[kenavi]

Sound like American wines. Should we have served juice?

[MAD-AS-HELL]

The word REVOLUTION is starting to make more sense as the days go on. Our current crop of leaders, both financially and politically, are morally and ethically challenged, to put it lightly.

[FMBass]

Why not?

For the rest of us, if we lack bread, we shall merely “eat cake”.

No problem.

[BenLurkin]

Shafer Cabernet “Hillside Select” 2003, a wine that sells at $499 on Wine.com.

Which for Mrs. Lurkin and I would pay for a -- a month's worth of groceries.

[KittenClaws]

“The people have no bread!”

....”Then let them eat cake”. . .

[teletech]

Gee, I had my Big Mac and a coke.

[AirForceMom]

Has the appearance of giving us peons the finger.

[KarlInOhio]

To wash it all down, world leaders will be served Shafer Cabernet “Hillside Select” 2003, a wine that sells at $499 on Wine.com.

Not a bad price if you get the party barrel of it for that price.

I searched wine.com and they didn't have any, so I don't know where the $499 price came from.

[Dallas59]

[KarlInOhio]

The exceedingly pricey wine may seem a bit peculiar given leaders are in Washington to discuss a possible world financial meltdown, but Sally McDonough, a spokeswoman for Laura Bush, said it “was the most appropriate wine that we had in the White House wine cellar for such a gathering.

Empty the wine cellar and tear the O's off the keyboards when you leave.

[LucyT]

Wine, 2003.

President Bush was sworn in as President on January 20, 2001, so the wine didn’t just happen to be setting in the wine cellar when he arrived.

[seoul62]

Everclear./Just Asking - seoul62.......

[Squantos]

We thawed 3 nice rainbow trout we caught on the San Juan river below the Navajo Lake Dam in NM a while back and grilled em today. A little lemon, home brewed beer & sun tea, fried zucchini & parsnips, green beans and sourdough bread with garlic butter. Chased that with a bowl of hot apple cobbler and a dollop of homemade vanilla ice cream.

No polidiots were invited.....

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

After Obama is inaugurated this sort of behavior will be deemed entirely justifiable by the “watchdog” media.

[factoryrat]

Only the finest for the overlord class. You peasents should stop complaining.

[stockstrader]

So the taxpayer picked up the tab for $500/bottle wine??

No comment needed.

[berdie]

These kind of stories make my head spin.

That, and knowing what was spent on campaigning and will be spent on the inauguration.

I thought there was a world wide recession?

[lonestar67]

I wonder what the Obamas were having for dinner.

something suitably modest I’m sure.

[humblegunner]

the White House’s dinner budget still appears flush with cash.

Oh my. Next time the guests must be served ramen noodles an tap water.

[georgiagirl_pam]

OK, I think this is going too far. This is the WHITE HOUSE for heaven’s sake. The President was eating with other world leaders. It’s not like the White House hosts the G20 everyday. What did you want our White House to serve these world leaders? Spam sandwiches?