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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWHO is Antisocial? GOP Skipped 'Lincoln' Screening, Dinner Invites From President
The president found himself on the defensive about mixing outside his social circle, but the record says Republican leaders spurned his invitations repeatedly.President Obama says he'd like to socialize with Republicans, but they aren't responding to his overtures. So which is it, a remote president or an opposition party that refuses to hang out with him?
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Boehner may be setting something of a record for sending regrets to the White House. Though he attended at least one state dinner during the George W. Bush Administration, he has turned down invitations to six hosted by Obama (Britain, South Korea, Germany, China, Mexico, and India). McConnell declined to attend the dinners for India and China, as well as a White House event celebrating his home-state University of Kentucky's NCAA basketball championship.
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Boehner may be setting something of a record for sending regrets to the White House. Though he attended at least one state dinner during the George W. Bush Administration, he has turned down invitations to six hosted by Obama (Britain, South Korea, Germany, China, Mexico, and India). McConnell declined to attend the dinners for India and China, as well as a White House event celebrating his home-state University of Kentucky's NCAA basketball championship.
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WHO is Antisocial? GOP Skipped 'Lincoln' Screening, Dinner Invites From President (Original Post)
ProfessionalLeftist
Jan 2013
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FSogol
(45,360 posts)1. Boehner is always drunk by the time those dinners start and turtles are not nocturnal.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. they want to wait to have dinner in those countries
free trips
lunatica
(53,410 posts)3. Socializing gets in the way of Boehner's heavy after-work drinking
He'd rather go pass out drunk than do his job.
pinto
(106,886 posts)4. Ha. Good catch.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)5. Pretentious hypocrisy is the Hallmark of Republicans, I always say
Dumbasses prove it every day.