Obama, Romney Trade Quips at Charity Dinner

October 18, 2012 from CNN

President Obama and Mitt Romney met again Thursday night but unlike in Tuesday's debate, the adversaries were all smiles. They traded zingers at the ritzy Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner in New York ahead of their foreign policy debate Monday night. "Spoiler alert: We got bin Laden!" Obama quipped.

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