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White House invoices show
excessive state dinner costs

Washington Examiner [DC], by Richard Pollock

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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/6/2012 1:52:27 PM

President Obama spent more than $1.45 million on his first two official state dinners, according to White House financial documents obtained by The Washington Examiner. The White House Executive Residence sent two invoices to the State Department´s Office of Protocol, seeking reimbursement for the White House dinners honoring visiting Indian and Mexican heads of state. Both invoices can be viewed following this news story. The October 2009 Indian dinner cost $487,168.86 or $1,485 per person, according to the invoices. The May 2010 Mexican dinner price tag was $969,793.92

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Tucker, 12/6/2012 1:59:16 PM     (No. 9052063)

And now I´m sure that this will stop. No, now wait. I´ll bet they will double and triple in cost. After all, it´s not their money they are spending.....


Reply 2 - Posted by: secondtimelucky, 12/6/2012 2:07:03 PM     (No. 9052079)

ahhhh, it´s good to be king...


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: sardonic, 12/6/2012 2:18:59 PM     (No. 9052096)

Living large on the taxpayer´s dime


Reply 4 - Posted by: mitzi, 12/6/2012 2:26:03 PM     (No. 9052105)

The per person cost is more than some senior´s monthly social security check.

The Os should be ashamed of themselves.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 12/6/2012 2:35:07 PM     (No. 9052124)

The public housing project known as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.


Reply 6 - Posted by: beca, 12/6/2012 2:37:49 PM     (No. 9052133)

its not their money.........disgusting bunch of waste this adm has caused....


Reply 7 - Posted by: The Architect, 12/6/2012 2:38:22 PM     (No. 9052134)

But these are State Dinners for members of the Politburo and the Commissars, er, I mean my loyal appointed Department Czars.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: MMC, 12/6/2012 2:45:14 PM     (No. 9052151)

We need to put the White House on a food budget... Stop laughing! I am serious... What?

Not going to happen? Thr Free Phone Coalition wants to get invited to the next dinner? Arghhhh.

Charlie Brown kicking at the football again...


Reply 9 - Posted by: earlybird, 12/6/2012 2:56:44 PM     (No. 9052173)

Of course they do.

Mooch was "Let´s Mooooooovin" on up. Struttin´ her stuff. And puttin´ her manicured finger in the taxpayers´ eyes.


Reply 10 - Posted by: JHHolliday, 12/6/2012 3:14:09 PM     (No. 9052201)

Forty-seven hundred bucks per head for a Mexican dinner?

Any good Mexican restaurant could do it for less than ten dollars and probably better.

What in G-d´s name were they serving? White truffle tacos? Somebody must be getting a kick-back here.


Reply 11 - Posted by: maryn, 12/6/2012 3:14:13 PM     (No. 9052202)

All I can say is, "OMG!!!"


Reply 12 - Posted by: seamusm, 12/6/2012 3:17:50 PM     (No. 9052209)

Chalk it up to Michelle and her healthfood kick. Where is Clinton and his Big Mac addiction when ya need him?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: kiltedone, 12/6/2012 3:30:58 PM     (No. 9052225)

Waste, fraud and abuse. Where´s the IG?


Reply 14 - Posted by: tehtriggerman, 12/6/2012 3:34:21 PM     (No. 9052234)

Im shocked Invoices even exist.


Reply 15 - Posted by: bob913, 12/6/2012 3:40:40 PM     (No. 9052245)

That shows the amount of kickback money going on. $10 for food. $1,475 profit for the insiders.

I bet the amount has gone way up.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Attercliffe, 12/6/2012 3:40:55 PM     (No. 9052246)

Upon seeing the header I thought, well, yeah (yawn), I guess we´re all shocked and appalled--but, really, after reading it I am shocked and appalled!!! Gobsmacked!!!


Reply 17 - Posted by: SoCalGal, 12/6/2012 3:49:36 PM     (No. 9052265)

Health food kick? Trust me. There is no health food anywhere near the state dinner extravaganzas she throws. It is all for show, can´t be too lavish. And an arriviste like her is fair game for celebrity foodies like Rick Bayless, who was the visiting food guru for this one.

The idea of taxpayers putting their hard-earned money out for the likes of Andrew Sullivan and his husband is sickening.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: ohyababy, 12/6/2012 3:54:52 PM     (No. 9052267)

The Imperial Presidency - between these dinners, all of Michelle´s trips and then there´s the Hawaiian trips. This is why they need all the tax money.....


Reply 19 - Posted by: JAN, 12/6/2012 3:56:02 PM     (No. 9052269)

First state dinner for India.

Remember the hollyweirdos and the Salahi´s crashing that dinner.


Reply 20 - Posted by: KTWO, 12/6/2012 4:13:12 PM     (No. 9052288)

The concepts of excess and excessive cost do not exist when government wants to spend money upon itself.

Never have. Never will.


Reply 21 - Posted by: LAW428, 12/6/2012 4:14:54 PM     (No. 9052292)

The King wants the serfs to tighten their belts and send more money to Washington, so the King can "partay!"

Hey, Obama, remember what happened to Nicolae Ceausescu about this time of year in 1989?


Reply 22 - Posted by: fourpmfox, 12/6/2012 4:16:05 PM     (No. 9052293)

For having been treated like second-class citizens" these two do OK!


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Pearson365, 12/6/2012 4:29:35 PM     (No. 9052313)

Shame on all of you. Michelle had to spend this $1.5 million to avoid having it go to hopeless shelters where such rich food would only cause obesity. If the needy are to ever be active in her Let´s Move campaign, they cannot eat like diplomats.

Michelle directed a $17 million stimulus grant to Oregon State Univ to ensure that her brother would not lose his job as basketball coach. OSU was surprised by the grant. Taxpayers were not. She also took her brother and his kids on her South Africa party. Upon returning to Andrew AFB, she has an AF 757 fly Greg and his kids back to Oregon.

Neither Obama nor the Mooch have an ounce of shame.


Reply 24 - Posted by: mickturn, 12/6/2012 4:37:54 PM     (No. 9052319)

Someone needs to GO TO PRISON over this and I can only think of 2 people responsible who run the place!


Reply 25 - Posted by: enemyofthestate, 12/6/2012 4:56:27 PM     (No. 9052343)

The motto for King Stinky I and his consort:
"We´re entitled."


Reply 26 - Posted by: get er done, 12/6/2012 5:46:14 PM     (No. 9052400)

What else would one expect from two attorneys who had to surrender their Illinois law licenses? They cannot buy class.


Reply 27 - Posted by: judy, 12/6/2012 5:50:02 PM     (No. 9052408)

I´m sure abccbsnbccnn, WP, NY Times, Newsweek, will report on this tomorrow.....


Reply 28 - Posted by: Safari Man, 12/6/2012 6:03:15 PM     (No. 9052428)

May I eat some cake, please?


Reply 29 - Posted by: Poliskeptic, 12/6/2012 6:53:46 PM     (No. 9052506)

We knew this before the election. The MSM will ignore it now just as they did then. And if they gave it any press, the masses would yawn and say when is my check coming?


Reply 30 - Posted by: JudithC, 12/6/2012 7:00:14 PM     (No. 9052522)

POTUS and FLOTUS? No. That may be the title but for simple folks like me, they are disgusting grifters and should be identified as such. Not only do they not even remotely resemble world leaders, all they want and take is what makes them happy. Money is no object and what betrays them is how they look, the sasquatch´s choice of clothes and her retread rubber belts, their manners, their crude behaviors...on and on. How do I feel that reportedly one of the $4700 heads was Beyonce´s? Don´t ask. .


Reply 31 - Posted by: Butch, 12/6/2012 7:21:28 PM     (No. 9052567)

"The May 2010 Mexican dinner price tag was $969,793.92."

Good grief, what did they serve each guest, a 40-acre grazing platter sprinkled in gold dust from the Treasure of the Sierra Madre?!?

Reckless and shameless - and that only describes the voters who cast their lot for these ripoff artists.


Reply 32 - Posted by: hamrman, 12/6/2012 8:05:36 PM     (No. 9052646)

Do as I say, not as I do!


Reply 33 - Posted by: jorgecito, 12/6/2012 8:10:10 PM     (No. 9052654)

Let them eat cake.


Reply 34 - Posted by: jimK1, 12/6/2012 9:05:42 PM     (No. 9052732)

1989 Zippy was probably still glued to the roof of a VW van, chooming and he probably thought Romania was one of the 57 states.


Reply 35 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 12/6/2012 10:41:58 PM     (No. 9052832)

OPM aka other people´s money aka your tax dollars.

Sticking it to de man. Money pulls you up the ladder.



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