$7,500 Per Person for **Dinner With Obama (**Dinner With Obama Not Included)
**Written by Doug Powers
Preparing to host a dinner for the President of the United States is a huge undertaking, as one wealthy Rhode Island woman discovered when she decided to host a $7,500 a seat DCCC fundraising dinner featuring Barack Obama.
In the days leading up to last night’s fundraising dinner, the Providence Journal outlined what was involved in serving the president:
When President Obama sits down to dinner on Monday night in Providence, Rhode Island fruit and vegetables, cheeses, meats and chocolates will be on the table. From community gardens to a vineyard, the state’s culinary community has grown to the point it can feed a president from its own backyard.
As soon as Johnnie Chace knew she’d host the president for a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at her home with husband Arnold “Buff” Chace, she followed one very local path to serve what she hopes is an amazing meal.
“The first thing I thought was this is a great chance to showcase Rhode Island and focus on the hard-working people who bring us our food,” she said.
Preparing the food for the $7,500-a-seat fundraiser are the chef/owners of the iconic Providence restaurant Al Forno, George Germon and Johanne Killeen. They were to be out of town on Monday, but when Chace called them two weeks ago, they changed their plans to serve the president.
The chefs should have kept their original plans, because the president dashed before dining:
President Obama’s final stop was a $7,500-a-head fundraiser in the well-appointed home of Arnold “Buff” and Johnnie Chace on the East Side, not far from Brown University.
The president spoke for about 20 minutes, then left before the dinner of locally grown foods by celebrated Rhode Island chefs — including lobster risotto — that Mrs. Chace had planned.
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Mr. Obama concluded his remarks at about 7:30, saying he couldn’t stay for dinner.“I’ve got to go home to tuck in the girls and walk the dog and scoop the poop,” he said.
There’s no greater compliment you can pay to chefs than by talking about dog s*#t just before everybody eats and then skipping out on the meal they cancelled their prior engagements in order to serve you.
But I’m sure Bo appreciated the contents of his doggie bag, and the Democrats appreciate the tens of thousands of dollars from which these fools and their money were soon parted. But it’s far from the first time that’s happened, so maybe they’re used to it.
**Written by Doug Powers
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I guess bho was just mad that cheese burgers and fries weren’t going to be served that’s why he left! Gads, this man makes me tired!
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Very classy.
lol I wonder if that’s how they make $7500 taste like ashes….
President Nose in the Air Barrack Hussein Obama is one cold, self absorbed jerk isn’t he? I suppose that is why he is so beloved by so many of the Hollyweird elites and Saturday Night Live punks-he is one of them.
President Nose in the Air Barrack Hussein Obama indeed.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
I truly believe he and the First Caboose ejoy thumbing their noses at typical white people…
Maybe he was disappointed that there was no arugula? Dumba$$.
Maybe some people paid more to have him leave.
I guess they were told they could come along for the ride, but they’re gonna have to sit in the back. I would have liked to have heard the conversations as those folks drove home.
Bather: The royal penis is clean, your Highness.
Those people should send him their meal in a bag, after it’s been… processed.
Un-freaking-believable! I don’t think that Obama knows the meaning of “etiquette,” or “protocol,” let alone having ever practiced such manners. I cannot think of someone being more ill-mannered than he is. I hope that this story gets international coverage, and it gives nation’s leaders pause before they invite this miscreant to any of THEIR state functions.
“I’ve got to go home to tuck in the girls and walk the dog and scoop the poop,” he said.
Obama confirming you can indeed scoop progressive policies.
Is this a clear illustration of political masochism or what? Stupid is as stupid does. When these old fools are in their nineties, and most of the state has forgotten how to speak English and what an American flag looks like, they can comfort themselves with the knowledge that they helped create a more “progressive” Rhode island. Their state motto should be “scooping poop”.
My border collie would like that. Tasty.
If election races are “tighter than expected,” then it will only illustrate the amount of fraud at the polls…
I meant after it’s been processed by their digestive systems. I didn’t think your collie was THAT kind of dog.
So the comment that “Obama treats RI like an atm machine” is in fact correct. This President has no class or political sense. To think that so many white Americans were guilted into voting for this no experience, no work ethic, no class, communist because he smiled while he was giving his opponents the finger is truly disheartening. I understand black Americans vote, as a symbol of the gains in race relations, but What the hell were you middle class hard working white Americans thinking. John McCain may not be Ronald Reagan, but he surely is better than the alternative.
The people of RI will be like battered wives.Even though he just took a huge S#%t in their faces they will still vote for the Dems.They deserve what they get and he knows it.
forget about the prez leaving before eating…I’d say with the above thought process, they got less than they deserved. Elitist liars and greedy Stalinists.
When will people learn the entire Democrat Party is one big scam.
This is not surprising, coming from a narcistic, classless pig. However, I don’t feel sorry for the idiots who are still willing to host an expensive dinner and the idiots who are willing to pay $7,500 to dine with the messiah. They are all morons. Do you think they will now vote for someone besides progressives? I doubt it. They got what they deserved, as far as I’m concerned. And YES, this story needs to be spread far and wide, right along with the India trip details and how much that two-day trip is costing you and me. Conservatives are not sitting in the back of the bus, as Obama so artfully stated. We are UNDER the bus. And now, his friends in Rhode Island are under there too.
So dinner takes what?, 30 minutes? The dog couldn’t wait 30 minutes for the “leader of the free world” to have a little dinner with his constituents? Don’t we have an aide that can walk the dog? Do those girls have a mother or grandmother that can tuck them in? As my Grandpa used to say when I did something stupid,”Jeeze Louise, did you have a can of dumbass for breakfast?”
I think the Rhode Island Dem congressional candidate summed it up with his “take his endorsement and shove it.”
This guy is a continual embarrassment to this country.
A narcissist doesn’t care about anyone else. Nobody should be surprised at this classless move.
OH! MY!
Finally, a job for which the “Community Organizer” is eminently qualified.
Exactly. These libtards are acting just like a battered wife that thinks if she gets dinner just right, he will turn into Prince Charming.
They’ll keep voting socialist because their motto is: “Socialism. We’ll get it right, this time!“
The “Shovel-Ready” President
On October 26th, 2010 at 9:50 am, Dexter Alarius said:
Are you kidding? They would have eaten Bo’s product if Obama had told them to. They aren’t voters, they’re soldiers who do what they’re told.
It’s ok, I’m sure he left a DVD of his best dinner speeches. Wrong format and all but it’s the thought that counts.
Yeah, that Barack Hussein Obama is just a regular guy. He puts his Armani suits on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us.
I wonder if he bows and apologizes to Bo if he has to wait too long to mark his territory?
Does anyone really believe that Barack Hussein Obama has EVER
“scooped the poop” of their dog “Bo”?
I won’t believe it unless I see video proof of Bo pooping and Barack scooping.
Vinny, I would like to see the outcome over an investigation into this.
Some of the donors may want to rub elbows with Obrainless (not hands though, poop scooping and all) but the candidates and their more vocal supporters don’t want anything to do with The One.
“Leave the gun, take the cannoli.”
hahahahahahahahahahaha!
For that RedPill, you get today’s Blue Ribbon!
Obowmao: Do you have any Purell in a travel size?
Bo, or BHO?
By the way, Barack doesn’t walk Bo.
Bo walks Barack.
Could he maybe have been afraid of being poisoned? I mean, did he have his food taster with him? Maybe he really does get it…the majority of people in this country loathe and despise him!
it bears repeating people—they got exactly what they deserved.
By the way; if the ‘focus’ was on the gee-whiz everyday Joe, then why does it matter if Obama skipped dinner? What a bunch of dumbasses.
She prefers cat food or cat dookie – makes no difference. It’s all in the aroma. Haute cuisine is always two dew claws up for dogs.
Exactly. The democrats claim to be the voice of the everyday working person. Bull poop. Maybe Obrainless can scoop that up. Or maybe he does and that’s what he’s selling to the voters.
The RI wanna-be-important-and-included got exactly what they deserved. Obambi never disappoints those of us that figured him out early in the game, but those that just don’t get it are doomed to be constantly surprised.
This president displays such a lack of class that it seems deliberate. I have many friends from around the world – obviously from different cultures. Although we display different practices and convictions around each other, it is quite universally understood that when someone is hoping to serve you a meal and is trying to impress you, you politely accept and show gratitude.
And considering everything I just said, the president’s excuse for not staying isn’t because he had to tuck his girls in or pick up after his dog, it is because his arrogance, even to fellow democracts who are trying to save his as* is on-call 24/7. He couldn’t be bothered with them and he didn’t even care enough to insulate them from hurt feelings.
Ha! Mrs. Chace is still hiding from the phone calls of loyal BO worshippers demanding a refund.
Classless buffoon (not the dog).
They’ll just find a way to write it off on their income tax. And get the refund!
Repeal the 16th amendment and pass the FairTax.
John McCain’s policies might not be a radical as Bambi’s but a Republican Congress would not be united against him, Democrat polices would advance, Republicans blamed, and the Democrats would make bigger gains this year and bigger still in 2012.
2008 was a choice between diseased whores-the Republicans choose poorly in all too many primaries. Try to get a copy of A Choice Not an Echo by Phyllis Schlafly (1964). The Rockerfeller/Progressive wing of the Party has pulled this nonsense at least since Robert Taft’s kneecapping in 1952-perhaps longer.
With Arizona sending McCain back to the Senate perhaps I should stay in the cave. But I will say I never worked harder than in this losing fight. I will be the Republican precinct judge but for one office I will be voting Libertarian (I do not like John McCain I should add).
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God Bless America
Except for the blue states
Repeal the 16th amendment
and pass the FairTax.Starve the Beast
My thoughts exactly!
Somebody needs to go interview some of those chefs and the host. I doubt we’ll hear I’m tired of defending ….
Oh, and this?
that’s what the kids are calling ‘it’ these days…
There was a line from HBO’s “OZ” that comes to mind, but this is a family friendly site and I must refrain.
Next time Chace should charge for two classes of tickets — $7,500 for dinner with Obama and $10,000 for dinner without him.
The price reflects the relative worth of each event. And, when Obama inevitably ducks out, rather than giving a refund Chace can charge an extra $2,500 for those that are spared the misfortune of having to try and eat dinner while listening to “The One” talk about himself.
bho shovels more poop in his speeches than the dog could produce in a life time.
RI use to be a fun place until the NYC libs destroyed the place.
I didn’t believe his can’t-dine-must-dash story until I read this:
ribbed condoms give better traction in the mud.
I use to feel sorry for presidents. The turmoil, the egos. Now I see it may be the easiest job in the world. People just lavish money and gifts on you, under the pretense of campaigning, and the travel and fun and games are just on the taxpayers tab. Nice work if you can get it.
It gets even easier if you have the Obama world view in which you are always right, and everyone else is always wrong. Conscience then is never a problem. You never accept responsibility and always assign blame.
On October 26th, 2010 at 11:15 am, TooMuchTime said:
I approve this message.
O-Bama-Lama-Ding-Dong: one
class act.Perfect! The east side of Providence is nothing but snotty progressive limousine liberals. They just got up-snotted. Just what they deserve.
The “
ShovelShuffle-Ready” PresidentExactly right.
On October 26th, 2010 at 11:31 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:
Phyllis Schlafly’s A Choice Not an Echo is now available for free online at Scribd.
I bought a used copy in 2008, and that book opened my eyes to many things.
It is more appropriate now than ever.
Back-Room deals, behind closed doors, are very much part of the process of how American Presidents are chosen.
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(soapbox on)
One example from 2008:
On February 5, 2008, Mitt Romney gave his word that he would keep fighting “all the way to the convention”.
The VERY NEXT DAY, February 6th, he met behind closed doors with unnamed “prominent Republicans” who convinced him to drop out of the race in return for their support for trying to make him the VP in 2008 and the Presidential nominee in 2012.
The day after that, February 7th, Romney quit the race with the absolute worst excuse for quitting that I’ve ever heard:
But Romney was willing to surrender his promise, his integrity, in return for the support of those “prominent Republicans” he met with behind closed doors the day before.
He was willing surrender the nomination to John McCain, who had not yet secured 1191 pledged delegates. Neither Romney nor Huckabee had to get to 1191 pledged delegates… they merely had to keep McCain from reaching 1191. And McCain was almost out of public financing money. Had Romney kept his promise from February 5, and kept fighting, it is a very real possibility that Romney and Huckabee could have won enough primaries to keep McCain from crossing the 1191 threshold.
It would have gone to a brokered convention, and I seriously doubt that McCain would have emerged as the nominee.
Had Romney been a man of his word, fought all the way to the convention, and won the nomination, I would have been happy to vote for him.
Instead, Romney sold out to the shadow government, sold out to McCain, and even went so far as to “release” his delegates to McCain on February 14, after Huckabee won Kansas on February 9 with nearly 60% of the vote.
For all the talk of Huckabee supposedly conspiring with McCain in West Virginia (which was completely directed by McCain’s camp, without any involvement by Huckabee), it was Romney who conspired with the McCain campaign when he, a week after quitting, “released” his delegates to McCain.
(soapbox off)
But, BHO did leave the Chaces with a parting gift: a nano ipod with a loop of his favorite speaches….
Exactly.
BTW, what’s Reggie Love’s job if not scooping poop? (Sorry, ok not.)
Umm, the Chace’s got just what they deserve from Obeyme. He doesn’t waste time on the “little people”. If they were charging $25,000 to $30,000 ala Barb Streisand, he would’ve stuck around for the main course. A pox on all these elitist dems with their radical agenda.
What would one expect from someone born and raised in Kenya…different culture and all you know.
I thought it was ‘pushing it in’, instead of ‘scooping’?
(apologies to Antoine Fuqua–LOL)
He proved that what the dimocrat guy running for governor was right. Obama was only there for an ATM withdrawal. Grab the cash and run.
123upnorth said:
This president displays such a lack of class that it seems deliberate.
“If boorishness was music , Obama would be a brass band !”
The insult these donors received is truly worth every one of the 7,50,000 pennies they paid.
BUUUUWAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAA!
SUCKERS!
A passing thought: Maybe they couldn’t get a food tester to eat the first bite for O-blame-o.
And now, the “Shovel-Ready” Senate candidate…