CEO’s Charged for Lunch at the White House with Obama
Posted by: velvethammer in UncategorizedObama is more of an embarrassment to this country every day.
Politico
Paging Emily Post
Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office.
But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected credit card numbers for each executive and carefully billed them for the cost of the meal with the president.
All meals at America’s White House (NOT Obama’s house as he likes to pretend) are already bought and paid for by US citizen tax dollars. There’s been talk of auditing the Fed, maybe the White House could stand an audit too…
The White House defended the unusual move as a way to avoid conflicts of interest.
BHO crossed the conflict of interest line long ago by firing GM’s CEO Rick Wagoner.
But the Bush administration didn’t charge presidential guests for meals, one former official said, and at least one etiquette expert found the whole thing unseemly – suggesting it was a serious breach of protocol.
“I’m sure they have their political reasons for doing that, but I think it’s not what quote, hospitality, unquote is all about,” said Letitia Baldrige, who headed Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House staff in the early 1960s. “We’ve got to relax about this. To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.”
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Didn’t Obama’s mama teach him any manners? Obviously not.
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