Iran because of the government's acommodation of the oil companies.
He predicted a New York Senator who is a Democrat will win the White House, "and it ain't me, baby."
UPDATE: Schumer was asked about the controversial Spitzer driver's license policy. "I haven't studied it," he said. "I guess at some point I'll look at it... We've got plenty of immigration issues in Washington."
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I can't believe this joke is a US Senator.....Mr. Media on Sundays.
Jim Kelly - Conservative Campaigns