I feel like sharing this 10-minute video from the 2008 Al Smith Memorial Dinner.

It features U.S. Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States. He brought the house down with his good-natured barbs at his “friend and colleague” Sen. Barack Obama. His comments also were laced a healthy measure of self-deprecation.

The Al Smith dinner is a quadrennial event that brings the two major-party nominees together to raise money to benefit the Catholic Church’s good work.

Given the terribly sad news about Sen. McCain’s cancer diagnosis and the outpouring of support from across the political spectrum, I thought I’d share this video to illustrate how politics need not be so full of hate.

This is for you, Sen. McCain.