Bushes host ritzy Valentine's soiree

[Redstone]

Some women get flowers, others jewelry. This year, first lady Laura Bush got a formal dinner and an intimate concert by a well-known crooner from her valentine.

For the second year in a row, President Bush and his wife spent the lovers' holiday formally entertaining about 100 friends and associates at the White House.

The menu included a tasting of American caviar; rack of lamb and vegetables for the main course; and, for dessert, baked camembert and a puff pastry called "The Lovebirds" -- accompanied by the newly hip rose champagne.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/14/bush.valentines.ap/index.html

Nice to see our Fearful Leader doing his part to sacrifice during wartime, isn't it?

Redstone

[livetohike]

1. Their concern for Mr. Whittington is touching

:sarcasm:

[DS1]

2. Yet, still, the simpletons out there will consider them

"plain, down-home folks who'd they like to have a beer with"

Idiots.

[Redstone]

4. They're just fucking pathetic, aren't they?

No hope for them at all.

Redstone

[VegasWolf]

23. Yes, as if Bush would spend anytime with rednecks! nt

[VegasWolf]

24. Blood rose champagne is somehow appropriate for Butcher in Chief! nt

[Hobarticus]

3. Let 'em eat cake...we've got "lovebirds"

Who says that American royalty is dead?

:puke:

[redqueen]

5. Sacrifice? They're openly condoning war profiteering.

Anyone that supports this regime is, by definition, UN-American.

[RedG1]

6. guest lst...

Singer Michael Feinstein capped the romantic evening by serenading the crowd, which included new Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, actor Chuck Norris -- wearing black cowboy boots with his tux, of course -- singer Wayne Newton and Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. <gag>

[DS1]

8. *biting lip over Chuck Norris comment*

*only because it's old and busted*

[Sanity Claws]

7. Hosting a big party is a good way to avoid spending VD with

your spouse.
Instead you get to hang around with your friends and drink freely. Wheeww -- no hand holding, no need to have any of those deep intimate discussions.

[Redstone]

17. Oh, Lord, I thought you said SHARING VD with your spouse...

Redstone

[Sanity Claws]

19. VD meant Valentines Day.

Is that how you understood it? If not, get your mind out of the gutter!
:-)
That's what the old folks used to say to us when we were kids. I don't know what's current lingo.

[Redstone]

21. Oh, I knew what you meant. It was a joke. Maybe not a good one...

Redstone

[northzax]

9. rose chompers?

I love it. Although I hate the increasing popularity of it, it was my bubbly ace in the hole (and I drink chompers at least once a week) and it's getting more and more dear as people find it.

Hard to be a tough cowboy when you're holding a nice rose.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Missing from the CNN report: who paid for it?

It's certain that we paid for a large part of it because it was hosted in the White House, but did the Bushes or their 'friends' pick up any part of the tab?

[leftchick]

11. Truly Grotesque Photos....

Broadway singer Michael Feinstein, right, tries to show a dance move alongside President Bush at the end of entertainment at a Valentines Day Social Dinner in the East Room of the White House in Washington Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006. Bush said he would not dance with Feinstein in front of the cameras. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Theres-a]

13. The candy colored clown they call the sandman....

Blue Velvet all the way.

[latebloomer]

20. Gross!

And to think I once kinda liked Michael Feinstein.

:puke: is right!

[superconnected]

28. the first pic has the sneer, that's become so common in dumbya photos

now a days.

[MadMaddie]

12. Meanwhile NOLA victims..aren't sure if they are going to have...

a roof over their childrens heads or if they are going to be living in their vehicles. (That's assuming their vehicle survived the huricane):grr:

[llmart]

14. Wow!

What a "stellar" lineup. Wayne Newton. Chuck Norris. Be still my heart. I guess it's hard to find anyone with real talent to attend these events.

I'd rather sit on the floor in my laundry room and dine with my dog.

[fasttense]

15. With the elderly losing their food supplements and

paying through the nose for prescriptions, with 7 million people unemployed, with over 2,200 young American soldiers dead in Iraq, the bushes have a huge party on the taxpayer's dollar. I guess the crazy king george is just more equal than the rest of us American citizens.

[Auntie Bush]

16. Well at least he's not hiding out under the covers...dead drunk by 9:00.

[bliss_eternal]

18. Nice how they openly spend so much

while the country's economy is in the dumper... :eyes: Oh wait, the economy is improving--I forgot, I should have consulted the sotu speech, Party On! :sarcasm:

[katty]

22. bush raises glass..."here's to another day of Americans bending

over for the Empire"

2+ centuries, and America winds up with up with king george

[Triana]

25. our tax dollars at work - HA! (n/t)

[ast_liberal2008]

26. isn't bush a recovering alcoholic?

He's not supposed to drink, or it's a called a relapse. Champagne is an alcoholic drink, even if it's used as a purely ceremonial beverage.

[Redstone]

27. You got yourself a point, there. Alcoholics are supposed to have ZERO

alcohol. And hey, welcome to DU. You seem to have a good eye for detail; DU will be the better for having you around.

Redstone

[VegasWolf]

29. Bush is no longer a "dry" drunk! I think the whole not drinking thing

was simply a facade to fool the fundies into voting for him after his DUIs were made public.

[Art_from_Ark]

30. Champagne may be a "ceremonial" drink

but it's also the rich man's way of getting drunk "elegantly"