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Talk about -- with a smile, the endorsement coming from the onion. of course the last we saw of edwards he was emerging from a north carolina courthouse a free man back in may after an acquittal and mistrial. related to campaign corruption charges. the onion says this country needs a man like edwards to appeal to the better angels of our nature. quote, a leader well versed in the moral and legal foundations of our freedoms, and will work to uphold them. yeah, once again the onion is a news satire organization. well the campaigns have provided countless punch lines and materials for tv comics...

Here, in whatever the policy differences, they're all kind of looking out for the best interest of the country. >> here's president obama last time around. he kept the punch lines rolling at the 2008 dinner. let's listen. >> there is no other crowd in america that i'd rather be palling around with right now. i do love the waldorf astoria, though. you know, i hear from the doorstep you can see all the way to the russian tearoom. while the collapse of the housing market has been tough on every single homeowner, i think we all need to recognize this crisis has been eight times harder on john mcca...

>> why is it complicated? >> in the way that we don't have time for, but if you've worked inside new york politics especially on the democratic side, this is a complicated event, to put it mildly. >> i bet it's a nightmare. >> the cardinal archbishop is, in effect, chairing a political event. and pretty -- all of the statewide democratic-elected officials in my adulthood have been in favor of roe versus wade as written. that would be the governors cuomo, all of the senators over the years. so whenever there's an intersection there -- >> it's complicated. >> -- it gets complicated. the best par...

Those who need it. more importantly, it sort of shows the world we have something of an establishment here, in whatever the policy differences, they're all kind of looking out for the best interest of the country. >> here's president obama last time around. he kept the punch lines rolling at the 2008 dinner. let's listen. >> there is no other crowd in america that i'd rather be palling around with right now. i do love the waldorf astoria, though. you know, i hear from the doorstep you can see all the way to the russian tearoom. while the collapse of the housing market has been tough on every s...

>> they absolutely can, rever d reverend. you really don't know in advance whether you're going to see one. many times people attempt these moments and they fall flat. so, i think both candidates are going to be wary of trying to force one of these punch lines in there. but that doesn't mean they're not going to be quite aggressive. you're going to see, i think, a much more feisty debate this evening. and the obama folks are telling me they're going to hit particularly hard on the issue of jobs. my "post" colleague glenn kessler came out with a study based on romney's own numbers today saying ...