What is going to be next, a DJ scratching records in the Oval Office and freak dancing in the Lincoln Bedroom?
Posted on 03/02/2009 5:47:09 AM PST by Brainhose
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.
Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays.
The stately East Room, where portraits of George and Martha Washington adorn the walls, was transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented Stevie Wonder with the nation's highest award for pop music on Wednesday.
A week before that, the foot-stomping sounds of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a female a cappella group, filled the East Room for a Black History Month program that first lady Michelle Obama held for nearly 200 sixth- and seventh-graders from around Washington.
Cocktails were sipped during at least three such receptions to date, all held on Wednesdays.
Bookending the midweek activity were a Super Bowl party for select Democratic and Republican lawmakers and a dinner for governors, the new administration's first black-tie affair. It was capped with a performance by the 1970s pop group Earth, Wind and Fire, and a conga line.
The flurry of entertaining is in keeping with the Obamas' promise to make the White House a more open place for everyone.
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Party like its’ the end of the world!
we are tanking across this great country, but, of course, theOne should celebrate.
by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
All Things Considered, March 1, 2009 · Amid grinding poverty, widespread hunger, almost universal joblessness and a deadly cholera epidemic, Zimbabwe's longtime president, Robert Mugabe, held a $250,000 birthday bash for himself this weekend. The party concluded a week in which Zimbabwe tried to squeeze $2 billion in aid from its neighbors.
Wait till summer, BBQ ribs in the Rose Garden.......
Even Stalin retired to his dacha for entertaining.
Three posts in for the first reference to Nero fiddling.....? We are getting lazy folks.
Why is it okay for him but not Northern Trust?
Tell me again, how does this administration differ from the royalty in “Coming to America”?
those African ties will do him in in the end....
Wow they had to reach way way back to award Stevie Wonder.
Boy, I sure am glad he has plenty of time for fun
Wait until the American people get the catering bill.
They slander businesses across the country for hosting lavish parties but celebrate when Barry throws lavish parties. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Bread and Circuses.
(Mrs. Obama probably wants to be the new jackie o)
They slander businesses across the country for hosting lavish parties but celebrate when Barry throws lavish parties. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Hope to see you again,Stevie-CNN anchor.
Did Rheanna and her lover( lover to beat her) show up
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