President Obama offered to buy burgers today for the journalists covering his spontaneous lunch trip with Vice President Biden to Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington, Va., assigning, according to this account, Caren Bohan of Reuters “order-taking duty.”
Pool reporter Linda Feldmann of the Christian Science Monitor writes:
Some declined, but others of us (your pooler included) didn’t want to seem ungracious, so we ordered burgers. Note: The five of us who did order are making a donation to charity, in lieu of attempting to reimburse [the president]. Caren noted that Obama has fed the press before, such as during campaign, when he bought ice cream.
Obama apparently called reporters “cheap dates,” surprised more of them didn’t take him up on the burger-buying (I mean, everyone ate meat with McCain). Feldmann noted, after the group returned to the White House, that she was still waiting for her burger. The “pool minder” told her to come and get it.
MSM, please continue to bring us these great articles on Obama’s lunches with Joey Pluggs, cool neckties, puppy vetting process, and how he likes to play basketball.
Don’t worry about his attempts to run socialism in through the back door, petty vindictiveness and attempts to squelch all opposing voices, myriad broken campaign promises, mafia-style threats against banks, the political smoke-plume coming out of Illinois with Blago, Rahmbo, and Rezko... or even Obama's dreadful cabinet nominations.
That’s all just a “distraction” from the "historical moment"… and our intentions SHOULD be suspect if we ask to know all the details... right?
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#1 Posted by Reaganite Republican Resistance, CJR on Tue 5 May 2009 at 07:03 PM