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Is it just me, or does this just absolutely scream "Jimmy Carter"?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.
The White House defended the unusual move as a way to avoid conflicts of interest. 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.”
W.H. makes CEOs pay for lunch - Eamon Javers - POLITICO.com
Is it just me, or does this just absolutely scream "Jimmy Carter"?
W.H. makes CEOs pay for lunch - Eamon Javers - POLITICO.com
Is it just me, or does this just absolutely scream "Jimmy Carter"?
If I was a CEO and I went to the White House to eat, i'd be scared if they made me pay for my meal, because then i'd think they would try to serve me cat or dog or something. Then after I started eating it, Ashton would leap out and yell, "You just got Punk'd!" Then i'd start crying maybe, because i'd have a flashback to the last time some people tried to get me to eat dog. It was years ago. I'd never eaten dog before, and I wasn't about to start that day no matter how pushy those folks were.
"Just give me some more of the copilot", I told them, extending my plate.
W.H. makes CEOs pay for lunch - Eamon Javers - POLITICO.com
Is it just me, or does this just absolutely scream "Jimmy Carter"?
If I invite someone to lunch, I pick up the tab. That's how manners work, even in the White House. Those CEOs were several orders of magnitude better than kings--they were guests.So you think the CEO's should have been treated like the kings they think they are? Did Jimmy Carter do this, or is that just your stock insult for The Messiah?
If I invite someone to lunch, I pick up the tab. That's how manners work, even in the White House. Those CEOs were several orders of magnitude better than kings--they were guests.
The Jimmy Carter reference comes from the smallness of it--that sort of ineffectual bean counting strikes me as reminiscent of Carter's cardigans and other half measures to "conserve" during the energy crisis of the late 70s.
What part of treating guests with respect eludes you? Why does the lunatic left insist on making a virtue out of boorishness?I suspect that Obama knew all this, and weighed the decision against the blowback he knew would come (yes, from you included) about "kissing the feet" of corporate CEO's. You see, there is nothing the White House can do that is not immune to ridicule from the right, it's just a matter of choosing the Path of Least Exposure.
What part of treating guests with respect eludes you? Why does the lunatic left insist on making a virtue out of boorishness?
Hogwash....that conspiracy nonsense is also a staple of the lunatic left.Because the lunatic right suspects a conspiracy every time a corporate leader enters the White House. You know it's true.
Because the lunatic right suspects a conspiracy every time a corporate leader enters the White House. You know it's true.
So should we be checking the bank accounts of people we invite over for meals? I'm having a BBQ this weekend, and one of my guests makes a lot of money. I'm gonna ask the capitalist pig to pay for his own darned burger. I might charge him a portion of the water bill if he flushes the toilet. Rich jerk.
Heaven help us if he invites any rich foreign leaders over. :doh Sh*t, *I* will send them a check for their damn lunch.
So you think the CEO's should have been treated like the kings they think they are? Did Jimmy Carter do this, or is that just your stock insult for The Messiah?
If the President invites you to lunch at the White House, you shouldn't have to pay for it. That's just common hospitality. You're a guest.
Jesus people, put aside the partisanship and use your heads. :roll:
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Thank me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure its the left that hates corporate America and despises corporate leaders and their profits.
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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.
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