Al Smith Dinner in NYC (32 images)

Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama shake hands at the 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner in New York City on October 16, 2008. (UPI Photo/Andrew Theodorakis/Pool)

(L-R) U.S. presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Archbishop of New York Edward Cardinal Egan, and U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) appear at the 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner in New York City on October 16, 2008. (UPI Photo/Andrew Theodorakis/Pool)

(L-R) U.S. presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Archbishop of New York Edward Cardinal Egan, and U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) appear at the 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner in New York City on October 16, 2008. (UPI Photo/Andrew Theodorakis/Pool)

U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) awaits to enter the Alfred E. Smith dinner with Archbishop of New York Edward Cardinal Egan in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York on October 16, 2008. (UPI Photo/Yana Paskova/Pool)