MUST SEE!!! John McCain and Barack Obama came together Thursday night for back-to-back turns at sharply witted, self-deprecating and laugh-out-loud political humor. Both men offered good-natured and well-crafted nods to their own foibles as well as gently placed digs at their opponents. The result was a remarkable night of comity in a presidential campaign that has been at times brutally tough. The occasion was the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, which has drawn the contenders in most presidential election years to the white-tie event in Manhattan. The evening was like dessert for the politically minded, filled with inside jokes from a campaign that has lasted nearly two years. They were separated at the head table only by Cardinal Egan, the Archbishop of New York. The 63rd annual charity roast, which raised $3.9 million to help underprivileged children, is dedicated to the memory of Al Smith, the four-term governor of New York who was the first Catholic to win the presidential nomination of a major political party. It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wrights sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. All this is revealed with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.. through ACORN.. ever hear of it? So lets sum up Obamas Chicago connections. His chief financial supporter was Tony Rezko, now on his way to federal prison. His spiritual adviser and mentor was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, of God damn America fame. And the guy who got him his only administrative job and put him in charge of doling out $50 million is William Ayers, a terrorist who was a domestic Osama bin Laden in his youth Why did Obama put up with Ayers? Because he got a big job and $50 million of patronage to distribute to his friends and supporters in Chicago. Why did he hang out with Jeremiah Wright? Because he was new in town, having grown up in Hawaii and Indonesia and having been educated at Columbia and Harvard, and needed all the local introductions he could get to jump-start his political career. Why was he so close to Rezko?